skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My hesitation about using Go would be having to forgo all of the ecosystem built up around a more mature language. I haven't coded much in Ruby (I gravitated to Python), however I would assume that Ruby has a much richer set of libraries than what is available for Go. I use interpreted languages because of their inherent ability to be able to rapidly prototype applications. If Go's ecosystem doesn't have libraries for things I need, I'm going to be extremely reluctant to switch, regardless of any performance gains, no matter how large they are.

Of course this will only improve with time if other people switch first and decide to fill in missing libraries. From looking at the Go package list at http://golang.org/pkg/ it looks like they've got a reasonable base, and hopefully it will continue to grow.
I love Sublime Text. For a year or two I tried and tried to get behind vim, to no avail. I thought there must be something wrong with me, perhaps I'm not as smart as those other developers who sit there staring at several adjacent vim windows hitting cryptic key sequences as if the essence of vim were an extension of their mind (maybe it is?). I couldn't do it.

Then I made the realization that the editor you use has no bearing on your skill as a developer (well, as long as you're not using Notepad). I picked up Sublime, and my productivity shot up by an order of magnitude. It's fun, supports every single language I've written in, and has a plugin out there for my favorite color scheme of all time, Tomorrow Night (previously it was Solarized Dark). With sublime I can code circles around my former vim-imprisoned self any day.
I can't agree enough. I can remember being mystified when I first saw a CLI "expert". It was like he attached a Game Genie to my computer.
Thanks for the feedback!

We are college students ourselves. So we want to make this as simple as possible.

Maybe we will revisit the clutter issue.

I also understand paper will always be a quicker alternative to bringing out a phone :)
Agreed. I accidentally gave a "kudos" before even realizing what it was. Asinine.

Part of me wants to make a snarky comment along the lines of "It's the only way somebody who can't spend more than 90 minutes on something new will get kudos."
The main reason being that StatsD will max out at about 10K OPS (unless they've improved it recently) whereas Statsite will reach 10 MM. Also, look at the difference between the implementation of sets. StatsD uses a JS object[1] versus statsite using a C implementation of HyperLogLog[2][3]. If you're doing anything significant, you should not be using the node.js version of StatsD.

[1] https://github.com/etsy/statsd/blob/master/lib/set.js
[2] https://github.com/armon/statsite/blob/master/src/set.c
[3] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub40671.html
Even static HTML is no longer static, with people's knowledge of JavaScript increasing and great libraries like jQuery/YUI etc bringing more power to the masses.

I mean, think about how dynamic you can make a site with the use of AJAX and feeding content from various content stores around the web. Very exciting as you say.
You mean most people that have actually looked at a map. How ironic that even a map can fill you with bad information.
I heartily agree with this sentiment. Angelfire and GeoCities were gateway sites for that opened the door to a career in web development far beyond animated gifs and marquees.

While I have happily moved on to github and managin my own servers, any platform that promotes writing one's own markup over quick tumblr-esque posting is potentially a good thing.
I think it's a shame that GeoCities is gone, and I totally respect this new effort, but isn't NeoCities one missed credit card payment away from the same fate? There's a lot of eggs in that basket.
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the amount of bouncing that electric was undergoing @ 200mph gave me the chills.
For the first part, I didn't say they were equivalent. I said it was the same criteria by which China and Snowden were criticized, not that the US was doing to all of its citizens all of the things that the US criticizes China for.

For the second, honest question: does published information actually retain its classification?
It's important to put out that the politicization wasn't two sided: it neither started political nor is inherently political, but was made political by a campaign of disinformation by corrupting special interests.

Of course, now that politicization does exist, and that corruption has worsened the quality of discourse among legitimate scientists. They're still functioning decently, but it'd be nice to know how to build a stronger scientific ecosystem.
I really wish people would come down out of their ivory tower and live in the actual world once in a while.

Expecting major motion picture studios to distribute their family jewels in a DRM free format is simply ludicrous. Everyone should support the inclusion of DRM in HTML5 because at least we can all have a standards supported way to view content.

Would you rather a world where they chose a proprietary codec that only worked on Microsoft Windows?
Microsoft Drops Developer Patch Fees On Xbox 360
He has been writing updates on his progress at http://www.aeracode.org/category/django-diaries/ as well, if you are curious.
Fashion startups have fared better in Europe than in the USA.

The "whales" in that industry are wives of financiers, sheikhs and commodities barons, along with celebrities. The next best group to sell to are the financiers, sheikhs, and commodities barons themselves. The globalized Patrick Bateman. All of these groups are well represented in Europe, especially London.

The next tier down in customer is the highly urbanized 20-34 year old. Due to the constraints of urban living when this group has extra cash they tend to buy $400 bags and shoes, rather than put it into a car or mortgage payment. There are far more people in this group located in Europe and Asia than there are in the USA.

