skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The syntax is broken. Things like operator precedence and associativity are the exact opposite of math conventions:

f x + f y // is f(x + f(y))
f g x // is f(g(x))
Comparing Usenet or even mailing list cultural posting norms with Reddit is asinine.

I still don't know how I can pipe a reddit comment into patch(1) or git(1). I can do that easily with mbox files (which can come from SMTP or nntp-to-mbox.pl(1) or something).
isn't that what happened when the IMF tried to transition the former sovjet union to a free market in record time?

also, isn't that why putin is so liked among a large portion of the people, because he brutally stripped away some of these guys wealths?(probably adding some to his own in the process)
When the U.S. was founded, slavery was a key concern. Jefferson and others knew that slavery couldn't last, but there was no way to get agreement on it.

So what did they do? They left the problem to future generations to solve. And the result involved a lot of bloodshed.

In any system of government, there's always going to be a strong desire to kick problems down the road for somebody else to solve. I think the best we can hope for is some structures in place to minimize this, but you'll never get rid of it completely.

What we see now is just 250 years or so of this thinking, with the default solution of letting somebody else handle it growing more powerful with each passing year.
There was a lot of tension between the KGB and the senior party officials in the USSR. In fact, in an interview I watched recently a KGB defector described them as "hating" each other. It's not necessarily true that all KGB operatives would have been die-hard communists, particularly members of Putin's generation - i.e. those that were born and grew up in the USSR rather than actively participating in revolution.
I don't think prepackaged noodles with soup flavoring can get much quicker or cheaper...and 'quality' is not something I'd associate with them. Have a look at the nutritional information on a pack - it's horrifying even before you realize that the package contains two servings.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant

For many things, and the in-box oo
I see that this one has a USB 3.0 port (unlike the HP one that was announced a few days ago). That said, it seems to me that Google is making it hard to pick one given how many similar offerings they have on the page.
Well, you wouldn't let anyone enter the process: there'd still have to be an initial filter. After that, presumably promise of much much higher future profits for the full contract and prestige (i.e. the free advertising that would come from having done it) would be sufficient. But it was just an idea anyway.
Is there really a way to reduce the quality of instant ramen noodles?
F# - Like
Some bids actually work kind of like that, especially in the realms or architecture and urban planning. However the money you get paid for those 3 month is often not enough to cover the expenses of doing a good job. So if you want to stand a chance of winning you end up having to work for 'free' and just hope you win so you can recoup those costs.
To Pretty To Be A Developer
F# - Dislike
Measuring a superconducting qubit by manipulating its environment
Polls like these are meant to be subjective and to encourage discussion. Dismissing them because they're not scientific kind of misses the point.
No, antimagic is saying that there isn't enough evidence to conclusively demonstrate that they actually did perform better, rather than it being due to some other factor--such as random noise from the small sample size. Post hoc justification doesn't prove anything.
Just curious, why are people bashing Actionscript? The language itself is based on Javascript and Javascript isn't getting so much hate. I know everyone hates Flash now... maybe I just still have a soft spot in my heart for programming Flash-based games back in the day.
the parent post seems to be referring to bidding for & working with the federal government on government contracts.
As a regular IKEA customer it is easy: True Kvlt.
America has a somewhat similar problem. One family right now has more wealth than the bottom 40% of the American population combined.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/18/business/la-fi-mo-wa...
too similar to python
This is an interesting presentation (and told in a powerful way) on the wealth distribution in USA: http://www.upworthy.com/9-out-of-10-americans-are-completely...
I want Julia http://julialang.org/
"For humanities majors, TFA is a clear path to a job that both pays a living wage and provides a stepping stone to leadership positions in a cause of national importance."

Universities have no incentive to steer students away from their areas of interest, but if it's this hard for a humanities major to earn a living wage, we're producing too many of them. Humanities departments have a vested interest in maintaining their output but I can't help but think that they're hurting themselves in the long run.

