skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be thinking of Clojure and ClojureScript — with a J. It's confusing naming, but those are different, and are not Google products.

In this thread, we're talking about Google's Closure (with an S) Library. Google also makes a Closure (with an S) Compiler, but it's more of an optimizer — it "compiles" from JavaScript to optimized JavaScript.
Oddly enough, a lot of that applies to programming as well, though to a lesser degree.
This sounds like a good option. It's along the lines of their original approach, and by adding the friction and personal contact of an email, much less likely to be abused.
Out of 50+ product, engineering and marketing folks, only 2 have ever left. We have multiple people that have been around for 5+ years. So yes, amazing retention and team cohesion is certainly a by-product of the trial week.
Your attitude plays right into the red vs blue football game mentality that prevents any meaningful change in American politics.

"Oooh, oooh the other guys are worse" Politicians know that they have a powerful machine, or a durable demographic advantage in their district, and that all kinds of tribal "the other guy is worse" defenses will come to their aid.

It's time to start going after the individuals in the government who allowed this to happen, because they have proven themselves to be treacherous, as opposed to any hypothetical rivals that who might not agree with you on the finer points of government.

What congress has allowed the NSA to do is inexcusable, and far more important than your personal preexisting political inclinations.

EDIT: totally misread your comment, I agree with you.
Complicated argumentation != incoherent. I was astonished by the level of subtlety here. I honestly couldn't tell where the author would fall politically for half the article, but I still wanted to read it. And I didn't feel cheated at the end. I read your incoherent as "too long, couldn't read."
Kevin Kelly tells technology's epic story
How do we recall/impeach senators?
Looks cool. Just curious, what were you in the middle of building before you needed to build this? Oh, also - that live help box that flies across the screen diagonally on every page you visit is dizzying!
I find http://gitimmersion.com/ to be a better hands-on guide to learning Git. Very useful for beginners.
Maybe they'd rather control the boards where users discuss Apple products, than let third parties have control. Case in point, this thread.
Sorry, I was referring to the outcome of the trial week itself, because I hadn't caught the end of the article where you said the outcome was a 66% accept.

You've built what is by all accounts an excellent team and an enviable workplace, so it is with all possible respect that I say that I'm discouraged that you're employing a temp-to-perm arrangement in your hiring practice --- but if it's working for you, I'm not sure what else I can say.
That's the kind of thing you don't want to post about.

Abusers basically work as hill-climbing algorithms. If you catch them, many will just try again after tweaking something.

When in the past I've fought abusers my approach includes: minimizing opportunities to gain information; minimizing signs of progress; lengthening feedback loops as much as possible; increasing the cost of trying to get information; and, when you change things, changing several things at once, so that they have to figure out several things to get back in.
This definitely deserves some kind of investigation. There's probably something to learn from such high levels of difference in very close counties : http://socialcapitalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Sc...
You'd be surprised the reasons it doesn't work out though. It's almost never intelligence. It's usually that someone was a huge dick, or was really lazy. It's just so strange to me that you couldn't keep your inner asshole at bay for one week, but better to know sooner than later.
A framework guides you into a determined way of doing things.
It is a known tradeoff: 90% of what you need to do is simpler, 10% may be a little harder.
I have now built two medium-large web apps over the last months with Angular and while, naturally, it's not without problems, I have found that most of my difficulties were due to me doing things in a non-Angular way.

I also find it is going in a very good direction with the recent changes in 1.2.0. They listened to a lot of feedback from the community.
That doesn't mean the product is priced too high. It simply means that the value gained from the product is not perceived by a someone to be higher than the value of the currency amount being requested. That's how we make purchasing decisions. It's about perceived value and the trade-offs we make. Letting consumers set their own prices on products they subjectively perceive to be overpriced would run down prices as it'd be easier and easier to acquire goods, until everything ultimately became free.

What about people who can afford but are unwilling to buy luxury items, like Louis Vuitton bags? Should they be able to set their own price?
I have iPhone 4, iOS 7.0.3 and no problems.
This is a good business plan. The larger music companies
should hire some new blood? or, Not--I coukd care less;
90% of artists were screwed out of royalities on their
music by thiefs. The successful ones are were rare, and
if they made money, they just ruined their health with
drugs and alcohol. Napster ruined the music industry model.
Maybe it should stay that way? A good band, Protools, and
a little effort will publicize Tallent. I've noticed a
darth of anything remotely original lately. I hope B. F.
Skinner wasen't right, and we have come to the end of
originality?(no he didn't predict anything, but you can draw
conclusions on his theories.
Fox: "I will look into this problem with the missing chickens. Trust me."
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> cold (also less sunlight)

