skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminded me of this previous submission[1]:

http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/

[1] comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392036
Snap: beta program for new CI/CD tool in the cloud
70 years old oscilloscope revived with a RaspberryPi
France here, and the Porsche seems to be a sort of toy, something like a Renault twingo[1], and don't ask me which one I prefer. :)

On the other side, the Cadillac has nice berline curve and make me think of our Citroen C6[2].

So, as we can see, design cars are culture local.
Can we say the same thing for UI design ? Maybe the ideal design for an american differs that the ideal design for an european or an asiatic person ?

I have always thought that only the job, the grade, and the period-to-computers-exposure change the way users interact with their machines. Obviously the problem is bigger.

I am convinced that this essay touch right in the hearth something fundamental about cultural differences and their influences in design choices. In the same way that the GP languages for real people are not Lisp and Smalltalk but Java/C#, Python and Ruby. If Lisp is a widely used language, so are Ocaml and Erlang, but the let's face it: they're not.

So in conclusion, I think I will definitely not design the same UI for an US pg than for an EU pg, it need being study in details but there is differences in the mind and in the tastes, so that one have to adapt to the UI of the others.

Any idea/link about that ?

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Ren...

[2] http://images.caradisiac.com/logos/6/2/4/9/136249/S5-Citroen...
The only sites blocked in China that bother me are like dropbox and youtube. Suffice it to say, I see nothing on your github page, and all the links are broken.
I was more annoyed about the screen resolution limitations that are greater than the majority of laptop resolutions still in common use (though I will concede that the quality of laptop screens have been abysmal until lately)
I should add, this is, in fact, a socialist distribution of wealth scheme. That money must come from somewhere if it is not to be inflationary, and it comes from taxes on incomes and properties. The benefit to society and the economy should far outweigh the cost. Those with investments will benefit from the broader base of lower-middle class income to spend money with the companies they are invested with. Those with high income will benefit from a stronger economy supported by the middle class. Those with property will benefit from the reduction in crime, homelessness, poverty, and generally improved social environment.

The only downside is the reduced incentive to work. That is real. Many who are now employed may choose not to work, which will increase wages for those who choose to work and reduce involuntary unemployment, which will be on the rise regardless as automation reduces the need for unskilled labor. There is more incentive to work when everyone, employed or unemployed, receives the same minimum income rather than the current situation, where working only earns the differential between unemployment and wages.

Unemployment will likely reach 25% in the next 30 years due to increased economic efficiencies, regardless of whether we have a means of supporting the unemployed.
Since you're getting a lot of hating here, I'll just say:

1) If someone does this in my favourite coffee shop, they're polite, and they take my first "no" for an answer, I'm completely OK with this.

2) Having done similar things in the past, it's my experience that - with the caveats above - most people are OK with this.

Obviously, some level of social skill, ability to tell if your presence will be seriously unwelcome, and general politeness and diffidence is rather necessary. Don't send the guy who never washes and keeps getting complaints from women at parties. But if you pass that hurdle, you'll be fine - and as someone said below, it's not like there are enough startups out there that this is ever going to become a major problem.
Is this only for interviews?
Yes. The local bus control station has displays with two rows of three monitors showing bus positions on large maps. They have them set up so operator's eye line is about middle of the two rows. They are just looking at the red dots for buses on a large set of maps though...
On that note, I'd imagine that "don't ask for ANY personal information except an email address, right at the end" is a pretty good rule for this sort of testing anywhere in the world. Good point!
Do they still have the typewriter booths in local markets to write letters for people? Has that gone digital now with laptops/printers? Or have literacy rates got to where most people can find a relative to write a letter?

