skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP has misunderstood Dr. Kay's comment. He specifically made the comment -- at least in one occasion -- in context of music and noted the fact that "pop music" uses a tiny tiny subset of the available body of musical thought and precedent.

As regarding our field being an arts and crafts field, again, imo, OP misses the mark. It is an arts and craft field because of a lack of an underlying science of creating software.

The issue of scaling to meet the industrial demand on our output, of course, has been clear and evident since 70s, if not 60s, and clearly contributes to unique nature of our 'technological' field, but that inability to scale by adopting an industrial methodology is, again, due to a lack of a sufficient intellectual base to support an industrial process.
The cities that power the global economy are the ones most at risk of flooding
The distinction between your point and mine is becoming miniscule, but I must defend my position on Haskell, as a heavy user myself. If Num doesn't seem to be a problem to you, it's because you supply top-level annotations that disambiguate it. Try removing all the annotations from whatever you did last week and see if it still compiles cleanly. I'd wager it doesn't. This isn't an issue in practice because we supply annotations in most cases, but don't be fooled: top level annotations, despite the rhetoric, actually are essential for modern Haskell programs to disambiguate. As for strings, the problem doesn't appear in practice because people mostly don't intermingle string types in the same module. That's what makes Num tricky; it's easy to find yourself with Ints and Integers together, wanting to divide them and get a float, and figuring out how to resolve these minor issues is significant for learners. Just ask my friends!
It's really too similar to say that it isn't coming from there, but you can see that he made some work on the logo itself, it's not just a part. And can't we argue that he inspired just on the style of the socket?

In this situation I guess he'll have to contact the designer, confront him with the shutterstock image and hope for an explanation, but what will be the outcome of all this? And isn't it there an extended license to allow full rights of the image?
"Fixes a bug that prevents iPhone 5 from installing software updates wirelessly over the air"

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1606
I love the simplicity and consistency of OpenBSD and everytime Ubuntu changes things like networking or startup script I want to switch out all our servers.
Hurricane Gridlock
As a Mainer I am very proud of this. It has been talked about for a long time in Maine and tidal power is not exactly a new idea. But it's good to see ORPC finally executing on this idea.
It's better than the average patch notes out of Apple, which often essentially read "fixes stuff".
I am not sure that carbon taxes NEED to be regressive - we could definitely use some of the revenue from carbon taxes to offset lower-income groups, as is sometimes done with other regressive taxes.

Another way to look at this is a simple cost-benefit analysis: is the cost (I mean more just than the monetary face value) of having a regressive tax more than the cost of potential issues that result from not addressing emissions? If so, we should do it anyways.
This is asking where you would go start a company, not where the best place to start a company is -- two different questions.

Also, SF/Silicon Valley is in the lead. "Other" includes NYC, Boston, Seattle, Boulder, Chile, Austin, Brazil, Israel, etc.
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When will the Google self-driving fleet include a Tesla?
I'm willing to bet someone did their homework and those speeds are accurate. If you haven't seen it, check out the old school tape deck rotational speeds in the podcast app.
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There's always a balance between giving an overview for people who have never done this sort of thing before and writing to the aficionados with the battle scars of having done this a few times. Happy to share more detailed notes here, but as it was the original post was quite long already.

I would very much agree with you - the difficulty in writing APIs well come from the fact that 1) it is challenging to predict how people will use it, so you have to code defensively, make sure it's accessible to beginners and sufficiently powerful for experts. 2) once you've published it, even small tweaks become highly painful, increasingly so as you see success.

Love the parallels with U.N. Peacekeeping
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forcing users to upgrade their hardware to stay current

I don't buy this argument. On my iPhone, the native apps perform great. It's the webpages I visit that sometimes cause slowdown. Yes, version of natives apps can come out that require an upgrade. But if an HTML5 application does not run well on current hardware, then a hardware update would be at least desired.

In other words, I think it's an issue for both native and HTML5, which means it can't be used to distinguish the two.
Elephant mimics Korean with help of his trunk
I was hoping this would fix the wifi problem I'm having (wifi is incredibly slow and the problem is not related to my network) but it doesn't seem to have fixed it. Probably going to have to get the phone swapped out now.
isn't that the same as saying any person who calls you without a prior... goes straight to your bin as well?

