skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He He... Their site is hard to read and understand and so is Haskell at first glance.
Pondering Those Who Dis Apple's CEO Tim Cook [video]
One person is not a "culture", and he's not an anarchist. But point still taken.
(partially) covering the wheel doesn't have to be as ugly as it is in this particular VW. I submit the first generation Plymouth Fury as evidence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Fury
If there was any truth to what you were saying you'd put your actual name on it, instead of creating disposable accounts.

One of the things they could do to make HN work better is to add a waiting period for new accounts.

Like buying a gun. You can't use the account for five days.

Maybe we can still have anonymity in the cases where whistle-blowers need to say something and be protected.

But hit and run comments like this one are what's poisoning this place.
Probably the expensive part is true. :(
To each their own! There may also be demographic factors at work: I'm 29 and was among the first of my friends in college to use a digital camera. Certainly among my peer cohort sending / receiving NSFW pics is a common practice, but I obviously can't speak for everyone.

I suspect there are a lot of people like me out there, who would be leery of wholesale uploading to Flickr, for fear of missing a couple shots that shouldn't be public. I do use Flickr, but only for selected shots: https://www.flickr.com/photos/91262622@N02/ , some of which are just website storage. Others are experiments; for example, I bought an Olympus OM-D recently and have spent a lot of time getting accustomed to the camera.
It's a weird comment because the definition of "correct" is not specified. Is it a workaround for a bug in Unicode or a bug in its implementation?
For a company that is in decline a lot of cash in the bank is pointless. Yahoo was in decline. So you can either have nice balance sheets while others chip away at your core business or you can spend your money either rebuilding your core or extending it.
Man, they are on some buying binge. Unfortunately for them, I don't think it's possible to buy innovation or relevance. Those things have to come from within and permeate the entire culture of the firm - and Yahoo just doesn't have it right now.
I worked from home for 4 years straight and never gave it more thought than "work when I feel like working or when the situation requires it." Look at that, my method fits in a tweet!
Even better than IFTTT for weather is the iOS app Dark Sky. I have it set to give me a push notification whenever it starts raining in my area. THAT'S a useful feature so I remember to grab an umbrella if I don't notice the rain yet.
My whole working life, when Microsoft changes something in Visual Studio, do you know what the only answer has been? Recreate the Project from scratch the new way. Every single time.

So, when you switch to a Google Docs way of life, you don't necessarily import your Office documents into it. For things like Spreadsheets, you might have to recreate them, if they use weird features. It's unfortunate. Moving away from Office is hard, no argument.

Why should I answer a hypothetical where my Chromebox can use absolutely no other software, ever? It's a ridiculous hypothetical.

My Windows box is literally useless to me, if I can't run Visual Studio on it.

My Chromebook is a more secure way and faster to Remote Desktop in to my primary computer, than my Windows Laptop is. Chromebook WILL NOT replace my primary computer, for any time in the immediate future - I work on Windows Applications. That's just my life. But if I were a web developer???
I feel the comparison to American Educational system is rather unfair, the American Higher Education being much more evolved and the best there is. IMHO Indian Education system would compare favorably to many other countries with the same socio-economic factors. This is not to say the system does not need to improve, but so does the Education system everywhere else (more of the sort of MOOCs/Khan Academy for instance; college fees have been increasing sharply in India).

In my personal opinion historically the Colleges in India were more occupied by handing out more degrees and not education. To go beyond the routine was always due to self initiatives of the select few and not the majority. If the colleges increased the standards higher than the usual then a majority of students would fail ( "out of syllabus" was a regular complaint if the exams were too hard). This is not a critique of the Educational system, rather I feel glad that my Indian college education was easy enough to let me pursue avenues which benefited me more than what was taught in classroom. A degree from a reputed Indian college is only to open doors, what you learn depends entirely on how motivated you are.
I really wish Apple would let apps create their own type of account rather than arbitrarily picking services for users.
I feel bad for the guy who's asked to take these Excel spreadsheets and turn them into a production app. #EnterpriseLife

But in all seriousness, the artwork is fantastic.
I'm not management, but I've had it described to me like this: cutting soda, while it may be insignificant and certainly isn't going to change a damned thing money-wise for the company, makes the management feel better about the situation. It makes them feel like they're doing something and something is better than nothing. It's also a CYA tactic. If the CEO wants to hold somebody personally accountable, the CFO can say "look, we did everything, we even cut back the soda!"

