skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, this just smells like trying to get positioned favorably for the coming geriatric population bubble as the boomers finally reach the point where they aren't able to screw everything up anymore.
I either didn't explain myself well enough or you're misunderstanding my argument. I'm not proposing abolishing the patent system. I'm proposing abolishing the market for their resale.
What a bizarre statement.

Life expectancy is nearly 80 years in the US at this point, even with the explosion of cancer, heart disease and diabetes that has come with obesity in the last 30 years.

You'd have to be defining old age as 140 for your statement to make sense.
Is this what "deprogramming" a brainwashed person is? Moving them from the position of their captors' propaganda to a position within the propaganda believed by an entire society?

Patriotism being one example of this type of propaganda -- the idea that some of us are better than others because we were born on one side of a line in the dirt.
http://bsamuels.net/upload/paste0051
It gets a minimal amount of features in iOS 7.
Goldbely (YC W13) Is Airbnb For Gourmet Food
This technique was something that came to mind when I heard about Occupy Wall Street's use of the "mic check". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_microphone Getting lots of people to repeat borderline-reasonable things, even if they don't really quite agree with them, can make them change their position.
I thought this was about anti-patterns or cryptic code passages. It's literally about the string 'wtf'
I'm going to use your logo as an example of what design should be and why the author is on the right track.

Your logo looks good. Visually, it's fine...

But what's the point of having dual colored shapes? Why is there a circle behind the antennas? What does the robot represent? Why orange? If you showed the logo to someone, would they be able to think of a word that coincides with a goal/mission of your company? Why is it looking down? If you're looking to predict (keywords: future, time, ready, etc.) then why not make it look forward?

These are the types of questions that struck me first looking at the logo. It feels like there was more focus on how it looked than to what it represents. That's how Dribble designs feel.

They look good and they get the job done (i.e. you have a logo, a client gets a site, etc.), but when you combine functionality with design, that's a real home run.

Using logo design as the example, the first goal of the designer should be to understand the company. What does it want to do? Why does it exist? Like a person, you want to get to know it before you can label it. Once you have the part of what you want to symbolize, what you want to communicate, you can start sketching. Start trying to really capture the soul of the company and present it in an aesthetic and still functional way.

Having aesthetics without much focus on function, that's what I feel the author is categorizing Dribble designers as.

Having functionality without aesthetic, well, we'll use an automobile for that example. A functional without aesthetic car would be a garbage truck.

Having aesthetics and function, you get brands like Porsche, Apple, Lego, OXO...

Sorry for going on a rant using your logo :-)
Elon Musk hiring autonomous driving engineers to report directly to him
I'm not sure what Google Talk's traffic is compared to Whatsapp, but gtalk allows simultaneous logins across many devices and does a decent job of synchronizing messages across them -- phone, tablet, computer (though there is a slight delay depending on the volume of messages it needs to sync).
http://archive.is/OpHXV
To me, this sounds like "The neighbors were not united about which parent should get custody of the children when they divorced." I cannot fathom why we all would be involved in an internal dispute. And the USSRussia would have invaded western Europe...where the US & allies had set up many military bases?

"Communism" was the "terrorism" of my parents' generation...
It is so easy to make people with idealistic views switch those views. The reason being that such people attach their views to an unattainable standard clouding their judgement, then when they realize the flaws in their views they backlash. Add to that an environment that doesn't promote any opinion but allows such backlash to flourish and you get the perfect brainwashing technique. Self sustained brainwashing.
Apple releases Chrome & Firefox extensions for iCloud bookmark syncing
I wrote up a blog post trying to explain my company's position on it: http://dev.hubspot.com/blog/open-plan-offices
I completely agree, have felt the same, and lamented this to a friend just days ago. It's great to know that there are others out there. For me, my exposure was via an IBM PS/2, LOGO, and GW/QBASIC, but the effect was the same.
I completely agree, wrote up essentially the exact same thing: http://dev.hubspot.com/blog/open-plan-offices
For this reason, I try to avoid ads and marketing as much as possible, although it seems almost impossible. Although any individual advertisement is trivial to dismiss, I don't trust myself to resist the ubiquitity of these messages.
Maybe in 17 years or so, there will be an Arduino / rPi / Beaglebone explosion of entry into CS programs? Look at things like this cool program put on by the Durham County (NC) Public Libary this summer:

http://durhamcountylibrary.org/2013/06/teen-tech-camp-2013/

http://exitevent.com/teen-tech-camp-hosts-future-developers-...

http://www.slj.com/2013/08/technology/powerful-partnerships-...

Kids learned to program in Python, on a Raspberry Pi, and each of them left at the end of the day with their Pi, and accompanying monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. Some of these kids were underprivileged kids who had no computer access before, so the event was a pretty big deal for some of these kids. From what I heard, a few parents teared up at the end when they found out their kids got to take all their stuff home with them.

More programs of this nature, and more access to Arduino, rPi and the like, is one of the things I hang my hope for the future generations on.

Aside: I'm proud to say that our other co-founder here at Fogbeam Labs, snkahn, was one of the co-conspirators who helped pull that together.
I don't think the rest of the world is moving on, at least not for long. Full cloud has too many fundamental drawbacks to become a universal solution. It's the buzzword of the moment, but it's taken a very long time to get there by tech industry standards, and it's still underwhelming even today.

With execs at the big publicly held software firms looking to the next quarterly financial call, they're all going with the hype anyway. That creates an opportunity for a disruptive movement that shifts the market instead of pandering to it. My guess would be that private clouds, software-defined networking and a bunch of tools that better support things like remote working and BYOD will steadily push full external cloud solutions out of most large corporations, and smaller scale tools based on the same basic ideas will emerge to support SMEs.

And that brings me to my big question: What is the only operating system in the world that is already demonstrably a credible platform for all of server, desktop and mobile computing?
reminds me of commit logs from last night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V44kscaJe3M
"it's also simply part of being a biological organism."

laugh.

Absolutely everything we have built with technology is not simply part of being a biological organism. Who are you to say what being a biological organism is about? For that matter, what's special about biology (nothing, but that's a different discussion)?

Smallpox is simply a part of being a biological organism. Fighting with other organisms to the death is part of being a biological organism. Survival of the fittest is part of being a biological organism. But we're better than that. See, we have pretty powerful brains that allow us to escape the endless cycle of suffering and death that is "being a biological organism". You're not forced to use yours for that purpose, but don't act like there is some bright line between all the other supposed rules we break and curing death. It is all part of the same progression.
Hmm... sufficiently define everything so that human contact is unnecessary? Genius idea. Now if only the customer knew exactly what they wanted a year out and the BA's perfectly captured that in absolutely unambiguous prose, and of course if nothing ever failed to go according to plan.
Ouya’s Free the Games Fund lowers project minimum and more
It really can be. The least productive people are not only producing less work in more time, they are also producing work that needs to be reviewed more thoroughly, needs to be redone, or causes bugs whose fixes take more time than the original implementation took. Add all these up and you can easily exceed 10x productivity compared to a developer who gets it right the first time, producing code that's clean, easy to maintain, and easy to adapt to changing requirements. Not only have I seen it first hand, I've seen it over and over, and I expect to continue to see it throughout my career.
But what you're talking about here is still a considered decision, based on actual analysis and thought. It's not choosing a framework only because it's the framework du jour, but because of the second order effects of it being so.
Oocities.
It's not better than the urgent care, but it's on the high end. Mainly, the work is quite interesting and there's lots of it. Case-report quality stuff comes across my desk daily and large studies are in the making. I have dual screen monitors, (also had that at the standing desk at the last job), but I have also customized my world a bit more: I have vim tuned better (works reasonably well with Dragon, but could be better). The office has windows with mini-blinds, which has a peculiar ability to really make the space feel expansive, yet safe from prying eyes. My microscope has dual heads so I put a Magnifi (arcturuslabs.com) on the second head and can take pics at my leisure (see http://reddit.com/r/pathology for unknowns) so that verges on a third screen. Plus my ipad. And I have been planning to move in here for over a year, so I have thought hard about what to do.

