skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I could weigh in, I don't see why one has anything to do with the other. Many people enjoy using IDEs regardless of what language they're using. Historically, the case has been that statically typed languages benefitted more from an IDE, because there is less ambiguity in symbol resolution (functions or methods are known, typed entities, rather than a string). BTW, Clojure is similar to statically typed languages in that respect in that its dispatch mechanism uses namespaces, so symbol "foo" is well known (either as a function, a macro, a multimethod or a protocol method) symbol in a specific namespace, so that you can easily find its usages or jump to definition.

But even languages with more ephemeral dispatch (Ruby, Javascript, Groovy) can benefit from an IDE. It's often convenient to have an editor, a debugger, and control over the build in a single program (and that's why emacs is an IDE).

So I don't see any connection between IDEs and the JVM. Some people enjoy IDEs and some don't.
It's like Chesterton is describing every other marketing post on HN.

Fascinating!
Are you claiming that music is a dying art form? Really?

The music industry is at best a 100 year old historical anomaly compared to the at least 4000 year history of music. The life of musician has pretty much always been extremely unlikely to be financially rewarding. Even at the height of the modern music industry maybe 1 in 1000 aspiring musicians ended up being signed to a major label. Musicians by and large have always made the bulk of their income based on in person performances. The only difference now is music companies now are losing out on record sales and starting to design contracts where artists have to split show and endorsement money with the label as well as record sales.

Honestly its a moot point, the technology has changed, and the music industry has to change with it or die. The whole music industry was created by the technology of the record, and will change or die with the advent of easily copyable media.
I've been skeptical of LavaBit, chalking it up to the general deification that HN gives to its heroes du jour, but he really seems to have made a highly principled stand while still allowing the government to intercept any individual for which it had a warrant.
"As I understand it, most of the money for concerts and other distribution channels is going to the musicians themselves and newer companies. Am I mistaken here?"

Historically, yes. Labels generally had very little to do with concerts.

These days, a lot of artists are signing "360 deals", which means that the label receives a cut of basically all the artist's revenue streams, including touring and merchandise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360_deal
That night if you had asked me to pay $100 so that I could go back to sleep and not have to worry about THAT CHIRP, I would have whipped out my wallet so fast.

See, you say that, but it isn't just one smoke detector. It's ALL of them. My small house alone has no fewer than 4 plus a CO detector. That's $500, real money to save me from an occasional hour of lost sleep or, at worst, an extremely rare night? The value proposition just isn't there.
This isn't any different than shredding all your business documents when you hear the cops knocking on your door. It was frowned upon when Enron undertook a mass shredding during their investigation.
My plan is to use Percona 5.6 until MariaDB 10 is GA

Percona contributes a great deal to MariaDB, including xtradb.

Percona 5.6 is a binary replacement for MySQL 5.6 so you can just switch. They have an rpm repo and everything.
I've come to the conclusion that 90% of 'stealth' startups do so entirely out of psychology. It's cooler to invest in stealth startup, and the mystery builds notoriety. I'm not sure it has much if anything to do with the actual business at hand.
With a few exceptions, our local school district only buys HP, so this could finally open up Chromebooks for our schools.
Exactly. Just because we can now do basic car maintenance without a wrench, doesn't mean it's time to get rid of wrenches.
Enterprise Sales for Startups
I wasn't aware of this important difference, thank you!
Could you provide a source for this conclusion?
I'm interested in the idea, but can't find anything on it.
Uber's a good use case that I had not considered. The pricing of their in-app purchases are outside of what I think about when thinking about in-app purchases (extra game levels, etc). Thanks for framing their target customer for me.
Just keep a canary nearby at all times
> They've since had ignition

No. Notice how it is worded.

> "More importantly, Moses said, the mechanism that generated the powerful energy burst appeared to be the self-sustaining thermonuclear fusion process that defines ignition."

In other words, they did not achieve ignition. They achieved something that is necessary to get ignition. Specifically, alpha heating.

This is another important step on the road to ignition. It is not, however, ignition itself.

Why do you think the title of the article says "Marks Progress Toward Ignition," rather than "Finally Achieves Ignition?"
My wife lost just as much sleep, and she makes more than I do.
Joe, your criticisms are spot-on (I work at Meteor), though I feel you are not comparing Meteor to any existing framework, but rather to Meteor in a couple years. Most web developers are quite used to getting by without reactive templates, bidirectional binding, and server-side rendering (which are only just starting to be used together), and in what framework do efficient client-side database indexes (which we haven't implemented yet) come standard, let alone map-reduce? What's wrong with a better-than-REST protocol that is more or less like REST in the worst case?

If you're objecting to the principle of offering the Mongo API or HTTP.get on the client when it's not exactly the same API, we feel the benefits outweigh the costs. The client-side functionality will only get better over time, though there will always be some things you can only do on the server.