Humanities are an important part of a well-rounded student, and there are lots of instances where a humanities minor with a technical or business related major is a powerful combination. I'd hate to see the humanities die, but can they keep living like this? There should be more outrage among their graduates ... when that happens (and I've seen a few articles), things will get much harder for them.

As an aside, making 0xx and 1xx level introductory classes in the humanities, which are required as part of the GenEds or BDRs (Basic Degree Requirements) too hard is in many cases teaching students in other disciplines to hate you ... you should draw those students into your minors programs.
I'm less concerned about the short term scalability issues as I am about the long term security and privacy issues. The code quality doesn't give me a lot of hope.
I think they were less vetted for their impeccable ideological purity than filtered out on basis of their ambition and utter pragmatism ("If that is what it takes to become part of the establishment, so be it")
Outside in Greeley Square a week or 2 ago: http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/646728668. I just did one at work inside a tall building (9:15AM ET) with 2 dots of LTE coverage and got 32 ms ping, 5 down/5 up.
Julia - Like
Also, in most cases, is it the actual programming language we hate or is it the code we've seen written by people who had no concept of the language that we hate?
20/20

I'm from Sweden, born and raised with IKEA furniture.

I can actually name much IKEA furniture when I see it. Half decent party trick.

Also: 'What's up ladies, want to check out my "SULTAN"?'
Linuxbrew: Experimental fork of Homebrew for Linux.
I've found it's always easier to argue your way round to /not/ doing something, rather than the reverse, and in doing so opportunities are lost.

I think you should stand and give the talk. My reasoning is as follows:

If you don't do it, those that could listen to you and learn from you, won't be able to. If hundreds of people are going to be there, a few are going to come away having learnt something they didn't expect to.
You wouldn't have been asked if the person asking you didn't feel you had the knowledge to impart.
Being shy and introvert is absolutely fine, although this talk sounds like a one off, and then you've done it, tick that box. You either love it, and really find your stride, or hate it, and have a more legitimate reason for Never Doing One Again.

That's my opinion, however, you also asked for advice.

One of the games I was forced to play in school involved the teacher bringing in something horrifically ordinary and covering it with a towel. Us kids would file in, sit down and the teacher would pick one of us, who would then stand up, and look under the towel. They had 5 minutes to create a 15 minute talk on the item. This exercise, which is quite quick, will teach not only how to create a presentation, but will put you in the horrible situation of, "Where do I start?", "I don't know anything about that", "I do know something about that, but there's masses, where do I start?". It'll also teach you to link one section to the next. You've got 5 months - do it as a party game, write a blog. You don't need to give the talk, you just need to write it as though you were.

A pertinent questions here is naturally - How long does your talk need to be?

It'll be interesting to see what the rest of HN suggest, and maybe tell us where it is so people can go and support in person?
It's near unreadable. It's optimizing the wrong things, prettiness (I don't think it's very pretty at all) and keystroke counts, vs readability, fewer errors and maintainability.

It also bugs the fuck out of me that CoffeeScript projects frequently end up being given a *.js extension in the name and how often people who want nothing in the world to do with CoffeeScript, people like me, end up having to deal with it for some reason. Like I don't like ada, and I never have to look at it. ada never ends up in my editor or on a github page I'm looking at, but frequently someone puts CoffeeScript somewhere where someone was expecting JavaScript, like a StackOverflow answer, or a package for Meteor, or something. If CoffeeScript stayed out of my life, and I out of it, I would probably hate it a lot less.

It's not that it's transpiled. I mean that isn't a great thing, but for example I like the idea of Dart and even TypeScript. But CoffeeScript? No thanks.
Nice idea!
What really bugs me though is that when you try to use the back button in your browser you lose all progress and have to start again...
maybe implement a router component or something!
apart from this great job
Would be better to have some sort of commented vote, in other words: vote and explain why.

