skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Fantastic piece.

This is precisely how I see the ecosystem too. If I've learned anything:

1. Focus on something —Rails, Python, Javascript, WordPress, something
2. Learn to actually program — any language will do
One theory is the increase in online gambling sites who use bitcoin. Gamblers are buying it up.
For my podcast I did something similar using Github to be a wiki for user contributed shownotes. If users want to contribute to the shownotes, they just send me a pull request. When I merge, it shows up on the site.

https://gist.github.com/Apreche/3622666

https://github.com/Apreche/FRC-Shownotes

example:

http://frontrowcrew.com/geeknights/20100701/non-legos/
I was just about to post "Cambrian explosion" as an metaphor for the state of javascript libraries.

There are good reasons to get the HTML formatting off the server and into the client, so the new style JS is all going in the right direction. So another metaphor:

All these frameworks are trying to solve the right problem in the right direction - which one will win out eventually - who knows, but even if you hitch a ride on one that stops half way, you are half way closer to the right destination than if you wait.
Research the modern North Korean gulag system. Read testimonies of people who escaped.

I hope those murderous fucks blew themselves up.
> There's probably 10,000 stars in the first photo that's supposed to be part of the night sky?

The first (or fourth) photo seems to me like naked eye would see.

> In real life you can see 2000 in the total night sky away from lights.

You can see much more than that. Just the fact that you can see Milky Way can give it away (although you can't see individual stars, they are still stars)

> How will a long exposure allow you to see more stars?

The less bright ones, that you can't see with naked eye, will appear. Just take any regular camera, go out and take a 20s photo of the night sky. You'll see how much more stars you'll see.

Yes, some of the pictures are zoomed in quite a lot, and I don't think they are colored though.
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Yes, the reliability of Dutch bikes is legendary. Beyond the features you described, I think there are other features that are less obvious that also contribute to reliability: good tolerances on bearings, good steel for bearing balls and axles, and perhaps other things I don't know about.

So I could be wrong.
Anyone that doesn't eat their own dog food is probably a catastrophe waiting to happen.
"Earthquakes North Korea" != "nuclear tests North Korea" any more than "fire San Francisco" == "temperature San francisco"
Epic organizational fail.
Increasingly seeing charging stations in multilevel carparks both in large apartment complexes and offices. I could charge a Tesla or shatever at work every day if i had to. Heck even The University of Alabama had EV charging stations.
Show HN: Rivets - python asset management system, port of Sprockets.
The list of database connectors should also include RSQLite:

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSQLite/index.html

A really useful article though. I'm going to investigate RandomForest.
Just to clarify, there's a difference between a Special Administrative Region like Hong Kong or Macau, and Taiwan. While Hong Kong is largely self-governing internally, it's still part of the PRC. Meanwhile, Taiwan (the ROC) was founded by people ousted during the revolution. It's like saying North and South Korea are 'basically' their own countries. Politically they aren't even friendly.
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Oh? How do those work? Obviously they're physically possible (you could fill a tire with Utility Fog) but I didn't realize they were yet technically feasible.
Huh, really? I'll try that the next time I need to take a freewheel off.
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Point - I hadn't considered the impact of cars on frost heaves.
Are you factoring in the Chinese central-wheel carts?

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbarr...
If you are rich enough to own a Tesla, you probably also are rich enough to have a second car or to fly. I've been considering getting a Tesla, and long distance doesn't matter that much to me because I'd take a 2 hour flight over a 7 hour drive any day.
Quite amusing and very true. Just had a little look at Handlebars - writing 3 to 4 times as much to generate very little.

Also reminds me of this tongue in cheek site : http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com/
This piece first appeared as a comment on this page in ENGLISH in July 2012: http://www.zemanta.com/blog/i-bet-you-over-engineered-your-s...

while the author claimed to have it translated from Chinese back to English, surprisingly almost exactly the same as the original English version. I guess English-Chinese-English translation has reached an amazing stage!
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That script has:

rm -rf ~

on line 22.

EDIT: Line was added by https://github.com/williame
There were some restaurants in Texas that would price a meal as the price of a barrel of oil.
Look at all the musicians that have wound up actually owing companies like Sony money despite having a platinum album.

I can easily believe it.
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My idea is basically a class notes exchange and collaboration for students with some social features integrated. I can not find any good application that let students share their course notes and collaborate together to learn. What do you guys think and also how would you market this idea?
It's a humongous, impressive step that the notebook has been digitized and made publicly available. Surely the step to be able to download is only a trivial slight further step, the flicking of a switch, that has been prevented probably just for some bureaucratic reason.
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Cool! Nice to discover Syria Deeply, very cool approach to documenting the conflict.
From personal and anecdotal experience, ultra modern diesel engines are pretty sensitive little beasts.