Since 3 touches on my area: We're fixing the unstable DOM problem with fine-grained DOM updates. Also, the flatness of Session is not related to how dependencies are tracked. Meteor has a better dependency-tracking system than Angular or Ember; it's more flexible and doesn't require annotations to tell the framework what's happening.
Newer record contracts often require a significant split of concert/endorsement monies. I don't know if 'most' of the money goes to artists or record labels under these new contracts... I would guess that the artists get much larger percentage of concert/endorsements than raw record sales.
> Even as someone trained in many of these techniques, you know they're being used, but if done properly it just makes for a pleasant experience and you don't even care

Someone once told me that other salespeople are the easiest to sell to. Maybe because on some level they're rooting for you to succeed, or maybe because they're more extroverted.

My observations seem to bear that out, but I don't have a huge sample size. I'm curious whether you think that's true?

p.s. I was tempted to open this with, "I saw your comment on HN and wanted to get your advice...". :) But I'm not trying to be a meta smartass. I'm genuinely curious.
Gas heating of water in bathroom and/or kitchen is a very popular one. We had this discussion a while back here on HN, basically US doesn't have them, but Europe and UK still has a lot.
Why You Should have a Messy Desk
Why should Levison trust a government who has proven to be untrustworthy when it comes to data collection? Levison didn't lie or mislead anyone, he even offered to get the data for them as long as it was targeted. The government has basically zero credibility in matters like this, and yet he was expected to trust them with no oversight (in the article, he was told there was no independent audit of their use of the data)?
There certainly are, although they're not typically intended for home usage. But in industrial/commercial setups which use CO2 (beer/drink-cellars, dry-ice handling, pressure pipe-flushing, etc) they're relatively common. Obviously they're always detecting some level, but they're set to trip or alarm when concentration hits some threshold over ambient. http://duomo.co.uk/CO2_Alarms.aspx is just one example.

Low-O2 detectors are also common, and approach the problem from the other direction. They're more useful for N2 or other inert gases, since you're less concerned with toxicity and more with plain asphyxiation. IIRC they're used in some places to enforce "No riding in the same lift as the liquid-N2 dewar" safety rules.
Which is an extremely facile categorization.

Bertrand Russel was a deep thinker who often drew from a deep well of thought and understanding. When he wrote about politics, he seems to have covered the well and sucked his thoughts from a puddle.
> Maybe the protagonist, too, has something better or more fun to do with her life.

I think the article would have had more impact if that was the reason she gave for her weight, rather than citing her medical issues. Instead, citing her medical issues seems to say that she is interested in losing weight, but sees those as insurmountable obstacles, and I was questioning their insurmountability. Apparently encouraging people to overcome difficult obstacles is considered offensive.
No, making a shape in CSS is silly. CSS is for styling not drawing.

If you want to make a triangle, without an additional (unnecessary) HTTP request, you should use the appropriate web tech which is SVG.

Just like all other resources you can easily embed an SVG in your HTML if you're being stingy on the requests (which is a good thing).
Front-End: I'm used to jQuery + Jade, but possibly something fancier like angular/ember, or even meteor.

Middle: Node.js + Express (unless using meteor). If not node, then Sinatra.

Database: MongoDB, Redis if necessary.
Well, the police have a deal with the prison guards to let them dole out all the rape. They don't want to encroach on their turf.
Strange that Samsung hasn't released their new ARM Chromebook yet, but this looks pretty good either way. I would've expected a quad core A15, bigger battery, and 4 GB of RAM at this point, though, for that price. Hopefully next year we can see some 1080p IPS panels, in there, too, for sub $300.
Office for iPad will debut after Windows version
I suspect this is a generational thing. Kids seem to reach for the screen to touch it all the time.
Weird. That never stops every other topic.
Yahoo + Adblock + customized ad opt-out and you never see any ads, and you don't have google reading your mail.
Ooh cosmetic changes. Sheesh, what about availability, security, and better/faster search?
This is also about those of us with means helping to mainstream the technology. As we buy and help work out the bugs the technology will (hopefully) become cheaper and more widespread. When this happens we'll find low cost and intelligent devices become more accessible and hopefully become standard fare in new homes. It has practically happened already for the smartphone. Who says it can't, and shouldn't, happen here?
XO9 - Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe for iOS
Has anybody used Evernote on Chrome OS at all? I see so many people in lectures with a Macbook solely to use Evernote, and I can see why - it's great for notes on that platform at least. I don't want to take my laptop because it's too heavy and slow, but this (or some other Chrome OS device) looks great if Evernote does well on it - student price, light and fast.
Where's the law that says they have to require that? If it is a legal requirement, how do they ensure that you are actually accredited, because if they sent you the info and you had lied surely they'd be breaking the law?
Online Algorithms in High-frequency Trading
Well, I'll try to be more uncivilized next time. I am not accusing her of lying. I take what she says at face value, but I challenge the claim that these conditions make it impossible to lose weight. If she wants to be at the weight she's at, then my advice can be safely ignored. If she is, however, interested in losing weight, then she should do her best to overcome these conditions instead of using them as an excuse to give up.
Wow. The good old fat catholic Chesterton (though not fully catholic in 1909, but 95%).
Exactly. The article is not saying it's insane to allow Kickstarter donations, it's insane that current law makes it just fine to donate to a risky venture but not to invest and get a chance to share in the venture's upside.
having a messy desk itself is nothing useful. while it _may_ be true that greatness breeds a messy desk, it seems extremely doubtful that a messy desk breeds greatness.
My favorite is when there is a fence with a sign saying, "Erected to prevent buffalo from stampeding
our corn fields. It is OK to remove after 1850." Meanwhile there is now a neighboring cattle ranch
and the fence is still actively performing a blocking function :)
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Package sun.misc.Unsafe might become a public API after Java 8
No problem, I think their biggest value add will come in mobile commerce, where they can push people towards a "buy now" page within an app that has already been installed.
I found this line in The Verge's interview with Tony Fadell (Nest's CEO):

