skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who writes academically and writes code in the form of research prototypes, I really have to disagree to some extent with RPG and PG. Code is code, it doesn't have to be elegant, it doesn't have to be read, and using a less elegant language (like say C#) can be liberating compared to one where more elegance is possible (say Scala). The architecture you are working on floats around in your head regardless, becoming more beautiful, and the language that it is expressed in is just a detail...it is easy enough to throw the code away and start again once it becomes too unwieldy and you need to take your design to the next level.

But then RPG also wrote "worse is better."
I can understand (though find it ridiculous) that they didn't want to give his wife a ticket, but to propose simply leaving her outside the venue alone? What the actual fuck? Was there not a human-based moment of common sense here, or at least marketing sense from Microsoft?

When people behave like that, the umbrella of some corporate behemoth doesn't prevent me from from feeling pessimistic about people (both those in question and often generally.) Sigh!
Eh, in UI terms gray or simple desaturation is pretty standard for "disabled" or "unavailable".
Your representative is probably on Twitter. If you've got an account tweet how they voted and what you think about it. Be polite. You can of course email and call them too to share you viewpoint.

Find your Representative - http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

Amash vote - http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml
Why Kinect and Twitter are only half-invented
Chiropractic medicine for anything other than lower back pain and Acupuncture are two forms of alternative medicine that are well known to work off the placebo effect, yet the article mentions their use despite alleging to be a skeptic. This is a major red flag.

Trying something to check whether it works is orthogonal to being skeptical about it. In fact, it's the heart of science.
Xamarin tools are built around the idea that the core of every application tend to be platform independent and so could be written in C# (or F#).
This gets compiled into native code on some platforms (iOS).
Their approach is to build native apps that use the native UI design tools, so for each platform, you have to re-design its UI to follow the UI paradigms of that particular platform.

The result is still compelling: the UI is native, the underlying code is common on all platforms, you get to use 100% of your platform technical capabilities, the app runs as fast as native apps, you get the power of .Net development tools (even Visual Studio if you want) and all the cool features of C# 5.0 (and F#) to build your apps.

Xamarin, through Mono and its mobile development tools is actually building what Microsoft promised but never really delivered: platform independence for .Net (OS/X, iOS, Windows, WinRT, Android, Linux).
Agree. He seems to struggle with how to interpret the "want" part of of "make something people want". The point of this sentence as I've learned the hard way through sales, pain points etc is that "want" and "should want" are not the same things.

Even though Francis Pedraza's intuition says that people should want something, it's not certain that they actually do (and will pay for it). For example, my intuition tells me it'll be really difficult to build a business around his Everest app but if there's something to learn from Lean it's that intuition rarely is sufficient. (And I'm sure the Everest team proves my intuition wrong with good growth and feedback).

Though, in general, I love visionary startups and founders but I don't think that a grand vision should be an excuse for not validating the value and growth hypothesis.

And of course he has a good point in that startups often need many iterations to find the exact product that their customers want and since these iterations can be painful it's very helpful, if not necessary, for founders to be vision driven.
>If you would buy dozens of fonts at $10, you'll buy 2 fonts at their current price.

Well, I most certainly wouldn't. Mostly because I wouldn't buy dozens of them all at once, but over a period of weeks/years.
As has been proved, the USA is not the pinnacle of these things (any longer?). I'd happily try my luck with a German Dropbox
I don't think "knee-jerk" is a fair description. Consider the collaboration between Google and Mozilla on WebM, WebRTC, and countless others.

> JS was never meant to be a bytecode and likely will never be able to achieve the performance possible with PNaCl.

LLVM IR was also never meant to be a bytecode. But in both the case of JS and LLVM IR, the question is the final result, not the original intention, even if the two are often connected.

> Mozilla needs to be more open to new technologies like PNaCl that enable the web to be competitive.

PNaCl is not even shipped, so it is too early to evaluate it. But the last benchmarks I saw for compilation speed and performance were mixed.

(NaCl is much more proven, but NaCl is not portable.)
> And for people like Colleen LaRose or the Underwear bomber, just a web browser and plain-old internet led to the apprehension.

