skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to believe that the go team members aren't being disingenuous when they say this.

There has been some talk, but it's mixed in with a lot of noise too.

I don't think that anyone is expecting a PL research breakthrough to provide some generics panacea. I think this is more along the lines of how can we pragmatically introduce generics without messing up too bad. From what I've seen, I personally think some form of templating has the most promise (though I am far from qualified to actually comment on its viability).
The newest windows is NEVER in fashion :P
Well... it is a hint. It does look like that, but it isn't.
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The quote I found most interesting was this:

"The response to Windows 8 has been substantial"

substantial not positive, funny that!
I wish I could get the 3 minutes back that I spent reading that. That belongs on an infomercial that runs on Comedy Central around 3am.
HTC One Google Edition announced, launching June 26th for $599
There is some support via a plugin [0] for JetBrains Idea. I also wouldn't be surprised to see JetBrains put some internal effort into supporting Go, from what I've heard Idea is pretty popular within Google and they just switched their Android Studio over to an Idea base.

[0] https://github.com/mtoader/google-go-lang-idea-plugin
Not surprised at all. Any time I ever see a social photo next to a search result, I automatically assume it's a social media post or page and won't even bother to look at it, if I'm looking for anything else.

Why on earth would anyone want a face associated with a program, website, or anything that's not a social media account?

But, very good to know the statistical result.
How many mainframes run windows? It doesn't matter, because mainframes are not where the computing mainstream is.
It makes more sense in Vegas. You really don't want such a mass of drunk people walking up and down stairs all the time :)
It does take getting used to. Also, seeing $ everywhere on a line and . not being property access. Though with lenses...I won't get into that...
Make no mistake, Google developers often make great programming tools. It stems from a culture of engineering and dog-fooding.

Some examples are AppEngine, Angular.js, Go, GWT, and Chrome Developer tools.
Does the average person buying a laptop from Bestbuy really care that much about screen resolution?

The longer lifespans of PCs and laptops combined with the popularity of smartphones and iPads is a more likely reason for the drop off in sales.
Wow... what on earth are they thinking? And what on earth are some people who have commented thinking, to support this?

I go to hotels, hostels, couch-surf, etc; I know people who rent properties with varying degrees of seriousness and involvement, and couch-surfing hosts. I interact with people who do these things on every continent. Airbnb is ridiculously out of line; it's requiring more than authoritarian governments do, much less any of its competition.
Ask HN: How do I monetise my site, and should I open source it?
I've recently created FabFabbers.com, and looking for suggestions from fellow hackers on how to monetise it. Two of the features I added (syncing from GitHub, and OpenSCAD in the browser) seem to be popular with the hard core 3D community, but I'm wondering which way to go in terms of making it a viable business.
Another question I have is that quite a few people have asked me to open source the site - which I'd like to do, but again, not entirely sure the best way to do it without giving away everything. It seems two models for open source are big companies that make money on service, or small companies/individuals for whom the code is a portfolio of their skills.
I fully agree: The start menu was never a good idea, we just used it. As soon as you start installing and removing things, it quickly became cumbersome. Windows XP (iirc?) introduced weird ideas of how to cope with the chaos in that evergrowing, 3-4 level deep list of things you might or might not want to start: The 'personalization' feature that kind of randomly hid most of your menu. The hacks to order the menu (which never really worked reliably).

So the options today are fine, for my usecase, and I'm hard pressed to accept that the old solution was better in general.

- Pin programs to the taskbar
- Use shortcuts for common/important stuff (Win+i, Win+x, Win+w, Win+f are the ones I need)
- Use the type to complete thing otherwise

Most users I know moved to that workflow anyway, before Windows 8 (the start menu entry on previous Windows versions. Spotlight or maybe QuickSilver before that on OS X. Unity / Gnome Shell on Linux).

In my opinion the start menu needed constant micro-management and was a hassle.

