skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you're quite right, I can't use that argument. But the fact that similar ideas have been done tells us that the system is capable of implementing good ideas; autotools' continued existence is not the result of a general problem with the bazaar model; there must be some narrower reason why it hasn't been replaced.
The title is misleading since the blog author admits to not having tried Racket recently. IMHO, Racket fixes the author's key complaint about documentation by having a Guide (separate from Reference) with many examples: http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/index.html

Since Racket isn't Scheme, it also comes with more data structures built-in and there's on-going work to better support numerical computation.
Unfortunately, not all managers are great. Some are intentionally bad (or at least misguided), others just don't know what the effects of their actions are.
Lets just say that maybe I have a slightly different recollection about that meeting ? :-)
> If the person is passionate about programming they will have code they are proud of and that can be the start of a conversation.

This statement works better as a negative. If a person is not passionate they will not have such code but a passionate person can have many reasons that they might not as well.
When I read about this research, it changed the way I raise my kids. Given our society's emphasis on intelligence (and the fact my kids are smart), it was natural to complement them on that. I now go to great efforts to make sure they know that smart alone isn't enough and, when they are putting good effort into something, I acknowledge the effort and not the results. Hopefully it is pushing them towards being "growthies".
"I don't see any reason why someone shouldn't make this."

You are exactly the kind of person that should build your own lander if you don't see this. And please, stop asking all of these questions in bad faith. I applaud deeringc for engaging with your specific points, but I can't bring myself to do this, since it seems to me like you assume all aerospace engineers are uncreative drones that can't think outside the box and see the obvious solution you've reached from your armchair.

Have you ever built a multiply-redundant, space-worthy, swarm-based system before? Have you built something that's any one of those three? If not, I don't have a problem with you thinking about them, but I do have a problem with your attitude. Edit: to clarify, I mean the attitude that comes across from your writing style. I have no idea what your qualificaitons are, how much thought you've put into this, how receptive you are to the idea that you're wrong, whether or not you recognize that everyone has more "unknown unkowns" than anything else, or what your actual attitude is. All I have are the words you write here. And my natural response to snark is more snark.

And if you think you're the first person to think "wouldn't it be great if not every spacecraft didn't have to have to re-solve the problem of power, communications, and computation?" I first heard the idea proposed in a 2009 talk[1] by someone who has been an insider for over 20 years. Some gems I remember from that talk:

* Having an identical copy is not redundancy

* Complexity is inherently more succeptable to failures

* Cars have been widely successful because of gas stations and repair shops. Spacecraft have to drag around their own

* We could create a ring of satellites, each dedicated to providing comms to earth, wireless power, computing power, or whatever. Users of the system would just need to build a structure, interfacing components, and their instrument and launch it into a nearby orbit.

[1] Abstract: http://www.spacecraftresearch.com/files/Fleeter.pdf
“By giving Assange asylum, Ecuador is protecting freedom of the press”

This is perhaps the strangest proposition. / Ecuador has a woeful record on freedom of the press.

The proposition doesn't actually say that protecting the freedom of the press is their motivation. Good things can arise from bad motives.
I think the PC won because it was cheaper and came to have better applications later not because MS copied some GUI elements.
Very promising, thanks for the great work!
Canonical dumps Unity 2D for Ubuntu 12.10
Much Ado about Digital Theatre’s streaming of Shakespeare
Sorry, missed this for a couple of days. Hmm, I may have been charging via USB to the computer at the time. Will try again later.
Ask HN: Single dashboard to manage multiple PPC vendors & other channels?
Anyone know of any solution to get performance metrics from multiple PPC accounts (e.g. Google, MSN, etc) and other channels such as affiliate networks into one analytics dashboard? That is... without importing and exporting CSVs all day.
Computer worm that targets the energy industry
An accurate prediction about the features of Apple TV
Yes, but again, there is no Python syntax for anonymous classes. That you can "easily do" something a different way is not proof that two things are the same, it's proof that they are in fact different. Which again, is my point. That Python has other, different features that can be used for other different effects just makes it that much more different.

