skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I agree with that in principle, I think an exception can be made for anti-discrimination efforts, especially if said discrimination directly affects many company employees and shareholders.
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How Zeros Become Heroes on Twitter
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that's their fault.
The Portland Group's (PGI) main business seems to be HPC compilers.

CodePlay make compilers for game developers.

There are companies that have made a business out of selling fully-integrated build & debug toolchains for embedded devices. There is usually some amount of customisation required for each type of device, and there's a lot of value in not having to do this yourself.

So yes, there are still companies making compilers as their main, paid product, but they tend to target specialised markets.
If you never get cavities, the principal reason for brushing goes out the window. Humans survived for tens of thousands of years with plaque and yesterday's kill stuck in the teeth, even when poor dental was predominant.

The primary reasons to brush your teeth are to prevent cavities, plaque buildup, and smell. If you don't get the first problem, the others are easy to ignore. Pleasant smelling breath is a modern ascetic, so it's easy to imagine a scenario where a young man that hasn't had regular intimate contact yet ignores the bad breath. It's only afterword that the positive social benefits become understood.
"it would have been easy at any point in this journey to rationalize my limited success, and accept being a small cog in a bigger wheel, at likely much better pay and much less stress. but I was still hoping I had a little fire in the belly, and maybe a little gas left in the tank to make something more of myself, before I ended up with just a broken spirit and a comfortable life.
and so here I am: still standing in the arena, in hand-to-hand combat with demons mostly of my own making, aiming to make a small dent in the universe."

I agree with you that it could have something to do with being born in a hyper-competitive world. But I agree with the authors standpoint and feel the same way. The above paragraph for me echoes my sentiments perfectly. It's about making something of your life.

Of course, as some of the others have pointed out. There is a certain amount of delusion in it. But that might as well just be passion.

I agree with @PeteThom on creating your own space. Competing with the world is never the right way to go. Everyday there is someone doing what you want to do, better than you. So, it is only distracting to worry about what others achieve, and leads to achieving even lesser.

Finally, I'm still in my mid twenties, with my only achievements being one of the best developers in any place I work. Did a brief stint as a freelancer, so I could have the financial means to support development of my own ideas, but found out Qt/C++ wasn't so hot in the freelance market. So, now i'm working a permanent position at a small and flexible company, leading a team, creating an enterprise solution on iOS, for some of the biggest companies in the world.

Interesting challenges help keep me occupied, but, ideally what I want is to work on my ideas on my terms and produce something amazing! And live my life having time to think about it, instead of having it mapped out to some mundane comfortable existence.

It's really hard to explain the viewpoint, so excuse me if it seems like i'm rambling.

@moses1400: I'm like you, twenty years ago and have always worried about being in your place and feeling that way. But, I think there is always hope. I hope too, that I find my way to the right path. Wish you luck. Keep fighting the good fight.
I've been repairing bridges. And I've studied them to some extent.

The magical tendency of nature such that nothing man built will lats forever. Every bridge will collapse, every dam will fall, every house, windmill and electric line. Heck we can't even slope ground so that it would not fall down someday (it just might take few million years).

Men make errors all the time. Sometimes dudes don't care about rusty bearings under a bridge, the some truckers don't care about maximum weight limitations. The bridge designer was in hurry and they had to cut some steel from the bridge to fit the concrete sprouting nozzle in between. And Voila.

If you treat all risks equal, you avoid driving and favor nuclear energy.

PS. Safe driving to your all.
> FPGAs are very expensive.

Yes currently, but price depends on demand. On the other side, if FPGAs remain expensive then Assembler could become even more important to put as much code as possible into an fpga.

> can be likened more to C than assembler.

For that reason I mentioned the word Assembler in quotes. Btw VHDL is much more like Ada than C while Verilog is different from both.
I found it difficult to relate to his position. By all accounts, he is already very successful and, more importantly, financially independent so he has the freedom to do anything he likes. Labeling that kind of lifestyle as either "late blooming" or "being a loser" is a gross insult to the majority of people who are still trying very hard to achieve his level.

By his standards, I'm worth less than a handful of dirt. While I have achieved some modest level of financial freedom, I didn't do anything as cool as that guy yet. And if I do some day, I'll remember to be thankful for it instead of whining publicly about not being Bill Gates.

