skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having read through most of the site and being on the newsletter, I find the biggest problem with this being a focus on SaaS. Not that it is a bad thing, but when my business is selling Video Novel/Select Your Own Adventure software, it seems like so little of this applies. Just me?
I'm glad that you and other people found some value in it. When I saw it here, I was worried the comments would tear it to shreds. :)

It was just a bit of a shock when I clicked the link. Since the link title was slightly different than what I named my slides, I just thought, "oh hey, another zsh comparison, let's see what this guy/gal said"...
You're kidding, right?

I want to like this game; I love vim, and I agree that the premise of the game is very creative. But the execution is vastly below average. They are using free graphics [1], annoying sounds, and they force the user through a strict tutorial instead of encouraging them to explore [2]. They ask for more (25$) than the vast majority of indie games on Steam [3], all of which are a lot more polished than this. And even then your license is only valid for six months, something I thought was only done by MMORPGs!

[1] http://www.lostgarden.com/2007/05/dancs-miraculously-flexibl...

[2] http://www.lostgarden.com/2010/01/ribbon-hero-turns-learning...

[3] http://store.steampowered.com/genre/Indie/
I agree, for people who have a house and a garage/driveway that's true. But many (most? also think internationally) people like me park on the street everyday. So until there are outlets available by the side of all streets, it'll be a pretty big inconvenience.
The actual article, of which this is a derivative, was submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5686825

Some discussion there already.
* The Quincunx, Charles Palliser (historical fiction: "Those for whom this...will be a special treat are those who enjoy solving word or logic puzzles. To be enjoyed to its fullest, this is a book that benefits from active participation on the part of the reader."

* Playing at the World, Jon Peterson ("Explore the conceptual origins of wargames and role-playing games in this unprecedented history of simulating the real and the impossible.")

* The Years of Lyndon Johnson (v1-4, 5 in production), Robert Caro. (If you ever wanted to see how political power actually works in the US, you can't beat this biography of LBJ, which reads like a (very long) novel.)
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Can you say more about 'battery disposal' ? As far as I can tell the batteries in the Tesla are largely recyclable (for example most, if not all of the material in that batteries can be recovered out of 'dead' batteries).
However, if you're a graphic artist who is the only person in the office who knows how to program, you'll quickly get stuck with all the computer tasks, which is not necessarily the work you like to do.
"Betting" is the operative word here. I think Elon is going to be successful, but that doesn't mean I want to gamble on TSLA stock. In other words, TSLA is not an "investment" if you realize you are essentially betting on some future outcome that is far from certain. It's a gamble. It would be great if people made this distinction (not saying you don't)
Yes, you're right. They should apparently be whining to their boss to use something other than GNOME instead instead of trying to fix their work environment at the source.
I don't understand this. When you work in technology, the very work you do is a contribution to the world. It's not like finance where 90% of the money is in scamming the less-savvy by trading on the big name of the company you work for to inflate the price of crap.

Even if it's just making websites, you're increasing the size of the pie, not just trying to take other's slices. So why place this heavy moral burden on success?

Bill Gates is certainly an admirable figure, but really in spite of his philanthropy and not because of it IMO. He advanced the state of the art and made markets where none before existed. The "developers first" culture he created made it possible for regular people to make real livings in software, bringing tech out of the nerd boondocks.
Microsoft responds to 'extreme' Windows 8 criticism
Hi Daniel:

The sidebar is sorted by distance from your current location. Also, feel free to pan and zoom the map to your location of interest -- the jobs will auto-magically appear!
He's also a vindictive windbag who is extremely disgruntled about his shortcomings at Google.
Energy density and efficiency are two different things.

Tesla batteries are actively cooled/managed, allowing for moving current in and out of them faster, while Nissan's batteries are air cooled (preventing faster charges/discharges).
I think the point of the post you're responding to is that the code doesn't actually delete anything.
...If everyone played only once...
What kind of issues do you mean? I had some issues with clients not paying me, but that's learning...
No gears? That seems incredible (and false).
Growth ideas from Growth Hackers Conference 2013
> but minds were changed.

So what does it take to make the minds change back again?

When I stare at opaque terminals all day I get severely perceptually understimulated to the point that I fear becoming an automaton.

But with some sliding animations and a bit of flower poking through it soothes my nerves.

Is that not enough reason?
Wow. I pay .01 per kWh in Chicago with time of day metering between noon-6am.
I can't wait until the day everyone drives an electric car. I can't believe after 100 years, we still have these gas guzzling, pollution spewing dinosaurs... These huge conglomerate oil companies are going to end up ruining us all. The auto manufacturers need to look to the future before they become obsolete. Tesla, I salute you!
I can’t see how Gsettings has anything to do with opacity and the compositor.

