skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently using a text editor (Sublime Text 3). And I like it but it have its own challenges. I don't want to be a web developer, I'm just doing this as a hobby and to design/maintain my personal website. So it doesn't really matter if I'll be a mediocre web designer or not.
If you're saddened by the steady encroachment of pop culture onto your HN frontpage, look at it like this: what a masterful piece of content marketing by the outfit behind Dear JJ.

It doesn't have much merit outside of that - the recommendations pick out a few arbitrary elements and say 'this is what made star wars great'. Classic cargo cult. Sincerely Truman may be a 'squadron of storytellers', but they don't seem understand that movies are comprised of characters.

That said, what a great soundtrack backing their Yoda scene. Wow.
How is multi-indexing implemented? What kind of query performance can it attain?

This seems somewhat similar to hyperdex's search function. It is implemented through what is called hyperspace hashing. How would you compare yourself to hyperdex?
This could be done programatically. Most vector map software manages it, SVG should adopt it.
Interestingly, you can. Limewire was open source, but charged for a "pro" version. (which was also open source, with the exception of some build files)

The biggest problem with all of it was that there were a bunch of scam sites that added malware, built binaries, and bought "lime wire" keywords on google.

On the other hand, I don't think OSS is to blame for that--the scam sites could have just as easily distributed any binary.
"Why have SVG images not yet replaced PNG on the web?"

I'm an artist who's been using Adobe Illustrator as her primary medium for thirteen years. Here's some reasons why my site is still serving up tons of bitmap images:

- Any interesting vector image will be a much larger file as an svg than a web-res png/gif/jpg.

- Sophisticated effects in AI can get lost in the transition to SVG. I don't know if this is AI's fault, SVG's lack of support, or the fault of the various things rendering the SVG, and the first point leaves me disinterested in experimenting.

That said, I have been playing with using web fonts for sets of simple images.

Also, most of my artist friends are completely baffled by AI; they prefer bitmap programs like Photoshop, Sai, or Artrage.
Ask HN: Is putting my main Gmail address on a public site a bad idea?
I want to put my main Gmail account address on my blog to make it easy for people to contact me.

Im wondering if doing this will increase the amount of spam I see in my inbox? I use this account for most email usage so I'd rather not wreck it with spam.
Last I tried to use an SVG workflow during a stint working for Wikipedia's Map Workshop three years ago, Inkscape broke in subtle ways every other map it had to open, and Illustrator had near-zero chance of successfully rendering an SVG map created somewhere else even moderately close to the desired appearance, and only 75% chance of correctly rendering an SVG map exported from itself five seconds earlier. They both have some ugly filesize bloat in the way they handle styles.

On top of this was Wikipedia's use of an SVG->PNG renderer that is openly acknowledged to render worse than its competitors (which were not great), for better performance.

Until there's a reference implementation of SVG... a real spec with an exhaustive ACID-style test on every single feature... I won't revisit trying to work in it.
You say it like an accusation. Google's the biggest company in the ad business.
Scary examples: The apparatuses of a police state stay, the ability to leave the country goes away...
I agree it clings pretty tightly to the original Star Wars, almost disturbingly so. The fundamental observation that "Star Wars was a Western" (and how that clashes with the prequels) is an interesting observation though.
The worlds most remote 'capital city', Perth in Western Australia. :-/
I agree with you. This reminds me of a 4-hour delay I had while flying with Delta, where they gave me a food voucher for two and a half dollars as an apology (only redeemable at the airport cafeteria, where the smallest sandwich cost $5). Now I will hate them for ever.

I believe that not paying is better than paying little, because if you don't pay I can at least consider that you owe me one. Giving me a pittance removes the obligation from you for almost nothing. Even though this isn't very applicable to companies, I think that's the reason why we consider it insulting.
I've read through Godel Escher Bach, and I loved it, but I never really felt like I had a handle on Incompleteness theorem.

Scott Aaronson had a throwaway 2 line 'proof' (not technically) of the theorem that intuitively clicked for me:

>First, though, let's see how the Incompleteness Theorem is proved. People always say, "the proof of the Incompleteness Theorem was a technical tour de force, it took 30 pages, it requires an elaborate construction involving prime numbers," etc. Unbelievably, 80 years after Gödel, that's still how the proof is presented in math classes!

>Alright, should I let you in on a secret? The proof of the Incompleteness Theorem is about two lines. The caveat is that, to give the two-line proof, you first need the concept of a computer.