That could potentially close you off to some contacts you could have made but you are pushing away in my opinion.
+1

Ants (we have lots of them in the garden) cooperate to build shelters and bring food. Bees do the same thing.

More developed animals (like birds) cooperate to raise children.
great post, isn't it?
And yes, we do need to agree at a global level and be willing to pay more for certain goods/services as a result. The entire economic system will just re-balance itself around that, if we as a global society agree that the costs of inaction are greater.

Another note: while China is the world's leading emitter, they also have contributed the most to abatement of emissions according to some (example: http://www.dbcca.com/dbcca/EN/_media/Global_Policy_Tracker_2...) Let's not forget that the US did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, while China did (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Kyoto_Pr...).
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Exactly. And how much money you spent developing your invention should not be taken into consideration. If you do it, you reward inefficiency.
Note that the policy of protecting local cell phone manufacturers predates the iPhone (according to malenm's reference).
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For me its all about the right tool for the right job. I'm not talking about languages here.

Sometimes duct tape is the right tool. Sometimes a very well architected program is. It all depends on so many variables.
Ahah, let me make Siri in 10 hours.
Not really a user of TripAdvisor but damn are they using these servers efficiently? I have difficulty buying these numbers. Especially considering each one has 6.5 compute units with 17.1GiB of ra... and this is their frontend stuff. Not sure what kinda tasks/db they're running in the backend to require another 70 machines considering they're using 32 memcache machines. Can you imagine even say 30 mongodb sharded instances at 17.1Gib each?
There was some discussion about the $50K challenge last week, and I still don't think anything can happen without industry buy-in. It's mostly a policy and people problem, and the only technical barrier I've been able to identify is that Caller ID can still be forged.

The whole situation bears an interesting contrast to the battles over anonymity on the Internet, where the telephone industry is trying to preserve the ability of their customers (telemarketers) to avoid detection.
Typos, "program the web", I'm not sure what all this means.

edit: I think what we have here is a library that unifies a bunch of APIs, which is cool, and a programmable service which can run scripts for you. You offload API calls to to this service and then can call them from your app and get your customized data. That could be useful.
I was actually surprised by where the link you shared led to. I found it was a great idea !
Just a comment though: on your homepage it reads (at the bottom): debate answers, ask questions, view analytics. It would seem more logical to me to reverse "debate" and "ask". Although I understand that you can debate existing answers, I still think it would make more sense ... Seems like a great product anyway !
This is good, heavy question.

I think it depends on the user.

On github, you might only have code - personal projects. But you might also have responses to issue trackers, a timeline, responses to pull requests, a commit log, documentation, etc. On SO, you have a lot of things but you'll never have the code.

So if the user uses github like I do - as a git repository and nothing else - then it's probably not super worthwhile and SO is probably more useful, but if they are engaged in the github community and have active projects with multiple pull requests and keep good docs, then it's probably the more valuable resource.
I don't play the market, but years ago, I got to watch a coworker of mine walk all over you guys with the Rambus stock. He made a ton of money and knew when to get out by actually understanding the industry.
What do you mean by "what kept damages from Sandy down"? The damages for Sandy huge for a weak category 1 hurricane.

By contrast, study the infographic linked below. Florida was hit by Charley, Frances, Jeane, Rita, and Wilma in the span of two years (2004-2005). These were all category 1 or 2 storms at landfall. They weren't nearly as large as Sandy, but we're talking five separate storms of greater intensity. Some of them made landfall or passed over densely populated South Florida regions. In total, these storms added up to around $75b in damages; a mark I wouldn't be surprised if Sandy passes. Individually, none of them passed the $20b mark.

Sandy did tremendous damage in the northeast for a weak category 1 hurricane. No single factor is to blame. There are many:

* Sandy was large... LARGE

* Sandy hit an extremely densely populated area

* Coastal topology in the region made it susceptible to storm surge

That last point can't be made strongly enough. Once again, we see that it is the water (ocean) that poses the greatest threat. The wind and rain are bad, but even a small amount of water can pass wind and rain damage by a long shot. It also takes far more lives.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-01/rising-tide#...
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
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We language designers must increasingly consider the entire programming experience: the libraries, the editor, the debugger, even the more social aspects of the community. The language itself is a tool, and throwing all your effort into syntax and semantics without regards for how the editor or debugger will work is ridiculous. And in fact, I'm a strong believer in the holistic approach where the IDE is actually a part of the language (very smalltalky).
A hammer is a skill modifier. Don't believe me? Try hammering a nail with the palm of your hand. As a programmer I deal in thoughtstuff, so things like languages and IDEs are decidedly important. We absolutely must obsess over these things else we'll wind up hammering in nails with the palm of our hands (so to speak) forever.