Perhaps separating these things out in different commits would’ve been smarter to begin with.
Sorry, I honestly thought that you would spin before every try, in which case, every test would have the same 1/6 probability of firing.
Beyond Unlocking: Don’t Let Them Kill the First Reasonable Copyright Reform Bill
Yeah agreed; in my blog post & comments I talk about how the stock could definitely go to $0 if the company missteps. But then again, after driving a Model S, I believe it's the best car out there, so as long as the company executes well I'm very bullish on the stock, especial in the medium to long term ( >1 year).
As someone else posted in this same thread: is modern Windows substantially slower than the OSes it competes with (in anything other than a few uncommon niches)? If it's more than a few percentage points slower for anything but rare scenarios, I'd be surprised.
All investments are gambling to at least some extent.
Not sure what your other reply has to do with this, but maybe I overstated and your title is just pandering and fishing for compliments.
I'm going to take the opposite view.

Bitcoin is still staggeringly unadopted amongst the general population - it's like declaring Prodigy the winner in digital communications. Meanwhile, any currency is "as good" as Bitcoin when it is accepted and easily converted - so if CoinBase or Mt. Gox add new currencies, instantly they work as well as Bitcoin (as money, not necessarily as an investment) for the customer or merchant.

Only in information-poor environments does one need currency near-monopolies for economies to thrive - this is no longer the case.

So, the future? Hundreds of cryptocurrencies, private currencies, and still mostly good old fashioned government currencies. All instantly convertible so no merchant need really care what a customer pays in, as long as he gets the one his obligations are predominantly denominated in.
I think the argument about specifying values is that it should be optional, not that it shouldn't exist.
Only if the encrypted data is still around when decryption becomes feasible. I doubt someone is sitting in my closet and recording every bit of wifi traffic in my local network, so this traffic should, in theory, be fine. The same goes for encrypted hard drives – most of them won’t ever go through an agency capable of/interested in storing encrypted data.

Furthermore, I think that there are (classical and practicable[0]) encryption schemes which cannot be attacked by e.g. Shor’s factorisation algorithm, although I fail to remember their names.

So, depending on the threat model, encryption may well be permanent privacy, but of course you have to take future developments into account – even classical computers will get better.

[0] At least more practicable than XOR with a key the length of the plaintext.
How transfer all the contents of your Phone to Samsung Galaxy S4
I bought several thousand shares at $17. Watching it go to almost $80/share has been surreal.
I've probably posted this a dozen times, but in the past I contributed millions of dollars of value to various businesses in a few weeks with just ~6 months of programming experience.

I was able to this because I recognized:

1. X is a valuable problem
2. X can be automated

Other businesspeople recognized (1) and other programmers recognized (2), but nobody had put them together because the businesspeople lacked computer literacy and the programmers lacked business literacy.

So I agree that even basic computer literacy skills can be enormously valuable. It's a bit of a multiplicative effect: if all you have is basic computer literacy, that's not enough. But simple computer skills + strong business skills or simple business skills + strong computer skills are both very powerful combinations.
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought, was really surprised by the number of down votes initially.
Honestly I don't think that would happen even if they plainly stated it. At this point the writing has been on the wall for years and yet the "power users" who would care about this still haven't switched. Whether it's Stockholm syndrome, or self-blaming, or "oh, that wouldn't happen to me" I don't know, but it's getting increasing harder to blame the GNOME devs... they've made their opinion very clear and they're the ones driving the ship.

If you're a passenger and you think you see icebergs you need to abandon ship, not whine with the Captain about where to steer.
McAfee to acquire StoneSoft
Of course not with my old mech eng technician hat on you use plywood, glue and a BFO staple gun to hold it together while the glue cures :-)

You would be surprised how strong you can make a plywood structure using this method.

To get curves you might need to steam the plywood into place though.
Well, unless OP thought it was useful enough to share.
Exactly. Anyone who calls himself "your next potential dream boss" is almost certainly not.
> Now, stop, please. I know of Emacs manual, tutorial and all the other built-in docs. Stop telling me to use them, because I won't, thank you.

Why not? If there are problems like they're hard to read, understand, you've tried them and they don't match your learning style, etc., then it would be better to say that instead. As written, this isn't very constructive since you don't explain why you find fault with the documentation.

I would not know how to fix the problem in that documentation, if I wanted to, or point you to documentation that doesn't have the problem, since I don't know what the problem is.

