skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you support giving money to poor people, why are you waiting for the government to take your money and do it for you? Why aren't you already giving money to the poor?
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perl is a language which has not seen any new adoption by developers, same is true about fastcgi. they were the best/state of the art 5-10 years back

was it a design decision or they chose it as no alternate mechanisms/libraries is available in perl.

these decisions are important to know for a open source project, it will determine its adoption, number of contributors, and will it flourish
The reason I've been thinking about spreadsheets is because of the potential.

I suspect the reason for Google's lack of investment is the degree of difficulty which it takes to develop a spreadsheet that can compete with Excel on something other than price. The world is littered with trivial attempts at spreadsheets, from Emacs org-mode tables and calc-mode to Common-Lisp's Cells project to Scheme-in-a-grid.

As I skim and wade and slog about Knuth's Semi-Numerical Algorithms, I get the feeling that any useful spreadsheet is probably going to have a bit of the "Electric components by Lucas" about it in order to bash a numerical implementation sufficiently to meet the reasonable expectations of real world non-programmer end-users. You won't get far with the CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation by saying, "Sometimes addition and multiplication are non-associative, so be sure to avoid cumulative rounding errors."

Pasting: See Office Clipboard.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/copy-and-paste-m...
Personally, I feel that the biggest problem in developing countries is corruption. Imagine all the wealth being created to disappear into bureaucracy. I've seen police bully businesses, engineering projects finish that is woefully substandard, rigged market competition, stolen aid money, abuse of monopoly, and so on. I truly feel that this is the sauce of problems many poor people face.

I really admire Bill Gates help with poverty and education. I only wish that people start looking into anti-corruption. Maybe we should start creating anti-corruption technologies.
Says you :)

And so is PHP. You cannot argue that PHP is not simple, you just can't.

And frankly I like composer, sure it doesn't do C/C++ installation stuff, but PHP doesn't need that. What is does is almost identical to NPM, the only different is one looks different, and the names.
Other things can improve when you're not stressed and struggling on minimum wage (or not wage at all).
> entropeneer

I like that word. Creators of entropy.
I think that's hopelessly techno-utopian.
Even if it isnt a part of the normal build, a separate one that does that would help immensely. AMD makes this ridiculously easy, and grunt etc will help him even further.
I've used ReactPHP in production for a while, it's stable enough.
> I do not know what you mean by "Microsoft knows it and invests in it accordingly". For me, the big quality of Excel is that it has almost not changed in 20 years. If Microsoft changes anything in excel, this will hurt millions of users.

Microsoft has changed lots of things in Excel. The pivot tables and graphs were rewritten in 2007. The statistics functions were rewritten in 2010. These are pretty fundamental features.

The key is that they made these changes by versioning. v1 Pivot Tables are not automatically converted to v2 Pivot Tables. The new statistics functions have new names -- the old statistics functions are still around. This ensures bug-for-bug compatibility with old spreadsheets.
Comparisons with Sweden is probably hard.

I seriously think of Swedish media as something out of Animal Farm these days. Or 1984.

I got vertigo a month or so ago, when the editor of DN (largest non-tabloid, or so they claim) discuss how good news are never big news, but bad news are. About the same time I saw in Forskning & Framsteg that the group rape statistics has increased fourfold since the 1990s. That had not been discussed at all in the media.

Lots of other examples exists.
Really, lots of down votes?

How can we get the tech community to learn about race/class/colonialism? Because this is some freshman year cultural studies stuff right here.

Opening your mind sure helps when you're doing all the 'disrupting' and 'innovating'
They support all of that. At my last job, we made a huge 3d facebook game written entirely in c#. We compiled independent libraries, copied them into Assets/Plugins and ran the game using the UI. Everything was procedurally generated because, back then, we had some serious issues with missing texture references. The best part is, because compiling c# libraries has nothing to do with Unity (other than including the Unity libs), it can be done using a variety of methods and IDEs.

We started the project without knowing if the compile to flash target would be done when we needed it, so we hedged our bets and kept unity as separate from the game code as possible.

The downside is step through debugging can only be done with UnityVS or MonoDevelop and you don't get the flexibility of using "that complex UI", which I rather enjoyed using as a REPL. Oh, going from code change to compiled to seeing the game on the screen was sloooooooow.
Yeah....

It was kind of a play on words, however, the faction that it was addressed to is so militant that it isn't completely out of place. Try talking to an anti-abortion protester about preventing abortions via sex education and contraception and they will reject even that.

I'll do my best to be nicer next time.
And yet over-all market share continues to slide: http://www.informationweek.com/hardware/handheld/android-win...

