skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think more people will be entertaining themselves by making things. We may see recreational product-making in the same way that today we have recreational programming.

It's already happening among people who have sufficient resources and empowerment. It may never go totally mainstream - I think the creative mindset will always be a bit rare. But consider how almost anyone can write and publish a book today, compared to what was required just a few years ago, let alone a few hundred years ago.

I wonder what the animated gif of real-world products will be? By that I mean something which has a template of sorts, but which requires a small amount of creativity, which can then be shared far and wide.
Enjoyed very much, thanks!
That's my point. The useful features of Bitcoin are completely lost in this situation. I was noting the irony of it all.
The link 404s for me: "It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching, or one of the links below, can help."
For another example where YAGNI is not a good idea, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6268480 about apps not handling HTTP response code 410 (resource is gone) correctly.
This is depressingly ill-informed.

Require.js has an optimizer that does exactly what the author suggests: http://requirejs.org/docs/optimization.html

The point is to build your application using AMD, using individual assets in development, and then run the optimizer - which concats and adds a loader - for production.

Alternatively, you can even go a step simpler and always use concatenated files, along with a minimal loader like Almond.js[1]. If you do this, you'll probably want to use something that adds source maps for your concatenated file (for easier debugging), but that's easy - you can use grunt-concat-sourcemap[2] or a similar plugin for whatever build system you like.

[1]: https://github.com/jrburke/almond

[2]: https://github.com/kozy4324/grunt-concat-sourcemap
Stimson was also the Secretary of War during WW2, which saw the creation and explosive growth of signals intelligence. As Secretary of War, he would have overseen the bulk of American signals intelligence and cryptanalysis, which let us view the Japanese and German thoughts in real-time and gave us an incredible advantage. ULTRA and related efforts saved convoy shipping across the Atlantic, gave the Allies North Africa, and won Midway (among many other victories).

The irony is that he said "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail" as the Secretary of State, when he was made aware of the American Black Chamber. The Black Chamber was the one of the first "production line" signals intelligence units in the US government, and Stimson had it shut down due to his ethical concerns. This set the US at a signifigant disadvantage entering WW2, as we had to start on signals intelligence from scratch and learn a lot from the British (and what was left of the French and Polish signals intelligence units). It is telling that when it became truly necessary, these earlier ethical concerns were discarded in the face of military necessity.
Lol, I think today's generation is more closely aligned with Netflix than Ted Kaczynski.
Posts from 2013 postulating what will be funny in 20 years.
I stand corrected, I updated the post.
The article led with talk of algorithmic trading, then ended up actually talking about computerized trade processing. These have nothing to do with each other, but were just juxtaposed for clicks.
How about paying to license the material - an album or film say that includes lifelong access to digital versions. Then when your CDS or DVDS go off. Or your DVDs are superceded by a better format, you could just download a replacement. Loads of my CDs have holes in them from decay. And I'm feeling really ripped off with my DVD collection - some of the quality is atrocious. There's no way I'll pay again for the same film in a different format. Most of my VHS and DVDs have made there way to charity shops. I only hold onto the CDS because of the stupid law in the UK that outlaws you even burning a copy of your own CD - which is just stupid.
"Adoption seems like the answer to my question."

Established legacy process that is working. Also as noted people spend money and give effort to make money I don't think this is a big enough pain point in terms of saving money.

In order to make this happen you would have to start by convincing (say) Walmart that it was good for them. Then they would force it down the throats of their vendors. Believe that happened with bar codes. I remember doing a job for a small business that was a Walmart vendor and needed bar codes (this was a long time ago the early 90's) in order to ship an order.

That said your writeup isn't that clear in stating the problem. I had to read it twice to understand what you were asking.
This makes me wonder, despite pricing, what are the reasons to buy a chromebook instead of any other laptop on the market?
yeah but then you'd be using yui
Inexperienced people don't value experience, because they lack the experience to know the value of experience.

Bay Area Startups hire inexperienced people because they are cheaper, and more willing to take a bad deal. (Experienced people are more likely to know a bad deal.)