(Disclaimer: I'm not happy with the ui formerly known as Metro, but I do like the 'type to launch' approach a lot)
Yeah, stop pining over elm ;)
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This really bothered me when I had mail shipped to me in Shanghai from amazon (US). Amazon forces you to provide a state. Shanghai is its own administrative unit, at a level with Chinese provinces. So my address ended up being "<street>, Shanghai, Shanghai China".

I've seen natives handle that problem by filling in their district in the "city" field, so e.g. in my case "<street>, Minhang district, Shanghai China", analogous to e.g. "<street>, Nob Hill, San Francisco, USA".
Cottusinfo, Blog Post about us!
Very cool. But very expensive compared to a Nexus 4. I'd love to get an HTC One, but I can't justify it. I'd be interested if they did the same to the rumoured 4.3" 'mini-One'.
What about probiotics for ulcerative colitis? A brief scholar search shows some tentative promise:

http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v104/n2/abs/ajg2008118a.ht...
http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v100/n7/abs/ajg2005272a.ht...

May only help for the more mild cases, but I know a number of people who speak very highly of probiotics for various digestive tract issues.
Um... they kinda do. You either need to provide a credit card or large cash deposit (if that's even possible anymore). Very often they will also require to see your driver's license. If you're foreign, you'll need to let them copy your passport too.
Yes, this mars the result. I wonder if things are different when it's only on blog posts.

Blog post search results are also more likely to field multiple results with authorship pictures.

Still, worrisome if it's the only top ranked result with a photo. I imagine this will fade over time as people get used to it, took me a few months to figure out what was going on, as a user.
DRM != SSL [2005]
> The traffic light poles include pressable buttons that activate a spoken word warning to walk or not walk, with the spoken phrases about which street to cross making clear which direction has the pedestrian right of way.

That same button vibrates when it becomes safe to walk.
ODesk support is down
A screenshot of the error: http://i.imgur.com/oEipvNg.png

I have verified with 6 people on my skype that uses odesk and they all confirmed that the support page has not been working for more than 10 hours now.

The issue is you cannot select the 2nd drop down menu to advanced you in the page and thus you are stuck there.

I am not sure if this is intentional or they just don't want anyone lodging anymore tickets. Please reply if you guys are also having problems.

Cheers,
Merc
I wonder if Go will be similar to Scala where it arrives to solve issues with Java (or C++). I found that although Scala is a nice language in many ways, the smallness of the community prevented me from adopting it big time for most work. The same holds true for languages like F#. They're fine for special cases (likely what Google intended with Go), but won't be a general purpose replacement for more mainstream languages without some huge advance in support (like what the Rails team did for the Ruby language).

Just my humble opinion..
Actually not that early-stage research. Just stalled by the FDA that decided it is a medical treatment and needs approval.

The FDA approval process usually costs about $150 million, and there is no way to recoup it for anything not patentable. Hence research in this area died because it is not getting through the FDA process.

How many other cheap treatments are not available for the same reason?
Mixer - a fixtures replacement Supporting Django, Flask and SqlAlchemy
Musk’s Genius: Understanding the Cost of a Screw and the Value of a Photo
The fix has happened, it's just that most of the lifting came from other people and a change in circumstances. I think it makes sense.
Couldn't agree more. I dont see the use of leanstack.io its very misleading this isn't about companies stacks at all its about software they use. The majority of SaaS's are using AWS is it really worth mentioning? I'd like to know HOW they use AWS instead of 'yeah we use AWS, computers, desks and chairs'
If you turn off new accounts, how do you know you're not pushing away 10 high quality new users to avoid one negative user signing up?

The only thing I could suggest would be to lower the bar for downvote capability. Or is that not an option at all? I thought I was told at some point that once you reach 200 "karma" you get that ability, but I don't have it.
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The Myth of Geek Culture: Part 2
Thanks for this link, that was very educating! I had no idea that you could do stuff like this.
Pull the image into Photoshop and do some tweaking with levels.
Not brainscrew, please. I find that offensive.
Twitter music & youtube randomizer
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As someone who for the past several years has done very high end legitimate SEO consulting to fortune 500 style companies (i.e. not the spammy mess than the HN crowd would usually associate with SEO), I am more than happy to go on the record and say that for what it's worth, this is the exception and not the rule.

