skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of this may be due to the fact that many developers today are using programming languages and platforms that are in many ways vastly inferior to those we were using a decade ago, or even two or three decades ago.

Take JavaScript, for example. It's a clear step backward in almost every respect from languages like C++, Java, C#, Python and Perl. JavaScript is full of inexcusable, inherent problems that just plain should not exist. It has basically no standard library, and what does exist is not good at all. Third-party libraries help slightly, but they're rife with problems caused by a lack of proper namespacing or other modularity-enabling language features, and the numerous different ways to fake badly-needed class-based OO functionality. The developer basic development tools (editors, debuggers, and so forth) are lacking in so many ways, and the various runtimes aren't much better.

The only thing it has going for it is that it's widely available in web browsers. That's it.

When using an inferior language compared to what we were using in the 1980s, 1990s and the early 2000s, it wouldn't surprise me at all if inferior software systems are produced. It's just not feasible to build robust systems upon such a shaky, rotten foundation.
Why is a .ISO called a .ISO?
I like the font of your article.
But Alex Jones's pen is still bigger :)
Should still get better recourse than tapping people you know and crossing your fingers for six days. Even if it's a paid expedited review, though that obviously is a flawed suggestion.
As a counter point, I honestly see 'movies' somewhat dying out. Shows like Game of Thrones, House of Cards and several others now have the same production quality as movies and aren't hamstrung by the same limitations. e.g. how do you tell a deep story in 2 hours?
Ah but it was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5481441
There was the Krueger study: http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/dalekru..., but it compared grads who applied to top universities (like Ivy League) and got rejected vs. those who applied and got in, and found no difference in lifetime earnings, when you adjusted for class rank.
I agree with dottrap. Whenever I encourage someone to learn a programming language, it is usually geared toward R or Matlab or some generic scripting language. Anything to give them more control/ability to process the data they are working with. Computers are powerful tools, but rarely do I hear people arguing everyone needs to be a software engineer or a computer scientist.
Oh I did not see it the first time around. At any rate I'm glad it is getting more exposure this time.
It would be interesting to know if that might be a path for someone with a sealed closed account to at least get access to their data back. I imagine Google would want to settle such a case, and giving the customer a dump of their data would seem an easy route to settlement.
I was taught that the practical purpose of inheritance is to share code. Nowadays we call that idea "DRY". Classical inheritance is a means to satisfy DRY.

In JavaScript, the same concept exists, and it's sometimes called "prototypal inheritance" (since there are no classes).

http://javascript.crockford.com/prototypal.html
In what way wasn't it given a chance? The JavaScript community has had well over 15 years to show that prototype-based OO is feasible. Yet we've seen nothing compelling produced in that time.

Whenever it comes to getting real work done, we see JavaScript developers resorting to some imitation of the proper class-based OO functionality made available by so many other languages.

At what point will people admit that JavaScript's attempt at prototype-based OO is a miserable failure? At least we're seeing some indication of this finally happening with the latest standardization efforts. It's unfortunate that this is coming so late, however, after so much JavaScript-based software has been written using a hodge-podge of the different ways to fake class-based OO.
Ok, so these guys would have to be over allocating their boxes to put that many instances on what could only be so many cores per box. I wouldn't be doing anything that might slow down the instances so there are only 2 since I only have 8 cores available. Otherwise there could be slowdowns, which would be counter to the emphasis of the company. This would add to the value and price point. I certainly don't want to be part of the race to the bottom & get a mention on lowendbox.com- on the contrary, I prefer the harder battle to find the high end clients & cater to them. I just want to rent more than 1 per box- so 2 is good for me. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I think this story was mainly about the changing preferences of young adults, not teenagers. Letting people drive at 16 is an American anomaly, but what we have here are people in their 20s and 30s who would be perfectly able to drive, but choose not to.
Fusion Power Could Happen Sooner Than You Think
This looks really great. Does anyone have any thoughts on how this could be combined with client friendly templating so that the rendering of the partial could be done client side for updates, but server side for the initial page load?
The claim of a 700,000x speedup makes me suspicious of pretty much everything else about the work.
Trust is one of the most important aspects of cofounders.

With such a short time, how do you know if you can trust him or vice-versa?

Trust is something that can only be built over time.
I count numbers from 1 to X, where X is the number I get to before I fall asleep. I concentrate on the numbers and nothing else. Eventually I get to X and I fall asleep. The speed of counting should fast enough I am not bored, but not so fast that I have to spend effort. The speed varies depending on how close I'm to sleep. The closer I am to sleep the slower I count.
If HBO were to go internet-only, it'd lose the major cable operators heavily promoting them for free. They only market premium channels so hard because it helps sell expensive cable TV service. HBO would lose subscribers immediately as operators no longer actively replace subscribers for them as others churn out.

