skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA says "You know what would be awesome? If we wrote our libraries so that they could run either on the server or on the client, and they did so in a transparent way."

Ever tried GWT? I played with it a bit. It gives you One Language -- Java -- and does a pretty good job of it. It comes the closest to accomplishing what the author is talking about.

Unfortunately it puts this huge condom between you and the web medium itself, making design nuance difficult to achieve. But if I had to write, say, an accounting app for a car rental agency I would seriously look at it. It would be a great way to create a solid, stable web thin client app.
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Stifle competiton? Are you serious? All what Google does is destroying other peoples's businesses for fun - see, we have shitload of money and nothing to do, why we just offer that what you offer, but for free - haha looser.
For what it's worth, you can put only the compressor or decompressor on the micro. I'm still working on the documentation.

IME, it works particularly well on bitmapped images and sparse sensor data. Also, it can be faster to incrementally read and unpack compressed data from slow storage (such as flash memory) than to read the whole uncompressed data set. I'm decompressing from flash memory directly into video RAM.
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The liver is pretty tolerate of alcohol, but a lifetime of alcohol use can cause liver issues.
It's much better at vectorising code (using SSE and AVX) than MSVC and GCC, it's got better loop unrolling heuristics (it's better at working out when unrolling isn't worth it or will slow things down), and its maths functions are much faster than the native ones on all platforms.
Idiocracy is such a stupid movie. Worst: People take it seriously. As in: As if it actually had some sort of meaningful or true message (even in satirical form). That’s just sad.
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But that's the problem ... it's not, or at least is very difficult to convince the average person of it. If you're a middle aged dentist in Wyoming making $127k (http://swz.salary.com/SalaryWizard/Dentist-Salary-Details-Ca...), what are you more likely to spend your money on ... large donations to malaria research, or a monthly payment to the hair club for men so you can look better and try to have an affair with the hot dental assistant?

That may be a very jaded view of what the average person would do, but tell me it's wrong.
Of course they don't, but then nobody argues that.

You can find a ton of people who will argue that capitalism quote 'magically makes perfectly rational allocations of funds'.
Remember and remind - Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
The Deeply Odd Lives of Chinese Bureaucrats
Are there any RSS aggregators that leverage Dropbox, GDrive/GDocs or Skydrive for cross-device synchronization ?
Reddit has no polls douche
This is my one chance

That's the thing. Your one chance for what?

I'll be damned if I waste my most functional hours of the day on something that doesn't matter.

Do you have some notion of an afterlife where that even matters?

Really, I'm not that nihilistic in the way I live my life, but intellectually I don't really fight it.
A general problem with desktop readers is that they don't really sync with each other, unless there is also a back-end service associated with them. (or they support many services).

My news reader is my go-to "I have a few minutes" thing, so I use it equally from desktop/laptop, phone, iPad and so on. I don't want to spend any effort clearing each source of articles I've read on another.
I'm seeing a Cloudflare page that states that the site is offline and there is no cached version available. I wonder if this is because they decided to set up cloudflare right when their site was getting hammered by HN.
The MEAP is available as EPUB as well and looks good. I just loaded it up in Readmill.
Joy of Clojure is about understanding the philosophy of Clojure, and using the language's built-in abstractions in an idiomatic way. It's not really a "first book on Clojure" for someone that doesn't know the language at all, but if you know the basics you can use it to solidify your understanding.

Clojure in Action is more of a practical, get-shit-done book. It covers things like databases, web frameworks, TDD and message queues in the context of Clojure. It also has a brief introduction to the language itself and some coverage of functional programming idioms, but the focus is more strongly on real-world usage rather than deep understanding.
You should also check out the other conferences from the same http://dotconferences.eu series in Paris:

http://dotjs.eu (Coming back in Nov 2013)

http://cloudconf.eu (June 7)

Happy to answer any questions here!
As an Australian and a mathematician I can't do Pi day, much as I'd like to.

Even if the date's not ISO 8601 it's still 03/14/2013? And how does the 159265359.... work 15:92:65 ?

I guess this is semi relevant http://www.xkcd.com/397/
It's spelled, not spelt
These two issues are nigh incomparable. One is a simple medical cure for rich first world country people. Well, not simple, but simple to sell if you've got the answer.

Malaria, on the other hand, is not a product or an answer to a research problem. It's a symptom of - basically - bad government in certain parts of the world. We're not looking for a cure because there is no cure, or we're not interested in using the only cure we do know of - recolonialisation. That's the only cure which might work within 10 years.

All of these issues that come under the umbrella term of "poor people problems" are of this category. They're actually bad society/government problems, and they're a devil to fix, and simply throwing money at the problem arguably just makes it worse.