As a few others here have pointed out, slapping Google Authorship markup all over your site is probably not a good idea unless you run a pure news / blog style site.

One other point to note though as well is that I am very familiar with that message in GWT telling you that traffic dropped by a crazy percentage overnight. Given everything going on in the SEO space at the moment, I am not entirely convinced just yet that you don't have a case of correlation rather than causation at the moment.
Can't wait to implement this on our project. Love it.
The feeling of geopolitics shifting under my feet always cheers me up, it's one of the few things about the future that gives me hope. Yesterday's ash pile is today's hegemon. It adds long term fairness to the international system (every nation gets it's 15 minutes of power). The question is how long can this constant table turning last, it probably will not survive once 90% of the nations reach parity of development.

What gives me nightmares is what a competent authoritarian state, corporation or network could do with present technology. Think Stalin with the capabilities of the NSA or Hitler with a first rate human genomics and sequencing program. Such a power could actually accomplish their insane ideas of racial (kill everyone that has these three SNPs) or ideological purity (kill everyone that thinks the government is doing a bad job).
Spoiler: This has nothing to do with stereograms [1] - looking at steganography [2] will be much more helpful.

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

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
> Devices "suited for idiots and people too lazy to read the manual" have, in the past decade, driven massive growths in computing, made it more accessible to more people, changed the landscape of the entire world, and even fueled a few revolutions

The touch devices I assume you're referring to are intuitive because as a human you're naturally good at using your hands to make things move around.

Push a button and it acts like a button, push a thing that looks like a sheet of paper and it moves in a way that you would expect a paper on your "real" desk in front of you to move.

They're "idiot proof" because we've been trained to use them most of our lives.

>But by all means, when people need to read a book just to use a device, we'll consider it a badge of honor instead of a failure of design.

Glass is something we interact with through an entirely alien interface and potentially an extremely powerful tool. I'm not talking about a podcast app, but a head mounted computer you might potentially be using for hours at a time.

Unless you eat a lot of acid, you're probably not familiar with how to interact with imaginary things that float in space before you.

To me, "they had to tell me how to use it" is a much weaker complaint than "it was easy but tedious to use" for something that sits on the side of your head.

This blog post, and the ones it links to, do a much better job of exploring this than I could here:

http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/06/usability-vs-discovera...

(somewhat relevant and fun top gear segment on the evolution of car interfaces) http://www.streetfire.net/video/125-top-gear-first-modern-ca...
It's not a 3D picture. There's a code hidden in the image.

I found it by opening in gimp and randomly messing with colours/brightness/levels/etc

Level 2 appears to require that I download iTunes to reverse engineer an itunes twitter app... I gave up on that
Well, I used to think about it a lot. I almost went mad (literally) just trying to grasp all the fractal layers of deceit that make up the modern world, let alone trying to change it. It got to the point that it started to jeopardise my work and therefore my ability to feed and clothe myself. Life is a lot better now.

Hopefully in the near future when I've calmed down a bit, I'll be able to be more useful and work towards changing the path of the world, at least in some small way.
Yeah, meant to say "Highline". I believe traversing the NYC Skyline is reserved for Spider-Man.
I'm afraid that more than a decade of picking through legacy code (both other people's and my own) has irrevocably convinced me that "expressive" is newspeak for "unmaintainable".

Productivity during creation isn't worth the cost of maintenance later. At least, not the psychological cost.
If I had any spare time I would write a chrome plugin that automatically took everything after "Ask HN:", build a google search and added it as a comment.
I've been wanting to switch to HTC One, from an iPhone 4S, for a while now. But I wasn't a big fan of HTC's custom software.

