skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't wait to support hardware that people can change on the fly.

"Tell me in order what modules you have installed"
"Take your phone apart and reseat everything"
"Did you try blowing on the connectors"
"When it dropped and split into a dozen pieces did you put them all together correctly"

Sorry, but this will never see the light of day.
I was responding to the parent, a fact you seem to have taken out of context.

Care to elaborate on what possibly more could have been done in any of the cited examples that wasn't already done? Or indeed how you propose that "money, time, and hardwork" (sic) would help? I'd also be interested in why you feel money should be involved in preserving the right of any sentient being not to be tortured, invaded or denied the right to protest when the former happens.
Why do you think Java is bigger?

From my perspective, Java has, effectively, structs (well defined groups of data) and a few primitive types, and a class system which is dead simple. It's tiny, comparable to Lua imo.

It's more restrictive, sure, but the dynamic-ness of Javascript is a hindrance when it comes to language spec because the base language functions need to be able to interpret all the different primitive types. There's stacks and stacks of corner cases to remember while Java just says "Nope, wrong type".
Unemployment will always be voluntary. I'm not employed on Sundays, Saturdays and during vacations absolutely voluntarily. I'm employed 16 hours in a row some days absolutely voluntarily. Unemployment is involuntary when there are people who are willing to pay for some work and people who are willing to earn that for that work, but they can't meet together because: 1) wage is below government-approved limit or 2) this type of job is forbidden, or 3) employer cannot fire the person when the job is done or 4) it's damn too expensive to even start filing all papers to hire someone.
> something unethical and immoral

That sir, is your opinion and has no bearing on the legal definition of good faith.

There is nothing inherently evil about exclusive employment agreements for full time employees and is fair to both parties.
Sometimes you have to build products that make enough intermediate revenue to get you to where you're trying to go.
> Obvious to you. And me for that matter.

Obvious to you, and me for that matter, but obviously not obvious to everyone or this sub-thread would not exist. Every one in this threat seems to be well enough versed on English that a specific language barrier isn't an issue, but there are probably people for whom English is a third or forth language: the chance of them seeing as obvious everything that we pick out as obvious is going to be lower than for those with more practise at the language.

> Have some conviction.

It is not about conviction, it is about accurately displaying the source and potential veracity of the information being presented. I couch my opinions so it doesn't look like I'm stating a commonly known fact instead of something I've supposed. Of course where I'm pretty damn sure what I'm stating is verifiable fact I'll not bother adding the extra words, but if you always assume you are correct and write in a style that suggests such, then you may be one of those people!

Adding a few extra words to tell the reader this extra information about the (potential) quality of the information you are about to impart is useful IMO. Be as fine grained as you like too: somewhere between "I think that" and "I know" is "It is my understanding that..." and so on.
Pshaw! I don't know how you define "disjointed", but Manhattan is around 22 square miles large, and most of the tech sector is concentrated in the southern half. There are multiple meet-ups and user groups meeting pretty much every night.
Why exactly would it be lunatic not to use Facebook?

I "deleted" my account about 18 month ago to no ill effect, whatsoever (except having more time for more worthy ventures)

I really don't mean to take the piss on you, but I'm constantly surprised in how people perceive Facebook and other social networks as an absolutely essential utility. Like phone service, electricity, water, or even financial services.

I vehemently don't feel this to be the case.
There are a few warts in javascript, but especially with "the good parts", it's really not that bad. Besides, it allows and encourages a lot of techniques which come from functional programming, which makes it a lot of fun for a functional programming hobbyist like me :)
As a user of Docker, I'm excited. But as someone who uses the dotCloud PaaS right now to run a company, I'm a little annoyed, mostly at myself for not seeing this coming.

Clearly there's a diversion of resources away from the dotCloud PaaS to Docker, and that's going to have a toll somewhere. Despite the company's reassurances that everything is business as usual, I know that Docker [the project] is just too much of a beast and eventually the Docker [the company] will need to move on from the PaaS. (I should know, since I gave a talk about how "Docker is the future" just a few weeks after Docker was announced.) [0]

I'm not really sure what my choices are now, either; DigitalOcean, I guess? I don't want to manage servers myself, and I want to be able to pay on the memory-usage axis for my app instances (which Heroku doesn't allow). I wasn't super excited by DO last year, but maybe things have changed.

My current "light at the end of the tunnel" is hoping that the Docker-based PaaS ecosystem matures, but for now none of them seem like they're mature enough, and it's tough to keep up with all of them since it seems like another one pops up each week.

Here's my wishlist:

-- (1) command-line client for deployment via git repository and doing anything related to deployment (add new instances, remove instances, create new environments, assign domains to the PaaS router, etc.)

