skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have about 50 people in our office. Desks are foldable tables. Seating groups are split between Product/Design, Devs, Sales and Content people. Constant chatter between product and content. Our CTO is very hands on and most people have meetings at their desks.

With that said, I have my headphones in much of the time.
Did you test statically typed groovy? Does it have better performance?

As for clojure, how does its performance compare to groovy?

Really interested to know more!
You don't want employees who are interested in better opportunities?

What kind of employees do you want, then? Loyal ones? In my experience, the most loyal employees are also the least productive.
Well, as long as it's open source, it doesn't matter how unhinged the author is, right?
In the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, they publish baby names. For September 23, there was a boy named Tyren-James Keolapulamamekaha‘aheookekaimalie Viernes. His name wouldn't fit on the Hawaii State Drivers License. Neither would Kainoa Kamakanaiho‘unamaikalaniakeakua Azaziah Espaniola Branco's full name.

Hawaiian is partially written in the Latin alphabet, but it also includes five vowels with macrons (the kahako) and the 'okina for glottal stops.
Feels like an opportunity to link to SMBC:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3123#comic
>From the point-of-view of a web developer, JSP is virtually invisible.

By "invisible", do you mean that webapps that use JSP typically use URL mapping so that you never see the .jsp extension? If not, then I'm not sure I get your meaning.

>I've yet to come across a more human-readable language...

Yeah, I think its readability leads to a verbosity that is, ironically, the source of some complaints about Java. But, Java kind of embraces that verbosity to some extent. I've even seen style "standards" that discourage the use of language "shortcuts" because they are believed to decrease readability.
They haven't made my computer impossible to hack in 20 years, so going to just call it and say they will likely fail here as well.
Runkeeper's thoughts on iOS7 transition
It's already just $500/kw for reputable Chinese cells. Assume you get on average 5 hours of usable sunlight a day and electricity is 10 cents/kwh. The 1 kw panel will give you 5 * 365 * .10 = $182.50 worth of electricity. So that gives you a $182.50/$500 * 100 = 36.5% annual return on your investment.

(I realize I'm simplifying here, storage blah blah). The elements declining slowest in cost are installation and regulatory hurdle jumping.
As a business owner, you would employ workers at the lowest wage possible for as many hours as possible. This is why labor laws exist.
Google: The Redesign
Show HN: Multiparty WebRTC video chat
Investors have been given a powerful tool here. A litmus test, if you will. The management of those tech companies that do not expect to innovate and succeed in future, have signed this letter opposing CBM expansion. Those that do expect to do so, have not.
In that case... TRWTF is that he did not charge them an arm and a leg for all of those planning meetings. If you charge appropriately, only necessary changes get made, and only needed software gets built (most of the time, but you stay paid and happy either way).
The issue he skips is that most people won't accept a 1950s lifestyle.

Far too many people live beyond their retirement means, if not just their week to week means. Image is everything to many people, the appearance of having wealth has become more important than a comfortable retirement, let alone a sustainable lifestyle. The number of people I work with in their 30s, 40s, and even 50s, with no real retirement planned is frightening.
Why iOS apps are higher quality
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And a 44% efficient process that quadruples its efficiency is now 86% efficient (ignoring whether 100% is achievable, etc).

You've been hanging out with marketing too long. ;)
Politics Wrecks Your Ability to Do Math.
> One is to build an abstract mathematical model which you can emulate in your head

The ability to emulate your abstract or concrete programming model in your head cannot be overemphasized. I used to program the original 8-bit B&W Gameboy, which was a machine so simple and small I could literally emulate it at the clock cycle level while I was writing the code for it.

If you can fit your model into your cache (brain) you can do amazing things using just your wetware.
A big distinction for me is "programming as work" and "programming as play". I can spend eight hours at work and be absolutely drained when I get home, but still leap at the chance to say, take a bite out of my functional programming course (https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun -- it's awesome, and taught by the guy who designed Scala, so he knows a thing or two) because its a completely different context for me, or scroll idly through GitHub issues as I eat dinner.
Well... "the median male income is now worse on a gross, inflation adjusted basis, than he was in... 1968. While back then, the median income of male workers was $32,844, it has since declined to $32,137 as of 2010.

