skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it's more costly to maintain 10000 line javascript files, you can start to reuse code at something smaller than the package level, you can have better cohesion and less coupling.

The god-file approach to development leads to things like lots of search and replace when something needs renamed, name collision, and duplicated utility code everywhere.
I mentioned it because they're included in the calendar that he took a picture of and the first thing I thought when I saw them was "So I'd have to write around that?"
Agreed on all points. I have a feeling I'll be coming back to read this again in the future.
I am typing on a Kinesis Freestyle set vertical with its Ascent and it Kicks Ass(TM). You can't beat the ergonomics of a vertical keyboard.
I'm with patrickmclaren on "work out more," which will help you have better focus and energy. But besides that, figure out what works for you. Some people need deadlines or serious challenge and obsession (cough, cough, me) to work effectively.

So, maybe the deadlines? Start with the goal: Are you talking about building a company/launching a product? Pick a date, set it on some calendar that you look at all the time, and then set objectives/milemarkers that'll help you get there. Calendar those, and reminders. Set even smaller pieces into your calendar.

You can also get a buddy to check in with you/pester you, though that doesn't work for everyone. Or publicly blog about the deadline and your progress.
That seems very different. That's more like exciting, risky behavior mixed in with a deathwish.
My desktop is currently lacking a screen, but I have purchased a small Thinkpad keyboard for it: great, lite keyboard with a trackpoint - the trackpoint essentially solves the context switch problem and is good enough for everything apart from games.
Kevin Spacey Speech on the future of TV (Full Video)
Global Email Blacklisted for HostGator IPs
I can't speak for this particular project, but Docker (on which this project is based) is already open-source, and you can absolutely deploy it on your own hardware. See http://docker.io for details.
The confusing lingo of service fee vs tipping for room service in the US
When combined with lexically scoped closures, if you try to shadow your value bindings in a functional language and expect it to work the same way as mutating a variable does in an imperative language, you're in for a surprise.
Maybe it's because of biases like these, but we tend to vastly underestimate the timespans in which cities can be radically remade. 50 years? Commercial buildings being built in 1964 would have been expected to last 50+ years. Much of Chicago's lakefront is buildings from the turn of the 20th century or earlier. A skyscraper taller than 47 floors has never been demolished peacefully [1]

1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20535821
Hopefully there's an iOS7 Jailbreak to fix the icons and animations.
> Is he scientific enough for you?

saalweacher has started to cover why, but I'd like to emphasize a request: never ask this question sincerely again.

Darwin is a reasonably valid authority, but it's not because he's "scientific". People are not scientific. Processes are scientific. People who enact scientific processes are scientists. Conclusions drawn from scientific processes are science. "Scientific" should never refer to people.

I think you and Darwin are probably right. That's a long, long, long way from being proven right, though, and it's a huge mistake to assume so from a bit of poetry that Darwin speculated with.
Xbox One Release Date, November 8th
Uh oh. What was that HN link?
underground building will always be more expensive than the above ground equivalent. Some of the more interesting close to underground alternatives are still very costly in labour (earthships, straw bale), and not thoroughly tested in many climates. Engineered below ground construction will always cost a shit-tonne in concrete and waterproofing (source - just built an engineered 3.5 metre downstairs in a 2m cut on the side of a hill).
On an iPhone 5 the lag of an application being resumed is almost non-existent. Under iOS7 I too am constantly having to re-touch just because I hit the end of the animation rather than the app.
That's a rather strange assertion, if you mean "variables" and "values." Math distinguishes between variables and values. Variables have different values. Values can be bound to variables. Sometimes we do math with mostly variables and few values -- that's called algebra.
What Git clients can learn from Perforce
Apple will not cancel anything as the cheap iPhone 5 and the one in the higher segment will outsell the Nexus 4. Even if they have lower specs or worse performance.
You think that Israel wants a war with Syria? Syria could easily turn those chemical weapons across its border. I think Isreal is probably one of the big factors causing US restraint right now.

