skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is true in Western democracies, where age can be a liability during an election. Advisers yes, but the guy running on the ticket needs to project charisma and vigor as well as some wisdom. The funny thing about elections: the electorate doesn't look at your CV so much; Obama was just a 1 term senator before he became president. Having more political experience would have actually been a liability for him as he would be seen as more of an insider.

This is definitely true in the directly elected presidential system we have in the states (definitely true post Clinton, even Reagan was an exception). Parliamentary systems are a bit different since the prime minister is elected indirectly, but even there we are seeing some fairly young heads of states in the UK and Germany (Cameron is 40 something, Merkell has been their 7 years and hasn't even hit 60 yet).
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<sarcasm>Yeah, emacs and vim - how shit are they? I'd rather nano any day.</sarcasm>

In my opinion, you can't make a blanket statement like "Modes in UI are bad". It depends entirely on context.
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I hate to me to, but me too.

I've found and am using Readability increasingly (both desktop and mobile) to get around just this and many, many, many more failures of both mobile and desktop Web experience.

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/WDFFKRhr...
Minecraft has some very specific goals. Just because there is no overarching goal doesn't mean there are none. "Don't die at night", "don't starve" are two very clear ones that drive you to developing the area. Then you can build things if you're inclined to do so.

The people who design and build giant amazing things in Minecraft are analagous to the poets and sketchers in the blank-paper example.
I suspect this idea has occurred to the people working on this and it is not as easy as you assume - that there are problems in execution (so to speak) of this shortcut. Once the lab-in-a-test-tube thing is solved, it is a much cleaner and more elegant solution.
"I started hearing about people that connected home computers distantly via telephone, and because, fortunately, I knew absolutely nothing about computers, I was able to smoosh that all together and get this vague vision of my arena, which I then need a really hot name for. Dataspace didn’t work, and infospace didn’t work. Cyberspace. It sounded like it meant something, or it might mean something, but as I stared at it in red Sharpie on a yellow legal pad, my whole delight was that I knew that it meant absolutely nothing." -William Gibson
Where are all the Harry Potter references?
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This is, of course, only serverless with regard to storage, not presentation. Is it feasible to also generate data: URIs that could be used offline?

EDIT: Looks like another commenter has already developed a solution :)
Certainly meat can be exciting, but in many cases, and especially in modern western culture, it seems to be used as a crutch, in a sort of "just throw in some meat and you're done" way.

For instance, I've found vegetarian Indian restaurants vastly more interesting than Indian restaurants that rely on meat. It's not that I hate meat (I don't, and I'm not a a vegetarian), but the former sort simply seem to offer more interesting food, with a much wider range of flavors.

Note the stereotypical Airplane-meal question (where the actual dishes are quite different): "Chicken or beef?" I know they're just trying to be efficient, but this question seems to capture society's attitude: that once you know the type of meat involved, eh, the rest is just pointless detail.

So while meat can be a wonderful and interesting part of a meal, I think it would be better if it lost some of its overwhelming dominance, and became just another ingredient.
Of course a forum full of VIM users is going to disagree with the notion that modes are bad. You guys stand in the way of UI progress. It's interesting too, because the software we are use to, the software we like, changes us and affects the way we think. But it's also a jail, preventing us from seeing new possibilities. Computers are capable of modeling and simulating ANYTHING and producing virtually any kind of interface, and yet we only ever use it with one or two different kinds of interface (typewriter-like, and desk-like). Not even very good interfaces.

Please do you us all a favor, I beg of you, read "The Humane Interface" by Jef Raskin, and have an open mind about it. Actually read it. If you've done that, and still disagree that modes are bad, you're going to have to give a really good reason. With evidence.
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Perhaps New Zealand's an outlier, but the majority of Prime Ministers here (functionally the head of government) during my lifetime came to the office in their 40s. I note Cameron and Blair in the UK were in the same age bracket.
I think the Back To The Future flying car highway appears in 2015.
In summation, tough policy cleans up the majority of the drug addicts, but the diehards resort to a worse substitute that is , for lack of a better word, grotesque. I wonder if they reintroduced subutex if the old drug addicts would come back, or if just the die hards would return and be free of krokodil?
Nobody but physicists would ever use anything like that.
The only reason pot stalls careers is potential felony.

As entertainment, it's no worse or distracting than television; and miles away from alcohol.
You're placing artifical constraints way too soon, though. It came off unnecessarily dismissive, not cautiously optimistic :p
Except that they also break bookmarks, deep linking, and the ability to share content other than how the app itself dictates.