Interesting.
Meh, sounds like a lot of work and worries.
All I can say is I'm a little jealous. :)

I hope some day I dream at such deep levels.
It's not a poor article because most people who build Drupal sites do not bother to change the default editing interface. I've seen the node edit screen of Drupal sites built by some of the biggest, most successful Drupal shops, and they all looked like out of the box Drupal. Most still had the "promote to front page" checkbox, even though it did not do anything.

This author (who is a huge Drupal proponent) is encouraging people to spend some design time and energy on the edit interface.
Why I Lack Enthusiasm for Church
Everyone here should watch that Ducktales episode where everyone in the valley gets lots of bottle caps and then there's no value to them.

It's a fallacy and shortsightedness to think there be no inflation. No country is a closed system. People will be spending money on imported goods. This will only leave inflating money supply as a resort; so state can fulfil its obligation.
New Drake (“Make for Data”) Feature: Asynchronous Step Execution
Monodevelop was primarily developed on Linux, so this is bit ironic indeed.

May be it is because 3D/2D modeling aspects of the IDE, not really because of Coding aspects.
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Hi Matt,

This is a new web-based application for me so my apologies if this inappropriate. I was just curious if you were open to new opportunities. I noted that you have been with DRW for a while before and after your Master's Degree.

I wanted to through this position out there in case it strikes your fancy. It is a full-time gig located in downtown Chicago, IL and is for a historic trading company. I would offer you a generous salary, an exciting environment, and benefits. It requires your skills with C# and the finance industry.

If you happen to be interested, please feel free to reach out. If not, then thank you for your time! Have a wonderful day!

Cheers,
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I agree with you mostly: I hate these sorts of x is better than y editor war commentaries, but this one does make an important point: Eclipse is slow.

And it is slow. Not slow compared to IntelliJ. Not slow compared to NetBeans. Slow compared to Eclipse 3. The UI refactorings they did in Eclipse 4 have turned it into a trainwreck on any of my machines, to the point where I still use Eclipse 3 for my day-to-day development.

Eclipse 4 remains noticeably slower for me on Windows and almost unusable on Mac OS. The thought of having to run it on SunOS or AIX makes me choke up with fear. That Eclipse 3.8 updated their icon to be identical to Eclipse 4 means that I have a landmine disguised as a lovely field in my task bar.

I hope people keep trumpeting this because every developer and foundation member I've heard from are in denial about this.
The mysql driver on NPM is indeed mature. Been using it with out issue for a couple years now in a large app. https://npmjs.org/package/mysql
"If those jobs are really essential"

In my Grandfathers generation, attendants pumped gas into cars. People pump their own gas now. The world didn't end.

I've never seen a shoeshine boy other than in movies.

I expect a lot of jobs would simply disappear and no one would really mind. So you'll have to bag your own groceries, well, OK then. Hmm this store doesn't have any garbage cans or bathrooms for shoppers, interesting, I guess that means they don't have to maintain something that isn't there. My local bank branch no longer has tellers, its all on the insurance agent model where the local branch is a cheap one room office in an office park, or its all online, I was a customer of NetBank for many years until their downfall, which was nothing to do with customer service, they were bought by a subprime mortgage broker trying to diversify who obviously went bankrupt, no branches was never an issue.
There are a number of auto-completion plugins for vim. So even that isn't a loss. There's also Syntastic for syntax checking.

I found the biggest benefit of using vim is the fact that I don't have to switch between different IDEs for different languages. I can use vim for everything.
I took it to mean that the geek character in the movie was deliberately dumbing things down for the person he was explaining to, out of disdain for their position. He was basically saying, "This is the most valuable substance in the universe, and we can only get it here" in as bluntly and impossible-to-misunderstand way as he could.

It wasn't in the context of "Quick, pass me that bar of unobtanium!", or other in-universe common-usage (a la "midichlorians"), but rather a deliberate simplification. ("What do we mine here? __important shit__! Now leave me alone and go back to your useless sociology experiment while I do something important!")
Can someone explain how this is paid for?

As I understand it, the basic income involves paying each citizen $2800 per month, or $33600 per year.

For Switzerland that would mean a total expense of $270 billion ( $269,270,400,000 ) per year. If instituted in the US, that would mean an expense of $10 trillion ( $10,516,800,000,000 ) per year. Both numbers are around what the total GDP of each country is.

How does this math work out? I'm missing something, and no article actually explains it.

//EDIT

Does this mean that if you get a job that pays $34,000/year you would get no supplemental income? Whereas if you get a job that pays $30,000/year, the government will subside your income to the tune of $3600? That's the only way this makes sense any sense. Right?
Agreed, not the best phrasing but the intent was to provide the aid from the bottom up. And not everybody has to be the entrepreneur, those that are will ultimately need employees as they grow their business.
I am new to Go, but have dived right in and rewriting our current PHP backend in Go.

This global state abuse sounds quite important to understand. Unfortunately I do not have any clue what you are talking about. Could you point me in a direction of some examples of someone doing it the right way?
Are you saying the cost of production doesn't have a say in the price of the product it's how much people are willing to buy it for?