But my tin-foil hat hasn't been working very well lately so the government radio signals may be blocking me from seeing something.
How many people in the world need to do the work of stats guru Jeff Sagarin? Is everyone else a hipster?
No, he's not missing the point, he's expressing a preference. As shocking as this may be, there are people who do actual real programming that involves solving problems and troubleshooting, and being stuck in deep with interesting issues for hours, on Apple's current keyboards. I know more than one of these people. I know more than one of them have tried objectively good mechanical keyboards and discovered that they prefer Apple's flat keyboards.

Personally, I prefer my Unicomp Spacesaver M keyboard, which I'm typing on now. But Apple's current keyboards are still some of my favorites, and it's not because they're pretty, it's because for low travel keyboards they're really fantastic. There's clearly a lot of thought that's gone into the haptics. They're not squishy. They feel good to type on. I'd rather use them than several mechanical keyboards that I've bought, and I'd much rather use them than any membrane keyboard that I've ever used, including some fairly expensive "ergonomic" models. I actually suspect, somewhat to my chagrin, that I'm faster typing on Apple keyboards than I am on the Unicomp.

Yes, Apple stuff is pretty. Tra-la, look at me, I'm an Apple product! Woo! But aesthetics and functionality are not opposite ends of the same axis.
I was just about to buy one 2nd hand for more expensive! So glad I didn't catch one in time... all those unlucky sods selling their phones just lost out on another $100! I'm gonna keep an eye in the classified, these will go dirt cheap now! :)
The article is alarmist, hardly anyone shoots up in the space anymore.

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meeting_Notes_2013_05_21#Di...
Mapping caps lock->ctrl destroyed my pinkies on Emacs, just saying... thumb modifier keys is the way to go IMO
I have the feeling this won't change. The fullscreen and space switch animation in OS X is still the same slow speed as ever and people have been complaining ever since the feature landed.
90 startups presented at TC 07 & 08 conference. 22 exists, $1.3B raised since
I have one of the original (pre-nub) Nexus 4's and mine's slid off of desks/surfaces at least a dozen times. Somehow, the screen/back is still fine, but the plastic bezel looks and feels like it's been gnawed on by bears.

Still, it's a fantastic device, and it's been running flawlessly w/ CM10 and an LTE hybrid baseband (TMO in LA) for months - much better than when I got it in fact.

It's the best Android phone I've used (4.2+ of course is a big factor), and the first one where I haven't really felt the urge to upgrade at all (haven't been convinced by the S4, One, or X).

I think I'd need some combination of ridiculous battery life, way better radios, GoPro3-like video quality, IPX7+, and sunlight viewable screen to get me excited.
Interesting twist. Gift cards not being used tends to be a benefit for the shop, not the person buying the card.
Maybe not "typical" but not unexpected either. We're all Bayesians here, aren't we? ;-) The prior probability of a new gadget getting released in time for the Christmas shopping season is pretty high, so it doesn't require too many additional data points to "know" what's going on.
The guy's lost touch with reality.

> Internet Explorer dropped from a high of more than 85 percent to roughly 12 percent today (53 percent use Google’s Chrome and 29 percent use Mozilla’s Firefox).

> creating a new version of Open Source Windows ... The company would derive its revenue from service, support, and consulting.
If somebody steals my laptop and it's still open, they still have to provide my user password since the screen gets locked after some time of inactivity. And reading from the hard-drive directly won't help, because I got an encrypted hard-drive (with dmcrypt).

I did this precisely because the laptop is a single point of failure. Steal somebody's laptop and bam, you've got access to everything important to that person.

My Android phone is also encrypted (with a much weaker password) and I can also remotely delete everything on it through Google Apps.
BitTorrent Sync client released for iPhone
The magical hovercraft feature is why the Nexus engineers should really work at Hyperloop. They have bravely taken up the fight against friction, and they made terrific inroads.
Intel ships high-powered C++ compiler for native Android apps
Wow, that really is the entire meat of the post.
ALPS still makes mechanical keyswitches and I think Filco makes their own, don't they? Also, Unicomp makes "buckling spring" keyswitches for their own use.
When it comes to your company, you are aware of more details and plans, so I believe you can get off with the less flexible but more tailored system.

