skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm not mistaken, this is like email: it's decentralized, but still based on a client/server architecture.

I'm asking about P2P, even if client/server might be a better answer to that specific problem.
(Bias warning: I know Lane, the author of the post, and think she's scary smart ;-)

This used to be my preferred tool to get everybody to understand the work that UX folk did - but in more recent years I've begun to think that it can get in the way more than it helps. These days I see it more as a transitional tool rather than a long term solution.

The problems that I've seen with separate UX stories are:

* They can become something that gets dropped when pressure situations occur (it's 'only' a design story...)

* They get away from, on agile teams, the idea that all stories deliver direct business value (or Running Tested Features or whatever). I don't like design stories that fail to do this, in the same way I don't like development 'stories' like 'build database layer'.

* They tend to stay the sole job of the UX person and seem to act as a bit of a barrier to getting the whole team to help swarm on stories. They highlight the work - which is great - but they label it 'ux' so it becomes a subset of the teams responsibility rather than the whole team's responsibility.

I'd be interested to see how Lane feels about them in a years time - or as the team grows. (I wonder if these are really Rob/Lane stories rather than dev/design stories... if you see what I mean).

... hmm... should probably put this as a comment on the blog...
Did Netflix's Reed Hastings Lie to Us?
Hm. That's the closest I've got.

How's your Go? You can build one on Pastry. :)
Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to plain C
Lisp Hackers: François-René (Faré) Rideau
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17 minute old account likes submission by 22 minute old account by long time spammers BGR.

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kemper

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=zacharye

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=CitiiDB
Apple tries to kill its own Java on most Macs
Indeed. Also, most people are risk averse, so they are happy to purchase insurance with an EV (expected value) equal to less than the premium simply to avoid the gamble.
BTW, do you know of any real projects using Tent? It does sound interesting.

Going back to P2P: building a flooding P2P library on top of a DHT seems like a total waste. But maybe the common parts could be extracted.
Alternatively, this is just more evidence that most people are risk-averse.
Android A Bad Deal... For Google
Commodity hardware always loses
To be fair, there is a little discrepancy between what they promised (IE10 on Win 7 alongside with Win 8 and more previews before RTM). It reads like they pretty much changed everything in the browser and are not backporting features to the old core.
I won the UK National Lottery jackpot as part of a syndicate. Two years later, I won it again on my own.

The wins have had two effects on how I evaluate odds: first, so-called 'remote' probabilities I once found reassuring – the odds of being hit by lightning in your lifetime is 1 in 10,000 or the chances of being killed in a train crash are 1 in 500,000 – no longer have a calming effect. This can make me both nervous and acutely risk-aware. Some people call this introverted.

Second, the converse has also become true: so-called 'impossible' odds – the chance of winning the National Lottery jackpot three times, for example – no longer deter me from participating. This can make me both irrational and actively risk-seeking. Some people call this extroverted.

Regardless of this dichotomy, the OP's point of view rings true for me: the decision to play the lottery lies in entertainment value alone. It is unlikely that I will win again. But it is hard to resist the questions hammered out in lottery marketing campaigns. The ones designed to undermine rational resistance to extraordinary odds: "What would you do if you did win?" or, more bluntly, "How would you spend it?"

It is harder still to resist simple cost-benefit analysis, which leaves the same question I've had since the beginning: is dreaming worth the cost of entry? My answer is always the same:

You bet it is.
>This means you cannot really implement Haskell-like monads with dynamic typing.

Ahh, yeah I've heard this before. It totally slipped my mind.

>As for dispatching on runtime values, that is ordinary pattern matching

Can you extend the patterns of a function at runtime (or even across modules)?
Why All Web Devs Need To Prepare Their Sites for IE10 and Windows 8
I wouldn't say Curriculum Vitae is an old fashioned phrase. In Ireland and the UK I never hear anyone refer to a resumé, they talk about their CV or Curriculum Vitae. I think it depends where you come from.
Updated :nth Tester
Thank you for pointing that out. Since this is Hacker News I can sometimes be a bit myopic about the different kinds of entrepreneurs.

Now that I think about it, the guy from Breaking Bad could be the perfect poster-boy (poster-man?) for what happens when middle-aged dudes don't have safety nets for starting legal businesses!
Shameless plug, but I used a jQuery timeline plugin to create my CV, since I found regular CV's boring. It's not that detailed, but it's less dull in my eyes. Still need o add my LinkedIn profile that will serve as the boring version. Ps. Doesn't look great on mobile yet..

http://www.samgranger.com/cv/

I still need to change a lot and I might end up taking a completely other approach. But I want to make it as interactive as possible. Probably will end up writing my own plugin.

