skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see nothing condescending there. "Augment the human condition" means making someone's life better. "Huge number of people" means going after big markets. "Not worth doing" means not worth doing as a startup—it might be well worth doing in some other context, and that's clearly not the scope of this post.
This is a bit callous, don't you think?
Summer before I started college last year-

I spent a straight week hacking together a website that organizes Starcraft 2 streams. Gets 25-50 hits a day. Not revolutionary, but it was/is a big deal to me.

I wrote it in PHP, now I'm re-writing it in Rails.
> bottom-heavy, which helps, a lot

I don't know enough about rocketry to know if you're correct. But if you are just saying this and you're not sure, please look at the Pendulum Rocket Fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_rocket_fallacy
Why? Before I roasted my own beans, I was pretty much interested in the output of a specific local roaster. They source the beans, choose a specific roasting profile, are there to answer questions and guide my choices, take feedback (the Costa Rican was under/over roasted for my taste, and so on). That is the kind of relationship and connection I want, if I want one at all.

That is all being replaced with some content on a website, roasted by some person you select, with beans that you select? Sorry, I doubt you are as good at bean selection as the roaster you are bring the beans to. I could be wrong about that, but I'm trying to give input as a huge coffee nerd, and a potential customer. I just don't care about a blog and pictures about where my beans came from. And then I think about the economics of it. You are acting as a middle man, meaning you need to get paid. I surely don't want to pay you to do selection that my own local roaster already does very well. I don't see any value in what you are offering.

That probably seems very negative and "snipe"y, but I think you are going to dump a ton of time and money into something that really isn't going to be successful.

Edit: as I said, I now roast my own coffee. I buy from Sweet Marias. If, for some reason, I hunger for knowledge about the source of my beans (and, I stress that I don't), I can just go to their website and read about it for free. For example: http://www.sweetmarias.com/coffee/full-description/bolivia
Looks like the JavaScript bindings for Tessel are better. Comparing the demo for blinking an LED:

var b = require('bonescript');
var state = 0;

b.pinMode("USR3", 'out');
setInterval(function() {
state = state ? 0 : 1;
b.digitalWrite("USR3", state);
}, 100);

vs

var tessel = require('tessel')
tessel.led(1).blink()

If they can give human-friendly names to stuff like "USR3" and "P9_40" and "P9_36" out of the box, then I'd say they've added some value.
>I don't really understand how reaching out and waving my hand to scroll a page is a step forward from simply using a scroll wheel on the mouse which is already under my hand

The real value proposition is not necessarily in applications designed under existing UI paradigms like scrolling text. It does, however, let you accomplish "science fiction" effects like changing the camera position on a 3D model far, far more easily than the mouse.
Because everyone* knows JavaScript. I'd wager that the vast majority of professional software engineers work on the web, or very close to the web, and JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web. I mean just look at the front page of Hacker News on any given week. It's full of talk of JavaScript and new JavaScript libraries and new things to do in JavaScript. When you think about how many more people this can reach without them having to learn yet another language for a very specific thing, it makes sense.

*hyperbole, please forgive me for being not being completely literal.
Yes, that's exactly my point, couldn't have said it better (sorry if my analogy was misleading).
oh, interesting. so women have no sex drive? their evolutionary imperative is to be pretty and get dicks stuck in them?

fascinating. tell me more.
There were p-code implementations in hardware.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine
Various smartcards use subset of Java 2 bytecode (search for "Java Card") although I'm not sure if it's particularly better or worse than running some other kind of instruction set.
I'm curious about performance on this, compared to something like the Arduino YUN, which is basically a OpenWRT MIPS system (which uses a Lua UI by default) and an Arduino tacked on the side:

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoYUN

The CPU in particular seems quite underpowered assuming that they're clockspeed comparable, but I'm not familiar enough with the M-series ARM cores to give a proper opinion.
> and in my mind is more of a question of when and not if

Citation needed. Is this backed up by personal experience, someone else's data, or is it just something that you spend a lot of time thinking about?
So, with progressive enhancement...

I have a main screen with a query whose processing takes over a minute to perform it on all of the data, but seconds for incremental changes after that. Each row returned has a detail screen associated with it, and the users have a requirement to be able to move to a detail screen, update a record, and return to the main screen without continually incurring the heavy query penalty each time they return to the main screen. Business also has a requirement that the database of record is normalized. (Denormalizing and precomputing is good, but you run into problems when the feed updates.) Do you...

A. keep a Nosql (say... redis) cache, precompute, and perform two commits? This adds a non-trivial amount of complexity keeping them in sync, not including watching for jobs from outside feeds that can update at any time. This isn't bad for a simple system, or a system with a lot of engineers, but it's non-trivial to get right and easy to find out a bug after the fact.

