skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
* ... Which was pretty much won by the USSR.*

Which has nothing to do with the GP comment to which you are replying:

I am yet to see a US intervention that did not.resulted in disaster...

It didn't say anything about winning.
A quantum effect you can observe with the naked eye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yh-U8Ro-P0

I find it amazing.
You can repeat the experiment using lenses from polarized sun glasses with sun or computer monitor light.

Does anybody know of other examples?
Haha, thanks Nick! I'm honored that you read this.
That's a developer problem, not a Javascript problem.
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A great sample application which showcases a state-of-the-art parsing engine.
Considering how well most schools teach writing or math I wouldn't worry.
I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Many Worlds is the simplest known hypothesis that explains the available evidence.
There are no security checks at the commuter trains (where the bombings happened) at Atocha or other stations (I traveled by commuter train from Atocha to Chamatrín a couple of months ago). The security checks are only for long distance trains at larger stations, so a terrorist can either just again bomb commuter trains or use the commuter train or bus to get to a small station and board the AVE there.

EDIT: Correction, I took the commuter train from Sol to Chamartín, so I do not actually know if there are security checks at the commuter trains at Atocha. But I assume not since it would not scale and there were no checks at the other stations.
They might decide it's not quite so simple the moment they see him resolve a "he said/she said" dispute in favor of the employee after reviewing the footage.
I am not using Facebook for the last 2-3 months and I must say, it is a positive change in my live.

Nevertheless, I would argue that the gain isn't measured in time - I think it's about the quality of the time spent.

We need free time - its the best way to "always work by choice", isn't it? Having the "power" to start and stop whenever you want, is a smart trick to make your work a lot more satisfactory as a process. Maybe if I had this perfect discipline in me and I didn't need such psychological tricks to help me, I could be as efficient without any free time what so ever, who knows ...

Yet as a regular human being, I need to feel free to work or not to.

But to make the most of my free time I've decided to distil the choices how to spend it down to a "better" list, so I don't need to try ripping this "pleasure" out of my schedule.

So I read random stuff, but on the top pages of Hacker News, I read random stuff but in my not-so-randomly selected list of blogs that I've subscribed or twitter feed, etc.

At the end, it's the same time I am away from my work, but the quality of that time, measured as helpful information I've digested is substantially higher, at the same (often higher) level of delight.
Love it.

I know a bit of Finnish, and I can imagine that a programming language built on the principles of Finnish grammar would be beautifully expressive as well as extremely terse.

For example, maybe '-ss' denotes 'class'. Functions and methods with '-ef' with an optional return type '-int', '-ing' (string), '-oat' (float). Start a loop iterator by adding '-oop' to an iterable? Modify conditionals change their behaviour, e.g. 'ifret' (if/return) etc

Fooss:
barefint:
thingoop(i)
ifret i == someValue

Looks strange, but I if you're used to the concept I wonder if it would be more efficient.
I didn't have a facebook account for a very long time, and now I do and I realized I had no idea what I was talking about.

Yes, old acquaintances posting about minutia of there lives is of no value and can be down right irritating.

But the single most important function facebook provides is it turns acquaintances into friends. You can add people on Facebook that you've only meet once or twice before. You don't need to awkwardly ask for someone number or email or on the spot make future plans to meet up. You just look them up and you're instantly connected to them. You may learn they have a hobby in common with you or that they have an event that you're welcome to come to, and through the connection provided by Facebook you can strengthen your relations with people you find interesting.

For my real friends that I keep in touch with regularly facebook is more or less irrelevant - in fact most aren't even on my facebook. It's a nice platform to upload your photos to I guess, but honestly emailing a dropbox link is kinda nicer tbh.
This, honestly.

As european (and italian), I can confirm most of what Antirez said.

Moreover, founding a startup (or running a business, or working as an account, or working as a diplomat) is undoubtly much more difficult when you have to work with people speaking a foreing language.

The truth is that not just "accents", but also slang, technical lingo and even local humour come into play when you have to decode whether the person you are speaking with is really angry, sarcastic or she is just joking.

Things get even worse when you can't see those you are speaking with.

I don't think PG claims that strong accents are a barrier to creating successful startups in Silicon Valley, they just add up yet another hurdle that founders (and employees alike) must overcome to make that startup successful.

Therefore, such hurdles, must be accounted for.
Short answer? You appreciate context over content. Anything and everything can be content. But not everything can be contextually meaningful.

Take what I had for diner. Should I post that on HN? Absolutely not. Not contextually relevant. What about a blog post on Angular JS modules? Now that makes sense.

