skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good description of the conservative vs liberal mindset, at least one way of looking at it (there are many others, of course).

Conservatives tend to err on the side of caution, aware that many things work well for reasons we're not aware of, so you should respect institutions because they've got experience and longetivity on their side, and the consequences of changing/dismantling them may be far worse than you'd imagine. Humility is good, and don't mess with what works.

Liberals tend to err on the side of improvement, with a belief that we can understand things, and then intelligently change them to make the world a better place. Obviously, this can produce much more positive change, and make the world a far better place... but can also lead to the kind of societal breakdown that conservatives fear.

But don't try mapping this to political parties... they're organizations with agendas, not so philosophical.
We are already in the middle of a bubble, it'll shortly translate to huge salary increases, you just need to job hop :)

This year average salary is up at least 15k from last year.
Do you want a meaningful or a happy life?
Neo4J. Graph database is awesome, it'll change how you think about data back to how you should think about data in many cases.
I definitely would concur, and would add that we're using it as a queuing/messaging bus, and we like it way better than the *MQ options out there. Far more comfortable to work with, way easier to administrate, and plenty performant for our needs.
"Not sure if "better commenting", or just another attempt to integrate G+ into every Google-owned property."

"Nice strawman."
It's a bummer for consumers, but you're absolutely right. It's no different than exclusivity windows for music releases, movie releases, or console video games.
I love Trello for collaborating. It is free and runs on just about every device. I don't know how complicated your projects will be, but is is very flexible and the api is a dream to work with. If you go the Trello route, you can review time spent on tasks in many ways at reportsfortrello.com. (I created the site.)

I would also recommend google hangouts if you aren't using it already.

Best of luck!
There will be pressure on them to perform and show some quality exits. Retail investors are a finicky bunch and generally do not expect their capital to be locked up for 5+ years even if repeatedly told so.
Censorship is starting?
Use of Child Workers is Declining
Analyzing Getty Open Content with Manta
Basecamp seems to generally be the company to beat in terms of managing goal-facing productivity...
I'm not sure this is really breaking news-old planes recycled as drones have been around for a while.
This isn't as novel as this somewhat breathless article makes it out to be: same thing has been done with many retired Air Force planes, including the F-4 Phantom (drone/target version was redesignated QF-4). I do appreciate the Beeb's reaching out to the brilliantly-named Campaign to Stop Killer Robots for comment, however.

Edit: here's a video of some F-15s blowing up QF-4s http://youtu.be/xISpZYajveA
tl;dr - When there is no incentive to make available what is owned, it is not made available. Copyright extensions have made most mid-20th Century content owned, but with little incentive to make it available. As ownership is revoked by expired copyright, others may own (non-exclusive) that content and thus have incentive to make it available in new production.
Whether or not this is true, it would be a lot of fun to write a sit-com of a startup which deliberately didn't release anything, and got funded by different pressure groups to simply do nothing...

(Kind of 'Yes Minister' of the startup world)
I couldn't agree more. Engineers are loathe to enter into a traditional recruiting process (i.e. go in through the front door) when they have so many options out there.

It's far more attractive if they can 'window shop' and get a true sense for your team/culture/challenges without kicking off a gauntlet of interviews for them to learn the same stuff.

Obviously, interviews are still important for the hiring team, but it's time to make the overall process better (and more front-loaded with the company's engineering project info) for the engineer candidates.
IANPG:

Perhaps because his strategy is to maximize his odds of investing in an extreme outlier, and because later round investments are several times more expensive than YC's initial investment, follow on investments reduce the odds of hitting an extreme outlier by that factor - e.g. an additional 5% of a company with a moderate chance of a moderate exit is worth less than 5% of ten companies which might have huge exits.

Or rather that may be the case when pursued at the scale of YC's portfolio - i.e. foregoing 10 follow on investments for 100 new ones.