>When I was in junior high, I had a friend who was really good at math, but maybe not so good at programming. He wanted to write a program using arrays, but he didn't know what an array was. So what did he do? He associated each element of the array with a unique prime number, then he multiplied them all together; then, whenever he wanted to read something out of the array, he factored the product. (If he was programming a quantum computer, maybe that wouldn't be quite so bad!) Anyway, what my friend did, that's basically what Gödel did. He made up an elaborate hack in order to program without programming.

The rest here: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec3.html
What a dismissive answer. Great work doesn't age. If the original star wars had some terrible asian stereotype as a key character it would've ended up in the bargain bin too.
The UI was modeled after Quartz.

- Matt Carkci
I learned R http://goo.gl/RNob on my own for data analysis, and so this is more of a specialty language than a full programming language. With that out of the way, here is what I did:

1. had a series of projects where R was the only way to go, which means I was "forced" to get it to work
2. learned how to ask proper questions to the experts
3. searched for the most appropriate tools to create an environment that worked for me
4. started working with other people who knew the technology and became friends with them
5. after some time, started teaching what I had learned to others - this really forces you to make all concepts crystal clear
I still have the last email that my Grandmother sent me in my Inbox. I never got around to replying to it when she was still alive. It's a very good motivator to reply to emails from my other relatives that would otherwise go unanswered as well.
Exactly. Anyone who has ever witnessed 10% of their fellow employees laid off without notice should realize that they should be looking out for themselves, not for their employer.
Avoiding supporting centralized systems is being socially conscious. Working for established interests such as national governments, and particularly large financial institutions and megacorporations does not a moral compass make. How about startups as a socially conscious career choice for young hackers? At least that way when the evils of capitalism seep in you get to learn about them first hand.
Abrams was the WORST idea of the new star wars generation. They should've gotten a real director, someone like Ang Lee or Kathryn Bigelow.
I remember hearing about Ian McKellen having a similar frustrations: http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/ian-mckellen-filming-the-h...
Is this ready yet? I can't seem to find the node-vim-inspector.
Google Web Designer appears based on Ninja Chrome Extension
I think what happened to OP is that he's getting tossed the shit work and nothing interesting, so he's doing someone else's IE support.

If you're building your own web app, you decide if, and when, to support IE. If it's bringing in $10k/month and you can double that, it's worth the hours of unpleasantness to get the additional money. If it's something you're doing for fun that isn't going to make money, you don't do the IE hacks. But there's no point in doing someone else's IE support, unless you can get a promotion or a bonus out of it.

The problem is that while he sucks at politics (that's why he's doing someone else's shit work) he doesn't know he sucks-- the first of four stages, unknowing incompetence-- so he thinks that the industry is just chock-full of shit work, because that's all he's able to get (and he hasn't figured out that you don't really "get assigned" the best work; you just do it). He needs to learn how to fight for himself; that's his real problem. Otherwise, he'll end up pulling a Walter White over-correction when it's decades too late.
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That doesn't mean it's not fun!
Make sure you put together a film that appeals to the masses

Ah yes, avoiding making a film that appeals to everyone surely would be the best thing for the Star Wars franchise. What we need to do is make a film that appeals to a couple thousand people- what could be better for the future of Star Wars?

"Star Wars: A New Hope" was not a smash hit because it was deep or witty or catered to nerds wrapped up in the mythos. I wasn't there, but speaking to members of my family who were, "A New Hope" was tremendous almost precisely for the things folks are mocking in this comment chain- drama, action, and ground-breaking special effects.
Uhh... Did you not see my parenthetical reference to `__slots__`? See this SO post[1] for more details.

[1] - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/472000/python-slots
Absence of evidence is evidence of absence (it's not proof of absence). If there is no evidence that anyone is unhappy with the product, it is strictly better than if there is evidence that some people are unhappy (obviously). So, the "evidence of absence" one isn't a fallacy, really.

Hell, the modus tollens is a valid argument form. If X, then Y. No Y, therefore no X (but this isn't strictly "evidence of absence").
Things like this are why, even if Vim isnt my 'IDE', its an irreplaceable part of my personal software stack.
Statcounter shouldn't ever be seen as representing marketshare or installed base, rather it represents usage share. If you buy a device but put in a drawer, it counts as market share but since it isn't being used day by day, it wouldn't count as usage share.

