skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A higher level language would've been worse for developing my web app, niflet.com. I did the prototype in PHP and found Go to be easier to code in, much less coding overall, and at least 10X better performance. I didn't have to deploy a separate web server either.
Go doesn't have the ternary operator, and I thank the Go gods for that every day :)

Go is good because it's hard to write clever code in it. Go encourages simple code. Clever code is almost always bad. It's hard to understand and easy to screw up. For example, at work we had a bug in production for 5 years that short circuited our authorization code because of an incorrectly written ternary statement. If the author had written a simple if statement, the error would have been blindingly obvious. It should have been caught by tests, but due to how the tests were written, that particular path never got called.
Oddly enough, I know several people who are giving up 30 years of C and Fortran programming to use Go because they find its features sufficiently compelling--and they're changing minds throughout the organization.

For about two years, many of the people I work with have been using Go almost exclusively because, while simple and fast like C, the things it adds are so useful we can't imagine trying to hack similar functionality together with C libraries. Things like built-in maps, slices, multiple returns, lambda functions, channels, goroutines... these are all things you can accomplish in C, but it's so much more painful (see: homebrewed hashtables, do-it-yourself pointer management on a big array, returning structs, function pointers, some sort of mutex abomination to replicate channels, pthreads)
SpaceX 'Dragon' capsule reaches International Space Station
Stories like this pop up on HN over and over, (The same stories.) instead of waiting for reruns, is there some kind of place where they've all been collected? (Sort of like folklore.org)

EDIT: Besides the jargon file(s).
Just played League of Legends with some cool people because of this service. So fun...
Uptime is a fundamental part of their business, of course it's a team.
Pilot waves: oil droplets model quantum behavior
I'm pretty sure Dxbydt is referring to academia when he says education, not looking for a semantics refresher :)
Oh, that's great -- just delete the offending word with no fanfare or warning.

I'm tempted to submit "Toppepenisish" to see how well-written and/or recursive the regular expression is. Or, for that matter, this headline: "The word 'penpenisis' is forbidden in an HN headline." Which, if successful, would rank alongside "This sentence is false" in the panoply of mischievous philosophical experiments.

On the other hand, that offensive word has more euphemistic substitutes than nearly any other English word except possibly "drunk". On that basis, one might avoid the word just to have an excuse to use one of its more esoteric stand-ins:

http://namingschemes.com/Penis_Synonyms

"Yogurt gun"? Who comes up with these things and what were they smoking?
Yes, I've already succeeded. And whether I've learnt from it or not (I have) is secondary to the fun I've had with it.

The money, any money is just a logical next step to a project that will never die, regardless of it's commercial success or failure.
The Ocarina of Time Travel
Truly one of the most remarkable and important things I have seen in a very long time.

Two page summary:

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mdt26/tti_talks/deBB_10/bush_t...

Longer presentation with lots of pictures (10MB):

http://www.iap.fr/activites/seminaires/GReCO/2013/presentati...

When combined with Quantum Information Theory that shows QM as 'just' a probability theory, and simple axiomatic approaches like Lucien Hardy's "Quantum Theory From Five Reasonable Postulates":

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101012

Some of the mystery of spooky QM, long perpetuated by the Copenhagen Interpretation, is finally falling away.

Mik
> Implying an educated person.

I'm actually far more literate than most of my colleagues. Making this mistake honestly makes me want to harm myself.
You could have dedicated shielding, but that's heavy.

You could make your shielding dual-purpose. Material that serves another purpose could be put around the outside of the spacecraft and act as shielding.

Machinery doesn't work too well, because it needs to be in a particular spot to work, and there isn't enough of it, and the stuff it's made out of isn't the best material for shielding.

Food and water, on the other hand, you can store just about anywhere. It's pretty good shielding too. For a Mars trip, you need a lot of it.

However, it's consumable. Food might be good shielding at the start of the trip, but there won't be much left at the end. Fortunately, food doesn't disappear when eaten, it's just transformed. The transformed food is still just about as good at shielding as the original was.