For me - I dislike interpreted languages no matter how cute their syntax looks like. They usually offer quickest idea-to-deployment times for the price of shittiest overall performance.
Either you have logicked incorrectly, or I cannot read you. (I'll take the blame for the latter...) Care to clarify with some numbers?
What do you imagine the state uses to compel obedience to its laws, if not threats of violence? Sometimes that violence might be appropriate, but some firm sending you an unwanted email falls short of the mark.
Wish I made this as a prediction, at the start - most liked are JavaScript, Ruby, Python and C.
It's likely to provide some help for compression (rather than minification), if you're gzipping your assets for transfer.

This is probably most effective if you tend to specify the same values for the properties as well, so that a run can extend from one property name through its value and to the next property name.

Clustering properties with identical prefixes will provide some improvement by itself, as it can keep the 'backward distance' values used in a small consistent range, but I expect that's going to be a much smaller effect.
Wow, I've eaten a lot of maruchen in my life, and i feel like a pretty healthy guy, but man that reads like poison. I wonder if there is a difference in quality/nutrition between american/western instant noodles and Chinese.
is this 'Winner' and 'Loser' ?
I am impressed with PayPal's ability to be aggressively clueless in this regard.

For at least two years, they have beens sending me "monthly statements". Which a) don't contain any information, and b) are idiotic, because a monthly statement is an artifact of a paper-based world, not something that Paypal needs. There is no way to get off this mailing list, and if you try replying, it just bounces.

And EVERY TIME I USE PAYPAL they try to get me to sign up for "Bill Me Later TM". I have to say no each time. I've made something like 200 transactions in the last 5 years, and after 200 refusals they're still like, "Hey, how about this new thing called "Bill Me Later TM"!

I'm sure both of these techniques boost some short-term metric, but they guarantee that when I have another option, I use it. And I'm not alone. The other day while watching a user test, the subject spontaneously offered a colorful negative opinion, and said they used PayPal only when there was no other choice.

Building up user resentment like this means that they are very vulnerable to a competitor. One day somebody like Square is going to cross the good-enough threshold and the use-it-when-forced crowd will leave and never, ever return.
People still use GoDaddy?
I even think it is important, he wrote it. Not only as a release valve, but because a) we are talking about it and b) it can be part of educating the 'masses' on why some things are the way they are (or should be).
Seriously, it's a work of art in itself. Reuters tends to be a bit more formulaic and boring with titles, but I can't imagine a better one for this piece.
Strange, it was national news they'd wiped all passwords ... as you say, we can't imagine why that wasn't in a banner message.
You have no idea what you're talking about. XXX is terrible. The new release of YYY has solved a lot of the problems that most people complain about.
I can also break out Lisp into Arc, SBCL, Emacs, Chicken, Racket but I have to draw the line somewhere.

Also historically VBasic has not garnered many responses thus the catch all.
1/ Because it's at the top of the list and people are more likely to cast a vote

2/ Because most people (myself included) don't know actionscript but think Actionscript == Flash and downvote based on that.
Does this make a difference at all?

I've never heard arguments for CSS ordering as a performance issue.

It seems like removing CSS that doesn't do anything would be time better spent.
Another 100 Gigabit DDoS Attack Strikes — This Time Unreflected
Interesting discussion on Slashdot. What do you say - fact or fiction ?
US adults are dumber than the average human
Watch out, or PG will make it so that you see nothing but javascript stories for the next year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734

:)
resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.forgotPassword.notReset.alert.description4'] = 'If you feel you got this message in error, please contact us at 1-800-XXX-XXXX (CMS Help Desk).';

resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.profile.updateName'] = 'To change your name you must call 1-800-XXX-XXXX';

FYI, 1-800-999-9999 is a crisis hotline (the currently disabled NINELINE).
Abstracting Control Flow
The $0.50/month Route53 is going to cost a startup would probably just look silly as part of the free tier.
The shock expressed isn't about Gmail; it's Paypal. Bottom-feeding behavior from Viagra spammers is expected. But from valuable tech brands it's a sign of dangerous rot.
Python, C, and js while PHP and Java are getting lashed. Pretty much what you'd expect.