I still prefer Diesels for my own transport.
Unfortunately, there isn't a scope to give access to read/write just issues.
Dude, they're not from telescopes and they're not 'fake' colours. Night sky images are produced by 'stacking' a large number of 1-2 second exposures on top of each other with software.

This has the effect of intensifying light (making dim stars brighter) and increasing the intensity of the milky way (yes, those colours are true) without creating star trails (10 seconds is too long).

To see this with the naked eye you need to spend at least 20 minutes outside in complete darkness to let your eyes adjust.

You need no moon, no torch, no street lights, no light pollution. Only then can you see the nebulosity of the Milky Way (colors), and you will see literally 10-100,000 stars (not including other galaxies, the LMC or SMC).

For some great examples of night sky photography see: http://500px.com/AaronGroen
Thatgamecompany was under contract with Sony to produce three titles, of which Journey was the last. One can only assume that they had already been paid according to the terms of the contract. Perhaps there weren't any provisions for royalties.
> Can you define Pirate party politics?

Yes; Pirates are a civil liberty party (actaully a series of parties) for the interent age. We want freedom on the internet. We also care about over-reaching intellectual property laws in other fields, e.g. where drug patents kill people.

> When you think about it's not party, it's movement

Pirate Parties are political parties. They are also part of a milieu of wider movements such as file sharing, creative commons, free software / open source, Anonymous.

> and because of that it should ugrently define coherent politics or it will be 'less elected'.

If you mean that Pirates need to have polices on what are not core Pirate issues, in order to get elected, I agree.

> Pirates don't have consistetnt politics! I had impression it's center to left, but talking to some member i got impression that spectrum is from total right to total left.

It's true that not every Pirate is of the same mind on every issue. This is also the case with all other political parties.

Speaking about Pirate Party UK (of which I am a Governor) I would describe it as broadly center-left.

> but i don't freaking like when some conservative facebook hipsters (that, for example, don't know anything about GPL) talk about what it's all about.

If they are wrong on something, then I suggest you point that out to them.
Totally relate. My curiosity about things like:

"Why do I feel like my hand touches something even though, on an atomic level, I'm sure it's still separated by space?"

and

"What if none of this was real?"

have led my friends and family to assume I've gone crazy.

The worst part? For a long time I believed them, and I'm sure part of me still does..

But with relation to the article, it occurs to me that these questions began in my mind around age 5 or 6. I think this is pretty common, too, but kids are told to focus on "important" things.
Tesla S has a battery heating system, although that's why you are supposed to plug it in overnight, which didn't happen in this case, apparently. So "not working in the cold" becomes "uses extra power to keep itself warm in the cold".
You're right but I think this is a bit strong and perhaps a little generalist.

Anyway, IMHO it DOES matter which is best for you because if you choose the wrong one, and you're project is big and complicated enough, you'll spend a long time dicking about trying to fix the 'deficiencies' of your poor technology choice later. So in some sense the OP is right too.

IMHO, as with many things, a little moderation in both is the key. Do just enough analysis to meet your requirements, and future proof your choices, and then leave the crazy web world where you found it.
>This is a really dismissive comment that could be used to trivialize just about any article and debate here on HN.

Well, thinking in a false binary, when there are far more choices, as the article does, already trivialises the subject matter.
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I used to develop with JavaScript, and JavaScript with Backbone before we switched to ClojureScript.

Backbone helped me to better structured my code but I found it also brings its own problems. There is a quite a lot of boilerplate code and views composed of other views were for me hard to manage.

I also wrote some macros to use Backbone from Clojure but the mismatch between object/mutable and functional/immutable is too high.

Finally the approach from http://clojurescriptone.com/ seems promising. It uses a simple yet flexible event dispatcher. Add that a templating engine and you are done.

Debugging ClojureScript within the browser is harder than normal JavaScript but it's easy nonetheless to find what generated JS functions corresponds to your ClojureScript code. If you compile in debug mode you can set a breakpoint as usual. Compiling ClojureScript adds a bit of overhead to the workflow but I compiled it continuously in the background via Emacs and forget about it, it just popups when an error occurs.

In general I found ClojureScript much cleaner than JavaScript and it's easier for me to write cleaner code with it when the data manipulation or the logic is not trivial.
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One of our developers has this link as his permanent IM status:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

It might seem a little passive-aggressive, but it's amazing what some people consider to be a proper bug report. Try querying your tracker for issues with the title ".* is broken".
The protocol can support streaming very well. How easy it is or if it's possible at all is an implementation issue.
With the Go standard library's json implementation, for example, you can decode JSON streams very easily: http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#example_Decoder
Could a computer save lost languages of the ancient world?
Essentially ...