Because if that's done with basic necessitate like food so people are force to starve because corporations want to charge as much as possible they should all be charged with the death penalty.
I have not yet been a manager, and you raise a very good point. I'm sure my perspective is quite narrow.

Thanks for the insight.
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This is such a weak argument. In order to make a meaningful impact on society, you need mandated programs that require all to contribute. Do you propose that foreign aid, military spending, healthcare all be done on a peer to peer basis as well?
I'm going to repost my comment here from a previous thread.

I am an iOS Freelance Developer, and this path is what got me my first client.

It seems like you are very aware of what you are capable of. It's great to be realistic, but also realize that you are now in the professional market like everyone else. Like the other posts say here, NETWORK.

Go to local meetups and present yourself as a real professional. Create business cards (BONUS: Make yours stand out from the rest). You will receive many business cards by going to these meetups. You can probably gauge what would make yours flashier.

Update your LinkedIn, Twitter, HackerNews, Blog, etc immediately with solid and presentable information. If you're unsure of how to do this professionally, check out other professionals' pages and emulate success.

Now, BUILD THAT PORTFOLIO. Even one side project is generally enough to show someone that you can do the work. Do you want to show off your skills, but you're not sure what to build? Take a popular site and build a small client for it.
This is one of the most exciting experiences you will ever go through. We hear about people building businesses all of the time, and it seems amazing. There is so much more passion - in my experience - when you are building yourself. Congratulations on taking this huge step!

Please feel free to contact me if you have any basic questions about the whole freelancing process. I'm happy to help in any way! (Email in profile)
Agreed. Carbon tetrachloride is commonly used to induce liver injury because it does it so reliably.

Also, it's expensive as hell now due to the ozone-depleting regulations. Last I saw it was over $100/L.

The rest of the chemicals look pretty innocuous [1]. The KMnO4 has some hazards associated with it, but the risk isn't that high.

[1]http://www.hms-beagle.com/PDFs/BenchMark_Legacy_Chemicals.pd...
Agreed. It's starting to become a bit of an issue, particularly, like you said, with third party libraries.

It's one thing if you're a major version behind (unfortunate, but manageable), but 2.0 was 5 years ago. That's not a major version, that's practically an entire generation.

Also, lack of compute shader support for anything other than Windows and DX11 is a bit of a drag. Compute shaders are really the future of development and it's a bit of a pain not to be able to use them without going through a number of hurdles. This should be fixed eventually though, I'd imagine.

Hopefully they figure out a better way to handle all their platforms equally, at least for development purposes. Being held back on the desktop just because Unity can deploy to mobile is, again, a bit of a drag. I'd rather have the option.
I've lived in Sweden and Finland. That sounded more like Sweden. In Finland the police is trusted and appreciated. Among the most trusted civic functions in interviews, afaik.
Exploiting the lack of information _is_ overcoming the lack of information.

It might not be the most efficient net outcome, as a better solution might otherwise exist, but if there is an exploitable lack of information that is exploited then by definition the information in the system has increased.
Rendering Water with Displacement Mapping
Sounds like the place I work at.
I definitely view blogging as a major distraction, it’s a time sink, tedious, needs mental context shift, and is more of a long-tail investment, really tedious. Did I mention tedious? It does let you solidify the message or mental-model of your product, even if no-one even reads what you write, so I can see the value of it. So maybe if anything its just a chance to re-group and perhaps position yourself as an expert on xyz-topic if it aligns with strategy. It’s like starting at a gym, initially a horrible experience but then 6 months later you've got a new lump on your body which a doctor says is just a 'blogcep' (and a remarkably small one). Anyhow, like any chore it needs to fit into the routine somehow. Probably helps to be a people-person to begin with.
Just face it. Eclipse is no longer an IDE. Eclipse has an IDE too, but Eclipse is no longer just an IDE.

It is the Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse Platform, comprised of various projects like Eclipse Modeling Framework, Mylyn, Scout, EGit, BIRT, etc. They are packaged in different editions (popularly called the release train) and incidentally produce an IDE.

To be serious, they are so damn focused on selling a Platform, whereas all I need is just an IDE. Want to know why JetBrains is kicking their ass with a paid product? Its because they stick to building a coherent IDE. Not a platform full of projects which magically get integrated together to form a half-assed IDE.

Sorry did I say IDE?

Edit: I feel Eclipse is a classic example of what happens to a project when it loses its original direction and tries to be everything else at the same time, except what it was originally meant for.

