skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it's not the same as the hyperloop I still find it very interesting to see that similar ideas have already appeared in the 1950's and obviously not been executed.

I saw this talk a while back by Peter Thiel ("You're not a lottery ticket")* where he specifically mentions the decline of big infrastructure projects, beginning around the 50's-60's. (I don't know how true this claim is though, since I haven't really studied the development of infrastructure in the USA in the 2nd half of the 20th century).

I often wonder if Elon Musk could be more than just a guy making money off of awesome ideas but also a catalyzer for bigger societal changes as far as optimism in big infrastructure and future investments is concerned.

*http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29931127?utm_campaign=t.co&ut...
When a parse failure occurs, making an educated guess and continuing is not a "major architectural difference". (As for your edit, I now challenge you to tell us how these architecture passed and the JIT help FreeBSD's use cases. That said, my comment you are responding to just expresses bother about the "most notable" technical benefit listed by this SO answer, so I'm not even certain why you feel talking about other things is relevant.)
>Experience creating programs to reproduce speech and musical style

Would love to see more about this https://ahrussell.com/projects/fifthseason/run
Would be esp. awesome to hear the generated music.
It's a good point, but the concern is not free as in beer, the concern is free as in access. The SEC doesn't allow publication in newspapers that refuse to sell copies to clients they don't like, but a Twitter open only to account holders might mean some people were denied access for non-financial reasons, especially if they were unable to make an account.
I frequently have times when I'm doing things like "writing articles on what's stopping me from coding" and the like. But for me, when I'm on, I'm ON, and in those periods, being able to put code together reliably and quickly is of utmost importance.

Even with the macros and shortcuts he shows, I still would be slower using a system like that. When I'm typing in a good editor, I can blast out code VERY quickly, and when I've typed it, I KNOW it's what I meant. When he says it, he has to stop and look to ensure the code matches what he said.

Yes, he can say a phrase like "camel someVariableName" quickly, and sometimes it Just Works, but when it doesn't, he has to back up and say it again. That kind of distraction can throw me off my train of thought, and the damage to my productivity would be profound.

That said, it still IS great for anyone with an RSI as an alternate way to enter code. I just don't buy the "it could be better even for people who don't need it" argument. Especially with his claim that I would need to abandon my modern editor with awesome language support for one of those relics that relies on CTAGS.
You're thinking that the money to be made in cable is in advertising, which couldn't be further from the truth. Advertising dollars are a supplement to subscription dollars. AMC Networks requires that cable providers (Comcast, RCN, Time Warner, DirecTV etc) carry WeTV and IFC at $0.25/subscriber, even though they are unpopular, and carry AMC at $0.75/subscriber.

Cable providers pretty much have to comply, so they can get AMC. As a result, AMC Networks makes up losses on AMC proper with subscription revenues from the unwanted channels.
I'm not convinced the fact that it's now legal to post such comments make such accounts any more valuable. It seems unlikely it not being legal would dissuade pump&dumpers.
It's required by law to disclose such acquisitions, he just announced it on twitter instead of on a press release.

Also, where is the buy message? A tweet like that is so far from pump and dump...

Watch this for an example of what pump and dump really is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YbvozZk9Sw
Yeah, I hate to be a Luddite but... this is just wrong, wrong, wrong. And I speak as someone who looks forward to Soylent.
It's not meant to be a perfect analogy. It's more about the disappointed, underwhelmed feeling I got when I finally learned what the thing was. :(
Hackers can blackout a house full of smart lightbulbs
It is a "dead" link.
s/your hardware/hardware you sold me/
I am just pointing this out because some people on this thread are claiming "I have been using Clang for N months and had no problem". I believe them, but it won't necessarily work for you, because Clang is not a drop-in replacement.

Clang doesn't need to be a drop-in replacement and I think it shouldn't be, but let the buyers beware.
Probably not going to happen. The organizers require (or used to require) a percentage of all revenue made from professionally taken photos [0]

[0] http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/burningman.html
From Wall Street To Tech - How I became a Product Manager
First off, I'm always a fan of I.Q. points leaving Wall Street for the Tech Industry. Secondly, this is truly a great article. It should serve as inspiration and hope for all those who are considering taking a pivot into tech, autodidactism, or a career change in general. I wish this was published about 4 months ago before I took my new job! Excited for the next post, Kevin Coleman!
And, sometimes, less of a hassle even when you are accustomed to the lower levels.
Elphel has been working on open source (hardware, software, board designs, etc) photogrammetric cameras for a while:

http://www3.elphel.com/eyesis-4pi
Running a closed access account on Twitter would be a gateway to jail for a guy like Ichan. That's simply pure speculation. Icahn is not trying to get retailers to buy his stock... that's what morons like Jim Cramer are for.
I would recommend philosophy. The college of "logic" is in the philosophy department and every great CS professor I ever had studied philosophy. Beyond that it is a great way to sharpen your critical thinking and problem solving skills.
It's not the best but I've actually not had too much trouble with the docs. I found the trick is to read the guides first, once you understand the principles that Angular.JS works on the terse reference docs are much more approachable.

