skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't even know Ruby, but it's clear that the idea that Ruby is X is drastically wrong and almost insulting.

That's a pretty big assertion to make for any non-trivial value of X. Let me try and break it down a little more.

He's spot on about CoW, this is a similarly big issue for memory consumption of long running perl applications (though in our case because of caching things in the value struct).

Lexical scoping ... after years of lisp and perl I find that any language that lacks that feels horribly primitive, to be entirely honest.

Concurrency ... hahahahaha oh dear. He should've played with the coroutine stuff before claiming events were the -only- way, but they're certainly the default way for a lot of dynamic languages, and they're definitely better for low level plumbing than high level code. Functional Reactive Programming approaches are amazingly nicer once you get the hang of them.

So - from those axes, yes, it's amazingly primitive.

You seem to be complaining that he didn't -mention- the community? He was trying to contrast; Haskell also has a thriving community so short of trying to get into a community DSW I don't see why he'd mention that.

All the rubyists I know would readily agree that, on the axes that he's referring to, ruby is far more primitive than haskell; and I think they'd also agree that a lot of current ruby adoption is about the ecosystem rather than the language and community, even though -they- personally are mostly more interested in the latter.

I do, however, think he should have dropped those slides even so; I knew as I was reading it that they'd provoke the counterproductive (from his POV) reaction that you've exemplified in a sufficient percentage of the audience to be not worth it.
This is significant: it allows one programmatically to convert any raster image into a full-color vector drawing. (Think converting JPEGs into similar-looking but much smaller SVG-like files with one click.)

Designers would LOVE to have this functionality built into applications like Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator.

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Edit: changed "SVGs" to "SVG-like files" per vlasta2's comment (thanks vlasta2!). Also changed "equal-looking" to "similar-looking," because the automatically-generated color gradients may not precisely match the original.
Hmmm. Seems like I'm an idiot: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/83835/how-...

There's something I'm missing: Run query doesn't get me the result.
13 Nights to a Better Social Media Strategy
Providers in the Netherlans do this, with the twist that it is only available to the subset of their customers that open their network to others: http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/newsreleases/detail...

That link describes a test, but AFAIK, the test was succesful, and they will go full ahead (rumor has it that they will want to buy spectrum in an auction going on right now to fill gaps in that network)

I think a major ifference is that they provide hardware that separates the public network from your private one.
Should Branded Visitors Outweigh Non-Branded?
Everyone gets what they want out of Facebook
Windows on mobile devices is an unproven platform. Facebook waited until the iPad 2 came out before considering targeting that platform. It doesn't matter how many Windows copies are sold since those desktop users know exactly where to access facebook.
The "sections" feature is interesting. You could grab a screen shot and colour the page based on its influence on search results.
This is very much consistent with YC's cardinal principle not to fund bad startup, and not to miss good ones.

At the core, many folks forget that it is their own startup and foundation upon which they should focus, not whether the competition is strong.
I actually told about this to a few YC alumni and VCs before doing it, and got positive responses.
Good luck with that. The European Common Market legislation means that selling services from Ireland to France is incredibly well protected.
JavaScript Prototypal Inheritance vs ES6 Classes
I can't decide whether if I was a YC partner and I was getting Google Ad Words for my name whether I'd be impressed, or creeped out. Possibly a bit of both.
It's really hard on mobile safari :-P
no ghostery here, but comments broken for me too.

I think mozilla has the perfect UI to get to your bookmarks via tags and complex hierarchy, through the awesome bar.

That is the thing that needs to be improved.. also showing thumbnails? why not, just let me search to get there.

Judging by the screenshots, this new UI seem to offer zero improvements in my common task of getting back to something I somewhat remember. But maybe it's awesome who knows.
It could definitely be advantageous - Facebook was the first exposure to most of the world of a social network. When it came along many people added & accepted friends they didn't care much about at all in a spurt of initial enthusiasm, before learning over time that that might not have been such a good idea.

But I still don't think that would be sufficient to overcome the massive Facebook network effect now.
I gave up on bookmarks-as-bookmarks everywhere except my phone. I can keep the two hundred or so tabs I need open on modern computers, and that plus search engines and history suggestions takes care of me.

With late-loading tabs now standard in Firefox and Chrome, they're really close to bookmarks anyway.
I think that's a very interesting thought. I deleted my Facebook account after I felt that it sucked up too much of my time just browsing status updates. Before, every so often, I would check Facebook to see if anything new had been posted. It got to the point where I had enough and now I feel less anxious about constantly going on the Internet. Information was overloaded for me.
Wrong thread. Sorry.
Code Stories: Patrick Wyatt, Game Programmer and Producer of Warcraft
Steve Ballmer Shows Off His Windows Phone in New Ad [video]
On Technical Debt: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means
People who follow their heart, or believe their own clippings? Ernest Hemingway built up an image to live up to, and invested an awful lot of time and energy in it. The other two, I really can't say--though if DR didn't give a crap, why did he have somebody ghost-write an autobiography?