Edit 2: Typo
I loved EV. Especially EV:Override. So many hours invested. I have long thought an online MMO version would be pretty boss.
Venting the ship also helps with fire & boarders. Both will die in an oxygen-free environment (except for boarding drones), and since breathing boarders will try to avoid rooms without oxygen, you can almost control where the boarders go. If you can direct the boarders into the medbay and fight them there, it gives you a big advantage.
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As we increasingly move to a post-scarcity economy, at least in terms of the most basic necessities of life, this kind of measure will be necessary to avoid civilization becoming teeming hordes of poor with a few billionaires (the ones who own the robots) sprinkled in.

Of course, this is all before climate change wipes out crops and antibiotics destroy the species!
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It's also slow the first time you use it because it pre-indexes a lot of things. Once it is finished indexing it is generally quite snappy.
I think NaCl is already portable across different OSes on the same architecture, since it exposes its own API.

The new part of PNaCl is that you don't have to recompile for each target architecture. Among other things, if they push hard for this for desktop developers on the Chrome App Store, then suddenly they have a large number of things that work on Chromebooks without demanding that developers recompile.
As a Clojurist not familiar with Dylan, that sounds awesome, but then it also just sounds like Clojure. What does Dylan add to the mix?

I'm reading their "Why Dylan?" page:

http://opendylan.org/documentation/intro-dylan/why-dylan.htm...

and I don't see anything that makes me want to go run and install it. I'm already used to dynamic, garbage-collected, infix programming languages that can be used in a functional style. Heck, JavaScript is one. Integers and strings are objects, cool, but how does that help me prototype faster or write more maintainable code?
Thanks! That's a great point I hadn't really thought about as a reason to use Bootstrap.

Thanks for pointing that out!
i also agree the idea sounds pretty interesting.

i think the main problem is how to address cases where people mis-spend their basic income. someone is unemployed, and they blow the basic income on booze, etc. issue is how do we protect people from themselves. we can say damn the consequences and encourage prudence but i believe this is why most aid qualifications exist.

i know HN readers will be less likely to do have this problem (other than spending on a startup :) ) but HN readers are not a representative cross section of people.
I too see unemployment (or rather, the diminishing demand for labor) as the key political issue of the 21st century. I can imagine a point by which the vast majority of humans simply aren't needed to provide services to the owners of capital.

I don't have any answers.
>>However, [the statistics are the 2nd highest on the planet] because Sweden's definition of rape is including so much more than any other country.

I've seen that claim often, but never some real facts which compares data. You don't have any, either?
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$99 for two pair of eye glasses is what the commercials say for places like PearlVision or Lens Express.

But that's only for a very small portion of the population. "People who barely need glasses", as I call them. My contacts prescription was 9.5 and after I got poly carbonate lenses and a little tint and some anti-glare coating and scratch protection I'd be looking at $400. A friend of mine who had toric lenses spent over $550.

I kind of wonder how much the insurance companies get charged for the $99 glasses.
A related article:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/switzerland-wants-to-offer-...
This looks fantastic. If I had this tool in 1995, my career trajectory might have been quite different. I loved graphics but it was so time consuming to make one change, recompile, re-run the program, and then start again to tweak 0.1 to 0.2.

With this editor, after you make the changes, do you have to copy-paste that back into your source to save it?

Slightly unrelated but seeing as how neat Firefox has become, I really feel like I need to switch back to it from Chrome. I went Netscape > IE > Maxthon > Firefox > Chrome. Chrome dev tools are good but Firefox seems even better. Anyone revert back to FF lately?
Coming from an academic world, the primary currency in my network is the number of publications/citations. Faculty/postdocs/Phd's salary in most universities are not worth bragging about; but it is not uncommon for people to put in regular 60+ hours week to get that extra publication so that you can stay ahead of the curve ( or at-least catch up )to your peers. From my perspective ( of course the domain bias exist) human ego is as powerful a motivator ( and we invariably have a desire to be ahead of people in our immediate network! ).

The fact that Switzerland is a really rich country, with the wealth distributed not so unfairly, makes this experiment even more interesting ( compared to the communist style takeover which happened in past in then poor nations including Russia or China).

To summarize, one of the things that makes capitalism work is competition; and money necessarily is not the only thing ( and might not be the primary thing) that we compete for!
Reminds me of a story I read where a father calling up target because they sent his teenage daughter a bunch of coupons on pregnancy related products based on her past purchases. Turns out target was correct... Still, they now try and disguise things by adding more random products to those coupons so it's less obvious when they figured out such things.

The problem IMO for online marketers is if your only doing one add you need to target the most likely purchases which get's you back into the creepy.

Edit: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
pdfpc - PDF Presenter Console (e.g. for LaTeX-Beamer presentations)
The possibility of unavoidable deaths is a larger topic in computer games. Ideally, a game like this would be really challenging and have both random layout and random course of action, yet still be winnable with perfect play.

Just the very notion of perfect play somehow ensuring a win is rather silly in the context of imperfect information and games of chance. Look at the game of poker: even a heavy underdog can win if he catches perfect.