Most "shares" are _still_ links copied in emails if I'm remembering apocrypha correctly.
I also believe the world has tended to conflate talent discovery with the talent quantity, because historically, talent discovery was up to a select few gatekeepers (like record labels and publishers), who could (or would) only showcase a small fraction of the available talent pool. Whether they did this because of unavoidable resource constraints or to ensure an artificial scarcity is another debate.

Now that anyone with a decent amount of talent and/or the willpower to put in some effort into honing a skill can also showcase that skill, the supply of writers and singers and musicians has suddenly become much larger than before. So it follows that the price associated with purchasing access to the fruits of these talent/labours will have dropped.

TL;DR: Microeconomics 101.
Minecraft made $240-250M in 2012 alone. It made $33M between Jan 2011 and Apr 2011.

It still sells amazingly well.

http://d1y0oqfyli6x95.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013...

Keep in mind, that's a game developed essentially by one guy.
"This line of thinking drifts into uncomfortable territory relating to cannibalism of euthanized elders"

Obviously, being such a common practice.
Hi everyone, I'm the man behind geometee. I haven't quite finished developing it, so hadn't widely announced it.

It's really exciting to get your feedback and see the awesome things you've been creating with it.

I will revisit the knob UI based on the feedback here. These seem really intuitive to some people (normally those who play around with audio software) whereas sliders might be more usable to the majority.

Any ideas for other directions I could take this?
Ask HN: Hacker News effect - maximum page requests per second?
I'm creating a website and I want to stress test it to be confident that it will survive the "Hacker News Effect" when it goes public.

What is the maximum number of web page requests per second the server should be able to handle?

(Oh and I'm thinking of using JMeter to perform the stress testing and Munin to view real-time graphs of server performance. Are there any better alternatives?)
I think the model of taking a piece of alumni future income (via ownership in their startups) is a competitive advantage of YC relative to places like MIT. It's a forced donation policy. Going to a non-profit doesn't stop this. NPs obviously can take in tons of revenue - a NP model just encourages alumni to give more back (time/connections as well as $). I wouldn't feel the same sense of wanting to give back to MIT if the school basically existed to increase the wealth of the school president. YC is very different from a typical VC fund, it would be sad for it to die just because (like every fund) eventually it'll have a bad run. It could be more stable than that since it is also providing value to it's alumni that they'd happily pay back.
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"Given what some outlets (Taco Bell[1], looking at you) pass as meat, it won't be much of a change anyway."

There's not a vast difference between what's sold as ground beef and what Taco Bell serves.

http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/badmeat.asp
I think that this is the core of it. Virtual worlds were always going to struggle because the abstract space that is the internet, where people cluster around concepts and you're never more than one step from anyone else who is connected is just much, much less limiting than dimensional space.

There is only one thing that dimensional space is good for, and that is for serendipity. When you can talk to anyone, you talk only to those you already know you want to talk to. When you're located in a point in space, you talk and interact with others that happen to be near that point in space. This is why the few areas that virtual reality does seem to be useful is for meeting new people, or for activities where limiting yourself is the whole point -i.e. games.
If that one place is a bug tracker, then, yes. It's anti-social because the intent of linking to it directly was meant to encourage a response from the Internet. Hell, if some context was provided, and then it was linked to, that'd be a different matter. But linking to it directly with context was clearly meant to illicit a reactionary public response.

A bug tracker is not a forum for public debate over a feature. All those responses go into a lot of people's email boxes. It's annoying to get all those email where every other person is a new poster looking to add their two cents, and I'd dare suggest that anyways thinks otherwise isn't on a mailing list or on the receiving end of bug reports.
Taiwan and SK also had strong dictatorships until relatively recently; we aren't really talking about democracy until the 80s. Now, dictatorships are bad, but as long as the dictators are somewhat responsible, they do convey some amount of stability and economic development on the country that might not be possible (at that time) with a more chaotic democratic system. I'm not pro dictator, and I'm sure there was a more efficient path to prosperity that involved democracy, but this is just how it worked out.

Today see China, or Singapore if you think maybe the Lee family has a bit too much power than is justified in a real democracy.
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"given the high stakes (environmental, financial, moral, and so on), why aren't governments more involved in this research"

In the US? The beef industry has a strong enough lobby.
I need my balls not to be cooked by the power-hungry processors.

I need a light shit because I walk with my backpack a lot.

I need the key layout on the keyboard not a pain in the ass.

I need my palm to be like little Fonzie. What Fonzie like? It's cool.