My old CV: http://www.samgranger.com/old_cv/
Indeed, this is Von Neumann–Morgenstern rationality for anyone interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Morgenstern...
A rapid-release cycle coupled with automatic updates helps push the web forward.

Chrome and Firefox do not have very much version fragmentation compared to IE. Much like the Android issue, you cannot use the latest and greatest features because a large portion of your users are still on old platforms.

There is really three options available to web developers:
1) Do nothing
2) Employ some new features and allow for graceful degradation
3) Use the latest features and/or force users to upgrade their browsers

Most developers go for option #2. Browser vendors who employ a faster release cycle help reduce the time-to-market for new features to go mainstream.

I will make it simple:
Would you rather wait 5 years to stop using images for rounded corners (border-radius)? 1 year? 3 months?
Less than 1600 words, three tables and one graph.
Who's to say it would have gone this way without all the press attention? The statement I read was very vague:

> “Obviously, our office encourages lifelong learning and wants Minnesotans to take advantage of educational materials available on the Internet, particularly if they’re free,”

Nothing here is a denial that they did try to get Coursera to pay.

> “When the legislature convenes in January, my intent is to work with the Governor and Legislature to appropriately update the statute to meet modern-day circumstances,” said Pogemiller. “Until that time, I see no reason for our office to require registration of free, not-for-credit offerings.”

I read this as: "We can't ask them to pay now, but will try to find a way in the future to change the law so it does apply"
French tax on startups
The main thing to be learned from this post is that the “Super 7’s Oz Lotto” is clearly a badly run lottery. If the expected return for a ticket is greater than the price, this lottery is losing money for the organizers.

Perhaps this explains the glum-looking face on their logo: https://media.tatts.com/images/lotto/tattersalls/site-logo-t...
Will it be geared towards Django operating on Python 3? Or will that subject be treated lightly?
http://telehash.org/ possibly
Not off the top of my head, no. Sorry. :( I know there's http://tent.is, and there's a Go client for Tent out there, but that's really all I know about it.
"snake case your header names (yes this is bad form) before presenting them to your code as the list of header names."

From RFC 2616, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", §4.2, "Message Headers":
Each header field consists of a name followed by a colon (":") and the field value. Field names are case-insensitive.

"Use content MD5 at both ends of the conversation."
Yeah.. no: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232030
Bill Gurly to LPs: Stop giving to billion dollar VC funds
Can't those standards committees just do something right for once and create a standard for a vm that will run in the browser (a la Dartium)? Stop this monopoly and oppression of innovation!!!
The conflict is only about the definition of property. When we come to an agreement on what is property and what belongs to whom, the conflict will be over.
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Dublin Web Summit Picks SmartThings Out Of 100-Strong Startup Competition
Thanks for the reference. I didn't know there was a specific term for that.
> Schools can't afford to bus random kids in from 100 miles away

This is my point... Affordability is the reason in both cases so I don't understand how this is so easy for you to understand with schools and so baffling with Employer paid health insurance. Do you thing that your HR dept could manage 100 different health care providers? do you think all the providers that you may wish to use are affordable to your company?

>All of those things are either related to the relationship between you and your employer. The 401k thing is a little funny. I'd rather take the cash and manage it myself. I'm assuming your point is that health care plans are just another form of compensation and if you don't like what's offered, quit and work somewhere else that offers something better. The problem is that 1) coverage chosen by the employer can change every year, 2) you can't get the same coverage at the same price on your own or at a small company, and 3) it's non-optimal because it bundles unrelated things and requires you, as a "consumer" of employment, to make your decisions based on the aggregate value instead of individual values of the components.

Money is a finite thing to your company and I just don't understand how you are baffled that you can't choose whatever health care you wish through your company. Whats more - with ObamaCare, you will still not be able to choose whatever health care provider you want so I don't see how you think that this will help you.
Ubuntu ported to the Nexus 7
An honest question: Why don't hedge funds buy lottery tickets?
IE only makes up about 50% of all users but, yes, it depends on your users.
What you said is true if you're young and you don't have much data to assess yourself with, but even if you're not pg and don't have a model of success well backed with data, the fact is that if you're 30 or 40 years old there are plenty of objective third parties you will have encountered throughout life who have assessed you for free.

For example, if you've been through a demanding course of tertiary education and performed better than average that says something. Indeed any endeavour that required a fair amount of intelligence, skill, and commitment where you came out above average says something: starting other businesses and having done better than average comes to mind.