These inexperienced people are the ones doing the interviewing (and often the ones running the companies) and so experience is not valued.
My guess is that economic and industrial espionage is a big part of it.
You don't need to use angular's inline injection annotations if you don't want to. Angular can figure out the needed injection by the parameter name. This causes an issue when you minimize your code but ngmin solves that problem: https://github.com/btford/ngmin

For example:

angular.module('app').controller('someController', function ($scope, ModelService, AuthService) {
$scope.something = 'Blah';
});

Works just fine as long as it isn't minimized, and ngmin would turn it into something like:

angular.module('app').controller('someController', ['$scope', 'ModelService', 'AuthService', function ($scope, ModelService, AuthService) {
$scope.something = 'Blah';
}]);

Which is then safe to run through a minimizer.
Actually, JRuby is a JVM clone of Ruby. And Ruby on Rails on JRuby is a JVM clone of Rails.

I don't know where to start with the differences but Grails is nothing like Rails. The ORM, the naming conventions, configuration, GSPs vs ERB, the way routing works, and pretty much everything else is different. They both use MVC and Grails draws inspiration Rails but is it in no way a clone.
Totally agreed and you get the benefit that it's the same syntax as NodeJS. But I rarely if ever see that syntax used...
Grade inflation is a sign of the same problem though. The fact they had to introduce an A* because so many people were getting A is a sign that the exams have broken down.

The thing is when it's possible for tons of people to put in perfect papers you aren't really testing the depth of knowledge out there. You're measuring things like mistakes and compliance. You need to have more challenge in papers to really learn what people know or don't know. When it becomes almost pass/fail easy then more As doesn't really suggest people are getting smarter, just they are fitting the process of the exam better. I remember when 65% was the A mark. This was because they were hard. Nobody was expected to get a perfect score or near perfect score.

The thing is people attack each leg of the stool in isolation: don't overstate grade inflation; exams are just as hard they test different things; anecdotal evidence from hiring managers of the lack of skills of those entering the workforce; comparative league tables of international school age people (where we're backsliding); and just the general interaction with people over years and seeing less and less knowledge in graduating classes (anecdotal)... sure you can attack each for different reasons. But at some point the weight of evidence becomes compelling to reasonable people. The education system and other things in society that contribute to kids' pre-adulthood learning (family, tv, etc.) are clearly showing a decline in their ability to deliver young adults with solid education and skills in large numbers, over the decades.

Sure there are outliers and this board is full of them. But the complacency on this topic we all show by throwing out invalid arguments like "people have always complained about declining standards" is disturbing because once you pass a certain threshold it's damn hard to fix the problem.
A standard for embedding the document data inside a PDF would be useful. Make it machine and human readable.
No, what makes the United States so great and loved by the world is the opportunity it provides.
Half of those were replaced with better products, and most of the rest were things nobody actually used.

The "Google kills all their products" whisper only started with Reader because it's awfully hard to get anyone mad about the shutdown of Sidewiki or audio ads.
The reason you don't want to do that is because they can just reject the postcard. That's why you have to give them needed info on the card. The point of the temp key is so they can get immediate satisfaction.
You might discuss the privacy implications of being this party in the Persona flow. There is some (very small, not important to me, but to some) information that you could glean.
There was more solid delineation of turf between the FBI and CIA/NSA for some decades as well: the former was responsible for domestic intelligence and the latter for foreign operations. Hence most of the domestic abuses you read about in that period, like COINTELPRO, came from the FBI.
Sorry about being unclear. It was more of a rant in the form of a question.

I don't think this would be a walmart down thing but instead a "the valley out" thing - kind of like REST and APIs are today.
Services like this are needed, and useful. Current offerings are weird and weirdly expensive.

(http://rentafriend.com/) is probably the most well known, but has a steep membership fee and costs per friend on top. I guess that's useful.