For some people the realization that you're never done, that there is always something cooler to do, is apparently very depressing. Personally though, I'm glad it's that way. As long as you're healthy and capable the future is wide open. I find this much more inspiring than the idea that somewhere there is a big cosmic finish line waiting just for you to fall short of.
I'm attempting to finish writing my unpublished BBC micro game 'Zen' written in 1988...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg8Dtod83qA

It's so much fun developing in 6502 assembler again!!!
To make the change, one necessary point is to really start punishing the freeriders But, as long as the freeriders are a very important part of the whole economy, it becomes a chicken or egg problem...
Only if it is available for cheap in huge quantities as a leftover waste product, I suppose.
It's a complex issue. Of course running an economy based on very small businesses is incredibly difficult, for all the stated reasons; however, as I grew older I came to realize that this diversity is also the source for most traits distinguishing these countries around the world.

For example, in fashion the "Italian Style" emerged thanks to small firms led by histrionic and talented designers, who would never have had such freedom in larger companies. Firms like Ferrari, Ducati and Lamborghini remained small, focusing on excellence rather than volume, and maintained this industrial setup even when financially absorbed by larger entities. Small companies in the food industry still maintain an incredible diversity of output, and keep quality standards very high. And of course every Italian city is so distinctive because shops, bars and boutiques are so different and not dominated by a few brands (the difference with England or France is striking -- in England, every town centre has exactly the same few chain-shops).

I'm sure there are similar examples in Spain and Greece. If all these countries "standardized" their economies on larger businesses, they'd lose most of their distinctive appeal. Unfortunately, this makes everything else more difficult, especially when it comes to centralized efforts to improve this or that. Also, small shops are prone to abusing worker rights (if everyone is "exempted" by legislation because of size, does that legislation actually exist?) and being unable to exploit opportunities to scale up in a globalized world.

It's a conundrum, really, and I personally don't know where I'd start fixing things.
It template agnostic, once you've rendered your view you give rivets your DOM element and it will find the data attributes. You could use handlebars, haml or any other templating engine with rivets.
> "religious inspired ceremony of marriage?"

Religion was ex-post-facto applied to marriage, not vice versa.

Note that marriage is pervasive in cultures without strong religious influence or state religions (see: marriage in China, where historically Buddhism rules, and scripture stipulates nothing about marriage).

Marriage, like many social customs, is a cultural phenomenon. Religion is only pinned onto it in cultures where religion is a Big Fucking Deal(tm).
Cultural? With the same excuse you could call keeping black people as slaves or treating women as second rate citizens "cultural".

Excluding gay people from marriage is about discrimination, hatred and bigotry.

It's not about changing other cultures, it's about allowing those who do not conform said culture to live their lives in freedom and equality.

This is the typical bullshit argument used against gay marriage: that it somehow negatively affects the existing cultural traditions. It doesn't.
Crowdfunded projects to check out: Soviets, swords, comics and booze
> Well, you are right but you are looking in the wrong areas of the City

Did you just call Ottawa "the City"? Sorry buddy, Kanata is not "Silicon Valley North".
So how would you solve updating a view after rendering? Do you want your view to know about the markup in your template.

I'm really curious, is there a better way?
Colin,

what's the catch with picodollars?

Based on my experience with corporate people, where I spent too many years, the 'picodollar' thing would be a turn off.

Do you intent your target customers to be hackers/tech people and not corporate?

Just curious re your marketing strategy.
I'd like to see an airline company where greed and incompetence of the operators are actually considered failure modes and designed for.
You can always look at different statistics. If you count deaths per journey, air doesn't look that good anymore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_safety#Statistics
Most of the comments here are way off base, focusing on the relative worth of the objective-c language, rather than the value of Eero for developers who have no choice but to use objective-c, regardless of how good they think it is or isn't.

If you haven't already - I highly recommend following the link. RubyMotion was somewhat interesting, but really didn't feel like a massive improvement over plain old objective-c, especially once you factor in all the Cocoa APIs.

However, Eero looks amazing. The syntax used represents a vast improvement over straight objective-c or RubyMotion. Take a look - it's genuinely exciting.
If you don't get cavities, by not brushing your teeth you will have perfect teeth, on the floor, because your gums went bye bye

Of course, depends on your diet, but for anything resembling modern diet...

Oral health is not about only teeth, you know
Laws aside, homosexuality is alive and well in Singapore. There are gay clubs, lady boys at Orchard Towers (government regulated prostitution), and I had a number of gay friends who certainly weren't fearful for their life (never bothered about their sexual preference).
Are you providing recognition or detection?
An open letter [from Julian Gough] to Johnathan Ive (and Apple)
> "It seems to me that the idea of marrying someone you want is a human right is nothing more than projecting our cultural preferences out to the rest of the world."

As someone who has a trans member of the family still in Asia, who is deep in the closet for fear of persecution, who faces enormous obstacles simply with his immediate family, I heavily disagree.

We're not talking about matters of convenience here, we're talking severe persecution and prosecution.