So we do what we can - slowly, slowly, carefully try to help them build a better society and a better class of living for their citizens. And it does seem to work, kind of, slowly.
use Firefox/Thunderbird addon, Bamboo Feed Reader https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/bamboo-feed-r...
The guy who writes Byline (@phfish on twitter) is looking at http://www.feedly.com/ as a potential replacement backend.
>which they did to gain positive PR or attempt to stifle competition in those markets -- or buy those companies and shut down their existing products

or, less cynically, to try them out and see what interest they would generate; shutting them down when the interest was not sufficiently great.
A fair assertion. Also, it is important to note Adam Smith et. al. got many of their ideas from the Islamic world (credit economy and such), not from Protestant reforms. Popular history seldom gives the Islamic world the credit it deserves for influencing later progress in Europe. There's a good case to be made that in the absence of Arab advances, Europe would have remained mired in feudal states and regional economies for a much longer time.

Whether the reader finds this change positive or negative ... reflects their views on the merits of nationalism, and ultimately globalism.
This is an important idea. Several years back I quit a well-paying job in finance because I wanted to work on meaningful problems. What I realized fairly recently is that most problems are social problems. It's not like some demon is draining the world of natural resources and polluting it, creating antibiotic resistant bacteria, or starting wars all over the world. We're doing that.

You want to save the world? Start with being a good parent.
Is anyone experiencing weird LinkedIn issues today?
I just got 50 e-mails saying I'm now connected to people that I've never requested connections with or vice versa.

Am I the only one seeing this strange behavior?

If it makes any difference, I know these people or have them in my 2nd connections.
Yes, and a casino is more profitable than a hospital, and "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads, that sucks." (Jeff Hammerbacher, Facebook.)

Communism is dead, socialism is dead, fascism is dead, god is dead, and now market fundamentalist capitalism is dying.

Of course all these things still have their True Believers, but as time goes on the ranks of those true believers dwindle and it becomes increasingly difficult to find serious and widely educated thinkers among them.

This is interesting. Ideology with a capital I is a big part of how human beings model and conceptualize the world. I think what we're seeing is that our cognitive modeling capabilities have limits. Our models break down. It honestly reminds me of the trends that sweep through the computer programming world: object oriented, aspect oriented, functional, MVC, late binding, strong typing, weak typing, multiparadigm, templates, and so on... all work well for a while and then show their weaknesses.

P.S. The big thing that killed market fundamentalism for me was doing a stint in business consulting and seeing what the average rich person actually is: a glorified street hustler. I was once a bit of a Randian... it was a real "the emperor has no clothes" moment. (I can think of a few rich folks who remind me of Rand heroes... a very, very, very few. I don't think I would run out of fingers. Elon Musk would be at the top of the list. Oh, but wait, his enterprises are quasi-philanthropic ventures...)
sawyouatsinai.com is exactly this for jewish dating.
Whats incredible to me is that google co-opted RSS in chrome and practically forced us to use their Reader product via Chrome's defaults. So we all gave up on our stand-alone readers and readers built into other browsers. And now they pull this crap?

I just wish they'd leave well enough alone. I greatly prefer Firefox's RSS integration. Heck, RSS is more or less dying and I blame google and Chrome for this. Shifting the reader from the browser to a webapp isn't helping anyone and just means more backend infrastructure to maintain. Now they don't want to maintain it. Typical cloud fail.

Are they going to toss in a built-in RSS reader into Chrome now? Is the "cloudify everything" fad finally over? Simcity working yet?
Before someone posts "releveant XKCD,"[2] I'd like to head it off by asking what XKCD thinks is wrong about Idiocracy. Are people with higher IQ really having more kids, unlike the movie says, or is the Flynn Effect[1] pushing IQs up despite people with higher IQ having less kids?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

[2] http://xkcd.com/603/
I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone claim that capitalism guarantees "perfectly rational" allocation of charity. More efficient charity I've seen argued, but not rationally allocated charity.

If no system in use anywhere is making rational allocations, it's misleading to try to name one as the problem. (And it's the sort of misleading that leads people to solve the wrong problem, so it's not harmless, either.)
Luckily, at their current profitability that's unlikely to happen until well after your grandchildren are retired.
It's in capitalism's interest to keep more of these people alive to sell them more stuff. Someone dying of malaria at age 7 doesn't get a chance to go bald in the first place, hence fewer sales of baldness cures.
Hey, fellow “sufferer” here. (And a young one: visibly started when I was 23/24, now I’m 25 and it’s totally obvious.)

No, we do not need to find a cure. Sure, it would be nice if there were one, but that surely ranks far below curing Malaria. Baldness is a minor inconvenience. It doesn’t kill people, it doesn’t make people sick, unproductive or reduces their lifespan.