B. Keep it all in the session? This has its own problems: if using an ORM, you're going to be increasing your memory load per user substantially. Otherwise, you're having to keep a separate data structure around and marshal/unmarshal, creating an additional complexity layer, and I haven't seen a great way to do this.

C. Keep a single page application and implement a polling mechanism behind the scenes to keep the information fresh? With a system like Ember or Angular, this may not be trivial but it's not terrible either, and I'd argue it's superior to a redis cache.

I know that I can provide a better user experience by prefetching. I don't know how to do this with progressive enhancement.
As it was spoken: Javascript shall conquer all- Atwood's Law:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/the-principle-of-le...
How would you run Node on it otherwise? If it's not running an operating system that Node already supports, it means they've done the very large amount of work needed to port a Javascript interpreter to a bare-metal environment. I'd be highly impressed if they had actually managed to do that, but I'm doubtful. More likely they are using some stripped-down Linux kernel and userspace. A combination of uCLinux and BusyBox should work rather nicely.
> So it's definitely fair to say that simply damaging a carrier is not nearly as catastrophic as sinking one.

It is fair to say that the situations are not equal.

If the carrier can't fight, it's out of the battle until it's fixed. Fixable don't count if the war is over in weeks, or months.

Fixing a modern carrier might can take a while.

Yorktown was not a complex warship. She takes a hit on the deck. Patch up the holes in her deck (I'm simplifying) and she's back in business.

Hit Ford in the same location and you damage catapults, arresting gear. Ford is out of the war until she is fixed and this will not happen soon. How long to replace a catapult: I'd guess months at best. Where do they even keep the spares?
A more current war nerd article

http://exiledonline.com/war-nerd-china-joins-the-yacht-club/

The DF 21 is basically unstoppable, best long term solution inho is putting drone carriers underwater
The Predator will probably make it to 25, but most models of the other drones that will dominate the wars of the future will have far shorter periods of military service.
> Also, a Su-35 Flanker cant fire a missile at 50km without radar lock, which would be difficult against a F-35. Even if they did fire a future Long-Range IR missile, the F-35 would detect and release flares to avoid the missile. Also, the kinetics of the missile would make it hard to track a F-35 during terminal phase.

If you know how much heat is coming out, then you know roughly what thrust should be being produced. Couple that with known performance characteristics of the aircraft - i.e. aircraft don't just go from manoeuvring in one way to manoeuvring in another - and I would imagine you can tell the two apart fairly easily.

After all, fighter jets don't, at least in the course of normal operation, just change their emission profile and fall out of the sky.
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There's a pretty wide spectrum between completely sober and "drunk".
Does anyone else notice that the article's picture looks photoshopped? Look at the right forearm of the person behind him.
Even lawyering and doctoring is not upper-class. The defining feature of upper-class in America is making money with money, so the only upper-class lawyers or doctors are the ones that (for example) own a practice instead of working day-to-day, much the same way that a programmer who now owns his own billion-dollar tech company would be upper-class.
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i imagined space whales eating asteroids.
I liked Jerry Seinfeld's quotes from his recent NPR review:

"I don't give a damn. That's the beauty of it. It doesn't matter. That's the nearest place. I'll meet you there. And you know what? Coffee's all good. It's all good. As long as it's fresh, it's good. And it's always fresh in New York. ... I think we're a more productive society as a result."

and

"I have that at my mother's in Florida at her condo. When she says, 'Do you want coffee?' And she had a — I think it was a Cuban packet — and I started rolling my eyes. 'Oh my God that's the coffee you have?' And she boils the water and opens the packet and puts it in there and you know what? It was pretty good."

I'm not saying that all coffees are the same, but in general if my choices are "bad" coffee and no coffee, I'll take the bad coffee.
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"1. Cisco overstaffed in anticipation of larger future growth that didn't materialize"

Another angle to this is that they are not really that overstaffed and have the ability to lay off cisco employees and outsource the work. In essence shifting cost from one area to another. Without all the drawbacks of a full time employee. All at once so everyone can move forward.

For example the person in job "x" being paid $x dollars is the not same as an outsourcing job "x" and paying the outsourcing company "$x" dollars.

One cost is easier to get rid of (vs. laying off employees) and would be shown in financial statements in a different and possibly more advantageous place.
As someone who has come around to Javascript after many years avoiding it, I think I can answer you: people like Javascript for a similar reason to why people like Python. As long as you stick to a strict set of conventions, Javascript is a very compact and manageable language, with a bit of extra flexibility to spice things up due to its prototypal nature.