To make up for the lost stream of customer acquisition, they'd have to:

a) Cut prices by more than 50% to become competitive with Netflix/Hulu. This will cost them billions a year.

b) Increase their catalog size significantly, which would cost billions a year.

To give you an idea of the costs of licensing, HBO's last major deal was with Universal studios and cost them over $2 billion for access to their future movie catalog.

It's hard to come up with a scenario where cutting their exclusive tie with cable makes sense financially right now. It's not "bullheaded" to say "no, we shouldn't throw away $10+bn/year to give Bob his internet subscription while we're in the midst of a death battle for the future of digital entertainment distribution".

Netflix can do it because (a) they have a big catalog and low prices to entice subscribers with, (b) they got much of their catalog on the cheap before studios fully understood its value; this perk is going away as licenses renew, (c) it has no choice. Whether Netflix can grow its original content business within the constraints of its low subscription price faster than its licensing costs get out of hand is still up in the air.
My confession on the matter: Working with OO in JS made me a "cargo cultist." I wasn't entirely aware of how it worked, but just glad that it did for as long as I had used it. The last JS library I used was PrototypeJS which had some custom support for classes.

I learned about non-OO JS code in the YUI framework. I didn't like what I saw as it precluded a lot of "private and hidden" code.

I've deposited a lot of goodwill on the Dart language that compiles to JS. My reward is that Dart has library and class support that "just works! (TM)" Then again, I abhor the using of types that Dart allows as I think people waste a lot of time giving types to APIs and obscure the intention of the code, ultimately making the platform less popular.
You don't get to decide how people view something you wear on your face, they do. And I predict anyone non-technical (and many who are) will view it based upon how it makes the wearer look, not by what it can do. It remains to be seen if Glass is going to be considered cool. The blatant use of beautiful people wearing it doing fun and exciting things leads me to believe they understand they have a uphill battle on this front and basically need to convince the public that it is cool. This is a bad sign. Similar to how a kid when told by their parents to not do something subsequently do it, things our corporate masters make a blatant effort to tell us are cool usually are viewed as lame. The iPhone became cool on its own and was sold by a geek wearing a black turtleneck on a stage talking about a revolutionary communication device, not by a blonde celebrity going skydiving.

Ask yourself: if you shut Glass off and just wear it will it change the way people perceive it? (Right or wrong.) If not, then it doesn't really matter what it does, its success or failure will be based upon how it makes people feel when wearing it.
CISPA Infographic: The Double-Edged Sword
If anyone has ever had to deal with an AdSense account suspension, this story will hit close to heart. I find it alarming that Google suspended his account over a spreadsheet which contained login details for a client (I do this for managing my various domain and hosting accounts in Google Docs). While we haven't heard the full story of what happened here, the fact they restored his access proves he didn't do anything that really violated the TOC otherwise his account access would not have been reinstated. Seems to me this is a case of Google doing the wrong thing here, their lack of customer support is frustrating.
Could the studios really afford to cut out Apple and the iTunes store? They probably control most of the digital market.
I read this headline and was like "Why on earth would I want to see a terrible simulation?" oy
Senate supports collection of sales taxes for online purchases
It's amazing how many people consider dogfooding, before going public, to be a waste of time. Not only do you discover a whole bunch of bugs and difficult uses you didn't anticipate, it ends up being stronger when the public or partners are eventually let loose on it.

The internet is rife with v1 APIs that don't have version designators and are deprecated in favor of a version two that was released to "clean things up" but which never really supplanted the version one.
The FireFox OS project is aiming for the dumbphone/featurephone market.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QnIskIc3EY
Netflix doesn't already have a huge amount of revenue from cable providers. Whether HBO could "afford" a streaming-only option is irrelevant; the question is, could they make as much?
Some patterns off the top of my head,

1. Prototype
2. Delegate
3. Mixin
4. Module

Understand how those patterns work and you should be able to understand how the libraries vary.