I assume this is more or less the chain of thought that got to this point.
A brilliant story, well written.

There have been a few horrific stories of cultural backwards attacking women with acid in the UK press. It's made me far more cautious when handling automotive batteries.

I won't move a car battery ever again without wearing safety goggles.
That's still twice the size of everything else.
gccgo might solve your problem, if you actually want the problem to be solved.
Time Traveling To The Future Of User Interfaces
After thinking a little bit about it, I think this approach does make some sense and allows for more flexibility in the future. Keep in mind Lightning was likely designed to last well over a decade and will be used in many different devices.

Now since the adapter is a SoC and it's OS is booted from the device, what that means is, every device has essentially full control over how it wants to output HDMI, without having to change the adapter or the port. Right now this is accomplished using this quirky h.264 encode/decode workaround, but this is first-gen, and it doesn't have to stay that way. Future iDevices might load a different OS onto the SoC and output lossless 1080p using the exact same adapter! And without breaking older devices.

It frees Apple from having to define a fixed method of transmitting HDMI over Lightning now, that is then set in stone for the next 10 years, and has to be supported by every future device.

It also frees them from having unnecessary pins, which might become useless in the future, but have to carry over to every new device (a.k.a. 30-pin connector). And knowing Apple, probably THE top priority of Lightning was to have a slick, easy-to-plug-in-n-out, user-friendly connector, which Lightning admittedly does way better then any MicroUSB standard.

Because in essence, the only thing that is fixed about Lightning is the physical shape and pins, so they focused on getting that aspect right and future-proof. How the data is transmitted can be changed on a device level basis.
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Yea id fire my devs if they made my site load so slow on mobile too.
Glass could use the Android handset as a remote server--it shouldn't matter if the Android crunches voice on its own or with a data connection, all that matters is Glass getting a reply from the API call.
"The Pragmatic Programmer" is one of the best books on programming I've read. When it first came out I read it and then went out and bought a copy for every member of my team. It's fabulous.
Looks like this setup is quiet good.I only have one question:

Why, exactly, do I need to sign up? What purpose does this serve?

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we may share your personally identifiable information with advertisers,
business partners, and other entities that are not affiliated with
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Never mind, I can hazard a guess.
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> But he said hers were wasted words.

> “That’s so fascinating,” he said, “but you know, it wouldn’t have made a difference. I was a cautious kid. I knew who was outside the gate. I knew Bassy. You would have opened it, too.”

I can't imagine the trust issues one would have after going through this. If a stranger does something, it can be explained away. But if it is someone you know, makes it much more difficult.
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How Sublime Developers Solved “The Documentation Problem”
Why, exactly? It’s very possible and also reasonable to be offended even though no one is really to blame.
Walking desks are inefficient and overkill for the ergonomic concerns of desk work.

The practical solution is to have a properly adjusted [1] workstation and get up to walk around for ~5 minutes every hour. On a treadmill, you will lose more than 5 minutes due to inefficiency anyway. And the 5 minute break you take can be used productively (meet with a co-worker, make a phone call).

Having a standing desk in addition to a sitting desk and switching between them throughout the day can also be very beneficial.

The key is movement: there is no active blood flow to your spinal discs, they need movement or microtrauma will accumulate. There are also no nerve endings in your discs, so you don't feel anything until there is already serious damage.

[1] - http://www.stanford.edu/dept/EHS/prod/general/ergo/PDFs/self...

Make the adjustments on the second page as best you can in the order they are presented.
Oh, and none of the prices include the home charger required to charge it in a reasonable amount of time.

The car has a built in charger that can add 31 miles of range per hour off a standard 240V outlet. The base model has 160 miles of range, so a charge all the way from zero to full should only take a little over 5 hours. Seems reasonable enough to me.
Not sure, some problems can't be solved by brute force.
A bit nit picky yes? Even Google mentions places as "data centers" which really are co-location facilities hosting a bit of gear. It has come to be a way to identify unique numbers of building rather than ownership in most papers or articles that I've read.