Yeah, this is also consistent with northern Europe and its higher suicide rates in cold, long, and dark winters. There's definitely a correlation between sun exposure and suicide, while it's not the only factor.
33% chance of wasting a week is incredibly low? How came?
No worries! In my mind, there are only a few situations where I feel the 15" rmbp is particularly worth it (for developers):

1. If you're offsite far more than you're onsite.

2. If you need >8 GiB of RAM.

Of course, if you expect to do much gaming on your laptop, you may want a laptop with a dGPU. *8-)
Sorry to dwell on this, but this is not a nihilistic view, this is what's called the Pragmatic view of truth and was expounded by 20th Century Chicago School philosophers like John Dewey. Feynman was oft quoted as being a pragmatist, and a key tenet of pragmatism was embodied in one of his quotes:

"We never are definitely right, we can only be sure we are wrong."

In this fashion, we never hold objective truth in the Platonic sense, rather we accumulate knowledge that explains how the world works.

Does fellatio in fruit flies improve sexual reproduction? One study suggests it does. The problem we face now is that a substantial portion of people, including many very well educated folks who would claim to live scientifically-based lives, say "That's amazing!" and run and tell their friends this hilarious new "fact" they've learned.

Unfortunately there are plenty of these new "facts" people learn that are much more than novelty and lead to public policy or destructive dietary changes cough fructose cough.

We could all use to be a little more skeptical, pragmatic and curious in our lives.
We've never hired anyone straight out of college (but not because we don't want to). Nearly everyone we've hired has been currently employed, and about 75% were even relocated from out of state.

On the college student front, we're trying to make improvements to get better at that. As a small startup, we never made the long-term investment in properly timing the recruiting and interviewing process, but now that we're a bit bigger, we're focusing on it more.
The Case for an iPad Pro
The field looks still full of fail.

It seems really hopeless situation with the Republicans. Either they are people of conviction that can I only support in certain areas (e.g. Cruz) or corporate shills that would have mainstream appeal (e.g.Christie).
Any reason not from Apple?
hi, my email address can be found in my profile.
How to Use a Pillow
Yes ... I specifically said I had similar issues with Java because I didn't want to appear to be targeting Ruby. I also know python, and I've gotten stuck with PIP a couple times. I'd consider myself an expert with Maven, and I don't tend to have issues with that (anymore). And I think the model used for Maven (and Ivy) is perfect (a central repository of artifacts by GAV).

But I've seen people give up due to the learning curve of learning Maven, and I agree that this is a hard problem in general. I think (as noted below) that it's an even harder problem for scripting languages that deliver packages via source ... and I don't have a solution to offer.

Perhaps the best thing we can do is help each other out with the tools we're comfortable with? An apprenticeship program?
It's funny. Silicon Valley is considered to be one of the least risk averse places but when it comes to hiring, it's incredibly risk averse.

On one hand, companies are loathe to make a hiring decision without running candidates through a meat grinder. Resumes? Those doesn't tell us anything. Code samples? You might not have even written the code and truth be told, we're not going to take the time to look at them anyway. References? Everyone says you're a rockstar, but how do we know you'll be a hit with our team?

On the other hand, prospective candidates who are currently employed often expect offers without doing much of anything. Four-plus hours of interviews? I can't take time out from my job. A real-world coding test of some sort? I could get in trouble with my current employer, and I want to spend time with my family tonight. And by the way, how much are you going to pay me again, because if total comp is less than $xxx,xxx, we should end this conversation before it even gets started.

Don't get me wrong: the cost of a bad hire or career move can be very high, and companies and prospective employees should use common sense (and gut instinct) to filter out relationships that clearly aren't likely to work. But it's insane to believe that every element of risk can be eliminated in these transactions, which is precisely what both sides so frequently seem to be doing.

As a company, if you demand to try before you buy and the word "employee development" is a foreign concept, you're likely to have problems. As a prospective employee, don't expect a company to hand you the goods if you act like you're window shopping.
Is there any way that this could lead to legal trouble? If you're taking a week of vacation from your current job, that seems to imply that you're now drawing two salaries simultaneously; double dipping, so to speak. Sure, your current job isn't expecting you to be working, but they are expecting you to be getting rest and relaxation, and be able to come back fresher, not, say, come back stressed out after not quite cutting it for a week at another company.
For the "lonely" hypothesis, this map is not precise enough to confirm it. You would probably need a map with dots representing the exact location of all suicides on the map, and overlay it with a density map to see if there is a proper correlation or not.
Measuring Virality on Instagram
How about you make $19.99 then that covers the cost of your account? It's a win/win situation for those without credit cards.
I think "culture" is a strange word in this sense. Are you talking about whether people drink after hours, or how much autonomy employees have over their project assignments? Some cultural elements are meaningful, some are not, and it's highly subjective. Sometimes, "not a culture fit" means "arrogant asshole". Sometimes, it means "not 23, privileged, white and male".