A little linking would go a long way though. For example that ngModel page really needs to link to NgModelController!
Are there plans to add bindings for PHP? Would be awesome.
That's crap.

Edit: damn, we need more people like jwz.
The SEC was pretty clear that social media disclosures cannot be done in a way that restricts access. A non-public Twitter account would not be in compliance with the rules.
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All of them fail for desktop software, this is why FOSS as business works only for developer tools or SaaS software.
Thanks for checking it out! I'm currently getting into Haskell, and one of my future projects is to use the Euterpea library to re-do this project. I especially want to add in real-time accompaniment using some basic harmonic theory.

Right now I'm working on a Haskell project to do intersolar pathfinding (pathfinding with gravitational effects). I want to see how to get A* or something similar like D* Lite to pick up on gravitational slingshotting by adjusting the heuristic.
They should put that phrase on the login page.
HBO Go is NOT effectively a standalone service. You have to subscribe to HBO before you can get HBO Go. It's just streaming of things you already paid for on cable.

Which sucks. I would pay for HBO Go if I could get it at a decent rate. But like hell I'm going to pay for cable and the crazy upcharge for HBO just to use HBO Go. As a result, Netflix and Amazon Prime get all my money, and HBO gets nothing.
Actually, `spooky-giraffe` made me smile because it's such a nice contrast to the overused and tiresome macho code names like `Longhorn` or `Mountain Lion`. I hope the next Angular release will be `superheroic earthworm` or something like that.
Secret Service releases first 100 pages of Aaron Swartz investigation
Arguably these are great advertisements for the places they represent. If you were choosing between places to travel to, I think this would be helpful.
Wow is this list good. It has the kind of resonance you only get when you're writing from a lot of hard experience.

As I just wrote when I sent this link to the current YC batch, if you see advice here that puzzles you, it may be a
sign of a painful lesson you're going to learn in the future.
Crawl the web for images, use the GPS EXIF data to find clusters, and use image processing to stitch together 3D environments from the photos.

It would not be as good as streetview though.
The statistics on that page do a good job of explaining that in many (most?) of the cases clang will never quite be a drop-in replacement, because the failure is in actuality uncovering a bug in either GCC or the software being compiled.

Sylvestre Ledru spent some time on this in particular in his talk at this past FOSDEM[1], taking the above as evidence that clang is now mature enough to support the Debian archive.

[1] https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/debian_clang/
What I learned from others' shell scripts
Abu Dhabi
The biggest problem seems to be that Musk's costs don't include most of the costs actually included in High Speed Rail proposal that allow you to actually travel between SF and LA and not SF minus bay (they omitted that cost) and Sylmar (where you've still got over an hour to go on the Antelope Valley Metrolink Line to reach the LA city):

http://stopandmove.blogspot.fr/2013/08/hyperloop-proposal-ba...

It seems that the proposal is actully much less serious than on the first glance:

Amusingly enough, the California HSR budget for the Central Valley is under $10 billion. Ie, in the same ball-park as this proposal. The reason the HSR project is going to cost $60 billion is because it has to face an uncomfortable truth; actually getting to LA and SF is expensive. Very expensive.

Moreover, would you like to be sitting in the tube on the chair from which you can't even stand up for a half an hour without the chance to do anything but remain sitting, not getting any help the next half hour on the occasion when you get sick? Would you take your kid there? Your parent?
Isn't this something like what Tesla proposed earlier? Can someone elaborate how this is different from Tesla's proposition?

Thanks!
Looks like a great purchase for my kid. It is unique and educational.
Image filters are so main stream, Audio Filters are in next
The funny thing is if you hit the Reader button in Safari you get a clean version of the article text with no hacks necessary.
"JS modules" (what you're actually referring to are called IIFEs, which stands for "immediately-invoked function expressions" — JS modules are something else, and CoffeeScript doesn't support them) don't have anything to do with importing/exporting code. In browser-CoffeeScript the only way to "import" and "export" code is to make global whatever you intend to export.

IIFEs are also pretty orthogonal to Node's module system — they work perfectly fine together, and don't have much to do with each other at all. Not sure why you'd feel the need to disable IIFEs in the CoffeeScript compiler except out of desire for cleanliness since they're an ugly hack in the first place.
Ask HN to review: app to save files from web directly to your Dropbox
You seem to be misunderstanding him. Perhaps deliberately. But I will clarify this for you anyway. You don't have to do these things simultaneously. You start out with a handful of people, and reach profitability making something small, which ultimately grows into something that changes a lot of people's lives. This is not only possible, but how most successful technology companies started.
This is not the case with most open source software.

