skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The precision needed for typing highlights why graphical programming is so tough.
People have tried this. Over and over and over. I love the idea, and I too have tried (and scrapped my effort), but it is an immensely difficult problem to tackle for a number of reasons:

- The moment you force a user to pick up the mouse, you have lost.

- It seems very compelling to augment the display with more information, but a lot of it is simply distracting, or reduce the density of relevant information that will fit on the page. There's a reason that even in most IDE's very little additional information beyond syntax highlighting have "stuck".

- Some weirdos (like me) won't touch tools that won't let me work over a dumb ssh connection and terminal when I need to, which is one of many reasons why...

- ... everything needs to have a sane textual format. Another reason is that it is essential to communicating about the code.

If you want to think about this, at least thoroughly review the long history of visual languages, as there are plenty of mistakes to repeat.
Without getting into a huge argument with an internet stranger as to the exact extent of my stupidity and/or intelligence, it'd probably be wise to note that nearly 2/3 of high school seniors are going to college now. Someone who is in the top 1-5% of high school seniors really shouldn't have the difficulties I did. I'm not trying to brag, I'm just trying to say that my stats were decent and I wasn't a slacker.

It was really baffling to me that colleges preferred to take people who got 2s and 3s on their AP tests to someone who scored 5s, so long as they had parents who would fork over thousands of dollars. At a poorly funded rural high school where most people were members of FFA, outscoring my classmates wasn't hard, and there weren't many collegebound to begin with, outside of the people with welloff families. It was frustrating to see them get to go instead of me because I didn't have tens of thousands of dollars for the tuition bill. (I mean, a lot of them were in the low to mid twenties on their ACT scores...)
I agree. But this isn't about how much money the company is worth but the amount of control she has.

As seen before, most people don't get to sit on the Head of Retail chair for a long time and can be removed by Tim Cook at any time. Angela could have stayed as CEO for at least one more decade.

I assume that they are compensating her heavily for his move.
I found a similar vulnerability in Fastmail.FM last year. They weren't escaping filenames of email attachments, so you could inject script. Unfortunately they don't have a bounty program.

<plug> The flaw was discovered automatically by one of the tests in a web application which I authored: https://emailprivacytester.com/ </plug>

EDIT: I've added a new test to the tester, for hiding a script payload in the onerror attribute of an img tag in the From header of emails.
I think that its more about there being other things people want sooner. He seems to have a lot of sponsorship and has had open ended offers.
I don't get the 'at least part of one tree' ?
Angela Ahrendts leaves Burberry for Apple
You have to look into the eyes:))) Eyes are not lying.
Plus everyone wants more... so you can't make them happy anyway.
I'd like something that is based on looking at what jobs people from a particular degree actually do -

A lot of people that I graduated electronics with now work in Finance (as quants or non-IT) because the money is better and banks love 'numerate' people. A couple of them went into accounting. I'd say more are doing other 'numeric jobs' than remained in electronics.

This isn't reflected in careers suggestions I read around the internet.

Could you derive this kind of data from linkedin to produce something empirically driven?
Thank you for your responses everyone, I think we have a clear consensus: no cards up front.
We are more capable and morally idealistic than any generation before.

This makes me so nostalgic. :)
Could you explain why Racket isn't homoiconic ?
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We can test your theory here if you like.

Upvote this comment and I'll tell you if it counted.

If you leave a comment I'll upvote it so you can see if you get upvotes.

I'd be surprised if either of these didn't just work.
Do you refresh the page after upvoting?
Everything's solvable and everyone else is wrong, but he has none of his own work to show. Very funny post. Maybe he's just a student? These constant failures at trying to implement visual programming often seem to come from academia where the goal is to write papers rather than actually accomplish anything.
I've turned showdead off and I can still see you so I don't think you're banned, either.
This is actually an issue that bothers me a great deal. I don't like that college is, culturally, something you do once. If you've touched a college credit since high school, you're not pure, and you won't be considered alongside the more worthy students.

This phenomenon contributes heavily toward the view that college is more about signaling who you are than that you achieved anything in particular while you were there. Once admitted to University X, "University X" is branded on your soul forever.

That said, on the dual topic of elite colleges accepting transfers & financial aid, the university of california system is set up to take transfer students en masse, and gives an admissions priority to students coming from the highly affordable california community college system. Berkeley and UCLA both accept such transfers. I don't really have an idea of the specifics of UC financial aid, but I do know the system offers a purely merit-based scholarship (Regents). CA is gay-friendly too, for what it's worth.
I would have killed to have someone offer me that. :( You were lucky to have so many options available to you; I applied for 40+ scholarships at the time and placed as runner up for one and was awarded one other. It wasn't enough to meet even in state coa, sadly.