If facebook has a context like HN, or a meaningful way of identifying it like Reddit, then it has been lost on me. I mean, facebook's context is that it's an address book for your local social group right? So that must mean the context is contextually dependent on that right? I don't think that's 100% true. Facebook imparts it's own context. Which is basically sharing is caring. So it's context is basically content!

Long answer? Not sure...
Did you read his explanation? He basically said that accents don't hinder founders unless they are so strong that they hinder intelligibility. It's not that VCs won't back founders with accents because they have a subconscious bias towards foreigners, it's that VCs won't back founders with very strong accents because they can't understand them when they are making their pitch.
FWIW, also available as a grunt service:

https://github.com/gmarty/grunt-closure-compiler
sorry for the late response, thought this thread was dead. i'm using various browsers safari ios, safari mac os x, chrome, etc, not seeing this problem after my changes.

i imagine this maybe a problem with your browser cache? basically i have re-routed all http requests to https and the certificate is valid (purchased from rapidssl). what browser are you using?
It's because you only see the highlights. And compounded it looks like everyone is traveling and so on when in fact if each one friend did at most one trip a year and you had 200 friends it would look like there are four trips each week. So you think people are traveling all the time, and so on.
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I wasn't referring specifically to the kernel. Monolithic kernels aren't any harder than microkernels, as evidenced by the success of Linux vs Hurd.

The UI kernel integration intrigues me. Apparently it was done for performance reasons. If it improves performance, then that would be a legitimate reason to do it.

I guess the project is aiming to hit some critical mass where it attracts more developers and becomes self-sustaining. But does that point change with each release of Windows?
You can get jobs in our area too (Northeast US), but they just ain't paying what they used to pre-economic downturn. Now that they know they can get devs cheaper, they just don't pay anywhere near as well. So, here you try to hold on to those old jobs, like it or not.
I'm just an interested onlooker, yes.
Nope. I feel like that every single day.

But it's not necessarily a feeling you want to get rid of. If you're not surrounding yourself with daily reminders about what you don't know, what are you learning?
>Is the subsidy based on income? or assets? or both? 'cause if you don't qualify for the subsidy, the affordable care act doesn't make it any cheaper, it just makes it possible for people with pre-existing conditions to get healthcare.

As I understand it the subsidy is based on income. But I'm not sure. Either way, if insurance companies aren't allowed to charge more for preexisting conditions there are a whole lot of people who used to be priced out that will no longer be priced out. In my case $1k per month is a great deal.

>I am postulating that the affordable care act will make it realistic for contractors-without-bodyshops (or just part-time folks) to cover their own healthcare. that vastly reduces the per-employee cost.

Health care is certainly the major cost, but it isn't the only cost. If I hire one guy to do sixty hours of work instead of two who each do thirty there are all sorts of savings - one workspace vs two, management overhead, training, and most importantly communication.

We'll see.
Please point out security flaws in Skype's voice protocol. That list is a list of problems and flaws with Skype's software (which is, in general, shit). It doesn't seem to document any crypto failures. The largest security failing listed there is that it pulls ads over an unencrypted connection.

For all we know, the core Skype protocol may be perfectly implemented. The Wikipedia link states there's no peer-review.
I still don't really know how it would explain human history but I enjoyed the scroll through ideas.
Of course it's interesting, but especially if you think of the context and a broader scope when you look beyond the immediate story. I'll start with the smallest scope and zoom out.

On its face, it's a person talking about their personal accomplishment in making a static HTML/CSS website--something that you seems minor to you as a professional that has been doing it for as as long as you have--but I think you forgot the original thrill you got when you first got your TRS-80 to work. Being able to see the thrill of a beginner again should remind you of your own personal thrills. To have more people be able to code, and to speak the same basic language is a good thing. How many times have you wished your manager knew just a bit of coding, so he's not whipping you on why you took 2 weeks to debug that concurrent code and ended up only changing one line?

At a broader level, many of us are programmers, but we're not programmers in a vacuum. Few of us make things only just for ourselves, and being able to be a better programmer often is being able to relate and empathize with users. In addition, seeing programming again from the eyes of a beginner will often teach you much about what is difficult and what is not, because you've been dulled to the pain for so long. Beginners remind us to rethink assumptions we have, and whether they're still valid.

And lastly, at the biggest scope, software is eating the world. Many of the middle class work and jobs are being replaced with automation, and the OP is a small drop in the river of people realizing this, and scrambling to learn. If you're an entrepreneur, this is especially interesting because there's a demand and a need for education for a different audience, and that is opportunity.