Actually the majority of corporations are leechers, using it as "free beer", only paying back if they really have to, as many corporations don't use software without support contracts.

Or happen to have some FOSS followers taking business decisions.

Otherwise, I can tell you from my experience working on Fortune 500 consulting projects, very seldom is any money or contribution given back.
Given that the market moves more on legally protected disclosures, I still think it's added black market value to twitter accounts.

That said, markets have moved based on fake press releases with letterheads copied from websites. So it can be done without twitter.
I avoided routing with Angular as long as I could because my initial attempts were.. shall we say, painful (and I blame me, not Angular).

When I returned to the routing bits in my app, I picked up ui-router. It's such a nice library, I can't say enough good about it other than this: it should be in Angular core.

I most appreciate nested routes and the state handling; the integration with ng-animate is just butter. Thank you!
This was changed this year as long as they tell their investors that they tweet:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-02/sec-approves-social...
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Oh, I was addressing the question about how Quora is now, and if Twitter were like that.
Eric Schmidt, then Google CEO, openly said something in that direction in 2009:

http://gawker.com/5419271/google-ceo-secrets-are-for-filthy-...

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Do you mean that PyPy is a state of the art transpiled language? Actually I was looking for state of the art tools that helps designing/implementing languages.

I have come across CoffeeScript's annotated source, on their website, and I'm definitely going to digg deep in this documentation.

I also might get more information on the difficulties that appeared at the creation of CoffeeScript, as you say.

Although, I am thinking about a language that compiles to VBA, meaning it produces visible VBA, and that VBA would be debuggable I guess.
Books/newspaper are indeed something else, but still quite different. I'm not sure if this is too general, but I don't think anybody takes a book everywhere he/she goes, and picks it up in the middle of a conversation to read 1 or 2 lines, then put it back again.
Does anyone on Hacker News still use Gmail?
September... 2012. See this thread (one of the longest on the mailing list atm): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/angular/tqFZBkWPvl8

I know that doesn't answer your question directly; just wanted to point you to the existing discussion.
That's pretty short-sighted.

Imagine if we had these kind of views of, say, the streets of London in 1900? This is worth doing for history's sake alone.
Creative...but I don't think it would have the same fluidity to Google's Trek. The images wouldn't be as up to date or "real time" as they could be because you'd be caching images that are potentially several days or weeks old.

And if you scripted a time limit for images, e.g. only within a few hours, you'd heavily limit the amount of usable images you had.

With "agents in the field" Google could potentially update its feeds whenever and as often as it needed. The difference would be having an in-house image-generating infrastructure or...well...tag-searching Instagram.
Image carousels: why you shouldn't use them and how to use them the right way
Meet Laura Poitras, the "Keyser Soze" of the Edward Snowden Story
Windows 7 (for gaming) + Debian on VM (for development).
I would do this in a heartbeat, even for a substantially reduced salary. Assuming travel expenses and meals/shelter are paid for (within reason) I'd travel all over the world for an opportunity like this. Awesome. Google's been coming under a lot of fire lately but between this and Google Loon[1] I think Google's cooking up some really innovative, practically useful and genuinely creative toys for the world to play with.

[1]: http://www.google.com/loon/#utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc...
Just fyi, that was the point in the argument. :-)
Amazing personal branding website, resembling CNN and its breaking news
The headline is deliberately inflammatory, leaving off the "turned over to third parties".

The actual statement itself is almost a tautology - when you give someone information, you don't expect that the information is private from them because you just gave it to them.
Mostly functions that could be achieved with Excel formulas, but would require to add some more columns. As we are already struggling with file size, we often go with VBA implementation. I'm talking about calculating things like drawdowns in series, and other timeseries properties.
We compared both implementation (Formulas ad VBA) and most of the time, VBA is several times faster, and reduces chances of application freeze; So we are not even discussing the need for VBA in the team.
Shareholder suit against Microsoft should serve as a wakeup call for Blackberry
What a terrible, terrible "argument". As though anything one might want to hide is something they "shouldn't be doing in the first place".
Yeah you shouldn't have been raped but now that you have, you can't tell anybody about it through OUR service. Because we just don't care. Alcoholic? Don't count on OUR service, or any other service on the internet OR your home phone to get any support without anybody finding out. Not to mention: shouldn't have been doing that.

There is NOTHING wrong with having stuff to hide. I have stuff to hide. Didn't break to law, either. This is why I'm moving away from GMail, and Google in general, save for some searches every now and then and perhaps image search. "Don't be evil"? More like "We don't care".