With Python, you don't have to worry about the conventions part, since there is one "Pythonic" way to do everything. But at least with JS there are only a few different standard ways to implement, for example, OOP. So once you've gotten used to it, when you read someone's code, you can quickly notice what style they use and contribute your code to match it.

My biggest remaining gripe with Javascript is the lack of a good base set of libraries for container and string manipulation. Sure there are packages (like Underscore) you can use, but it would be nice to have them as a standard part of JS.
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Isn't it too early to announce layoffs in 2014? Employees would just start applying for jobs preemptively and the best will actually get offers by then. You don't want your best people to lose faith for such a long period of time.
Another approach is to do something like take a cut of the first year's salary or difference between the first year's salary and what the jobhunter was previously getting. That conditions success not only on making a match but on making a good match, as you get paid virtually nothing if an employee gets hired but then gets fired 2 weeks later. Many recruiting firms take this approach.
Javascript doesn't support integers, so it doesn't seem like a good language for programming low level hardware. What about bit manipulation (XOR, AND, Shifting, etc)? This is critical for a lot of serial data communications and I/O controls.
When you're hooking up with a girl you know you're just giving it a shot and if you don't hit it off you just drive home. If I drive for 7 miles only to find a dude instead of a girl, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't try and hook up with him but get the hell home, and I would be very disappointed in the misleading service.
You missed the point - I´m not talking about the US. You might be able to find solidarity with the folks in your wifes towns seafood joint in the U.S. In Germany you'd at best get curious looks and awkward questions.

Everything else you've stated is either untrue (people lived in strange walled societies) or irrelevant (PPP etc - 29k is enough for people to live a good life in India. In any case the people I referred to - the ones who would even have a chance in places like Germany etc - are well above that 1% figure even in India). I leave it to you to figure out how big 1% of 1.2 Billion is.
Envelopes have been photographed for years. The worry is that they'll start scanning package contents.
Charging the applicant for a monthly premium listing service does nothing to help companies find good employees, though I think a small change could make it beneficial to both parties.

Offer "premium" application placement on a per application basis instead of monthly. This would provide a signal to the employer that the applicant is particularly interested in this listing and not just spamming resumes.

It would provide a similar signal to a customized cover letter, but the employer can see the signal without the necessary investment of time to read a cover letter.
Language-specific hardware has been done before, but do these really make sense? I remember excitement at the prospect of "Java CPUs". Did any of them become commercially or even technically important?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor
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I think that for short-term encounters "rich" is a proxy for sanity. It means they have jobs that bring in good money; which means they need to be integrated to the society to some degree and wouldn't have too much time to be focused on stalking someone. It also means that they have something important to lose and have an active interest in not freaking a woman out.

"educated" could be a substitute for "rich" - and the educated, good looking, but not very rich people would be ideal for dating sites.
"I don't have to answer that." They can't compel you to answer, but good luck landing that job.
I don't think the language has been the problem. Just look at the Arduino.

For me, the main challenges always were getting the program onto a chip and wiring everthing so that is does not break or shortcut.
Remeber when there were people opposing SOPA and newspapers (yes, old media) going batshit over the matter? I bet do you also remember how well GoDaddy managed the situation, I bet you remember how they said that their business wouldn't be affected by those few disgruntled users. I know that I remember how quickly they were to retract their support when people started actually migrating from their service. And we're talking of an old, well-established and profitable business. Imagine what bad PR would do to a budding startup.
There is: https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~pv42/thebiz/ and JStylo https://psal.cs.drexel.edu/index.php/JStylo-Anonymouth
It's extremely simple - basically everything is a hash. It has full lambda, not just crippled lambda like Python. It's very fast (I think it is the fastest scripting language except for Lua, and getting faster because of the browser wars).

It usually doesn't require a lot of boilerplate code.

What is not to like?

The one thing I worry about is the limited range of integers.
My wife and I were also looking to have kids and I decided I didn't want to drink around them

I've actually made it a deliberate point to drink around my children to role model responsible alcohol use: Never in excessive volume, never an excessive frequency, never in response to stress or to drown unhappiness, never alone, never something that's not enjoyable as a beverage, never ever ever before driving (or motorcycling, bicycling, whatever).

I'm hoping it helps. I'll report back in in 20 years to see if my kids are better off with positive role modeling than I was with terrible role modeling.
We are just getting started
I've heard 40 days is enough to develop a habit (or break one), so to me this is a good period of time to try to work out the kinks of getting into (or out of) something.
"True. When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb." [1]

[1] http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Quotations_-_Random/3041_quote...
I also prefer C and C++ over every other high level languages when performance is essential.
I'm not familiar with these acronyms. LTR? Long-term relationship? NSA?
Not even for scripting them?
I don't drink (and not because I'm morally superior :P) and trust me, it's hard to miss the socialization aspect of it. That's the kind of perspective you couldn't ignore if you wanted to, as people essentially club you about the head with it.