(Note: I'm not an Emacs expert and have no knowledge of the documentation you're referring to, or any other documentation. I'm responding primarily to your rhetoric.)
It's going to be spectacular to see this in action. Literally.
Several people apparently did have their interests piqued by the title before coming back here to say the post sucks. Is this a "silent majority" type argument? "No no no...the other people..."
on the subject of GIF animations, they're still the best method for doing very compact animations / demos when few colors are needs. in my case i needed to produce some image scan pattern animations for online docs and what i ended up with after many iterations of screen recording software, codecs and compressors was:

screen-record using a free lossless codec eg http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html

i used Virtualdub which can produce and AVI, but also an animated GIF. then compress the result using http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/

result is extremely tiny filesizes for animations that can be embedded in any web page. hopefully this saves someone a lot of sleuthing work.
Oh-my-zsh is responsible for being slow as hell. If you really want plugins, Prezto probably still has what you want and is significantly faster on startup. (In my experience, with very minimal customization.)
For independent repairmen in the US, this could be a big win. You could have something in a pickup truck form factor, but with potentially much lower operating and maintenance costs. In the US, lots of people are operating a lot more truck than they actually need just to keep up appearances.

If such trucks were available for good leasing terms, this could be a goldmine.
save a kitten =)
I had the good fortune to contribute a few of the alternative subtitles for the first season DVD. Unfortunately, I don't think anybody noticed them, even with a BB writeup.
http://boingboing.net/2006/11/15/it-crowd-dvd-has-sub.html
It makes sense if you take a step back and see this as a play for the ol' "blog to book deal" business model. Jumble up your thoughts and experiences, slice and dice them into a couple hundred posts and maybe it'll look like sales-in-waiting to some acquisitions editor.
You're doing it wrong at 5-10 minutes. It's not good to fill up all the way. Half a tank is better. Less weight means better gas mileage.
Who is saving copies of our encrypted data that is not already able to decrypt it?

The power of quantum computers to break existing cryptographic algorithms is greatly exaggerated in the popular imagination. e.g. a quantum computer would not be able to instantly factorise large integers; it would be able to factorise them in about the time in which we can currently factorise integers half the length. Yes, attacks only get better, and computers get faster, but quantum computers aren't a magic silver bullet.
I think the simplest and most effective approach would be fixed difficulty. That way 1 FRC is always worth a certain number of hash calculations, so it's anchored to something real, but apolitical (the value of computer hardware); it follows natural inflation in line with Moore's law, and the money supply grows in proportion to the users. And this would actually mean a simpler codebase than what bitcoin does.

AIUI the main argument against this is that it does nothing to encourage early adopters - why would anyone use my FRC when they can always just start mining them later if they become popular. Still, I'm interested in pursuing this if there's demand.
For the time being, Tesla seems pretty focused on the U.S. market, and we're a highly suburban country of garages and driveways.
I was going to recommend "closing as a dupe" as well. One nice thing about that is it makes it very easy to see which bugs are causing anguish with the users.

Also it makes it clear which single point of discussion contains the rationale for the changes so that the developer doesn't have to re-explain (something to which I'm sensitive myself, having been on the dev end of changes like this).
Deep Learning…moving beyond shallow machine learning since 2006
I'm not in New Hampshire, but I think that time-based context is pretty important here... If you know the password I used 5 years ago, it may matter significantly less today.

Now if current encryption methods will be easily broken by quantum computers, we just need to create methods that become even more time consuming/difficult to use quantum computers to model. As two-way encryption moves forward, what is stopping people from layering encryptions on the legacy data?
While it was a good buy then, it's important to keep in mind that it's either in the middle of, or toward the tail end of a short squeeze, so is likely trading above the present fundamental value of the company. I expect it will fall quite a bit in the short term, though it's probably a good long term buy still. There were so many short positions in part because the market cap is way off for Tesla as a car company; the value of Tesla is currently about 85% of the value of Mazda, but Mazda sells many more cars much more profitably. Of course, the majority of the price is all in the expected present value of the future cash flows.
Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to be SIMPLE?
If you can give one basic/source of all reason, that would be great.
I think the author is sad for the wrong reason.

Syntactic nitpicking is bikeshedding. Remember, Guido makes choices that may not be obvious unless you're Dutch, but he has a pretty good track record overall.

A better critique would focus on whether the language actually needed an Enum construct. Most people get by most of the time without it. Python already provides many ways to do it (module variables, class variables, etc).

The main problem with Enum is that you won't be able to ignore it. Enums will start popping-up in many modules and packages, so it will have to become part of your core Python knowledge (things you have to teach to beginners so they can work with existing code).

Contrast that with named tuples. They can be ignored (i.e. you can treat them like regular tuples and you'll get by just fine). Also, named tuples are profoundly more useful (i.e. using them is one of the easiest ways to improve the clarity of your code).
I'm surprised that there is so much mention of antibiotics in this thread, as the author's book excerpt submitted here mentions a viral disease, and thus far we have very few "antibiotics" that have any effect on viruses. (Usual usage in English is to use "antibiotic" as a term for a broad-spectrum antibacterial medicine. Effective antiviral medicines have only existed since I became an adult, with the treatments for AIDS being the outstanding examples of antiviral medicines.)