In addition to the flaw pg pointed out, the second mistake the article's analysis makes is to ignore the number of opportunities you have; it seems to assume you have a single opportunity. In reality, you can make some less than optimal choices in life and still sometimes do just as fine in the end.

If you're young I don't see what's wrong with gambling a bit: if you're 20 and have zero data about how well you will perform, I believe it's still completely rational to aim high. If you don't get the $100 million exit by 25, you can reconsider your options. After 5 years of aiming high you'll have more than enough data to assess whether it's time to change your aim or to keep going.
If you are a web developer, and know anything about web technology, you would understand. IE is a horrible browser.
OpalScript is going to solve this problem
Watch what you say: MTA recording conversations
Python 3 support was --last I heard-- still considered experimental/alpha by the core team in the upcoming Django 1.5 release, so I would assume if it treats it at all, it will be mostly to encourage forward-compatible programming practices.
The simple and better way is to use WOT (web of trust) extension for firefox and chrome. It really help users from clicking on fraudulent links.
"Settling" for several hundred thousand dollars a year on a handful of hours of work per week? That doesn't sound like very many people's definition of the word.

"Settling" is usually used to describe accepting a somewhat bad situation because you know you're never going to find one that's better. The situation you describe above would be the fantasy of pretty much every human being on the planet.

"Why I solved my financial situation for good and retired at 19". Find me anybody apart from yourself who thinks there's no upside to that.
It makes sense, considering JS's silly coercion rules and overflow, which don't match Ruby's.
Computer Generated Math Paper makes it into Peer Reviewed Journal
Encrypting ASP.NET appSettings Web.Config File
ECMA5 has real maps, which Opal could use. Some browsers support them already.
On a related note; if you've not seen "Monsters" then you should track it down, a great film! (it should have had a BAFTA but had the misfortune to be released the same year as the even better "Four Lions").
Designers Will Code
Cardboard Bicycle
God says...

them.

17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him,
and were sore afraid.

17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come
up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the
man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and
will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in
Israel.

17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall
be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the
reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that
he should defy the armies of the living God? 17:27 And the people
answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man
that killeth him.
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Wikipedia DevCamp in Bangalore, 9-11 November 2012
> "All of the above leads to a massive glut of words and, ultimately, ad inventory in the tech news space. You don't have to have a Nobel Prize in econ to see what this miserable dynamic means for publishers' bottom lines."

There's room for good websites with well-paid staff who are experts and they can make profit too. Rather than talk about an example from my company, a higher profile one: TechRadar. Their target audience is a little less tech-savvy than me, or most HN readers, but trust me when I say that their staff know what they're talking about - I obviously don't know them all, but I know a few from management down, and they're the bees knees. And they make money. There's plenty of other examples including sites that don't simplify for the audience quite so much.

What the current situation with online tech coverage has done isn't to make it impossible to succeed financially, it's just made it far easier to try and do it badly, and with so many more people trying, the percentage of those who succeed naturally drops. It's like if tomorrow anyone could buy an F1 race car - the average ability of drivers would drop way down, but it doesn't mean it's any harder to be a professional racer.
Meet the man who’s beating Airbnb in Europe
Sporting Braga vs Leixoes 3-0 All Goals Highlights
France wants law banning linking to press articles, Google to pay for indexing
Evolution of Apple Ads 1975-2002
Choosing between Attractive Females or Money
And FFS everybody please, please. quit calling your website a "startup".
How does one implement a browser single-app JS client (Backbone, Angular etc) to access server API with HMAC authentication? The secret key will be exposed clearly in the JavaScript client.
Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned.
Principles of iOS App Design
In my crystal ball there are also signs that whole Windows itself will get rapid release cycle. I see that only one commercial mention version 8 and others just advertise Windows, I see rumours that first service pack for W8 will bring new features, I see that Windows RT don't have version in product name. So tightening Windows and IE release cycles can be not so bad as it seems.
Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website [2004]
Winning is not everything
Exactly, IE has been behind and lost much of its market share due to this.
Also, in Finland the state lottery redistributes the profit to good use. By law the arts get 38.5%, sports 25%, science 17.5% and youth work 9%. 10% goes to whatever the Ministry of Education decides that year. Whenever I play lottery I think I'm partly giving money to charity and partly buying a dream.
From the article:

> The main thing that surprised me about this build was: it wasn’t a “hack-a-thon”. I wasn’t killing myself and never sleeping. Instead, it was just super normal days. Loved it!