The underwear bomber was apprehended because a passenger on the plane tackled the bomber and put out the fire he'd started. The incident was acknowledged by the government (eventually) as a failure of the security apparatus to catch the guy ahead of time.
Anything from the 21st century from, perhaps, a respected newspaper?
We're talking about the the web being a "competitive application platform", and you just made my point. "Web apps and mobile apps serve different market segments" because JS/CSS/DOM tech is not competitive with native tech. Like Facebook, we've found out that targeting only HTLM5 results in an inferior experience for our users.
Is the search supposed to do something? I tried three people I knew and then tried 'John Smith' -- returned 0 results every time.
You can. I've just done it without hitch.
Here is the roll call with a map from the NYT:

http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/1/412

Not only did the vote fail to break along party lines, it didn't break along geographic lines either. Outside of the Bay Area, I don't see any obvious patterns, like an urban / rural split. Does anyone see anything else?
Not the whole story... Xamarin have a Starter Edition that is free for both platforms; admittedly with limitations (maximum app size, no linking with 3rd party code other than Xamarin provided assemblies and the iOS SDK). Within those limitation, you can publish to the App Store with the Starter Edition (obviously you need a Mac as well for iOS). The Indie Edition drops both of those limitations for USD299 per annum, which is reasonably affordable from my perspective. (Disclaimer: I have paid for the Business Edition; USD999 per annum, which adds the ability to use Visual Studio and a few other things).
I have one of those Rokus. Notice the lack of a Youtube channel :-)
Perhaps not, strictly speaking. It could go by another name, but it would by definition have to be some sort of intellectual property protection law.
217 to 205 - defeated by 6 votes. Well 7 since I guess a tie would have gone against it.

12 not voting.

Looks like party didn't matter - it was more or less even Republican/Democrat.
I'm guessing: There will always be people who think they know why your idea won't work. It's in the nature of the game (http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html etc). Founders who take these people's opinions seriously are more likely to give up.
Don't assume you're privy to the will of the people.
> including worried about your wrists hurting while you type

This is the thing that fixed my problem. After trying so many different "methods" and "tricks", I read about this approach on an HN thread a few years ago. I was skeptical in the beginning but now I'm just dumbfounded how effective it was.
I installed them yesterday just fine on a new machine. Weird.
Well, the Bug Reporter is now online; that's one system restored, 13 to go. At least they're making progress.

https://bugreport.apple.com/
Researchers turn off Down syndrome genes
Yep you are right! I calculated from May 2013, not May 2012! The total profit would be $46.68
How long does it take to boot? ie from power being applied through to it showing up as a target in other devices/apps.

(The reason for asking is whether you need to connect it to a full time powered port, or one that only comes on once the TV etc are on. If it takes 5 minutes before becoming visible that would be problematic but 5 seconds would be fine.)
Agreed. This is the closest vote on anything related to the Patriot Act in a long time; and the bipartisan support is very encouraging.
https://developer.apple.com/support/system-status/

For a clickable link.
I don't think they're saying all senior revs are like that, just that an eager junior is better than a jaded senior. Obviously an eager senior is best of all. See the above discussion about how hard it is to find those people.
It also gets lots of people on the record making claims about the capabilities of the NSA and how much they are really collecting. Many of these people are on the intelligence committee and have been fully briefed on everything the NSA is doing and they use those credentials to support their claims of authority.

Glenn Greenwald says that he has hundreds (if not thousands) of documents, including NSA training manuals, that prove Snowden's claims about NSA analysts having the technical ability to listen to and read the contents of "billions" of phone, email, and chat conversations. See his response starting at 19:51 in this interview:

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/18/glenn_greenwald_growin...

Senator Wyden's recent comments support the idea that there is much more coming in this story.

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/events/2013/07/16/6975...

It is incredibly hopeful that there is this much support for an amendment like this before the full story has been told. I hope the Senate is forced to take up a similar vote (less likely for sure) before the full details are published because it would be very valuable to get the position of every Senator on record before November 2014.
Would it be as easy as you say to veto this? There would be a HUGE uproar across the country if this had passed both houses of Congress and got killed by the Commander and Chief.
I agree about the yelling part. But, to clarify, you don't have to join a network, and you can always scan channels. Although chances are that most people around (e.g., at a coffe shop or airport) are broadcasting on a specific channel.
He also promotes this book:

http://www.amazon.com/4-Hour-Body-Uncommon-Incredible-Superh...

If you look at the reviews you'll get a better understanding.
It is using open standards upnp+rest api+websockets. The mirroring part is done with opus and vp9. Miracast on the other hand is drm(big players only) over drm(restricted content) over drm(it will only work with closed source software). Miracast will only live in heads of Balmer worshipers and maniacs, who love to to create long power point presentations with lots of bullet points.
We sure have advanced a lot since the days of "My Documents" and "My Photos" folders in the local file system!

Hahaha, I'm such a joker.
Physical analytics – fun with 3d printers
I have a similar feeling to you — that phones and tablets are better for browsing and queuing data that gets sent to the TV.

I have been putting this into practice over the last 4 months with an Apple TV, various iPhones and iPads, and VLC Streamer / Netflix.

I find that I still prefer browsing Netflix with the Apple TV remote using the Apple TV Netflix app. I don't know why. I think it's because the remote is tiny, and doesn't require me to look at it to use it. My thumb naturally finds the bumps and grooves and navigates the Apple TV UI.

