skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically the same phenomenon that happens with frameworks. At first, the framework gives you a ton of functionality for the (initially) low price of living with its abstractions. As you want more custom functionality, you find yourself either fighting the framework with increasing levels of desperation, or simply coding around it. I'd argue that the best frameworks are such that you can code around them without causing huge overhead or resorting to objectionable tricks.

The same goes for CMSes. Many CMS customers would probably be better off if they took the CMS editor interface as a separate component and wrote the actual page renderer as a custom development separately. The trouble is of course, content systems make it very hard to do that. Having to make things work with the native mechanisms (and the often horrific underlying data model) is what makes huge CMS projects fail or at least perform miserably for everyone involved.

On the very top of the list of abhorrently convolute CMSes would probably have to be Typo3, followed after some distance by Drupal. But the more you work with the initially-liberal Wordpress the more you discover it's not that far behind either.

This reminds me of a bygone era: my startup (now long gone) had its own CMS. Sadly, that wasn't our actual product as we were a pure service company and the CMS was only a tool for us. In hindsight, we should have done it the other way around. Our CMS wasn't perfect, but it shone in a few areas that made the life of both developers and content editors very easy: a simple, accessible data model and an easily extensible page renderer. Unlike many other solutions it was designed to get things done, not to bill a lot of consultant hours. I've yet to come across an open source (or commercial for that matter) CMS that works equally well.
> At best they had a great marketing department that made it possible for them to peddle their crap to the public for so long.

They also chose the most susceptible target market - teen gamers and overclockers. "Being cool" is their mantra and OCZ delivered.
Startup: Arcos De La Frontera
About #2, it may be the other way round, anything escaping Earth is easily pulled in towards Mars' orbit by the Sun's gravitational pull. The other way round, it requires more energy to escape.
The "discussion" the other headline generated appears to be two really poor comments. I'd suggest this is an argument for the HN title policy.
Dash became Dart?
But what if said manufacturer decide your car is not 'supported' anymore?

You may not even be allowed to turn to alternative battery suppliers, because it might be forbidden by contract. Their are some user protection laws in some countries (say, France), but it won't be the case everywhere.
As we're already off-topic, I'll chip in with my view.

I personally hate the opening { stuck on the end of the line in C/Java. For me it goes on a line on its own pretty much every time.

I've lost count of the amount of times there's been a subtle bug introduced by incorrect scope as a result of a { being missed from the end of a line and not being noticed due to the code being formatted as if it was there.

With a { sat on its own, directly lining up with the }, that's pretty much impossible to miss.
Florida school threatens expulsion over black girl's large hair
Is arithmetic difficult?

> About 0,000001% of the world population is currently interested in bitcoins.

This is about 70 people. So author can't even be bother to make up a better number.

> Getting a bitcoin into your virtual wallet, which looks like “1PKkR3aXmSGNwwwqJu5ph4UcY1xaesumjr” is actually pretty complex. It’s not user-friendly at all.

coinbase.com is easy.

> If we want 0,1% of the world (700 million people)

More bad math.
This is no different to contributing to Wikipedia. You can't just have your edit history deleted. Wikipedia treats privacy seriously!
That's... uh pretty disingenuous as an argument. The "good enough" point didn't have to be exactly the current densities, it just had to be less than the current densities... If the "good enough" point wasn't achieved with a doubling of the pixel resolution, Apple would still have doubled the pixel resolution, because exactly doubling brings a whole load of advantages from a technical or graphical design point of view. It's just that a few years later there would be another doubling until "good enough" had been surpassed.
Gasoline engines (like the ones in a car) will only ever have at maximum 30% thermal efficiency. That means for every dollar you spend, 70 cents of your dollar is doing nothing.

However despite how inefficient an engine is, academia, industry and the military pout millions of dollars every year to increase modern engines efficiencies by .1%.

So is inefficient bad? Well its wasteful and we have worked very hard to reduce that waste, but it will never be physically more than 30%. However I would call a modern lamborghini engine "bad". With the tools and knowledge humans have at the moment lamborghini has managed to produce an amazing engine.

Same goes for the government. Yes there are holes and I'd imagine there are people working to fix these holes. But is the government today objectively bad? Are we blindly driving ourselves to wall. I think its hard to say. Its easy to say that the government should do x, y, z and all our problems would be solved, but that is easier said than done. Modern human society is exceedingly complex. So to say the government is "bad" would require more knowledge on modern human society that is currently even possibly, just like to say if an engine is bad you would need to be an expert on engines. However just like I can say 70% of an engines energy is wasted on heat and is therefor inefficient, the government is also inefficient in a similar matter, without at all being "bad"
I like it a lot but there seems to be some performance problem when you have a couple of comments there, for example http://demo.telesc.pe/posts/a05eba73-cdd9-4d64-933d-2586ffc5... takes a couple of seconds to load on my 27" iMac in Firefox and even shows me the beachball of death for a couple of seconds before it gets rendered. It only has 335 comments.
Feed from node to go channels ... and then fly it on top of gevent async overload!
> All other things being equal (quality of NAND, workload, etc) the NAND on Sandforce drives will last longer because of their write compression.

