skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never used Clojure but Boo has pretty good support for this, including an interpreter and repl hook.

The compiler and parsing pipeline is exposed, there is an interpreter built-in, you can hook into the assemblies, etc. I have a console in my game that does input/output from a Boo interpreter and it is exposed to everything in the game scope with no real extra effort on my part.

Only took a few hours to set up, most of which was spent either writing a UI for it or sorting out some compatibility issues (Unity doesn't come with a copy of Boo.Lang.Interpreter).

It's pretty sweet.
Agree. I will start believing in their sincerity once they are able to control their insatiable greed for consumption.
Simple.

Recently, I've been tasked with mapping all of our clients addresses to lat/long. I could've read the CSV and appended the results to each line. Or used a JSON file. That I would have to read/write every time.

Instead, I wrote some pseudo-helper to dump all the CSV data into a SQLite DB. Then I ran my script. Every time I found a lat/long, I could mark the client as "done" and add the lat/long for that client and every client that shared this address. When I had to cut my script because I saw one result from Google Maps was wrong, I could just edit it straight in SQL, mark it as "invalid" and relaunch my script: it started right back at the first undone row. Then I just had to select all the "invalid" results and search them manually or refine them so Google Maps would give me a proper result.

Dataset is useful for small data that is constantly being worked on.

(This answer is from a Ruby POV and the dataset I was working on had about 4K rows, which explains why a) some Python magic wasn't available to me, maybe it would have been perfect in Python world and b) I didn't want to play with streams on my files)

Of course I still need some automation to correctly use my "DataMiner" (as I called it) to the fullest. I'll use Dataset's API as a basis to rewite it correctly.
Read the Docs beautiful new theme
Random idea: If a creditor is about to sell your debt to a debt collector for pennies on the dollar, what if they were forced, by law, to give you right of first refusal?

While others are correct to point out that such a law would create perverse incentives, it's worth noting that debtors can already effectively buy their debt for a fraction of the price though settlements.
Somewhere I have a text file with links to several studies on information density and reading characteristics, but for now this might be interesting (unfortunately some of the pages before are cut):

http://books.google.com/books?id=BdrgETRVl74C&pg=PA99&lpg=PA...
I have a vague feeling of reading this on the new york times website years ago, it was a huge article. Looks like this is a reblogging?

Yup, from 1995: http://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/15/magazine/the-great-ivy-lea...
That's awesome. Thanks for the response.
I love Blender, you stole my comment.
> Their immediate smug dismissal of the product and idea was predetermined. Maybe I'm reading too much into what was shown, but I got the impression that there was no possible world in which they give Soylent a chance.

Why would they? The best possible case is that it tastes like a milkshake or malt or something good like that. At which point, they're still arguing against a monoculture of millions of identical milkshakes, which are still hell for anyone who actually enjoys food.

I'd expect any food critic's attitude toward this stuff to make their attitude towards corporate fast food look pretty mild by comparison.
When this is supported natively in Safari on iOS it will be interesting.
No. But keeping the code you wrote a locked up secret and trying to discredit and destroy anyone that doesn't do the same is.
>People are dying constantly due to the failures of the industry.

Wait, what? Not even anywhere near true[1]. The CDC says 3,000 people in the US die every year from foodborne illnesses. That's .1%, one-tenth of a percent. I'd say that's a pretty good track record.

[1]http://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/
Check to see if it's Hillary Clinton.

Also, why are we linking to this blogspam rather than the original?
The comparison to Active X, while intriguing, is really a Mu since the two are so different (http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/11/10/native-client-vs-act...)
http://www.amplify.com/careers (disclaimer: I work here) - we make educational apps for kids
"Indecent wealth" is a very culturally-specific term, and I suspect every country has their own grading. Where is the line in the French society?
I don't know where specifically to look but these organizations are doing cool (and positive) things with tech:

Raising political awareness and transparency
- http://sunlightfoundation.com/
- https://www.govtrack.us/
- https://www.popvox.com/

Defending rights in the information age
- http://www.fightforthefuture.org/
- https://www.eff.org/

Alternative fundraising: helping the little guy raise money
- http://www.indiegogo.com/
- https://www.wepay.com/

Facilitating online activism campaigns
- https://www.change.org/
- http://front.moveon.org/
- https://secure.avaaz.org/en/
This is a perfect description of the Halo Effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
Going back to lawnmowers, it would be like not wrapping the handle with leather for comfort because we can't prove that it's safe for the lawnmower. We think it's safe, we're pretty sure from our understanding that it's safe, but we can't prove it.

