skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My current "research" in Swearjure (or Curje) has lately turned up a promising new abomination:

(. :___ @[]) ;; Expands as (. :___ (deref []))

This throws "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No matching method found: deref for class clojure.lang.Keyword", of course.

I'd like to find a Swearjure-derivable object that has a unary method named unquote, quote, unquote_splicing, var, deref, or apply.
Humans like flaws.

When CDs first came out, people argued that they sounded "cold," even though they're near-perfect recreations of the music that was recorded. People like the hiss and compression of records and tapes.

This is also the same reason why people like Instagram filters. Normal iPhone pics are too good. Let's fuzz em up a bit.

Also, look at v1 of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other popular sites - they were far from pretty.

There's a lesson here. Somewhere.
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> PHP needs to die

That comment is extremely insightful. How did I not see this?

> It was originally called "Personal Home Page"

I was originally 19 inches long and crapped my diaper several times a day. PHP has grown and changed tremendously since those days. It's not the same codebase, at all: "Finding PHP/FI 2.0 still inefficient and lacking features they needed to power an eCommerce application they were developing for a university project, Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski of Tel Aviv, Israel, began yet another complete rewrite of the underlying parser in 1997.".
Google. My immediately previous comment

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5034258

in another thread remarks that Google knows something about how the world works that other companies neglect. That is, Google knows how to leverage government regulations to protect its financial strength while it disrupts industry segments that are not regulated in a way to stop Google from moving in.

For perspective, the top ten tech companies by valuation in early 2012:

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/10-highest-valued-tech-compan...
Sounds like they're using something like Deep Freeze. Assuming that kiosk can programatically reboot the laptop upon checkin that is a pretty simple solution.

http://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze/
I couldn't agree more, and I'm a fan of PHP. It's a swiss army knife of a language, allowing you to program however you want. C programmers can code procedurally and java guys can jump in and basically go all out with the OOP constructs provided. I've watched PHP get better over the years, and it continually does so, but after having switched recently to Ruby, I have to say a solid "Benevolent Dictator" would probably not be such a bad thing for the language. Ruby has its paradigms, its own way of doing things, and you frankly can't develop software in many ways PHP allows you to, but for me Ruby is still a much more succint and beautiful lang, one I enjoy programming in more, I think partially because it has this, a set way of thinking about software design. I mean unit tests are in the stdlib for example, and you can't program long in the language without using utils, gems, etc, that all are chalk full of test suits that pass.

IMHO, a programming language should not just focus on itself or whether it has such and such feature, but on how it can be used in the entire software development cycle. This is something Go and Ruby are doing exceptionally well, and is why I like using them so much to build software, whether its web or otherwise. Probably because of its history as a template language embedded into HTML (way back when :), PHP has still got some growing pains in order to build up its software development paradigms, but I'm still hopefull, it has gone amazingly far and continues to improve.
People who pickup Python will always stay and never move on completely.

My programming carear startet with perl -> php -> python
and i found one holy grail to solve most of my problems.
Python had an easy entry point the same as PHP but when you
jumped over the first learning curve and discovered the complete ecosystem it`s mindblowing.

I never had that feeling with PHP you could do websites and thats it. And most of the time it gets a mess real quick. PHP will slowly phase out over the next decade.
I assume that most people glossed over the details of this new article, so here is a link to Adobe's page with the installer and a serial number. No registration, no checkbox saying you already own it, just CS2 for Windows XP. This appears to be a change of philosophy since this morning.

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/
Right. My point is that they use the library too.
I was talking about code base and application size, not so much the number of users.

Using JavaScript for a large application is not a pleasant experience. I know there are a lot of JavaScript developers out there who have never used anything but JavaScript, and maybe PHP, so they don't know what they're missing. But those of us who have used even just C++, Java, C#, or Delphi will know how critical things like static typing, namespaces, proper modularity and class-based OO, for example, are.
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"Oddly enough, many of these private schools with low pay have much higher performance than the surrounding public institutions."

Not odd at all because if you look at the student body it tends to be quite homogenous at a private school vs public (where anybody can attend) so much of this makes sense. Everybody at the private school can either afford it (and comes from a highly motivated family who pays and obviously cares about education) or is given a scholarship (and is also highly motivated). The school has the stick of being able to kick people out if they act up or disturb the other students.

I went to a private school but my sisters didn't want to go and went to the local public school. I also remember at least one person who started in my class and returned to the local public school. They preferred to socialize and have many friends (private school class in total was quite small).