It also might be the case that follow on investing by PG would adversely impact the YC brand's reputation both with potential founders and the network of investors with whom they have established relationships because there might be the perception that YC is less focused in the first case and a competitor in the second.
Here's an example: http://www.f-106deltadart.com/drones.htm
PyCharm can show color your code based on style checks (pep8) or compatibility with python 3. This helps me notice typos and mistakes more easily, as well.
Basically, if it is a bubble then you can expect that your salary will go down or you will suffer a period of unemployment or both. Don't take on extra debt now (like buying an extra fancy house on a giant mortgage) that will trap you later.
It is all about display of money/power.

You can buy the new iphone? you will show it off.

buy the black/white one and you may have to actually engage in conversation. Buy the golden one, everyone knows.

It is like buying a $30k audi A1 with a custom made $500k engine and drivetrain. If you just buy the $300k R8, everyone will know you have the disposable income. the custom A1 or a spiffed up TT though will be much more fun if you actually race it though. which is not relevant here as we are only talking about style since the phones are the same.

So, everyone only wants the golden one for the smug feeling when they take it out of their pockets. And that sells, as the article proves.

Also, any fashion study will tell you that a brand can't launch a 'thing'. Gold phones are NOT in fashion. they may be if enough influential people wants to partake in the smug feeling mentioned above. But until that happens, it is just a very temporal thing that will only last until samsung launches a golden one.
Perhaps in the US, yes, but that might not be the case in the Czech Republic where JetBrains is headquartered.
How to use Quora for customer development
If this were about PR it wouldn't be a post to a technical mailing list about a single document being dropped and mention of work going on to provide more (but unlikely all) docs in the future.

Just because two things happen on the same day (or within a week of each other, etc) doesn't mean they're closely connected.

Having worked closely with silicon vendors in the past, the situation that there are no internal docs or that the docs are horribly outdated or incorrect compared to the HDL or source code, is pretty common. When the only consumer of docs is an internal team, it's not uncommon for those docs to be nowhere near what an external team would expect or need (or a company would be willing to release without serious cleanup and checking).
Well, I've read most the docs, let's say _skimmed_ the code examples, and I think you're a very smart, competent engineer with a sense of what makes for good language syntax that is utterly, incomprehensibly alien to me. So I guess, martian-language mission accomplished?
Kind of like all the generic drug makers who get paid by big pharma not to release...
Children are biologically not the same as adults, in ways that directly bear on decision-making. The more we learn about how the brain develops, the more clear this becomes.

The reverse is true of black people and adult women: the more learn about the brains of these adults, the less proof we find for any differences in potential brain function.

This is why we treat the decisions of children more lightly than we do the decision of adults. This is a good thing, societally; otherwise millions of children could routinely be imprisoned for assault and battery due to common schoolyard shenanigans.
Dogfighting is supposedly becoming a lost skill in the air force, so maybe it's not as silly of a suggestion as you might think.
Kozmo.com "relaunching soon"
Quantization of a bouncing oil drop guided by its own pilot-wave
This is a pretty remarkable phenomenon which as far as I can tell has had little attention on HN. Yves Couder is a French physicist who has demonstrated quantum phenomena on a macroscopic scale.

See also this video from eg 2:12 (two oil bouncing drops in orbit around each other) and 2:43 (a single bouncing oil drop diffracting through a double slit).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHHaDWEWtQE

I haven't studied physics since school some decades ago, so I'm really just an interested layman. But surely this raises some fascinating questions. Would any of the physicists here care to comment on the significance of this? For example, does it make it possible that quantum phenomena are deterministic after all? And if so, what would that mean for quantum computation and quantum encryption?
Keep on imposing your line of argument, and of course downvoting. But the truth is I was trying to solve a pain for small businesses most of which have not yet complied by sending the notification. It seems you never tried the website and started with your baseless arguments. Again with this website I have just made electronic delivery of the notification simpler as the same requires that "delivery is tracked". I just take employees email and name (optional) and basic business information necessary to prepare the model notice obtained from DOL website.