I say give it a try. Let's wrap the handle, observe in operation, and then react when we have more data.
If you are interested in getting your hands dirty around the world, you might checkout Engineers without Borders[1] or the Peace Corps[2], or one of many similar non-profit organizations that employ skilled people to help others around the world. You might even volunteer with the Red Cross to help victims of the typhoon in the Philippines.

On the less philanthropic end of things, there are a host of organizations solving problems in the biomedical world. From hospitals to biotech companies, there are many possibilities. I've found working in this space incredibly fulfilling, especially given that I've had a chance to see patient cases where we can make a difference.

[1] http://www.ewb-usa.org
[2] http://www.peacecorps.gov
What's this based on, exactly? It's slower and the design puts the optimiser in the TCB. PNaCl is a hack arguably with some problems with dynamic code, but short of getting the OS designer to do their job and provide proper sandboxing it's about as good as you're going to get. asm.js is the textbook example of a "worse is better" expediency, like the one that got us stuck with JavaScript in the first place.
So in lamenting this weird, invasive study, the author decides to publish several of the nude photographs? How unnecessary was that?
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6720969 for the Google cloud version.
Why only then?
I believe it's at least 5MB on all major browsers (that support it).... but I think text is stored UTF-16, so that gets used up more quickly than you might expect.
Don't cut corners when coding UI
No, you don't need to worry about this because the value in a marketplace is not in the code. You do need to worry about passwords being hacked, though.
Mutually Human: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139938

Amicus: http://amicushq.com/
And now we've closed the loop on the original debate that kids can't have dangerous chemicals, if they're not going to learn the difference anyway, may as well use perfume instead of carbon tet and koolade powder instead of chromium compounds.
Ipad Air yellow screen tint on left hand side?
scottalpert, you might consider another part of that site, http://open-source.fiveyearitch.com

I'd say that writing open source is another kind of positive social impact. You can do that in your spare time, but if you can do it on the job, all the better.
There are quite a few resources on Pinker's website about the work. The FAQ is probably a good place to start: http://stevenpinker.com/pages/frequently-asked-questions-abo...

Here is a direct answer to the question. There's a ton more info on the topic and a huge portion of his book is dedicated to it:

*Wasn’t the 20th century the most violent in history?

Probably not; see chapter 5, especially pp. 189–200. Historical data from past centuries are far less complete, but the existing estimates of death tolls, when calculated as a proportion of the world’s population at the time, show at least nine atrocities before the 20th century (that we know of) which may have been worse than World War II. They arose from collapsing empires, horse tribe invasions, the slave trade, and the annihilation of native peoples, with wars of religion close behind. World War I doesn’t even make the top ten.

Also, a century comprises a hundred years, not just fifty, and the second half of the 20th century was host to a Long Peace (chapter 5) and a New Peace (chapter 6) with unusually low rates of death in warfare.
This appears to be a rudimentary implementation of a delta encoding scheme?

I am unsure as to whether this will contribute to a significant performance gain, or if most websites even require one like this in the first place.
I'd like to add to this remark that the Japanese as a whole are not as proficient at English as one might expect. I know I had some expectation that the Japanese had some working knowledge of English (maybe because many countries do encourage learning it?), but after visiting Tokyo I realized my assumption was way off the mark.
It is free for the end user to sign up and use as a personal API (and we already have around 50 or so services). What we charge developers for is building multi-user applications on top of it.
You have swallowed the American dream / fairly tail! Inequality growing. More and more people (in the UK) relying on food banks. Falling real wages, with increased rents. Must depend on your definition of improving.
One week of letting anyone track me online
Sorry to be pedantic, but your example doesn't support your claim (of not actual analysis, too little numbers and graphs, not rational).

The relevant point of bringing up ageing is that this is an area that is often brought up as a medium/long term financial sustainability problem, but one for which France has better stats (b/c of birthrate) than most countries of relevant comparison - however Krugman feels that this point is ignored by "fiscal scolds" (certainly true for the two articles he mentions).
Perfect! I'm going to implement this tomorrow morning.

Very glad I posted this here. You guys rock.

EDIT: Just got it working. Thanks again for the pro advice!
Fine, but why doesn't every new industry have to make this same argument?

Because most new industries aren't within the financial industry, messing with the fundamental operation of markets. Those that are have to make that argument.
Bonuses must be distributed in some manner, and at most companies it is ultimately zero-sum. Giving one person a higher than average bonus means somewhere in the company (maybe on your own team, maybe someone across the world) will have to get less.
As azakai said, real benchmarks run by 3rd parties are great and very welcome. They can go a far way for improving all involved platforms and thus the web in general.
> including Amazon's cc2.8xlarge instance with 32 cores

they count AWS "vCores" which is 1 HT ( half-core).
Volunteering's good. I do it. But ya gotta earn a living somehow.

