skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes. it is dangerous. driving fast is dangerous. but people do FAR more dangerous things on their commute to work every morning and after happy hour.

how do you compare a dedicated, concentrated driver + spotter/navigator pair with $20k of equipment and performance/safety modifications in a BMW M5 to: your typical groggy office worker fatass drinking coffee, listening to an audio book, eating an egg mcmuffin and texting on his phone doing 85mph down the interstate on his morning commute, in a shitbox Saturn with drum brakes and an under-inflated tires that couldn't brake from 85mph in a mile's distance?

you're surrounded by far more dangerous things on the road every day, it just looks boring and pedestrian like some guy going to work instead of exciting and dangerous like 2 guys with sunglasses in an M5 speeding down the highway.
For one thing, you can script Zephyros in nearly any language. And there are built-in libs for Ruby, Clojure and Go, but you can add more libs in any language.
Bandcamp does it too (Soundcloud did it first, though), but it's still nice to see it catching on.
Keep in mind that with these custom designed laptops, price is determined by volume, and by logistics, and Apple sells a lot more of these class of machines, and has by far the best logistics -- you're not going to be able to get much cheaper than Apple in the same class of machine any longer.
Sure: government will always be two-faced with respect to "free" markets, interfering where it suits their and/or their friends/benefactors' interests, or not, as the case may be. It has been this way for centuries, Adam Smith just added to the lexicon of rationales.
id rather have him on the street than the regular driver - for safety's sake.
Context: The Game Closure SDK, a toolkit for developing games in JavaScript that run on the web, iOS, and Android, used to be dual-licensed as the GPL and a proprietary license. The previous license used to require users to display a GC splash screen, among other things. The MPL removes these restrictions.

Disclosure: I used to work at Game Closure.
These are always fun. I did one 7 years ago for all of Web 2.0[1]. Didn't crunchbase ever produce a mapped view? I thought they had at some point.

[1] http://www.ryan-williams.net/web20map/
Over-treatment doesn't explain why the same treatments cost more, though. The base charge for simply occupying a hospital bed for one day is absurdly high in the U.S. compared to just about any other country (Canada comes close, if you're a non-Canadian and therefore actually liable for it).
The cryptographic doom principle
Julia and Ceylon are both very cool indeed. The were on my personal shortlist for pet favorite, before Dart came along of course :)

I'd love to see great numeric and stats packages for Dart. I think it'd be a great replacement for R.
It's really just about the money/power and influential people sharing it among them and protecting it.
Cesária Évora (2012)
Personally, I find automatic recommendation services lacking both in recommendation quality and diversity of things to recommend from.

They work great if you've never heard Rhianna or Maroon 5 before. YouTube has put a lot of work into ensuring that Lady Gaga gets recommended to everybody.
I'm having success introducing even my noob programmer friends to Clojure by directing them to install Leiningen (Clojure's build tool) and Lighttable (editor with integrated repl).

Generate the project skeleton:

$ lein new foobar

Open up folder `foobar` with Lighttable, and you can begin evaluating code in your source files (it starts you with foobar/src/core.clj).

And you're off.
I don't know much about Gigablast, but this sounds pretty cool. If nothing else, it's another alternative to Lucene/Solr or Nutch for people working on search applications.
There is a documentary about this that has finally been released: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1329299/
Not disregard.. evade; it only takes a few dollars in gas money to disregard traffic laws, anyone can do it. And "shameful" is just your opinion.
Technology can mitigate the risks, but not eliminate them altogether. I've nearly skidded off a road a few times when misjudging the curvature of unfamiliar onramps or offramps (and taking them far too fast). I've seen a couple of other highway features which, if taken too fast by an unfamiliar driver, could easily lead to calamity. Technology also can't compensate entirely for driver fatigue or bad snap judgments, both of which are a real threat for any traveler (not just these guys).

