skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This gets us ever closer to the goals of the elusive (and presumably abandoned?) Grok project [1].

I'd love to see syntax highlighters (like Pygments), editors and IDEs, autocompletion providers, debuggers, and all other language-related tooling consume a standardized canonical "language description format". Making a new language? Bam! It's automatically supported by Visual Studio, Eclipse, Emacs, vim, Sublime Text, gdb, Pygments, the list goes on.

The extension capabilities are also awesome. Let's say I have a huge project and, at a certain level of abstraction, users aren't allowed to use fprintf(stderr, ...), they need to use LOG(...). It would be great to have a file in your project that can tell your environment to give you the "red squigglies" and autofix information for such situations.

http://bsumm.net/2012/08/11/steve-yegge-and-grok.html
The fact is, providing incentives to work towards long term goals is exactly the kind of thing that free markets aren't good at

To claim that markets are not "good" at this kind of optimization entails the belief that they should be.

I'd argue that capital allocation in the face of risk and uncertainty is a hard problem, and that while governments (in their role as infrastructure providers) make the problem easier, they (governments in their role as social planners) enact policies to alter the risk landscape to achieve desirable social/economic ends and sometimes rents for specific interest groups.
I found this very troubling:

"I wasn’t drinking enough water. At the factory, Rob told me that was a common mistake; since Soylent is a shake, people figure they don’t have to drink extra water—an easy way to get dehydrated."

Failing so thoroughly to communicate how to use your product that users become dehydrated within two days is a serious mistake, though thankfully not a common one.
Interesting. How does this differ from tools like salt, puppet and chef?
You wouldn't want to make an actual hard floor, rather if you want something along those lines you do a graduated negative income tax which smooths out the incentives near the boundary.

Interestingly enough a negative income tax was proposed by Milton Friedman of all people.

It should also be mentioned that along with basic income and a negative income tax, a third grand idea for eliminating poverty and replacing welfare is guaranteed employment (i.e. the government is the employer of last resort). Right now that last is mostly being advocated by Australian adherents of the MMT school.
> let's tell everyone carbohydrates are the most important staple to eat and let's put corn and sugar in everything

Seems to be conflating two parties here. The USDA guidelines are written by government nutritionists and there are sound scientific reasons for recommending the base of any diet be grains. Though being a free country, whether or not the private sector decides to put corn syrup in everything is their own prerogative and unrelated to government guidelines.

> At least Soylent is trying to harness this machine for good.

Soylent is a private company, not an aid organization. Barring them irresponsibly marketing their product as a "total food replacement" I wouldn't call what they are doing good or bad.
Yes. Texas requires you to have a permit to buy laboratory glassware, under the assumption that if you don't have a permit, you are going to use it to manufacture meth:

http://www.dps.texas.gov/RegulatoryServices/narcotics/narcpr...

That's Texas style freedom for you!
You might be a literate orangutan.

Figured I'd join in on the speculation while it's fresh.
> Hipsters? We're talking about software development here and programming language choices.

I am making a colorful analogy to illustrate a point. I think it is appropriate vis-a-vis the level of the original discussion. I already pointed out to cletus' comment in the original thread, read that if you want a more logical and clear explanation.

> You seem to be taking a few anecdotes, apparently of HN posts, interpreting them in your own..

You mean I am actually writing my own opinions on how I view a situation as opposed to pasting data tables, code or exact quotes I read some other place.

> I do not recognize what you have described as any current reality I am a part of:

That's fine. But when I don't recognize stuff that is not part of my reality I also don't usually go writing long comments about it. I just skip over. There is stuff about high frequency trading on front page. I don't understand how that works and am not interested, I skip over it. I don't upvote or flag, and certainly don't respond to every comment in there with "Hey everyone, this is not a part of my reality".
Seen the same - work turned into a Survivor gameshow. Instead of concentrating on the product, everyone formed alliances and ganged up on the less-liked people. Everybody was so focused on politics nobody cared about the product anymore. Then the product died. I still don't think our MBA execs learned a damn thing from the whole fiasco, I'm sure they're somewhere else getting paid big bucks to run some other poor teams into the ground.
... yeah, I might've overstated that, which is particularly hypocritical given the thrust of my post.

Anyhow, I can't find the original article, but the idea is that organic farming techniques produce soil that's far better at retaining water and preventing wasteful evaporation.