Python has green threads, but if you want concurrency, you have to resort to the process module. This is not a limitation Java's threading shares.

I'm not arguing that Python is bad or inadequate, just that it is a fundamentally different thing and should not be viewed as a superset of Java.
This was brilliant. A really good depth of analysis and the kind of statistical forecasting that I like, but I'm not sure that it holds too much water.

Sure the analysis holds for current types of anti-aging, life prolonging techniques, but does it hold for the future?

It's like charting the average 100m run of Humans since the dawn of time, and then claiming that, as a race, we'll never break the sound barrier. But then someone invents the car.

And I think that's a good, strong analogy, because the things we're looking into now aren't just life-prolonging, they are age-defying. It's a complete shift. As Marks remarks perhaps we can't predict how it's going to happen, you can't predict everything after all, especially not new technology.

To me a better analysis would have looked at statements about what is required to stop the aging process altogether and analysed our progress in those fields. For instance does it require the accurate mapping of our DNA? A task that can be completed, and isn't an endless goal like 'living to X years' is.

There are also completely off the wall developments that don't fit in the trend lines that Marks has forecast like the role of replacing our bodies with machines. Such things deserve their own trend line, and again such a thing wouldn't progress towards infinity, cumulatively, but would have an end point in terms of allowing us to live indefinitely. There may be endless improvements we could make to a synthetic body, but making it endlessly maintainable would be a relatively early goal.
Apple is now the most valuable company on Earth.
Check out http://platformed.info/ the author has some great articles about marketplaces
The article presents a really misleading picture of Pagani. For starters, Horacio Pagani isn't some sort of outsider savant who came from nowhere - he has a long history in the automotive industry and at one point was head of composites at Lamborghini.

Pagani are a small company, but they're not tiny for their sector of the market and have 55 employees. A niche car company can be that small for two reasons - one is that they buy in most of their mechanicals from a mass-manufacturer, the other is that they make chassis from composites, which can only be manufactured by hand and have no meaningful economies of scale. Aside from the chassis, a car like this is assembled rather than manufactured - the engine comes in a box from AMG, the exhaust system from MHG, the interior from Dani and most of the metal components from Aspa.

The Zonda and Huayra are phenomenal cars, but they're not the unique creations of one special genius. They're what's possible when a clever designer is given a blank cheque. The moveable aerodynamic elements on the Huayra are sophisticated, but they're not unique and would be commonplace in racing cars if the technology wasn't banned by the FIA. It's infinitely more difficult to design a good car that costs $20,000 than a great car that costs $2,000,000.

I don't mean to take away from the achievements of Pagani, but instead celebrate the work of the network of companies that make their cars possible. A modern supercar is like stone soup - the designer is just a catalyst for the expertise and resources of a whole army of manufacturers.
That's interesting, thanks for the link. Apparently I'm not like most people, as I guessed 20 million. Maybe the fact that you made me aware of potential cognitive bias affected the outcome, I don't know.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/photo51/

They were literally jerks. Franklin's work hasn't escaped them either. He isn't even denying the misappropriation, after all, that is what a physicist does by his definition (take other people's data ...work):

http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1380325

just for the record and to please the prospective downvoting mob, here are my experimental observations consistent with the cern experimental domain in order to warn any non-westerners:

"The cost [...] has been evaluated, taking into account realistic labor prices in different countries. The total cost is X (with a western equivalent value of Y) [where Y>X]

source: LHCb calorimeters : Technical Design Report

ISBN: 9290831693 http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/494264

Berner was looking at RPC as his dayjob to give control commands to machines. What Berner did, was to use the Interface Builder's precursor on the NeXT he got as a toy to put a gopher-like link into the text properties field, where the font boldness, size ...and colour and underline were. This was quite graphical programming, and not world-wide at the time (NeXT was an expensive toy). Hardly an innovation. And not everybody was allowed to toy around -- certainly not western equivalents.