The claim that persecution of LGBT individuals is a cultural preference, and that opposition to it is cultural imperialism, makes about as much as sense as saying slavery is a cultural preference, and that we should simply let societies "sort it out".

The difference between gay rights and arranged marriage is that, in many cultures where arranged marriage features prominently, everyone involved is consenting. In cases where gays are ostracized, persecuted, and prosecuted, one side is very obviously non-consenting. This issue is not nearly as gray as you're making it out to be.
"Well, on balance, I think you'd have to ask the people in forced marriages and also look at the outcomes for different societies in comparison to each other"

Ok, so in upper castes of India the way it works is the parents come up with various candidates, the kids veto whichever candidates they don't like. In Indian culture you don't get married to the one you fall in love with, you fall in love with the person you get married to. Indian culture also takes the idea of worshipping your spouse to levels which are a bit more literal than in the US. The husband-wife relationship is literally supposed to mirror the god/human relationship.

They seem to have pretty good outcomes on the whole. People get married and then they start dating. I have read a number of accounts by Indians suggesting that they like this system.
The Mobile Effect: Movie Screens, Small to Big to Small Again
I wrote down some lessons from the Maemo and MeeGo times in light of the Jolla announcement. Long read but can give some perspective http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/meego-diaspora/
Still there:

http://www.cc65.org/

What i learned from the 6502 was the use of pointers through the indirect addressing, later when I learned C they became vey easy.
And the SR71 had it from the start, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#Astro-...
In any case, isn't StatusNet what he wants? Seems to be working fine as an open, distribute, API-compatible Twitter alternative.
One thing I've learnt is that we're all making it up as we go. So did our parents. I'm actually amazed that people actually listen to us when we clearly have this weird feeling that "Shit, I have no clue but fuck it let's do it live". You know you've had that feeling as well.
Jolla is apparently basing their work on Mer, the community-managed mobile OS core that emerged from the ashes of MeeGo: http://merproject.org/

Mer apparently runs both Qt/QML and HTML5 happily, so I don't see why this has to be one or the other. The Cordia UX built on Mer even builds on GTK3.
Thanks! I did see some AAA game compilers and tools before indeed. But I remember that being very niche and tight knit, small teams. Which is bringing home the bacon, but not compared to making more high level game tools (Unity for instance); unless you are an AAA game dev with very specific needs, you wouldn't bother even looking for those tools because they are so commodity, while high level tools like Unity and Unreal (with all it's add-ons) are not commodity and thus making millions of $.

But yes, you are right; embedded, HPC and gaming are good examples. Thanks for pointing that out.
Future of eLearning:  LMS? SIS? SIF? LTI?
Of course.

But 100 really widely different technologies is A LOT.

My specialization - telecom industry. I'm dealing with families of technologies and they are not so plentiful. Messaging is messaging, DB is DB, application servers are application servers. Backoffice-frontoffice-mediation-billing remains the same in essence even if you change every component.

I think that I can become good (after 2-3 years) in banking software or manufacturing.

I think it almost impossible for me to become proficient in something like game production, high performance computing, many others
FPGAs also consume more power for a given clock rate, and their maximum frequency is less than a dedicated chip. It would be unusual to dedicate an FPGA to implementing a CPU.

It might change in the future though? I remember some years ago, the possibility of nanotube based chips were being touted, offering FPGA like programmability and speeds greater than a dedicated chip. I haven't heard of it since.
Why not, as long as that 'certain temperature' is well below the temperature at which the battery spontaneously ignites? Also, for recycling, one could deplete the battery before trying to separate its container from the other parts.

I still think these things will get recycled into low-quality stuff such as concrete filler, but as I said, I do not rule out that there is a relatively easy way to separate the parts that iFixit does not know about.
Ask HN: What are various options for mobile web app development?
What are various options available for developing mobile web applications using standard HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript?
You're right, this is not possible. What caf may have been thinking of is that banks may borrow money subject to other conditions, such as by emitting bonds, to which the 100% reserve requirement doesn't apply.

Of course, such a system is also subject to bank runs, just via a different mechanism ("run on bonds" by lenders refusing to roll the bonds over instead of run on deposits).
Yuck?
Strangely the same sort of cultural arrogance that lead to praising slavery in many parts of the US as good for black people is behind this sort of global campaign. Just think of the number of Africans who would have grown up never knowing about Christ, or never seeing the marvels of the New World if it were not for slavery! Yes there were people defending slavery at the time in precisely these terms. So I think that issue works out the exact opposite way you say.