To be clear I share your desire for precise speech, perhaps the could have said 'Cloudflare currently uses 23 data centers worldwide' but given that the person writing this is doing it on a Sunday, probably after a long night and having missed all the things they normally would have been doing on Sunday, I'm willing to cut them some slack.
Yes, it makes a difference, but intent cannot heal the basic violation.

I have a problem with people who act like a lack of intent makes offense unreasonable. That’s just insane to me.
Regular expressions for gmail
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Very good point. Of course, for a completely fair comparison you need to ask the same question (before the course starts) to the traditional students. I expect it can't be much more than a percent or so, but it depends on whether the university penalizes students for signing up for a course they don't finish (in my years of college, the CS department didn't seem to care very much. It was very different for other departments, though).

Of course, without penalties, you will get students that start out a semester following more courses than they can finish, only to decide later on which one to drop. I'm not entirely sure how that translates to MOOCs, though.
I was pointing out that as cool as this is, you wouldn't realistically want to watch a movie you hadn't seen before with this kind of augmentation. Part of accepting a fictional story is suspending disbelief.. movies are designed to make this as easy for the viewer as possible. That being said, seeing a dead character breathing would disrupt that suspension of disbelief. It was the first thought that crossed my mind, but I found it interesting enough to share.
"PC"? Watson's hardware weighs in at around 40 tons total.
If this happened after the third quarter of 2001, they would've gotten to experience the "SWAT Team Alarm Clock" followed by some lengthy interviews by the Homeland Security department.
1. You could still be targeted just for wearing such a device in the wrong place, then.

2. Do you really hope for each and everything you see to be uploaded to a remote server?
Don't Be Distracted by Superior Technology
By the way, it is absolutely possible to implement a message passing style on top of generators instead of some random ad hoc resumption policy. Check it out:

https://github.com/fzzzy/pavel.js

The only caveat is that you do have to write "yield receive('pattern')" instead of just "receive('pattern')".
A good reminder of the engineering virtue of using tech which is commonly used and thus well-supported (by the creator, by third parties, by Stack Overflow, etc.)
Sorry, my previous post may not be clear. I'm doing research into the store as in 'the available apps in the store, what kind of apps are popular, etc.', not the store itself :)
Whoops, you are correct. The updates to the MacBook Pro are still trivial and no site is considering it to be an major upgrade/update. The Mac Rumors tracking site separates the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Pro Retina for this reason.
Maybe your app just sucked?
I can't help but be reminded of John Kilduff from Let's Paint TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r72zqjDNW2M
What about the postman syndrome?

Relying on the results of the first week and presenting them as some misleading charts, are not the best way to encourage people to buy these desks. It is obvious this is an advertising article. In next few months your body will consider this as a habit, adapt to the situation, hit a plateau, stop burning extra calories and you start gaining weight despite the fact you are walking everyday (The postman syndrome !!). unless you change the intensity of your exercise, which is not possible at all while you are working. I am sure there are plenty of researches on postman syndrome that you could include.

So why don't you just talk about the actual benefits for body, and skip the weight loss part?
None, it works just fine for Xorg.

/s
Provably false.

Here is the exact second that freeze-frame above is taken in the collateral murder video http://youtu.be/5rXPrfnU3G0?t=3m18s Compare with the picture that the US military claims is of an armed person http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/savegunsmall.JPG

That person isn't carrying anything let along a weapon.

At the exact time the US troops say "that's a weapon" (around or just after 3:13) and thus fix the belief that the group is carrying weapons, from the Apache all that is visible in shot are 2 camera men, with cameras.

What amazes me is that who ever decided to make this picture didn't go to the effort to at least make a claim that wasn't provably false from the available evidence. It's really hard to prove a negative existential statement, so that would have been on their side.
hi peter! :P Also, 100% agreed — he was the heart and soul of the culture there.
Omnifocus for daily personal task, and Trello for development project.
You're right, I could have worded that differently and better. What I intended to say was that even then, there's usually some thoughts about being happy for the wonderful things I do have, bubbling in the background (not continuously, of course). And like you said, I also try not to go with the "some people have it much worse" line of reasoning.
I do see where you're coming from, and agree it sucks that they've went backward in quality in this case. To my mind those are implementation details that Apple screwed up. It doesn't invalidate the basic idea though, which is to move the brains of the device into software so that the same connector can be used for a multitude of different functions, some of which don't even exist today.