Just wondering.
Nice philosophy! But tough to implement :\
Ceph storage system
Note how much faster it runs today: 1966 mutations took 120 minutes back then, today it performed ~2100 mutations in about 4 minutes.
On the other, other hand, you're giving some of his/her customers an interesting, novel experience where they get to feel that their opinion is valuable. Oh, and ensuring that they'll remember that Starbucks far more than most others.
It's an old lecture but if you want to understand some of the reasons why this is happening I can't recommend http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lectures.shtml enough.
http://i40.tinypic.com/21dkpx.gif

Re-uploaded the GIF file for him, hopefully this one loads for you.
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>They probably said that also in the 19th century and look at us today, have we seen a drastic reduction of the active work population in 2 centuries? No.

But we have seen quite a massive increase of public sector. How many actually needed jobs do we have anymore?
Oops. I didn't see the points for Spotify were already published. These are drafts for most of them!
Your Blog Is Your New Business Card
Is that based on numbers or a guess? How many Clojure applications are there in comparison to Lisp or Scheme?
> I'm not sure about this site...it would be nice if someone like the EFF ran it and got actual lawyers to look at these. In this case:

I agree with everything you said but isn't it pathetic that we require a trained lawyer to be able to interpret something that affects a staggering amount of people.

A ToS shouldn't have to require the above, I also kind of like the idea of a layman having a stab at it, I would love to have a site that lists ToSes and allows wiki style discussions on certain points (Think Github pull request commenting). If only to highlight how bloody stupid it is that no one can understand or can agree on them.
I haven't thought about it, honestly. I'm sure many use cases will come to light over time.
1,000,000 of anything
Ember and Google Analytics
Enable tab-completion in the interactive interpreter by default
As shared hosting go, I think webfaction is second to none. They really manage to hit this sweet-spot between VPS and shared hosting, and you get the best of both worlds.

You get lots of stuff out of the box with an easy web-based interface[1], but if you really need some specific version or a package, you can do it too. Their support is fast and responsive and very helpful. They have servers in the US, Amsterdam and Singapore, and you can choose. You can even set up a fail-over server[2] quite easily.

I know I sound like a fanboy, but I truly like their service. Of course, for most of my stuff, I still use Linode/AWS, but can't recommend webfaction enough for shared hosting.

[1] e.g. you can choose the PHP version for your app from their web management console, as well as lots of predefined app templates (django, wordpress, RoR and more)

[2]http://blog.gingerlime.com/2012/webfaction-fail-over/ - a blog post I wrote about it.
It doesn't suck, but its certainly not as good. I was holding on to the old UI as long as I could but now that option is gone.

I've grudgingly got used to the new compose UI but I agree its nowhere near as quick and easy as the old one was in an effort to be "cleaner".
Rheingold’s Virtual Communities, Part 1: Startups, Products, and Hacker News
This works and displays correctly, but is unbearably slow on iPad 2 whereas the PDF loads instantly. What is the point then or does it work a lot better in desktop browsers?
Im not a lisper and I likely never will be, but I am encouraged to see the potential for Clojure to move away from the JVM. Its this simple really, I want a 100GB heap with no tuning. That will never happen on the JVM, Since Im not a lisper I dont know what the implications for memory management are, but having lived with JVM GC for over a decade Im done with it and hardware has surpassed JVM's ability to keep up. If it was still a 32 bit world I would have a different opinion. But Im not going to distribute tons of code to clusters just to avoid GC pauses, give me 100GB heap or give me death.
List of Hacker Events in Berlin
If there is an event missing, just add it. The wiki is open for all!
Literal notation utilised by JSON was indeed a part of Javascript, however JSON was a subset of Javascript specifically selected for cross-language messaging; by necessity pruning the parts of literal Javascript unsuited for this purpose and in part conforming to identical literals in other languages (see http://www.json.org/fatfree.html). It's unclear how without the limits set by the JSON spec that literal Javascript would have become a popular exchange format.