Indeed, in cases where slavery is primarily endogenous (say, ancient Greece or Rome, or even Viking-age Scandinavia), slaves tend to have some legal rights, and some freedoms because it functions as a bit of a safety net, and there are political incentives to free slaves. For example in those three cultures (Greece/Rome/Viking-age Scandinavia), freed slaves formed important sources of political and economic support. Dred Scott v. Sanford ensured in he US that such a solution could not exist here.

So slavery in the new world was uniquely evil and oppressive. One can defend many other systems of slavery in the world throughout history, but certainly not that one. Indeed the only second-person perspective defence that was made was that we were so much better than the Africans that it was better to be a slave on a plantation in Virginia than free in Senegal. That same arrogance is, once again, behind this today.

Heck, I won't even defend the system of prison labor/slavery we have in the US today because I think that's beyond defence. But I won't just say "we're labelling it slavery and therefore it's evil."

So in New Guinea there is an indigenous tribe called the Sambia. In this tribe you can't become a man unless you go through a coming of age ceremony where you are given a nosebleed by having a tooth of a wild animal shoved in your nose (this is to drain feminine influences, and remove childhood), and where you are required to fellate a tribal elder. Of course this happens at an age roughly similar to adolescence.

Now obviously if this happened in NYC, we'd call this sexual predation, and try to send people to jail for life. But are you saying that we need to insure that if indigenous children don't want to go through such rituals that they have a right to be left alone?
However such a critique needs to take into account the totality of the other culture.

Why?

Did we need to know all there was to know about Nazism to deem the holocaust "bad"? In the above link, do we necessarily have to understand every nuance of the society before we say killing someone to a cheering throng of people without a trial on hearsay of adultery is "wrong"? No, I don't think so. Those actions stand on their own and can be judged on their own.

Now, if you are suggesting that we must completely understand a culture before we pass judgement on the entire culture, that has some weight to it. Individual acts or cross-sections, however, can be judged on their own. It might help to understand them in the larger picture, though it isn't necessary.

As a last example, take lynchings in the south of the US. Easy to pass judgement on them as "wrong" for any outsider to the US without understanding the rest of the US culture.

Sometimes things are just bad and we shouldn't be afraid to tell it like it is.
I'm sure it's riveting stuff, but sadly I stop reading anything in which 6 of the opening 8 paragraphs are just really long rhetorical questions.
"Why is it a bad idea to develop on the Twitter API, but a good idea to develop on Apple's? [...] Apple is far bigger therefore far more dangerous than Twitter"

...I think, and sorry in advance for the pun, that's an apples to oranges comparison there.

Firstly, the author already says he's more comfortable with companies like Dropbox where the 'customer is the customer', and not the product. Most people would agree that's true of Apple.

But more importantly, there's a huge difference between a web based API and an OS-level API. I can think of many examples where REST APIs have pulled their rest APIs overnight or on short notice (Face.com being the most recent). A company like Twitter or Linked.In can kill an app that's using their APIs instantly.

Now, you could argue that Apple can do this through the app store, but I think that's a rather different discussion. Apple's motivations and Twitter's motivations are very different here. Apple will, in fact, pay you to use their APIs if you choose to charge for your apps.

Some people will say it's a 'good' idea to work with Apple, other's will say it's 'bad'. Whatever your opinion, I'm still not totally convinced you can really compare Apple with Twitter in this situation.
What graphical ecommerce site was that? Given it predates Mosaic and the commercial use of the web I'm surprised its not more well known.
No but it looks interesting. Thanks for the link.
Where do you draw the line?

Should we eliminate indigenous cultures because their coming of age ceremonies are barbaric forms of child abuse (and many may be seen by modern standards as sex abuse)?

Or do we leave the most deeply cultural concepts of society-- how we relate to our bodies, the form and function of marriage, and how we relate to growing up or dying to the members of that culture?
So what? The package manager will not install it. So it is still thousand times better than downloading random things from the net.
It is always funny to check the numbers of pro nuclear sources. As an example in your source [1], the number of .04 deaths/TWh due to nuclear energy seems to be simply the WHO number of excess cancer death of 4000 divided by 112 PWh generated electricity. However in the original article [2] he links (as source for coal related death) to a IAEA bulletin [3], which also cites numbers for nuclear energy, ranging from .6 to 1.2 deaths per TWh. More in line with an estimate of about 40,000 deaths from chernobyl [4]. ( This source also gives a very nice summary of the problems of the WHO estimate.)

[2] http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-ener...
[3] http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull411/...
[4] http://allthingsnuclear.org/post/4704112149/how-many-cancers...
Ho hum.

I haven't seen a web API that I really like... ever.

Remember del.icio.us? Their API was a roach motel, aimed to get data into del.icio.us, but offering no real access to the huge pool of shared bookmarks inside.

Any commercial API takes more than it gives, that's a fact.