Diversion warning: it's surprising to me how many management decisions get made solely to make people feel like they have control in a situation where they actually have no control. It's the same mechanism the government exploits when making decisions about the TSA.
Volkswagen has been doing interesting things with diesel for a while now. Back in 2005, they introduced the turbo diesel powered Audi R10, which won the 2006 12 Hours of Sebring and 24 Hours of Le Mans. It was replaced in 2011 by another turbo diesel, the R18.

Of course, neither of these are diesel/electric hybrids, but it's not a surprise that, given their history of inovation with diesel, Volkswagen Group put something like this together.
An early Saab also had covered front wheels, to improve economy. It was problematic though because it under certain conditions it could get packed with snow and hinder turning.
I did it for a few months while moving to a new city before I had my own place. It wasn't too bad. I'd buy a basic coffee (and sometimes a cheap bagel) and find a corner to setup in. At lunch, I'd pack up and find something to eat, then head to a different place and buy a coffee. Sometimes I'd go to the library instead. It wasn't any more expensive than going out with coworkers for lunch every day...

Most businesses did't seem to mind people hanging out, makes the place look busier I guess. I figure as long as there are other empty seats I'm not in anyone's way. That said, if I did it again I'd probably tip a lot more than I had been tipping.
GOOG eng. bashes MSFT's handling of scrty rsrchers-discloses Windows zeroday
I can't show you our app as it's internal but in my travels I found the Dairy Queen site exhibits similar behaviour. https://www.dqcakes.com/#/home

Get through to where you pick your cake design and pick one, then go back, repeat and watch the memory increase.
Want to practice Algos & DS with other programmer?
> Gmail is a shell of itself.

I'm having a hard time thinking of anything GMail used to do, that it doesn't any more. Can you list some?
cars are not an innovative technology. Cars that run on electricity existed since the 1920s and only recently mass produced by the likes of Nissan and others. Telsa sells expensive, heavy cars that run on batteries. Yes they are shiny. You know what would be innovative? Mass transit on a mass scale, away from automotive transport...

but there is no money to be made on any market for that..
I have yet to find a coffee shop with solid enough Internet for my needs. From talking to people I know in management at coffee shops, the reason for this is that the don't want people sitting there all day working. This may be different at different coffee shops though.
dear bloggers and commenters, you really need to qualify "large". "Large" probably means something between 10k LOC and 1M LOC and the approach to coding at either end if this spectrum is vastly different.

For example, I'm at the 50k mark on the frontend and I found angular's basic building blocks to be too restrictive in terms of organizing things into reusable components. I had to answer questions like "can views do I/O", "does a view own his model", "how deeply should views nest", "should my models be tree-like or rectangular", "can my contracted designer write arbitrary markup with arbitrary UI widgets or does the framework not like that". Angular's way of doing controllers with dependency injection got in my way of answering these questions. I would love to read someone's opinions on this, especially if I'm wrong, but nobody (including me) has time to write a well thought out essay on this.
I think if you work a whole day in a coffee shop, you're kind of a jerk. I occasionally go to a coffee shop to work for an hour or so. Many times it's been the most focused hour I had that week.

The biggest thing is to remember that you're in a place of business. If you're going to take their space, buy something, tip well, and be courteous to the people around you.
Sadly, I couldn't read the article due to the paywall. But I agree with you. I don't think AI will replace knowledge workers. A couple of decades ago, people used to say that workers in factories would disappear as well. That never happened, at least not completely.