-- (2) clear pricing

-- (3) I can pay for more memory as I need it

-- (4) ability to specify environment variables in a configuration file that take effect on the container process

-- (5) web interface for administering the account

Anyone have any recommendations?

[0] http://spreecommerce.com/blog/spreeconf-DC-speaker-highlight...
>If enough people vote against them, that pretty much cuts them out of the picture.

No, they will become the lobbyists, consultants etc. There are so many openings for former congresspersons that they don't need to fear unemployment.

So it's not like there is a strong fear of being voted out, if you can grab even better paid job(for most, not fore all).
Anki? https://ankiweb.net/

I use this one for years, and it is still just as awesome.
Available on pretty much any hardware you can think of :).
I've found quite the opposite. Ember docs are very clear, constantly being refined and tweaked, and the core devs are actually willing to take input to improve upon them.
There's really no way for us to know that CPU manufacturers haven't embedded a backdoor that transmits - on some unknown frequency, or maybe technology - the contents of CPU registers and cache lines directly to some NSA satellite somewhere. We just don't have the ability to audit the powers that create these machines; and this sort of highlights a massive disparity between classes - the technocratic class, and the consumer class.
The problem is not even that top people will not bother.
The problem is that other companies hiring the same person will have a week on you.

If your candidate has any value to your competition you just left him or her on the market for additional 1 week plus how many weeks it takes to schedule yours.
Tesla Model S fire after crash in Mexico
Use Bootstrap. If you're scared of using that, use Jetstrap to get a premade Bootstrap template.
Of course you think that, you're the one writing it!
What if it doesn't work out? You show up to work the following Monday and ask for another week off to go check out another place?
Why not just take a week off unpaid? If they pay you well enough for the trial week (which they should, since this is technically a one week contract, and thus a contractor's hourly rate is higher than an employee's) then you could reason that you're making more money without sacrificing your vacation time - you are allowed to take vacation time and not be paid.
> Care to elaborate on what possibly more could have been done in any of the cited examples that wasn't already done?

You don't always get your way, you know? You win some, you lose some. That doesn't mean that ... there's no democracy and nothing is possible and woe is us, etc... etc... blah blah blah.

> why you feel money should be involved in preserving the right of any sentient being not to be tortured, invaded or denied the right to protest when the former happens.

We're not talking about an ideal world (duh), but about the one we inhabit. In this one, sometimes justice is difficult to obtain, and requires sacrifice.

So you can either get off your ass and do something, or you can sit around complaining on HN. The former sometimes won't work, or won't accomplish what you had hoped to. The latter is guaranteed to accomplish nothing.
"I am an Anaesthesia Awareness survivor"
What do you think libraries are written with? Glue? A language has a direct impact on a library, so no, you can't get out of that one this easily. Either defend your point well or don't try anymore.
No, that's called blackface, racist.
Anonymity in 'Death Note'
And yet, you won't - it mostly depends, I think, where your video comes from. gifsoup (iirc) will scrape a youtube video and turn it into a .gif. There's probably quite a few youtube-to-gif services out there, come to think of it.

It'll be a problem if you use the original star wars video in one way or another though. I think. Depends on whether it can be considered fair use or not.
Current Matchbook offer seems quite humble. Publishers will be naturally reluctant to sell their $22 books for $2 but I hope they'll understand very soon that this isn't actually a discounted sale. It's either extracting more money from past sales or making future sales more likely to happen (and also extracting more money from them).
If you're already familiar with those tools, the incremental effort to put them together is trivial.

It's no different from saying that driving to the store is trivial: People who don't already know how to drive would disagree, but it doesn't make the statement invalid.
Great article. While JS isn't my favourite language, it has many redeeming features. For one, to get started, just open up a browser console, and have at it! No other language offers such a low barrier to entry. You can create a simple HTML file, run it strait from the browser, and voilà, you have a program.

Javascripts flexibility is why you see emulators, 3D games and simulations, everything written in Javascript. Every language compiles to Javascript, and you can edit code live in Javascript, having it render directly into the browser, without running a server, REPL, etc...

The main advantage of Javascript though is the freedom it gives to developers - you can be productive in it quickly, individual developers can get alot done with it in a short time, and it enables web apps to be created quickly.

Look at something like Firefox OS, how easy it is to script and develop for, and then you'll understand why JS is great.
Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found
It would make the world a lot better if somebody made it easy to create that widget in IPython Notebook or some similar tool.

#IShouldDoThatButIProbablyWont
People wear perfume. Some people are allergic to perfume. So what. At some point it's the person with the allergy's responsibility to manage their immune response through medical treatment.
"The built-in option to check an object’s ‘type’ is instanceof, which looks at the function an object was created with."