Still, one of the better polls.
Fair enough, but frankly well-designed and well-run forums are few and far between. And even less support real threading, which I consider a killer feature for this kind of discussions.
Why did the government need to build any website? Why couldn't they just release data, and pass rules that health companies release data? Many websites would have offered to help bring the data to the users and the Government could have linked to some officially recognized ones.
I would recommend FastMail over other mail services to founders. Its features are fairly comparable to gmail (and presumably windows live mail, though I haven't used it). Additionally, there are some advanced features that seem particularly useful to small companies: the capacity for setting up lots of aliases pointing to multiple destinations, the ability to add super cheap small-storage accounts (good for interns), the ability to share folders, and Sieve filter scripting support all come to mind.

They also have a pretty transparent, non-evil privacy policy. http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/02/updated-privacy-policy/

Plus, you're now supporting a small independent company! http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-st...

I wrote a blog post about switching from gmail to FastMail that will give you an idea of the service if you haven't seen it before. http://www.maxmasnick.com/2013/07/19/fastmail/
Interesting. Do other merchants have similar "X dollars for infinite certificates" plans?
Huh! This phone number does not shop in Google search results at all right now except one hit:

resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.eidm.error.e106'] = 'An error occurred when contacting Experian to verify your information. Call the Experian help desk at 1-855-339-7880 for help.';

That must be the dedicated Experian helpline for healthcare.gov. Neato!
I was taking education classes late in college considering what's known as an alternative certification, which is actually quite similar in structure for TfA, the difference being of course is that the teachers are TRAINED IN EDUCATION.

I had a late class and overlapping the end was a TfA class next door for people who were currently teaching. We did some joint work occasionally and I could almost always at least hear what was going on in their sessions. It was far more like going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting than a class. Students basically sat and traded horrible stories every day for at least half the class or more. There was very little instruction in proper discipline. I'd say 25% were not visibly overwhelmed by their teaching jobs and almost all of them were involved with education or they were psych majors who had been heavily involved in schools.
If you're serious about the project hire a designer to create the designs for you as layered PSD.

It sounds like you should be able to implement them yourself. I work with designers that are local to me, but you can find some pretty good ones on odesk.
We've reached ... some sort of level when Drudge includes a highest level (most prominent on the page, at the very top left) link to a page of its Javascript: https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace/global/en_US/registra...

It's titled "Crazzzzzzzy code..."
The AWS free tier is pretty generous, and I was randomly gifted a $100 credit a few months back because I accidentally bought a reserved instance in EC2-Classic rather than EC2-VPC and had to file a ticket on it.
Being from sweden and a metal fan I got an easy 20/20 but since I said Norden => Ikea I'm obviously less kvlt than thou.

Todays lesson, numbers lie.
These days a small language called Pure has my attention (purelang.bitbucket.org) - it has many of the features of Haskell I like, but is a dynamically typed language that makes use of an interesting functional paradigm (term rewriting calculus!), and is much easier to use than Haskell. It also has a great shell and C/C++ interface (and Emacs and Texmacs integration).

And I always like seeing these kinds of polls because people's 'favourites' depend alot on what they do with the language - Java and C++ are great for writing large apps, systems, etc..., while dynamic languages have much different use cases.
If you are going to bow out, it would be much better to do it sooner rather than later - so as not to leave the organisers in the lurch. Giving a public speech would be a big deal even if you were fine with other "regular-life" activities - so I don't think you should beat yourself up over it.

If you think you can do it, then I'd strongly recommend getting the talk together well in advance, and practice it a number of times - the more often, the better.

