skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice, I liked the information on how post is sorted. I also feel a little sad for the postal workers who are about to lose their jobs.

As an aside -- Not too far from where I hail from, in rural India, the postman not only delivers the letter to the recipient but also opens it and reads it out to them incase they're illiterate and cannot read.
Bit of a tongue in cheek question.
Is the math for Falcon done in the same fashion?
Yes, I'm a Skylon fan.
"But information overload isn’t the problem. If it was, you’d walk into a library and die." http://www.gtdtimes.com/2010/02/11/the-problem-is-not-inform...
This is one of the most attractive things of lisp. The fact that the language has no notion of compiletime, evaltime and runtime. The user just doesnt have to care abouut it. Very powerful
Gmail used to have a single concept, and do very well at that. Someone thought up a vision for how an ideal simplified email client should work, and made that as a web application.

Then the usual cruft built up. People wanted to "add features," not realizing that doing so changes the concept of the whole. The interface became non-consistent.

In general, as companies grow, so does the cruft. Projects are no longer in the hands of a single visionary, but a committee. That committee makes demands of programmers, who graft on the new changes. These accumulate and soon inconsistency is the norm.

At that point, users flee to other projects.
"Continue to exist in the future" != "The future"
I have a bookmark folder "to read" which would be better named "I don't really care about this". The best system I found was similar, but just suited my habits better: if I find an article I wanted to read but not right then, I send it to my kindle using the browser plugin, and spend an hour each evening reading through things.
Because of the positive attitude.

There's too much venting on the front page. We're not all whiners that keep on ranting about how this and that is crap (hyperbole, but there's truth in that).

We're supposed to be the builders of the future, so instead of grinding axes, let's go and chop some wood.

And let's talk about trains that arrive on time for once.
I've contributed. I once shocked my high school physics teacher (literally) by messing with an electric motor we'd made in class. If I'd done that in Kiera's school I'd probably have been waterboarded by the principal or something.
Very nice. However, do you have any ideas what can be accomplished with a multi-computer rack infrastructure that costs about $500?

It is probably too weak to run virtualization (which racks are used for these days). It is also not trivial to set up cluster computing wherein these multiple computers can meaningfully share memory and computing resources. Many of us can afford a 7 computer rack for less than $500, but how do we use it?
Quite nice description how it used to be in the scene.

I share a similar experience.
> G+ isn't for everyone, and that's fine. It is a product which is now highly polished, and provides exactly what I and many other people have wanted from a social network.

Is it possible yet to change the visibility of old posts? The absence of small privacy features like this—features that FB does have—always was very off-putting for me. When Google+ was launched they made a huge deal out of Circles, but it strikes me that since then Google has pushed Google+ more as an alternative to Twitter than as an alternative to Facebook (and I don't like Twitter much).

Anyway, I used Google+ so little that I deleted my account in a petty rage when they shut down Google Reader. It's actually nice to have one less social network to worry about.
OK, this is duly noted. Thanks for the information!
We did something pretty similar to this when we didn't get into YC in W13: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115851397461982481700/posts/AUX1...

On review, the meetings and advisory help were effective, trying to track a peer group of startups was not. I would highly recommend it for any kind of serious project you're taking on.
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Their marketing has, indeed been superb. My issue is with the use of the term open source with regards to hardware that seems not to be. Sorry, it's really just a semantic point, but I find that marketing departments are all too aware of semantics and take advantage of them all the time.

My definition of open source hardware is nicely outlined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware .

Once again, I think the project is awesome, I think the marketing, despite good, is, well, marketing.
Dispy? http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q/87/35
The concept behind Glass is fantastic. For all the talk of "cyborgs" and "glassholes", it's clear that it struck a nerve. What we don't have enough information to say yet is if Glass is the new iPad or the new Newton.
This:

http://www.atlassociety.org/sites/default/files/Unrugged_Ind...

"... benevolence is a commitment to engage with others, to participate in society, in order to achieve the values derivable from other human beings. This commitment is based on the belief that one’s interests are not in conflict with those of others, but in basic harmony. It involves the expectation that one will be able to like, respect, enjoy the company of, or at least profit economically from exchanges with, most of the people around one—that they will make a positive contribution to one’s life."
I think older versions were more consistent. The newer ones show tacked-on ideas. I'm sticking with V6, despite its age and incompleteness.
indeed... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULI5kolBpAk
Videos are working fine for me.

Chromium + Debian
Meant in the spirit of http://www.howtospotapsychopath.com/2012/01/07/domestic-chem..., I presume.
I'm something of a career meditator - six years of an hour a day in my late teens and early twenties, and another decade of regular practice after that. I'm fairly slack about it these days, but the groove is well burned in.