Privacy IS important; anybody who says not is definitely someone I don't understand at all.
I'd be interested in reading about your learning when moving from a UI -> Algo heavy engineer :)
An open letter to the Australian startup scene.
Few years back i lost my gmail id after some hacker deleted it which i used for everything like my accounts, offer letters i received etc. Since then i distributed my things in different places. I still use another gmail account only for general purpose..i believe fastmail more than any other..ofcourse recently i am loving outlook but still Microsoft is more non-trustable than google..ain't it?...
Proven practices for more effective, efficient peer code review
Perhaps. But even if no-one would pay money for a direct software download/package, this does not preclude sponsorship of companies to free software projects they wish to be more developed. Indeed, there are many such large projects.
Battery temperature rises with bad roms and excessive gaming and apps , did you consider all these conditions. It's really complicated.
Consider systems like the GDS infrastructure backing the travel industry. These systems are long-lived (50y+) and are the backbone of all travel booking and scheduling. The only thing that matters for them is not the end user experience, it's the stability of the system, and society's reliance upon its operation. It's robust and it was produced at the right time to carry an industry into the efficient monster it needed to be to succeed. A whole industry was built on it layer by layer, and what we now have is a complex beast composed of ancient IBM hardware, crazy nested and disparate schemas, greenscreen scrapers, and probably more than a few dashes of COBOL. One can't expect the system to stop evolving while we take a 5 year breather to rewrite it all.
"Logn" you are such a liar: http://web.archive.org/web/20020802023809/http://gmail.com/

Before Google acquired the domain.
Presumably the Hyperloop isn't actually in danger when shot at. The cars just slow down when depressurization occurs. Thought I read that somehow.

I responded to concern over the Hyperloop shutting down for hours whilst the damage is repaired.

And, if someone fired a few pot shots into a taxing A380 at LAX, I have to imagine that the whole place would be shut down for a few hours.
Microsoft did this, effectively. Someone who remembers the project can provide a link to the demo/talks (TED, if I recall) hopefully.

edit: believe it was related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth
For native applications (whether desktop or mobile), building interfaces from a consistent set of components is usually considered a good thing.

Why should every web application look different?

If it was up to me, the browser default styles would be something closer to Bootstrap (and actually implement stuff like the <menu> element), so you can build a decent looking site with touching CSS at all.
"Augmenting the human condition" is admittedly a bit of a platitude (and a bit grandiose). However your question "under whose criteria does rethinkdb qualify for this?" is exactly the right one and the actual lesson from this statement. No one who's running a business says to themselves "I bet I can get away with not augmenting the human condition." Partly because people's internal monologues don't normally use that sort of diction but also because everyone who's running a business knows that this is the whole point. Most people who fail to accomplish this do so because they don't know what will augment their customer's lives. Figuring out the criteria with which to judge augmentation is the hard part. I could go into details about how I think we're doing this at RethinkDB (although referring to it as "augmenting to human condition" is a bit of an over the top for my tastes) but I think this is the general answer to your question.
This is completely misleading. The article actually says this:

Plaintiffs in the case contend that Google's automated
scanning of e-mail represents an illegal interception of
their electronic communications without their consent.
However, Google, which uses automated scanning to filter
spam and deliver targeted advertising to its users, noted
that plaintiffs consented to the practice in exchange for
the e-mail services. Google goes on to say that courts have
held that all e-mail users "necessarily give implied consent
to the automated processing of their emails."

This is the same old "algorithms reading my email is a violation of privacy" argument from back when Gmail started. Ignoring the bullshit headline, Google's argument comes down to the following:

1. Machines scanning your email doesn't violate privacy
2. Even if it did, you consent to it when you sign up for a Gmail account
3. It's impossible to provide email hosting without some level of automated processing of messages

Google's clearly in the right here, and the various outlets reporting this story need to learn some journalistic ethics.
Like all the mail providers should do? Because it applies to all mail providers, not just Google
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AMC makes 30 million a month off subscribers. At $2 a month they'd need 15 million monthly subscribers to equal what they currently earn. Historically speaking Breaking Bad has averaged 2 to 3 million viewers. After five and a half seasons its highly anticipated premiere had almost 6 million viewers.

So yes, go ahead, keep thinking that two dollars a month is a reasonable price.
New Features of Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 25
Supposedly it is the catchphrase of the gingerbread man.

http://www.folktale.net/GBman.html

Having never heard that tale, I was stumped. I supposed it is part of US culture? I'm from Sweden myself, so if I was told the story as a child, it wouldn't have been in english anyway.
Yeah. And I feel bad recommending GMail to friends and family before. Now I tell them to leave it. I should have known.. Right now my Google usage is at almost 0%. (I still use calendar.. for now.)
Hint: if your app isn't working check if Facebook didn't unset your app namespace. If so, set it again and save changes. Probably it was possible to take over other developers app namespaces due to this bug.