skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've been doing startups since the mid 1990s†. There is no reasonable argument that says that it is harder for tech people to get funding now than it was in the 1990s. It is much, much easier to get funding in 2013 than it was in 1999 (which was the last time I got funding)

So, the "since the mid nineties" is a big misleading.

You might have been "doing startups" from then till now, but you were on the getting funds game from "mid nineties" to 1999 -- which is like only for 4-5 years at most, more than a decade ago.

And even that was during the most "give funding to any BS" bubble period in history, so it might not be that indicative.
Barbra Streisand effect in 3.. 2.. 1..
Well, presumably they're more interested in efficiently implementing their algorithms than in using other MSR technologies for their own sake, but you've got a point. See http://fsharp.org/testimonials/ for lots of other companies using F#. "Machine learning" only is only mentioned a couple of times, but it sounds like plenty of other companies are doing related work with F# (e.g. Kaggle mentions using it for "data analysis").

(disclosure: I'm doing some contract work with the F# team)
I realize this is awful 4chan of me; but that seems rather beta of you, in that you're essentially swayed by the flow of traffic of the establishment, in a scenario where you're supposed to be getting shit done. You make it sound like you're only privileged to be there when it's convenient for the coffee shop owners, and that seems to me like a tense place to exist.

On the other hand I can relate to the concept of doing good by those whom you rely on, a symbiotic relationship and what not. That's a very pro-society thing and I suppose that's respectable.
:) works as intented
Signing and Verifying Documents With Bitcoin
Apologies for going a bit meta, but that would make a pretty good rating scheme for comments on here - DH6 through to AH6...
Rarely noted is how much this profit is a function of government subsidy and coercion. So let's take apart Tesla by the numbers, if only to give our reader-taxpayers a better sense of what they've paid to make Tesla's owners rich.

I don't really want to read further, and it's only the second paragraph.
JavaScript is a dynamic language with C-syntax, prototype-inheritance and lambdas. Embedded into every browser on the planet. Whats not to like?
Technology is not the criminal here. Direct the resources and the anger at the criminals. If we spent half the time on dealing with the real issues (Hate and Prejudice) that we spent on trying to get rid of items that can kill people we would be far more effective at dealing with this problem. I'm just saying.
Even with the regular procedure, it's a quine if you ignore stderr and only look at stdout, which should definitely count.
This conversation took a ridiculous turn.
Medical and molecular imaging code is, hands down, the hardest code I have ever written. Because you have to guarantee it's correctness.

Obviously HL7 is trivial... but I don't think that's what the guy was talking about. He was talking about the hard stuff.
"Police believe that despite this, the files are still circulating."

The quality of journalism is pretty awful these days.

I can't believe someone would feel qualified to write an article, especially one that came out today, without explicitly knowing that, yes, the files are most assuredly still "circulating" via torrents.
Well jquery-ui solves this problem to a large extent, if you want something like say a datepicker you can do

$("#datepickerelement" ).datepicker();

and get the functionality you need in a nice reusable package without having to copy and paste giant chunks of code and pollute your global namespace.
Jony Ive’s new look for iOS 7: black, white, and flat all over
I'm not sure the theory that violence is caused by "people being asshats to each other" is accepted by anybody other than Wayne LaPierre.

Gun violence is caused, first and foremost, by the presence of a gun. A sufficient cause? Often yes, given appropriate context.

There are plenty of very successful ways to "hold back" this technology. It's called law.

Anyway I don't think anybody is worried about this 3d printed deal other than the press trying to get page views. The scrawny middle class kid who made it is an uninteresting attention whore, and the gun itself is a massive piece of shit. As others have pointed out, self-made ballistic weapons have been possible for years. This doesn't lower the convenience factor.
Thats true. All gun will wear out and fail eventually.
I find it interesting that displays the error from exec, but not bash:

zsh: exec format error: ./a
Why iPhone repair costs have soared
I just hate downvotes without explanation. It's like, yeah you have a valid point here, but I don't like it, so here we go. Pathetic.

Downvotes seemed to me to be designed to cut off rude remarks, not to silence valid points that someone may not be able or willing to handle.
I think the author meant that part as a joke- he's my friend and not actually a PBR drinking fixed gear riding hipster.
Australian police: exploding 3D printed gun will kill you and your victim
Yes, perfect. :) Next time you are explaining this nmcfarl.
I-5 Skagit River Bridge Collapse
You probably should have read the first line of text on that page.