In reference to accessibility, I think it is important. I agree that hard stuff is hard. There are no shortcuts to mastering something. But it doesn't mean that getting started has to be hard. Many of the cultural influences on society nowadays has been made simply due to accessibility to technology. When you democratize a technology for the masses, sure you're going to get lots and lots of crap. But there's no limited warehouse on the internet, and we have the ability to float cream to the top with search, aggregators and other tools. Without this phenomenon, many of the blogs you read on a daily basis wouldn't be on HN for you. Many of the youtube videos that you learned something from or were entertained by wouldn't be there. Because, if accessibility isn't important, then "hey, just setup an Apache web server and FTP it there."

If accessibility isn't important, you might as well drive a car by timing the firing of the pistons, rather than stepping on the gas pedal.
Thanks for the well thought out comment (again). I think we do see eye to eye on a few things, and we would probably butt heads on others. Which is the way things should be.

The only thing I want to add is that you don't need to be 'soft' when delivering your viewpoint, you can be hard but not have to put people down. You have a wealth of experience, and that doesn't need to be softened.

And for the record, September 2008 was also one of the worst times for me business wise too. Just started a new company when Wall St went to shit. Unlike you though, I didn't power through it, I took a rain check. Closed the company up by December and sat on my heels for a while (cough 4 fucking years cough). I know where you're coming from and I do respect your fortitude.
A few dozens of years of physical labor can wreck your body harder than being sedentary - think about the accumulated damage to the back, joints etc. from the unnatural, repetetive and prolonged strain. Also, in many (most?) climates working outside takes it toll as well.
The thing is, it's pretty much impossible to optimize images for such small sizes. If you want perfect favicons, you'll have to make them yourself.

Look at this example: http://www.typophile.com/node/60577 (Youtube's old favicon)
the one thing that i think is still kind of uncovered ground for javascript frameworks is proper i18n and l10n support.
Weakening the American government is equivalent to strengthening other Governments.

No, building petabyte-scale data centers to spy on you and me is what's weakening the American government. We're not the problem, right?

The NSA is like the drunk who looks for his lost keys under the lamppost, "because that's where the light is." Not only does the American government's idea of a hypersecure state not make us any more free, there's vanishingly little evidence that it accomplishes its purpose of making us any more secure.
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I'm originally from the The Netherlands but I've been living in Australia for the past 8 years. When I first arrived here my English was fine, so I thought. I was in my early 30's and had used English for the most part of my life.

However, I soon discovered that there is a big difference in speaking another language and expressing yourself in it. It's very different to ask for directions than to communicate that funny thing that happened to you the other day.

I can understand what Paul is referring to in that; to be a start up CEO you need to be able to "communicate" an idea and vision. If you need to do that, in this case, to a native English speaking crowd and no one can understand you it's simply not going to work.
Happy 10th, Skype. You changed everything; too bad you didn’t change Microsoft
Night trains are great, but only when it's an option. In France, they are basically limited to the south nowadays, when just a few years back at least some used to run up to here, in the west. Most non-HSR offers are being squeezed, seemingly to orient people towards the more lucrative HSR trains.
Many commenters are too lost in their own egos to speak rationally about this issue.

CS is not a "cool" major in colleges, and programming is not a cool profession among tweens. Until there is a significant cultural shift, which I would bet will not happen any time soon, the labor pool will not be commoditized in the USA.

On top of that, the skill cap for programming is substantially higher than it is in assembly line manufacturing. Programming may be more comparable to engineers who actually design the cars, but those jobs are not commoditized either.
> My first reaction was "WHO RIGHT CLICKED 'VIEW PAGE SOURCE'??? WHO DOES THAT???"

People with too much time on their hands I guess. There's a phenomenon (that I subscribe to) that includes helping people by pointing out mistakes (since humans learn by making mistakes) but often not providing guidance. Not providing guidance forces the person who made the mistake, to think about it and then fix it in their own way.

Its not the kindest form of helping, but its pretty darn effective.
Plotting (can't be all straight), air density (as mentioned by jessridel). Current high speed trains go at 180-200 mph due to sharply increased consumption above those speeds, even though they could go a lot faster in current setups.

In 30 years we'll probably have more efficient airplanes, and less fuel, so higher prices. Maybe it's more expensive in the short term, but it's much more sustainable to have ground-based transportation for trips under 400 or 500 miles.