And, thanks in part to years of great posts on Hacker News, I'm much better at scripting mundane tasks than the average pathology resident.

I think another thing is that I took up surfing. I'm from Kansas. I go surfing with dolphins at least once a week. I own a home in SoCal, wife and kids are happy and smart. How did I get here?
Agreeing with you, I filed it as an issue: https://github.com/AdamBrodzinski/RedScript/issues/1
I hate staring at a wall of text without being able to read it. I'll just have to learn Chinese. Googling right now.
Ha, well there's a URL that's never going to get through the corporate firewall...
The decision of making sage invisible is interesting to discuss. Like with the quote function (or greentexting), many of 4chan's basic functions have been used for more than intended function. This creates things that sometimes are not what you want to get, but should you take away the new functions from your users?
I disagree. Having owned all those phones; I felt the 3GS->4 was a much bigger update to the iPhone compared to 3G->3GS. The 4 introduced the retina display which was far more noticeable than the 3G to 3GS performance increase.
And even system programmers have other choices, as demonstrated by the linux kernel.
A fair share of the WTFs for python are probably due to the WTForms library. I count 6 out of 10 WTForms matches on the first page of github file results.

https://github.com/search?q=wtf+extension%3Apy&type=Code&ref...
If you actually want to have a discussion of those differences then you're going to need to point them out yourself instead of dumping a homework assignment in everyone's lap since:
1) I don't read Chinese, and I doubt I'm alone here when it comes to that
2) Google translate is far from perfect, and unless the differences are clear to someone who merely gets the gist of the Chinese article they probably won't come across
https://www.4chan.org/news?all#114 might work for you.
I dunno... I hated and despised "open plan" in my 20's, in my 30's, and now I still hate it at 40. shrug
It's funny, because Eli was making a moral argument, but I was not, yet that seems to be the default argument against immortality. I think you last question is actually close to what I was striking at - who is it that's immortal? What does it mean to be a consciousness freed from its humanity? I honestly am not sure that many people would end up being happy in such an arrangement, or necessarily actually survive in any sense as "themselves" for very long, despite the persistence of a body or simulant or whatever.
The HoTT book: Group of two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book [free]
> Managing people is more about trying to make things appear fair to everyone. Disgruntled employees are a great way to bring down the entire organization.

I agree with your second statement, but your first statement sounds too cynical. If this is what you're learning from the person managing you, I would encourage you to do what you can to move to a different manager.
"The problem with this is that "make it happen faster" is already clear and sufficient."

I disagree. Catalyze is more succinct. In addition, to catalyze has the connotation of making change happen via the injection of a catalyst, thus connecting the agent of change with the change it brings. It's a better word.

Catalyst is not a difficult vocabulary word, nor a particularly uncommon word. Compare it's frequency to the words you used:
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=catalyst%2C+pui...
From: https://www.4chan.org/bans

Board |	Action | Length | Post | Reason | Time

/b/ | Ban | 3 days | View | Global 15 - Pony/Ponies Outside of /mlp/ | 34 minutes ago

Wat? I thought /b/ was pretty much anything goes. How times change.
In biot's analogy, human contact is analogous to first aid.
Lines of C are certainly not equivalent to lines of, say, Erlang, so I don't think that metric would be extremely useful either.

Perhaps something like WTFs per commit would be best?
>The public ban log displays a sample of recent bans, which we hope will give users insight into what content is being removed, and why.