It took Crockford's Rebol-influenced eye to spot the potential for a minimalist though somewhat expressive exchange format based on elementary block structures, and near-genius to carve it out of the spartan confines of the Javascript syntactic swamps. Sadly not being Rebol, JSON does not include words (see 'Reserved Words' http://javascript.crockford.com/survey.html), dates, urls, email addresses (see http://www.rebol.com/rebolsteps.html); and will forever be burdened with comma-delimiters.
I <3 Uberspace. The service is great, the people are awesome. Jonas visited us at our Ruby Usergroup Booth on the Sigint last year and we talked about problems he had supporting ruby on the machines. Great guy!
Didn't you run into any breakage of packages? I mean there's this mad rush into testing right after a new release. I'm thinking of running wheezy for a couple of months until the storm calms down.
Alright! Over all I like your idea, it's indeed needed.

While I have you on the line - a suggestion: While I have you on the line - a suggestion: I think it would be really appreciated if it was possible to "click" each of the 'points'. When doing so the clicked point's section of the TOS shows up highlighted. I believe that this would give a increased level of trust and also help to better understand a 'point' if one were uncertain about its exact meaning.

Oh, nvm, the 'expand' button kind of solves this.
No, it's more than just my opinion. I'm merely stating the facts that exist regardless of my personal preferences or beliefs. I can't provide you with pretty graphs or tables of data to back this up, but the effects are very real and easily observed by those who have experienced similar situations.

JavaScript has many, many, many other problems aside from its use of prototype-based OO. It is a truly awful language is almost every respect. But the problems caused by its broken OO system are very obvious, and the impact they have on the maintainability of JavaScript software are extremely real. Its prototype-based OO is responsible for an entire family of its issues.
Based on guess.

I see lots of Java shops now having Clojure code and talking about it at JUGs and how it enables their business.

You just need to have a look at InfoQ, Skills That Matter, Devoxx or Jax for ongoing talks.
It's super mario bros on the background. You can use your keys to control him.
With Uberspace you can determine the PHP version to use in a config file. You also run your own PHP interpreter, means you can use your own php.ini etc.

I fully agree with you on the scalability of the customer service though.
If you don't want to switch to a static site because of your wordpress theme, why not use wordpress.com?
I am also not a car person, 'the beetle' looks to me as a 'playboy' horse, while the other car looks more luxurious and more expensive.
TIL tinypic.com is blocked also :) CMCC wifi is a bit more strict than the other Chinese ISPs, they block imugr also while many other ISPs do not.

My problems are admittedly very niche, and I will get to see everything when I'm at work tomorrow (if my VPN was working, I could see them now...drats). Thanks for the try though!
Scrolling is laggy (rMBP 15 default spec) but usable.
If it is happening, it might some day be culturally accepted. There are steps after that. Are you allowed access to your own history? One big business aspect of gmail is that - easy searchability of your whole email history.
It will contain stuff written by other people as well. Will there be some policy of email expiration?

In the end we get to something like in science fiction. Hannu Rajaniemi's Quantum Thief has externalized common memory and also your private memories that can be recovered. Also pieces of them that can be shared directly. Such centralized systems have a whole host of new security problems.
>We indeed have a parasitic class, for a large degree consisting of immigrants who don't share our culture and consider depending on BI 'awesome' rather than shameful as Dutch people do.

Citation needed. The amount of racism people seem to allow themselves recently makes it feel like we've dragged society back 100 years.
Wow. Has it always been that way or did it change in recent history?

I guess I am thinking of Norway with the 20-year maximum murder sentence.
Direct payments on this scale don't solve the problem of rentiers that are able to extort the poor. Someone still has the power to directly hand out the cash, and record who has and hasn't received it. Someone still has the ability to dupe villagers into believing the cash payments are contingent upon his goodwill. And somebody still wields enough economic or social power over the villagers to direct most of the returns into his own pocket.

The article itself pointed out the real problem with the villagers was that the local landlord owned their land and their debts - a local landlord with the ability to raise everyone's ground rent, increase the work requirements for debt service and appropriate most of the direct cash payment for himself.