6 years later I got a full tuition science scholarship at a community college, but that took a ridiiiiiiculously huge effort and it only lasted for a year since I wasn't an 18 year old anymore (meh). I'm still incredibly grateful to my chemistry professor who helped me get it, though.
If anyone has any feedback, it would be highly appreciated!
Don't forget "The man who came early", which deals with just the sort of cannot-reconstruct-the-technology-chain issue in case of accidental time travel.
what was that? This comment is more in line with reddit and not HN.
Things I learned at YC
My best choice: G2Reader http://g2reader.com
Do you have plans to add indiegogo and other crowdufning sites?
Capitol (def): A capitol is a building in which a legislature meets
I imagine they'd have to be limited to vertical paths anywhere near the ground, otherwise as you say the noise of hundreds of drones would be unbearable. I don't see any reason why there shouldn't be a few stations around urban areas for silent landing/launching i.e. nets for drones to drop into(potentially assisted by small parachute/wings) and launchers(catapults etc.) to get them out of earshot before they fire up their motors. You'd still have a little activity in the last few meters but how many deliveries are actually delivered to a particular area per hour?
I worked with numerous tools for graphical programming, mostly for academic work.

Such as graph-transformation based tools for software verification, in which your programs are graphs.
http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/~rensink/papers/spin2006.pdf

Which is useful for software verification, but writing your actual program in it is cumbersome.

Software is a lot about abstractions, and there is no reason that graphical programs are better at representing abstraction that text (or maybe im wrong here?).

In theory, that what you can represent in graphical-form you can also represent in textual form.

However the information density with an 2D graphical form is much higher than textual form. And the more information you put into the same space, the more difficult it is to reason about it. Thats why textual programming is still very much popular.
I've always thought that a visual interface for programming would help with my procrastination problems.

It's so painless for me to open up a webpage and solve daily chess puzzles... on the other hand it seems more painful to open up an IDE and start solving code "puzzles." I wish I could visualize all the pieces of my software similar to chess.
That is a literal definition, btw (hence italics)
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Is the author implying that all of Russia is like this?

I did find that to be the implication, yes. e.g. At the edges of Russia’s two great cities, another Russia begins. - this implies that only the two largest cities in Russia are first world, and another decaying world begins beyond the pale. Perhaps that's an accurate description, but given the treatment of stories like the NSA surveillance in the NYT (severely lacking, and often just parroting the government line without question), Iraq wars (again, severely lacking), and the lack of similar treatments of similar US problems with decaying infrastructure, I'm inclined to think that there are plenty of other stories about Russia to be told which don't paint it as a third world country in decline, and that this is a somewhat biased, limited portrait. I cancelled my subscription recently because of the limited coverage of world events - it's just too one-sided, but perhaps that's inevitable when you're reporting from within a superpower.

Which of these are reality? Which are propaganda?

Well, quite. We rely on journalists to sift through information and give us a balanced story based on their perception of the truth. That means we need journalists to step outside the view of the world that their country, culture and government gives them and try to see it afresh, without preconceptions. So we have to trust them to some extent, and when that trust is abused to present things through a distorted prism, it is disheartening.

Still, this is quality journalism (particularly the mix of map/graphics/text), and perhaps to say it is propaganda is a bit harsh, I'm not sure I'd go that far, but I do find the lack of balance and parochial worldview of the NYT and US press disturbing at times. The temptation is to see the world through a US prism without taking into account other viewpoints. Sometimes the NYT get it right though - for example this article on healthcare comparing systems around the world:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/health/colonoscopies-expla...
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First, other operating systems lose the distinction, and maintain the two device filesystem names solely for historical purposes. FreeBSD, for instance, uses Yarrow and doesn't distinguish between urandom and random.

Second, he just explained why the distinction isn't useful in practice. The sole difference between random and urandom is that random blocks based on an entropy estimate. But that's silly: the only time you want random to block in practice is during cold start, but instead random blocks unpredictably all the time and is unusable. Meanwhile, urandom is effective virtually all of the time... except on cold start (on solid state devices), where it would be OK for it just once to block.

I'm not sure how a userspace daemon helps performance, since it implies roundtripping through the kernel anyways.
Did some LabView programming as a student, didn't enjoy the experience.

Graphical programs are similar to circuits without memory, and thus are less powerful then Turing machines. As a result, graphical programs quickly grow in size, and growth happens in 2 dimensions, which makes it very hard to read them.
Why is he using Google Analytics for sending the XSS?
BotLogic.us: A Game That Gets Kids Excited to Program
Good to know someone out there 'gets it'.
Learn a bit about cryptography and you too can simultaneously be judged an Apple fanboy, a Google defender, and an NSA apologist.
Agreed. You can never have enough screen space.