The write compression is the reason why I associate Sandforce with "I'm being punished for using full-disk encryption". I could never convince myself to buy any drive with a controller where one of the main advertised "advantages" was completely useless for my usecase.
It's not the case that a web app is capable of doing "whatever you do on any device." The browser exposes a tiny fraction of the actual device capabilities.

Browsers are themselves native apps, and therefore web apps will always be less capable than native apps, because web apps are subject to the one-two punch of the limitations imposed by native apps and the browser.
Fluoride is not used to kill pathogens, but because it is a substance that is good for your teeth, that a lot of people do not get in sufficient quantity otherwise.

Consider it the equivalent of putting vitamin pills in foods, not putting antibiotics in meat.
IMHO the "sandboxes" those OS'es provide are all terribly broken. You'll have to sign your code, you can't distribute your code outside of app shops (either completely impossible like on iOS, or scare-dialogs pop up like in OSX), there are gate keepers which dictate what software gets in the app shops and which don't, and which can remove your app from the shop at a whim. And did you look at the Windows8 Store Apps API? It's a f*cking joke. Innovation doesn't happen in those closed-down environments, only commerce (but commerce depends on innovation).
This means it's very, very difficult to come up with another document that returns the same string when run through this same function.

This isn't entirely true for some hashes (like MD5). However coming up with another Haiku, in English, that makes sense and has the same hash, is probably close to impossible.

So this probably wouldn't work that well as a service to see who first generated a random string, but works very well if we know something about the structure of the string in question (like that it is in a known human language and makes sense)
Developing resistance is not individual bacteria "going to the gym" and training to be stronger.

To develop resistance, all that is needed is a random genetic mutation that makes a few of the bacteria cells less susceptible to the polymer. The polymer kills all other cells, and the resistant strain grows in numbers and takes their place.
Apple's iOS brings developers 5x more revenue per download than Android
That doesn't sound right at all. If both process have permission to the mapping, then sure. But permissions on the file skids have nothing to do with it.
Iodised Salt?

It possibly can be a good thing, yes we should be cautious, but I think it's rash to judge it negatively from the very start.
Because it gets embedded into the tooth's enamel. Fluorid-enriched enamel is more resistant to acids produced by bacteria. (i.e. fluoride doesn't affect bacteria, it makes teeth more resistant to byproducts of bacteria's feeding on sugars.)
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Ask HN: How does this online guessing site work?
http://en.akinator.com/

I'm quite amazed at how its able to guess even obscure people.
Here's my plan: use street lighting for a wireless mesh and stick camera's in each one so the NSA can keep us all safe.
What you don't see here is that if you have a government, it inevitably imposes the rules the majority agree with upon the minority who disagree. There is no way for the minority to do anything but wait until the next election and hope. So conflicts are not really resolved, but rather one side orders the other to shut up and do as they say.

A true resolution would be when both sides agree on the price. An simple example would be this:

I would like to throw a party on my lawn, but my neighbor disagrees. I really want that party though, cos it's my birthday, so I would go to my neighbor and try to convince him to let me have a party. I can see he wouldn't appreciate the noise so I would offer him something in exchange for his inconvenience: maybe I would let him use my bathtub for the next month, or maybe I would simply give him some money. If it wasn't just my one neighbor, but maybe 3 or 5 of them, I would have to convince them all and pay them all and that would make my party very expensive, so I would consider cancelling it.

Now on a larger scale, imagine you'd have various law firms, each protecting their clients interests and bargaining on their behalf. So, for instance, clients of one firm wouldn't like gay people to marry, while clients of that other firm, obviously many of the are gay, would be in favor of it. Even if we suppose that those who oppose gay marriage are the majority, they still probably wouldn't be able to outbid the minority here. That's because when people are asked to pay to teach others how to live, it becomes painfully obvious most of them are not ready spend their money on it.
I have encountered this across various other google services. Case in point: I was hacking together a simple Alfred (http://www.alfredapp.com/) extension, using AppleScript to allow creating & searching of google keep notes. It broke about 2 days afterwards and, in the absence of official (stable) endpoints from google themselves, I gave up on the idea.
If you drive on public roads without paying your taxes, are you stealing? If your car gets stolen and you ask the police for help, are you stealing?