> This story appears in my collection Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present, 2007

craphound.com has been Cory's website for as long as I can remember.
Renaming our product: lessons learned
I applied two times and both times my application got rejected. My college doesn't provide any .edu or other email ids to its students so I guess this isn't for me.
Your post contains worthwile discussion and well thought out points...but I'm reluctant to address it because you've seemed to miss the part in my post where I actually clicked through to the OP's underlying elaboration and found it to be as poorly supported as the statement of the OP's that you consider just to be a rhetorical technique.
Integrity and/or fear that failure to be extremely tough on themselves would be used as a weapon to try to get their funding cut.
So what's next? A camera drone quadrocopter flies out and updates street view once something notable changes? That would be classy.
No, to get foo["bar"]() in CLJS you write ((:bar foo)). :bar in this case is a function, which returns a value by a key ":bar" from "foo", it's not a property.
Be In, Be Real and Be Bold
Isn't this what asm.js attempts to provide?
With mature tooling it should be possible to code in whichever language and compile or run on top of a VM which itself runs atop asm.js without having to worry about the underlying JS much at all (unless you want serious optimisation).

It wouldn't surprise me if we eventually come full circle and discard the DOM entirely. Each web application is just a giant <canvas> with QT or something compiled to JS providing the UI elements.
oops. I need to check what is happening on the domain then. Thanks for the info
This is really difficult to do. For a number of reasons, speed does not necessarily scale proportionately with the number of cores:

(1) Intel Turbo Boost, which will run a single core at higher frequency than multiple cores (to make matters worse, this is also dependent on the CPU's temperature).

(2) Hyperthreading giving you anywhere between a x2 and no speedup depending on what your code is doing under the hood.

(3) NUMA giving, well, non-uniform speedups for some memory access patterns.

(4) Background processes occupying 1+ cores.
> Enter asm.js, where the source code is as readable as a compiler's assembly output.

What do you mean? Isn't it roughly as readable as C?
No, it's not, and it's certainly not OK. Javascript is a quirky interpreted scripting language created for scripting minor workflow events. It's an afterthought by Netscape, duct-taped to a bundle of silly hacks, wrapped up in some interesting attempts to standardise, with a few more vendor-specific hacks crowbarred in there for good measure. asm.js is one more hack on top of the mess, and while it's technically interesting, and probably very useful (much like the rest of javascript), we shouldn't be building these monstrous feats of engineering on top of such shaky foundations.

> there's only one language that works everywhere without installation or trouble and that's JavaScript.

This is true. But we've arrived at this situation virtually by chance, and it's a huge mess and we shouldn't be readily accepting it. We need a real bytecode for the web, we need it to be standardised and we need to push for browsers to support it. NaCl seems to be the furthest down the road to this objective so far.
JavaScript is (sort of) what Visual Basic used to be back in the 90s...
I've downvoted a couple of your comments in this thread that were in a similar style. HN isn't reddit.

Please educate yourself on the way discussions are conducted here.
I have nothing against Tesla. But the fact of the matter is that cars like Tesla make are impractical for the vast majority of drivers. They are doing great selling into a niche market that find the cars appealing, but that proves nothing about the future of electric automobiles for the mass market. None of them would be even as successful as they are without massive support from government grants and tax credits. Free charging is not sustainable, and our current electrical infrastructure won't support massive adoption of plug-in electrics without significant upgrading. It will be decades if not longer before electric vehicles are a workable option for most people.
Intel Says Haswell Will Extend Laptop Battery Life by 50 Percent
Also, no integers. Who needs integers anyway?
Does not compute. At least on OS X:

$ ld a.o
ld: warning: -macosx_version_min not specified, assuming 10.7
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"start", referenced from:
implicit entry/start for main executable
ld: symbol(s) not found for inferred architecture x86_64
I think that large government subsidies are inevitably going to be needed if you wish to start a car company these days. They may be inevitable if you just want to keep one running - very few car companies have made it through the last decade without some form of government help.

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Plus I'm pretty sure the WSJ would be decry Tesla's stupidity if the left this money on the table. These incentives weren't designed fir Tesla, they just take advantage of them.
To the author (if self posted). The distraction of the green menu pullout icon made me unable to read the text on my iPhone. I gave up after realizing the unpleasantness caused by the distraction.
Will we ever get past classical physics?
Why?

The file is marked as executable, so the shell very reasonably tries to execute it by calling some well-chosen member of the exec() family (http://linux.die.net/man/3/exec).

The exec() function then needs to open and parse the file according to the formats it supports, which of course fails since the file is empty.