A site could make some money if they defined services, and allowed people to offer those services for money, and provided some kind of protection and safety advice. They'd skim some money off somewhere.
EDI, it's old and crusty and expensive and annoying because all of the current software out there is crap but it solves this for companies as big as WalMart down to your local Mom and Pop corner store. I have a pretty good idea how to fix this but have other commitments at the moment. Too many ideas not enough time. A PO is the 850 document standard in EDI and the invoice is the 810 in EDI.
Why? You'd get one via email right away, you'd just have to enter the one from the postcard when it arrived.
K notation is a bit longer: generalized n queen with board display is

qn:{[n],/{:[n=#x;,x;,/_f'f x,\:/:(!n)_dvl,/x]}'(f:0 -1 1+/:)@!n}
bd:{[p]`0:".Q"p=\:!#p}

(see http://nsl.com/papers/qn.htm)

I suspect that a binary length-optimized encoding of K will be comparably short.

And take into account that K was not designed for code golf - it's just a side effect of optimizing for orthogonality.
Which is an extra layer of fraud protection. :)
I know a lot of smart people in their 20s and 30s who use Facebook.
You make a very good point, and I apologise for my over-generalisation.

I should have been more careful.
Agreed, there are corner cases in which Angular has the same issue (hence my note that Angular does better). This is really only an issue when seriously minifying (e.g. closure compiler) your application code and I tend to stay away from that.
Yeah same here: sucking at 6-11FPS..
nuff, going to compile ffx v23
Nice job! I had to modify _completemarks() function though to work on OSX.

_completemarks() {
local curw=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
local wordlist=$(find $MARKPATH -type l -exec basename {} \;)
COMPREPLY=($(compgen -W '${wordlist[@]}' -- "$curw"))
return 0
}
Minifying+concatenating is the most appealing solution for desktop browsers which employ a rather large cache on static files, considering that a web server is also fine-tuned to take advantage of caching (e.g. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_expires.html). I am not sure though that this is the best approach for mobile devices; having to serve a relatively large JS/CSS file with (possible) network interruptions may increase page load time.
Totally misses the point of Require JS - modularisation of code, dependancy management, namespacing, etc - beside the fact that it comes with an awesome optimiser that does mashes everything into one script anyway...
What international agent has the power to enforce anything on the U.S.? Clearly none. So it follows from what you're saying that the U.S. doesn't have any treaty obligations at all. I thought even the hardest-nosed realists didn't argue that. Maybe neocons do?
Rho symbol isn't loading for me in Chrome, v.29
I watched a really interesting talk about how XBox (and presumably the Xbox One) uses a technology they call TrueRank to do player matching. As far as I know this was an MSR project to create a Bayesian version of the ELO chess ranking system. Actually, now that I think of it, it was a whole week of ML talks by academics from MSR.

My point being, they produce (and ship) a lot of smaller innovations too, behind the scenes. Sometimes it's just detecting griefers.
As anyone tried it for embedded code on microcontrollers ?

It looks usable for soft realtime, almost keeping speed and control of C and adding ease (and fun) of coding.

GC is tunable and there are compilation options for embedded systems (http://nimrod-code.org/nimrodc.html#nimrod-for-embedded-syst...).
> The Nimrod Compiler can also generate C++ or Objective C for easier interfacing.

This really is an inconvenient time for the weekend to be ending.
True, but the market landscape recently was very different those two times.

When Vista launched, the personal computing market was basically Microsoft's to lose. Mac OS existed but iOS and Android didn't. Now with those two powering tablets, the personal computing (PC+tablet+phone) is much more competitive:

http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Screen-Shot...
This is the closest to my ideal language I've ever seen. Elegant and expressive syntax of Python, statically typed with automatic type inference, compiled to native code, garbage collected, macros, AST manipulation, very comprehensive "batteries included" standard library. Definitely worth a closer look!
There was a previous demographic bubble when the dotcom era meant that all the jocks who would have become lawyers switched to getting CS degrees, despite not really being hackers. Now the same thing is happening, only they want to "do a startup".