I think many people (who haven't attended a good school whether it be college or high school) fail to realize the big advantage of being around a group of people who are enjoying the experience and essentially want to be there (not that there wouldn't be some people who would rather not and were forced to but they were in the minority from my experience)
Google is in category 1, but the realities of how Google runs are so different from most category 1 companies that generalizations about category 1 companies tend to break for Google.

Likewise note that category 1 companies are also in category 2, but the realities of being a category 1 company is very different than the realities of being a category 2 company.
I would love to see cffi, opengl and one of the gtk binding libs have better documentation.
Cool, thanks for the pointers! I'm a little disappointed that Debian doesn't seem to be shipping the python2 symlink, which means that I can't switch to using that in my own code.
Poll: Is CES still relevant?
For most hardware or consumer electronics startups I know, CES is viewed as a hassle and a bit out of date, but also a necessity. What do you think?
Yes, I expect to see a lot of innovative new tech during CES
It's not on my calendar but does seem useful
I don't learn anything new from CES
I ignore CES altogether/What's CES?
That's a very interesting opinion about what people like about film. To me, the one take-away point I remember from a film-making class I took in high school days with my best friend was the teacher quoting some eminent film-maker's idea that the essence of film is montage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montage_(filmmaking)

(that is, editing), and since then I've been very aware of the director's and editor's joint choices of shots to build a scene in any film I watch. If I can get good montage, it matters not to me what technology is used to capture the images or display them.
The CD parallel doesn't work entirely- CDs prevailed because they were better quality than tapes and considerably more convenient than vinyl. I'm not sure that 48fps has the same argument to put forward.
1) Where is your pricing info?

2) Do you have mobile clients?

3) What makes this better than encfs on top of dropbox?
No. Using Balanced, the marketplace isn't responsible for submitting any 1099 forms; Balanced is. So if the merchant hasn't hit the $20K/200 trnxs threshold they simply won't receive a 1099 from either the marketplace or Balanced.
Classic case of blaming a group of people (all VCs) for something some particular people did (those particular VCs).
Ruby on Rails patches more critical vulnerabilities
Please don't invest money in this hellhole.
Always like to see transparent and timely responses to issues like this. Well done.
Git in the browser via GitHub has been very useful in helping some of our entrenched IT folks start using Git to manage system config files. Yes, in the long run they should just learn Git, but in the meantime this allows us to use version control at all with them, which is a great thing.
This is irrelevant and does not add to the discussion.

Just like Reddit, Karma is not intended to say "my voice has more weight than yours". Karma is a way of letting people know you agree with them, but, just as in a court of law, if you can find one person willing to speak the truth they can stand strong in a house of lies.

Long and short, PHP is going to continue for some time, (just like COBOL, just like assembly) and wishing it was dead is about as effective as a life-savings program subsidized by the Tooth Fairy.
I'll preface this by saying that 10 years ago Apple was a $3 stock. A lot can change in 10 years.

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A few (IPOd) likely contenders:

Google - Currently the second highest tech valuation. They seem to be one of the only companies putting serious resources in shaping the future (self driving cars, mining asteroids). I can totally see Google being the company that introduces personal assistant robots in homes.

Amazon - Brick and mortar stores will continue to get outclassed by the online experience. Amazon will be THE way to shop, including groceries and everyday items. They will grow into their crazy high P/E and begin to expand margins.

Apple - I think Apple will fall for a number of reasons, the biggest being the passing of Steve Jobs. Their products are great but they can't continue to grow the way they have the last 5 years (we are already starting to see this). They will continue to make solid products but I see them in the same vain as Microsoft circa '99.

Facebook - I am a long-term believer of Facebook but acknowledge they are the riskiest of the others listed so far. They certainly have the opportunity to be the biggest though. It really depends on two things: 1) how they fend off competitors and 2) how they monetize. Ya, those are two pretty huge things to depend on but like it or not they have the potential to be the biggest company in the world in 10 years.

A few non-IPO companies that have a shot:

Twitter - I'm not really sure about Twitter. Are they a protocol? Are they a media company? Are they an advertising firm? There is something about them though that sticks. I can totally see them as the biggest social network in 10 years. I can also see them as being a huge advertising firm if they can get metrics of how tweets influence customers (e.g. if Lebron James tweets that he is getting McDonalds for dinner, what percentage increase in sales does McDonalds get within an hour of that tweet?). I can see Twitter being a $100b company in 10 years if they can figure out how to understand their influential data.

Square - This company has the potential to monopolize phone payments. I can see our phones being the leading source of payments in the next few years so I think Square has the potential to get huuuuuge.

Dropbox - I'm not too sure about Dropbox. They provide a great experience but I just don't know that they have the potential to be the biggest company in the world. Data storage will not get them there - they have to expand into something more.