I wonder if the reason Nokia hasn't been crowing about the marketshare numbers in Europe is that it is a Pyrrhic victory won with massive discounts. If they are displacing their own feature phones (but without the profit margin), it would create the impression of an installed base, when people are primarily using it for telephony and texting.
I understand the desire to cheer for the loudmouth. I'm certainly rooting for him. But the real world is like high school. We're judged by our peers. If you're a loudmouth, you had better be extra careful because your peers won't give you the benefit of the doubt. This is a rule of the physics of society.
both and access to the Web. the white board because you need a plan, the keyboard because ... it's code, and the web since it's hard to program without looking up sources
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I think that the web is slowly starting to adopt SVGs where it makes sense.

d3.js is bringing svg charting to the web in a major way. Most, if not all, modern web dashboards are using it.

Google Maps has been using SVG icons for custom markers for awhile, embedded into their json configuration. This may not be strictly 'the web', but it is a major component of online GIS applications.
I don't think it's just nostalgia that makes me think Empire Strikes Back is much, much better than any of the prequels.
I wonder if this is why I've been getting so much spam from Yahoo accounts (and actually sent from Yahoo's servers, from legitimate accounts).
Complete agreement.

Let's use another great sci-fi 'verse to provide context on why the "frontier" is not a necessary backdrop for good Star Wars, but rather, was a convenient short-hand for the rebel alliance who had to live there.

In Firefly, the browncoats lived in the outer planets (the frontier) because they wanted to be far away from the Alliance (ironic, I know) in the central planets. This embodied the separatist/individualist spirit.

But we needed aspects of the Alliance to show a sharp contrast to what the browncoats fought against and lost to. Some of the best moments in Firefly came from Ariel or Trash, which were set very much in the Alliance world.

So how does this relate back to this wonderfully produced (hey, nice commercial!) but woefully short-sighted plea from some group who claims to speak for the "fans". Well if you ONLY watched the original trilogy, you would think that Star Wars was all about the frontier. After all, there was no Coruscant and the moments in the Death Star were really limited in backdrop and exposition.

Then again, if you've read any of the canon books or played any of the games, you will know that dozens of storytellers have expanded the Star Wars universe, giving it beautiful color and context around the edges that 7-8 hours of the original trilogy couldn't possibly cover.

Sure the prequels were bad, but they were bad because they're bad movies. I certainly don't agree with the de-mysticism of the Force, or Jar Jar, or the implicit racism, or Han not shooting first or Mannequin Skywalker's casting, but let's be honest, those are just bad movie dialogue, story-telling and direction. These are problems every movie has (have you seen Howard the Duck?)

The reason the prequels were NOT about the frontier because it's really a story about Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin and Palpatine, whom coincidentally, all lived in Coruscant, a city. The original trilogy were about Luke, Han, Chewie and Leia and they all lived in the frontier, away from the Empire. Let's also not overlook the fact that Threepio is comic relief and the Ewoks are cute.

In conclusion, let J.J. Abrams make a good movie and let's not put artificial boundaries in because we have some misguided fanboy adherence to rules that were made up to begin with. If we listened to the fanboys, we'd never have Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Heath Ledger as the Joker and there would be 30 minutes of Tom Bombadil singing in the Lord of the Rings.

TL;DR: Let JJ Abrams do his job without constraint and Firefly rocks.
Definitely poorly design.
I've been using Evernote Clearly for a while, which is easily the best extension for this in Chrome.

http://evernote.com/clearly/
Microsoft's Surface 2 will replace paper manuals on all Delta aircraft
If the UI module does encryption and decryption, and if the said encryption is good enough, why would you care if the transport layer steals your encrypted data?
Hinting makes all vector drawings (including fonts) look better; but zooming means that bitmaps don't have an advantage, since a PNG will be no better than an unhinted SVG.
> You can audit a multithreaded open source program much more easily than you can audit a single-threaded closed source program.

I think this is our core disagreement, as I've been pretty clear about how I don't just accept this statement at face value given the large class of subtle bugs that can and do occur constantly in multi-threaded systems. I find reading through and finding bugs in complex binary-only buffer-management or even cryptographic systems "easy" (time consuming, but not requiring much brain function; even obfuscation just adds time and effort, it doesn't require greater intelligence); yet, I have never managed to remove every single concurrency bug from an open-source project I maintain that only actually uses threads to separate tasks like "searching" from "downloading update" (of course, I likely didn't put as much effort into it, so this doesn't prove anything of course: but I hope it makes you think), and I've seen people "much smarter than me" (working at Google and Apple) fail at doing so in systems that are "much more important" (working on Chromium and WebKit).

You might then just say that I'm probably just stupid and that a more reasonable programmer wouldn't have the same kinds of issues, but "concurrency is hard" I had assumed was a well-known issue. (And again, I think that this all becomes more more interesting to think about once you realize that a "backdoor" left by an intelligent opponent is going to be nearly indistinguishable from a "bug". At least once a year there is some obscure privilege escalation bug found in the Linux kernel: I think it is interesting to at least consider momentarily that any of those might have been a backdoor, and not a bug; the concept of what constitutes purposely malicious code updates tends to be way too narrow in my view, and leads people to only consider back doors that are easy to see when you print out the source code.)

