skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The History of Firebug
Nicely done - very impressive set of capabilities for an early release. Definitely interested in trying and learning more about Clojure with it.
In my opinion, there's high possibility that you're burned out at the moment.

The desire to quit is one of the things, which I observe when I run out of steam.

Don't rush doing something, which can cost you 6-12 months of your life.

You seem that you're making decisions under emotions, rather execute rationally planned scenario.

Take some break and after that think what you want to do and how to do it.
Poland and Germany should unite to form a single country, Lech Walesa says
Actually, it was petrochemical company, one of the largest. And no, petrochemical industry doesn't pay much more than software profession.

Comparing with my friends who are still doing ChE jobs, If I was still in petrochemical, I most probably be getting paid little less than what I am being paid now, but working much more harder, longer and more stressed.
http://benhebert.com/profitable-niche-site-two-months/
Sorting Algorithms implemented in C++
Ten times longer in the same Firefox, Skype, Libreoffice, Thunderbird combo that they already had before? Not likely. (No, I'm not an UX expert, nor do I play one on TV; but I have seen the users "in action" enough to make an educated guess)
No, no you got it all wrong ;-)

It surely must have something to do with the Uncertainty Principle [1], where the big G can only know your speed or your location. ;-)

[ironyoff]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
I think it's great, and the company shouldn't have backed down.

It's juvenile to expect an airline to pay for something they didn't cause. We don't know if they caused the delay or not, but it seems likely that they didn't.

If I were running a service and someone spitefully insulted that service on blatantly irrational grounds, I'd refuse them service, too.

And if that's illegal in the EU---well, that's why I'd never run a business in the EU.
You must not understand the GTA series.
While I think that proper em dash usage—like this—looks fantastic, I'd be happy enough if somebody just ran s/ - /--/g on the internet.
It's a problem for paper maps too. From Tufte forums, “Airport maps and runway incursions”:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...
Java fills a particular niche (code with an emphasis on readability) which is not addressed by Groovy or Clojure and arguably not addressed by Scala. I'd say Go is the biggest competition for that niche as a language, although it's not JVM, it does fix many warts with how Java handles inheritance/polymorphism without sacrificing readability and simplicity.

Groovy is slow as a 1-legged dog. (we use it to fill the shell/perl niche a lot but it is slow, effectively you're doing reflection lookups every time you call a method in Groovy). The dynamicness makes it better for scripting or web programming, though, where you don't care as much about performance.

Scala is the JVM's C++, a giant pile of overlapping features, supported by an advanced and very slow compiler that yields fast bytecode. Case classes, funny operator overloading, lots of additional syntax for collection manipulation. They're giving you more expressiveness at a cost of readability and language complexity. (This is an opinion, some may disagree).

Clojure is really awesome but most dev shops will have an easier time with imperative programming models.

Ultimately, not changing in 8 years isn't fundamentally bad, and Java isn't that bad at all as a language if you avoid things like EJB and Hibernate, and if you're not looking for a dynamic language like Ruby and dissapointed by Java not being Ruby. You might just disagree with the tradeoffs.
Looked fairly normal to me. US here.
Microsoft is struggling to get developers excited about their platform. If they can't convince companies to invest the time to build software, they'll never convince anyone to manufacture hardware; hardware has a real cost per unit.
That's the conclusion most of the Bitcoin mining forums have come to, at least last time I reviewed them.
I assumed he meant "1 kW" and missed the k.
You don't need to take the brain-space — use a password manager like 1Password or LastPass, plus a YubiKey for two-factor auth, and you can use unique passwords everywhere.
That rule applies to adverbs. The distinction is admittedly subtle, but this page lists the exception you cited (in rule 5), but also uses "friendly-looking" in an example (in rule 4):

http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/hyphens.asp
No, if you read your own link, the exception identified is for adverbs that end in "-ly" that are part of a compound adjective. "Friendly", though it ends in "-ly", is an adjective, not an adverb.

The "Friendly-looking" in "Friendly-looking couch" is an "adjective + participle" construction, which is hyphenated before the noun.

http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/images/ch07_tab01.pdf
A lot of traffic jams are the result of an improperly tuned car-accelerations and deceleration resulting in oscillations in the system.

Learn people how to drive properly and keep their distance and things will be better. A good indication is on how much fuel you used in the traffic jam. (Electric car excluded).

An auto-distance holder also helps to reduce the oscillation by 1 car, however correctly adjusting by hand is better.

http://trafficwaves.org/
This is worrying as it might have the effect of less sharing in the scientific community. The closest analogy I can think of is a musician given a preview concert that demos some of their upcoming work and then finding a full single available on iTunes recorded by someone else. Even if the complete song is quite good, it would at least feel like theft.