Do you simply mean that you expected the shell to validate this, and not try to execute empty files?
Both the Chrome and Firefox teams seem so incredibly reluctant to do it though and are almost desperately trying to do anything but.
The last one is just as likely an infinite loop as a crash. Even C compilers occasionally manage to do tail-call optimization these days.
Laurene Powell Jobs and Anonymous Giving in Silicon Valley
Dear Manufacturers, if there's a newer tech allowing better battery efficiency, don't reduce battery capacity to maintain profit margins but instead please keep the same capacity and bump up the price slightly. People will still buy them if your product has 12-18 hours battery life while the competition has a mere 4-6 hours. We really don't mind paying extra for longer worktime.
I wonder if pg considered this: replacing up/down arrows with such a scale (0-name calling, 1-ad hominem, etc.) to force users to think about what up/down means every time they vote.
If I zoom out, I don't see it: http://puu.sh/3081u.png

But at the default zoom level, I do see it: http://puu.sh/30828.png
Unix is social. Where do you think the Internet comes from?

It started as a social network of people sharing data in tapes.
Actually the real issue is the widely available capacity to put 15 bullet holes in a person in 10 seconds. Let's solve that issue first, then we can worry about "Hate and Prejudice".
It's neutral at best. Failing to report on it would be very bad, but reporting on it isn't a particular mark of integrity.

It seems the integrity is less impressive when the controversy is closer to home (the people running the failed DMI project and the journalistic ends of the BBC are likely to be very far removed from each other) - see the Pollard Report.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb/david-elstein/jimmy-sav...
Okay - there are a lot of First World Problems too left solve.

Like - drop in replacement system for the flywheel of a car consisting of electrical engine with recuperation braking system backed by supercapacitors (batteries are expensive) you could turn any car in de facto hybrid for a fraction of the cost and it could be used on the current fleet that will be in commission for a long time to come.

Heat pump that cools tank of water at night to 4 degrees and pumps up the cold back into the build which would make air conditioning at summer much less straining on the grid and cheaper to operate.

There a lot of inefficiencies in out energy production and consumption system that could be eliminated by some engineering ingenuity and sufficiently smart software.
There are so many things wrong with this article.

First of all, Tesla is paying back its federal loan 9 years early. So all the stuff about what we taxpayers have paid for is bogus.

The carbon credits issue is brought up as though we already agree that it's wrong/bad with no discussion. I don't agree. I think it's clearly the right way to go, and other manufacturers should be moving to EVs.

The phrase "environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg" should qualify as slander against all environmentalists. He is the opposite of an environmentalist. Every step of the way he's been arguing against fighting climate change. He's a shill for the status quo, and whenever you see someone cite him, you can rest assured they are arguing for oil, coal, etc.

Tesla is about the future. Anyone without vision is going to clearly be upset about the compromises we have to make now in order to get us where we want to be.

But those people would be the same ones moaning about how much money we're wasting on NASA in 1964.
Concise and correct; there's really not much more to say on this topic.
Technically true, but if you say no, and they later somehow find out about it, they will say you were misrepresenting yourself to USCIS and ban you from the country for life. This is not hyperbole; that's the response that misrepresentation carries.
They are. SSD's and LED backlighting help.

Android can expose "which subsystem is using power" information to the user and applications, which is worth looking at. On phones, it's mainly screen and WAN radio.
Histofme - Twitter for diaries
Histofme is a 'micro diary' service to write and share the memories of your life, creating chronologies of your life or maybe telling your customers the milestones of your company.

It also allows users to write secret memories which can be only seen by its writer.

On user profiles people can browse memories acording to their tags and dates.

Histofme has web and mobile sites at the moment. iOS and Android apps will be published in 3-4 weeks.
Part of the social contract in most societies is that the police are the only members of society who can use enough force to kill or injure anyone critically. The governments of these societies create laws to ensure that it is only special well regulated instances when an ordinary citizen can use deadly force (hunting of lower animals and self defense being two examples in the United States). Anywhere these guns can be manufactured successfully thwarts the old laws and contracts.

This means that it will be a "Problem", but no one can say for who. The big gun manufactures are going to be pissed and are already probably already preparing legislation to bitch slap any one who tries to produce these guns. The liberator people are working on making the guns not explode and hurt anyone. The police are scrambling to figure out how to reclaim their sole ownership of force. The people are waiting to see what happens.
Shortest crashing website:
Error establishing a database connection
Oh right, thanks for the correction.
Show your open-source in style. Download your own GitHub index.html.
Because of your post, Mr. OP, I shall check out Game of Thrones. I have always been fascinated by how stories can teach us so many things if we look beneath the words. For one, I would highly recommend "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", a Chinese literature piece that tells the stories of various leaders and their strategies on leading armies to victories. NOTE: I am not in favour of war but merely the way that they are able to raise the morale of people towards a cause - something that would be helpful to all businesses.
I can vouch for @sylvinus' ability to organize great, inspiring conferences. Looking forward to this one!
> Passion is no longer a differentiator, it’s a prerequisite. It’s why you’re at the race, but it’s not the reason you’ll win.