This might be interesting.
I seriously doubt Google Talk (now called Hangouts) has anywhere close to Whatsapp's traffic. But even if they did, Google can support simultaneous login with synchronized state (and server-stored state) because it's solved a lot of these big problems in the past for other products with hundreds/thousands of engineers.
The problem isn't a lack of devices with the bare bones showing, where tinkering will produce results to be learned. The problem is that some things, like iPhone apps, are so much more polished than anything the average 12-year-old can produce that anything they make is discouraging by comparison.

How many teenagers would it take to produce Candy Crush, a highly-polished game made by a team of teams -- art team, multiple app coding teams, database team, facebook integration teams, financial team, and management team. Man-years of effort went into making that game.

Now be 12. Be a gamer. Be a kid who's choosing between struggling to make HTML5 Canvas work on a webpage, and playing games with friends.
Random arbitrary bans are not unprecedented on /b/
Yeah. Sounds like a scoreboard.
Epic (leading EHR) launches API for health data
Thx for the comment. We are updating the brief with all the zeros as we have the data.

You are right that the line would point down if all failures raised a lot of money at the seed/Series A stage, but that's not the case. This intuitively makes sense as only a small select group of companies/founders can raise large initial rounds (serial entrepreneur, amazing traction, etc) and most will raise smaller sums.

But thx for comment. Update with zeros coming soon.
Opera Rejecting Extensions With Minified Code
Here's a list of the worst cases of genocide in world history and Mao is on the very top of the list.

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/dictat.html
Okay, so Mao could be argued to be a bad idea, but there was and has been a lot of communism since Mao.

Could you say the same for Deng Xiaoping (also a communist)?
Which means that developers are forced to learn something new to continue. Now they choose -- they can learn QNX and develop for Blackberrys, with their meager userbase.

Or they can learn Java and develop for Androids and their very large userbase.

Or they can learn Objective-C and develop for iOS and their deep-pocketed userbase.

Edit: or learn...C# && .net?.. and develop for Windows Phone, which just went through the same situation, and their "loyal" userbase of mostly MS employees.

The choice seems obvious in hindsight, and was obvious to some people beforehand too.
i think he means the LLVM bitcode produced.. the IR.

That IR have target processor specifics in it..

but i think the pnacl guys already think about that, and they have a different "bitcode" (as LLVM people say) from the original LLVM..

anyway.. whats more portable than source code? people should stop fancy binary and closed source.. there are no much secrets left these days anyway.. and if you are a hit, nobody can take you that, just by branch the code and call it other name.. unless you are doing something really wrong..
I saw this and said "Why the fuck is this on Hacker News?" out loud.
/b/ was almost entirely ponies at one point - an odd example of too much signal and not enough noise. To solve this, moot set up /mlp/, a containment board designed to redirect the rapid influx of pony images that was spamming every board (which was disturbing many of the regular on-topic posters.) Hence the "no ponies are allowed outside of /mlp/" rule.
It's true that modern games and apps set the bar high. But the stuff I produced on the C=64 when I was 14 was equally as basic when compared with the games of the time. It's not about making something as polished as what you can buy, it's about becoming fascinated with how something works, and learning about things at a deeper level through self-discovery.

The stories kids write and the pictures kids draw are primitive when compared to what they could buy, but they still like to spend time making them!
History is written by the victors.

North korea didn't believe the UN/US (i.e. Non-koreans) should be deciding the fate of their country. (I am in no way defending the current North Korean regime).

I completely understand a sovereign nation attacking a 'puppet state' in order to unify it.

(to respond to the grand parent as well)
If the Russians were 'boycotting' the UN, then it wasn't the UN, it was just "The Allies".
But isn't the fact that it is not a vacuum an important aspect of the design? First, some air is used to elevate the train. Second, it's easier to maintain a near vacuum than a total vacuum.
My team recently moved from dedicated offices to open offices and the cultural changes have actually been quite interesting to watch.