I'm becoming convinced that as cool as using a phone or tablet to control my TV is, it's not actually what I will gravitate towards. And is in the end, harder in most cases than using a simple remote.
Congratulations Geoffrey and welcome to the Pluralsight team!
I love Edwin! It's my favorite Emacs implementation, even though I don't get to use it as much as I'd like. It even has a nice email client, IMAIL, written using a beautiful object-oriented style. Many years of Scheme wizardry lives in there, I need to spend more time studying it.
I haven't re-read the article, but if I recall correctly the Redis in-memory data was being used to keep a working copy of the current account balance (not the canonical accounting/bookkeeping version) and it was the results of calculations based on the Redis stored data that was triggering the payment processing. So I think it _was_ a problem with a "metering usage" scale system, which cascaded into the payment processing system working as intended, but with erroneous data.
It works with crome v29
You seem like you want to try other things, so go for it! I like to think that the best developers are T-shaped. The top of the T is a vast beginner/intermediate understanding of many things. The rest of the T represented a very deep understanding of a select few topics.
I don't misunderstand, but I did forget the obligatory smiley at the end of the comment ;)
Startups aren't the place for junior devs in any technology stack. What you need is an established, profitable small business that's NOT a tech startup. The company I work for sells makeup. You'll probably inherit a broken pile of shit, spend a year or two cleaning it up, refactoring, and upgrading to the newest stack. Take the opportunity to learn best practices and CS theory and use them in your job. When you're done, consider yourself ready for a more serious job.
Declarative data binding is intrinsically limited. If you want something that supports more complex updates, you need to start looking into things like incremental algorithms, self-adjusting computations, damage and repair, logged reversible effects, iterative processing methods, and so on.

Say you want to write a compiler whose input is "bound" to a source file; when the input changes, you don't want to recompile the entire file all over again. Instead, you memoize at AST node boundaries, trace dependencies between AST nodes, and then "clean" nodes when they become dirty, detecting changes that affect other nodes to clean them also.

To be honest, I find these data binding frameworks to be very boring, since we've been doing this forever (I did my dissertation on one myself). We really should be looking at the next level that supports incremental processing of more complicated updates.
Just talking out my butt here, but I think on most votes they have a pretty good idea of where most congresspeople plan to vote and whether or not the amendment will pass. So if some republicans knew it wouldn't pass with their yea vote, they could have felt comfortable giving it a yea as taking credit for standing up to "the administration." Whereas they may not have actually given that vote if they thought it mattered. This opinion is based on no other data than watching House of Cards on netflix and Veep on HBO.
I still can't see what you mean with "all those Scala features [...] crammed into a single language", is there anything more specific?
My rep. actually voted NO to the bill, and I didn't like it. Guess what? I've since emailed my rep. so he now know how I feel. Next time, if similar vote comes up, I'll call my rep... That's how democracy work.
I know that my past employers networks have been abused for long periods for game servers and MP3 hosting. Y2K period in particular resulted in lots of insane investments in IT, with very lax management in most places. Nowadays, tools and copyright take downs make it difficult to be completely inept.

Hacked resources are used as well. I worked at a place that used an old SGI Indy as a mail relay. It wasn't really managed, and somebody rooted it to use as a distribution server for warez and porn. I suspect the admins kept it running as a source for their own warez and porn needs.

I got involved when a spammer got in and sent millions of emails, flooding our puny T1 with bounces.
Common Lisp was designed for large, complex applications where it is not "easy enough" to throw code away but existing codebases must be evolved in-place. It is a practical language, not an academic language.

In academia, your code is a reflection of your conception and can be changed when the conception changes.

In the "real world" the satellite you already launched into orbit needs a new feature.
I had the same problem, and bought an HTC One. I cleared the phone out to give it to my dad, and now it is very, very noticeably faster. It would take 20-30 seconds to launch Chrome (the screen would turn off before the keyboard appeared), but now it takes around a second.

I think it's because I freed lots of space, as I noticed this after I removed most of the apps (before a factory reset or anything else). It might work for you too.
Chromecast: progress that misses the mark
I successfully installed the XCode command line tools on a new machine yesterday via the Preferences dialog box in XCode. The web installation route is definitely unavailable, but the Preferences route appears to continue to work.
Here is roll call, complete with a map:

http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/1/412

The vote wasn't partisan, nor did it break along geographic lines.
Congress Defeats Amendment That Sought to Curtail NSA Surveillance
I don't think they expected him to bring guests to a tech conference. What if he brought his kids as well? Grandma? Free $2000 tickets for all? Remember that the hired guns at these events are not paid to think, just follow orders. He should have got special clearance weeks in advance for free entrance for his family - that's the uncomfortable truth.