Source: Table P-5 from http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/people...
Start with Mockups
If I'm comfortable and taken care of, that also means I'm LESS likely to look elsewhere. But it doesn't mean I'm just gonna slack off and take advantage.
Worth mentioning that gwern writes some of my favorite things on the web, and the wealth of information on his site is worth spending time pouring through. Always nice to see new stuff from him.
Reason you might use a touchscreen over a hardware mixer: the touchscreen allows you to instantly reconfigure your input.

This does not allow that.

Reason you might use a hardware mixer instead of a touchscreen: you want to be able to use the device without looking at it.

This does not allow that.

"Hey I know, let's innovate by mashing together the shit attributes of two different things!"
I cracked open some code the other day to find it riddled with:

on e goto end
Ask HN: Continuous integration and deployment server
Hey all,

I'm interested in finding out about different continuous integration and deployment solutions that exist out there for cloud based VM's.

Is there something out there that functionally works very similar to AWS Opsworks?

I quite like the idea of being able to setup several stacks, run tests on new builds, run custom commands, deploy builds to stacks when ready.

Opsworks is slow, theres very limited feedback on whats happening as I run commands, and there is no notion of builds. Its got a load of dependencies that need to be installed on each instance as well.
This demo Uses opentok for video streaming and fire base for presence, state changes, and chat.
This is wonderful, thanks!

I also use the vim docset with Dash constantly!
An interesting corollary: removing traffic lights in busy intersections might reduce accidents and improve traffic flow.

Some small pilot studies have been carried out in Europe, often with successful results. Basically, the idea is that we become more alert when a situation requires us to be. An intersection that appears riskier forces us to give it more conscious and subconscious attention.

http://knowledge.allianz.com/mobility/transportation_safety/...

Anecdotally, I can certainly testify to the effects of traffic lights on traffic. I grew up and worked for a lot of my life in LA, a city as famous for its traffic as for its movies and weather. There are certain parts of the city in which every damned block has a traffic light, and blocks are very short in the denser areas. These areas are traffic hellholes. Beverly Hills in rush hour would have made a cameo appearance in Dante's Inferno, had he been around to experience it.
I think "Walk" is stretching it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst: "The player moves the character by clicking on locations shown on the screen; the scene then crossfades into another frame."

So, just like Google Streetview, with way fewer, way higher quality images.

Back to the 'rabbit out of the hat' subject: I found the 3D view in iOS maps on an iPad way more a 'rabbit' thing than I found Myst a rabbit at the time (the first city I saw it was Rome. I looked at a few others, but still think that is the best)
Three reasons why PV works better for rooftop:

1.) Thermal only works on a massive scale. You can't fit 1000 large mirrors, a tower, a huge turbine, and the requisite plumbing on a commercial rooftop.

2.) Even if you could, the city wouldn't let you because the mirrors would distract aviation and anger neighbors.

3.) Technological advances and a capacity glut in PV manufacturing brought the price of panels down so far that it doesn't make economic sense to build thermal anymore.
I may agree with you. But that feeling of achievement is hard to come by in a regular job, for most people, unfortunately. We have bosses, deadlines, angry clients, red-tape, etc, etc.
Wow, I had no idea that McAfee was a party animal or lived the life he did.