This is just great life advice. If you want to be the best (or even really good) at something, you can't just want it the most. Everyone wants it.
Defense Distributed added a piece of steel to the final build to make it detectible and legal. It's entirely possible most metal detectors won't pick it up.

Anecdote: I went to traffic court years ago, and after exiting the courthouse stuck my hand in my pocket and realized I had forgotten to remove a handful of .22 LR cartridges. They did not activate the detector.
A bad hosting strikes again.
Well battery life, at least as I've seen it on Macs keeps going up year after year so I'm pretty confident that trend will continue. Not sure about other manufacturers but only because I haven't kept up with them not a lack of confidence.
I get his rant. But most of the "real" problems at least on the surface require huge amounts of resources, if they are even solvable.

For instance, world hunger. We seem to produce more food per unit land area each year yet people still go hungry. I'm sure the explanations given are all valid, but more importantly solving them requires near-global consensus for which no incentives seem to exist.

Example 1 -- food market speculation. How many in the West care if millions go hungry when there's money to be made?

Example 2 -- continued breeding by the poor. Many in the West are opposed to any form of birth control except "God's will."

Having tilted at a few windmills in my day, I can see why people would give up trying to solve "moon shot" level problems in favor of something achievable (and with any luck, sinfully profitable) in their lifetime.
This was great last year... sadly I can't make it this year :(
Perhaps. But in my travels, I have yet to find anyone really pushing Dart just because it's google. (perhaps it's still too early)
How are they outliers? Are they outliers because of their success? Or are they outliers because their founders were passionate about their fundamental mission, and despite this passion, they managed to become huge tech companies? That's a strange use of outlier for the purpose of this argument.

Ok, I'll use another example: Tumblr. Amid the news of the sale, Marco Arment blogged about David Karp was so doggedly passionate about building the community. Yes, another outlier, but if you are going to call passion one of the most "dangerous" things for a business...then it seems a bit strange that many successful businesses have quite a bit of underlying passion.

(Oh, and Steve Jobs and Steve Woz, just in case that wasn't already automatically accepted).

In any case, my argument is not completely sound. While the most successful companies have been founded on passion, it's possible that the vast majority of passionate founders fail. In fact, this is probably the case. But in order for the OP's statement to have any validity to it, one must show that companies not built on someone's personal passion have a higher rate of success. This is extremely heard to quantify, but I'd be interested in just seeing a list of non-passion companies that are considered unambiguous successes.
Javascript is not just a "quirky scripting language for minor workflow events." It is a powerful, expressive language, that has many benefits over contemporary languages, regardless of setting. Yes, it has quirks, and yes, there are some things that coming from another language are difficult to grasp, but it is not a Bad Language.

The fact that Node.js, Javascript on the server, is gaining so much popularity in the developer community means that it has benefits beyond its universality in the browser.

Asm.js is not a "hack on the top of the mess", it's a simplification of "the mess" down to it's simplest, most bytecode-esque parts. And it's performance is shockingly close to Native.

Javascript is not the perfect bytecode for the web. But it does work as a bytecode for the web, and with asm.js, it seems that it works decently well. I think efforts are better spent improving Javascript, asm.js, and languages that can target it rather than swimming upstream.
Ok, thats true. And some of the built-in functions are crazy - parseInt("09") anyone? - but the basic workings of the language seem ok to me.
I totally agree with this, but it's less about price, and more about weight and form factor - thinner and lighter are selling points.

I'd settle for longer battery life in the same form factors we have now, but you know someone will try to sell us phones that have junk battery life and are 0.8mm thinner...
This is a more popular story than the fact that the bridge collapsed in the first place?
Thanks :) We will try to outdo ourselves this year!
> It wouldn't surprise me if we eventually come full circle and discard the DOM entirely. Each web application is just a giant <canvas> with QT or something compiled to JS providing the UI elements.

The shocking thing is that we are almost at a point where a solution that sounds as stupid as that is actually less contrived and complex than the current mess.
very few car companies have made it through the last decade without some form of government help.

So keeping dinosaur companies on life support with tax dollars is a good thing?
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Numba and Cython are faster than C? In my experience, C is the fastest, and the baseline. Was the C compiled with the right optimization flags?

It'd be interesting to see a comparison to Matlab's JIT. Is Numba competitive?
I'm less laid back regarding this than most of the people in this thread (I think it is a problem) but your comment is ridiculous. First of all what has this got to do with bombs? It's a story about a home made gun. Also:

Terrorism: The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.

Until someone uses this to cause terror it isn't terrorism.

>> "I see someone creating guns and killing people to be no different than boston bombers."

For a start no one has been killed with this gun. People are killed with guns every day - that does not constitue terrorism. The Boston bombers committed mass murder of innocent people and caused 'terror' in Boston - that is terrorism.