The costs are always a problem. If AI will ever really replace us, is still a mystery for the future. Because for it to work, it would have to be cost effective.
Sometimes it is smarter for the short and long term just to right a little jQuery in your controller. You are right, don't worry about reusability until you actually reuse something for the 3rd time.

If you are going to be doing something a lot (capitalizing the first letter in your example), then I think writing the filter does save you in the long run. Writing the filter doesn't seem worth it when you project is small. When you project gets big, and there are little one off jQuery statements everywhere, it gets unmanageable.

The filter allows you to look at your template and immediately know why that word is being capitalized. With jQuery, a year from now you won't remember why/how it is being capitalized, and you'll be grepping for ids and class names.
If the diesel can run on vegetable oil, you could grow a year's supply of fuel with 1 acre of sunflowers. Storage would not be a problem, either. That's a cheaper way to access solar energy for driving than an acre of solar panels.
I appreciate the suggestions. Since it's something I'll want to consider writing about, why are you interested in the "by hand" integrations rather than using the Flask plugins?
Because the article, like just about damn everyone else, completely misunderstands Moore's law, which actually observes that the number of transistors we can fit on a chip doubles every two years. Transistor count does not directly correlate to performance.
But you have to include the cost of building the entire building and real estate. That's a sunk cost for Sears, so they don't have to worry about that.
nyone ready to practice and build strong skillset for Algos and DS?

Hey folks, anyone python newbie or someone who wants to learn DS and Algos. I have a plan. We can make a team of 5-7 guys (who knows basics of python) and can practice regularly, solve problems, hack algos and match/review each others solutions, guide each other. It would a fun + learning experience.

If we work in group, are committed to practice, we can increase our skillset within few months while helping and encouraging each other. This is a FB group specially for those who want to build strong Data Structure and Algos skillset.

It would have 8-10 dedicated programmers who want to crunch DSA.
And when you will leave your enterprise, your code won't be maintainable anymore because the next developers will have no idea about the architecture of your application. Then someday someone will say "well ... nobody understand this code anymore ... let's get ride it, guys. I guess it's time for feature freeze.".

Of course, we're talking about some size of application here. If you just want to make a todo list, jQuery is fine. But when dealing with a potentially huge codebase, it is good to enforce practices.
Gattaca, and computer assisted knowledge work. Let's use humans for what humans are good at and computers for what computers are good at. Let's also work on the interface between those two systems.
you misread computing power as CPU clock speed
It's wrong. It's not the computer power that's doubling, it's the number of transistors. Big difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_law
The author of this article tweeted a response by a Professor from the same college: http://kafila.org/2013/05/06/the-golchakkar-of-premier-insti...
There's something about the blur effect that is really compelling -- it's almost like there are little pieces of real paper flying around.

Code is here: https://github.com/dhotson/dhotson.github.com/blob/master/bl...
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Angular helps you organize and test your code. How did you test your 50+ onclick functions? Did someone come after you to do maintenance and agree the jQuery was the way to go?
Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle ... Allows You To Live Without Breathing
It's certainly possible to buy both innovation and relevance.

Innovation is possible by acquiring already-innovative companies and letting them flourish as if you hadn't bought them, then stick your name on the work they produce.

Relevance is even easier, just throw $1.1 B and you're going to be the thing that's relevant. At least for a little while.

Is it ideal? Can it scale? Will it last? No, but it gets the job done.
Generally either electronica, glitch-hop, or 90s/00s alternative rock.
i hope you know about this:
https://sites.google.com/site/verticalwindfarm/
wish i never thought of it.
I have a hard time adopting frameworks because of the all-or-nothing aspect of them. If you use Angular, you have to use their templating language, right? I know that they do a lot of powerful things with it, but honestly it's difficult for me to throw away all of my current tools. It's just too much of a jump.