The article makes it clear that he plans ahead, relies upon support, and tries to stick to straight stretches of highway. Good for him, and if he wants to risk his life doing 130 down a deserted highway at 2 in the morning so be it. But honestly, from the article, it looks like he has a habit of weaving through traffic at unsafe speeds, and as someone who's nearly been killed by insane drivers trying similar stuff...well, honestly, I'm not impressed.
I believe the security risk is primarily sniffing the clipboard continuously when you expose a tab (or in horrible implementations, have a tab open). Use a password manager that puts the password into the clipboard, flip past the hostile tab, the site now has one of your passwords. Copy a big chunk of text from a sensitive email or document, now they've got that as well. Secret urls, auth tokens in urls, private email addresses? Same.

Putting something into your clipboard is kind of annoying and could be a small security risk, but pulling the contents out is much worse. If it's a site you don't visit often it would be limited exposure, but if someone manages to hack Soundcloud/Pandora or inject JS into them you're talking about a lot of illicitly acquired information. Most of it may be useless, but it's a sucker-bet to assume no-one will get hurt by it.
I'm sure there's a reason for it, and that telling people they've been hellbanned negates the whole purpose of said hellbanning.
For Perl:

iTerm and TMux in integration mode.

Nano for writing code, VIM for text transformations more complicated than a simple find/replace regex.

ACK for search

For .Net:

Xamarin Studio

Nano for bash scripts

iOS:

XCode

Alcatraz - XCode plugin/package manager

OMColorSense plugin to get a color picker when creating UIColor objects
Well, in what way was Apple the government's friend or benefactor?
I do: machine learning, nlp, ocr, expert systems, big data, and systems integrations. Also do a fair amount of datacenter infrastructure, as I don't use any PaaS/SaaS.

Languages: clojure, scala, haskell, and sometimes javascript (when clojurescript won't work)

Development: vim and a command line

Heavily used OSS: incanter, redis, titan, postgres, cassandra, storm, akka, nginx, jetty, finagle, netty, bookkeeper, opencv, smartos, ansible, xen

Services: github, pingdom, google apps
You're not impressed, or you don't approve?

I don't find it plausible that anyone could not be impressed by this, though of course approval of this is going to be spotty.
You need to read the emails cited in the case. Apple was acting as ring leader, the publishers didn't get the idea and then used Apple.
I was pulling in more out of high school. Trust me, half is being generous.
What frustrated me about Douglas Crockford's response is that he didn't come out and say what he'd like a JavaScript replacement to look like. That would have been interesting.
If I remember my days as a test-prep teacher, I believe one of the largest predictors of SAT score was simply the age of the student.

In other words, if you give a thousand students a free practice test, then sign them up for a course that summer, by the time they actually finish the course six months later they're already expected to have improved regardless of whether you teach them anything at all.
What is "0xreadbook" in the context of a 32-bit int supposed to mean? Is the author just trying to be cute, or is this some sort of nonstandard representation of hexadecimal digits that I need to read up on?
Nice work, Here here are some additional tips :)

1. Overlapping markers problem can be resolved in a nicer way
2. markers will look nicer if replaced with vectors (svg)
3. instead of loading all companies to the client side you could load them through ajax and win some performance
Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days [html book]
I presume it can also be spent on increased operational expenses, e.g. salary, perks, etc?
No language really competes pre-release
What about the point would you like me to explain?
Very good point. I guess the days of same-hardware laptops being 50% less in price are gone. I would love to just jump in and get the 13.3 macbook air, but $1200 for the 128GB SSD and 8 GB ram is just a bit above my budget.
Engineer salary in SV is $100-$200k a year.
Read this.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-yo...
Poor children don't have consistently poor performance it gets much worse 8-12th grade than 1-4th. Which is not accounted for by VAM.

This is simply nonsense. How would this fact not be reflected in the mean performance of students grade 8, income in [$0,$15], race=white, grade 7 percentile in [25%,50%]?