The part I found interesting is "How are they (Belizean authorities) going to whack me if every newspaper in the world is looking?" That gave me the feeling that this might be another one of his blog posts.
I know nothing about airplane physics but looks like this one sways a lot with the wind. I can't imagine it taking a big wind hit and keep flying. Looks dangerous.
Oh geez, another one. These things never work out because the regulations for airplanes and cars combined could easily kill a man if dropped from a three-story window.
The most passionate about your products are not by definition also the most competent. For one thing, someone that has a "cold" look at what you're doing has an intrinsic value; "love's blind" also applies when at work.
You may be generalizing from your introspective view of yourself here, which may trick you one day or another.
But what about the East Bay?
On Managing Technical Debt
You may not have paid much attention in physics class, but there is no possibility at all of having a situation where vehicles are both "literally incapable of running you over" and are travelling at a speed greater than 10mph or so.
Thanks! We're not disclosing the sum, but we are happy and so are our investors.
Gotcha, I'd agree with that. I have some bitterness extending from sham "UX Hackers" selling e-books that basically boil down to pretending to be an idiot, and thinks that is enough. :)
I don't know if this is the case in vim, but in nvi C works like D except it also puts you in insert mode. Which is exactly what I want to do almost every time I delete to the end of the line.

S is likewise super nice: it clears the line and puts you in insert mode.
Too bad it's just for swag.
I'd have given it a shot :D
Ask HN: What R best Podcasts for WebDevelopment Tricks & Trends
Looking for best Podcasts for Web Development Trends, Tips, Frameworks, Programming Languages, etc. On par with TWiT, StartupNation, etc. Are we missing this ? WebDevRadio kind of Dead ?
Looks cool, here's wishing it comes to NYC soon!

But what's Google's play in this? Isn't this a really low-margin business?
In Defense of Entangled Bank
So perhaps a more exciting problem is "cat, dog or nither"? As you described it, it really only makes sense to solve this problem by solving only for cats, and then assuming all other items are dogs.

Edit: to clarify, is it safe to say that because cats look mostly alike, they would be easier to recognize consistently? or at least a good place to start?
Exactly. It would have been a more interesting (or at least accurate) article if he'd actually focused on Java's enterprise success, then talked about how these once "edgy" start-ups somewhat ironically wound up moving from "trendier" languages/stacks, back to the Enterprise stalwart, Java.
Not to be that guy but it could be related to previous psychedelic use in my case.
That's not really the way it works. Most people who are slaves and work those crazy hours do so because they are avoiding their home life or have low self esteem and don't realize the value of the work they're doing. I used to be that way. Now I make a lot more money and work a lot less hours.
I think one of the great realizations in 15-20 years is going to be that instead of asking for flying cars we should have been asking for self-driving cars, which made flying cars feasible since non-pilots could use them.
Please let us know what company you work for so I can avoid interviewing there.
The idea of flying car, while very nice and present in many scifi creations should not happen, at least not with humans controlling it manually.

We have already countless idiots on the roads, I don't want them in the air as well; I'd be afraid to get out of my house.
The idea that Java is a "Clinton-era relic" is pretty ahistorical when you consider that Google and Amazon have been using Java on the server side since their early days - it never went away. The tech press just didn't pay attention to it.
It's also the pattern of plenty of bad ideas.

How does staying in the same vehicle help? Is it really that big of a deal to move between your car and your airplane?

Let's not forget that airplanes need a preflight inspection before you fly if you're not suicidal, and having just driven the airplane to the airport doesn't eliminate that need. Quite the contrary: being exposed to the stresses of driving will increase the need for a preflight inspection.

The time-consuming non-flying activities for an airplane are preflight inspection, flight planning, clearances, etc. A roadable airplane does nothing at all to help this.

Maybe you save two or three minutes out of your half-hour preflight activities. Whoopdedo. Meanwhile, you make up more than that lost time because your dedicated airplane is a better and faster airplane than the crazy "flying car".

Sometimes you're really just better off having separate objects doing what they do best. I don't see any push for amphibious cars, for example. Everybody seems to have accepted that you're better off buying a car and a boat separately. But somehow there's an obsession with airplane/cars. I blame The Jetsons.