In those kinds of quantities you get discontinuous results, but it's a PhD's worth of effort for some fairly intangible rewards. If anybody has questions, ask away.
Nope, Russel's paradox requires set membership axioms + a non-constructive definition of sets. Types are constructive here.
I did client work. I don't even remember for which client :(
Okay, looks to only affect google.co.uk and not google.com.
Thanks a lot. That would be a bit expensive but might get the idea validated.

If you want to be stay posted, you can follow @stamplinAPI
but don't work in firefox on debian
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This seems designed to prevent customers from following through:

During	the period between 36 months to	39 months from your Guarantee Effective Date, you have the option to sell your	vehicle	to Tesla for the Guaranteed Resale Value. [...] This	Guarantee automatically	expires	on the 39 month	anniversary	of the Guarantee Effective Date.

http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/tesla-re...
AIUI, and you may know this, the reason they don't is it would make each Pi considerably more expensive.
Ask HN: How would you validate this idea?
Dear HNers,

Until now, we failed to get some real feedback about our startup idea. We got a few like one or two "good idea" or "I can already do that without your product" but nothing which would really help us to know if we are in a not too bad direction or if we should correct our plan.

In one line our idea is: build an API to customise PDF templates with some user data.

If you want to know a bit more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5601127.

Knowing this idea target developers and/or designers, how would you try to get some valuable feedback from them? The best would be to be able to chat with few people having needs in that area.

Any idea welcomed.
I don't know, one of the main usecases seems to be gaming and i really really really can't see how this works out on action based games, because of latency. No way.
I can see the usecase for Office, etc. but that's what VNC/RDP/Citrix and all the others are about.
That would be the one carried out by the National Socialist Party, yes?

Just because someone told you that the Nazis were "right wing" doesn't mean they have anything in common with the other groups someone told are "right wing". "Right wing" and "left wing" are utterly meaningless except as terms of abuse.

Edit:

What, in specific, does (say) the Libertarian Party have in common with the Nazi Party?
Everyone says that, but the thing I loved most about dabbling in elisp was how much nicer things become when your text editor works at the s-expression level. Moving around and manipulating a lisp program is just plain easier than it is in nearly any other language.
Doesn't work on chrome windows, or firefox windows.
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"The machines which sort mail are pretty bad-ass. Not only can they sort by postcode, but also by address so the mail comes out in the order in which the mailman visits each building on his route."

Now, that, is technology.
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> In addition, this was the time the first wave of commodity graphics accelerators were on the market

NeXT was already out of the hardware business for three years when 3dfx introduced Voodoo in 1996, same year NeXT bought Apple for negative $400M.
And web apps are supposed to replace desktop apps...
And 45% of the current price came in the last month, so obviously more than one person is thinking what you're thinking.
Makes me think of Wired's cover story "The Web is Dead".

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/
Ridiculous. People have obligations and bills. Why do people over and over and over again stay in jobs they despise? Golden handcuffs. And it applies to all income levels. Theres guys that stay at their minimum wage gigs for exactly the same reasons.

This would really only work for the most talented engineers confident in their ability to get a new job within a month or two. Plus there is no guarantee that someone will necessarily get an offer they are willing to take, whether it's for the commute, work description, benefits or any other number of reasons.
The place where I enjoyed marketing the most was on Atlantica Online. I played several other MMOs, including that awesome EVE (which I'd still be playing having the time). Yet, I had more fun with the market on Atlantica Online (that was before they got bought by Nexon).

I would simply talk to people, make deal with them in chat, and work through different market medium to make more money. I started with only a few thousands and finished with almost 4 billions only from trading. I'd use people in the hurry buying from the real money market and trying to sell quickly. For instance, this one time someone said "Selling X quick, for cheap" or something along those lines. He actually wanted 180M for it but I convinced him that was the big price, and I got it from him at 120M. But then, literally 10 minutes later, I sold it for over 200M.

One other thing we would do is play with the amount 0 after the prices. Most of the big items where going at a few tens of billions, but the prices wouldn't be shorten. Therefore, it was easy to forget a 0 or two, or to add some. By keeping a close eye on the market, we'd get some people selling at 5M something worth 500M because they did a typo. The same happened the other way. When an item usually sold a 30K would ran out, we'd put a lot of it at 250K, which would appear to be lower than it's usual price because of the 25, yet it had an extra 0 which messed up things.
This brings to mind a few stories I've seen in the UK about letters being delivered without a proper address.

This one just had a map:

http://digitaljournal.com/article/84849#tab=comments&sc=...