Nitpick, because I happen to be teaching myself the Javascript class system right now: instanceof examines an object's prototype inheritance, not its constructor. x instanceof Y if x inherits from Y.prototype, so it's possible to "sever" an object from its constructor by replacing the constructor's prototype property. Coming from a strongly typed language, this takes some getting used to!
When the people rise up and take back their government. Its not going to happen without mass bloodshed though, because the powers that be simply won't give up without a serious, hard-core fight.
How CEOs are clueless about technology
Nice one Mark!
Can you name a single, actual negative consequence that someone has experienced from Facebook, aside from people who lost jobs due to their own foolishness in making information public?

So, Facebook asks for an ID to verify your identity because your account as behaving suspiciously. What's the downside of this? Are government agents going to burst into your home and arrest you?
Can't a PAAS use dedicated hosting and provide a cheaper price instead of the overcriped ec2 ? (is there one?)
I'm not sure about the US, but in Germany at least heavy taxation of cigarettes and alcohol is justified by "burden on society". There are more than two options (not do anything vs. outlaw).
I have dozens (over a hundred?) purchased books on amazon over the last decade. 3 matching books, one of which is the Odyssey. It's an awesome idea, but it doesn't seem to include much yet.

Most of the "new and popular" books seem to be pulp romance series that are already free in the prime lending library.
I have made $5,000 since 9am, how much did you make?
Microsoft goes big data with new Hadoop Azure service
Some people might consider Erlang a puzzle language, but Python and Go most definitely do not make it hard to write code.
Talking about cost. We can only evaluate things when we are free from coercion to run experiments and measure the results independently. If there is a huge federal government monopoly on economic policy, there's no way we can find out if it's efficient or good enough. The only way to find out - remove the government coercion and then see how each family decides on their own: on which money to use, where to invest, what medicine to take etc.
Maybe hold tight and migrate to one of the many Docker-friendly/based PaaS that are booting up.
That's part of the allure of people championing state's rights as opposed to doing things on the federal level. Unfortunately I don't know of too many historical examples of power becoming decentralized.
There are thousands of these stories which are so commonly repeated that most people refuse to accept them as myths.

See also JFK's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, which is often (falsely) claimed to be German for "I'm a Jelly Donut". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner#Jelly_doug...
In that case you'll be officially labeled as an "enemy of the State" and qualified for a little, short, painless drone strike when you cross the street.
"Here's another guy thing that sucks. These t-shirts that say: "Lead, follow, or get out of the way". You ever see that? This is more of that stupid Marine Corps bullshit. Obsolete, male impulses from a hundred thousand years ago, "Lead, follow, or get out of the way". You know what I do when I see that shirt; I obstruct. I stand right in the guy's path, force him to walk around me, he gets a little past me, I spin him around kick him in the nuts, rip off his shirt, wipe it on my ass, and shove it down his fucking throat. Hey, listen that's all these marines are looking for; a good time." -- George Carlin
All I know after years of being in the tech industry, every programming language ever invented has pissed off enough people that no one should ever use each language. I'm quite sure that languages not yet invented has already pissed enough people already that they'll be hated the day they are released.

Personally, I find such people childish in a way.

It's a tool in a toolbox. I've never seen a mechanic rant about the substandard design of a standard screwdriver because he pulled it first despite actually needing a phillips screwdriver.
'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'
I think this is a very good question, worthy of discussion.

I believe the main reason is that the establishment of the U.S. Government held strongly to a principle of Checks and Balances, which trickled down to local governments. We have police and we have police of police (so to speak).

Of course nothing is perfect, and lately it seems like things may not be working quite as well as they had. e.g. Cops have gotten very trigger happy and no one has called them on it; plea deals have become the norm in court; and unwarranted wiretapping has grown to scary levels.
Firefox 25 released
How do you manage content? Fill in the questions and see results from others
Is 64bit counter part of hash which points to current position in Hash Tree?

I implemented something similar for HTreeMap, but in Java.
That was also my first reaction to the title, "so I see they've met my grandmother". Prop tax on half a house and some maintenance is a couple hundred a month, and some food, that's about it. She obtained about 4,5,6 who knows how many times as much from pensions and from SS but she actually only spent perhaps $5K/yr on herself. Too old to drive safely, not into consumer electronics other than a top of the line TV and top of the line satellite subscription (only old people watch TV anymore), loved to cook / didn't like restaurant food / very picky about food, not into clothing fashions, what is someone like that supposed to spend money on for themselves, anyway? Mostly gave her money away to charities, family, etc.
I'm really surprised Apple don't do this just for user friendliness. I have lots of USB cables and chargers that have accumulated. That means that I can plug in at work, in the car, at home.. etc. I only have one lightning cable that usually lives at work. I also have a cheap-crap 30 pin that I can never find for my old ipod that a rarely use.

