skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you as the sole developer have decided that python and haskell are good for you.

Well I am convinced.

Sure, you aren't dealing with 30 year old databases. Or 100s of developers with millions of code. But that shouldn't matter.
I have to chime in and agree with this approach. When I built my blog, one of my "must-have" features was a comment system free of 3rd parties such as Reddit and FB. After some soul-searching and an honest look at my traffic logs I decided that as the primary purpose of my website is to serve as a resume and archive that anyone who wished to comment could simply email me and that lacking an embedded comment system

- Freed me from having to monitor any conversation and its contents

- Helped disguise how low-traffic the blog is (nothing says low traffic more than a single comment)

- As the Svbtle guys point out, most comments are relatively uninformed and tend to add little. There are exceptions such as HN and the StackOverflow family where intelligent(ish) discourse is the norm but the internet at large is wild and untamed.

- Were I to run my own comment structure I would feel obligated to provide security the guarantee that there are no XSS or other code injection vulnerabilities stemming from user-submitted text.

Consequently my blog has no commenting functionality.
A typical reason to use assembly these days is for instructions the compiler doesn't output (for instance specialized instructions which are only useful for a kernel).

GCC's extended assembly at least (which clang/LLVM also support), allows one to specify constraints for asm() statements that let the compiler respect dependencies etc.
This may be too complex to do on a phone and especially given that it is for school, but a kid at CMU built a tool for computers where the computer tracks eye movement. So while you read an article, the page automatically scrolls up or down depending on your eye movement. And if you take your eyes off of the camera, an automated voice picks up from where you left off and starts reading.
Anybody noticed the video showed windows apps Excel running on Ubuntu Tablet? What is that?
With the repeal of marijuana prohibition in Washington and Colorado, it looks to me like we, the people are finally starting to win the "war on drugs".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light#Universal_exp...
"Entirely of their own volition, several customers spent the past holiday weekend recreating the Broder test drive route and showing that it can be done easily using the Tesla Supercharger network on the East Coast. "

Musk loses some points here by not being exactly forthcoming about the details of the 'community drive' that took place, which actually required an over the air update to complete due to one of the cars not taking a full charge:

Source: http://green.autoblog.com/2013/02/18/tesla-model-s-road-trip...

He should have just left that bit out, now it calls the rest into question.
> About libraries, Python follows the idea that there should be only one way to do something, ruby follows the idea that there should be more ways to do something, this is why there are a lot of alternatives, for example:...

I think you're stretching the meaning of this a bit beyond it's intent. It applies to more low level things than testing or JSON generation. The standard library does have a lot of excellent (and almost default) choices but it doesn't stop people from making alternatives.
The original post was off-topic and useless. There's no need to draw the entire conversation off-topic.
Good stuff. I wonder if people would be willing to flip it, but much better than the annoying ads I see now.
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>It's a pretty stupid move to make after succeeding in challenging the negative PR.

You must be crazy if you think Tesla has "succeeded" over this.
This is not really "pure" data as there could be tons of other analysis done on the text that one can do and you do not get the raw results, and the tools to get the data and do further analysis are not provided (AFAIK). Why did the author just limit itself to those, or why did those matter more than the other ? What is the purpose of getting the data in the first place? Usually getting data is a mean to answer a question, you do not generate data just for the purpose of the data itself. Hence my "so what" question.
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We were worried about this with our first. So we placed her in a low/soft walled inner cot box between us in bed. It gave a boundary you could easily feel when sleeping and seemed to give the best of both worlds.

The other strict rule we had was if someone had a few drinks, the baby slept in the cot or you slept on the couch. A nurse told us that largely these smothering baby tragedies occur when someone has had a few drinks.
>>Most Indians I meet get by in Hindi, English and often a third local dialect.>>

The phrase is generally used by people who don't really know "who are most of the Indian" :-). Please do not be offended. I take you were either a tourist in India or met Indians abroad who were either travelling or working there.

And whatever people you met in India go by "English" for the very reason in mentioned in OC and Hindi is like mother tongue for around half of India and also because of the way lives of Indians are intertwined but have different language they communicate either in English or Hindi. I am sure how many languages we Indians speak in various parts(states) of the country and it is spoken as in you speak German in Germany and Spanish in Spain and Portuguese in Portugal and I didn't even count dialects.
Some differences from the original:

1.) You can't press right twice to stop, then up repeatedly to climb.

2.) You can't press various arrow keys after jumping to do a trick pose that gives you extra points.

3.) There's only 1 degree of 'turning right', not two. Same w/ left.
Like all management, just because you can control and measure something (sentencing) doesn't mean it will help you achieve your goal (lower crime).

