skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree with you, and find most IDEs too complicated for the task at hand. Sublime Text is great, but I , like you, find I have other tasks running in terminal windows (normally at least two), plus a browser window.

I feel like IDEs have forgotten that the first letter stands for 'Integrated' as they leave us jumping around from one place to another.

My goal is a simpler interface to improve the focus on the task at hand. Maybe not as minimalist as Light Table, but easier to use than the IDEs I've seen. Just started coding, so a long way to go.
We can construct the set of all real numbers with a finite amount of information. However, that set contains elements which we cannot precisely describe with a finite amount of information.

The phrase "all undescribable real numbers" does not introduce any problems, because we have still not described any specific undescribable number. We would run into a problem with a phrase such as "the smallest undescribable real number", as that would be a description of a specific undescribable real number. Fourtuantly, that particular phrase does not raise any problems because we can simply conclude that their is no smallest undescribable real number, in the same way that there is no smallest real number in general.
The problem is: the first 95% take 95% of the time, the last 5% take another 95% of the time.
Disclaimer: I worked on Code.org's beginner tutorials.

Why do you assume that there is some sinister agenda? Why can't you believe that a couple of smart, charming, and lucky brothers decided to spend some of their wealth and time doing what they feel is right? Why can't you believe that some of the smart & lucky folks they've made friends with in their careers want to help?

It's no secret: Better computer science education is beneficial for tech companies. These companies want more engineers. Does the involvement of volunteers from Microsoft/Google/Twitter/Facebook/etc instantly mean that everyone of us at Code.org that really believes we're helping students world wide are bad people for choosing to accept (or soliciting) help from large, influential organizations? Does institutional or celebrity support inherently corrupt philanthropic endeavors? That's such an insane world view to me.

By the way, the word "code" is a marketing decision. It's easier and more fun to say. It's a catchy domain name. It's not about correctness, it's about being impactful.

If you want to support this, but you have concerns, then maybe you should do some research before spreading FUD. Curriculum details are widely available: http://code.org/educate

Tutorials vary wildly in goals, approaches, quality, scope, etc. You can find many at http://code.org/learn including our own (open source github.com/code-dot-org/) and many others, generally utilizing JavaScript or other non-proprietary technology.
It's not about risk, it's about overcoming obstacles. Dealing with US visas is a pain, but it's nowhere near as painful as everything else you need to do to make a startup succeed. If you're going to give up because of a visa obstacle, you're not cut out to be a founder.
For Ruby, I would suggest "Smalltalk doesn't like Unix" instead. What attracted me to Ruby is that it was a Smalltalk-style pervasive OO language that could be used for scripting and didn't require persistent images.
Any thoughts on using this vs. using PC-BSD?
This comment is interesting:

The only haskell thing that works good is xmonad. I used it for years and still very happy with it.
The only haskell things that works fast are qsort and shootout tests.
The other haskell soft is full of shit and I can't understand why.

Is this just editorializing or is there some truth to this?
No worries, I like explaining it as a way for me to think through it myself.

The problem is that if you add "js-" classes that probably means you add the equivalent "js-"-less classes on the element as well. So then you just have duplication with the idea that they are "decoupled". Which might be good if it was true, but realistically if you change the component around to have a different DOM structure you're just going to end up changing both instances of the class anyways.

Really it's just trying to solve a problem that shouldn't be solved. Just agree upon an API (and put more effort into making the API good from the start) and then you don't have the problem to begin with. If you really do need to change the API later (which should happen rarely) then just put in the work to do it. Generally breaking API changes are rare if the component was design properly from the beginning, and if it stays small in scope.

Templates already have too many classes as it is without having to dupe them all :)
What? Perl is about 10 years older than PHP.

In fact it would make more sense reversed.

PHP: Perl is a kludge.

Because that's what PHP mostly replaced - Perl.
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I think the secrecy is likely at the manufacturer's behest. The manufacturer almost certainly uses Android and is mindful of drawing Google's anger.
It's difficult to make a comparison to the British since as the British empire flagged, they went ahead and hitched their fortunes to the rising American "empire". I don't think its unreasonable to say that Europe (and much of Western Europe) has benefited much from their attachment to the "American way", despite whatever differences there are between all the countries.