I could be wrong, but I'm going to need someone to give me some sort of actual advantage to one of these things before I might think I am. It doesn't save you time, it doesn't save you money, so what's the point?
It's a damn shame that 1313 will not be made, but exciting to see that the technology they developed for it will live on.
Great concept, but I call "vaporware" for several years to come. We're all still waiting for Icon Aircraft, the light-sport aircraft you can tow behind your car. http://www.iconaircraft.com. Deliveries are waitlisted until 2017 -- and Icon doesn't try to be a car as well. ;)
Yes, it'd be surprised if the straightforward implementation from https://code.google.com/p/cuda-convnet/, run on a GPU with lots of transformations, wasn't the winning entry.
I've used the oculus rift before, and I could only use it for about 5 minutes before I would become nauseous. My experience if vertigo differed depending on which game I was playing. Also the low resolution was a lot more distracting than I thought it would be. I hope they improve some of these things before launch otherwise I would fear that this may be another video game fad.
Software Design: RubyMotion
As an employee in the tech industry I would never work for a company that thought more than 40 hours a week was reasonable.

Oh, and I hate clocking in/out, I wouldn't work for a company that time-tracked like that either. Trust me to get the work done, don't worry about my hours.

I won't be an ass and leave at 5pm while there's something that needs to be finished today because "it's my hours" and you don't be an ass if I turn up after 10am.

My current company is great, flexible working hours and a lot of trust around working hours and working conditions. You on the other hand sound like you run a terrible place to be employed.

Edit: "My" as in the company for which I work, I just re-read this and it sounded like I run a company which isn't the case.
It requires the Oracle JRE, so I don't see how Debian could provide packages for it without a ton of weird hoops to jump through. I tried it on OpenJDK and it chokes.
Clever way to crowdsource your spambot's CAPTCHA breaking routines.
the how is interesting. the why, moreso.

"By one estimate, as much as $600 million dollars in assets changed hands in the milliseconds before most other traders in Chicago could learn of the Fed's September surprise"

whoever leaked it probably had a connection that gave them an incentive greater than their career or any fines the government could impose.

career reputation + fines < %cut of income from arbitrage
Http://perrystechconnect.simdif.com/index.html
I was referring to the above commenter's feelings of the BB10.
That is a cultural problem, and one that is going away. Trivia used to dominate what people thought of as intelligence, but since it is so utterly useless in the era of online search, that particular brand of intelligence is a complete waste.

People who have absurd volumes of trivia in their heads seem like less intelligent these days (at least to me) simply because it means they are not smart enough to allocate their learning time to things that are actually valuable.
For business travel I'm assuming convenience and time would be important factors. Anything that would take more than 2-3 hours of you personally driving or flying would be counterproductive if you can just get on a cheap commercial aircraft (with their accompanying safety record) and earn miles while you lean back and rest.

Not saying this won't have a practical purpose, but I'm not convinced business travel will be one of them. I'm thinking tesla roadster, it's a cool and expensive toy until new tech is developed that allows for more passengers, longer range, and more convenient takeoff/landing sites.
He did a fantastic job addressing the "Skynet concern" (and he even made a cheeky reference to it earlier in the talk).

Raffaello D'Andrea is absolutely right, of course: we can't stop technological progress, nor would most of us want to. But we can decide, as a species, how that technology is used, and what the punishments will be for its abuse.
Heh, they're a bit late to the party on this one...

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

My production company already uses realtime motion capture and realtime rendering - we've been doing so since we moved away from pure Machinima techniques 5 years ago.

And we're currently incorporating GPU-based semi-realtime path tracing and Oculus Rift powered VR into the mix...
The data seems a bit dated. RSS functionality for example had since been restored: http://searchengineland.com/google-quietly-brings-back-rss-f...
All nausea reports I've heard from the people who stuck with it say it goes away after a couple weeks of casual use.

So I'm hoping that's true for most people.
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When astronomical quantities of USD are being printed into existence (today's QE is like 80 bln dollars per month), CPI is not a good indicator. Rich guys who get all this new money cannot buy 100x more food and toilet paper. What they can do is to buy expensive property all over the world (not very liquid, thus not affecting everyday prices much) and stocks.