He will probably live to regret this as a speaking gig at TechEd as a non-MS employee is not to be sniffed at and now he has shunned the Borg - whom he must be pretty invested in skills wise to be invited in the first place. His wife could have gone and done some sightseeing while he works for a few hours.
Alright I was mistaken, apologies. Reviewing the wikipedia page, it looks like a large number of people raised red flags on the guy. I guess my overall concern is that I fail to see how this exotic spying tool will address such human failing.
Broken From The Top
Nowhere in the post does its author imply that a game is good if and only if it was built using good technology.

You present a reasonable idea. But it's totally orthogonal to the content of the post, so I wish you hadn't made it here.
well, there is no infinite elasticity of supply & demand.
I use RSS to follow my frequently used sites. My startup related stuff is design-y, but my top 5 recommendations are:

http://sidebar.io/ - most frequent, always bump into something new

http://worrydream.com/ - of course

http://littlebigdetails.com/ - collecting little patterns into my brain

http://theindustry.cc/ - see the reviews, probably the best site for app reviews that I've seen. allows me to know what's new.

http://penny-arcade.com/patv/show/extra-credits - look forward to this every single week

I'd include http://www.paulgraham.com, but you probably already follow that
The OTA update to beta 3 from previous betas still works, so pushing beta 4 via that probably wouldn't be an issue.
I'm not trying to convince you. I'm pointing out atrocities and lies committed by the United States government. We aren't below killing journalists. I figured you would due some sort of due diligence by visiting the link and reading the sections about supposed WMDs.

Here's a great documentary and book on how we were lied into the Iraq war. It's called Hubris: Selling the Iraq War. Watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5FaMbnINwc

I did give you a name, Tareq Ayoub, a journalist that was killed by U.S. bombs when we bombed Al Jazeera's headquarters in Baghdad.
Twelve votes? That's it? Wow, that's incredible. The first real tide change we've seen since the passage of the patriot act. Those who voted Nay seemed to do so because "metadata isn't covered under the 4th amendment."

Wait until they find out the NSA is raking in the call contents too [1]

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/29/glenn-greenwald-nsa...
I think the core issue here is more about the treatment than the expectations. If they had handled the situation differently, it would not have been an issue. The problem was there was no consideration for his wife in the slightest. It definitely feels like a commoditised arrangement rather than a human interaction.
You're thinking of AOL keywords.
Nobody is writing satellite code in CLOS, though. I like CLOS, I still get many new ideas from that language (I'm in PL), but claiming it is a language designed for scalability is a bit weird. Even C++ would be a bit more safer depending on what flavor of CLOS you are using.

My point is that C# is a good enough language for rapid prototyping; that the premature commitment problem is not a big deal in practice. I couldn't really imagine the argument evolving into "premature commitment AND rewriting code is bad" in any coherent manner.
I've spoken at lots of conferences, brought friends to many of my talks, and would do exactly what he did in the same circumstance.
> You're still looking at the TV while fiddling with the phone. The experience should be completely on your phone.

But the people sitting with you also get to see the search results come up, and together you can decide what previews to watch, etc. This is how it works in my household, and wouldn't work as well if the phone was where all the UI action is, with the TV solely a dumb display.
As of now right now (~1374712460) there are two systems that are online: iTunes Connect and Bug Reporter. And both seem to use the cannot-be-killed* WebObjects. You can clearly see that in the URLs as they mention "WebObjects" and end in ".woa" (assuming it means Web Objects Application).

*I've no idea what WebObjects are but I've heard people poke fun at their mention. Would be interesting if someone had more details to share.

Side Note: If you are looking to install Command Line Tools and seem to be unable to install Xcode from the App Store. You can go to Xcode > Preference and install it. Screen shot from a couple of minutes ago: http://i.imgur.com/KEhjkE3.png
Eh, only in the same sense that "maintenance" is equivalent to "downtime."
define "enough". Easy enough for you to pontificate, if you know better, start your own company and pay everyone million $ salaries. What are you waiting for?

p.s. I am an entrepreneur and have had significant hiring challenges for my company. So not spewing out stock lines from Lou Dobbs and his ilk.
I'm hope you were able to understand the grey vs. green! I suppose they could have used blinking text. Better yet, blinking red text with double strike-throughs. And, an auto-play theme song with the player controllers hidden in the footer. Anything to make it more obvious so we don't get misled into thinking grey actually meant: "This service is actually functioning, just ignore the bright green, those mean that the service is also functioning. At Apple, we think different and that starts with using two colors that mean the same thing so as to give an image that we're perfect and never make mistakes."
Making very specific predictions via a hypothesis and gathering specific, and plentiful, data that test your predictions is the heart of science. Anecdotes (on which all alternative medicine is based on) do not make good science and "trying something to check whether it works" with a sample size of one is the worst way to do medicine.
How are NoSql databases more productive than SQL?
Does anyone in IT truly relax on vacation?
Watch DARPA hack a prius