I need standard linux, because I don't care enough to learn about all the quirks of Apple.

I need to have a thing that is light, 3G-capable, has good key layout, cool, and I forget to mention, I'm cheap too. So ask me why do I need to spend 5 times as much for your Macbook again?
Which is forgotten when you reset cookies. So you'll get the nag. Again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again.
Not sure what naturalistic fallacies have to do with artificial sweeteners generally being pretty bad for your long-term health (not that sucrose/fructose is that much better in sufficient quantities).
Scrolling back and forth to read each line sounds pretty broken to me. On the desktop, if I had something open in a small window I'd probably pull out Firebug and "fix" the css.

Personally I'm a believer in the original scheme where the site provided the content and it's largely up to the user agent to decide how to present it. This whole "Every rendering engine should create the exact same rendering of the page down to the pixel" is super useful for web apps and stuff, but most of the time I just want to read stuff. Honestly, I'm surprised there's no web browser that just runs the Readable scriptlet on any page that looks like an article by default.
before you ask, yes he did know exactly what it meant. He'd point at things and say "dai", fully expecting you to bring it to him.

I think you may well be reading too much in to it. Reaching for things and uttering out of frustration if they're out of reach comes long before any useful linguistic understanding.

Do you remember how old he was? As someone with several younger siblings and newborn foster siblings, I'd guess that it was a cute coincidence (as many "first words" are).
The US has had its dictators too. FDR was given almost absolute executive and legislative power. He openly admired european facists, describing himself, in the presence of journalists, as a blood brother of Stalin and Mussolini. He imprisoned citizens without trial.

I think a similar argument could be made about Lincoln. He too siezed unprecedented executive powers.

I'm not saying they were good or bad. I'm just trying to point out that we have had presidents that have taken extreme measures to deal with percieved crises. And we have, for the most part, interpreted this as a-ok.
Simply does not work for me.
I had good meat before I became a vegetarian but it's just not a food I really enjoy. I enjoyed high-quality meat but it just wasn't a taste I was ever especially attached to.
Thanks! Hope it's helpful :)
I have been doing this for a while on my iPhone via twitter: http://twitter.com/ontouchstart
Alright, I give up; I have clearly misunderstood something.
No va w/ Chrome + Win7
I'm surprised the ARM Chromebook shipped without any mechanism for indicating which apps in the Chrome Web Store are compatible with it (maybe they expected PNaCl to be completed?). Moreover, I had no idea what NaCl was until Secure Shell stalled and I tracked down the bug on a mailing list.

There's an enable "Portable Native Client" (PNaCl) in about:flags (dev. branch, at least), but I have little idea if this would fix the problem. This kind of troubleshooting is OK for power users, but seems at odds with the type of users ChromeOS wants to attract. Still love this machine, though.
Chromebook Pixel is $1,300. For that amount of money you can get a really really nice laptop. It won't have a super-high-res screen, but it will have a proper high-end i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, 500GB SSD, video card enough to play modern games, etc.

I don't know about you, but performance matters for me. I don't want to wait twice as long for a DB to import, or a SQL query to run.
Pertinet excerpt from linked paper:

"8. Conclusion.

As the evidence shows clearly, the mama/papa words are created by parents who are eager to believe that their children are trying to talk when in fact those children are merely producing the universal babbling noises.

Since every child babbles in much the same way, parents everywhere hear the same noises, and they almost always choose to assign the same meanings to the childish noises they hear.

Again and again parents create words like mama ‘mother’, and again and again these creations pass out of the nursery into adult speech, displacing other words in the process.

As a result, we find the mama/papa words in languages all over the planet, in much the same form everywhere, and we frequently find them in the process of displacing older and more formal words, which themselves may be the greatly changed remains of earlier mama/papa words."
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>everyone wants good public services but low taxes.

Everyone??

Typical right-winger: I want low taxes and don't care about public services (although naturally I'd prefer public services to no services).

Typical left-winger: I want public services and don't care about low taxes (although naturally I'd prefer low taxes to high taxes).
The article didn't really explain the justification for the crackdown on Subutex except for the usual "drugs are bad, mmmkay". It seems like Subutex is a good cure for misery without serious side effects.
Stored wealth still implies participants, just on a different time scale with different utility curves. In a healthy market, you have agents with different preferences (hedgers, speculators, investors...), which creates order flow. Freicoin, by design, reduces heterogeneity among agents, reducing order flow. I see no rational reason to ever use it in the presence of an alternative like bitcoin. Thanks for responding, though. Good luck.
It was rude, I'll give you that, although I'd take an issue that this is normal behavior in the community. I've interacted with a lot of GNOME devs, hell, a lot of developers in general. Some are rude, some are short, yes, but the overwhelmingly majority are nice, pleasant people. But even then, languages barriers pop up, miscommunication happens, or yes, otherwise decent people lose their patience and say something rude.