I'd be interested in what people think the proper reaction to this should be (other than the knee-jerk draconian measures toward the perps). How should the scientific community and publishers react to keep this author sharing early results freely?
Tech leadership or programming enthusiasist are potential targets. I gather the average person is actually the target due to this statement: "If you know Java at all, you probably think of it as something from the late ’90s, a child of the original internet boom, a little piece of downloadable software that sent a cartoon mascot dancing across your Netscape web browser."
>This means that the temperature at the bottom of the pond will rise to over 90 °C while the temperature at the top of the pond is usually around 30 °C.

Can that really be right, it seems like a very high gradient.
One thought I had was that you could get some of the benefits of both by using a large number or "ansible" commands in a Dockerfile rather than using a single ansible-playbook command to kick off the process. You'd most of the organization features that ansible gives (like roles etc), but you would get most of the docker features.
Don't use any brain space for any passwords (except one ofcourse).

https://lastpass.com/

Steve Gibson uses it, I won't pretend to be as capable of speaking to it's benefits so I encourage you to listen to Security Now.

Edit: Last pass can be loaded once in the browser, and if you link it to a yubikey it is much more secure. http://blog.lastpass.com/2010/07/lastpass-gets-green-light-f....
From a policy perspecive, land is probably one of the biggest factors limiting large-scale PV installations in the U.S.

Basically, every square meter of land in the U.S. is already being used for something that people will defend, even if it is sparse desert land. Sparse desert land is a natural ecosystem, and there are many people and nonprofits who work hard to protect natural ecosystems from disruption by man.
Thanks for the corrections! :)
You just made my internet day.
Java never really went away. This article to me is really more of an attack on the recently/currently trendy technologies like Ruby on Rails than anything else.
Note that different style manuals will suggest em-dashes set closed for that use or en-dashes set open; either is better than hyphens (open or closed).
10 years too early or 60 years too late.
Maybe I should have responded to TomGullen's post since he mentioned the FedEx story.
Is help documentation almost 3000 pages or is the source almost 3000 pages? :D
Well, in that case, I retract the comment. The work you've done in demonstrating Flexbox is too valuable to suffer pedantic and (as you point out, ultimately not even necessary) points about !important.

Thanks again for the work!
Traffic on an entire urban freeway can be synchronized if automated, leading to huge bandwidth increases. In America, you might say whatever, but in china this will be transformative since there is nowhere else to build new roads...and the authoritarian government can easily deal with those who still want to drive themselves.
More backwards functions: Unevaluating polynomials
Java has steadily grown over the years as the premier choice in the Enterprise. This is the reason that Java developers are relatively many (though I don't believe they are falling from the sky as the article suggests).

This article is a little strange in general. The idea that Java was ever dead seems to be from the perspective of those who thought it was only for applets or devices. But the author acknowledges his awareness that this is not all Java ever was. So, to make the case that it died, he holds out a few examples of companies that tried something else, but couldn't scale until they went to the JVM. He simultaneously ignores the entire Enterprise Java world.

Odd.
Suppose you are an expert in creating a buzz. One day you want to create a buzz around you. You tweet a bit, discuss it with some people until they say that they're not happy with your tweet. You actually get on the plane fine. But still you fabricate most of the story to get the buzz you were looking for. Far fetched?
Game Development Has Quietly Democratised
slykat: thank you.

The value of IP isn't the only question. We also seem to disagree on how quickly value is evaporating! Blackberry sales are bound to decline faster and faster, like a waterfall -- similar to what happened to Nokia's smartphones.

After the introduction of iOS and Android in 2007-2008, Nokia's quarterly smartphone unit sales barely budged... at first... but then dropped by two-thirds between Q1 2010 and Q1 2012![1]

Liquidating a company of Blackberry's size would take at least two years. Any estimate of liquidation value should take into account the possibility of quarterly unit sales dropping by two-thirds in the near future.

--

[1] http://www.dazeinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/post-15.b...
I have some serious doubts about this story. Strathclyde Law School does not have Mark Leiser listed as a law lecturer. Searching for "Mark Leiser Strathclyde" produced a page that seems to indicate that he's a PhD student.

If he's not being truthful about this, then I for one would think that he might not be telling the entire truth. Easyjet have replied to this indicating that he might have been disruptive.

Reading this guy's twitter feed also is eye-opening, he comes across as a self-important prick.
What's the Most Concave State in the U.S.? Using R to Solve a Geography Puzzle
Something similar submitted 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5322177

http://niggler.github.com/js-xlsx/ and http://niggler.github.com/js-xls/ seem to be pure in-browser parsers for Excel, whereas the Mr Data Converter solution is just parsing data coming out of the clipboard
We clearly need a huge PRISM or a diffraction grating, placed on a tall tower that moves on railroad tracks so that it's always between the sun and the solar cell field. Then we can tune the cells to the right bands and use steam on the low frequency end.