There's so much I love about libraries like angular and ember, but I'd love it if someone was working on a way to allow additional templating languages. I don't know how it would work, but you could possible compile other templates down to angular templates.

I've been thinking of a way to convert simple templates in angular's style, so that you can do all the cool auto-updating features. If there was a standard for this, templates like mustache, etc could compile a subset down to it.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of nunjucks https://github.com/jlongster/nunjucks.
Is this accounting for all the labor and resources it takes to grow and process the sunflowers?
Uptime - your own Pingdom
No one hear I think is doubting the fact that companies cannot be built outside silicon valley. They can be and do get built outside SV. But, the point is, large percentage of successful tech companies have originated from silicon valley.
Right now, there is very little chance of launching a shuttle by accident ;-)
Roald Dahl had a writing hut in his garden: http://www.roalddahlmuseum.org/discoverdahl/exploring/
HN is certainly not the place I expected to find a comment criticizing the aesthetics of a useful engineering decision.
In the future, fuel-efficient cars will look like normal cars! I can't wait. Hopefully it will be because the people making them realize that fuel-efficient cars don't need to look like rejected drawings from Doug[1] and not that everyone decided that all cars need to look like rejected drawings from Doug.

[1] http://i986.photobucket.com/albums/ae342/dougfunnieiscrazy/D...
My new screensaver.
The buildings do not have to be full to bring in more revenue than when sitting empty. Once they pay for operating expenses, everything else is profit. In many cases, I suspect the buildings are paid for, so the value of the real-estate is a sunk cost.

These aren't going to be on Google's scale. This is Ace Hardware not Home Depot. Optimization scales accordingly.
> Sadly, I couldn't read the article due to the paywall.

Just open it in Incognito Mode. The Economist uses a simple, cookie-based porous paywall.
jQuery 1.9.1 + Underscore 1.4.4, minified and gzipped is 37,283 bytes. Angular.js 1.0.7 minified and gzipped is 30,254 bytes. So you're actually sending down significantly less code for small projects if you're just using angular.

Furthermore, my experience has been the opposite of yours - I find myself writing far less glue/boilerplate code with angular.
Working for a regional grocery retailer from the mid-90's to the mid-2000's, I can assure you that not nearly enough consideration was given to bandwidth needs when designing and building new stores. I remember, as late as 2002, having an entire store run off of something like a 512kbps circuit.

We literally shipped register (paper) journal tapes back to the warehouse via truck mail.
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Ha Ha... That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline. SPACE CAMP!
It is not well established or popular opinion. I work at a startup and many of my co-workers support patents, copyright, and intellectual property while simultaneously decrying patents like this.
i dont think you understand...
sim1a.com
I haven't actually taken the time to get the metrics, but probably in the neighborhood of 50k.
If you look at the SecurID wikipedia[1] page, in the references you can find a paper discussing two factor authorization in 1996[1]. Also, it's not defining two factor authentication, it assumes the reader knows what it is.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurID

[2]: http://www.homeport.org/~adam/dimacs.html
Well, it has a conventional shape, but it also looks distinct. I think trying to make an electric car that looks just like any other car would be a mistake- I came to this conclusion after looking at the Prius and the Insight.

See, the Insight was too weird and too much of a compromise (2 seater, stickshift), so even though it got 70MPG in the 90's, it never took off. Nor did the first generation Prius, which looks exactly like an ordinary car. Then the second generation comes along, which is much like an ordinary car but has a distinctive look that says "Look at me! I'm driving a Prius!" and it sold like hotcakes.

My conclusion is essentially that people were uninterested in hybrids, unless the hybrid was recognizable as such to act as a social signal, yet did not compromise on any of the functionality of a regular car. So in summary, the Tesla does these things- it has a distinctive look, enough to signal "Look at me! I drive a Tesla!" while still being very close to an ordinary car.
The "Moore's Law" used in the article "that the computing power available for a given price doubles about every 18 months" is correct, but it is a slight redefinition of the actual "Moore's Law".