Nobody has really heard of Groff, Pellow, Nielsen and the rest, who made it work multiplatform, over the command-line, etc. ie. world-wide. Nobody was astonished by them back then, because what they were doing was nothing special: several such systems existed already both commercial and academic. They were the cheap students, whose work allowed it to be opened up and given away without charge. WWW grew like it did because of two reasons: it was free of charge, because it was actually made by cheap and disposable students, and the then changing climate of the deregulation of the internet, of which some companies ie. Vermeer, Netscape could take early advantage of.

CERN likes cheap students' work, and sell if off as stellar examples of innovation by CERN. Read Facts and Mysteries in Elementary Particle Physics by Veltman if you feel to downvote this because of CERN.
To add to this...

http://filamentgroup.com/lab/date_range_picker_using_jquery_...

Same one? Seems to have a slick interface that does not require an apply button, does provide ranges and customizable range options, although it does not have easy keyboard input either.
The real shame is that "an education" is synonymous with "expensive University".
Just to be clear, the person I responded said, in effect, that the code did X. They made code that did Y, and then realized it didn't do X. That is the story of a million ill conceived code rewrites.

That the code did X is clear by the code: No amount of words can refute or change that the code does X. The danger is replacing code is always in the behavior of the code, and never simplified descriptions of its actions.

To business logic, as someone who has worked heavily with business code for years (laughable commentary from imbeciles to the contrary), business logic in comments is one of the worst choices a team can make because it is an escape hatch. It negates the need for verbose, traceable code. It negates the need for vastly superior external proof.
Show HN: ThingCounter - You upload an image and we count things for you
Referly API Powers Red Rock Insurance Referrals
probably type-o at the bottom. article lists 0-186 at 18 seconds, and then at the bottom lists 0-124 for 18 seconds.

That is one awesome car.
Apple and Samsung CEOs Will Try to Resolve Patent Dispute
I'm one of the people behind ThingCounter, feel free to ask me any questions.
Isn't that what's shown on the linked page under "Pre-defined Ranges & Callback Example?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1s_PybOuY0
It's on the wsj's blog network, not in the paper itself.
It's almost as if they were more interested in having a conversation than in looking up trivia...
Designing for A Retina Web
Sure, I just don't see how observing these patterns is "glib". It's not the "point" of Bitcoin, but certainly common.
No. I'm just reminding ourselves we don't know what you'll need in the future, that any decisions we make now are subject to change down the road and that it's foolish to assume we can design now what we'll be using ten years from now.
He doesn't have a formal education in aerodynamics. Someone who doesn't have a formal education is someone who didn't go to any kind of school.
I think that the labels for the graph have been swapped up. Microsoft (1999) and Microsoft (Current).
A minor point, but this is wrong in several ways.

InstallShield was never acquired by Microsoft, and was never actually very good. You can think of it as being a leaky abstraction over the underlying horror of Windows Installer, allowing just enough to poke through that it was unreliable. There has never been a really sane way to install windows apps, and there still isn't - the closest approximation today is WiX.

Possibly the manifest-based Windows 8 application packages provide a better story, I'm not familiar enough to say.
Of course now we're all saying: Wow, wouldn't it be great if we had this skill in addition to all that we can already do.

What I find interesting though is that most notable people in the world's history didn't have any pathological brain conditions. For example, you could reasonably expect the worlds best artists to have a photographic memory.

It seems like you don't need a superpower be successful in what you do.

Edit: typo
When I applied to capgemni(A big I.T company) the graduate recruitment website returned my password in plaintext over email which shocked me because they're ment to be I.T experts that do government and corporate i.t projects. Although this was a year ago, is there a way to formally complain about this?