Might also help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1645027/popular-javascrip...
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It says 70?
Reminds me of a quote from right here on HN that I took to heart a few years ago about how to write good code

1. Make it work

2. make it right

3. make it fast
Bullet Physics 3.x GPU-accelerated teaser
In general, most humans run 'late' on a 24.5-25.5 hour cycle with lack of any light - it's natural lighting that tends us towards 24 again. So it's true that artificial lighting messes with it, but not in that we were pre-disposed to sleeping earlier every day without it.
Not me. PostGIS has done an amazing job given its constraints, but it is pretty obvious that there are better ways to do certain operations. Its not that I believe him...its just that I think its possible enough for the claim to not be unbelievable.
When it comes to donations, people will take boxes of used clothing. Better than nothing, right? Post something when Boeing will take Bitcoins for a 737.
Thank you for the response, and for the project in general.
“The speed ups over PostGIS … I’m not an expert, and I’m sure I could have been more efficient in setting up the system in the first place, but it was 700,000 times faster,” Mostak said. “Something that would take 40 days was done in less than a second.”
And, later: "“The speed ups over PostGIS … I’m not an expert, and I’m sure I could have been more efficient in setting up the system in the first place, but it was 700,000 times faster,” Mostak said. “Something that would take 40 days was done in less than a second.”"
Oh no.

Looking past the recent Gearbox disaster that was Aliens: Colonial Marines, their last acquired IP was Duke Nukem Forever.

Before that they were dubiously known for creating the first Brothers in Arms game (which was excellent), and subsequently flying that straight into the ground with an endless series of ever-worsening sequels.

If you look at their previous games, they almost all fall somewhere between "mediocre" and "just bad".

The only diamond in their track record is the Borderlands series. I'm not sure how Gearbox lost its reputation for strict mediocrity via Borderlands alone, I'm still very skeptical about their game development prowess - and certainly very skeptical about any claims Randy Pitchford makes about the quality of their games, after his breathless demos of both Duke Forever and Aliens.

Honestly, I'm glad they're repackaging Homeworld/2 for Steam and such, but I'd rather have no Homeworld 3 than let Gearbox helm it.
Where are the Women of WordPress?
> The maintenance headaches this causes are very real.

Problems tend to occur when developers don't agree on code conventions. This has nothing to do with JavaScript or OOP.
Yes, you are correct about minimum account fees being required to avoid a subsidy in the other direction (large->small). NZ packages typically work out to about US$24 + $US1.20/GB, although the per GB price is dropping. We're getting fiber in the next couple of years, and at least one ISP is already offering TB/mo data bundles for US$144 (incl 100/50 fiber).

I don't see how it stifles innovation at all. It does stop a cross subsidy from the ISP to the company attempting to implement a new, even higher, usage service.
So his comment is more along the lines of, "I was using a screwdriver to pound in this nail and it was taking forever, but then I started using a hammer and man...it went fast!"
"How is putting your cellphone/Segway away different than putting your Glass away?"

I don't need a segway to focus in on anything more than three inches in front of my face.
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Yes...that is how I see it.
I don't get to decide how people view my actual glasses either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to walk around blind. The usefulness of a thing as a tool is incidental to its value as a fashion statement.

If Glass is actually revolutionary in the usefulness department I suspect we'll see the same sort of behavior we see with smartphones - many people owning and using them and a small number of people complaining about them alienating everyone from society. If it turns out to be just a gimmick, I agree it probably won't catch on.

Though there are some pretty odd ideas about mainstream fashion in this thread, too. See the above post by someone who thinks that watches and expensive cars are unfashionable. I trust HN for a lot of things, but views on fashion (and on what's likely to become fashionable) isn't one of them.
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It is not as simple as you paint it to be. I have studied a lot of these factors too.

By your reasoning, Mercedes-Benz is in a bad position compared with GM. We all know that is not the case as they are in different segment of the market, just like Apple.
This is a meta request: could you post the direct YouTube link instead of, or in addition to, the link through your descriptive URL redirector? Despite the descriptive nature of the URL, I still trust a direct link to YouTube a lot more.
I recall hearing somewhere that the original paper wasn't actually published in a peer-reviewed journal, so requirements for data and code wouldn't really have applied anyway.

Perhaps the greater lesson is that we should trust proper journals for a reason.
I think you'll find this post interesting: http://blog.ometer.com/2011/01/04/asheville-off-the-tech-hub...
Who is this "we"? I'll probably buy wearables at some time in the future, but I have no interest in glasses or anything else that's primarily used for video capture.
MSFT is the company most often mentioned as an acquirer.

I believe they have the Xbox set up so Netflix works right out of the box.
I think that's it's actually the other way round. Popularity of YouTube and shows like Game of Thrones proves that people are tired of long movies. Attention span has shortened and people want condensed action delivered immediately.
This doesn't make sense. As we engineer stem cells from skin cells, it becomes theoretically possible to turn every cell in your body into life. When you shower, you're killing millions of potential humans.