The question is: what happens when empires fall? And there is no answer to that without knowing that replaces them. The British lost prestige, and actual power, but gained a favoured seat at the new game's table. Presuming a world dominated by China, where does America fit in? I have no idea. I agree that its likely -not- going to be catastrophic, but there are just so many unknowns, and so much depends on exactly what kind landing there is.

And as inciting as the idea of the global elite who lord over us regardless of our nationality... I don't think the Chinese would appreciate a bunch of white guys "running" the show afterwards. Just as generations of Western Europeans and Americans where able to enter regions and dominate or co-opt the local elite through superior resources and means, the Chinese will do the same.
1) How about when I click on a link and you redirect me to the mobile site, you redirect me to that article, not some random page that I assume is the homepage. Looking at you Huffington Post.

2) When I want to share a link, I don't want to share the mobile version. Please have a "share link" button. Youtube does this right with their youtu.be links.
Well then, since Obama has steered the ship of state in an entirely different direction for the past 5 years, we should be OK by now. /s
just what I need to plan my next heist :-D
More white than white?

This doesn't seem to me like a sane value system.
I like your gist of putting the hypothesis to test, but there are serious practical factors that would prevent your proposed experiments. Small- and medium-sized mammals (e.g., rodents and primates, respectively) are somewhat convenient for experimenting in that they can be housed/fed humanely and fit into an fMRI machine whose aperture is ~0.5 meters in diameter. I do not see how one could reasonably do the same for elephants and whales.

But let's do a thought experiment and see if we can reasonably dispense with the need for experiment itself. The article (via the researchers' statements) zoomed past a detail: cortical surface area is much more indicative of neural processing capability than gross brain volume. In many contexts, a neuroscientist might use "brain size" as shorthand for cortical surface area. Also consider that more "advanced" mammals tend to have more convoluted cortexes, thus larger cortical surface areas. So it's quite possible for a large mammal's (whale's or elephant's) brain to be volumetrically larger than a human's, but to have relatively smaller surface area because it is less convoluted.

In the event that we could actually accomplish such a comparative study as you propose, we'd probably find that "tethering" does not monotonically increase with surface area. Then we'd determine that the authors' hypothesis is overly simplified.
I wasn't aware of Mylyn, just took a look at this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEyjpDrHCjc, look at all that STUFF! What does this do? Who can figure it out? I think an IDE should be as simple as a text editor, with the tools you use most to get the job done.
I would put it as "Rust: C++ is unsafe, and all other attempts to make C++ safe have made it too high level." (Alternately, "concurrent programming with data races is a kludge, and all other attempts to fix data races have ruled out too much.")
Interesting that the newest language that pg lists is more than ten years old. He's probably not keeping up with new language development any more?
> As far as I know in the US such records never disappear.

That is not entirely correct. Certainly states have programs to expunge records. Here is the info for my state of New Jersey:

http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/prose/10557_expunge_kit.pdf
As far as adages go, that's wholly incomplete, and generally mitigable with good product planning.

Either way, if it's taking just as long to write the generic CRUD of your application as it took to write the application itself, either your application is quite trivial, or you're doing something very wrong.

In practice, for most people, the "last 5%" doesn't get added in until after deployment, if at all. Regardless, if you're proving a market, and the highest priority is in determining whether or not there's money to be made on a product at all, the 95% guy is an ace in the hole.

The GP even admits that yes, the 100% guys are better, but they are indeed far rarer to come across, and usually involves other trade-offs.
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I'd use fictionpress or a Wordpress blog for this purpose. I use both, and the Wordpress blog because the story is... well, not exactly your daily run-of-the-mill story.
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The ridiculous thing is that there's no reason America has to be in decline right now except hubris. The idea that military superiority is the end-all-be-all of power, the idea that every American deserves to be richer than than the average Chinese, etc. We still have amazing natural resources and an amazing entrepreneurial can-do cultural attitude.