Personal note: whiney bald people who act as if baldness were some sort of serious ailment are the worst.

(I’m not sure whether you are serious or just joking. I have read bald people write like you, so I wouldn’t be surprised if you were serious.)
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> It simply stays as long as there are paying users.

Except when it doesn't. Because you can't guarantee that. By the title I thought it would be some OSS app that could be taken over by someone else.

And even if it stayed online as long as there are users.. it's quite expensive for what it is, especially when you look at competition.

In the end, this looks like a quick attempt to grab a piece of cake that Google threw out.
Great article. It looks to be down at the moment, however.

Here's a link to a mirror/cache of it:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kY15Yvu...
You know a lot about this and you're not wrong, but I think trade and exploration would have been very different without the Reformation, which created intractable competition among European elites.

The standing elites, initially, bought into mercantilism and wanted to steal resources: especially gold, silver, and people (slaves). They had no interest in building new societies or challenging old ways of doing things. There's a lot of bad to be said about the Puritan Pilgrims, but they did have that ambition, leading to a pattern culminating in experimentation with rational government. (Pirates and the American Indian federations also provided some inspiration.)

The Reformation provided an incentive for more nations-- poorer, Protestant ones far from the Mediterranean-- to get involved in (costly, dangerous) exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries. Being unable to compete with the existing powers (especially Spain) directly, they often got into industries (e.g. cotton) that had less short-term yield but more durability.

Sea trade itself wasn't that interesting, or even new. Sailing was millennia old already. It was the desire for social and economic experimentation that made that era interesting.

This isn't to white-wash that time or say that the experimentation mentality was purely virtuous. There was an incredible amount of ugliness involved (genocide, religious persecution, slavery) in the process. I do think, however, that there was a much faster rate of overall, eventual progress on account of the competition between two halves of the European elite.
Sadly the capitalistic value of a life is relative and it correlates with earnings.

There are public policy numbers which generally aren't talked about. In most western countries you can figure the value of a life on order of about 10 million dollars or so.

Empirically, lives are valued on the high side of lifetime possible earnings, something like double the average wage * 100 years or so.

Do we fix an intersection to prevent the high statistical likelihood of a death? What about a swimming pool danger PR campaign? Political swing matters more, but the dispassionate (and rational) way of doing it uses life valuation.

Giving people with money hardons and a full head of hair is enormously more profitable than public spending (or charity expenditure) in poor countries. To the point where it is rational expenditure based on numbers :(

Also, you can't really charge people for not getting malaria. You can try and get their government to pay for it though.

I'm not saying this is right.
Einstein sticks his tongue out to celebrate his 72nd birthday
https://twitter.com/reederapp/status/311995748482945025

Silvio posted "Don't worry, Reeder won't die with Google Reader."

Presumably, he's going to add support for some other feed management and syncing platform.
From the article:

> We always knew that people bought this wine for fun.
> The buying process, and talking to others about the wine,
> turns out to be part of that fun.

So yes, you can strip out all of the fun bits and come up with a very efficient transaction process, it's just that the customers want the fun bits more.
David Ogilvy calls this "The Moving Train of Interest."
As I blog about cheap meals, I'm wondering what the per-meal price is for this concoction. Any ideas?
If every app did automatic OPML import/export, sure. That would keep your list of subscriptions in sync.
Thank you, that is a helpful description.

So for a Clojure noob (like me) it might be better to start with Clojure in Action and then read Joy of Clojure.
C11 language support seems to be complete since GCC 4.7.
I use Netvibes all the time.. i used Google Reader as well, but would definitely recommend Netvibes.. as its reader give good bird eye view of all the feeds. Once you get used to this type, you will never go back to anything else.
I agree with your general point, but your example is doubtful.

Gopher existed before WWW and filled the same niche. It wasn't as elegant, but it (or something else) would have grown up without WWW.

The reason, in my cynical opinion, why the web took over from Gopher was not that it was technically superior, but that it allowed people to add pictures to their documents.
> Ok, imagine you're 35

Did I read that right? Are you really using 35 as an arbitrary number meaning "some distant point in the future"?
Yet it's capitalism that ends up financing the malaria vaccine. It just had to go through Gates first.
Well yeah. That's why you're never supposed to have pure, unalloyed capitalism, any more than you want pure and unalloyed anything.

Monoculture always leads to death.
Seems like they've had a recent push to do MEAPs in ePub/Mobi as well. Out of the 10 MEAPs I'm following at the moment (addict ;;), eight have full PDF/ePub/Mobi and two are only available as PDF.
Thanks for the comment plinkplonk - I think it is super important to be technical. In reading some of the other comments on the post, I really think the decision was based on priority and the fact that in the free 1-2 hours I had working on adding code to our production systems actually didn't add enough value.
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If the situation were reversed, the dialogue would be mainly about the injustice of an established company ripping off the design.