Admittedly, I'm not privy to whatever design decisions the team that implemented the connector made, but I see no reason why it couldn't have the same fidelity that a straight hdmi cable would have. If I guessed, I'd say that they said 'good enough, ship it' instead of continuing to refine it since they knew they could always send down an update later.
You've identified the rock and the hard place.
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Personl Portfolio Site? Do I need one? Template or from scratch?
I am currently a Junior going for my Bachelors Network Administration with a minor in Information Security. I would like to start a blog to share projects

I'm doing and simple tutorials for issues I run into. I am wondering if a portfolio/blog site built from scratch and self hosted would be a good idea (I

have taken web classes and an good with that sort of thing, but its not my area of study). Would using a template site look make me look bad?

Most of my time is dedicated to more the the networking side of the game, I'm not a web dev major.
There are still a few issues with the UI here -- I can't scroll the glossary or the table of contents, and it's way too long for my browser window.
"And it introduces that complexity at a point of physical vulnerability -- people don't treat adapter like tiny fragile computers. They treat them like, well, adapters."

I don't understand this. What makes these things any more fragile than a regular adapter? They are, as far as I understand it, compact, fully solid-state, and about as strong as any consumer electronics of that size would be.
Sounds like something types like HBGary could've been hired to do.
>The key is movement: there is no active blood flow to your spinal disks, they need movement or microtrauma will accumulate. There are also no nerve endings in your discs, so you don't feel anything until there is already serious damage.

That's why a walking desk is preferable. I can walk at a slow pace for hours but standing in one place becomes tiresome after 15 minutes.
It was a revolutionary device, but it had poor ergonomics, terrible acoustics, lackluster RF performance, tons of bugs, and numerous omitted features that were already standard in run-of-the-mill feature phones. And although it wasn't the hardware's fault, its exclusive carrier was universally acknowledged to be the worst in the US. Using the original iPhone to make calls was like using a shortwave radio from the 1920s -- a lot of unlikely things had to work just right before you could get through.

All of these things got better, of course, and at an impressive rate. Tesla seems to be on the same path, thankfully.

486s were fantastic machines on Day One in all respects except price. I don't know where s/he got the idea they weren't. The original IBM AT I didn't have direct experience with.
lotics2, your comment is "dead" and so are your other 2 comments. In case you didn't know.
I'm of two minds of this. 1) I'm very much NOT anti-college/anti-credentialing. 2) I don't see your average business application software developer having any need for a degree in CS.

I believe the anti-college/anti-credentialing stance is primarily how people are sold on degrees. People are told they will get better jobs and make more money if they get one. However, no one really takes the time to tell them that just getting your degree does not qualify you to immediately go get a job doing exactly what you want. Essentially, people have been oversold on what the degree actually gives them.

My belief is that a vast majority of the technology related jobs are the modern day equivalent of 'blue collar' work, more akin to tradesmen, such as electricians. If you read up the requirements for an electrician in the U.S. (a brief read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrician#United_States is good enough), it follows the same general trend we see with software development experience, even if the lines aren't as clearly drawn.

One caveat, I don't have a degree. I'm pretty close if I were to want to go back and finish it, but I didn't drop out by choice. I'm of the firm belief that it is possible, but significantly more difficult, to gain the same knowledge outside of a college or university, it's just harder to quantify the knowledge you have. I would also suggest everyone go to college and get an undergraduate degree in something that interests them, but focusing on core classes and general requirements, not their particular interest. Universities are great for two things, imparting a general base of knowledge and specialized knowledge. However, undergraduate degrees have shifted to focus on specialized knowledge at the expense of general knowledge.

One last note in my long-winded comment, I really appreciate how you state 'you should go to grad school if you want to get better at CS' rather than the usual defense of schools saying that it's absolutely needed.
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