If you don't want to pay your taxes, leave the country and build your own, with roads, running water, infrastructure et. all. If you find you need outside investment to "bootstrap" your new country, then you may end up paying dividends to your investors just so you can have running water - how is this any different from taxes?

Okay, you might say - but why don't we let private companies manage roads, infrastructure, and others? You should ask yourself, do you really want a company whos job it is to maximize profits to be running these basic services? We already have a couple examples of how privately run institutions with perverse incentives can ruin peoples lives.

Lets look at the prison industry, which is now private. They benefit from the free labour of prisoners indirectly giving them an incentive to have as many people as possible in prison. As a result America has the worlds highest incarceration rate by a wide margin[1]. Often these people are in prison for reasons illegitimate. While these people are in prison they also represent an innumerable net loss to the actual economy. These are people who could be getting educated or running higher worth jobs.

It shouldn't be a stretch of the imagination that running a country - managing the resources and happiness of millions of people as well managing relations with other countries as represented by millions of other people is an incredibly complex task. Simply boiling down "taxes = stealing" is too simple and naive to actually strongly consider.

[1]http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2012/us-incarcerati...
From my understanding (which may be limited), treble damages only apply when someone willingly infringes on a patent. So this would be a scenario where someone identifies a patent that relates to what they're building, but they build it anyway. This is very different from identifying existing patents specifically to ensure one does not infringe. In this second scenario someone identifies a patent that relates to what they're building, so they modify what they're building as not to infringe. In some (extreme) cases, this might mean the project should be abandoned. In other (not so extreme) cases, this might mean you need to change one (or more) aspect(s) of the project. In any event, and aside from the legal aspects, I think it's a good exercise for anyone building something. You might avoid future legal issues, you might become more aware of where technology is going (vice a perspective built on currently released products), and it might help you innovate further. Brain food.

I believe that patent trolls "win" when everyone is too scared to stand up for what they believe in. Plain and simple, if people don't take a stand, then things won't change. And I don't necessarily mean just taking a stand in court, I'm talking more about how we (as developers and innovators) react to the issue. I agree that leaving the US will probably lower your chances of becoming a patent troll victim, but everything is relative. Maybe you're building something truly novel and innovative and you want to protect it? Would this outweigh the risk of becoming a patent troll victim? I guess it depends on what (and where) you're building.
Difference in developer revenue between Android and iOS [Chart]
...how on earth did you find that? I only sent the URL to one other person, and your name is definitely not Calvin o_O

In any case, that definitely won't work. I'd run out of hard drive space on the server it's running on before it got close to being solved.
Everything able to replace, as a cheap and therefore widely used biocide, this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isothiazolinone which is responsible for my allergy and awful dermatitis, it is a good thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
for some reason I don't trust your site, the use of "best" is too scammy.
I've heard this a couple of times. Much of the startup founding crowd reads this the wrong way.

Top talent seeks better perks because they already have a high salary. When you are already paid well over what you need, getting your own, quiet office and free lunch is a good trade for additional money that would be ok (I mean, who refuses a raise?), but not a major improvement.

I, for one, have refused a lot of job offers that went along the lines of "we're cool to work with and we have a lot of perks because we're targeting people who appreciate what they do and the atmosphere they do it in rather than upfront pay". This has become so common that I began refusing it in a rather snarky tone. If I wanted a great atmosphere, I'd strike a deal with the local pub and work from there.

Good perks can give you an edge, but the only case when they can compensate for below-par salary is when you're working with young developers that are talented, but unsure of their skills and low on self-esteem. In which case people should at least have the decency not to come up with the "we're encouraging personal growth" mantra.
I don't get the last bit you mentioned.

in the privy of someone who promises 20% of your investment return if you fund a movie they will mention those companies and your will say "OH! so thats who you are!" RUN QUICK!

Why would anyone wants a 20% return? I want 100%+ return on an investment.

Are you trying to say that 80% is to have my company name on that stupid screen?
> Sailfish OS, a truly open mobile operating system
Nobel prize
No monopoly in 3G? How do companies refrain from transmitting at each other's frequencies? No monopoly in telecom? How do they lay all the wire without permits and regulation? Or in good old days, can I dig up anywhere in Russia and lay wires directly to my customers?
Yep. Nobody ever claimed it wasn't.

jQuery adds padding for browsers that don't support certain features or have certain quirks (yes, IE, we're mainly looking at you). This is overhead that will slow things down.