It's weird, you could be hanging with a group of people who are the most socially liberal, equality-seeking types on the planet and they find out you don't drink alcohol and it's OH. MY. GOD. and suddenly they're almost as intolerant as those they oppose.
Some U.S. allies are almost certainly going to bail out of the F-35 program. Spiraling costs, the ideology requiring VSTOL, and some bizarrely secretive aspects of the JSF project are conspiring to kill the F-35 as a viable option for countries like Canada.

A surprising thing is that countries taking part in development are not permitted complete access to program data. The U.S., despite making use of other nations expertise in the development and manufacturing of the F-35,is trying to keep some aspects classified from the nations who are supposed to buy the plane!

Some Canadian pundits have (not seriously) called for the F-35 to be ditched and the Avro Arrow resurrected. The Arrow was developed in the 50's as an interceptor and, other than being significantly faster than the F-35 is probably inferior for Canada's requirements. It was designed in the freakin' 50's! It really is amazing that Canada went from manufacturing other country's WWII propeller plane designs to building prototype's faster than today's state-of-the-art F-35 in just a little over a decade. The fact that the F-35 is significantly slower than a 55 year old jet really shines light on how compromised its design is.

There are many rumors surrounding the cancellation of the Avro Arrow since it was probably superior to any other interceptor of its time, and one that refuses to die is that the U.S. was pressuring Canada to drop the program since Boeing, Lockheed, etc. felt threatened by Avro. Avro was basically destroyed by the cancellation of the Arrow, and guess where Avro engineers wound up!

I mention all this because Canada, despite being a perpetually self-doubting nation, has significant aerospace and weapon expertise. Canada also has some pretty unique design requirements not met by any existing fighters. The budget to build fighters locally may not ultimately exist, but if the Canadian government decides to compromise to cut costs, the F-35 is a horrendous option. It doesn't meet Canadian requirements, isn't on time, is getting more expensive every day, and the U.S. is trying to treat them like turn-key installations rather than selling planes.

Why should the U.S. care? Every nation that bails on the JSF program will raise costs for those that remain. Once one nation leaves, a domino effect will likely ensue. Based on this article, I can't say that's necessarily bad!
One reason might be to get ahead of something they foresee hurting profits in the next quarter or next year. Not to wait until it shows up in the bottom line.

"like I'm five"

Ok here it is for a 5 year old.

You have a 10 lemonade stands staffed by 10 people. You've had a good year and have made money. But next year you will loose 3 of the stands and so you are going to get rid of three people because they won't be needed even though you made money fine this year.
Interesting link, particularly the part about ways law enforcement might try to shut down SR. One approach police might take is to set up shop as sellers, and then instead of running a scam, actually ship the illicit goods and have the police show up right after the mailman. If I understand correctly, the buyer's address must go to the seller instead of the SR admins.

This might be considered entrapment, but if the buyer seeks out SR themselves and gets unlucky in their choice of seller, entrapment might be hard to argue.
Because if you can buy something for $9, why pay $10, even if you have $500 in the bank?

Same reason that someone who's "rich" and "makes good money" would still negotiate the price of their new BMW/Mercedes or their house.

From here down isn't especially for five year olds, but I think it's still graspable.

Running a company properly (by many investors' definition) is an optimization problem, not simply a constraint satisfying problem. If you can have 4000 fewer employees and be more profitable in that state than in yesterday's state, investors will expect you to do that, even if you're currently profitable. (The costs [monetary and morale] of doing layoffs inject a certain amount of stabilizing hysteresis into the system.)
GoDaddy had their customers pissed at them. Why would Pure be worried about a bunch of people plainly not in their target audience being mad at them? They wouldn't be worried, if they are smart. That'd be like Smirnoff being worried what Mormons think of them.
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Couldn't you use a foot pedal as a mouse button? You could easily add multiple switches or triggers that way.
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I don't have much problem with programming an embedded device in a high-level language, but why JS specifically? Why not Lua, which just as fast, and is better than javascript in many respects?
Like Java, C is deterministic. Try adding a string and an integer in JS, what happens when JS is controlling real hardware, directly, and the coder said do this but the code (JS) does something else? I can't imagine coding medical devices with JS and hoping they always do exactly what their coders thought the JS they wrote would do.
LuaJIT would like to have a word with JVM.

Plus, Lua isn't controlled by a creepy asshole who thinks the NSA is essential and says stupid shit like "Who's ever heard of government misusing information?"