Think of it in terms of the broken window effect - if people (all subsections of soceity) know that they are very likely to be caught, then they are very unlikely to commit a crime no matter what the punishment.

Only un-meditated crimes would likely slip through the gap. Also if a cop says it, it may mean nothing, but then when coders say different things, it would mean equally little would it not? At least the cop has real world experience.

That said I'll see if I can find some studies to back it up.
Sorry about that. First comment.
... and want to sell their Redshift services starting with a bang.
I think calling this a printer is somewhat of a misnomer... Would you call a glue gun a printer?
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The 'hot glue' is thin enough and needs to be hot enough to let you 'float' what you're drawing in mid air, hot glue would stay viscous for too long to let that happen.
I love Tango. Thamnks.
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> they're more like the "content" that the Reddit community is discussing any given day.

I think this sums them up nicely. This is also why I feel they would be out of place in a forum centered around discussion, like HN.
> The way I understood it, the "cost" of watching an opera on YouTube is the time and mental effort it takes, which is many times greater than the time and mental effort it takes to watch a cat video.

The original analogy compared with the cost of watching an opera on the middle ages, but I get your point: people perceive the value of consuming copious amounts of mundane content to be greater than the reward to be gained from a single, more elaborate content.

Interesting. Would you say it's a race to the bottom of time and mental effort then? Cultural production and consumption is limited by the second law of thermodynamics? That sounds pretty hopeless.
Yeah I think this is what a lot of people are missing with the glue gun comments. With a glue gun you can make a blob at the base but you can't string a piece along like this, much less string a piece along in mid air. This also has the fan which helps in that matter.
they don't start out thinking, for example, "How can I increase ad revenue by making voice recognition better."

No offense, yet ad revenue magically it increase quarter after quarter after quarter. Surprise?

FYI: You are an ad company, a cutthroat and an annoying one too (I am about to use adblock.)

Yes, advertising is the majority revenue product

Consider the "moonshots" as HR advertising and to get Google press. Virtually all your earnings are because you twist things to get people to click on those expensive and annoying ads and you also buy politicians. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.

Have you mined those asteroids yet? Sure got a lot of press out of it
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That's quite plausible. I think the posts are worth reading to remind oneself that healthy skepticism is a good thing.

"Investigators say the surge of malware attacks on U.S. companies may be coming from Eastern European cybercriminals rather than being Chinese state-sponsored espionage."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57570194-83/apple-facebook-...
Yeah - this is 3D drawing.
Congrats, Team Minefold!
I'm sorry, I meant that the comment I replied to didn't seem to imply that HTML meant "suite of relevant standards".

HTML/JS/CSS as an application development platform is improving and covers most development needs, social, LOB, SaaS, etc. HTML turns out to be a pretty decent view rendering engine. It's still a bit rough around the edges and won't replace native code in all situations, though, it is a much easier way of targeting and deploying to users across a multitude of platforms.

Edit: As for experience, I spent 5 years on native apps, deployed to strictly controlled government Windows environments. Nightmare. Rebuilt same apps in a quarter of the time in HTML/JS/CSS, with far fewer issues. Work on various other Web apps now, couldn't be happier especially with all the tools/libraries/services springing up.
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Cool. I only wish they weren't trying to patent it. Prior art exists in the form of http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2010/09/19/repurpose-your-old-m... at the very least. I've emailed the EFF 3d printer patentbusting group to see what they can do about making sure the patent does not get issued.
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Why Android first?
Gary is a rare breed!

Funny video of Gary w/ Wayne Gretzgy. esp when he says Waynes wine tastes like acid!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDpJXG-Q5AA
It's very prototype-ish but it looks real good!
From the file:

"PACER normally carries an eight cents per page fee, however, by accessing from one of the seventeen libraries, users may search and download data for free."

And:

"The two accounts were responsible for downloading more than eighteen million pages with an approximate value of $1.5 million."

~18MM pages at $0.08/page ~= $1.5 million

So downloading a document is stealing printing fees from the courts, apparently.

My personal favorite part of the file so far:

"The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts reported that the PACER system was being inundated with requests. One request was being made every three seconds."

I actually applied for a programming job with the Federal Courts in San Antonio about a decade ago when I was desperate for work. Cattle-call interview with ~100 easy questions, then they'd call you back that afternoon for a panel interview if you did well. I was criticized for dressing "too casual", despite wearing $400 worth of new clothes I couldn't afford. Apparently, suits are needed for programming, which also involves crawling around courtrooms installing equipment. Got the job offer a few days later for $55K/year. I mentioned that the newspaper ad said the position paid $78K, and politely attempted to negotiate. Five minutes later, I got an email saying they were rescinding the offer. Classy folks.
As opposed to accepting Mozilla/Firefox, Apple and Google's efforts have moved the bar much further than if they just decided to use Mozilla's solution

Solution to what problem? I would say that the reason browsers have continued to evolve is that all of the existing ones have always sucked; whatever problem past browsers thought they were solving, it wasn't sufficient to solve the real problems users were having with existing browsers.