In job ads it probably means long hours without commensurate pay. If it were to mean something that didn't make me smirk, it would be someone who cares about finding the best possible solution to the problems at hand.
His connection is terrible because he lives up in the Blue Ridge of Tennessee. There is no broadband there and I wouldn't be surprised if the phone lines are poor enough that you can't connect at more then 28.8k on a good day.
peaks at bhutan too. they have a Happiness Index too
I think that any feedback is a form of caring, so I really appreciate you even writing a response.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing, even though I might try to be contrary, I'm still listening to everything written here in the comments, and it will be a factor in future decisions.

Anyway, I agree it's not a classy move, much more classy would be to apply with an amazing demo, paying customers and a co-founder, but this is what I think will happen when I'll apply in the next batch.

The only decision I had to make was to myself: do I want to start y combinator without traction and co-founder - and I decided that I do.

Once I've reached that decision - I allocated a week for the whole effort and did whatever came to mind to get applied.

If I don't get accepted, I hope next round I'll come stronger - tractionwise.

Cheers
That's simply not true, OS level support has been improving for years and years.

There is a chicken-before-the-egg problem with getting ISVs to support high resolution modes (ie, for third party developers to use the support the OS offers) since there isn't much incentive until their users have hardware to use the high resolution modes. Apple has started shipping high resolution screens, once others do too software support will be more likely to catch up too.
At first, I thought it was about quick mental multiplication... but then I realized I had to be missing something.
Samba 4 is now slated for release on November 27
I gave up on bookmarks in normal web browsers. (I still use them on my phone.)

I have five or six permanent tab-pins in each of Firefox and Chrome, and about two hundred open tabs at any given time. Add in search engines and history suggestions, and I'm covered.

It would be nice if unused tabs gradually migrated to a bookmark list, I suppose, but we're already most of the way there with late-loading tabs.
If nothing else there are still high-quality laserdisc copies of the original; I believe there's a DVD-quality rip therof on the internets.
I would not completely buy this idea of Microsoft moving away from openness http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/directory.aspx

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-is-serious-abo...
We only build the iOS and Android FB apps. You should check in with Microsoft on anything related to Windows 8.

This quote kind of reinforces my point. She only named two mobile operating systems. Facebook in a browser isn't a web-app, it's a website. Facebook in a mobile browser is coded specifically to use mobile human interaction standards, blurring the line between website and app - a web app. I still think he's talking WP8 and tablets right now. Notice how FB isn't making an OSX client as well, also a huge user base, and also a system that has browsers.

EDIT: After re-reading, I see what you're saying. I guess I don't see the relevance of having a specific W8 app unless it offers better/cleaner functionality than the browser. A lot of people do things in different tabs and windows and copy links to FB or vice versa.
Happy do the midi-chlorians make?
It appears he is living off-grid so his biggest constraint is going to be power consumption. A smaller screen means longer battery life.
..or the power of a really long night with very sore muscles.
This seems amazingly simple (on face value). Anyone else want to have a go at doing up a prototype as a weekend project?
Interesting, but not all that surprising. People are often perplexed by the fact that we continue to stick with Passenger, as opposed to jumping on the bandwagon with the latest and greatest. Passenger is the one piece of my infrastructure that I never have to touch. It also comes with a great toolchain for instrumenting (status and memory usage tools). I've been tempted by TorqueBox in the past, but never made the jump to actually build an app with it.
I've got two rather fluffy justification to myself that I use. The first is rather simply that I want to support someone doing something that's cool, but of such a nature that it is not financial viable in a free market setting. Straight up patronage basically.

The second is that in addition to the whole pre-order thing I'm using my money to send a message to the market at large. Basically its my way of saying I want these sort of products/companies to exist. Even if this group of people fail to deliver, hopefully other will see that there is a market there and someone else will pick up where this particular group failed.
Someone mentioned that any question asked in a headline has an answer: "no".

Thus, I propose the headline should read "Will Facebook Avoid MySpace's fate?"
I'm 90% sure this is an example of Poe's Law (that it is impossible to tell the difference between sincere extremism and a parody of extremism - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law).

But it is worth remembering the various ideas that iOS "borrowed" from Android (or the improvements Android forced iOS to make) - including decent notifications, wireless syncing, multitasking, etc. Google for more.

Apple (and everyone) improves more rapidly with a viable competitor.
Well, it certainly is impressive, but if I understood the video correctly, it actually requires different graphic primitives than SVG offers, so it would require a new format.
I find it poetically ironic the way Western media/attention on Matthieu Ricard always focuses on him being "the happiest" - a completely inwardly-focused, selfish goal. The exact opposite of the type of worldview buddhism advocates
What do you mean by bandaging the standard? And why are extensions scary?