However, should we stick doggedly to a given tool, especially in the presence of something better?

No.
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The menu letters case is just a registry setting.

There are many shortcuts not working properly, e.g. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/7... , windows with strange state management, the new temp document not working properly.
That's not a debt - that's a point-of-sale. They're allowed to accept or refuse any form of payment there (at least under US law - UK is probably similar).

The reason for the laws surrounding debt is to prevent creditors from purposefully holding debtors in debt by refusing to accept their payments ('Oh, sorry, you HAVE to pay me in this form, so I'll refuse your payment and instead charge you an extra day of interest, etc.)
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Rational people go where it's best no?
But I agree with you the question could have been asked differently!
Why don't you register and ask the question yourself? :)
I totally agree.. In the end all you are doing is devaluing your service. You are basically saying.. sure I want $64/hour but the work is really worth $20/hour.

Take the extra time you would have spent on those clients to beef up your skill set so you can start offering more services or charging more.
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4725789
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The study you are referring to is known as "the prisoner's dilemma."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_dilemma
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Thanks for the comment. In my opinion the reason 'other companies' don't hit reach 4M users in 6 months using the same tactics are:
A) Their product just isn't good enough
B) They may not have the marketing budget to spend on Facebook ads for the initial boost to help Viral marketing kick in

Hence why you haven't heard of them. Hope that helps
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The interesting thing here is people equate pop culture with being trendy. I think it's entirely possible for a pop culture of programming to exist, but I think in general what this discussion on this thread proves is that there are multiple cultures existing within developer communities, and a lot of devs exist within many of these circles. What's more, the "pop culture" element of programming does not necessarily contribute to the rate of change! The communication mechanisms within programming (Hacker News, Twitter, Reditt, mailing lists, forums etc, that is what accelerates the rate of change within the developer community. Pop culture is actually NOT that fast. People need to spend time performing it before something becomes pop (i.e. the idea that Hipsters start all fads, because they find them first and that is how they spread)

I would say The Active Contributors--The people contribute to open source projects mailing lists etc. These people help promote certain "styles" of programming over others. They contribute to make the things that work even better. These things they create are then consumed by other members of the community.
Can you integrate Gumroad's API with Github Pages?
I have used OpenBSD for our servers for a while. It is super easy to setup (except for the brief fun of partitioning). I did switch to FreeBSD with ZFS for our samba server because of the partition size limits on OpenBSD.
Even if Tesla do not survive, ten years from now every new electric car will be a descendant of the Model S in all the major ways - floor-mounted battery pack, lack of physical buttons, etc.
Small startup CTO and ex-contractor here:

Raise your rates and don't make a special exception for small startups.

Equity/royalties for contract-work is awful dodgy. Equity/revenue share is generally reserved people who want to make a long-term investment in the company, either through money or time.
Facebook, AMD, HP and others team up to plan the ARM data center takeover
That screen in the center console is huge. Was it on and if so how was it to use? Looks pretty useful for mapping.
When I review the public GH and SO profiles of various developers I know, they seem to be very poor indicators of competence as I judge it. So many of the excellent developers I know are have negligible GH and SO; some don't even partake.

And I see one chap I'd recommend you all steer clear of and he looks positively rosy on SO; its downright misleading.

Just my data-point.
Distributed Management at GitHub
Putting a 'Discuss on Hacker News' link instead of comments section is a common practice as of late. It's not just this particular author.
Analyzing Hurricane Sandy's Effect on Politicians
I try to write a lot and experiment with different styles. This one was dashed off almost stream-of-consciousness. I'm not offended by the suggestion that it isn't my best work, and I'm grateful for the candid feedback.
OpenBSD 5.2 released: now with SQLite and nginx
Sounds AWESOME!