I'd second the comment about Toastmasters, although that might be more useful for preparing for similar events in the future, rather than for the immediate one.
I'm shocked that people seem to think 3 years and $634m is a lot for a project of this scale.

Are you all offering to design and build it 6 months in PHP for $50k ?
Julia! Poor thing is left off ...
I scored 13. Sadly, your design sight is down.
"There are the two kinds of languages only, the kind that people complain about and the kind that nobody uses." -- someone on the internet that I am too lazy to google. A.K.A Bjarne Stroustrup

I truly don't see the value of this, every language brings something to the table.
This machine accepts tons of world currencies. This will be much to the disadvantage of its owner, who will now have to try to change $20 in each of a dozen currencies to the local fiat currency. Doing this will be somewhere within a triangle of difficult, annoying, and expensive. Once owners figure this out, they will probably demand a way to program their machines to reject most currencies, just like everyone else does.

Accepting "currencies from over 200 countries" is not a good thing when there aren't that many countries in the world with currency you'd want to hold. Nor does it reassure us about the machine's ability to reject counterfeit notes--owners won't be able to verify notes they don't normally use, and BTC will ensure that fraudulent depositors have low risk of being caught.
Significant whitespace
I marked dislike on Actionscript because of AS3. Actionscript is basically Javascript, but with Actionscript 3 they added type annotations for static typing features. IMO, it did not fit in well with the language, and the integration between the two worlds (static vs dynamic typing) was poorly handled.
I just upvoted "php - Like" and "php - Dislike", because I both love and hate working with php.

I guess I'm not alone...
NodeOS/NodeOS
Australia doesn't use crowbars or fists to remedy wrongdoings, therefore it's not an act of violence. If the punishment for sending bulk unsolicited commercial mail were canings, it'd be violence, but this isn't how civilized countries operate.
Gecko - Make your smart phone SMARTER
Yeah, I was surprised to hear so much sound coming out of my earbuds sitting on the desk.
http://www.ethos3.com/2012/03/presentation-lessons-from-wins...

Practice!

Create a persona in your mind and be that person on stage. You don't have to be "you".
It was a good idea but failed in execution. It might take fewer characters to type an instruction but at the cost of what? Being difficult to read? Ambiguity? Not really worth the time.
I'm with Guy Steele on this one: I like all languages (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Future-of-Programming-Lan... 01:45).
Me too. I use it daily, and am both amazed and confounded by it. Powerful and frustrating.
When you talk about what you. know... the content is easy.
when you talk about what you love... then passion is easy and the audience likes it.
Finally practice practice practice.... with friends.. with a smaller audience (maybe a classroom), with a webcam... just practice.

Your audience then will love your speach and you will be glad that you didit.
Does anyone else have any experience with Ink File Picker? I recently learned about the service and am considering it for an upcoming project, but I have concerns about entrusting a startup with a critical piece of infrastructure and would hate to have to re-write file uploads if Ink gets bought or decides to shutdown. We've already experienced this with SimpleGeo and had to re-write quite a bit of code when they pivoted.
BoS 2012: Videos of Business of Software Talks All In One Place
> Don't forget those of us who come to HN primarily to post comments about why the linked article is obviously stupid and wrong, or is right but just saying things that we've been aware of for a while now.

This is why I hate being around a good deal of "smart" people (or atleast, people who have smartness attached to their identity, which seems to be rarely the same group). Every statement, every conversation, every fact is just another opportunity for them to put something down or puff themselves up.
You have cause and effect backward. Oracle created a hostile environment for developing Java as an Android language.

Secondly, Android's base classes and AIDL are a significant advance in Java.
>Also they will browse the first 20 entries or so and then get bored and skip to the end.

Why would I need to browse down the list? Nobody here has used every language in existence. You hit ctrl-F and cast your vote on your favorite and least favorite.
What is the hardware revolution?
DropzoneJS worked awesome for me. I use it as upload form for my Street Art Mapping hobby project.