You won't suddenly stop having technical issues, but at least you'll have a much more control.
I like pair programming
The cold war ended, and there was no longer a need to prove that we could send something up into space and rain down fiery death upon anyone on the planet. Hence, no more space program.
At the risk of sounding pedantic, should the title for this HN submission have (1964) at the end of it?
> Adjustable transmissivity glass is a reality but not yet practical enough for it to be ubiquitous.

Asimov says windows "will be polarized to block out the harsh sunlight." That sure sounds to me like putting LCD tech in a window, sans backlight and Bayer filter. We don't use the tech architecturally, but we certainly mass-produce it at the sizes needed for use as window panes. And passive photochromic lenses are also commodity items. Either one is completely practical for integration into a window, there just isn't currently demand to do so.
Apple seeks to trademark “startup” in Australia
Finally: COMODO cross-certs for win kernel mode signing (cheapest in the market)
Apple can go suck a lemon.
The joys and benefits of working as a distributed team
Sorry, but you are actually comparing features of GUI more than SCMs themself. Actually many of Git users don't use any GUI just because they don't need to. And when it comes to SCM features comparison, Git is a way better.

Sincerely, Perforce user.
Woah I thought it was only me that was pressing stuff with my ear on the phone.

Usually it is "3" when listening to voice mail...which deletes the message!
I went with Cherry MX browns for a combination of tactile feel and quiet operation. Plus, you can get damper rings for the switches so that the keys don't bottom out, which is the majority of the noise, in my experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFkl1Vet1eU
Just a couple of brands:

http://en.thl.com.cn/

http://en.zopomobile.com/

http://europe.oppostyle.com/

http://www.ejiayu.com/en/

Here you can find other name for searching (no affiliation whatsoever with this shop, I don't even know if they sell in US, it's only the place where a couple of friends bought their chinese smartphone):
http://www.grossoshop.net/Smartphone_Dual_Sim_Android_Proces...
I agree with everything you say. I think functional vs imperative is a matter of taste, though. Even I tend to incline towards Functional Programming (FP) in most scenarios, but in some cases imperative languages are 'good enough'.

And since my background used to be client-side Javascript mainly (I was a front-end designer), I find it fairly confusing to switch myself between the two mindsets (FP and IP), which like you said is something more of a personal preference.

And like I said, I still love Scala, for the reasons you've cited. But then again, there are a couple of reasons which I have in mind for going with Go.

The main problem with Scala for me:

1) Difficult to find good Scala engineers. IF you find one, you still need to figure out if he's comfortable with the Functional or Imperative model.

2) Syntax:

This is an example from one of my previous commenters (dxbydt, thank you) on my thread:

scala> def test1 = println ("hello world")
scala> def test2(f: =>Unit) = println ("hello world")
scala> def test3(f:Unit) = println ("hello world")
scala> test1
hello world
scala> test2()
hello world
scala> test3()
hello world
scala> val t = test2 _
scala> t apply Unit
hello world
scala> t()
hello world
scala> t(())
hello world

It is mostly a personal preference, but I still feel too many ways to do one thing is a recipe for disaster.

With all that said, I know of people writing a Scala program and not touching it for a year or two unless they wanted to update their OS on their servers.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?t=crmtb01&f=ob&i=can%20en...
$5 DigitalOcean Cloud Server + FuseOverAmazon S3 + BitTorrenSync = decent Dropbox alternative?
Definitely, but the paper it was in was the Washington Post. If they printed that in the Chron or LA Times, people would take it for a joke.
The Hyperloop definitely comes to mind, but I think hovercraft are a well-established realization of what he predicted there.
License plate data not just for cops: Private companies are tracking your car
Am I crazy to think that maybe Google designed it this way?
Three options for fresh grads in tech
(SPOILER)

Yeah, for most of us. But that's the thing about the guy in Memento - he can chose what to think and "remember" in the future since he trusts his own handwriting and pretty much forgets everything else.