A compulsory purchase order served on the landlord, and/or some kind of rent control might well be a more effective long term solution to these villagers' long term needs - even though such schemes have obvious potential for bureaucratic abuse.
In fact, its air-cooled engine was so reliable that it remained in production until 2006, and is still widely used for propulsion in dozens of light aircraft designs such as the Sonex or the Formula-V racing class.
Also add StatsMix, Librato, PirateMetrics and Startup Compass to the competitors list.

I am not your target market but good luck regardless.
You're assuming that economic demand for that labor exists, in the form of private enterprises expanding or in the form of some Unspecified Really Really Rich Body, probably the government, just hiring loads of R&D staff and associated workers directly.

Most of the world currently doesn't have the political will, economic growth rates and public budgets to support that kind of practically-limitless demand for labor.
The PUG that I'm a member of had a very interesting presentation of PyCogent (http://pycogent.org/) which is meant to be a Python based successor to BioPerl. IANA bioinformatics researcher so have no idea as to the actual relative strengths of each, but the PyCogent guys appear to have put the hard yards in (~8 years of development and still going)
talk about a passive aggressive tone.
Estonia the first to reach the EU 2020 renewables target
What are the benefits of having "Featured In" on a startup's homepage?
Comparing design comming from two different countries with widely different background breaks the analogy upfront.
Lisp and C, Smalltalk, Cobol, Pascal, Ada share the same american background, and were just designed with different audience and purpose.

As diego also points out the Beetle, or even the Golf (though introduced a a year after 1973) didn't change much either in terms of design during decades, though they were targeted and designed for mainstream "average" users.

Even on the language front I'm not convinced.
Java for instance is aimed at average users and I don't see it going away anytime soon.
Google pays record $31K bounty for Chrome bugs
The 911 was designed in the 1960s, the one displayed is from 1973. The reason the design is iconic is that the car is rear engined which gives it the unique characteristics of driving and style. It also allows for an aerodynamic profile while still having 4 seats. Having a horizontally opposed sir cooled engine also keeps both weight, cost and centre of gravity low, giving better handling, efficiency and mileage.

By the 1980s the design was quite dated but still popular because of the reputation of the car.

The reason pg probably picked the car was because the form followed the functions, it was designed rather than styled.
To me it is on purpose corporate speak.
Same here. 911 to me is an acquired taste. I can appreciate their design now, especially the recent iterations but I remember I said it looked like a squashed frog with bulgy eyes when I first saw one as a kid.
The question is how, if it's client-side?
We will do this when we have a solid way of archiving the terms (see http://github.com/tosdr/tosback3). So yes, it's planned.
This is really awesome. It took me a while but I think I found the perfect settings for "Mondrian" (but it really does take a long time)
http://i.imgur.com/OhgYn6X.png

Different images work best with different polygon sizes, different cut-offs etc. and it's really sensitive. If I change the parent cutoff for example, a simple 0.01 change seems to ruin Mondrian from forming, even after waiting several thousand mutations.
This is so vague as to be utterly meaningless. So this is just a frequency chart of buzzwords seen on job postings?
Having read all of that I suspect it's an elaborate plot for a TV series in which they will dupe some of the applicants into believing they are going to Mars and film them in an ultra-extreme Big Brother capsule for a sustained period of time.

There is precedent, in the UK there was a program that duped 10 people into believing they were orbiting Earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadets_(TV_series)
Indeed, I ran the script for 12 minutes and managed 37511 mutations which came up with this:

http://imgur.com/phA7Ocu

DNA here: http://pastebin.com/PEGwKvG4
"And so you would leave a country structured like that."

So which country with zero welfare do you live in? Is it a nice place to live?
I thought about #2 a few years ago, then I realized there's a Facebook page for it (literally free food at [school]). You'd be stuck with adoption of people posting free food and then visiting the site to the the free food.
I was a little on the fence at first, but their insane timetable has convinced me it's either a scam or -- more likely -- some kind of reality TV or viral marketing stunt.