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All that being said, I think Google and Amazon will fight for the biggest valuation in the world in 10 years. (Ignoring companies that haven't been started yet that revolutionize an industry, obviously.)

Discloser: Long Google. Short Facebook via puts.
Think of panties like socks, and bras like shoes.

Socks/panties are easy to buy. You can get 6 pair, of decent but not exceptional quality, for 10 bucks. They're generally a bit stretchy and pretty tolerant of significant size variations. There's no reason to run an infomercial for these.

Shoes/bras need to be the right size and shape, or you'll be uncomfortable. Decent quality is going to run you $40 at a minimum. You might have to try on a dozen or more before you find something that feels right. If you're an unusual size, you may need to get something customized.
One not really solvable by Drexel. Penn has tried for years with only moderate success, and it has a huge endowment to play with.
But the economy and the job market are a lot more fluid

-- And also management internally.

They are are surely related, but ultimately its almost always a people problem, in the sense that a manager is replaced or layered (or perhaps politically ostracised in some machivellian way). Then the employee is asking himself if he is throwing good money after bad, in a landscape where no wager--no matter how astute--will ever pay off.
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According to the article, the outdoor scenes were awesome in 48FPS. It was the indoor scenes that looked fake and weird, due to the fact that 48FPS made it very apparent there was lots of makeup being used, because they had unnatural light blasting on the actors (where as there was no extra light added to outdoor scenes, obviously).

Shouldn't he have just toned down the extra lighting indoors, knowing 48FPS was going to pick up more detail?
Word.

One reason however that some CDs really did sound cold and clinical in the early days was because the transfers to CD were using EQ curves that toned down bass and heightened treble frequencies for pressing vinyls. It made the vinyl records more even, but it made the CDs sound weak and harsh. My brother has been spending time in his home studio remastering some of his 80's CDs with normalization and EQ changes mainly, and they sound tons better.

Like the article says, HFR may require similar "mastering" to suit the newer format better, changing filmmaking techniques that no longer apply like they did in the 24fps era.
Maybe I don't understand referential transparency, but why not? `or` is a macro in Clojure:

(def a 10) (def b 20) (or a b) => 20

Is `or` not referentially transparent?
I can't even look, it's too ugly.

1) Lisp writes bug-free software???? C'mon!!
2) That looks like a ridiculous atempt at comics coming from an 8 year old child.
You're right, I should have been clearer that the episode was about Michelle Rhee and her philosophy that schools should be run more like private companies. And new allegations that her system may have led to test results being manipulated to improve scores and achieve the goals she set out for teachers and principals. Is that fair?

Here's an article about it from The Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/documentary-ex...
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i think - from reading descriptions/opinions - that the more recent 'seafile' could be even better.
That's nonsense.

There are numerous competing, production-quality, independently-developed C compilers, runtimes and standard libraries.

There are numerous competing, production-quality, independently-developed C++ compilers, runtimes and standard libraries.

There are several competing, production-quality, independently-developed Ada compiler systems.

There are numerous competing, production-quality, independently-developed Fortran compiler systems.

JavaScript is hardly alone in that respect.
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In reality no, because nobody will notice that the company is about 10% smaller than it could have been, and you're doing good stuff. However the cost of that 10% change in your company probably exceeds the cost of running 100 tests.

Note that in the real world, after a while you exhaust the easy 5% wins. Then you wind up chasing a lot of 1% and 2% marginal wins, and those tests take a lot longer to run. But even so, if your company is pulling down, say a million per month, a 2% drop in business from getting a 1% test wrong probably exceeds the costs of all of the tests you run per year. So unless extending tests is prohibitively expensive, or there are significant opportunity tests from not being able to run the tests you want, you should go to higher confidence.
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...that's...not really...an...elaborate...cartoon... It's kind of...clumsy...and grotesque....
I would argue that connecting something physical to the web is a great first project to ease into electronics, especially if you come from a programming background already. The circuit can remain simple to start, while providing something that is more interesting to play with than just a blinking LED.
Fast Remote Desktop on the Raspberry Pi (DirectFB)
I might be wrong about this, but I imagine that even early on, it was also much cheaper to make CD's than cassettes.
I saw the movie first in 2D 24 FPS and found it passable with the expected super-heavy storytelling.

The second time was in 3D HFR and I thought it was really enjoyable and odd at the same times. HFR distincly made me think of reality TV or sport though and I would put all acting under increased scrutiny. I was definately more focused on the instant and less on the story. Overall I want to see what HFR films can do in the future.
I think Lionsgate is wrong in this case (although I'm not wholly sure, because using their source material for ~30% of the video is pretty substantial in my view) ...