I get a lot of my pandemic prevention information from the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy,

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/index.html

which, to be sure, has an institutional reason to raise awareness of risks of pandemics, but which also links to a lot of current, sound science reporting on infectious diseases.

Novel strains of the influenza viruses or novel strains of coronaviruses are scary to thoughtful epidemiologists because they can be spread by the everyday activity of breathing. If a new coronavirus infection has a high case mortality rate, high virulence, and long latency period, it could kill many people before any of us have a chance to practice the isolation that eventually shut down the spread of SARS back in 2003. Every year, a lot of people get the flu, and a more virulent and more lethal strain of flu--especially one for which current seasonal flu vaccines provide no immunity--could kill a lot of our friends and neighbors.
...this was back when we didn't fly around the planet giving a virus the possibility of spreading to the entire globe within a few days...

We have more people, and more rapid air travel, and denser cities than ever before... and yet no pandemics on the scale of the 1918 flu.

Maybe, having more people, more rapid air travel, and denser cities is actually helping herd immunity?

Any nasty virus has milder cousins. Milder cousin viruses spread faster, because those infected keep going to work and traveling, and show/suffer fewer symptoms. And these milder cousins serve as a natural inoculation against the nastier versions.
Fizeau’s experiment: The original paper
Never heard of Freicoin before this... While the theory is interesting, it is kind of hard to market such a product in the presence of alternatives that don't "rot".
I don't know if what I'm about to write applies to education in other countries, since my experience is based in Italy.

Well, there are a lot of things that your parents tell you "for your interest" when you're young and that you're supposed to understand when you grow up. For example, in high school, I had a fair amount (read: 5 years straight) of ancient Greek and Latin. I thought it was useless, why bother learning stone dead languages at all? The canonical answer was that in the process of studying those "useless" things I'd be acquiring a method for studying and exercise logic.

More than 10 years have passed since I finished high school, and you know what? I call bullshit with much more conviction that 15 years ago when I was first exposed to "agricola agricolae agricolae". If you want my logic to improve, why don't provide programming classes? It's a better exercise in logic and with a "secondary" effect I'm learning a job, and one of the more requested.

I'm a professional programmer, I never had a hard time getting a job, but that's because I self-taught myself how to program (starting way earlier than Latin classes), but it makes me angry nonetheless to think about some of my friends who are unable to get a decent job because, surprisingly, it seems like 2013 companies are not so much in need of people half-fluent in ancient Greek. This also extends to universities, of course, where providing
real world skills (at least in most Italian universities) seem not to be an point that raises any interest.

One of our interns, lately, had troubles working on an application we developed with a Python backend, a fairly complex javascript-driven frontend that talked to a node.js server taking some data from a Java API. Turns out all he knows after 4 years of studying programming at the university is a bit of Prolog and some Fortran. He was also unable to ssh to our servers.
Has anyone read Information: The New Language of Science by Hans Christian von Baeyer?

I just read Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff, George and Johnson, Mark. It's an interesting study of how metaphors unconsciously drive thinking and perception.
This is hacker news, chances are 1/6 he knows what a revolver is.
I tried out exactly this one and I considered the git (or hg?) plugin to be bad. I don't know if it's better, now, but when I used it the workflow was worse than just a text editor and git. That's what I'm using now. I'm still looking for something that is usable from a my android phone. I guess there is git from android but i haven't investigated yet. The plugin did nothing automatically.

Want to edit your notes? Better make sure to pull. Edit. Save. (I guess adding was automatically) Commit. Push. Have conflicts (for no real reason). Resolve them. Push again. I didn't like it. The best par was that some functions (I guess merging) where not available from the gui. You had to open a terminal, go to .zim and use git or hg by hand. And yeah, specify commit messages. This is not a software project. It's very unlikly I'm going to revert something. Adding a commit message is just dublicating my text, because my note was 4 words long.
And even the established ones which do require signing are not really trivial to use correctly: http://branchandbound.net/blog/security/2012/08/verify-depen...
MPG Equivalent Economy Labels for New Electric Vehicles [pdf]
If you live in a city, Zipcar is great for this.
Well, in the end I realized I had customized it to look and work exactly like fish, so I switched to fish.
This isn't at all constructive and you're severely misinformed.

This is Yeoman: https://github.com/yeoman/
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Pure Java for matrix math? Seems like that would be something to avoid. Have you benchmarked it?
A scalable variation of BSD socket API is supported by every major OS with a sole exception of Windows. It's an abstraction that is both simpler and more universal than IOCP model, not to mention that it also predates it by a decade.

So "LOL!" yourself, bud.
Nikola Tesla, reading | New York City, 1896
There's one gear. So, yes, no gears.
Ooh, ooh, let's subsidize it with deficit spending!