"However I would be happier if I didn't know it existed"
If you could chose to forget, you wouldn't know it existed, and thus be happier. Souds like the logical thing to do :)
Are there any registrars that allow one to set serverDeleteProhibited, serverTransferProhibited, and serverUpdateProhibited?
Mine is 1988. I've bought 3 of them in a computer cemetery. You'll take it from my cold dead hands.
New app helps fisherman avoid hefty fines
That's why we on HN say: 'Build it and ship it'. Everything else is 'could have, should have' noise.
What happens when you sit at a desk for 13 years and also exercise
There's a pretty big mass different to account for
openblas is good successor of gotoblas and financial support to it is quite worthwhile， I think.
try alibaba.com
Keep in mind that the Lenovo has a MTK cpu which is A7 vs the A9 in the Nexus 4's Qualcomm S4 Pro, and has 1GB RAM vs the Nexus' 2GB. You also get the latest firmware on the Nexus. For £50, i'd go for the Nexus any day, especially since the prices i see online for the Lenovo bets on the chance that the device goes through customs without getting taxed.
I think jamesharding knows that very well if I understand his joke correctly :)
I know it's a sample of 1, but the female barber I visited the last time does in fact have visible varicose veins. The male barber wasn't wearing stockings.
Both Oracle and Postgres have objects and collections. This allows you to build hierarchical structures.
Postgres unfortunately doesn't allow for recursive structures ;(

If you are interested in how to do it take a look here: https://blog.dsl-platform.com/postgres-bridge-between-worlds...
This should be much bigger. I was ready to dismiss this as some fly-by-night operation using the stock flat theme until I saw that message.
I believe MelbourneIT do (twitter.com has it set and they are registered there)
I'll try to convey as much of this as I can.
The sad thing is, i don't know if you mean $ or £.
I had the same experience with the Galaxy Nexus. I literally threw it onto the road....twice. Both events happened while running with the phone in my hand. The first time I threw it downwards at speed, the second time I launched it about 10 feet in front of me. The back and corners took some dents and chips, but no significant damage.

I've not been particularly fond of LG hardware since a friend had an LG device spontaneously catch fire.
If you want to some useful documentary about the creation of money I was really impressed by that one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwmM5Nb6hiE

Very clear explanation on how the money is created (through lending/debt), very informative even if the documentary advocate a monetary reform the beginning is not biased.
I'm told that no one cares whether Apple is shady because they build quality products, but I really want to see a shift away from Apple products in protest of said shadiness.

edit: clarity
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It would be better if they finally released it outside US. I can't even see the site.
New app alerts Aussie fisherman of no-fish zones and avoid hefty fines
Is the 2-4s for non-REPL ordinary scripts too?
JavaScript XHR hacking with XHook and XDomain
XHook: Easily intercept and modify XHR request and response https://github.com/jpillora/xhook

XDomain: A pure JavaScript CORS alternative https://github.com/jpillora/xdomain
I sincerely hope that no one follows your advice.

The phone you point to might be a few bucks cheaper, but it has 1/2 the RAM, 1/2-1/4 internal storage, and while the MTK6589 performs surprisingly well for a Mediatek chip, it still performs below the Nexus 4's S4Pros both for CPU and GPU. The screen is also much lower res and 245ppi vs 320ppi. It doesn't have any support for LTE (Nexus 4 is flashable to Band 4) and doesn't appear to support NFC, or, probably more importantly, BT4/BTLE. There's also no front camera or a flash (!) on the back camera.

Of course, the worst thing is that it's already running an outdated (4.1.2) version of Android and is unlikely to be updated. There's a small community working on ROMs but it's sketchy (no dedicated forum on XDA, no CM port, much less an official build).

If you buy the A820, and almost all the other Shanzai'd devices, you effectively get a dead product, while w/ the Nexus 4 you'll get better hardware and both official and community support for years.

Seems like a no-brainer for a $50-100 difference.
Is that right? I thought fiat was a lot more recent.
Yes. CloudFlare has it set that way with Network Solutions.
Fwiw, I think Quartz nailed it. Simple, clear, and easy to use at every screen size. At smartphone size, the content menu and content pane shift from side-by-side to Z-index stacked or off-canvas.