You could also just cool the cells and try to use the waste heat.

Actually in space you could have these gossamer structures more easily as there is more ...space, and the weight penalty is less. I know some satellites use primitive concentration methods coupled with very high efficiency cells to generate a lot of power.
I think this is a step-backwards. It's a terribly flawed concept for two reasons:

1) the screen is already an infinitely customisable graphical touch UI

2) you need to set your portable device down on a flat surface to use it

Without it you can easily page back-and-forth through multiple control screens each with a custom UI. You can still have a different screen for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Without it you can carry the device to a table and enter the data in situ. You can hold it in one hand and operate the device with the other.

This bypasses a mobile touch device's two main assets: its portability and its touch screen!
I never have had a problem figuring out where my hands are in the dark. It's always figuring out where the damn "B" key is on my keyboard.
Agreed, something just doesn't seem right about the story.
And the book was written by Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame) and, to be honest, didn't measure up to Douglas Adams' writing. But who does?
I'm guessing this only applies to America. Where I'm from, traffic jams result from ~150-200% over utilization rates. Accidents just make that worse.
This reminds me of "Eunux" from GTA IV.

http://gta.wikia.com/Eunux.net
The problem I have with this approach - keep everything compatible and portable - is that it holds back development and puts the effort in other parts of the stack to waste.

What is the point of awesome ‘new’ kernel features like cgroups if nothing in userspace really uses them? With systemd, I feel like my computer is actually taking advantage of being a modern Linux system, not just a warmed-over historical UNIX.

With Gnome using systemd, it can take advantage of those capabilities as as well.

If they do not depend on systemd, they have three options:

1. Don't have features that require its capabilities.

2. Have those features conditionally depending on whether systemd is present. This has at least 2 problems: inconsistent experience / feature set and maintenance of less-tested alternate code paths.

3. Implement fallbacks for systemd capabilities. This has more maintenance problems than (2), in addition to the redundant effort re-implementing (subsets of) features systemd provides.

I prefer to see the Gnome leverage systemd and build an excellent platform. With scarce resources, (2) and (3) are a significant drag on the project. 'Choice' is not only hard, it requires time/money, and that time/money comes at the expense of other things that would benefit from it.
Mailbox iPhone app suffers from serious Javascript flaw
A thought for you. Put up an image that hasn't been scaled for your screenshot. It looks fuzzy and indistinct, not the best first impression.
I think the tool you are looking for is http://scri.ch/
De-hacktivating attackers
"In the process it has automagically determined properties of the image which allow it to perform the classification."

(Emphasis mine.) But that's the point; it may be "auto", but if you understand how NNs work it's not magic. It's not even all that hard to understand (considered broadly), and once you understand how they work it is, for instance, easy to construct cases they fall flat on....

"So it has in effect determined how to solve a problem without your input."

... and it's less "auto" than you think. It figured out how to solve a problem based on your input of sample cases. And there's a certain amount of art involved in selecting and herding your sample cases, so regrettably you can't discard this part, either. Just flinging everything you've got at the NN is not going to produce good results.

If you don't understand NNs, you are unlikely to get good results by just flinging data at them; if you do get good results, it's probably because you have a problem that could have equally well been solved by even simpler techniques. They're really not magic.
Has there been any improvements in the way Rockstar treats employees? If not then no thanks.
Concentrator cells make a number of tradeoffs in order to make their performance as high as possible (and keep from melting, etc.). I would guess around 22% efficient in one-sun AM1.0; that's about what other concentrator cells in this upper tier do.

If it's slightly cloudy, I could see efficiencies dropping to the single digits, as each of these cells is actually four different cells all wired in series, each sensitive to different wavelengths of light. If the blue drops out, the corresponding cell on the top of the stack acts as a resistor (and it can even burn out, being so thin).

Solar cell efficiency records (particularly for concentrator applications) are like discovering new transuranic elements- extremely useful and interesting at first, then significantly diminishing returns.
Woman Attempts To Woo Computer Programmer Into Marriage With Sandwiches
Oculus VR release a latency tester for the Rift
Macs do that??? I'm surprised that I never discovered it on the wife's Mac. I deal with other languages so much, this might be the one thing that tips me toward using one.
Fingerworks keyboards and touchpads--which were one of the first commercial implementations of capacitive multitouch--were popular with some music producers for specifically this reason. See for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qg8IB64yu8

Fingerworks was purchased by Apple, and their technology integrated into the touchpads and iOS devices.
"The largest architectural change we made was to move from our monolithic Ruby application to one that is more services oriented."