I'm beginning to think that most of the critics of VAM don't even understand what it does and are merely repeating critiques of blindly measuring raw test scores.
Call it jury nullification. In a very large number of cases, a look through the person's comment history will offer no obvious reason for the ban.
I think he is indirectly calling the driver selfish for endangering innocents for his own excitement, and selfishness is a hallmark of children.
>This is what increasingly bothers me lately about the decisions they make. They're sacrificing a lot of stuff "in the interest of public good". It seems like a lot of collectivism.

That's nothing like "collectivism". Notice how in all this cases you state "the public" is just a pretext, and those who would indeed lose are the fat cats: bankers, corporations, Apple, etc.

That's plain and simple market capitalism: the big money gets its own laws (aka "the golden rule": those with gold make the rules).

In "collectivism" (in the USSR sense) the power lies in the state/government, for the benefit of the party officials.

In market capitalism, the power lies in the big money, and the government works for the benefit of large private interests.
I don't get it, how is it better than RoundCube[0], Horde[1] or any other webmail clients? Out of the six "reasons", three of them are already there in the wild (privacy, self-host and no ads), I'm pretty sure two more can be found/coded (search & encryption) and the last one (speed) is completely subjective to one's usage.

I mean seriously, what's the appeal to paying for Mailpile when I could just use an open-source webmail client on my server? (Which I will by the way, thanks for the idea)

0: http://roundcube.net/

1: http://www.horde.org/apps/imp

PS: Here are more: http://www.noupe.com/ajax/10-ajax-webmail-clients.html
The other day I was in line at the grocery store and buying frozen peas. I'm in the middle of a startup and money isn't tight, but not flowing either. The person in front of me said, "I see you're giving peas a chance."

I was so stressed out from business things that I responded with, "Ya, I like 'em" Then a few seconds later I understood the joke. He laughed and with his mostly gray beard he said "Yeah that was grandfather-level"

That last part really stayed with me. Grandfather-level. I think the the grandfather-level advice is what you're looking for. It is hard to say without knowing more about you, but my guess is that you want to work toward the thing you really really like. If you don't know what you really like, learn while keeping costs to a minimum so that you can pivot to what you love once you find it.
Placing Architecture Properly into Scrum Processes
Let me guess, "don't be a dick" reads to you as "be fake and politically correct at all times"?

Sorry, no. Try again.

and mindcrime took "don't be rude to cops" and turned it into grovelling subservience to the police state.

Except I never said that. I don't know what you're on about, but whatever. I'm pretty satisfied with how my attitude has worked out for me to date.
It seems that half of those are operators (functions), so in that case your beef seems to be with the names of many of the Prelude and other commonly used functions, not the syntax of the language. That might seem like a pedantic distinction, but I don't consider naming conventions to be part of the syntax of the language (even though they may influence the look and feel of much code).

As for the rest, well, I guess I feel fine about their place in the syntax (for example the pipe (|) in the list comprehension: what else should be used? It's trying to look like set notation). What would be a less noisy alternative in your opionion? More English words/keywords instead of ASCII symbols?
It's the author being cute I think. I've never heard of it either.
My guess is that you don't live in SF. ONE-bedroom apartments are renting for $2500 and up. (Multiply that by 12.) Very average places, not luxury apartments. And that rent may not include a $200-300 parking spot.

My definition of "middle-class" includes being able to buy a house and have two kids. You'd have a hard time doing that in SF on 58K, even given your assumptions about a spouse and summer cash.

http://www.zillow.com/local-info/CA-San-Francisco-home-value...

And in the end, society loses.
The article raises a decent point, but yes the -40 is obviously misleading. Why would anyone sell it for negative instead of just liquidate it? When NYT bought the paper it essentially paid 1bil + 100mil-ish assumption of pensions. Now when it sold it, it only got 70 mil.

It's better to correctly restate the purchase price, rather than make the selling price negative. But that wouldn't generate click throughs.