How do people manage to code on macbook airs in coffee shops? I could never be truly productive like that...
Easter eggs from Google
Besides the team and games themselves, they are buying a strong presence in the west. In strategic terms, it's not unlike when DeNA bought ngmoco.
Nah, Its Pizza.
It's interesting how the luxury brand of Apple used to be a hindrance, but is now seen as crucial to fighting off lower-end disruption.
In the US, non-profits are sometimes very well funded. Most name-brand universities are non-profits, with huge endowment funds. Sometimes, they are your VC's "boss."
The round of applause from the students was likely because they were relieved to have the validation. I went to great schools and it seemed like many of us were always thinking that none of us were as smart/gifted/different as the next person (side note: doesn't take 100% audience buy-in to get the whole audience eventually applauding). But the twist is reminding students (and especially young alum) what such a prestigious degree means -- in short, not as much as you would hope. And for good reason because the tools of the "knowledge economy" are more freely available then ever before. I'm not saying that Khan Academy or Rural Broadband is equal to 4 years at Yale, but I do think that 4 years at Yale is less meaningful now. Like, wouldn't many of you rather have a Karma score of 5000 if you were applying to YC then a CS degree from Stanford?
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There's a couple of things worth mentioning here:

- Burberry is both a wholesaler and a retailer, which can be quite rare for luxury goods. (most are wholesalers who focus on brand and let others handle distribution) I believe Apple shares roughly the same mix of wholesale/retail revenue streams.

- Head of retail is very specific to well, uh retail, which means she'll presumably be focusing much more on distribution through Apple's multi-channel (B&M, e-commerce, mobile stores, etc). One should also presume this means she'll be focusing on how to get more devices to more people...globally. (and less about "what an iPad looks like on 28 year old women")

- Burberry has been massively successful in recent years in the Asian market (the growth is very slow in US/EU)

My armchair analyst conclusion is that this is a play to get more distribution to the Asian market. One thing I've noticed about the Asian markets (especially catering to the middle and upper middle class) is that they want to know what the trends are in the Western world. If they see rich western travellers buying luxury goods in their "rip-off" market they see those trends and mimic them (by buying the real thing). Burberry did one thing very well, which was set trends. That's something very difficult to do consistently, over a long period of time, and in your own wholly owned retail chain.
There are two ways to respond to "I'm better than you."

1. "No, I'm better than you!"

2. "No, we are equal."

If you want to establish mutual respect and equality, only one choice has a chance of working.
Very recently I bought a Thinkpad X200s (12inch screen) from ebay (<£200). I put in 8GB of RAM (£50) (max the chipset will support) and a 256GB SSD (OCZ Octane, ~£120).

Total cost £370, which is just under $600. If you skip the extra ram and get a lower capacity SSD, you can get this under $500.

I installed Crunchbang 64bit. I do lots of coding on this machine. My battery lasts about 7 hours. Very lightweight. The Thinkpad keyboard is excellent.

I would consider the SSD essential for both speed and battery saving, but you could make it cheaper still without.

You could go back another generation and get an X60/61. These are even cheaper. The Thinkpad build quality is excellent. I expect mine to last for at least 5 years.
There are only two ways I know of.

One is just having social skills. You should be able to tell when someone isn't happy; you should notice when someone doesn't fully engage in a debate in which they should; and when they don't meet your eye about something.

The other way is to look at the details of how they behave. This is how I notice when I myself am not motivated about something. I notice that sometimes I still "feel" motivated and cheerful, but I start turning up a little late. And there's always a good reason for it -- but looking at the pattern from the outside, there's a hint something is wrong.
"When I see the jobs that I would apply for (there are many) I just don't know how I am supposed to approach them.
Email the hiring manager directly with a short, personalised email. ...

Is it worthwhile applying to all the job ads?
Absolutely not. ..."

Aren't those contradictory?
I will send you an email this evening when I've fully updated my resume.
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the problem is that living near the rail line* has been traditionally one of the least desirable places to live. I'm not hand-waving away the poverty or even it's ratios but you will see lots of poverty around a rail line.

*there's a long, long history here going way, way back in the US. Living near a light rail or a commuter station is completely different than living near a freight rail/mixed use rail
Unfortunately, I read things before I decide whether to yell at them, and so find myself unable to howl maniacally at Orin Kerr.
Stealthy technique fingerprints smartphones by measuring users’ movements
Three billion does seem pretty crazy. The only reasoning I can think is that Supercell has been able to create two very popular (and hugely profitable) games. Many of the rockstar game development houses never get more than one (Rovio, OMGPOP).