"Apple has released a new version of its iPhone software that fixes the 3G performance issues that have been affecting users of the iPhone 4S who had installed iOS 6.1," Vodafone said on Tuesday. "Please download the latest version — iOS 6.1.1 — from Apple as soon as you can as this will deal with these issues."
It's the same info you'd give Dabblet or CodePen.
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Essentially ...

"Inspired by Apple retail stores, BMW is requiring dealers to hire young, tech-savvy employees to handle questions about its vehicles on the showroom floor."

Yet another reason to be tech-savvy - if not young!
More concentrated, and more efficient, so it affects fewer people and creates less pollution overall. Additionally, we can power them with zero emissions power sources once we get there. People should really stop trotting out the coal power plant argument in trying to claim that this is somehow a relative weakness of EVs, because it's really not.
Agree~
I love the disclaimer at the bottom:

"This article is not specific to any particular program.

If you have reached this page by following a link from the website for a particular program, DO NOT send bug reports for that program to me. Instead, return to the page you came from to find out where to report bugs in the program."
Another advantage is that you can run machine tools off a bike. The traditional Argentine knife sharpener rides a bicycle around town blowing a sort of multitonal whistle; when you take your knives downstairs to him, he puts down a stand that lifts his rear wheel off the ground, engages a belt with the rear wheel (which is modified to enable this), and drives his grinding wheel off the belt. This is a substantial advantage over the medieval method of having your apprentices whip the lathe and pull the whip.

Really, bicycles have a lot of advantages in any kind of material shortage. I've just been a bit down on them because of the amount of work they need.
> your phone that costs more than many people make in a month

Hah! Try a year/ten years. Hell, most Greeks make less than 8k/yr, and have for quite a while.
I don't have any recollection of Dominoes being delicious pizza:-)
You're welcome. I'm glad I helped! :)
Google could pay $1B to be default search on iOS next year
> IMO, the Flask example is pushing it - considering how large a job rendering a template is, the number of customization points is probably appropriate, but at some point you're going to get lost in a rabbit hole of wrapper functions that call wrapper functions

The actual implementations do a bit more. I have pretty much overriden every single part of that at one point, if for no other reason than debugging. Some of those hooks were added later because people requested them.
Only on a road bike. The cobblestone streets in parts of Buenos Aires are brutal on a bicycle, but I still pedal over them in preference to walking the bike.
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I've been wondering recently if I can use Github's Inline Commit comments to allow inline commenting on articles/stories I write (while in draft mode). I did think the DjangoBook was onto something when they had theirs in 2006.

The kind of reviewers I have won't/can't use GitHub directly, so it needs an alternative UI.

The drawback with GitHub commit comments for this purpose is they don't persist between updates until the comment is marked as closed; something I understand BitBucket has sorted. Hmmmm...
Interesting analysis, though personally I sit firmly in the camp that software are tools and as such should not express a "personality" or attempt to provide an "experience". For me, this suggests that straight nouns should be used for this sort of thing i.e "Profile" rather than "(Your|My) Profile".

My power drill doesn't refer to the chuck as "Your/My chuck". My toaster doesn't refer to to the bread as "Your/My bread" and my car doesn't refer to "your/my door is ajar".
One I saw recently http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2012-12/msg00818.html
Also reported and elaborated by NBC.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/super-search-eng...
"Ruby is an academic language designed in academia for academic and theoretical problem sets"

You make that FUD up yourself? What about Chef, Puppet, writing Ruby scripts for general purpose apps, JRuby (better than Groovy when you can use both jars and gems!), the fact that RedHat's OpenShift (Cloud Hosting of J2EE, etc.) platform depends on Ruby- the list goes on and on.
Yes, this

The amount of 'meetoo.js' is amazing(ly bad)

Because of course everybody has to have "MVC responsive html5 cascading containers with chocolate covering"

Not to mention most of these are underdocumented, bug-ridden, too specific, etc

Need a js library? JQuery. period (and don't get me started with mootools, I need to ship, not swim around their docs figuring out how to do what in jquery is easy )

And focus on the backend, a competent backend development will eat your whatever.js "specialist" except for the most specific cases
Wonder how much of the SATAII was the bottleneck, my guess is quite a lot. You should give your test another go with SATAIII.
I never got this argument. Currently the money you pay with in the shop is the only one associated with funding wars, gangs, human trafficking, etc.
I think the original video this is a response to, was really just saying 'A class should not be one method, that's a function'
3 to 4 times as much as what?
I has nothing to do with being Chinese or not. I'm a "western dude" and I feel like it's my job to evaluate all of those things because picking the right tool IS my job. If I don't then I am doing a disservice to myself and clients.