Also, there's the secondary matter of fertilizer runoff contaminating local ground-water.
Pretty sure each answer reveals a bit about each of our value functions (and what we read on-line). Here goes:

ProPublica http://www.propublica.org/about/jobs

Maplight http://maplight.org/content/jobs-at-maplight

Sunlight Foundation http://sunlightfoundation.com/jobs/

Rootstrikers http://www.rootstrikers.org/

resource.org https://public.resource.org/

Code for America http://codeforamerica.org/

Engineers Without Borders http://www.ewb-usa.org/

EFF https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/jobs

Nexleaf Analytics http://nexleaf.org/contact-us
There's a difference between "meat", and grain-fed, antibiotic treated cow meat. And last time I made bread, it didn't magically develop high fructose corn syrup or ammonium chloride, and yet, somehow it appears in the "bread" of a McDonalds hamburger. It goes without saying that the condiments are more or less by definition artificial processed foods. And let's not even get into the amount of sodium in this thing. You'll also notice there's basically no fiber in this thing (that's why it lasts so long).

Define "completely artificial"? At least as artificial as Soylent.
Fuck Uncle Bob.
Neat. I built something similar into RevealJS last year and have been using it since.

The thing that really excites me about allowing your audience to view the slides on their own devices is vision impaired people being able to use their assistive technologies (screen readers etc) to view the slides.

Check out the multiplex plugin of reveal. I host a publicly available server courtesy of Nodejitsu and there's no connection limit.

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/
All kidding aside, he's an impressive businessman. Evidently Shutterstock was bootstrapped for a large portion of its 10-year existence -- which is interesting, considering the size and capitalization of the entrenched players it was going up against.

http://jonoringer.com/2013/05/28/go-as-long-as-possible-with...
And weighing scales. Same reason - the war on drugs.
I don't know that sounds like a very large surface to secure.
GMOs undergo far more extensive testing than any other type of new crop introduced. The people who don't like GMOs do so b/c they don't like industrial agriculture. GMOs are just the weakest link in industrial Ag to attack.
Thanks for bringing some positivity to the debate. PNaCl and asm.js are timely and they are technically very different. It will be interesting indeed to see how it goes from here.
I'm using the standard definition, of course.

Seriously, the absence of a published standard from a credible and relevant standards body would be my primary objection to the phrase. Barring that, de facto standardization would be indicated by multiple interoperable implementations from more than one vendor and widespread adoption. LLVM IR and PNaCl are, at best, documented. That's better than undocumented, but it's a long way from standardized.

I never said asm.js is standardized. ECMA/JavaScript is, though, and asm.js is just a well-defined conventional subset of JS. There doesn't need to be a standard.
instead of kludging your document-format specification up into an application runtime

So glad to see somebody else saying this. I think you are absolutely correct. The current state of web applications / web browsers is an absolute kludge. Whatever happened to "separation of concerns" or the idea of building tools that do one thing and do it well?

But what "one thing" does a web browser do these days? One might think "browsing hypermedia content" but what does that have to do with becoming the universal application runtime?!?!??

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think "clusterfuck" would be an even more apt term than "kludge" for what we have now. But I largely blame Sun: IF they had bothered to ship something like the Consumer JRE about 7 or 8 years sooner, and IF they hadn't screwed the pooch so badly on security, we could have something like Java / JNLP for hosting "applications" while the actual browser could stick to, well, browsing.

I'm actually waiting for something to come along and become "the next Java / Flash" but done right. :-(

I'm curious to see to what extent PNaCL can fulfill some of that.
Now that they get rid of it, I wonder if they're going to run into problems on the other extreme...

- Difficulty knowing who the best employees are.

- Employees surprised by layoffs. "I thought I was doing well."

- Managers slacking on giving constructive feedback.

Performance management is such a tough subject. Both extremes (ruthless stacking, and no-curve) have issues and I don't know a better solution.
Bytecode (whether x86, Java class files or this) is a far more compact and (arguably) more complete representation of the program's logic than the input source code.

Also, you haven't experienced pain until you've tried to compile C or C++ on a machine other than the author's.
I think you've mixed up password hints with security questions.

You seem to be talking about stuff of the form, "What is my mother's maiden name?"

A password hint is exactly what it says: a hint for what your password was, to help you avoid forgetting it. If your password is "lassie", then your password hint might be something like, "That dog you like from TV." The problem, of course, is that just about any hint that helps you remember your password also helps an attacker guess it.
EWOP applied to economics.

There's this really popular show called Breaking Bad that revolves around the main characters' heroic efforts to do this.
NS3 documentation is down
This is true, but I'd be very surprised if you could beat the memory usage and performance of a while loop with epoll using goroutines. At least in the role of a DNS server. Now I want to test this...
It depends entirely how you define a particular game. My poker example is in reference to winning a single hand. In that case, one hand is a single game. This makes poker highly variable and effectively impossible to win every time despite perfect play. In real life poker, this is mitigated by playing many hands over a long period of time.