In general none of the extensions change the behaviour of valid "standard haskell" (beyond adding a small handfull of new keywords, rendering those words illegal as variable names). So calling it "bandaging the standard" seems a bit harsh/odd.

I think extensions are a nice way of keeping the language moving forward without being slowed down by the standardisation process. The standard can then catch up in its own time.
Google Releases Voice Search For iOS Just In Time To Stump Siri On Sandy
AKA, the new horse-and-buggy
No, but estimates put the number as high as 5 million in 2011 alone.

But neither Amazon nor Google report specific sales numbers.
Here's an editorial that gives an overview of how the patent was relevant in the Apple v. Samsung case earlier this year, along with a link to the patent itself: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/07/25/editorial-samsung-ha...
The Designer’s Free Toolkit: 6 Free Stand-Ins for Essential Design Software
Heh. The author is completely wrong. Sex is not something important. It is a basic human bodily function, alongside eating and sleeping. For nearly the entirety of our evolution, sex was used primarily for bonding, its reproductive role is rare in comparison. It most certainly is a prudish view that sex should be hidden away out of some misguided belief that it makes it 'special'.

We could treat eating the same way. Never admit you eat, or if you do only speak of it in terms of immature titillation and euphemisms. When you do eat, never do it with anyone else, not even friends you consider very close, because that would somehow taint everything. There is at least one culture that adopted this exact view, their views on eating mirroring our with regards to sex. Eating with someone you are not married to was considered highly taboo, while having sex with various people for fun was understood as something so fundamentally human that restricting access to it would be impossible.

And ignoring whatever moral implications the culture you grew up in pounded into you as a child, just consider the basic biological matters. Abstinence is horrendously dangerous to health. Ever read a news story about how 'sex reduces the chance of heart attack by one half', 'frequent orgasms extend life', etc? Those stories are interpreting fact from a prudish perspective that limits sex severely. View the exact same facts from a perspective of frequent sex as part of basic human interaction and the headlines would read 'abstinence doubles the chance of heart attack', 'orgasm starvation cuts years off life', etc. There is good biological evidence that human beings evolved having sex after nearly every meal, along with sleeping in two blocks rather than one.

The real kicker is the origin and reason behind why we believe sex should be hidden and that it is somehow 'special'. That was invented in the Industrial Revolution. Prior to that, no one in the lower class even had private bedrooms. Families slept, and screwed, in common rooms. They had to import views on sex from cultures with dowries, and children being viewed as the property of their fathers making sex a property crime against the father. And we preserve a remarkable amount of this framework even though we don't recall where it came from. None of their motivations exist any longer. We have effective birth control, and we have evidence for the suffering attempts to destroy sex cause. Eventually, hopefully, as a culture we'll grow up enough to ask ourselves what evidence we have that sex is somehow 'special' and what consequences such a view inflicts on people.
A search for a new Apple
In addition to adamzochowski's hilarious coathanger link, there's some even crazier stuff out there.

A review of audiophile SATA cables (yes, the digital connectors that let your hard drives talk to your computer) quickly became infamous:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/dont-buy-into-the-expensi...

I can't find the original, because the author took it down. Not because he realized he was wrong, but because he was getting too much hate mail. In a followup post (now also unavailable, for some reason), he completely stood by his original conclusion:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/that-sata-cable-saga-the-...

Please read the quotes from the original post, they are absolutely priceless.

Here is a similarly hilarious review of a high-end audiophile USB cable:

http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/entreq/usb.html

A choice quote:

"As in, demonstrably more refinement in the upper ranges; more extended harmonics; better separation and superior articulation across the range. The generic cable sounded warmer, fuzzier, less distinct - actually blurry. The biggest differentiator was arguably the additional information above the upper midrange."

(That's from page 2, which is accessed by a not-entirely-obvious "next" link at the bottom.)

No, I didn't make that up. This reviewer is reporting substantially better audio from using a high-end USB cable. You know, a digital connector, where data either arrives or it doesn't. And he's not reporting that the cheap cable loses any data, because that would show up as clicks, pops, static, or worse. No, he's reporting that the cheap cable is "fuzzier", and the expensive one shows "more refinement". From a digital cable.

I have no doubt that there are people out there who actually understand audio equipment and spend good money on stuff that actually makes a difference. However, I doubt most of them will self-describe as "audiophiles", because that word has been largely co-opted by a crowd that operates on the same level as homeopaths and palm readers.