In short, no problem should ever have to be solved twice; but it does need to be solved once.
I think the hot glue gun comments are misguided. This is a really amazing product, as you can see by the professional "3doodles" from the Etsy artists. I do agree that this isn't "3D printing" because you're not printing from a model, but it's similar in intent. I'm not anything close to an artist but I'd love to have one of these, and if I had artistic talent I'd buy one immediately.
> the compiler can't change the layout of your data

Sure it can, this is the most promising optimization avenue currently. Not just on the micro level to make data layout more SIMD-friendly, but more cache friendly object layout etc.

Modern systems are primarily memory bound, not ALU bound, so squeezing out clock cycles from computations is pretty far in the dimishing returns territory.

C/C++ have forbidden these kinds of optimizations but it's a the future (tm) in high level languages.
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I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be impressed at the ingenuity, or disgusted at the dishonesty.
Let's briefly talk about gun ownership issues. There are two classes of people who use guns. Those who have a practical need for it, and those who use guns recreationally.

The second group are not dissimilar to people who drive Dodge because they want to honor the "farmer in themselves", or people who'd never take their 4WD off-road. It is the same people who buys Harleys and tattoo Harley Davidson's logo. These are "aspirationals".

These aspirations don't come out of no where. There's marketing dollars at work.

Harley Davidson's may be a way of life for many, and represents an important social outlet. It doesn't take away the fact the Harley Davidson is a commercial endeavour.

Private gun ownership is a billion dollar per year industry in the U.S. This is not a niche market. (Harley Davidson's motorcycle sales was $771m per quarter).

My thesis is that the NRA, being driven by commercial interests rather than 2nd amendment ideals, will come out in opposition to 3D printing of arms.
I was thinking that a prominent use-case for JS websockets would be writing a JS client for $PROTOCOL which runs in the browser, where $PROTOCOL is some TCP-based protocol like IRC that was developed years before websockets existed.

> Why are you including in quotes sarcastically

Because framing means the websocket spec can't easily support this use case.

> if you just want plain TCP connections to be forwarded to your backend

That's exactly what I want -- from a Javascript client in an unmodified browser.

AFAIK I can't get such connections in JS clients; I can only get the Websocket protocol.

I was thinking some cool hacks become possible if you could talk to an arbitrary TCP server from JS, using nginx as the middleman (with all its scalable non-blocking goodness).

Too bad Java is going the way of the dodo; Java applets could do TCP connections to the same origin back in the '90s.
I take it you haven't read Business Secrets of the Pharaohs?
Devoid of substantive and informative content.
"Motiveless Substance"
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I am a reprap core developer and I've seen this exact thing a number of times. There is documented prior art from 2010. Someone I know has had that device on their desk for the past year. There is no part of it that is innovative. They do not deserve a patent. By applying for a patent, they destroy their credibility in the field. Which is all extremely sad and stupid because it's a cool product and they've thought of very creative stuff to make with it. They are wasting effort and money on patenting this stuff when they could just execute better than everyone else and have the market for what is clearly a fad to themselves. The more money they waste on crap like that, the less likely they are to deliver in time.

On that note, hell yeah I am completely against patents. Patents are the biggest threat to open hardware, and open hardware is my life.
You're missing my point. I'm not suggesting at all that the CMUCL developers would want to stop the PSF from using the name Python. That would be the situation that your argument is relevant to.

No, I'm making quite a different point, about the ability of the PSF to stop anyone else from using the name. In order to be able to assert trademark rights against someone else, you have to have a valid trademark to begin with. If your use of the mark was never exclusive to begin with, I don't see how you can claim to have an exclusive right to it now.

Perhaps in the US, since the PSF has registered the mark and the CMUCL people didn't contest it (in time), the PSF now has an exclusive right to it. Although here another point comes into play: I've never heard of the PSF attempting to prevent CMUCL from using the name. Supposing they haven't, a case can now be made that the PSF has failed to defend it and therefore has lost their exclusive right to it. So I think that can cut both ways. CMUCL has no exclusive right to the name -- I seriously doubt they care -- but if some third party started to use it, I wonder if the PSF could prevail over the latter in court.