This validates my recent line of thought that a "stack" is the wrong analogy for modern web architecture. Great read, thanks for posting.
Sweet! I am building an app that can use this to take a customer signature. The app will be using a tablet and stylus to make sales on the floor. Been debating a feature like this.
Let's run arbitrary code downloaded from somewhere I don't know! As root!
Yes. "Loser pays" and "each side pays their own" are both imperfect systems. Neither is uniformly better than the other.
The blog's post was different originally and has been changed itself. I give up.
How Pivotal Tracker Could Be Killing Your Startup
> When you calculate the amount of power the plant is likely to produce over its lifetime, the cost per kilowatt-hour is likely to be much higher than for fossil-fuel power.

Solar thermal is cost effective if you take into account the economic problems that carbon emissions cause over their lifetime in the atmosphere. This is why putting a price on carbon emissions is so essential: to expose the true cost of fossil fuels at the time of sale.
Maybe sudo is not installed?
Ugly as fuck. Can anyone make something that actually beats Helvetica Neue?
Linux kernel oops
It's an older article, but it serves to show just how fast these things swing. Just as CPU mining became worthless when GPU mining took off, GPU mining is totally useless now. Even with free power it's barely worth the trouble.

FPGA is still viable, the chips are fairly cheap and performance can be improved with better designs, but ASIC will absolutely crush it.

The good news is that getting your FPGA design taped out as an ASIC is actually not all that expensive, relatively speaking. Some will give you a few hundred samples for around $15K. Not cheap per-chip, but avoids the $250-500K setup fee you normally incur with most ASIC runs.
I personally prefer Dashlane as it has a desktop interface as well. Not a big fan of only having the password manager in the browser, myself.
Sorry for being unclear. I meant concentrating sunlight onto existing PV panels. I suppose that I'm assuming mirrors << PV in terms of cost.
This is big business vs. big business.

Dinosaurs: Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Xerox.

vs

The New Hot Shit: Google, Facebook, Samsung, Red Hat and Yahoo.

I'm not sure who's holding the most cash, but it's certainly not an easy call.
I use lastpass sometimes, but it seems very insecure to keep passwords on my machine.

I don't like keeping lastpass with a master password because typing a strong, long master password every single time I want any password is not a use case I enjoy, and I certainly don't want to lock up my passwords with something that is easily defeatable.

And without a strong master password locking every attempt to use lastpass, it becomes far, far less secure than memorizing passwords.
I use http://www.paymo.biz and although they're mostly known for pm & time tracking they have some nice invoicing options: estimates, expenses, invoices & reports.

I'm suggesting it because although I use a paid version, there's a free one too, as I freelancer you should keep your expenses down at first am I right? :)
Member States Block Pirate Parties’ WIPO Application
Java programmers seem to love the swap too. All the ones I've seen in shops that have swapped love the transition
Interestingly, I suppose I have become accustomed to that kind of halo effect in high contrast situations (either due to something about my eyes or glasses), so I had no clue that the image was manipulated. It just looked like "normal" to me, since I suppose I just assume that there will be a halo around that sort of object.

I was only able to observe the halo effect added from the image manipulation when I physically blocked my view of the "O" with a piece of paper, stopping at the edge of the character. When only viewing the black area the modification became obvious: there's a gradient around the "O" which fades to black.

So the good news: it may not be anything about your monitor. The bad news: it may be your eyes! :)
Yeah, that. The Nintendo DS does the "display plus touch-area separation" right by having a second screen. And you can use that in your lap.

imho, the DS is mostly held back by a resistive touchscreen and Nintendo's inability to think big-picture.

This blade thing stinks of being a solution looking for a problem.
Java applets are dead, and should be. Great idea poorly executed.

Java on the server never died or even coughed. It's huge. It's a very rich ecosystem and performs very well at scale.

Java for apps is IMHO underrated. The biggest foot-shooting decision Sun made was to bundle shitware like the ask.com toolbar with the JRE, and never to solve the JRE deploy/update problem that requires that every Java app bundle its own JRE. Solve that and java apps on desktop computers will make a comeback.
That's a little generous. Clojure is great and I enjoy working with and Scala is fun too, but Java still has the best tooling support. Scala IDE has weird little bugs here and there whereas I haven't encountered a JDT bug in years.

I use Eclipse for all of them Counterclockwise, ScalaIDE and JDT. Counterclockwise is actually really nice. Selecting forms is super simple and makes the parenthesis "issue" not a thing.
Foundation Medicine, Backed by Gates and Milner, Scores $106M in Upsized IPO
From the CIR (The structure in charge of this tax credit), you can only do: applied science, pure research and experimental development. Sounds more PHD tasks than regular designer or regular engineer tasks.
Please take my money and somebody give me an Android game please. There are no complex haptic interactions - this is perfect for the mobile !!!
How to Build a Stellar Mobile App On a Budget
Yea, it's like the author switches perspectives to push his narrative. For normal end-users Java has all but disappeared from their ecosystem. But for enterprise programmers it never went anywhere.
lolz.
Pick a side! Oh wait, no need, I'm on .net already. :D