We must treat things as they are, and not as they might become.
Can anyone speak to what's going on in these algorithms? I'm interested in the physics/math behind them. For example, how much about partial differential equations do I need to know to understand them?
That... that was beautiful.
really fascinating! Great job
It's interesting that you describe SaaS as more "honest"; it's like describing the loan shark in the back alley as more "honest" because he admits up front that he's charging an arm and a leg (perhaps literally) to borrow some money.

Though I use many SaaS offerings, I still prefer installable software as much as possible because once I own it, I own it forever. For example, Windows XP may reach EOL next year, but existing, activated copies aren't magically going to go away at that time.
> One of the advantages for the operators of the infamous BitTorrent site is that Bitcoin funds can’t easily be seized or traced back to a person.

But that last bit isn't true at all. It's trivial to trace Bitcoin transactions.
Fortunately you can buy glasses that look good and that people like. If you couldn't, we'd all be wearing contacts.

There is also a huge difference between something that lets you see and something that affords you the convenience of not having to reach into your pocket to read Twitter.

The last device that made you look smug, started off extremely expensive with the goal of getting cheaper with volume when the public inevitably scooped them up, and provided a convenience viewed as overt laziness because a cheaper more widely acceptable alternative existed was called the Segway. Glass already checks off two out of three (it's expensive, and is for people "too lazy" to take out their phone.) It remains to be seen if it hits the trifecta of also just plain looking doofy. I've only seen it on nerds and celebrities so it's hard to guess just how far on the doofus totem pole your average Glass wearer is going to be knocked.
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If you are an Android user, in this situation you also lose access to all the apps that you bought from Google Play. Many developers only release their software through Google's app store, and for paid apps you cannot make backup copies of the APK, at least if your device isn't rooted, which it isn't for most users. If you are an Android dev, please also make your app available through other stores.
Why aren’t younger Americans driving anymore?
The people I talked to at HBO certainly were smart enough to have crunched the numbers (this would've been in 2007 or so, but I have no reason to think its any different now.) if they're bullheaded, it's because they make shitloads of money from their current business model.
"where traveling to work require an hour or two"

Plenty of areas in the US where that's the case as well.
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My brother was furloughed, so I know a bit about this. Basically the democrats and republicans said, "it will never come to that." Then they couldn't compromise, and ended up passing a really crude budget cut with no foresight, planning, or notice.

Luckily, my brother was smart enough not to trust the politicians and spend wisely, but he knows people who are going broke trying to support families with 20% less pay.

Washington is broken.
How quickly we forget the Treaty of Orlando.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=62144

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.55....
After $84M USD Payout, House Passes "Big Brother Writ" CISPA
It does actually. It's set to expire after a certain period because HN explicitly does not disallow reposts.
Sometimes the truth should take priority over positive/negative dimension.

Health advice on internet should be scrutinized for the benefit of the readers (the "negative" comment, facts domain).

Content and its author are separate therefore the effort that was put into the post may be commented on separately for the benefit of the author (the "walking back" comment, social domain).

Though it is always great if a comment could be both honest and nice.
I'm in Uruguay, where we get 1/10th of the US content, and it still blows local cable out of the water :) .

Video on demand (with no ads!) is a killer feature for me.

Not to mention it's way cheaper than local cable - I'm paying for three subscriptions (mine, my parents' and my uncles') for less than one month of basic cable.

The day they can simulate cable's mindless zapping (some sort of preprogrammed channels), and get sports on board (I'm an NBA fan, and I'd like to watch Champions' League football too)
With such a huge user and fan base and strong relationships with content providers, why would they spend money on acquisition instead of building even better service themselves? Especially that Disney is so closely connected to Apple so no problem in having original content as well?
Maybe Google Glass will ultimately join the Segway as another mandatory piece of kit for mall security guards?
Wall Street betting billions on single-family homes in distressed markets
Hey thanks for the feedback! Grammar is definitely something I need to be better about for future posts.

The beauty of Medium is that I can have people help me proofread my posts before I publish them :).
The second graph should start at 0. It gives the illusion that the change has been more drastic than it was.

Personally I don't drive because I can't really afford a car, and with new services like Zipcar I no longer need my own vehicle.
A work of a harvest,accurately because of your hard writing, we can feel so much eudaemonia, learn more our own understanding of their. The world could be so great....

Apparently some of these bots can't even properly place spaces after commas.
I'm 20 and I haven't the faintest idea how to drive; don't intend to learn in the near future, though I may be forced to at some later day...