Please see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5033525 above.
>Capitalism might be the best option but I'm not that confident after seeing the so-called progress it has inflicted on a lot of places.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "so-called progress".
I think that Rasmus and Anthony seem to have two different thoughts on the word "vision". Anthony was very specific in the fact that his concept of a "vision" is about the paradigms PHP supports:

> 1. "PHP Should Strive To Be A Full Featured Object Oriented Language".

> 2. "PHP Should Remain A Procedural Language WIth Some OO Features"

> 3. "PHP Should Be Implementation Neutral, and Support All Paradigms Equally".

Rasmus' response was more general, about the vision for who and what they'd like to enable with the language.

There may be a bit of cross over, but they are two distinctly different views. And for what its worth, I think both are correct. I think PHP should choose to be one of the three things Anthony suggested, and stick to it. This would help in discussions about what features to take on board in new versions. I also think that Rasumus is right in that PHP is a general purpose scripting language with a focus on web development. However this is more about the type of people you will get interested in using and contributing to the language.

EDIT: Grammar
It's not an "empty, non-contributing comment" to those of us who have had to use PHP, especially after years of using far better languages. It rings especially true to us who have seen the horror systems implemented in PHP can be.
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"It turns out that Go is a great language for writing retro-computing emulators."

Why?
Does Devise [1] qualifies as a properly reviewed 3rd Party Library, to your knowledge?

Asking this since it's probably the most widely used authentication gem in Rails etc...

[1] https://github.com/plataformatec/devise
How does "bulletproof" glass work?
It's always hardest to see flaws in oneself. Do I come across as telling people what to do? I try to avoid that (outside my specific expertise), but I'm constantly worried I've failed.

Is it that I think I'm better than Dustin? That's a tougher one; I'm hardly any less privileged; I think I'm less condescending. Being proud of one's humility is a trap, but that doesn't mean one should never call others out on their arrogance.

Is it the hate? I'd like to be more constructive, but I think there's still value in being honest. There is a risk of a negative impact here, but the worst obvious case is that I upset one person and have no other effect.
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I saw this last night so it's fresh in my mind: the first few minutes were strange and new, I had to adjust and also there was the general curiosity about how HFS was going to look. I spent quite a lot of time looking at Bilbo's face (young and old) and marvelling how I could tell that they were completely hairless and questioning if they had to wax their beards off to get that look. You could see every pore and the clean clean makeup. After I got used to it it was similar to what the article says: the indoor shots were like watching live theatre and the outdoor shots looked spectacular. I came out of it thinking, there is massive scope here for artistry given time and expertise.
I am a software developer, but sometimes I work with front-end guys, and doing a mock-up is in order. I use Photoshop because those guys use it, and can help me make changes and work with it. Is this an uncommon scenario?
Not at work or at home it doesn't:

> Your Internet Provider is not configured for Super HD yet.
I must say I have mixed feelings about these biases.

One thing I've noticed is that they are used as counter-arguments. "OH, you're saying that because you're biased."
Could we say that some people are biased toward seeing biases everywhere?

Even if you've rationalized an opinion of yours in its entirety, as deep as it's humanely and currently possible, you can still be subject to, say, "wishful thinking".

Say you hold a belief about something that is not yet verified to be true of false. It's a belief. It's not knowledge because you can't justify its truth value yet. A skeptic philosopher might hold that you will never justify it entirely. But that's a different story.

However, some people will just trow a "bias" at you for the simple reason they think you wish it to be true, not that you believe and think it to be true.
This article does a good job of explaining that "different" thing you see.

The best way I could describe it to people was "remember the first time you saw porn shot in HD?"
Thanks for all the good feedback! I'll see what I can do about categorizing a bit more. The site is built on wordpress for ease of use, but I'm sure something can be done.

-Joe Hoffman
Agreed. That explanation seemed a bit glib. It's not like adjusting the color balance to reduce sensitivity to light and color is difficult with digital video.

The points about the resolution of details on props make more sense to me.
If you define "metaprogramming" as "homoiconic code generation" or "hygenic macros" or "the language I use to manipulate the AST is the same language as the AST", sure. I'm sure that's not the only thing people mean when they say "metaprogramming" though.
> Those high frame rates are great for reality television, and we accept them because we know these things are real. We’re always going to associate high frame rates with something that’s not acted, and our brains are always going to associate low frame rates with something that is not. If they’re seeing something artificial and it starts to approach something looking real, they begin to inherently psychologically reject it.

Translation:

I learned to do things in this particular way, and I cannot unlearn it.