And yes, biomed is a good space to do well while doing good.
Oh, piss off. There's nothing less "open" about PNaCl over obfuscated JS.
> Now MacDonald's and Walmart would have to pay a living wage else nobody would bother with those jobs.

They would have to pay way more than a living wage — nobody's going to go from a life of leisure to a Walmart job for a 5% increase in income. This would drastically increase costs, would would simply spur inflation.
From Wikipedia:

Wintel is a portmanteau of Windows and Intel, referring to personal computers using Intel x86 compatible processors running Microsoft Windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintel
Eclipse was never just an IDE it has always been a platform. At its inception it was a framework for building IDEs by IBM. If you think the different editions of Eclipse are baffling, make sure to check out the different Rational branded Eclipse-based IDEs. There you'll find not just myriad J2EE IDEs but also IDEs for building software on p- and iSeries.

Around Eclipse 3.0, it really just became an OSGI container. So it's been an excellent pluggable framework longer than it's been a very usable Java IDE. And has been used to build plenty of non-IDE toolings like IBM Jazz.

You may complain about this "platform", but it's also the reason for its popularity. I can build a plug-in that works in Eclipse 3 and 4, almost all of the IBM products (some of them disable plug-in loading for unknown reasons), MyEclipse, JBoss IDE, Adobe FlashBuilder, Wolfram Workbench... etc. That's a very compelling position for an ISV.

Also, please don't conflate the Eclipse Platform with the Eclipse Foundation. What the Foundation does has only a little overlap with the Eclipse Java IDE itself. Its breadth does not indicate crazy feature creep on the part of the IDE; that the Eclipse Foundation supports (say) Hudson doesn't mean that suddenly you'll have a CI server in your IDE.
This is scary, an hour ago I tweeted "I love code challenges but sometimes I find myself dithering around on twitter instead of attacking them, like a horse refusing a jump."

Is this about coding? I know that once I hit "run" and something breaks my juices will start to flow, so I figure out some way to hit "run" even if I know the code is not ready. Josh's divide and conquer idea would help with this.
You're missing the optional static typing, the multimethods, the Common Lisp-style condition system, the ability to produce native and efficient executables ...
So I take it you're aware of the concept of buying good feelings, and true positive impact separately? http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa...
A lot of the issues people have with Soylent seem to revolve around making it the only thing in your diet for extended periods. You're right that this is not how they are pushing it. I would never want to replace food with this entirely. If I were planning to have Soylent for dinner but some friends called up and asked if I wanted to grab a meal with them, I wouldn't hesitate for a second.

Because of this I don't worry if it's healthy enough to be the only thing I eat for a month, or if I would miss food, or be less social. This will never, and isn't designed to, replace all food.
> the completely artificial hamburger people get at McDonalds

Define 'completely artificial' here. It's meat, it's bread, it's vegetables and condiments.
AFAIK, compute shaders only became available in D3D11 and OpenGL 4.3. MacOS was stuck on OpenGL 3.2 for a long time, and even the latest version only supports 4.1. On Linux, Intel and open source drivers (Mesa) only reached OpenGL 3.2 support last month. So that leaves proprietary drivers from AMD (4.3) and Nvidia (4.4) + D3D11 on Windows. I don't know much about mobile platforms but I don't think they support compute shaders.
Maybe not as violent, but a bad diet can quickly lead to disease. We never see it in the affluent West but micronutrient disease was and still is a pretty big problem -- you are getting enough food energy, so while you're not starving, you're still dying from your diet.

We've only begun to start understanding some of these diseases (like Pellagra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pellagra#Epidemiology), and we don't really have it all nailed down yet.
Apple's developer guidelines prohibit compiling and running anything that came over the wire, for security reasons as well as competitive ones. They could add this ability to Safari themselves, but why would they?
Packaging is part of the manufacturing process.
Yes ruined. Instead of having desk jobs these failed business owners could have had a shot at saving the world. The fact is he screwed people.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
Does biointensive === organic?

Organic is a loaded term nowadays, so maybe it's just semantics.
Ask HN: Feedback on a Mobile-First Solution to Procrastination
I'm a senior at Georgia Tech that has FINALLY learned how to manage time. I know procrastination is still a huge problem at my school. Every morning I can still find people just coming home from pulling all nighters. We've been working to compile best known solutions into a smart planner for college students. Other solutions focus more on showing what to do that helping you get stuff done. Here's what it does:

Breaks your work down into smaller pieces (30minutes -> 1.5hrs, our attention spans are short)

Helps you estimate how long work will take (based on your past personal history)

Adapts to your working habits ("John really gets a lot of work done at 11pm on Sundays, let's ask him to schedule a short task then to save him time later")