And this one got delivered with minimal information also:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342102/How-Royal-Ma...
These numbers dont add up. If the prototype codec essentially was just a series of JPEGs, i dont see where the bandwidth number of 60-80KB/s is coming from because it doesnt make sense. Each frame JPG would then have a size of 1-1.5Kilobyte considering a Framerate of 60.

OnLive and Gaikai worked quite good for what they were, but they had much higher bandwidth requirements and still didnt feature really high res.
(Author here)

It disappears in Iraq. What, you think they're gonna burn it for warmth? Those bucks are coming back.
If you have a technology (Money) and it doesn't work, it's buggy. You've never had your credit card declined?
What's the global supply differential of Gold to Iridium?
These shortcuts don't work for me.

Not that I'd ever use them. On my AZERTY keyboard Ctrl + ] translates to Ctrl + Alt + shift + ). I always have to press shift to enter digits so I'm not sure how the last one is even supposed to work in theory.

I also don't seem to have a formatting menu. Are you sure you're not using a Google Labs feature?
Duct tape and bailing wire, all the way down.
Also it's an opinion piece because I don't work for Wired.
Obviously is hasn't. It is way too early to tell. It would be like asking in 1913 if Japan or Korea had lost the 20th century while at the end of it, both where big winners on a relative scale.
> then a subclass is actually a supertype—a superset of the possible values of its parent class—and likewise a superclass is a subtype

I'm sure this makes sense and is well-though-out, but I just can't understand it. What difference does it make if `Dog < Animal` are classes or types? Still any dog is an animal and not any animal is a dog. Or am I missing something?
During the run up to this Easter I sent my mother a varying amount of toy Easter chicks through the post, as if they were on a migration. There were 165 in total and I deliberately wrote all of the addresses differently to see if they would get through or not. I also got friends and colleagues to write the address so that handwriting was far from consistent. Postcode was definitely optional and to annoy my mother I added the address of the nearby council estate to the address.

All but one of them made 'the migration' in a timely fashion. However, a fortnight later my mum had a 'collect from the sorting office' note from the postman (or post service officer, in these PC times). This was for the last chick. By some accident this particular chick was standing up rather than lying down in the envelope making the package too large for 1st class mail. She had to pay ~£6 for the safe arrival of the last (165th) chick.

Incidentally they were all named and I emailed my father who could be expected on a given day. The first letters of their names obviously made up a 'happy easter' letter slightly longer than a 'tweet'.

This little experiment in novelty gift giving was dependent on those employed to manually sort the mail and their sharp brains. Yep, I deliberately gave them the run around! But it was all worth it. I for one will be sad when such prank-art-projects-via-post are no longer possible because the machines will have fully taken over.
I reply with a question, in what way is gwern so famous that "we" need to know about him, his day job, his schedule, his site revenue,...?

I heard about gwern (and his site) this week when I stumbled on http://www.gwern.net/otaku from a NGE website (3.33 just got out...) and didn't search the website further. Now I've seen the same website appear for its article on the death of Google Products.

So now I've gotten a glance, seen some articles I already read,... But what is this all about? Maybe it's because we are used to popular bloggers always writing under their full name, with their blogs always being related to their work-personas,... What makes you want (or think we deserve) to know so much more about him?
So if I lease a gas powered car and I take a month-long vacation, will I get my money back?
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Finding Jobs in dutch startups got a bit easier
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5083172
SQL injections on addresses instead? Forwarding loops?
It is weird that they don't stress the reduced maintenance costs. When something breaks down it is always extremely expensive (or they are overcharging you). Consider the life cycle of a car and there is something expensive that will break down.
Bridging the gaps with Street View
you're not missing something, I believe the comment just got it flipped, and was referring[1] to problems relating to covariance and contravariance, when one tries to view OOP in terms of type theory.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance_and_contravariance_(...
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When I was doing mail delivery as a summer job, there always were experienced delivery pros available to help decode addresses (a win-win situation: the guys approaching retirement had less mail to deliver, so they had lighter bags, but they could only leave when all others were done sorting their mail). During the sorting job in the post office, you would find postcards in your lot that only mentioned the colloquial name of a bar, the colloquial name of a regular there and a city name. When you asked, they would immediately tell you "that's x street, number 45". They also often could give you a house number, given a surname and a street.

At first, that seemed surprising, but even after a few weeks, you start recognizing surnames and linking them to numbers. It helps that mail is not uniformly distributed over all addresses.
See what you mean re unix.

Yeah - I've always been unable to describe that weird connection to the platform, what you call the Amiga feeling.

Going to boot back into haiku now and see if I can get blender working :)
> As the influence of functional languages grows, we tend to choose types more often.