Not being able to go into someone's office and talk for an hour cuts down on one form of interpersonal bonding. On the flip side, having larger group conversations encourages another type of bonding.

Arranging dinner and lunch outings is 100x easier, we go out as a team quite often now.

Code reviews are fast and fluid. It is easy to get someone to walk on over and take a look at something. Junior programmers worrying about their designs can easily ask more senior members for help.

Productivity in some regards is down, noise level is higher for some things (yes even with headphones), and there are certainly some days where it is hard to think. On the other hand, really hard problems can get a lot of brain power thrown at them really quickly and solved in a matter of minutes. No more of that "well if I had known you were working on that, turns out I found a fix for it yesterday, I could have saved you 4 hours!"

Time spent chit chatting is probably the same. I have gotten to know some coworkers I didn't know before.

I'd say it has overall helped with code quality and team cohesion. Then again our areas are not that small, 8x10, so we are by no means cramped. I have two actual desks in my area so people on external teams can drop in with a laptop if they need to work with me.

It is a royal pain when trying to focus on solving a really hard problem however. Especially if doing pair programming on a super hard problem, when two people's thoughts are all that should be occupying a space.
Yeah, I'd say Java and C++ are about equally prevalent at Google. A lot of the older products and core infra is still C++, and a ton of new stuff is Java (See: Android).
To put that in perspective, here is a list of opening day top grossing movies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_openin..., and the previous video game record was $500 million, for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
If people are in the same office space overall, everyone will likely catch whatever's going around anyway.
Since when do 12 year olds compare themselves against highly polished products put out by companies with hundreds of employees?

When I was 12 I wasn't trying to build Seven Cities Of Gold, I was happy just to have a little blinking sprite move across the screen.

Nowadays you can fire up a browser and scratchpad and have a hello world alert box pop up in five seconds. And there are arduinos, and raspberry pi's, and crazy cool robotics kits. There's still plenty out there to motivate kids who are interested in tinkering.
It's not really random or arbitrary if the rule is "no ponies."
If the top post indicates anything, it's the high precedence the psyche places on framing. Switch around your default- and exception cases and see if that helps take your mind off it.

It's a real thing. This summer, because my room would get hot at night, I had to leave a fan on. At first, I couldn't sleep with the noise. But now that it's getting colder, I've tried leaving it off, and guess what. Ha. Now I need the noise.
I wonder if we will get a GTL a la guava :p
> Google cares very much for user privacy, it is part of the corporate culture.

Try again.
It sounds like you're advocating One RasPi Per Child.
That's awesome; I'd love to do something like that here, and I agree that it'll go some way towards redressing the balance. I'd love to see all kids in all schools being given that kind of experience as part of the regular curriculum.
There goes my productivity for the next month
Zuck: The more transparency into spying, the better everyone would feel about it
And codebases like Webkit have WTF throughout - Web Template Framework - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/834179/wtf-is-wtf-in-webk...
Would the term limit for president still be two election periods, or be redefined to 8 years?
When I was 9, my parents got a 286 that had a Qbasic interpreter among other things, and it came with a game where a gorilla throws a barrel at buildings. When I read the code, I was startled to learn how easy it was to understand - multiply this by that, draw these here if this happens, etc. Then I tried to write my own programs and kept getting errors. And nobody anywhere -- not my parents, nor schoolmates or teachers, faculty, clergy, or TV characters had any kind of problem like that. The lack of support was ultimately what discouraged me, I suppose.
Cost friendly labor market and the huge potential domestic consumer market itself.
Definitely check out CaféAuLait: it's French that compiles into CoffeeScript.
New iOS 7 designs vs Android
Wow... what are you even doing on this site? What's it like hating everything?
Typical of the billionaires. Is the aging funding for society or there own motality. Ellison does stuff like this. I didn't read the article fully but on the surface they would be better doing as Gates is doing, funding suffering. Funding their own future to me is not very honorable and respectful.