Solving somebody pain is a path to a startup, if you have some other definition please feel free to live by that.
This happens every two years.

Nvidia: we will help the open source community!

> delivers binary blob

nvidia: we will help the open source community with a better integrated driver

> delivers deb and rpm that inject binary blob in kernel

... what they are launching today is information that Noveau would get anyway after a couple weeks with the new cards. All this will do is get you the same crappy support you would get, two weeks in advance.
There is no Fed tapering imminent. They just voted last week to keep the $85 BLN/month flowing on a 9-1 vote.

During dot.com bubble, the short term interest rate was 5%+ in 1998 and 1999, and that didn't stop that bubble. The Fed only belatedly raised rates to 6% in 2000 when the bubble went parabolic.

The Fed is always slow to raise rates, and rates are at 0%.
It could be years before we are at 2% rates with FOMC incrementing 0.25% every quarter or so, and 2% rates is still very stimulative. Right now, the Fed isn't even talking about raising interest rates. They have only been talking about reducing the $85 BLN/month $$ printing, but even that is on hold as of the last FOMC meeting where they voted 9 to 1 to not taper.

The Fed still has the pedal to the metal, and have publicly stated they do not see a bubble anywhere (just like they said there was no housing bubble back in 2006-2007). Don't get shaken out of the market just because the Fed talks about tapering its $$ printing from $85BLN/month to $75BLN/month. The current environment is still very stimulative for stocks.

If there is a bubble, it won't pop because of the Fed. It will pop after the momentum is exhausted and it collapses from its own weight.
I got to fly back-seat in an F-16 once for 53 minutes and managed to handle a 9.2 G turn and I'm not a pilot or a drone. The first 10 minutes of the flight were amazing, the next 30 were incredible, the next 10 were meh, and the last 3 - well let's just say I was happy to be back on the ground and leave it at that.
More movements around Wayland
I wouldn't necessarily elevate an expectation of visual and behaviorial consistency to "theory". I have learned that a chair can hold my body weight. When I rest my body on an object that resembles a chair and that I've never encountered, I expect to be able to rest my body on it. This is the foundation of design, industrial or interactive.

We're not debating the outer contours and nuances of this idea. The article presents a cut-and-dry analysis of basic application of it.

You put far too much stock in your own experience and comfort exploring a tablet UI, and yet you seem to hold yourself as more representative as a "real user" than the author. I disagree. I've witnessed people in my personal and professional life get basic things wrong. What you perceive as a button, a data grid, a message window, they often perceive as an indiscriminate arrangement of text, lines, and color. Which is why I think the author's analysis, in those terms, is worthwhile.
Even better, how about laser-riding submunitions on our missiles? Sounds cooler, anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starstreak_missile
for consumers that want to play the new game, absolutely. This delays that for them.

If I recall correctly, PvZ was originally an iPhone title, then became popular, other platforms, etc. Maybe Apple just wanted to also ensure that PvZ 2 was an iPhone only title for a while as well.
GNOME 3.10 is coming
And I don't think you should be allowed to post on the Internet anymore. We don't always get our way.
Unless there's a new feature the story isn't letting on, they're not excessively robotic, either - more like an R/C F-16 where the pilot controls are replaced by a remote actuation system.

Since the F-16 was purely fly-by-wire and computer stabilized anyway, the difference is where the commands are coming from - there's no additional algorithmic "magic" or computer-controlled decisionmaking power.
Yes. And that's what many people find so elegant about Lisp.

But, one could argue, the "is it a function? or is it a macro?" confusion is a significant cognitive load on the Lisp programmer. These are really two different things, even though you can fit them into the same namespace.

Hoon has the different problem that you allude to - it is hard to extend the macro set at the user level. While this is fairly limiting, many FP languages, like Haskell, seem to do just fine without macro extensions. Perhaps typedness plays a role.