If anybody can reliably distinguish the expensive SATA cable from a regular one in a proper blind test, then I will cheerfully retract all of the above.
Well not everyone is coding in terminal windows and doing console-only stuff... for me doing interactive 3D development, a high res screen (or a couple of them) and a powerful machine is of equal if not higher importance than my keyboard.
Installed the beta of their preview extension and it does not look good for now. It is ridiculously long to load, scrolling is painful, and more importantly (as other points can be fixed), I don't like the user experience that is proposed here: it is painful to find a particular bookmark or topic, you end up scrolling through tons of them.

I rather use tags to organize my bookmarks, even if it is less visual.
Windows on tablets and Windows on desktop share a common app platform. You have to think about it as one. Facebook might be thinking that Facebook.com is good enough, as they did with the iPad for a long time, but they've also recently said that they are going to put more emphasis on native development.
> a better DPI is amazing ... in terms of font readability

I haven't really found this myself: I typically prefer a nice pixel font at a lower DPI than a TrueType font at a higher DPI, especially for coding. The manual effort that goes into a good pixel font just makes for better readability imo.
if facebook is myspace and google+ is dead on arrival, what tool a normal person have to share photos and stories with his close friends and family? there is still a need for this kind of tool.
I'll second this. Just browsing the questions in the Haskell tag on SO is a great way to learn the language. There's a really nice mix of practical questions and theoretical, mind-expanding ones there.
Fine, but then you have two browser windows. I'm not used to that :P
Peter G. Neumann and the Hacking Culture of the ’50s
Downvoted your original so that it falls to the bottom of the page. Upvoted your apology so as not to punish you for an honest mistake. Though I suspect your 200+ tabs are not entirely unrelated to your confusion.
Maybe you should stop following geeky, low-brow people?
Another great post on the issue from Microsoft:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/03/21/scaling-to-dif...
How old are your niece and nephew?

One area Apple have a significant advantage is with kids who've grown up with iPod Touches (or iPods Touch for the pedants) and are therefore familiar with iOS and the apps available on the app store.

If I were looking for a present (a very generous present I might add) for kids between 8 and 18, I'd be hyper aware that they may have opinions on what they want and be guided by that.
"My biggest issue with the way browsers do bookmarks currently is that they force them into a tree structure."

I use bookmarks all the time in Firefox, but never, ever think about a hierarchy. You can very quickly search for bookmarks from the URL bar, and tag them if need to add a couple of keywords.
As a EU citizen, you can freely move to UK and get all of the above.

EU is still not a fiscal union, so that any profits deriving from a kickstarter project are to be subjected to UK taxes.
The link to the source code doesn't work. Did anyone figure out what the correct URL is? I'd love to play around with this.

Edit: Nevermind, I found it out myself:
http://www.henrykorol.net/DiffusionCurves.rar
I've never been to usesthis.com before. What a wonderful website! I would love to see more interviews like this.
Does this run MAME or some kind of preloaded emulator? Mortal Kombat II would be so tight on this :D
Practice Frees Your Mind
Design patterns in the test of time: Prototype
They should test starving African war orphans to see if meditation helps with their happiness too, or if it's only rich entitled assholes who really really don't know what the fuck unhappiness is if the best they can come up with is being "disillusioned" by a bunch of bourgeoisie painters.

Oops sorry, my cynicism slipped out a bit there. Let me just tuck that back in!
I didn't say grids were bad in general, I said they are bad in web design. The problem of tightly coupling content and presentation, and the hiding semantic meaning that goes with it, doesn't exist in a desktop GUI environment, or in a print ad or flyer, etc. Grids are perfectly fine in those uses.
Wish granted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_wave
My take on Google Voice Search vs. Siri, including the mystery of the missing NHL standings data. http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/10/31/google-...
12-year-old uses Dungeons and Dragons to help scientist dad with his research
Eureka：Cloud Load Balancing And Failover Tool from Netflix
If you satisfy the requirements listed above then yes.

As an EU citizen (I assume you have a Spanish Passport) then you automatically have the right to permanently reside in the UK:-

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/eucitizens/documents-eea-n...

"Under European law, you do not need to obtain documentation confirming your right of residence in the UK if you are a national of a country in the EEA."

However, as you'll see from the list, having this right isn't all you'll need. You actually have to be living in the UK, have a UK bank account, etc. It's unclear as to whether the "Government-issued ID" relates to the UK Government or any other country's Government.
The fact that I recognize your name solely because you seem to constantly deliberately misrepresent what people say so you can respond with nonsense is rather depressing. That is graphic design, not web design. See how I pointed out that tightly coupling content and presentation is the problem with using grids for web design? Notice how that book never even touches on the subject? Web design is not just graphic design, it is a different medium, with different needs.
How bad are foreign transaction fees in the UK? For me in the US, it's just 1% flat rate (which I get back in cash back anyway).
Kind of... that is my conclusion. Imagine :)!