For me, this was the most insightful thing: that the "5 days" were really 5 days, not 10 days compressed into 5 days.
little hype around django, but still is popular
Transfusive image manipulation
This is fantastic. It was - and actually still is - the single-best resource for learning Django. Unlike all other guides, it managed to explain why Django was written the way it was.
Well, from the horse's mouth but Musk would disagree:

http://takingpitches.com/2012/09/22/elon-musk-the-role-of-an...

He makes it sound as though the raw material cost is not the problem.

Also, Deutsche Bank in Dec 2010:

http://bioage.typepad.com/files/1223fm-05.pdf

Relevant bit:

"Based on discussions with industry experts and several automakers, the DB Auto team has lowered its advanced lithium ion battery cost projection by about 30% for 2012. Current prices have fallen from $650/kWh+ in 2009 to about $450/kWh now, and DB’s forecast is the price to fall at about a 7.5% CAGR from 2012 through 2020 to about $250/kWh."

And lots others on Google. I don't know enough about it to judge who is credible but I do believe that laptop batteries don't cost as much as they used to. It's not like Moore's Law, but I think prices have been falling pretty steadily.
The Start-up Priority Triangle
Insurance pays out when you lose your job or crash your car; ie, when you get unlucky. Lotteries pay out when your pick of numbers was a better pick than ten million other people; ie, when you get lucky.

Economics has repeatedly suggested that the natural logarithm of dollars is an approximation of the utility of money.

When you're lucky, you go from 50k to 50m. In logarithms, 10.819 to 17.727. When you're unlucky, you go from 50k to effectively 0. Which is 10.819, to negative infinity - but probably, you'll have enough to live on, so like 1 (0). So you gain almost 7 utility for playing the lottery, but lose more than 10 for not playing the insurance. (The closeness of seven and ten explains why so many uninsured people play the lottery.)
* Documentation provided as a monolithic 600 page PDF.
+2 (Figuratively, of course!)

Fantastic! Now, that's an interactive CV! Lovely!

Wishlist: I want to play with the code. Any plans to make it public? ;-)

NitPick: the action film image on the top makes the white coloured font unreadable, but the image itself is cool. :-)

P.S: My Web CV employs the same look and feel as yours does.
Sure, in the same way that a master carpenter can create a dresser in a day. It took him years to get to that level.
Innovative camera stabilizer
This is going to be rather confusing, I actually thought someone accidentally reinvented Carbon, https://developer.apple.com/carbon/.

I realise Apple's Carbon doesn't compile to C but my brain's transderivational search just ignored that fact.
I completely dismissed the django book for being outdated when starting to lear Django, despite people recommending it to me ...nice to know others won't have to dismiss it the same way as some chapters seemed really well written
Have any links that expand on this idea?
You give it an API key with limited access
Agree. The OP should mention what he has done or what he knows with the technologies and languages he is assessing himself.

For example:

Matlab: built a model to do X in matlab, used very frequenty to do my reports for two years.
Reading prime.rb - Build-in support for prime numbers in Ruby
But if they are pocketing all that money... what do they offer besides more exposure? You make it seem like artists get nothing out of the deal. If the labels are just providing exposure, what does the artist get?
This reminds me of mongrel2. Anyone knows why it really hasn't take off?

I though it solved the problem of using multiple languages to implement a web service so elegantly...
Without reading too far into that, it looks like total bullshit. The central theme seems to be "hate crimes".. What the fuck is a "hate crime", exactly? Why are Finnish policemen lectured about "hate crime" in English?

This looks like government propaganda, basically. Sure, some Finns are genuinely racist, but the overwhelming majority of people here are very tolerant and sensitive about "offending" any immigrant group (as long as they're black, of course).

Before you shout at me for being racist, take a look at my conversation with potatolicious: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4654794

Quite frankly, the article you linked to looks disgusting to me. Like some "perception shaping campaign" with the aim of sensitivizing the police force to "hate crime".

All this hysteria about "racism", defined roughly as: "pointing out any facets of reality that reflect negatively on any non-white (preferably black) people", could well be meant to stifle freedom of speech. It's working too, because most sheeple in Finland are very strict about not saying anything negative about Somalis, for example, even though there's good reason to.
This reminds me of the method used by Starbucks to avoid paying tax in the UK [1]. They set up their UK operations as a separate legal entity, and then charge it considerable licensing fees for the use of the Starbucks brand. This way, the UK branch appears to be making a loss on paper, when it is actually generating considerable revenue.

[1]. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19967397