"And if the Protect senses a carbon monoxide problem, it’ll instruct the thermostat to shut off your furnace."

That is of utmost importance. That alone makes it by orders of magnitude the safest carbon monoxide detector made. The integration is going to make all the difference.

I want my future home to be setup with this stuff.

My only disappointment: It does not report back temperature to the Nest thermostat.
Just curious, what are your use cases with it? I've been considering one as a cheap Linux dev box but it seems like installing a second OS is a pain and that there's little to no HD space left after doing so. I've been eyeing a Sony laptop that costs ~$370 bit it is quite bulky.
I would say I'm relatively easy to sell to, but that I'm also not tolerant of having my time wasted when the value you offer just isn't what I'm after.

In that regard, I'd say I'm just like every other person who isn't a salesperson :)
Remember that it's an ARM device. The memory is soldered to the motherboard, and in any case it couldn't possibly address more than 4 GB of it anyway.
One thing that graph completely fails to address is the fact that economies of scale have massively driven all the good news there. For example, having a massive back catalogue means you can earn more from Spotify or Rdio. Good news for the biggest players, bad news for everyone else.
See through what? If you're inclined to contact a person or company, you probably do admire that person or organization's work. If you genuinely appreciate it, let them know sooner rather than later. And if you don't, don't contact them.
I reeeeally liked webOS.

This whole industry has always suffered from lack of viable competition. There never seems to be enough market to support third players, where we're lucky enough to even have 2 market leaders. sigh...

maybe that's true of other industries as well..
the difference is that there is a government shutdown involved, which is 100% pure politics, as opposed to topics like the NSA, which aren't necessarily politics, at least not obviously.
You are confusing cause and consequence (nice pictures, tho')
So, in other words, for $129, you're at least buying a quality smoke alarm?

Also, is the terminology not regulated? Their alert system seems to indicate that this would be a detector, not an alarm.
Great post! Have already forwarded it to one of our sales guys.

One thing I would like to add from personal experience: It's really easy these days to connect to a lot of people on LinkedIn that you have never met or even heard of before. I am tempted to say the acceptance quote of a "cold connection" is about 50%.

Once your network has a decent size, you can connect to almost anyone from your industry (in our case gaming and mobile) even if you only have a free LinkedIn account (like I do) because you have a least a couple of people from their company already within your 2nd/3rd degree connections, and then you can literally add the entire board. Believe me, more C-level guys than you might think will accept you if your profile looks like you are a decent person.

The reason I writing all this is that I have been much more successful getting meetings through LinkedIn than through cold email. I feel that if I send a LinkedIn message to somebody I am connected to (but that I do not know whatsoever), that person is much more likely to a) open the message in the first place because the sender is not anonymous but rather has a name, face, and a job, and therefore b) also much more likely to read/digest what I am actually writing. And from here it is only really about what you have to say and sell anyways....

The bottom line is that while LinkedIn is a tool intended for connecting people that know each other, it actually works best for connecting (and selling something) to people you do not know at all.

Give it a shot!
This reminds me of the HN post I saw a few days ago for a wake up call service - someone suggested "$20-$30 a year" for it. For an alarm. To wake you up.

While I don't doubt that people out there will pay for both, let's not kid ourselves that it will be a mass-market product. The value proposition is way off.
Whatever happened to due process?
I would have used a baseball bat. 5 minutes and $20 to replace. (Which you had to do anyway).
You can write SVG by hand and embed it in HTML. This requires no use of an external editor nor any extra HTTP request.