Basically this means that my ipad often runs out of juice and my ipod gets used even less. My guess is that there are a lot of old ipods that will not get a retirement job because they outlived their connectors.
Upload to WebApi/Azure using jQuery (Fine Uploader)
> Remember how when you started programming professionally, and you quit those projects? Why did that need to happen?

It didn't, I now get to spend 8+ hours a day working on things that matter, things that get me paid, thinks that make my customers (and their customers) happy, things that I see people use daily on their phone on my way to my next assignment.

Just because I work for a boss - and no, not some cool startup in the Valley - doesn't mean I don't do cool projects anymore.

(My pointless project phase was amongst others a scraper for InvisionFree forums, they would charge hundreds of dollars to get a copy of the database of a <50.000 post forum - and ours was over half a million posts big)
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Got an example of a political elite ever changing things so that they have less power?
Flamebait headline, check. Author with history of flamebaiting, check. Submitted to HN, check.
GA's Dash and CodeSchool have taught me more in the last two weeks than I could have gotten at the same rate in all the self-help books I've collected.

It's not video. It's video+challenges. CodeSchool in particular has challenging challenges where you have to actually think, not just regurgitate.
Sadly sker people don't want to face this simple reality. It's easier to play the victim card. To want to tear the whole thing down and start again. To say "my vote doesn't count so I'm just going to stand here and complain about how a mystical evil force of the wealthy or neohawks really runs everything" I guess they do because they actually give a shit and work the current system. When your opponent throws up their hands and leaves the court or playing field they can't be too surprised when the score gets run up.

The "I need to roll up my sleeves and work hard to make changes to gerrymandering, primaries and campaign finance reforms so that a much broader pool of American's can have a chance to run for and win" just isn't sexy. Heck one rogue sys admin and fringe blogger are single handily re-defining domestic and international politics. Imagine if every one else did just 5% of what they did to retool the current processes?
But all of those things you listed are very different things. In JavaScript they are the same thing.
People need to stop using 1984 and Franz Kafka as instruction manuals.
And then the spec changed again: Developers and their top headaches
Plenty of people here have been employees watching helplessly as managers run the company into the ground.

Voting is not so crucial to democracy as pluralism: having lots of groups involved and making a difference. It's generally not feasible for people to really keep up with politics on an individual basis, so you need activists or union representatives or religious leaders or NGOs to do the legwork.

But the US suffers from being very fragmented, fractious and individualistic. In that environment it's hard to promote a third alternative that sufficient numbers of people can get behind.
The problem with direct democracy, as I see it, is that it can be gamed just as easily for short term gain. Given how politics works in the US, as well as all the lobbyists and advertising budgets that go along with both of these I'd say that any policy that came up for a vote would be skewed one way or the other because the voter saw some "information".

Imagine SOPA had gone to a public vote. Who would have won, Hollywood or the public interest?
Lol. Seriously though, show me a dynamic language (other than Lisp) that's even half as fast as Javascript...
"I bought a house right after my first kid..."

I don't think it's right to buy children. ;)
While funny, do you understand my second point, which is what this whole thread is really all about?

What are you going to do today to make a difference, even if it's not much? Snarking on HN does not count.

(I gave my rep, Peter DeFazio a call to register my dismay with the ongoing situation in Guantanamo, BTW. It might not be much, but it's something)
I wish we could have runoff elections in the US. Then you could vote for the candidate you really want to win; if they lose, you can then vote for your safe fallback choice. This would really open the playing field beyond D & R (so it'll never happen).
I agree that for some data type like Sets you could use SRANDMEMBER, however to sample all the elements by random sampling you need to perform a lot more work. For example for a 10000 elements collection in average you are going to need around 10 times the requests.
The alternative to the US system isn't direct democracy.

First-past-the-post is the main problem. Better democratic systems are used all over the world where actual parties that represent a spectrum of opinions get actually elected.

Direct democracy has huge drawbacks as well.
Facebook is still that popular? I deactivated years ago and never cared to go back. I will activate every once in a while, check the feed, and leave. I have over 1000 friends, but the feed has slowed down to an extreme and it's mostly mommy/kid pictures now. A lot of people in my social circles agree too. It's pretty irrelevant as far as our social lives go. Instagram + Twitter is still pretty active. Hmm..wonder if it's bigger in other states/countries.
Practutor v1.2 - The Gen-Next Buzz Word in World of Blended Learning
I hope it's because you're being bombarded right now but it is moving like molasses for me.

Do you have any plans to offer free 3 days trials?
That's my current light at the end of the tunnel, but for now none of them seem mature enough to put my customers on. And it seems like there's a new one every week!

I imagine it'll be easy-ish to migrate between Docker-based PaaS's, though; just upload the container and change the provider-specific config, right? So that's a little reassuring.