The cultural things I care about, personally, are the ones that affect how I work. I'm a huge fan of open allocation, as you might know from my other posts. I don't care much about making friends. I'll make a couple, if I'm lucky, and that will happen naturally; but I go to work to work, not to be "cool" or find drinking buddies.

Also, the chummy culture of the VC-darling hot startups is really superficial. These people act like they have deep friendships because it fills a void and makes the 90-hour weeks bearable, but as soon as a person leaves, he's spoken-of as if he were hanged unto death for some unspeakable crime. Just shows how much real friendship there is in the VC-funded world.
Apparently the only way to get rid of a US senator is if the Senate expels her. That hasn't succeeded since 1862, but 3 disgraced senators since '82 resigned in advance of being expelled. Basically only for major scandals:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_senators_...
I realize the knee-jerk reaction is to assume it's a ploy by Apple to ignore customer complaints as long as possible, but it's more likely that just don't want their message boards to become a caustic cesspool of trollish complaining, like most company forums.
Personally, I consider "free if you refer 5 users" sort of an offensive trick. It presents quite odorously the falseness behind the $20/yr pricetag, and makes me value the ethics behind that price less.
Well-being is Related to Having Less Small Talk & More Substantive Conversations
Redacted previous comment, because I think you know more about this topic than I do.
A total review is just a punt, that's far from a reversal. And it's very telling re: her elite-centric POV that spying on foreign leaders put heat on her, but not mass spying on Americans.
Please look again at the figures in the link you provide: Apple is larger than each of the companies I mentioned (very slightly larger than Samsung by 2012 sales; I'm not sure why 3M is in your list - they are 1/4 the size of Apple in a far lower margin industry), and spends less in absolute terms on R&D than each, and far less as a percentage of revenue.

IBM has an excellent track record of scientific contributions, has an excellent research institute, and I gather is good about things like giving its employees time to write scientific articles and providing support to employees who wish to pursue PhDs. Xerox PARC still exists and still does good, publically visible research. I don't see what "grand vision" has to do with anything.
This is especially problematic in Monterey Bay, where there are more male sea otters than females. The reason for this skew in the population is unclear, but it leaves male sea otters in a bind. The rehabilitated sea otters were released into an environment of intense competition and were at a disadvantage when it came time to find a mate. > Hello CS class.
I published an identical attack in 2010:

De-Anonymizing Web Communities with Gravatar

https://web.archive.org/web/20111219233019/http://rgov.org/2...
For typing equations quickly, I found that a quick (not so pretty) ascii-art notation was fastest. I would transcribe them to latex later.

I only did that for a year or two before I decided that laptops and note-taking in general were counterproductive and switched to never taking notes at all. I still occasionally took notes on my own time while reading the course material, but I found that paying closer attention instead of trying to write things down ultimately worked better.
huh? what are these "negative undertones"?
West Virginia is also coal-mining territory, for what that's worth.
It isn't, which explains wikipedia.
Brands and Advertisers need to care about wearable tech
It's worth remembering that both California senators Feinstein and Boxer were cosponsors of PIPA. They are no fans of tech. I'm waiting for a tech movement to realize that they are giving their money and votes to the enemy.
You mean by county, I presume.

I would also be interested in county data, if only because upstate New York and New York City are essentially two completely different places :P
Ask HN: What's your desktop wallpaper?
Not exactly trivial, but text can be extracted from a pdf.
How did you incorporate data from Washington DC into this? I can almost guarantee that the reason Maryland has such a high rate on the HIV/AIDS chart is because of the District, and its outlying areas (Prince George's County, Anacostia, etc.)
So you take a picture of each sketch, and upload them to Dropbox, perhaps automatically with that "upload photos from my phone to Dropbox by default" feature.

It seems to me that one of things this app might enforce is the idea that your work isn't really done until you've documented it and/or shared it. Pushing for measurement of using tools like Dropbox, Gmail, Basecamp, Google Drive, etc. might enforce this ethos. Yes, it's definitely not perfect: it's not tracking that time when you lean over and ask the designer next to you for feedback, and so on. But it seems worth an experimental try.

I know many very productive people who seem less productive than they are, because they hate going to some project management tool and documenting what they accomplished. If we could semi-automate documentation of work being done, such as by hooking in to Github, that might make their progress more visible with little to no effort.
I'll be really impressed when Apple deletes the posts from his blog ... the Borg were way too powerful to simply delete comments from their own forums.
you should post this on stackoverflow. i find this page useful: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/sql-comparison/
cancer and blood flow are very closely related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiogenesis
Data-scientist is a sexed-up term for statistician without any expectation of mathematical expertise.
Here’s How I deal with users who steal my Bitcoins
"Wearable tech will disrupt mobile."
Nice palette (like some emacses themes) and cool effects. Thanks for work! Bookmarked.