It probably doesn't make sense to start many other sorts of online business in London, but fashion is an exception.
IIRC it was particulates that have been the primary problem for diesels. With modern engines and exhaust systems, I suspect diesel cars could be a success in the US. For a year I was driving a VW Golf TDi and absolutely loved the car. Fantastic efficiency (5.5 L/100km city, 4.5-5 L/100km highway) combined with plenty of power and a good transmission made for an awesome driving experience.

In Europe, diesel is usually cheaper than petrol though the reverse is true in the US. From what I saw last December, price differences of $0.50/gallon weren't very unusual. If the price comes down, I think diesel would quickly become a no-brainer decision for car buyers.
What's the Point of Sitting Down Over Tea With 150 People? Serendipity.
How do you propose to stand out?
1. It's just chalk. Children all over the country grew up drawing with chalk on sidewalks, etc.

2. Paint-based (and hence, more permanent) graffiti is a real problem in big cities. But till date I have not heard of a single case where the vandal was threatened with 13 years of jail. It would be interesting to see the track record of this city attorney, and how often s/he has prosecuted _real_ vandals.
Yes, and can I have a pony?

The problem is that, in spite of his happy talk, Obama has always been as bad as Bush on the first and fourth amendments, arguably worse. Remember, he voted for telecom immunity in 2008, when he was a senator.

From the article: "In the wake of Watergate, Democrats won large majorities in both houses of Congress in the midterm elections of 1974. One of the first items on the new Congress’ agenda was to investigate the intelligence abuses of Richard Nixon and his predecessors."

From another article (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/11/obama-leaves-door-o...): "Responding to the most popular inquiry on the "Open for Questions" feature of his website, Barack Obama said on Sunday that he is "evaluating" whether or not to investigate potential crimes of the Bush administration, but that he was inclined to "look forward as opposed to looking backwards."

And even if Obama weren't so awful in this regard, Congress is not capable of doing anything with real teeth.
I suspect that Turkish scores low on the weird score as it was reformed in the 20th century. Prior to it's reformation it was a language mostly only spoken and occasionally shoehorned into a more ornate language's arabic script (called Osmanci - pronounced Oss-mann-juh).

Turkish was the language the lower and middle Turkish classes typically used during the Ottoman period. When the language reforms came in not long after the establishment of the modern Turkish republic, they were specifically designed with the idea of unifying the people by language and being easy to learn to read and write, which is how Turkey went from a literacy rate of 30% to 70% in just a few years.

Turkish is weird to a western european, but once you get past the initial weirdness is probably the most regular and structured language you'll ever learn. Which you'll find exceptionally weird if you've ever tried to queue for a ferry ticket in Turkey (which is not regular or structured at all).
I find peak oil to be the most chilling prospect of all. Global warming, even in the worst scenarios, doesn't predict anything dramatic in the next 50 years.
I wrote most of Reader's JSON API in 2006-2007 :)

The tool uses the "high-fidelity" Atom output mode for getting at item bodies. That preserves namespaced XML elements and other extra data from the feed. It uses JSON for everything else, and will fall back to regular Atom output if the high fidelity mode is not well-formed (it was added in late 2010, as things were winding down, and thus never got a lot of testing).
This is one area where I wish iOS and Android would copy from Windows Phone, apps can have a 'trial mode' (which often is used to just have a free, ad-supported version) that you can download without payment, it can be time-limited, launch-limited, a feature-limited (depending on how you choose to implement it, there's just a IsTrial() method to call and you can handle it however). If you buy the app it just starts returning false to calls to IsTrial() and the functionality gets enabled.

Of course, there are plenty of apps that have 'free' or 'lite' versions in the Android or iOS marketplace, but they suffer from a critical flaw: data doesn't transfer between the 'free' app to the 'pro' or paid one because of sandboxing unless they implement some kind of cloud sync.
>Did Forbes hire a 12-year-old fanboy to write this

It's one of their blog contributors who are probably paid per story or per click who write any flamebait garbage as long as it gets clicks.

From the author bio:

>I'm EIC of a movie/tv/gaming site called Unreality in addition to my duties for Forbes. I'm new to this business, and I think I'm a part of the first generation of journalists to skip print media entirely.

What do you expect?
I'd love to, but there's nothing scheduled for Denver.
I'm not sure if I'm being trolled or not but I'll bite...

A simple 5 second google search would answer your questions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179332/anyone-actually-us...

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/why-use-fsharp/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/gg634701.aspx

To be honest as to why the answer is often anyone who wants to use an OCaml like syntax but have access the debugging tools of visual studio or mono and access to the libraries written for .Net.