In any case, the costs are going down, the number of cores are growing, and, more importantly, computing power is not restricted to CPUs (see GPUs/APUs).
It's my understanding that Armin Ronacher -- the creator of Flask -- has been making a lot of progress lately on porting to Python 3.[1] I don't think it's ready for production yet, but it's definitely something to keep an eye on. I might make it a point to address it in the book.

[1] http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/5/21/porting-to-python-3-redux/
Battle Over 'GIF' Pronunciation Erupts
It looks like an "ordinary" car.

It looks like a hot car. Not only is it functionally awesome, it looks awesome. This is a car that people would want to not only drive but be seen driving.

Let's be honest, most people will buy a car based on how it looks. Sure, fuel economy, size, utility, and how it fits you lifestyle all matter, but if there's 2 cars that are somewhat the same but one looks better to the purchaser they are most likely going to buy the car that looks the best. Sometimes even if it doesn't have everything they need.

I don't need a Tesla Model S but I would buy one if I had the disposable income. I don't need a Dodge Challenger but I'd buy one if I had the disposable income. Both of those vehicles I find hot.
He has effectively announced that he won't enforce the patent and he has apparently not attempted to do so in all these years. The patent means nothing (except that it could serve as prior art to defeat a subsequent patent claim).
Seems like this article is conflating service workers with knowledge workers. Being a chauffeur isn't the same as being a designer.
How to Run Your Business Like an 11-Year-Old
I was the first early adopter to stop using the service.
Platformer Game Starter Kit for Windows 8 (HTML5)
Good advice. I'd like to add something that has helped me in the last year or so of working from home: have a dedicated work device (in my case a laptop + monitor) that is exclusively for work.
All other browsing, personal side projects, etc that I do in the morning before I begin work or in the evening is done on my "personal" devices (second laptop or ipad). This way my workstation is in the state I left it in the next day and there aren't any distracting tabs I have to prune before I get to work.
Wow, someone found a way to make the modal begging cup even more annoying! Congrats! Enjoy your bounce rate!
You are completely missing the point of directives. Your proposed alternative strategy of using "only jQuery, Underscore templates and a CommonJS compiler" will leave you with DOM manipulation code entangled with your controller logic and a nearly untestable mess. Directives are meant to encapsulate any code that directly deals with manipulating the DOM so that stuff doesn't leak into your model or controller logic.

You of course don't have to throw everything into directives but then you risk making your code less portable and your tests more brittle. Wrapping a jQuery plugin in a directive is so trivial it's not even worth mentioning, and it certainly doesn't result in "enormous amounts of glue code to please AngularJS".

> over-complicated testing procedures

And this is where you showed your hand. You can't have written tests for an angular app because if you had you wouldn't have made such a bizarre statement. Angular's dependency injection combined with the fantastic Karma test runner makes testing an absolute breeze.
It is still not good. I've started working on an asteroids game [0], and I tried moving my physics calculations to a background thread, but it ended up being slower.

0 http://www.isaksky.com/asteroids/
The real-estate deed for any mall location almost certainly precludes such uses by covenant. If they didn't, Sears would never have bought the property in the first place.
EPIC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bStRND-vJj8&list=RD02vpV_...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAsRnFa4NlY
Rust Pattern Matching and the Option Type
Same age. I'm clearly hanging out with the "wrong friends"
Ahh, Turkey strikes again! The Turkish locale is notoriously difficult to handle for a variety of reasons. One of my colleagues wrote an excellent post about the different ways that Turkish conventions can break your code: http://www.moserware.com/2008/02/does-your-code-pass-turkey-...

This seems to be yet another one!
Yes I realise this. User generated video may not be Yahoo's priority right now but on the subject of video, studio produced content is more than likely to be. Everyone's throwing their hat in the ring when it comes to streaming tv online. You can be Yahoo wants in on some of the action. What's going to be a better revenue generator?