I think it's common for youth not to trust older people, probably a byproduct of being raised by parents, and that combined with a desire to keep costs low and get maximum productivity (Eg: a deal in favor of the company at the engineers expense) go hand in hand to make hiring older people who would want a better deal less likely.
Silly analogy. Hollywood bros don't claim to be saving the world nor do they cast themselves in a superior light than all the other bloodsuckers.

When you take yourself this seriously (Saray Lacey... classic example), you're going to get ridiculed and made fun of. Rightfully deserved too.

IDK. Digging up people's private lives is not cool (e.g. valleywag's articles about Eric's open marriage), but pointing out blatant douchiness is admirable. We need more of that shit to keep us all in line (e.g. Sandberg's unpaid intern fuckup - which let's be honest is fucking disgusting).

Enough toeing the line brah.
Setup a kickstarter project immediately.
How can I, as an individual (or perhaps a company) opt out? I'm sure some people would benefit from this service, but as others pointed out, I do not want my emails being harvested.
All countries are aware of each other's foreign intelligence services, though they are most likely not aware of specific intrusions. Smaller countries like to pretend they're outraged at even the thought of foreign intelligence, however that is the nature of the game.

In fact, one of the countries that spies on the United States consistently is Israel, one of our biggest allies. Mossad has repeatedly spied on the U.S. since the creation of that agency.
Former Lockheed Skunkworks Engineer Auctioning a Prototype "Spy Rock"
It's hard to see Microsoft recovering from this. You've outlined a set of problems that boil down to politics, and they inherently need political solutions this side of Chapter 11 or 7.

More specifically, Microsoft is a company selling products with a foundational technical component, but its run almost exclusively on political rather than technical merit.

I've said about much of the company's history that one of its secrets of success was writing software that basically worked (i.e. doesn't GP/segfault) ... I wonder how close the company is to losing that more and more often. A problem with e.g. the KIN, although it was rumored that was pushed to market simply to satisfy a contractual obligation to Verizon Wireless.

Which brings a final point: the politics is directed almost entirely inwards. Microsoft's long history of screwing partners is not doing it well in the devices and services world it's trying to compete in.

I suppose it could retreat to Windows on the desktop and servers/Office/enterprise in general and play that game out (a bit like IBM), but I suspect would take a massive political effort to constrain the company's ambitions prior to it getting a lot more thoroughly crushed in the marketplace.
Facebook and Marketing In The Future
I was going to write a few paragraphs about how dumb this is -- how I can't imagine an interpretation of it that didn't bother me, because if it was an earnest enterprise than it's doing a bad job of selling itself and unintentionally disparaging the completely valid need for social interaction as a service (e.g. suicide hotlines); and if it was meant to be a critical performance art thing, then its the equivalent of yelling into an echo chamber.

Then, I realized how much I was thinking about this silly little thing, and I decided it was worth appreciating anything that made me think a bit more seriously about what I spend my money (and time) on, even on lazy Sunday mornings.
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looks great seems to crash safari on iphone 4
Just use npm and browserify. Way simpler and you are already using npm already. Let each module manage the dependencies it needs.
The same stuff that entertains us today and entertained us 20 years ago. It seems clear that "lean forward" electronic entertainment ("video games") will reach a larger proportion of society as game developers figure out how to simulate a broader range of activities (let's take the obvious example: sex), while "lean backward" entertainment will still have its place.

I've been predicting the near future death of broadcast TV for fifteen years. I still think it's close, but the content producers need to wean themselves from the broadcast networks, while remain the main mechanism for funding long-form content. The movie industry is already pretty much dead, reduced to producing amusement park rides (nothing wrong with that, but storytelling has been ceded to indies and TV).

So, in a nutshell:

* Radio stays as it is

* Broadcast (I mean this in the "central model with a schedule sense, not the over-the-air sense") TV becomes like radio (throw-away content with commercials; possibly some subscriber funded content such as PBS/NPR or even HBO may survive)

* Movies become more-and-more like amusement park rides

* TV entertainment becomes on-demand and probably keeps getting better and better and more and more ubiquitous

* Interactive gaming gains reach as it finds more niches

Nothing revolutionary.
Whether airlines charge for this dubiously-implemented perk is meaningless. It's a business transaction for transportation, end of story.