In Spain, we have the Madrid-Barcelona route. It's 50 minutes by plane and 2h30 by train (620 km, 385 miles). Airports are outside cities, stations are in the center of them and very well connected by road and commuter trains from everywhere. It's gone from being one of the busiest air routes to losing more than half of its traffic to high speed train. Why? Much more comfortable and, in the end, takes the same time.
It's going to be even more expensive in 30-40 years to build a maglev between LA and SF. Much of the cost is in obtaining the land. Wouldn't it be cheaper to build the first train now then turn it into a 320 mph maglev in 40 years?
The Metrofication of Windows 8 hasn't even been extended to other programs. The whole ALL CAPS nonsense that VS and Office embraced isn't found in Windows 8. (Not to mention, it seems haphazardly applied in VS/Office; some things are caps, others aren't. There's no rhyme or reason that I've discovered as a user.)
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It's a bias to not want to back a startup because you can't understand the pitch due to a language barrier? I think it's pretty reasonable to say you should be able to speak the native language of a country intelligibly in order to successfully do business in that country.
One of the engineers wrote a little bit about it on Reddit[1] awhile ago.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1kf84d/bustlecoms_sp...
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I think the article in question spins a very positive light on surveillance - in the given context, theft has been occurring and is curtailed by the change in behaviour of staff, regardless of whether or not action is taken based on the surveillance being present.

The larger problem with surveillance is that there is no global notion of what is 'right' and 'wrong' - theft is assumed wrong to almost everyone, but few readers here will have been at the poverty line, where it might appear a little more ambiguous whether taking a small cut from a very successful business which pays minimum wage is so clearly immoral.

These changes in behaviour push us to comply and work 'in-line' with whatever the watching power signals as being appropriate; and at least in the U.S., that largely appears to be increased revenue margins and employee efficiency - which has a very dull and power-imbalanced end game. There is more to life than work and producing value for someone else.
HN, proggit, /. are filters with more less connected (and great) communities. I often use HN/proggit search to just get a feeling for some tech, how people talk about it - it's very useful for me, more than FB.
The problem with that guy is that he didn't use a test account and tested it on a random girl without her permission.
27 years ago was 1986.

Are you sure that 27 years worth of data storage within the bulk of that time frame was easier and/or more cost effective than deletion?
It's not a good time to be a developer as it used to be. That was 10+ years ago, now the pay is much lower than it used to be.

You used to be able to hop jobs and make good jumps, now around here you hold on to those old jobs so you don't end up with a pay cut.

So, it's much more limited, though it encourages more side work I guess, just so you have something interesting to work on.
It's just a joke, sorry. I'm well aware humor isn't appreciated around here and actually I understand it because humor is a slippery slope ending in reddit-style banal meme-threads, but every once in a while I can't help myself and karma be damned.
Interesting. I can see how this may help out novice users, but you'll definitely have to beef out the offering before it's worth paying for.
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Remember that factoring primes isn't know to be NP Hard. There is no complexity breakthrough required, we just don't know how to do it quickly. So we don't get P=NP from any factoring breakthrough.
That's why I practically stopped taking photos on vacations. I discovered I am replacing actual experiences with attempt to record the experience for some future myself, thus sacrificing my present enjoyment for the shadow of future recollection of the enjoyment that I didn't actually have because I was too busy trying to record it.
A recent discussion which includes Nimrod benchmark, for those who are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6263173
The point is not criticizing the achievements of others, but putting them in context of a greater whole. Creating your own website is great, but it's a tiny first step in a long journey. If's up to the individual to see how far they want to stick with it, but we should never mislead people by telling them that their achievements are greater than they really are.
I really enjoyed some of the tips in the book Start Small, Stay Small.
That's what Lenovo should be doing, too. Properly revive the X-Series with good screens and serious hardware. Except, put a proper screen on. Google ships a 4K screen on a 10" tablet. There's no reason for any 12"+ laptop/tablet to come with less. Your suggestion of HD+ literally means that this 13" device has less pixels than modern phones.
Wait, the pidgin dialects that I've known have always been the more complex merger of 2+ languages, plus additional invented slang. More complex, not less. Edit: Apparently, linguists now want us to call the more advanced pidgins "creole languages", although there is some debate about the distinction:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_language

This idea, that learning English alone is simpler than the multiple languages that some countries learn in school, hints at the core of the language learning problem. A skilled employee in the US learns not 1, but 3 languages:

- Conversational English, slang, unwritten idioms.

- Then, he re-learns the extensive grammar rules and vocabulary, well beyond what's normally used in conversation (i.e to a grammar nazi level.)

- Then, again he completely relearns English in the context of the connotations and phrases of professional business language. (Many non-native English speakers are in complete disbelief that this variation even exists.)

All of this occurs over decades of schooling and on-the-job learning.