That being said, if you can afford to develop for modern browsers only, then by all means, use plain JS.
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I am writing an API in Ruby right now, and absolutely loving it. It's quick and simple. I am using Grape framework (rack based) : https://github.com/intridea/grape
Pharo Zeroconf: multiplatform, multiversion, all in one from the CLI
One who pays? On time?
Possibly though you would have to obtain a large amount of bitcoins and then just sit on them for a long time to have any affect. And I doubt it would make money since the price would go down if you put them back on the market.

The equivalent situation in the real world would be if someone secretly bought half the world's oil supply and then hid it, or at least just sat on it. The price goes up since there is now less oil available.
Are there any benchmarks? I have a hard time seeing this make any significant improvement over minified concatenated javascript files. And are you really updating your javascript files enough thats it's a problem?
Not if you're talking about development time!
I'm just going to copy-and-paste this old comment:

When evaluating language tradeoffs the scala community values power more and the clojure community values simplicity more.

Scala wants to provide you with the most powerful language possible. Clojure wants to make it easy for you to mold your own language.

Scala language tooling works at compile-time and analyses the language statically. Clojure language tooling connects to a running environment and uses introspection. Scala has much better static checking and clojure has much better introspection. While both languages have a repl, the clojure community puts much more emphasis on live, interactive programming.

Clojures syntactic extension mechanisms are much simpler, being based on sexps. Scalas are powerful (eg can access the lexical environment) but much more heavy-weight.

Clojure has run-time eval. This makes it possible to do eg domain-specific jit (eg compiling DSLs -> clojure code -> java bytecode on the fly). Scala has a run-time interpreter which I haven't used but is reputed to be slow.

I haven't yet explored non-jvm backends for scala but I suspect that clojure will eventually dominate on that front for two reasons: 1) when clojure-in-clojure is finished porting clojure to a new platform will be far easier than scala and 2) clojure was designed from the beginning to be a parasitic language and delegates many features to the underlying platform.

Scala breaks backwards compatibility much more often than clojure. Whether this is a pro or con is up for debate. There are lots of small niggling things in clojure I would like to change but on the other hand maintaining scala code across compiler updates is a pain in the ass.

Personally, I believe that the number one problem a language needs to address is managing complexity. The clojure community largely seems to get that and is driving for simple, orthogonal language features and libraries to an extent that I've not seen in any other community (eg http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/10/1/prismatics-graph...). In addition, the most exciting research I've seen on that front (eg http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf http://boom.cs.berkeley.edu/ ) and most of my favorite tools rely on powerful introspection and runtime code generation. I think Yegge describes this better than I can - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2007/01/pinocchio-problem....
You can't and it's precisely because government sets the rules where you can lay wires and which frequencies you can use. In Russia, this hasn't gone beyond that yet, that's why the prices are that low. In other countries, regulators are a lot less reluctant.
Even your simple example of throwing a party breaks down in the real world. What do I do if my neighbor throws a loud party without asking my permission? Do I go and confront him? What if he tells me to f* off? Do you see where this leads to?
supercool way of work... I'm using it since it is out and cannot be easier :)
It's just an expert system coupled to some sort of database (possibly Wikipedia). Every time someone plays the game it records their answers. As more and more people play it gets more and more data about each character, and consequently more accurate. I imagine eventually it gives up and asks you who you meant - and adds that character to the database. Given that I picked Brian Cox and it said 7500 people had picked him before, it clearly has a lot of data to work with.

What's more interesting (to me) is why someone created this game. Maybe it's to sell ads, but that database has to be quite valuable as a corpus of information about relatively famous people... You could produce some fascinating network graphs from it.
Xiaomi sells 150,000 smartphones in less than 10 minutes on WeChat
The fall (and rise?) of Yahoo
Not in the list but I would vote for Cmd Chris Hadfield. He was fantastic during his space mission.
You make a lot of good points. Complimenting a woman on on their clothes at a networking event is something I would not advise. Your first point about hovering, waiting for people to acknowledge your presence - this happens a lot. I find it difficult to meet people at events for this very reason.
Wow.

Suddenly I'm interested.
Zeroconf is confusing. That name is already taken for a standard network service discovery protocol (e.g. Bonjour, Avahi).
http://zeroconf.org
Hour of Code: Hello Processing by Daniel Shiffman
Both of my OCZ Vertex 2 died on me. I was able to bring one back from the dead with firmware upgrade and repartitioning and reformatting. Second one serves as interesting although bit thick coaster. Couldn't return them to manufacturer because they were not bought from one of their listed retailers. I couldn't return them to the shop either because they worked few years before any trouble happened.
This looks cool. Something that we can run internally as an alternative to our "Links Thread" on mail.
US govt caught using pirated software for military, settles for $50mn
Don't know why others are giving you sensible answers, but you using the words 'Brendan Eich baby' shows your level of trolling. If you want a _good_ discussion, stop doing that.