Right now CPI does not change as much as USD supply changes, so people don't worry. However, it does not mean this is not delayed and will hit down the road even if they suddenly stop printing new dollars.
How often are people flying into airports that don't even have taxis around? Even if you are, will you really save time versus flying a faster pure airplane into a larger airport nearby and then driving a rented car from there?
SteamMachines
These things keep coming up. Here's the part i don't get: Who are these people who think it is a good idea to invest in such ventures? Really.

Let's put pen to paper and figure this out.

The cost of an aero car is likely to be in the $300K range. This does not include maintenance, insurance (insurance!) and other operating costs.

Well, to put it in very simple terms, with $300k you can buy a nicely equipped Tesla AND an equivalent Cessna and still have up to $200k left in the bank --depending on the airplane cost which starts $10K.

Going this route means that you'll have ZERO FUEL COSTS while on the road and a dedicated aircraft that is well-tested, proven and with a history of millions of flight miles.

But, wait! You can rent an aircraft for somewhere in the $75 to $250 per hour range. No jets. I am looking at Cessna 152 to 182 class aircraft. The aerocars are roughly equivalent to the low end of the Cessna range.

If you buy a Tesla and rent aircraft you have zero on-ground fuel costs as well as over $200K in the bank. Depending on the model you rent you have enough money for over 2,500 hours of rentals. You also have zero aircraft maintenance and operating costs. If you play it right 100% of the rental costs are tax deductible.

It is important to note that this also gives you aircraft at every airport in the world where such aircraft are rented. This beats owning a plane by a massive margin.

But, wait! How much do you really fly per year. Really?

Nah, these things are bad ideas. Interesting from an engineering perpective.

Maybe Tesla should market a flying car deal: buy a Tesla and the fuel you'll save will buy you several domestic flights per month. Maybe they can make a deal with flight schools to get people certified at a discount and then they can rent planes at a discount as well.

Again, I have to wonder who invests in these things. I remember reading about one that got some $40 million from investors. Learn to use a friggin calculator.
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>if you take them back to the past before TV/Computers, people back then won't recognize them as dogs, because of the looks or size. They would have to hear it back and behave like a dog to classify it as such. if all they had was a picture, they mgiht very well refuse and reject say pugs as dogs.

my dog without using TV or computer (at least to my knowledge as i don't know what he is up to when we are not at home) easily recognizes other dogs of all the different breeds and sizes from the distance like across the street, etc...
Anyone remember his theory that removing raw socket access in Windows XP will stop the impending doom of spoofed packets and mass DDoS?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/25/steve_gibson_really_...
Here's the julia-users discussion thread about this notebook:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/0bV1a9Ma...
To think that a person counted on for security by so many people would know so little about his field as to ever make a promise like this. Frightening stuff.
On the flip side, imagine what some cyclists will do if the cars are actually programmed to never run them over, no matter what they do. They would have to be given a pretty large 'bubble' around them with relatively slow traffic to really make sure of this, and then some cyclist will be a jerk and swerve all over the road erratically, throwing traffic into fits, just because he can do it safely.

That's one of the trickier aspects of robo-cars that we'll have to figure out how to deal with when they start making up a significant amount of traffic. When humans are in control, there will always be a few people who are inclined to act like jerks as long as they can get away with it. On the roads today, the imperfect drivers around us and the prospect of a nasty crash tends to keep us all honest. What would the troublemakers do if the roads were 95%+ robo-cars that will drive such as to never hit them, no matter what they do?
Don't know if they actually make money but their costs are minimal. Those are the bottom of the barrel ads that ad networks serve up when nobody else actually wants to pay for the impression - either because a site is crap or because there's not enough info to target anything more profitable at you.
Verified.

But the blog post OP cites provides some convincing evidence that they were gone for at least a moment last July. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/07/google-alerts-drops...

I guess they changed their mind and brought them back? Weird.