But I agree, this is pretty darn expensive.
I'm in the same boat. If I'm looking for actual information, products, etc., I'll skip the posts with the headshots. It strangely reduces my trust level of the content.

Having said that, we're all in the tech field and this guy's product seems to be geared towards the tech field. Perhaps the result for the population-at-large is different?
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I won't bother to call "[citation needed]" on this since I'm sure there are biased analyses out there on both sides, but consider lifetime cost vs. working years remaining. Maybe we're economy-positive on an 18 year old unskilled laborer, even. But most pro-immigration policy changes involve a lot of older folk coming along with in the long run, and not everyone who comes and stays makes enough to be a net positive from a tax POV (not even considering the retirement/medicare time bomb).
> I think you have the concept of leap-second backwards. A positive leap-second means that the time-of-day is held for one additional second. Since unix time does not respect leap seconds there are 35 different unix time values at the resolution of seconds which refer to periods of time lasting 2 seconds instead of one.

Monotonic functions can yield repeated values, they don't have to be strictly increasing or decreasing. A constant function is monotone.

> And that means that unix time at a resolution higher than a second will jump backwards at those 35 different leap seconds.

Yes sub-second timestamps won't be monotonic, but UNIX time (or POSIX time) is only defined with a resolution of a second, so it is monotonic.
Thanks - I've looked into this and my wife has tried it, but it doesn't work for her, at least. I haven't heard much success from others with UC, either.
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ps: I'm trialing xero at the moment
After all, this site is called Hacker News, not Startup Lifestyles.
The integration with specific sevices is impressive. On one screen, I can see all my Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn connections' updates. On another I can see all notifications across all connected services. The lock screen can show how many emails I have waiting in each account, Twitter messages, Facebook messages, texts, missed calls, and voicemails at the same time. The rest of the "ecosystem" would be a lot more liveable if they only had a decent web browser! The browser on this thing is terrible. It doesn't even have a basic password manager, which is really painful on a touchscreen keyboard.
So, log first exception, then a random 10% sample of the following instances of the same exception?

IIF the approach of limiting the number of logged exceptions is valid, does it make any sense to randomly choose which ones - other than it was an easy one-line hack?
I host large images between 500k and 700k. I store the original image along with 4 different resized versions. The resized images on average account for 35% of disk space.

I store about 300GBs of images. The resized versions take up about 100GBs of the 300.

If I were to then to add retina versions (2x) of each thumbnail, I might be running at 70%+ disk space being used up by thumbnails.

imgix is very interesting, as it would cut my storage costs, decrease my user image upload times ( because I wouldn't have to resize after uploading ). Also I would be free to create 2x retina images, or even new thumbnail sizes as desired.

Only things to justify, are the lock-in with using imgix ( re-writing my site to use it ) and the monthly cost.
Shared persistence between virtual servers in keepalived
You know, your comment made me think a lot. You're both right and wrong at the same time, but I couldn't find a good way to express why and how.

In the end, I believe Michael Ende described it the best in "The Neverending Story" (the book, not the movies). The essence of what I would recommend to anyone is expressed by the words on the back of AURYN: "Do what thou wilt". As Bastian is told, it's not about doing anything you want, it's about finding out what it is that you truly wish for, "and nothing is more difficult".

Maybe OP will spend years working on this project and end up realizing that it was "a waste of time" and that what he really wants is something else. But even then, it might end up being more valuable to him than doing things you recommended. Who knows?
Every other smartphone is expensive compared to the Nexus 4. At least you are getting a 32GB One for $599.
oh! that's pretty cool.
Kickstarter Funding World’s First Public Space Telescope
I played with D awhile back and it's a nice language. I'm happy to see it get more attention and collaboration. Maybe one day soon I'll get back into playing with it again.
It is actually a comparable price to other phones.