How can I get people aware?
"First talk was OpenBSD's wireless talk. Much rethoric about freedom and little appreciation for the way the world actually works, as opposed to how it looks like it works from the headquarters of OpenBSD.

Asked directly if they thought they could defend their reverse engineering of for instance the Atheros HAL. The answer as I heard it was "Laws don't apply to us".

I guess I'm not the right person to appreciate the valor of their crusade, but somehow their rethoric reminds me too much about Rote Arme Fraktion and similar terrorgroups of the seventies which tried to change society by bombing political correct holes in it.

If OpenBSD aims to corner the paranoid/radical part of the market they're welcome to it for all I care.

Doesn't sound like it is doing anything good for their wireless support however."

I dunno, sounds to me like you bitterly despise anyone who dares to do things correctly instead of doing whatever is expedient. OpenBSD's stance on the wireless issue was correct, has been proven to be correct, and should be admired. And I'm a netbsd guy, so I am "supposed to" hate openbsd.
Real-time monitoring for your Stripe account
I love that this requires almost NO set-up, and integrates with tools I'm already using, unlike a lot of similar products out there.
Prismatic for iPhone makes it easy to discover interests. Watch what happens.
Do you have github/sourceforge? I'd love to read some of your non-trivial code.

Read almost any non-trivial successful project for good examples. The Linux kernel. Firefox. etc. The frequency and verbosity of comments tends to have a direct correlation with the simplicity of the code (which is the exact opposite of normal expectations).
Article Summary seems to be: Generation Y has different expectations/work ethic, therefore the workplace will bend to their demands.

In some cases, employers refuse to provide positions to those who don't fit their current corporate expectations. This might partially be reflected by higher unemployment rates among this age category:

http://bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm

Not saying this is necessarily a good thing in every case. I work with folks (in Software Engineering) from around the globe. There are many people from other countries who happily work extremely hard and make sacrifices that some Gen Y folks from the U.S. would consider unacceptable.
Aeropress with the inverted method - https://sites.google.com/site/scottmarquardt/invertedaeropre...
Complete coffee snob here, but I also like to think that I can find the happy medium between crazy/exquisite and important. Here are my pointers:

1. The most important factor is fresh grind of good-enough beans. Grind just enough for each brew.

2. Water temp, which you mention, makes a difference, but no need to get a fancy kettle. Take water off a boil and count 10 seconds. Good enough!

3. Good-enough beans are basically anything that you can buy in whole-bean form. You could spend $10 on a pound of high-end Starbucks or you could spend $5 on a mid-range pound of 8 O'Clock. They taste different, but I find both levels of coffee to be sufficient.

4. Make coffee stronger than necessary and dilute to your preference. Never use fewer beans than necessary as it will make the coffee bitter.

5. Like flavors? Add them afterwards. Additives in flavored coffee will generally leech into almost any brewing vessel and subtly alter future batches.

Brewing method generally doesn't matter. French press is nice if you don't mind inevitable grit and a manual process. Most auto coffee makers are good enough. I try to steer people away from cups and pods due to waste, cost, and the fresh-grind factor, but they are very convenient if you're optimizing for time. My preferred work/flavor balance is a Melitta cone filter that requires hand pour of water.

Good luck!
I believe it will also be able to be used for public clouds with all the API's providers have now.
Indeed, we often like to talk shit every Friday night after work, typically over a few pints.

Though you may encounter the odd person in everyday life who is 'full of shit'.

Such is the British way, we tend to use these as terms of endearment just as much as genuine insults.
According to the article, "...the shape of the Huayra fell out of Mr. Pagani’s head almost fully formed." Given how hard it is to build anything that can zoom at 225mph without losing control or crashing, I find this a rather impressive feat!