I wouldn't want to get surgery by a doctor who said "well, I can do the operation in 5 minutes instead of 5 hours if I knew how to use Hyper Awesome Super Laser but sorry, I don't know how to use that technology".
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Thanks for the advice. I do plan to work as a freelancer and with local businesses. I also want to create some cool website templates and sell them on themeforest.net etc.

Do you think making 2000-3000 bucks a month feasible by selling themes? I saved wisely during my financial services days and if I can reach $2000 per month figure then I will focus 100% on programming.

Once again thanks for the advice.
If they are hungry, low on cash, and have bitcoins?
The ligatures aren't especially creepy, but they're still bad. It is very odd to use the blatant st and ck ligatures and not use f or t ligatures. And maybe it's the fact that you're using slab serifs? I haven't considered this before, but maybe slab serifs and ligatures just don't mix? Your ampersand is nice though!

The still from the first video is incredibly off-putting. It's an awkward smile for any website, but for a divorce website, with the caption "They put me on the stand" it seems very inappropriate. I realised seeing the photo later on that it was one of the founders, but from the image and caption alone there'd be no way to know that (people should read the copy text, sure, but many of them will see the image first.) The Founders & Co image is better, but it does make me think that a sparkle will appear on their teeth any moment now...
> And focus on the backend, a competent backend development will eat your whatever.js "specialist" except for the most specific cases

These days backend is pretty straight forward, mature, and usually easy compared to client side.
75% of profit... holy crap, Apple has MORE than enough money, there's no reason for extortion.
P.S. Yes I feel a burning desire to program.
I've found that a large subset of programmers share the same trait as a large subset of photographers: they become so obsessed with tools that they lose sight of the fact that the end product is what matters at the end of the day.

For example: there are many people who spend thousands on cameras and gear, and still take terrible photos. There are many developers who spend a lot of time keeping up with what they think is the latest trend, and yet they never finish any projects that get used.

Then you have the photographers who take great shots no matter what gear they use, and developers who write and ship great code and products using Java and other unsexy languages.

Can better tools help you be more productive? Absolutely. But if you spend all of your time worrying that you're not using the latest and great tools, you won't get much done, and you won't be satisfied with what you do get done. I have 15 cameras and unfinished projects in 10 languages that demonstrate that.

My advice? Sit back, pick technology a couple of steps behind the bleeding edge, and focus on results. Choosing Ember over Backbone isn't going to cause your project to fail; building the wrong thing or failing to finish, however, will.
"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed." - William Penn

One of my favorite quotes, and completely true in this situation.
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I certainly wouldn't like to suggest that drugs are the answer to everything, but they are the answer to some things...

In this case, the author might be interested in smoking a HUGE JOINT and stepping into his office. He might find the same sense of curiosity as the five year-old. Magic mushrooms could also do this, but, like the five year-old for the day, might be a bit "more than you bargained for".

Note: just as it's not a good idea for a five year-old to run a company, it is also not advisable to run a company while stoned/drunk/etc.
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Call me a masochist, but I love the huge amount of selection, I love how passionate people are about their own solutions meaning they rapidly improve, and I love getting my hands dirty with pretty much anything I can get my hands on.

It's great having too many tools in your toolbox.
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Civil disobedience is just the refusal to co-operate with an unjust law. What you do after that is just tactics.
Cash is also strongly associated with illegal activities. That's why bank transactions of more than $10K in cash get reported to the FBI.
For those of you using TOR -> VPN. Victory laps for everybody.
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Most interesting ...

"Samsung will allegedly introduce an Amtel chip capable of understanding gestures within the range of the [Galaxy S4] screen. The technology is not exactly new, as Sony employed it for the Sola smartphone, but we might expect Samsung to build this deeper into the custom user experience."
It's anonymous in the sense that you can create a different identity ID, but as soon as that ID is correlated to Domino's transaction # for that transaction, or any other slip of personally-identifying info, then you're no longer anonymous.
Being just shy of 31, and I feel something like that coming. Kind of depresed me lately.. Especially after I started loosing to 20-somethings in BJJ quite regularly :-)

What I realized can be a problem when you are acting out of age is the reaction of others. Even if no one thought I'm in my 40ies yet, I do act differently than others in my age (for various reasons). The point is that people expect you to act like other people in the early thierties. Sometimes in big corp world that can pose problems.

Guess it's the same when you ARE 40 and still act like you were 20.