Select an article, and the content menu slides off canvas revealing the content pane with the article. Use the back arrow in the top left to get back to the content menu.

I also like how the trend of responsive/mobile-first design focuses developers and designers on content and performance over chrome and whizzbang, reducing information and sensory overload. Microsoft's Metro design language being one of the most developed expressions of those goals.

http://qz.com/

http://foundation.zurb.com/off-canvas.php
There are also lots of those in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, though most of them are indoors.
I'm curious, just why did you go with the S4 mini instead of the Nexus in the first place, especially when (if i'm understanding correctly), it was cheaper? The SD card?
You can use this kext with Noppoo keyboards: https://github.com/thefloweringash/iousbhiddriver-descriptor...
Probably $$$$, but ....

http://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=microsoft.co...

Domain Name: MICROSOFT.COM
Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Name Server: NS1.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS2.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS3.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS4.MSFT.NET
Name Server: NS5.MSFT.NET
Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Status: serverDeleteProhibited
Status: serverTransferProhibited
Status: serverUpdateProhibited
Updated Date: 09-aug-2011
Creation Date: 02-may-1991
Expiration Date: 03-may-2021
Yes. It's extremely unlikely that the margin on repairs would offset the loss of sales from an easily breakable phone, not to mention the impact of a poor reputation on sales of future versions.
The malware makes my wonder if the "Syrian" stuff is just a cover?

It's always about the money. I learned that from Die Hard 3.
VMware Is Starting To Make Some Of Its Partners Nervous
Backlight on a mechanical keyboard?

For me, that will just light up where the clumps of dust and crumbs are.
It should be noted that Oracle's object types are a feature of PL/SQL, their imperative programming language.

PostgreSQL's concept of object-relational databases is baked into the SQL. Into the logical model of the data itself.

Put another way: Oracle doesn't have table inheritance.
what's the FOSS software you're involved with? My synthetic biology nonprofit would be very interested.
MongoDB Days
we'll just start calling it "startdown" we're in australia afterall.
> I think Isreal is probably one of the big factors causing US restraint right now.

Doesn't sound like restraint coming out of isreal..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIxIzIF-Xig
Not sure if I really want to take life advice from a blog with the title "meditations on winning".
Just curious, but what version of Android does your phone run? Have there been updates/is there an ETA for 4.3?
Old HTC models had a distinct chin, so you could just lay it somewhere face-down and it wouldn't damage the screen at all. Of course this conveniently also exposed the speaker.
How is updatability? Will you be able to update it in a few years from now?
I'm a little irked. I ordered mine on the 7th, so miss out by 5 days. But it's a great phone so it's not all bad. But no one likes paying over the asking price, and had I waited a week, I'd be £80 richer.
Discipline is based on practice and Habit. You know how to drive or ride a bike, right? You didn't get those skills in a day, but now you probably rarely have to think about them.

Try your best each day. Resolve to do better the next day. It may be helpful to quantify this somehow (git commit's maybe, even if you are just updating a notes section about the technology) so that you can measure how much you are doing. Try to work on it every day, to build the habit. Try to notice when you are distracted. Reward yourself for little victories.

You can try Pomodoro techniques to break up the day, if that helps. Keep trying, and the discipline will come.
I can vouch for that. From my experience this is how it their tech support works.

You raise and issue and they give you a ticket to track the issue.

They then send you an e-mail asking for more details.

You reply with the details and then they send you another e-mail saying the issue has been escalated.

A little while later you get another e-mail asking for the exact same details as the first e-mail, so you send them the same details.

You then get another e-mail saying this issue has been escalated.

Guess what happens next.

You guessed it, they send yet another e-mail asking for the exact same details you have now provided on two occasions.

They bounce you around in an infinite loop with a continual stream of spam e-mails until you finally get fed up and close the ticket.
We are using Oracle object types in plain SQL, so no, they are not PL/SQL exclusive. But yeah, you can do a lot less with them outside of PL/SQL.
At first I thought it was a joke. Then I read the article...

This is one of the reasons why I never buy something from Apple. I think they are bad for our creativity.