Show you how much free time you have and how you can get more

Help you eliminate distractions

Syncs with Google Calendar, Evernote and Dropbox (Coming later)

…and more

We're currently here: http://www.peersapp.com

Do these strategies actually work for you too? Or what would be the biggest reservation in using this? Feel free to drop this link to someone who knows alot about procrastination struggles in college..
We'd love to have an implementation of the functional datastructures in Dylan. This needn't even change the language definition as they could happen as a library. We just need a volunteer.
It's easy to say that when you're not providing any examples yourself at where pnacl's standardization efforts is lacking, and where asm.js is doing a good job at it...
Although I do not disagree with the perverse incentives of ratings agencies, you have to consider that certain funds are required to hold certain levels of investment grade products. Ignoring the reason why they have to do this, if the rating changes they might be required to invest elsewhere. This is why people DO care about S&P ratings.
There are plenty (including myself), we just avoid stating it in public for fear of the instantly appearing anti-PHP trolls that lurk around every corner.
I would want Rx for both.
I don't think dhh would argue that he has made a nice bank roll on Rails - no one would. But he isn't the only one that's benefited. There are quite a few of the 3000 committers that have their own consulting companies and they do quite well. Many speak at conferences, write books, etc. This is all pretty standard in the OS community and nothing new to Rails or dhh.

I think what he's taking aim at more is that he did this for free of charge and did not require any fundraising campaign to get it off the ground (or continue it). And it's the other freedom (in his case, libre) that allowed him to do whatever he wanted, on whatever whim he wanted. There was no hard deadline (except those he made) imposed because of funding constraints. And from that perspective, he's absolutely right: not beholden to anyone else's money or rules is the ultimate freedom to be as creative as you want to make whatever you want.

Because it's possible now to get a project funded on something like Kickstarter, there's less freedom when that happens because money becomes the ultimate driver. If it wasn't, then there'd be no need for it and work on the project could take any form over any timeframe.
A few companies with a social impact who I know who are looking for talented devs. Please ping me (naysawn at artsumo . com) if you'd like to be put in touch.

Actively Learn (activelylearn.com)
Moving Worlds (movingworlds.org)
Vittana (vittana.org)
> Before that, though, they'd probably ruin your credit and harass the lights out of you.

They'll also tack on every fee and penalty they can, so that when it does proceed to collections, the amount owed is much more than the prior balance. So if I had the cash to buy my own debt, I'd probably just make minimum payments with that money and look for opportunities to consolidate debt to get the lowest APR.
Ah yes...the "McDonald's is bad, so let's feed people glop instead" argument.

How about this: let's help people get access to, appreciate, and learn how to prepare "real" food, instead of jumping to the lowest common denominator. That's what I'd call "disruption".
I have. They're mostly useless at the stuff people hope they're good at. The best advice I ever heard is not to hire a PR firm until you have too many inbound requests from the press to manage yourself.

In other words: until you've made it big time and spending $10k/mo+ on PR is a non-issue.
For me, it depends on the money, the project, and my financial situation. With a stable salary currently, I often find attempts to make money from my side projects more demotivating than motivating. If it's something I actually find interesting, it's a hobby. Maybe it's writing software, maybe it's editing Wikipedia, maybe it's writing essays. That feels like a good use of my time, and I get to decide if it is or not. But then if I try to find a way to make money at it? Now it turns into basically a job, where I need to figure out how to monetize it, and in all likelihood the hourly rate will end up depressingly low. So I'd rather just spend my hobby time as I choose and not worry about monetizing it.

More subtly, I find that having monetization as a goal of a side project can creep in in a lot of ways that aren't really beneficial to the project. Take even just writing something. Sometimes I'm frustrated by the information available online on a subject, and want to spend a bit on writing something to set the record straight. Sometimes this makes sense to publish myself. Other times it makes sense to write or improve a Wikipedia article. This is an interesting tradeoff, because it's basically trading likely many more views (therefore likely more impact) if I write it on Wikipedia, versus more control and authorial credit if I post it myself. From a monetization perspective, writing on Wikipedia is rarely the optimal choice; but from the perspective of getting the information out there, it sometimes is.
Do you really think that poor kids stop dying of preventable diseases if every single person who’s reading HN changes? Inner change is not the vaccine, it can’t feed people, it can’t help with improving living conditions for the poor countries. It’s Doing something for them that should help. Bill Gates is so right at having his own plan how to help people and offering us to take part in it. The actions should help not mere inner change.
They provide pepper.js, which does a similar trick for PnaCl stuff.
> Eating will become like boozing—something we do recreationally with friends, or as a hobby

or, part of the grimdark future where the trend of hobby eating sends the prices of food out of reach of the lower 7/8 of society