> There's no form of obfuscation that will complicate the code of an open source program as much as compiling it will, while still looking as innocuous as compiling does.

Yeah, no: I seriously read through compiled code every day. I was doing a lot of reading through compiled code yesterday while working on figuring out why Substrate isn't working on iOS 7 for example. I am much much much more afraid of the bugs that are latent in a large multi-threaded project that has "lots of hands in the cookie jar" so-to-speak than of a simpler implementation distributed as a closed-source binary. I'm likewise more afraid of open-source projects that accept patches from large numbers of people (which means more people who might be actively /trying/ to add difficult-to-see exploitable bugs), or of projects that are implemented to run as native code versus ones that run inside of type-safe virtual machines (especially if the virtual machine is coded to a spec and I get to select the one it runs on).
Unfortunately no one can log into a memorialized page, even with the valid credentials.

It was very difficult to get information off facebook (pictures, etc.) once the page was memorialized after the death of a loved one.
I'd like to use this on some of my projects but I know the dev is going to receive a cease & desist from Intel sooner rather than later, breaking dependencies.

OP - could you rename the library to make us all feel a little bit better about using it?
That's not true. If you're using an open-source distro and the vendor terminates the support agreement, you still have the source, so you can pay a 3rd party to maintain the software for you (e.g. by backporting security fixes from newer releases).
Scientists at MIT and Harvard have constructed a light saber
The reason a post like this will get so much action on a site like hacker news is that programming sucks as an activity, and alternative activities are more interesting.

Thinking about programming is fun, finishing a program is fun, solving a little programming puzzle can be fun, but programming in general sucks as an activity.

That's why programmers procrastinate, because programming sucks.
Doesnt really compare
It can be valid, in the case that iff X, then Y. Then the absence of Y implies the absence of X, but not otherwise.

And, no; absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Absence of evidence is evidence of absence of evidence, and nothing more. "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

EDIT: I'm speaking in terms of predicate logic here, not Bayesian logic. The absence of evidence proves nothing, though it can — and often does — indeed suggest something.
It's surprising to me how many people are complaining about the lack of a Linux version.
A Linux version would be great! but let's put our idealogical hats aside, and think like a business.

The intersection between their target audience, and Linux is minute! Unless it came for free, investing in a Linux version of the app would have been a terrible use of resources
If a job offers yoga, that's even better.

Yoga implies (usually) a 75 / 25 male to female ratio. And yoga pants. Yes, yoga pants.
Kinda had this happen. My ex-partner and close friend - "my rock" as I called her - Amanda "Moo" Hearn died a few years ago, just a few weeks after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I'd not called her for a couple of months. Kept meaning to. Then I suddenly had this urge to know how she was, and called, but the number had been disconnected, I think, so I called her sister who said "Oh, I'm so sorry Toby, Moo died yesterday." So yes, that Charles Hanson Towne poem (elsewhere on this thread) rings true for me. I email friends and call them occasionally and flippantly say "Hey, you're alive!" (I moved to the US six years ago and haven't been in touch quite like I used to be) and they don't realize I actually mean it. I hold a lot of guilt inside, dreading learning of another friend's death in a similar manner. Good to read this thread.
Personally, I'd prefer a little "Thank You" on some Yahoo site.

$12.50 seems insulting. "Oh, your time is worth $12.50 to us, but thanks for disclosing a huge XSS issue."
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I seem to remember having read that when something is done for free it is handled by the brains "maintain reputation and make friends" system, while when money is involved it is handled by the "make a profit, don't be screwed" system. My google-fu is failing though.
It serves a specific purpose, the same as Adobe Edge Animate, they've just picked an awful name for it. If you scroll through the features, it's clearly targeted towards one particular type of content, not 'web design'.
As someone who works in a museum designing web and html5 exhibit media, it makes me a bit sad that upon opening all the defaults are specific to creating advertisements. I know that's the business that Google is in, I just wish they would stop pretending that they have the same goals as their hypothetical "World History Museum."
Even if there wasn't a copyright issue, what kind of name is 'intel' anyway? Might as well called it 'data' or 'stream'.
I think that's possible too, but I have no idea how one would study that. The empirical study of programming languages is still in its infancy - we can't even say with high confidence whether dynamic or static languages are better to work in, much less show that WM increases cause programming improvements.