Edit: in response to the comments below, yes, I recognize this may be hype, and yes, I recognize designing and building the car must have been an interactive process involving many other people. Still, there's little doubt that Mr. Pagani was the main creative force, and I can't help but be impressed by his accomplishment as a company-founding "car hacker-artist" CEO.
> "You upload - We count - Everybody's happy"

I have no idea what this "thing" does. I can't even try it without paying you $10.
Scroll down a little -- that was the reason I created it.
Nature does pretty well with bazaar style development and she usually wins doesn't she?

There's a lot to be said about building via rapidly iterating around feedback.
Why Venture Capital No Longer Defines Innovation
I was going even simpler. When the person is finished with the pod, and the door closes and locks, the pod takes a photo. When the next person pays and the just before the door unlocks, it takes another photo.

No computer analysis, no nothing. If there is a complaint or a need to check the photos, someone can. Automation can come later.

Add a reputation system to catch repeat offenders (with proof) and you're done. Cheap and simple.
Yeah, that was super confusing. At first I thought it was adjusted for inflation but then I saw the current numbers as being lower than the old numbers and didn't know what to make of it.
I agree. It would seem his best odds for justice are to go to Sweden and face the music. If he's acquitted, then he should start to look for political asylum in other countries.

The only glitch is if the Swedish authorities can detain him while the extradition process to the US is being processed.
Or how about - “One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA” – Alexander Graham Bell, c.1880.
I told her not to move and dashed for the camera. Then we talked about what she wanted to sell (ice cream) and who she wanted to sell it to (people from Germany [I was traveling there frequently at the time]).

I work from home when not traveling and we still talk about customers, partners and even some of the challenges that come up and what we're doing about them. Not sure exactly how it will manifest when she is an adult, but I am certain some good will come of the exposure.

You are absolutely right, don't discard those moments.
The cards are a reflection of reality, not an endorsement of the current state of things.

Your tactic of putting your hands over your eyes and ears has been tried, at length in the past. It hasn't ever worked wherever it's been tried.
I think that's why he qualified the statement with "in my experience", which means he's talking about usage in the US.
Of the dozens of articles on Carol Dweck that I've read, this is by far the best one. Awesome writeup Aaron.
I whole-heartedly agree with this concept, and it's great to be reminded of this so thank you for sharing! I recently have been working on some startup projects and as you know this can often be trying times and it's easy to fall after many failures. But your post just reminded me of my sentiments on this topic and was another push to keep me in line so thank you for that on this Monday morning =)
Familiarity with make may be part of it, but I picked up that level of familiarity in about five minutes. Common problem: program adds -ldl to linker flags (doesn't work on OpenBSD). Makefile fix: vi Makefile, /-ldl, xxxx, :wq. Done. Autofix: I dunno, but I'm sure it involves a lot more typing. Most makefiles are simple, most makefile problems and their fixes are simpler still. The dumbest thing that could possibly work often does.
Would any one really trust the due course of law argument after the Kim Dotcom incident. Basically it can now be argued that the US can get who ever it wants from where ever they are for what ever their crimes are.
"Some research suggests women are turned off from the "hard" sciences before they reach high school"

This is not unrelated to how they're turned off further after and into their careers.
Tiny Green Bug May Be First Photosynthetic Animal
A mate of mine tried creating a biz out of this a few years back. it had a lot of competition and it was hard to monetize. it shuttered after a bit.

I've seen a few others take up the gauntlet with webbased pdf converters including developer api's.

The only one that i know that is surviving is
http://www.nitropdf.com/

they seem to have quite a few government/big companies using their product.
@jpdus Will you elaborate on why you are eager to ditch Jython in favor of CPython? I guess I have a soft spot for Jython.

Overall this project looks very interesting- Can't wait to go through the source code at https://github.com/kivy/pyjnius to see how this works under the hood.

Cheers.
yabbadabbadoo, the website stylesheets are broken on Chrome at the moment. Looking forward to seeing it when its back up.
Researchers plan new ethernet standard with speeds between 400Gbps and 1Tbps
It's nice to see that a Goliath like facebook also started out a david.