I'd still argue that this this one bug report being taken out of context to illicit a reactionary response. Don't get me wrong, there's room for debate about the transparency feature, but let's stop convicting the entire project for one dev and one bug report.
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While that's neat, I feel like the kind of developer who makes a fullscreen pop-up ad for their app every time you visit the site simply doesn't care enough to do this thing.

Unrelatedly, I feel like I saw a presentation about security flaws with these a little while back? (Not a danger to people using them on their site, but rather they could be used to sniff various information about the user's device)
Yes, that's what I'm talking about, as well as all the posts on Reddit that link directly to the bug report without any context being provided.
Did you read the article? They prefer giving small amounts of merit aid to many rich students than large amounts of merit aid to fewer poor students. The result is that, for the same level of merit, the rich get a subsidy and the poor are denied.
>But there are piles of UI design research studies that show modal interfaces are, in fact, bad.

>Objectively bad. Measurably bad.

Yeah but that's because modes are more or less tautologically defined to be bad. As long as there was a big blinking sign that said "normal" or "insert" vi(m) wouldn't be modal; see the raskin quotes elsewhere in the thread.
I think you have to look at the actual market: Linux is primarily used by people who are power users; I'd go so far as to say that the vast majority of people using Linux are power users, and that the reason they switched to Linux in the first place was specifically because they were power users, and Linux catered to them better.

Now, the best software projects on Linux, ones that had previously been creating software that power users liked, and which became important at all because of the power users that switched over to using it, have apparently decided that power users are a minority segment of the overall market and that they are no longer worth optimizing for.

To make this clear: imagine if Windows, which currently is marketing itself to the "average computer user segment", a user segment that by-and-large were humans with some large subset of eyes, hands, and ears, and decided that the real money in the future was going to be branching out to take over the "any organism of any form" market.

Of course, that market has no real use for a keyboard or a mouse, as the majority of organisms don't have fingers. They can't see the screen, and they probably can't even reason in symbols. So the entire user interface starts getting converted into some kind of EM sensitive yes/no detector that is mostly useful for doing simple arithmetic.

Would this be reasonable? Would the people who currently use Windows not find this ludicrous? This analogy is obviously downright insane, but frankly I think it covers the situation here really well: the people who care about Linux are power users, so by forsaking power users they are forsaking their entire existing market segment.

For a simpler analogy, that I think also nails the core of the problem here while seeming really awkward: imagine if ALL the worlds best manufacturers of semi-trucks decided that cars were more profitable, and so decided to start marketing their products to them, not just by adding amenities but by making them less useful as semi-trucks.

So, over time, new models stop taking diesel, they force a back seat into the front, they add an optional trunk, and one they they decide to just remove the option to hitch things to the back at all. Would this be sane? This may even make sense on some kind of long-term strategy to take over the car market, but their market doesn't want a car.

Here, then: yes, I would agree with "the terminal is a power-user feature", but it is missing the point entirely to then argue that "I don't see any comment on the number of power users out there" here: claiming something is a power-user feature in order to justify its removal is indicating "small market segment", but power users are the market segment.
Shortly compresses the text using the DEFLATE algorithm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE) followed by Base64 encoding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64) before storing it in the URL. Base64 increases the size of data by 33%, but DEFLATE usually decreases the size by more than that. Thus, the link will usually be shorter than the content.
Uhm, yes. TDD, as you've already said, means write tests first, and then the function they test. The point of the test-first is to declare and define explicitly what the specifications for the function are. So writing your tests first is pretty analogous to specifying exactly what you want your function to output given a specific input.

I'm not sure what automated testing would like like in automotive part testing. This might be a situation where just because the technology doesn't yet exist for completely automated testing doesn't mean it's not the right thing to do, and therefore software can lead in this regard.

I don't think the automation part of TDD is essential or definitive, just very nice to have, but the test-first philosophy is essential.

I think you can look at the specifications process as writing a test that you assume will fail, insomuch as you are defining the exact conditions of success and don't yet have a component to meet those conditions. Then you are creating the prototype, then running the test, and iterating the prototype until it passes.
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More people did use Symbian but they found it wanting.

Symbian was the reason Nokia lost its dominance of the smart phone market.

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