FP does not imply static types. See Lisp and its dialects. Don't confuse the Haskell way of doing things with FP in general.
"Where is it appropriate to post a subscriber link?
Almost anywhere. Private mail, messages to project mailing lists, and blog entries are all appropriate. As long as people do not use subscriber links as a way to defeat our attempts to gain subscribers, we are happy to see them shared."

-- https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn#slinks
Hey Elbear, that's not in our contracts, at all. We do make sure our developers communicate within 10 hours regardless of the timezone. We feel that is more than reasonable and it's worked extremely well for Toptal. However, that's not in our contract, it's actually something we simply stay on top of as a company. Our requirements are not "weird" at all, they enforce high integrity, and in most places in the world, the concept of high integrity is "weird". The type of people who will not conform to such standards are precisely the types of individuals who we would never want to work with in a million years, and that is precisely why freelancing platforms have such a pervasively bad reputation.. because they're filled with low or even medium integrity individuals. To us, that's unacceptable. As it is to any A-player team. -Taso, CEO, Toptal
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What are Fortran and Cobol used for today?
I was thinking about something like that lately
Hey guys send me an email - twanlass at gmail.com
London to create airport of the future with 'Internet of Things'
Not all tools are equal, however.

The class-based OO approach of C++ has proven to be practical for real-world software development. The same goes for the approaches taken by Java and C#, for example. While they can be abused, these approaches generally provide a usable balance between conceptual comprehensibility, consistency, modularity, code sharing/reuse, and the ability to model a variety of realistic domains.

The same can't be said of JavaScript's prototype-based OO. It's not that people have trouble understanding it; they know it perfectly well. It's just that, when being used to write real-world software, it is nowhere near as convenient and practical as class-based OO.

This is largely why we see so much effort go toward faking class-based OO within so many different JavaScript libraries and applications. JavaScript doesn't natively (yet) provide the tooling that developers need (class-based OO), so they're forced to try to implement it themselves using what JavaScript does offer. And the results usually are quite horrid. The fact that Self, Io and other prototype-based languages never really took off is similarly related, I suspect.

Choice between different OO models isn't a bad thing. But when it comes to real-world software development, where there are clients, deadlines, and money to be made, developers need tools that work. Class-based OO has proven itself as a useful tool. Prototype-based OO has been more of a hindrance than a benefit, on the other hand.
Security is the thing in which we would like to have invested when we found a problem and the useless cost we pay when everything is going smooth.

The best question when we think about investing in security is:

How much an extintor is worth before and after a fire?
If these are really one shot then presumably you could make something truly single use that contains the charge and projectile rather than using a bullet. Depends on the use case I suppose.
New kind of cosmic flash may reveal something never seen: Birth of a black hole
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Another challenge for scramjets is that you can only use hem once you are hypersonic. So, even if you have a perfectly working one, you will need something else to accelerate your scramjet and load to Mach 3-4 or so.
This guy is doing good work, and I fear for his safety.
I'd be more willing to accept his apology if he didn't then drop this absurdity. How much actual money do I pay for the dang car? I have my checkbook out, what do I put in this box?
I made the top 5% of respondents. I am a psychopath...
There is a tradeoff in HCI that is between ease and efficiency. It seems Gmail is less easy to use AND less efficient. The only improvement seems to be design.

Speaking as an Interaction Design student, please don't confuse looks with design - the whole article is essentially about how the author thinks this is bad interface design.
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NeXT was way out of my own price range in the early 90's (I only had an Atari ST). At our university there were mostly DECstations and Sun workstations, apparently due to huge discounts (50%+) these vendors gave to academic institutions and because they were also used as servers (with NCD X-Terminals as clients).

The amazing design and focus on graphics power may have hurt sales in these circles because it would have been hard to justify a high price for eyecandy over raw cpu power and most universities outside the US were probably not adequately funded at that time (perhaps Jobs overestimated that market?).
Me too! Let's go chop up some people! Hehe J/K... or am I? DUN DUN DUN!
Is it just me or are OReilly books only valuable in print form? I keep them open on my desk and can easily flip around and find what I need. Can't do the same with an eBook.

An OReilly eBook is not terribly useful IMO and not even worth half the print edition.
Submitted this the other day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5645665
> Ms. Archuletta said that over the years she had seen her share of impossible letters, like the one addressed to the house “down the street from the drugstore on the corner” or one intended for “the place next to the red barn.”

Interestingly enough, while this centralized system is completely useless for such "addresses", the local postman would probably have little trouble figuring them out (especially if there is also a name on them).
With all that good logic and reasoning, who could possibly disagree with you?