Edit: This is related to the Enterprise Value concept of a company. You include liabilities in this calculation when calculating a buyout valuation (not sure if that includes pensions or not; I don't do stocks anymore now because it's all just a giant federal reserve hedge fund)

Edit 2: wikipedia says EV should include unfunded pensions, which makes rational sense.
>I got into a heated debate with a friend, who argued that he has nothing to hide

Find out something embarrasing about said friend, and ask it if it's ok to post in on Facebook.
I agree. This is the mock-up I did a while back

https://mergy.org/2013/01/betteryahoohomepage/
Yes dude,

it just an example hexadecimal representation. Don't take everything so literally...
" But whatever happened happened, and this is the real-world CL we have."

Some of my links were there to point out that it's not really, we do have extensible sequences in SBCL for example.

Thanks for making such a long reply for what basically was link dumping.
so the starting salary is decent - where does it top out for our new grad accountant, and for our new teacher? Also, many teachers are not liberal arts majors; I have several teacher friends who are math/science majors with an M.Ed or whatever it is - and a couple programmer friends who are ex-teacher math majors, and the career switch was certainly influenced by the option to easily double their income.
what's up with the peninsula being so empty?
Why would you choose a MacBook Air if your IDE of choice is Visual Studio? There are PC laptops that are also sexy, though I do think Apple's are the sexiest. Look into some of the thinner Lenovo products.
If PG wants people to respect the Hellban, maybe he could append the reason they were hellbanned to their posts. (Obviously visible only to onlookers.) As it stands the process is opaque.

In the case of the commenter below, 100% of his comments are short, and of them most are valueless or negatively valuable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6073870

A particularly poignant example.
Web Application Development: Mac OSX -> Terminal, Sublime Text 2, Codekit and sometimes LightTable for pure frontent work.
Adultery, casual drug use, problems with drinking, what you said about your boss e.g he's a jerk, and a million other stuff.
My definition of middle class is those people making around the median (or middle) wage.

Yours is interesting too though!
Angular and possibly other MVC .js are a solution that is looking for a problem. There were benefits to Server Side MVC, but those benefits are gone, but people masturbate still and love it. Thats OK.
Advice: Just stick w/ CSS frameworks and jQuery.
Ordered Hash Tables
It is not a strictly US based community.

In the spirit of other hobbyists the DIYDrones community often laces their posts with warnings about heeding local laws. Larger projects are often based from airports so talk is had about regulations involved as well.

Aside from the individuals on the site asking others to research and listen to local laws/regulations articles on laws around RC craft and drones in various nations are also posted frequently.

It's been lovely seeing the community grow. Welcome all.
In one page — http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_canno...
I'm referring to Filip Pizlo's message regarding the cross-heap GC issues that were raised on webkit-dev (which is part of the thread you linked):

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2011-December/...

"You'll need to make sure that the different GCs can coordinate, which will induce overhead. Otherwise you will either not have an story of object reclamation, or you'll have memory leaks. It's just sufficient if one program, in one language, can reference a window containing code written in a different language. Doing this right is hard. See either Wegiel and Krintz OOPSLA'10 or Pizlo, Hosking, and Vitek LCTES'07 for studies of prior attempts to have interoperability between independent GCs. Both seem to indicate >5% throughput regression. Are you claiming that a 5% throughput regression is worth it to support a new language, that is not an open standard, and currently has nonexistent adoption?"

There were no replies from Chromium's side.

My information regarding Oilpan was based on Justin Fagnani's message in this thread: https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/forum/#!msg/misc/ym...

"We're hoping to not have to re-introduce scopes, since in dart2js we don't have a memory leak, and Dartium will be able to collect cycles across heaps when Oilpan lands. This would mean that there are leaks in Dartium until Oilpan, but that's similar to the leaks that GWT-Exporter has, which I've seen go into production with no problems, so I'm hoping it's manageable."