But all that aside, this case is in the EU, where as far as I understand, the PSF has no registered trademark anyway. I think POBox Hosting could make a very strong case that, since CMUCL's Python has certainly been used in the EU, the PSF has no exclusive right to the name there.
Even for a scrappy startup, I consider this to be exceedingly unethical. Somebody paid for that bandwidth, somebody who essentially invested in Google with no opportunity to see a return on the investment.

I can't picture the world where this would not be considered "evil".
I'm not sure I would agree that video tapes or television has had the same impact on education as the internet but they were certainly useful tools. As you mention the new thing about online classes is the interaction. As a professor how do you think your interaction compares with that on a well designed MOOC like Coursera? I was pretty impressed with the responses from other students in addition to that from the professors and TAs.

On completion rates perhaps we are talking past each other. Think of this: if you class was free and took 5 seconds to enroll how many more students would sign up?

An interesting issue is self-selection. The editorial mentions that "those who took higher proportions of online courses were less likely to earn degrees or transfer to four-year colleges". Do you think these students might be self-selecting, perhaps they work and can't come to class, and thus invalidating any statistical significance of this correlation, not to mention causation.

Frankly the two recommendations are worthless. First as the editorial mentions online eduction is already widely deployed. Are they calling for a roll back until the classes are improved? Who decides when they are good enough? Should everything be improved - sure. I have had some pretty poor professors. How can we get those improved?

The second recommendation's sentence structure is quite convoluted but seems to say this: remedial students should not be allowed to take online classes until the are successful in traditional classes. I looked briefly at the Columbia School of Education site but didn't see any evidence to support this conclusion. Don't remedial student currently have a hard time in traditional classes? Shouldn't they improve this before they widely deploy them?

You seem pretty thoughtful so I hope you are on the side of better eduction for all. If university deans and administrators are short sighted then universities will struggle to adapt when the world changes.

If you have not already please take a class on Coursera. You might learn a thing or two and I'll pay for it. :)
The Coffee Shop Hypothesis
That's insanely brilliant if you ask me. And on a site called Hacker News, mos people should agree!
His comments about Windows are plain ignorant.
This "95th percentile" measuring method is still widely used by bandwidth providers, colocation facilities, etc. I am not sure why the article says it was a common billing practice "of the time". More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burstable_billing
I skimmed a few other states for relatives and found several hundred dollars. Thanks!
"C'mon, the entire response is a joke."

If Musk could really back up all of his accusations, why would he be "satisfied" with this "joke" of a response?

It seems Musk prematurely accused NYT of "faking" the review, then realized they couldn't back up that accusation, and are taking this opportunity to back down.
For me it's often fp <something> ;. ;. ;. ;.

For example if I have a longer line I would like I could do something like f,a<cr><esc>k,.k,.k,.k,.k,.k,.
I'm not sure if that sentence means what you think it does. I do think android following a similar route with android for the pc would be a nice move on their part and add a little more competitiveness to the osx/windows/linux wars.
Early-Google really fucked moron salespeople at most of their vendors (well, technically the salespeople also got paid, so the only morons were the investors). People sold space with power/cooling included at ratios which were unsustainable, and Google's people were more than willing to sign contracts with the facilities at those prices. Then Google "fully utilized" what they had in the contract, which really screwed their colo providers.

OTOH, this was in the colo/bandwidth/fiber nuclear winter of 2001-2004, so maybe some vendors were happy to have some revenue, but there were cases where the Google stuff was at negative overall margin on variable costs (i.e. the vendor would have been better off shutting down the power plant vs. selling to Google).
It's common for internet providers who cap to run the 'capping' process in batches, so it's possible to get 'free' bandwidth by exploiting the time period (often up to 24 hours) between reaching your limit and when your provider caps you.
Why governments are not attacking Silk Road (yet)
I agree with your sentiment, but one approach to 'winning' SimCity: http://www.vice.com/read/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-...
Why Innovators Love Constraints
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The worst thing about that quote is the sense that it will make Elon Musk even more of a role model to the thousand or so insecure boys who seem to show up to every internet discussion about gender roles. Mr. Musk may be admirable in the ad astra per aspera sense, but that doesn't mean he is an earthly saint and shouldn't be called on his BS from time to time.

Aping your heroes worst qualities is not good for you or your hero.
Kudos. It appears you've made a compelling case and I found those links to be interesting reading.

Of course we should still keep a close watch on the future to see how true it remains to the historical record and theory. But in the meantime, I'll be be updating my model, and nudging the needle, a little further toward the left. (if 'for the people' is left, and 'for the company' is to the right, on a 1 dimensional axis).

Thanks for taking the time to respond.