Without contract the iphone 5 is rather expensive as well.
+ Drag image to desktop

+ Open photoshop

+ Reduce brightness 2-4 times

+ Punch in code

+ Get to level 2

+ Give up
I think he/she's going after the idea of polluting one's view with all sorts of non-standard markup invokes a gag reflex. I'm amazed that Google chose to adopt such an ugly non-standard idea. HTML5 does allow for data attributes, why on earth did Angular choose to ignore those? "ng-repeat", "ng-pooponastick" etc??? Most templating languages to not violate the actual HTML attributes to exploit their purposes. I'm not hating on Angular.js yet as I've yet to use it in a real project. But I'd hate to have to migrate a project from Angular to a more pure template.
What if I'm driving from the mid-US to a coast? It's around 8-10 hours of just drive time.
That's one way to do it, but that's not the only one!
Why? Level 2 isn't good?
The site itself isn't bad. I guess it's just an inventory problem. Most of the sites for sale seem pretty scammy. And I'm just not seeing many SaaS businesses for sale which is what I'm interested in.

Instead it's mostly blogs, adsense sites, and sometimes dropshipping.
I don't think that's an entirely fair take on the situation. There was a great series of comments on Russ Cox's blog in late 2009[1] by longtime Boost contributor and general brainiac Rivorous about the benefits of generic programming a la Stepanov and pervasive value semantics, which were noted but not engaged in any meaningful way.

[1]http://research.swtch.com/generic
Realtime Facial Animation With On-the-fly Correctives
After your hint above, it took me 30 seconds to hit level 2, but now I fear I'm left out of the fun because I'm on linux, so no mac app store.
Tesla needs to start talks with quick-serve restaurant chains (McDonalds, in particular) for setting up charging stations at their restaurants. I don't know what a Supercharger draws (30 amps?), but the restaurant probably has enough excess utility power to run 1 or 2 of them.
On the article it is said or at least implied, and in the email sent by the wife less ludicrous alternatives for verification are suggested.

Edit: And there are always people, especially in the US, against any kind of ID request, but they are missing the point, in my opinion.
Here's where I posted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792588.

Just append ?YYYY-MM-DD to the URL. I think it's fair enough for status submissions.
As far as I can tell, you're supposed to download iTunes on mac and reverse engineer the oauth secret key from the twitter app.

I just got it by googling twitter oauth key leaks...

Definitely wasn't a fun or interesting challenge.
The Internet of the Universe (Peter Platzer of NanoSatisfi)
You make a good point, but (actually) happy with my current phone plan and wouldn't mind extending another two years for a cheaper HTC One with stock android.
What I truly don't understand is why when it comes to Windows8 lots of people like you try to defend it, but when it comes to Ubuntu and Unity almost nobody does.
Access to the shelter, especially if stuff is already flying around, projectile injury is very common in bad tornados, is probably the most important thing, after having one.

One of the few good things about tornados is that their devastating effects are very limited in area, and what remains will be quickly checked over by "first responders" (really, the residents are the first responders) from 10s to 100s of miles away within hours. They're very good at this, have their own code for marking places they've checked out (https://www.facebook.com/LivingReady/posts/196620160486002?e...), etc. Very very different from hurricanes and earthquakes.

I speak from the viewpoint of someone who was "evicted by tornado" in Joplin, MO two years ago. By the time I exited my trashed although not breached apartment, there was already a self-organizing set of crews with firetrucks from e.g. the Indian tribe just across the Oklahoma border to the southwest to Lamar, Missouri 44 minutes away to the north (during normal times). Not much later we had crews from as far away as Kansas City (and possibly further, that's just the furthest emergency X code I noticed on various buildings).
>What gives me nightmares is what a competent authoritarian state, corporation or network could do with present technology

This is what I'm actually talking about. Of course I don't begrudge china their time at the top (not that they haven't been there before...) but rather I'm scared by the uncertainty. Of course the future is uncertain by definition, but it particularly uncertain now. I'm not sure that even makes sense... As you can tell I'm very confused.

This kind of rambling 24/7 in my head was basically what caused me to stop thinking about it.