We use it to write our proprietary trading system.
Want to be the hip startup on the block? There’s an app for that.
If you are interested in the South American situation just let me recommend you "Our brand is crisis". Might give you some further context for the situation and the role of Morales and it is a fascinating case study on steering public opinion.
They just threw a bone to indies, small + medium sized companies hoping to publish. Hopefully the next bone will be XBone allowing self-publishing like the PS4 and the current trend in the gaming markets (mobile/web/new consoles).
"Test Code Before You Push" seems to be what they're trying to say.
Bender doesn't usually drink gin but would agree in principle...
I've tried to give sublime a shot many times -- and I really would like to use it. It does have great plugins and features, however the deal breaker has always been that I needed to use the mouse at some point in my workflow. I have to admit that the "vintage" mode doesn't completely emulate vim, which is really a shame.
> 3. International Space Station.

That has about as good privacy as a goldfish bowl, if the bowl is hooked up for intensive medical monitoring of its inhabitants.
I believe China could and probably would be bad. The question isn't whether it would be bad, it's whether it would be worse than the U.S. .

So far China is worse in its regard for ecology and human rights, but the U.S. is backwards in shoving down our throats absurd legislation, especially copyright and patent laws (one of the main reasons Uruguay doesn't have a preferential trade treaty with the U.S.), and it's almost a radical religious country in some points (Uruguay is secular), and extremely self-absorbed (much like China!).

It is ironically easier for me as an Uruguayan citizen to visit China than the U.S. due to increased visa restrictions and xenophobia.

I didn't say Chinese hegemony was good, they're probably not much better, but I do think and see them getting better, while I see the U.S. sliding down. At which point Chinese would be more tolerable (the lesser evil, not necessarily better or good) than the U.S., I don't know, but they're getting nearer than an U.S.-centric view might lead you to believe.
There are a lot of confounding variables here. Many people who are "freelancing" or "consulting" are really just unemployed but trying to put a positive spin on it. Some may have personalities that don't bode well for typical office environments. Others may be applying for jobs which their current work doesn't make them look qualified for.

A software developer who tries a startup and fails will likely transition back into a corporate job without problems. But the guy applying for a job in HR who says he's been "consulting" since he got laid off 8 months ago is likely to be viewed with some skepticism.
This is going to be a nice thing to reference. I think I'll print it out.
My only complaint is that it doesn't cover the git stash commands. I'll just use a good old fashioned pen to write my own section!
Umm, no. From the perspective of the neighbor and the whole community, and from the perspective of an educated person who knows the limits of his rights, the greater outrage is that it bit the neighbor. It could have bitten the owner for a number of reasons, such as not having been trained well; the neighbor on the other hand had no choice, he never signed up for a dog but he got bit anyway--and further there's little he can do to prevent it from happening again.

What makes you more anxious, when you lose something you owned or when you lose something a friend lent you? When the latter happens, all I wish for is that it were mine (or that it's an item easily replaceable with money.)

It seems the government has long forgotten the good manners it's Founding Fathers taught it. I can only hope the American people at large have a bit more sense.
If improvements are made on each cycle then we should end up with something better than we had before. Iterative development on a grand scale. hehe.
It's all about perceived value, which is ironically the point the post is trying to discuss. People seem to not think they are getting $70 from their text editor, that they use on a daily basis, often for commercial purposes.
:( Blackberry 10 is pretty neat. I ditched my Android and iOS devices for the Developer Alpha B.

You might argue there is nothing in BB that you can't get on iOS or Android, but there is also nothing I need that I can;t get on Blackberry.
In the interests of quoting the full context rather than just a few words, here's what he said in full:

"Dear The Great Developer of "Dash.app".

I do not ask you anymore.
I do not say anything about your icon.
It's a waste of time.
But I am vindictive.
Conversely, I inspired from your icon.
This is the way of my protest.
This time, you do not plagiarize this my icon, please.

Sayonara さよなら."

It seems the designer is Japanese, so there might be a language/cultural barrier too, but for what it's worth I think I would feel insulted by the Dash developer's reactions too!
Yes, for the love of god do this.
I should note, I had the Golf in Australia.
Absolutely but keep in mind that CO2 has no direct detriment to health and as such has never been the focus of environmental movements...

In deciding "do we move from coal to natural gas" power plants: it's clear the immediate health benefits are immense. But the CO2 benefits are less significant... and as a result we should evaluate other options... or view natural gas as a sort of bridge tech.

Anyway you're right tho: the focus on CO2 can be a distraction ESPECIALLY in the developing world where toxic pollution is released into children's air/water constantly. We have a luxury, in the developed world, to see CO2 as the more significant threat.

Having spent the last year in Bangladesh (and admittedly a country that will be significantly impacted by climate change) I felt the focus on CO2 was completely misplaced. That country is toxic to its citizens in a number of ways and those problems should absolutely be higher priority to fix.

The greatest hypocrisy of all is when the wealthy western nations argue that the developing countries should develop green.