It probably doesn't matter much for a weekend project though.
Planescape: Torment's spiritual successor on Kickstarter right now. It's raised over 2.5 million so far, with a whopping 8(!) pledges of $10,000.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-...
A large number of my RSS feeds are subscribed exactly for the purpose of skiming. They fall into a couple catagories:

* Sources of headline level knowledge - basically things I note just to keep my brain up on things to search for later should they become relevant. Also useful for the occasional underreported story I'm actually interested in.

* Light reading - there are a ton of comics and blogs that I enjoy for light reading at the bus stop or whatever, enjoyable but really just skimming, or other not-deep forms of reading

* Feeds with occasional good content - basically i don't care about most of these articles, but they provide a gem often enough that I should monitor their content.

And various combinations of these. Product blogs or project blogs are good examples of this. I want to know when the new version is out. I don't care how they solved problem X, but the problem Y writeup may really interest me.
The dichotomy is not between "Capitalism" and "Goverment", but "Capitalism" and another form of "social order" (or ways to organize society and production).

Goverments that operate inside "capitalism" are still a product of a "capitalist society".

His main argument seems to be that, without people acually trying to solve unpopular problems, they are not going to be solved "by the system" (product of the emergent behaviour of the "system").
Currently a bald guy manage the company he has hundreds of million of shares of.
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The bald guy in the first world makes more money in a year than the malaria kid would make in his/her lifetime.
and do all the work? I would rather my friends write it up and get one of my close friends to make the edits I want.
>That's because low carb diets cause stored glycogen in muscles to be shed

Uh huh.

>That's not really true

Yes it is. Bodybuilders cut with low fat, not low carb.
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/how-many-carbohyd...
Interesting that a lot of the game's code is written in javascript.
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All that software already exists and is running though, and I suppose it depends on what you mean by 'shut down.' These industries might no longer be able to update, but I think it's possible to run just about any industry without IT, or on legacy code, just on a smaller, slower scale. You could predict some level of catastrophe for the disappearance of any large sector that affects commerce -- from truck drivers to sewer workers to even maybe interns. I think this implies the tenuous nature of our economy more than the relative importance of programmers.
I have a similar idea for managing contacts where the contact is "bumped" up whenever any type of communication is made (send/receive phone calls, emails, SMS's, etc)

Less important contacts naturally settle to the bottom. You can scan the list once in a while for people you've neglected but wish to keep in touch with.

Interestingly, KakaoTalk, a popular messaging app in Korea, organizes your chat rooms like this and I use it much more than the alphabetical list of contacts.
Spelt is a valid past tense and past participle of spell. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/spelt?&path=/
It is not fair to say that Adam Smith et. al. got their ideas from the Islamic world and not from Protestant reforms. Surely some inspiration came from both.

Further in the absence of Arab advances, we can't tell what the would would have looked like. It certainly wouldn't look like our current world, but there are a ton of possible worlds out there. You can't predict alternative histories retrospectively with any certainty.

Nassim Taleb expounds on this in his latest book "Antifragile". He points out that while Adam Smith certainly drew inspiration from Arab philosophers (Al Ghazali in particular), we can't say how the world would look today without that particular intersection having happened.
If no system in use anywhere is making rational allocations...

I would go further and say that no system can make rational allocations because definitions of 'rational' vary quite radically.
Did you even read that link? That does not apply to things like protein powder, or meal replacement drinks like this discussion is about.

>Others make their supplements in unsanitary factories

That's equally true of all sorts of food.
Feedly is doing just that. They are inviting third-parties who are interested in using their cloned version of the Google Reader API, which is currently called Normandy, to contact them in order to "...keep the Google Reader ecosystem alive."

http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
When I visited DIYbio.org, I tried to get in their email list, i.e. group/diybio.. But due to the GFW, I can not see the page. Thus I was so sad.

And thank you for the last line. I do agree what you said, and it's what I think as well.

BTW, it's hard to balance schoolwork with interests, the school doesn't encourage students to discover and do what they really enjoy. I've tried my best, I'm learning Latin as well.
Having kids or not having kids is mostly an issue of:

* Money/class
* Laws and social status
* Time-to-adulthood for your culture

Educated, middle-class people in Western countries have stopped having kids en masse largely because the first and last factors on that last have risen, massively. It now takes large amounts of time and money for educated, middle-class parents to raise a child to their own level (ie: an educated, middle-class adult), and the process has extremely many points of potential failure. It's often not even likely enough to succeed; for instance, if you live somewhere with bad schools or need your entire 20s to establish your own career before you can afford to feed a child.