In the case of single-player games such as FTL, people really do mean one single game when they talk about winning or losing. Otherwise, your odds of winning no matter how bad you are begin to approach 100% if you play enough games.
Vine Launches on Windows Phone with live tiles
I believe no one associated with Soylent has ever claimed it to be a culinary delight, and no one is trying to stop people from enjoying food when they want to eat for that purpose. To have these critics evaluating Soylent by their usual metrics in a pseudo-experimental setting is disingenuous. The guy critic even used the word "stupid". It's not a stupid, it's just not good at something it never claimed to be good at.
See the video on 0:43

> New music by Ben Prunty

> New content by Tom Jubert

> and guest writer Chris Avellone
> backward compatibility

IMO NaCl is much more backwards compatible, letting you recompile old code-bases for the web with minimal changes. The javascript approach (even with the speed gains of asm.js) does not have threads/native instructions/etc.

I want chrome to support asm.js, and firefox to support NaCl. Winning all around.

> though I admit I am not aware of the nuances of each implementation

Perhaps a neutral discussion page is needed... I'll see about making one.
Interesting, I had heard that Google and FB had about 900 millionaires at their IPOs, and while all three had around the same number of employees (2000-3000) both Google and FB had significantly greater market caps than Twitter.

Was Twitter much more generous with their equity grants?
How is this different to Javascript? They both get jitted to native code (v8, llvm)...what's the benefit?
Thanks! That's a good list. Some are non-profits looking for volunteers, some are non-profits or for-profits looking for employees.

But I'm wondering if there is some sort of job listing or board that brings together all the salaried jobs (sorry, gotta eat), that help humanity directly in some way.
Cerner: http://www.cerner.com/About_Cerner/Careers/
Rails did not have the backing of 37 signals. It was created by dhh in his spare time.
ThisPlusThat.me - fast + slow...

Just kidding! :)

You could also say...

ThisPlusThat.me - another rant + something cool

Thanks for posting this, very interesting work!
"But we do know about nutrients and have a good idea of the proportion of them for the avg human."

We really, really don't. You could be excused for thinking we've got it all figured out if you listened only to news reporting on nutrition studies, but there's so much contradictory information out there that it's difficult to know which end is up.

For example: Soylent, according to the story, is partially fish oil. Did you know that there's a study out of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center that strongly suggests that fish oil supplementation increases the incidence of aggressive, fatal prostate cancers? What was once a nutrient panacea is likely now contraindicated in men.

Does this mean that Soylent shouldn't be using fish oil? Hard to say. I doubt that even the creators have any idea.
You're right, it actually may be more fun and interesting to provide you with all of the tools, and instructions on how to use those plus various common household substances to produce the chemicals that you need. Perhaps along with a few samples that are either impossible, difficult, or dangerous to produce yourself, but are useful for various reactions (since I haven't touched chemistry since junior year in high school, I don't necessarily know which those would be).
Agreed. Team work is critical, but likability should affect the soft rankings only but instead had an overall positive or negative effect, even on technical skill rankings.
The site needs to tell me why it's better than Chef or any of the other existing alternatives.
Don't worry, the bankruptcy system will catch up and find a way to make medical debts non-discharge-able just like it did for student debts.
I think he probably means things like the diabetes or obesity epidemics, which in large part are caused by the failures of the industry, and their reliance on things like HFCS.
Have you also tried Sports Nutrition, they also have shakes and powders –some proteins, the ingredients can be similar. The whole article sounds like a fancy way to reinvent a bike. What’s new in this substitution food endeavor? One can live for 30 days on shakes and sports nutrition, or it can be used as a supplement to traditional food. One can even leave with No food at all if drinking a lot of water and juices for 30 days, some people do that. Why investing several millions in it? To create another hype?
food for though, capitalism != markets
Breaks down and you have no idea how to fix it and have to hand over cash to the guy you bought it from, because your generations of accumulated animal husbandry knowledge is now useless? Does not magically replace itself with newer models like your farm animals did? Introduces new and unexpected dangers like a blade that accidentally cuts off your childs hand, because while you and your children are very familiar with the dangers of farm animals, machinery is totally unfamiliar? Check, check, check...
Not to worry, the last two paragraphs explain why it won't take over the world:

"I was euphoric. I felt the endorphins rushing through my body, the gob of chicken skin wandering down my esophagus, the juices staining my chin. Rob, who'd joined us, led a conversation about the food technology; the chicken was sublime. Before long, I might as well have been stoned. For a half an hour, I sat there, overwhelmed, unaware of any foodless world outside my brain."

"For a few minutes, the future didn’t matter; the taste, the the swirling talk took over. The food anchored me to the glorious present, and eating was all."
Regulating the software industry will set us all back 100 years.

Innovation blossoms where people are free to innovate.
if Tptacek had said "nobody asked you " I would agree. But he said nobody asked you or anyone else. None of us chose to be born, nor born into the circumstances we find ourselves. As we cannot control if we win or lose the lottery of western luxury or extreme poverty, those on the winning side should say "let's fix this" not "well if I was that unlucky I would rather be dead, so why can't they all just die and leave me alone" which is rather the undercurrent I was reading.
As someone who is being educated in the area, perhaps you can offer me some some answers to a few of questions I have:

1) What are the specific claims of capitalism that actually could be refuted by evidence?