So cools that my cayman radeon driver on linux got some errors :-)
It offers nothing over multi-platform options like Copy and Dropbox.
I Remember using w3DT(https://w3dt.net/) as FREE Domain Tools going back many years ago. Great to see the guys from ITOC Australia have got this great resource back online.

Thanks Guys, much appreciated!
Heh, What an overreaction/over the board inference. Caustic cesspool? Nobody from apple has even bothered replying. Yet they are busy deleting stuff. This has nothing to do with quality of their message boards.
It's a good thing a service to help individuals sell their music on a variety of online services isn't essential.
Your Job or Your Family
... but it's more likely that just don't want their message boards to become a cesspool of trollish complaining about everything, like most company forums.

Do you think Lessig's deleted comment represented trollish complaining? How about the other comments highlighted by Lessig? Were they the ingredients of a "caustic cesspoool"?

You conjecture might seem more likely if the deleted comments were, in fact, trollish complaints, but they were not.

There seems to be a knee-jerk reaction here but not from the people criticizing Apple.
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+1 point for making the most entitled statement I've heard this week
I think Angular is just the latest in their web dev portofolio, driven by internal needs. They have Closure, which is basically their own jQuery + package/module/dependency loader & framework. Then there's Dart, which is kind of their version of CoffeeScript/TypeScript/etc. (and even looks strikingly like Angular at times[1]).

There are definitely overlapping concerns, but they've dogfooded Angular for both the YouTube TV[1] portal as well as their DoubleClick site, and so I don't think it's just for external purposes.

1. https://www.dartlang.org/polymer-dart/
Its clearly pebkac. Case closed.
If I remember correctly Quicksite is a TM of web hosting company, also offering template(s). You might want to reconsider the name.
Quake Done Quick is an ultra classic, and it's awesome it's gained enough fame to get its own Wikipedia page . It was amazing way back in the day, but it's still no less amazing.

My little claim to fame is I used to play QuakeWorld quite regularly with one of the founders of QDQ. Before it was called Quake Done Quick, it was called "Nightmare Speed Demos" (http://web.archive.org/web/19970719050959/http://www.planetq...). Radix (who at the time, went by "Lord of Radix") was a member of the "Deadly Venom Clan", and was one of the last keyboard-only holdouts in Quake, and despite using the keyboard for everything in Quake, was still a force to be reckoned with in deathmatch.

Anyway, I always smile when I see QDQ mentioned on the internet. Every few years, I dust it off an watch the whole thing and amaze myself in how precise all those actions are. Quake was such a fantastic game mechanically, and I wax nostalgic over the long-lost sense of community it bore, compared with the ridiculously disrespectful nature of internet nerd assholes these days (It probably doesn't help that I mostly play League of Legends these days).
The State of Networking in 2013
I didn't include DC data. It does exist if you reference the data PDF put out by the CDC.

I originally had included DC but it's a major outlier since it's almost entirely urban. It's also not a state and doesn't visualize well because of its size, so it's not in the csv I used.
There's a Facebook group to remove Feinstein:

https://www.facebook.com/removefeinstein
So you want a "smart toaster"? Funny you should mention that.... check this guy out. http://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-Pro-Line-Toaster-4-slice/dp...

It won't email you anything, but:

* it will wait for you to insert two slices, then gently lower the toast on its own (or you can press the toast button)

* when the toast is done, it will gently be lifted (instead of popping up, which is a little more violent and probably wears out the toaster a bit if you think about it)

* If you leave the popped-up toast alone for half a minute, the toaster will lower it down again to do a 'keep warm' function

* it's got the "a little longer" button that actually works, instead of just a thermostat which you need to guesstimate turning up

so now I just wish I had an amazon referral account to make a quick buck here :P
It turns out this is how normal human beings interact. They cannot always stick to a specific point. It is a discussion forum and not jira or bugzilla to demand developer like wording and focus.
I don't think Google created Angular, but rather a Google employee. I'd imagine if Google fully backed Angular, the syntax/design would've been much cleaner. Angular with a fresh boot would be something I'd hope for, they just keep adding things on top of it to keep BC as much as possible which is why it feels so dirty at times. I too get (extremely) frustrated with Angular at times for all the points mentioned by OP. Honestly sometimes I don't even know why I bother with it, I feel it being counter-productive if I actually think about it. It just seemed cool concept at the time but over the long run, I feel I am just digging my own grave. Great post for venting about the frustrations, I been needing to vent myself too.
I've read 1.1 helps with this, for the Keon at least.
It might be, if making music is the only real way you have to make money. Of course, in that case I would hope that you would use your proceeds to pay the service pretty quickly.