The bottom line on this problem is that there does remain a fair chunk of unused ASCII digraph space, so there is probably a way to put that in the programmer's power, but user-level macros are an unsolved problem in this relatively young language, nor is it one that obviously needs to be solved. But it would be nice if it does get solved.
I don't understand why people (not just you) don't mention which web framework they're running on top of Node. Is everyone really rolling their own backend, perhaps using Express? Express is much less featureful than a full web framework in the style of Django or Rails.
Anyone else really enjoy PvZ and found themselves disappointed by this release? Powerups you used to get by playing the game cost real money now. It really feels like they sucked the fun out of it, and it's a shame. PvZ was one of my favorite games of probably the last 5 years. This seems to be the direction mobile games are moving, and I understand why but it still sucks.
The Win 7 and Win 8 rollouts were the biggest problem. Elop ANNOUNCED shutting down Nokia's OS units with their Flagship N9 in the wings to be sold. Strike one for slashing YOUR OWN SALES. Then they announced the shift to Win 7, which they had to WAIT on Microsoft to make ready... Strike Two, what the hell were they supposed to SELL for almost 18 months. Finally they had to wait again for Win 8 that was incompatible with their "bet the company" Win 7 hardware... Strike three... Screw the few customers trying to save you.

Finally Strike Four is that they bet the company on Microsoft delivering products in a timely fashion and maybe letting them be first. Except what is MICROSOFT's incentive to DELIVER a compelling product when they really want your price to fall so you are cheap to buy.

Look at Microsoft's history in mobile: Orange? Danger Sidekick? Kin? and several others... Microsoft kills its partners. Was the Nokia board so foolish to think it wouldn't happen to them. This is as entertaining as Taylor Swift dating John Mayer and watching everybody cry from"broken hearts" when the cheating starts... It's not like you knew who you were getting in bed with.
Nice affirming a disjunct.
It's not copyright itself that is the blight... it's the seemingly endless extension of it. Copyright will always be extended far enough to keep Steamboat Willie (the first Mickey Mouse cartoon) copyrighted, as Cory Doctorow has pointed out.
Same. With the sole exception of ViEmu, every other Vim simulator seems to disappoint. E.g. Emacs plugins that simulate Vim.
The US ExIm bank also provides billions in either direct loans or loan guarantees to foreign companies; this keeps the export market artificially high and effectively subsidises non-US operators and lessors too.
"HTML was a new technology at the time"

Really? I recall my personal roadkill website I had back in 1996 as a 6th grader. Picked up an HTML manual at the library when they still had card catalogs. Nothing too hard about it at all and Dreamweaver and Photoshop made it a snap if you were ignorant of markup.

It was a bubble. Too bad I was learning about Earth Science while people were making frivolous dollars.
Tech Bubble: Too Many 'Hot Girls Roaming Bars' Looking For Engineers
Representative democracy is not a technical solution. It was not a hack to overcome the lack of real-time communications.

It was chosen in full knowledge of the downside of direct democracy, which is mob rule.

I don't understand how someone can watch the online witch hunts on, say, Reddit, and think "I wish that had the force of law."
Sigh, HN really is turning into - never mind. :-)
iOS 5 I miss you so. iOS 6 brought in skeuomorphism on steroids. And now iOS 7 removed all the skeuomorphism. I miss the balance in iOS 5.
I've yet to hear whether or not the new Optimus drivers reduce heat generation for multi-monitor setups (which are fixed to max power mode in Linux when more than 1 monitor is in use, resulting in more fan noise).

Would hope so, but never get much a reply from Nvidia's Linux board: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/board/98/

As it stands was forced to modify the VBIOS in order to undervolt the card and finally get the GPU fan in laptop to shut up. Silence is golden.
This is a quote from the comments section:

"I travel with my emotional support dog, Lola, everywhere I go. She has all her documentation and is allowed to sit on my lap during flight."

..."Emotional support dog?" Really? Yeesh.

I don't know, maybe I'm just a jerk, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for either of them. This person rants on and on because of a misunderstanding between her and a Delta employee. She got on the plane, right? Who cares?