Sure, they should try to be green where it makes sense. But IF getting themselves out of the toxic rut they're in fastest requires fossil fuels (as we ourselves did) then it's complete insanity to suggest they not use the best tool at their disposal to do so.
Who needs a functional programming language and wants, at the same time, to take full advantage of the use of the .NET framework.

examples: math, science, economic fields.
Show HN: l2met – Turn logs into metrics
Relevant: http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt.html...

[...] So everyone in the UK MoD could no longer read what was on WikiLeaks. Problem solved! [...]
When it comes to politics, sometimes I think the US is a lot more like France than the UK. For example, we have a former Representive who tweeted a sexual picture[1] and then lied about doing so and was forced to resign but will now probably become the next mayor or New York. Then we have a state Governor who disappeared for 6 days and said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail - but he lied and was was really in Argentina having an affair with his mistress[2]. He was forced to resign but just a couple months ago ran for a house seat and won. So, scandal doesn't really mean much in the US either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner_sexting_scandal

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sanford_disappearance_and_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoneme
Being serous, who uses Go and why? The reasons are similar to why one should use F#
The 20,000 was held pending use to pay part of the cost of the public defender http://cryptome.org/2013/04/brown-050.pdf.

In other words, it is being used to pay for his legal defense.
I was talking about consoles. They are not off the shelf. Even the Xbox (though it was pretty close).
Hey everyone. Packer guy here. I've been working on Packer the past couple months and I think its time to bring this to the public. I'm happy to answer any questions you have.

I want to stress that this is the _first public release_. There is a lot of work to be done and a lot of improvements to be made. It may not be "production ready" but it is definitely "experimentation ready." Although I know many companies already starting to use this in production.

I also want to note that although I made Vagrant as well, Packer is not tied to Vagrant in ANY WAY. Packer stands on its own as an extremely useful tool. However, Packer can be used to make Vagrant boxes, as well.

ENJOY!
Try Heroku, it's basically the same but with git instead.
Perhaps I misinterpreted, or perhaps I carried his thought further.
FINALLY! Thanks you javinpaul for posting this. I really needed it!
For anyone coming from veewee, there is a tool for converting templates to packer: https://github.com/mitchellh/veewee-to-packer
Early movie rips tend not to be in HD, as many exhibition leaks are still standard definition. It takes longer for an HD rip to appear for movies.
Facebook gives UK man $20k for discovering security flaw
His right to free speech does not change whether or not he committed the crime according to the law (unless the law specifically refers to the right to free speech), so it is a separate issue from what is argued at the initial trial.

If his right to free speech is indeed being violated by applying the law, then modern legal practice does not consider this to be an issue for the jury itself to consider (it is considered in a separate manner, by the judge and by appeal).
It does take Google ~100k lines to load balance their MySQL servers, so the size of your program is still highly dependent on how simple you want to make it. I'm 21 and spending most of my time writing Go -- there aren't many "ins and outs" required to learn. I find that it is very idiomatic to write simple solutions and simply take advantage of interfaces if someone wants to implement a more specific piece of your code base. If you want to learn Go well all you have to do is read the spec[1] and the source code of at least some portion of the standard library.

As an aside, this project is interesting. I've been kinda curious of experimenting on a project like this on my own. However, I wish the author's documentation opened with what ideas from what papers inspired the project.

[1] http://golang.org/ref/spec
And more user-friendly docs for that: http://www.packer.io/docs/templates/veewee-to-packer.html
People Wearing Fake Google Glass
"The last section on cultish teachings seems like a deal breaker for me."

I've done the same program at the same location, and it's really not cultish at all. Essentially you're not allowed to do anything that would distract you (or others) from meditating, and that's it. (E.g. you're not allowed to talk with others or eat junk food, as with most similar programs.) The teachings obviously come from a certain sect of buddhism, but that's why you're there. Yes, Goenka does make some counterintuitive claims about the underlying nature of the universe, but the basis for those claims are phenomenological experiences that people have had while meditating; they come from the same set of experiences that you yourself will have if you stick with it.

There are certainly a few aspects that are less than ideal, e.g. there isn't really any way to get medical advice if you need it apart from just quitting the program. But other than that it's hard to complain. It's free, the food is amazing, the quality of instruction is very high, the people are great, etc.
Financials like it a lot. Because it is the simplest and easiest way to do FP in a .NET stack. And it is quite a nice meld of an uncompromising dialect of ML into an OO world.
I've said the same thing every time I've tried to use Sublime or any other modern editor or IDE. My specific beef is the inability to manipulate splits using a mouse. It's pretty much a deal breaker for me as I find splits far too useful to give up now.

Block or multi selection, though I don't use it as often is another thing that is often poorly done or requires a mouse.
so, I'll read "Harry Potter" and "see spot run", and be entitled to a position at the school? There have to be standards.