Here's how I interpret the situation: Cross-VM memory leaks are a blocker for shipping in any browser; you cannot reasonably say the implementation is done if it is leaky (on this I assume we agree). Dartium currently has cross-VM memory leaks ("cycles across heaps" as above). Upstream WebKit raised issues regarding the performance cost of collecting cross-VM cycles, which Dartium currently does not do. Chromium's plan to mitigate this seems to be Oilpan. This is fine—it's the most logical response!—but doing the same in other browsers is going to be a huge burden, since all browsers use reference-counted DOM handles.

If things have changed since then, please let me know and I will happily correct my post.
This is a simple javascript that adds a unicode "▶" to the beginning of html page title. This can be easily coded using the youtube javascript api. Just add the following code when the youtube playstate changes to "YT.PlayerState.PLAYING".

The js basically looks like this:
function onPlayerStateChange(event) {
var player = event.target;
switch (event.data) {
case YT.PlayerState.PLAYING:
document.title = '▶' + document.title;
break;
}
}
100% agreed, especially with regards to Youtube.

I personally haven't gotten into Hulu/Netflix... I think a community driven approach like Youtube is ultimately the best approach. But Youtube is just being squandered by copyright holders all of the time.

Sometimes I just want to show an awesome <insert show here> clip to a friend, and many times I can't find it simply because it was taken down.

It'd be amazing if Youtube could have every show and movie and song (which it almost does on the music side) just readily available. Convenience is the biggest factor for me, but I guess Hollywood doesn't make enough money on 15s intro ads VS $20 DVDs?
0xreadbook is not hexedecimal and disqualifies this whole post from any kind of intellectual redemption.

Try 0xDEADBEEF,0xBAADF00D, or any constant listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
Yeah I guess it might not be the best if I would have to run a VM on it.
Then tell them: "You're uninteresting then, it's not about you".

And add:

"Interesting people that shake up the status quo and make this world a better place, from Ghandi to MLK, HAVE had lots of stuff to hide from the government".

"Not to mention that in your shallow mind you only imagine an ever benevolent government. Would you have something to hide if Anna Frank's family asked to stay in your apartment?"
Does it count if my level of impressedness is fairly low? It's not 100% uninteresting, but it doesn't seem like a particularly amazing feat, either. I can believe that if you disregarded laws and drove fast, with some planning, you could do this, so the result is roughly what I would've expected. It requires some execution, but it doesn't give me the "wow! that's really possible?!" kind of awed feeling.
On my personal laptop which is a 15" Sager, I find that the keyboard is decent. It doesn't feel as good as typing on a high end mechanical keyboard but I find it is fine for a laptop.
Apologies for being reactionary, then.
Literally? A tutorial for noobs should be literally accurate -- throwing around non-proper representations is just a cloudy lazy explanation.
Hi there! I work for BikeCityGuide, we make the Finn.

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It's worth $6k if it means that much to you. Regardless of if others think its worth it or not or even if $6k is a good value for it. If you can justify it for $6k then get it.
SGI OpenGL isn't really all that relevant in this case. SGI OpenGL is absolutely ancient at this point and modern WebGL has only a passing resemblance to it. The feature set is different, the constraints are different, lots of things have been removed, lots of things have been added, and all of that at the behest of the community.

Yes, Khronos is gross, OpenGL is gross, whatever. None of that undermines the stunning success of WebGL when compared with similar young web technologies. I don't even like OpenGL, I'm a Direct3D fanboy - but WebGL is still the model to follow here based on how things have turned out, IMO.

I've yet to see an API come out of Google's current approach (build it quietly in private with the design driven by what the very smart Google employees think is right, then ship and refine) that really feels like it was a success in the design department, even if they have whip-smart engineers and designers and they do incredibly good work. The Web Audio API is a mess and it's obvious what kind of problems have come up with Dart and NaCL; every other Chrome prototype API I've looked at seems to be struggling under the weight of similar issues. It's just really hard to anticipate customer needs and potential issues when you're working in a silo, and fixing mistakes is hard once you've baked them into your design for over a year.

I won't even say Google's approach is wrong for them, the track record just seems to indicate that it does not work well on the open web.