2) Is there any evidence that does seem to refute those claims in any way?

3) Where would we most likely find evidence that the claims were innacurate?

I think the main thing that confuses me is that, from a layman's perspective, we just seem to adapt our picture of what capitalism includes every time something new comes along.

Model refinement is great in principle, but where is the proof that the basic theory is actually correct? There are such a terrifying number of confounding variables...

To use an example from my own field: when ocean models get to a high enough resolution you start seeing a lot of mesoscale eddies. It turns out they are really important in all sorts of processes, and their effects can feed back to larger scales.

For us it's not too bad; running models at sufficient resolution is expensive, but we can use higher-resolution runs to parameterise lower-resolution ones (and better comprehend our ignorance when that doesn't work). My point is that without a pretty good understanding of those fine-scale dynamics you can miss important things in the bigger picture, and I suggest that the economy-society coupled system has many more horrible to understand feedbacks than the ocean-atmosphere system.

Thanks in advance to you, or anyone else who takes the time to answer.
You're right. It still sucks though. :)

AFAIK you can do OpenCL on OSX with Unity, you just don't have the typical Unity integration so you'd have to handle all the details yourself. It's on my list of things to try out soon... the switch to general purpose GPU processing is too large of a revolution to ignore.
Actually not, since that "right" hasn't been created yet.

Which is just another indication that it's actually an entitlement rather than a right. Rights exist without government, governments merely recognize them. On the other hand entitlements don't exist at all without government funding.
> What would be really great to see is someone putting a HTML client/DOM implementation/etc. inside a PNaCL application.

Yes! We'd need a bunch of tooling re-built for each platform, but we could do it with static compilation :)

> instead of kludging your document-format specification up into an application runtime.

Seriously. It's a mess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

Learn history yo before making ignorant comments.
Brainwallets are never a good idea.

See here: https://www.google.com/search?q=brainwallet+(stolen+OR+hacke...
Spyder and PyCharm don't really compete and only minimally overlap. PyCharm is an Integrate Development Environment designed for writing large python applications, with particular support for python web applications.

Spyder (which has been around since 2009) on the other hand is an Interactive Development Environment focusing mainly on scientific computing and interactive data analysis and exploration, with lots of handy tools for poking around in and plotting data.

Both are great, but they target different uses and complement each other rather than directly compete.
Anonymity bad for Craigslist users
Sounds like an evil but effective way to combat the BS of stack ranking - keep a couple of obviously subpar staff chained up in the corner ready to be sacrificed at the review altar then replaced. Honestly, I can see the benefits of SR as a once off "clear the decks" purge, but as a continual measure it's insanity.
What makes Java developers more productive?
Data Visualization and D3.js Newsletter - Issue 52
Right.

The question is, where do we get reliable ratings of the "safety" of investment products without the conflict of interest and the political biases of rating companies? It seems very difficult to impossible.

An even more out-of-the-box way to approach the problem is to ask why funds with such investment grade requirements are so important in the first place. In part it is because the rich park their money there, and public discourse is overwhelmingly determined by what the rich (edit: make it the top quintile in terms of income or wealth, perhaps) care about.

The other part is that retirement is largely organized privately via funds. I am increasingly of the opinion that that is a horrible idea.

Note that it is still a somewhat nuanced position. Of course, everybody should have the right to invest their savings into whatever they like. However, the normative default ought to be that a comfortable retirement can come out of a direct distribution system financed by taxes.

In the end, the real resources consumed by retirees come from the currently working population anyway. On that level, it does not matter how the necessary funds flow to the retirees.

However, there is a big difference in stability between an intransparent system of privately run funds based on volatile financial markets vs. a stable and transparent system of direct, tax-funded distribution.
IIRC Oakland is looking into using eminent domain to seize mortgages (not the physical property that's mortgaged, but the mortgages themselves) so it can then forcibly refinance them on terms better to the borrowers.
"Simply giving everyone a check won't cause fathers to stay with their kids"

At least in the UK there are currently financial incentives in the welfare system for single parents to a) become single parents rather than couples, and b) be paid by the government to stay at home and raise the child rather than the government paying for childcare while the parent works.

"A check isn't going to replace work as a framework for structuring society nor give people the fulfillment that comes from work."

Again, current welfare systems heavily incentivize the poorest people not to work. This is a key benefit of the proposed system, you keep most of every extra dollar you earn, rather than facing punitive marginal tax rates because welfare benefits are clawed back.

Your "paternalistic" welfare is often a beaurocratic trap.
True. Seems like a basic income would be good for penniless artists as they'd have more time to perfect their craft. It would not be good for people who just want to spend their time watching tv.