<svg height=10 width=20>
<polygon fill=red stroke-width=0
points="0,10 20,10 10,0" />
</svg>

If you want to include it in your CSS, you can include it via a data URI, though you need to embed it as an actual XML document (within an HTML document, you can skip the namespace and use HTML syntax which doesn't require quotes around attributes) and can't include line breaks so the syntax is a little bit more cumbersome:

.triangle {
background: url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,<svg height='10' width='20' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'><polygon fill='red' stroke-width='0' points='0,10 20,10 10,0' /></svg>") no-repeat left center;
width: 20px;
height: 10px;
}

Examples of both in action: http://jsfiddle.net/jtR4G/
Classical liberals/libertarians, voluntaryists, minarchists, and anarchists don't ultimately want underground markets. It's actually closer to a living nightmare to them. People who want 'real' liberation want freedom: not having to hide and not being victimized for consensual interaction. That is the freedom of choice and ability to choose openness. In other words, underground markets don't exemplify more liberal-libertarian models of governance. Underground markets more so reflect liberal-libertarian people attempting to coalesce under extreme duress. This holds true for other issues in parallel.
I agree the record companies haven't been very forthright, but I don't think that's an excuse for how this was presented.

I think in a link that consists of a few paragraphs and a big graph showing revenue over time, if the revenue for every segment except one is going up, but that one segment goes down enough to cause the aggregate to go down, that deserves mention.

To me, the topic is loaded enough and the case obvious enough that the omission looks purposeful. I applaud the goal of the article, but I can't do the same for the method.
I actually use Spring.Net + NHibernate... I do use LINQ accross the board, but for NHibernate I am using the Criteria based queries.

I am having some problems with Spring.net transactions for NHibernate, but everything else is working great.
Fine here. AT&T iPhone 5, 7.0.2 (11A501) on "English".

But definitely looks like someone didn't fill out all the translation strings somewhere.
Actually, they intentionally crippled their DVI ports. Their HDMI adapters "uncripple" said ports. FTA:

Included with many graphics cards are DVI-to-HDMI adapters for running an HDMI monitor off a DVI port on modern graphics cards. However, for whatever reason, if you want to use HDMI audio, AMD only wants you using the adapters included with the graphics card itself.
My solution is to just go an replace them all. Much faster than trying to track down the one, especially in a 2 story house where the chirp echos and isn't repeated very often.
If that's the case, I'm happy to issue a full refund, no questions asked.

There's a major difference between trying to scam someone and pushing the boundaries to validate (and de-risk) an idea. If our ideas are shit, I will never take someone's money for that (hence the no questions asked, full refund).
Sounds good, but most of the time a burglary is over with in a few minutes. Not quite enough time to get the house warm. Now a high pitched whine with strobing lights and cutting out regular lights might work, although it could be a safety thing that would get you sued.

How about playing a recording of some old farmer's voice saying get out of here, with the sound of a shotgun getting cocked, etc. Or, for an outside perimeter alarm, turn on the lawn sprinklers.
PSA: Please visit the /newest page
Right now so few people visit the newest page that it is somewhat random what content will actually make it to the front page. I personally have had the same content submitted at different times be ignored once, then live on the front page for eighteen hours after being posted again. Also, it takes so few votes to make it to the front page (2-6), that it is easy for people to game by having a handful of friends upvote their post.

When you're browsing please take a minute or two to visit the new page, click through a few links, and upvote what seems relevant and interesting to you.

http://news.ycombinator.com/newest
It's a pity that there is no Ad Block for apps. I hate in app ads like the one on the Craiglist app in the example picture, and I refuse to use any app that wastes screen space on ads like that, unless they have an ad free paid version that I can buy to avoid the ads.
I don't think music is a dying art form, but the age of larger 'alternative' music having a look-in versus the lowest-common-denominator dross on the radio is definitely on its way out.
All your cheatsheets belong to us
You are correct in all your statements, however this will be a successful product, so everyone's happy :)
You are correct.

The relevant specific gravities (higher == more dense):
Carbon dioxide - CO2	1.5189
Carbon monoxide - CO	0.9667
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Linus Torvalds is in the C++ is too complex camp too AFAIK :)

I believe that Ceylon is the best-designed general purpose language out there. What do you mean by "mutable-everywhere"? Ceylon's variables / attributes are immutable by default.
I performed what is apparently called a 'shoryuken' by a colleague when I became incensed over the fire alarm screaming out over a fried egg I had allowed to smoke. Pulling little bits of beige plastic out of my knuckles gave me a moment of reflection to consider how technology can improve and disrupt our lives.

For the 20 dollars a regular smoke detector costs, I believe they should already have a large button you can press on the side that indicates "I promise everything is fine, I am in the house, alert, and am about to cause an issue. Please unconditionally do not beep for the next 30 minutes." That would replace everything good about this wifi gizmo.
10 Books for Data Enthusiasts
http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/ten-data-books.html