My guess is they'll use some of this cash to start merchandising the way Rovio did with Angry birds.
Obesity is not a disease
I seriously doubt it.. A language usually takes off (business wise) once a major player starts using it in production, so developers can now tell their managers "Look XYZ is using it". Now that D got the Facebook plug it will now get more promotion and push to be used more widely.
Your comment adds nothing of value.
> If your family earns under $100k / year, you go for free

False. Pell Grant recipients (which typically earn less than $30k / year) paid on average $5,332 to attend Stanford in the 2010-11 academic year [1]. I would link to the actual Department of Education database with the forms filled out by Stanford showing this, but the government shut down has left us all without access.

[1] http://education.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/p...
Let's just compare her to the recent cluster fuck John Browett.

If you'd have ever been into a Dixons in the UK you know it was all about hard selling microwaves and insurance.

However she is from Burberry, which is total elegance, luxury and class. You couldn't get a more extreme opposite to John Browett.

This feels like a good decision from the outset.
I would love to see that, maybe take some photos of the setup? You could also submit a post on http://reddit.com/r/battlestations
Yeah me too :) I merely applied the measure used by OP to illustrate my point. Agree that there are better metrics for success; as for the measure for procrastination, it's probably spot on ;)
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Am I misreading this or are you throwing the "gypsies are like this because of culture making them lazy" argument?

I'm more referring to child marriage than anything else.

Then why has median purchasing power gone down for the past fifteen years?

This begs the question - if purchasing power went down over the past 15 years, people should be purchasing fewer goods and services than in 1998. What goods/services do you believe people have less of now than they did in 1998?
> I did not even issue my credit card ONCE. Paid by public money

And where do you think public money comes from? Hint: your pocket.
Tens of thousands of cattle feared dead after South Dakota storm
I've never understood why anyone feels they have a right to say these sorts of things to anyone.

...and yet.
> The founder of Softbank, Masayoshi Son, shared with Paananen that he has a 300 year vision for reshaping entertainment, and a plan of how to implement it.

With $1.5B in the bank, he can spend $5M a year for 300 years without going bankrupt. Nice runway!
How did he react?
@toumhi Please turn off your inertia scrolling. I am on a Mac and inertia scrolling is already activated, but it is much smarter so that if I stop scrolling but keep my fingers on the trackpad then it doesn't use inertia scrolling. The scrolling on saasfoundry.io however just keeps going. Very annoying.

EDIT: toumhi contacted me by email and has now fixed the issue :)
some good games here
What I meant, I don't consider someone who just graduated from Standford and/or worked for a few years at Google "highly successful". It means they're capable and motivated, and that's probably what PG's selecting for.
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Oh joy, let's all watch the New York Times confuse machine learning and the "big data" fad with the stuff from their scifi movies.
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In 2012 Estonia's population was 1 294 236 (census), which is 5,5% smaller than in 2000, which is still smaller than before the collapse of Soviet Union.

And that number is predicted to be exaggerated because census was carried over the internet, promises of penalties for those skipping it - the real number of residents might be even smaller.

http://demoscope.ru/weekly/2013/0569/mir01.php#3 linking to Regnum

It might be a very nice place to live but it still crumbles.
Youre absolutely right. I read the page post for this and thought "Google fiber prevents servers from accessing their network" this seems dirty to me. Trying to force the public to use Google services... they are starting to scare me...
Yep, looks like it wasn't introduced until iOS 4.2: http://www.sitepoint.com/websockets-and-deviceorientation-su...
There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Someone pays for it.

It's a minor but important point. Lets not kid ourselves here.
Imagine this as an NYT article about the US...there's no way it would be published in this paper, without sympathetic asides/articles about other areas of the US which are developing well

A quick ddg search for "site:nytimes.com detroit" shows this to be incorrect:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/us/detroit-faces-problem-o...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/us/detroit-files-for-bankr...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/business/detroit-is-now-a-...
A quick look at the Redis source code
Upper education, health care, healthy food? It is easy to ignore if you are not at the bottom, but all of these things are less available to a growing number of people.
Beneficial to whom? Because residents of said chunks do not feel happy - no heat, no roads, no money, nearest hospital 50 km away.

"richness of local ecosystem" doesn't do anything for people.
Putting the article aside, I love the functionality. Mapping a story to exactly where you were on the trip when it occurred, the way the NYTimes has, is an amazing way to present the story.
This is what you get when you lock yourself in the *nix Vim-niverse. Try Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/jj739835.asp...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd409365.asp...

PS: pricing is the sad bit :(, but there is no competition in this area. I hope JetBrains will work harder.