My gut feeling is that this woman enjoys playing the victim. My initial reaction would probably be the same; why does this woman who can seemingly get around just fine require a service animal? Is she playing the system?

Perhaps the delta employee was rude. People are often rude. It happens. I think the writer gets off on feeling victimized, which is annoying.
Love the fact you used music by the god of ambient, Bran Eno.
The server is in fact in USA, if you could have cared to check.
I think it would have been better had it been into India to safe it from NSA snooping. isn't it?
Read past the first screen, and you'll see they acknowledge that and try to account for it in a series of additional normalized graphs later on.
I fail to understand your reasoning: 0.5e9 * 0.9^n < 0.5e9 < 1e9. In other words: No one is ever receiving $1B even if banks' balance sheets sum to more than $1B lent collectively. On par, each bank is holding a small part of the 0.5e9, and then the final individual is holding the rest.
If a video owner wants censorship, they've had the option for a long while. At least now there will (I assume) be an option to keep conversation allowed while also keeping things more civil.
Technically its a "free" target dummy. The plane was sitting in a idle state in the AZ mothball storage area. Generally planes from that space go either into alternate commercial service (several air tankers have come from there), the junk yard, or foreign spare parts buys. There was a great write up in Air & Space magazine on this storage facility.

Given that they were not designed for particularly long loiter times, they would make better cruise missiles than they would drones but as a crack suicide air to air squad they would be hard to beat (the F-16 seems much more capable as an air superiority fighter, not so much on ground attack, Iron Eagle not withstanding :-)
Let's assume, for the second, that both the law and Delta rules state that you can't have animals on board the plane. Then, is it okay to treat this person as she says she was treated? You can tell someone something they don't want to hear while still treating them as a person.

Then realize that both the law and Delta rules state that she is allowed to bring her service animal on board. So she was treated incredibly badly, while trying to do something she was legally allowed to do, and within the airline's rules. An awful experience.
So, if something ever happens to any of y'all at the hands of the agent of a multi-billion dollar company and for whatever reason you really, really want someone to apologize in such a way that you're sure an actual human is involved, I would not suggest blogging or tweeting about it. (Desiderata may be different if you are a social media consultant.)

Instead, write a short, professional letter the CEO. Briefly outline the facts and ask for exactly your desired resolution. Send it to the Office of the President or Investor Relations [+]. You can generally find their exact title and postal address in a few minutes of Googling.

You have a really good chance of getting that paper letter opened and read by an executive's secretary, then forwarded to the VP of $RELEVANT_DEPARTMENT with the note "Bob would appreciate if you resolved this."

I used to draft these letters for folks (weird hobby, I know), and they were routinely effective at Fortune 500 banks, insurance companies, airlines, etc.

[+ The words "I am a shareholder of $COMPANY and ..." excuse almost any communication to Investor Relations. IR are typically fairly high up on the org chart, have few day-to-day responsibilities, and are institutionally biased to making investors ecstatically happy as opposed to e.g. prioritizing calls-handled-per-hour. If you feel you're not actually a shareholder of $COMPANY, consider whether you beneficially own any of it through e.g. a mutual fund or ETF in your IRA. The answer is "probably" (and you certainly should, but that's another post), and yep, that counts in every way that matters.]
"C++ since its appearance brought continuously on the table things to cover these higher levels of programming."

I see two issues with this statement:

1. The attempts to bring high-level constructs to C++ seem to always come up short. Example: it is still not possible to create something as simple as a doubly-linked list using the standard automatic memory management constructs in C++.

2. Low-level issues creep into high-level constructs rapidly and conspicuously. Example: you have an iterator pattern for sequence types, but if you are not careful you can create a dangling pointer (and no exception will be thrown).

This is why I say (and why my experience has been) that C++ adds an order of magnitude of work to any non-trivial project. The high-level features are poorly conceived and muddied by low-level issues.
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