Too bad. I would like to see a serious effort to go to Mars. But that will probably come from Hawthorne, CA.
As a child I said the 911 looked ugly, like a squashed frog with bulged eyes. For years I didn't understand the hype that surrounded it (I always favoured the 928). I do like them now but it's a result of decades of societal conditioning...
A reality TV show or viral marketing stunt is more likely than an outright scam.
But the simple rear engine design is more minimalist and aesthetic. Having the engine at the rear improves interior space. It reduces frontal area, which improves aerodynamics. Having an air cooled engine allows the rear placement without a complicated cooling system, having it horizontally opposed allows a lower centre of gravity as well as allowing a slimmer profile while still giving interior space.

The great performance was the goal all along- all the decisions that went into the design were made with performance in mind.

The early 911s (as pictured) didn't have exscessive power so the rear engine wasn't such a big deal. When they started putting in turbochargers the limits of the design were easily found. But Porsche was still able to work around these without ever turning it into a Cadillac.
What a bland list "technologies" ("Front End Development"?), and the post isn't really any better. I'm very suspicious that 3 people actually voted this up.
I've found the Debian package maintainers to be quite careful, even when there's a large amount of rapid change to testing. I think they put a lot of effort and thought into avoiding breakage, even in scenarios like this. Any time I've encountered broken packages, the problem has been resolved quite quickly, especially if more important and widely-used packages are involved.
"what is their incentive to improve in life"

Is that a serious question? What do you think their incentive to improve in life is? Here are some ideas for you:

To be healthier.

To live longer.

To have a nicer house and better living conditions.

To improve the lot of their family.

To travel and have new experiences.

Do you think that people want to live short lives of misery? "what is their incentive to improve in life"? Really?
If anyone is looking for static file hosting, PHP or CGI, I strongly recommend NearlyFreeSpeech.net - I've been using them again recently and they're fantastic as ever (and incredibly cheap too, though less so if your site gets constant heavy traffic).
The related Issue has been open since 2009: http://bugs.python.org/issue5845.
It. is. not. ranked. by. web. traffic.

Web traffic is one of several signals used to produce the ranking.
Real life example - back when the CSS history snooping trick still worked, a travel site I worked on used to offer additional discounts to people who'd visited competitor sites that we knew were beating our regular pricing.
Ask HN: Computer Science for a kid
Hello,
I'm 15 years old. I've been programming for years and just got into node.JS. I've aspired to study CS @ uni but I really wan't to learn it now but I can't find any resources suitable for kids.
I really want to learn some CS Algorithms and how I can implement one.
What is your advice?
I performed an experiment too.

The 7.5 year old and the 6 year old both claimed the red one is "better".
Slow as well on a dual core P8700 with 8 GB Ram.
2.5% of the population? Is that accurate? Seems too high.
College Graduates Fare Well in Jobs Market, Even Through Recession
Xavier Niel, a Billionaire Who Breaks the Mold
while I like the idea, my quick scan suggests there are two small holes. the quote ""examples are not another way to teach, they are the only way to teach" sums up the first. the second is learn by doing. practical excercses, learn by doing. the practical is a corner stone of good teaching. just my thoughts, hope you find them useful.
It should be noted that they give you SSH access and freedom to upload your own binaries. They run FreeBSD, so you might have to cross-compile, but I've ran Golang CGI servers without any issues.
Google and Adobe beautify fonts on Linux, iOS
It will happen with programmers too (at least to some degree); first with high-level abstractions and then slowly approaching low level.
What is difficult about programming in Lisps is the same thing that is difficult about driving 911's - doing so in the manner that experts do requires a radically different mindset. If you've seen 911's slinging oversteer around a road course and schemers...well writing scheme - it's apparent that neither thinks about driving or programming like the people against whom they are competing.