As a parent who has had the dubious pleasure of flying with children of my own and experiencing the children of others, here's a far more important takeaway:

As shitty as it is for you to experience a miniature crying human, it is ten times shittier for the parents. The emotion you should be reaching for is pity—for the child that can't communicate its desires, and the parents who are desperately trying to divine what baby wants before dying under the weight of every. single. person. staring. at. them.

As for the parents who apparently "ignore" their misbehaving kids—there are no lack of poor parents out there, but more often than not, ignoring is the fastest path to ending a tantrum ("don't feed the trolls"). It's doubly difficult to do when a plane full of people are giving you the evil eye.
Yes, that's got to be the most relevant Wikipedia article. Since it starts with two examples of spying on the UN that appear to have had zero consequences, I guess I was wrong.
For people who are interested in learning about compiler optimizations (they are a wonderful area of research in their own right!), I'm throwing out a list here so you can google about them (if you know more, please reply to this comment! I'd love to learn more about them :D)

Expression related optimizations:
Constant Folding,
Constant Propagation,
Global Propagation,
Strength Reduction,
Common Subexpression Elimination,
Partial Redundancy Elimination,
Induction Variable Elimination,
Reassociation

Loop related optimizations:
Loop Invariant Code Motion,
Loop Peeling,
Loop Unrolling,
Loop Distribution,
Loop Autoparallelization,
Loop Fusion,
Loop Fission,
Loop Interchange,
Loop Tiling/Stripmining,
Vectorization,
Scalarization

Memory/cache related optimizations:
Cache blocking,
False Sharing Elimination,
Structure Peeling,
Structure Splitting,
Array Contraction,
Multi-dimensional Array Dimension Reordering

Control flow related optimizations:
Code block re-ordering (by frequency),
Branch prediction (by static analysis/feedback guided),
Code hoisting/sinking (to optimize CPU pipeline),
Automatic Inlining,
Tail Call Optimization

Code generation related optimizations:
Register allocation (np complete),
Peephole optimization,
Superoptimization (no one really does this yet, but cool nonetheless)

Analysis (interprocedural/intraprocedural):
Alias Analysis (flow/context (in)sensitive),
Points-to Analysis,
Escape Analysis,
du chain Analysis,
Live Variables Analysis,
Memory Access Pattern Analysis (to guide memory layout optimizations),
Available Expressions/Copies Analysis,
Loop Dependency Analysis,
Control Flow Analysis,
Dominator data flow Analysis,
Globals Analysis

Miscellaneous:
Static Single Assignment,
Data Flow Analysis (in, out, transfer, meet!),
Worklist Algorithm (for Data Flow Analysis!),
Symbolic Execution/Abstract Interpretation

Writing straightforward code is the best thing you can do for a compiler. They can tell exactly what you want to do, and do their best to generate the fastest/most memory efficient code possible. Help compiler help you!

Also, compiler usually comes with several different levels of optimizations. And you can tune each one of these optimizations, like you would with a racing car. Read the manual!
There will never be anyone around able to empathize enough to understand what's bothering them. Why bother crying?

Why don't kittens, baby rabbits or calves cry that loud that much? Instead they happily crawl around. What makes human babies so problematic and miserable?
Just when i started reading tutorials about Rust this comes up... Looks nice, but does it also have concurrency built in (Rust tasks, Erlangs processes, message passing, etc.)?
Pure JavaScript+GLSL 3D engine demo
I don't see how Snowden can justify releasing top secret documents that DON'T show the United States spying on it's own citizens.

One of the goals of NSA is to gather foreign intelligence. The UN constitutes foreign intelligence. While it may not be popular opinion here, there is a distinction between NSA spying on United States citizens and NSA spying on foreign and international organizations. The former is illegal; the latter is expected.