The problem is too many resources devoted to skimming the cream at the top of the economy, decade after decade of ill-advised military waste, too much easy money in finance, too gullible of a pacified electorate ready and willing to vote against their interests at the siren song of two parties who claim to represent their values, but spend 95% of their time fundraising and earning it from the private interests who expect their ear.

If as a country we got back to the basics of hard work and innovation and spent less time hand-wringing over our safety and global dominance, and making sure that the GDP is growing at all costs, then I think we'd be well positioned for the coming centuries of increased parity between countries. Insistence that we have to maintain the post-WWII imbalance that America enjoyed due entirely to a accidental confluence of events is foolhardy and will lead to bad decisions.
I'm never liked this list, mostly due to Python but I think other languages are also incorrectly characterized. Guido worked on ABC and wanted something for scripting tasks on a Unix machine. Python was mostly inspired by ABC but some of the syntax was inspired by Modula 3.

Python is certainly not a reaction to Perl, I'm not sure Guido was aware of it when Python was born (they are close to the same age, actually).
I was awe-struck when he introduced himself as, "co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation" rather than the chairman of Microsoft on his Reddit AMA (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/18bhme/im_bill_gates_c...). I think it really is his life's primary focus right now.
At some level 'math' becomes an academic word, and what students need is more rigourous fundamental numeracy. I hate the phrase 'quantitative' reasoning, but many people outside of maths departments actually use math in fundamental, yet rigorous ways. Part of the issue seems the deference to authority in the schooling system, which is paralleled in other ways...deference to 'expertise'...or 'abstraction' when what should be the heart of the matter is actually rigor and fundamental soundness. The latter is at conflict with other pet ideas, though. Like everybody wins and the overpromotion of self esteem. The cool to hate ("fancy math") thing is just a channeled form of anti-authoritarianism. Whereas fundamental soundness is actually providing the tools for power and freedom for the individual. When schools (but rarely) teach proper maths notation...I wonder...how/are they going to swallow cs?
(Sort of disclaimer, this may or may not be terrible advice from a legal perspective, IANAL)

So first off all, get someone to talk this through. Ideally someone who can give you an honest opinion, but any second opinion is better than none.

And second, after you decided to use the nuclear option, shelf it as a plan B. The nice thing is, almost everything is better than that. So you can plan with a lot more freedom, and you can play with a lot of risk. If it does not work out, then you just push the button and go nuclear. In your case, when you decided that there is only one of you left when the dust has settled, then you don't need to worry how you can work together in the future. One way to exploit this, you can be brutally honest. Perhaps you find a common basis again, or you go to your board.
D: because C++ is a kludge
Can you check your web logs to see if you've ever served anything to their domain?
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PHP: Perl is too hard to configure and run on the web
Or just not adding to the list. It's undated, but another posting from last year lists it as (2002).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4954663
> It's awful that our justice system creates this sort of mentality

Oh, certainly, but it's not exactly the worst part about our system. I'm guessing a bit here, but I don't get the feeling the gentlemen stepping forward are of the violent variety?

Why are we putting non-violent individuals in prisons? Just a thought.
Q: why would you assume its <>evenly<> distributed? might be the problem right there...
Another data point to consider: recruiter fee

If you were hired through a recruiter, the company that hired you will pay 15% to 25% of your annual salary in fee. In most cases, if you leave within 30 to 60 days, the recruiter will find your replacement for free. If you 1 day after the guarantee period, then the company that hired you have to pay the full fee.

Moral of the story, once you know you want to leave, talk to your manager. Be a nice guy.
This article does not mention climate change, salinization, loss of glaciers (to feed rivers) contamination of soil and groundwater (from mining or maybe all the fracking the US has been doing) over-irrigation.
These and others are real threats the US faces and will result in reduced fresh water and food.
I'm gonna be honest, this absolutely strokes my "Big Trouble in Little China" bits. Really looking forward to this.
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Yes

Don't know why sites like this keep getting created; the output is usually the same.
Perhaps he did not have a career to speak of. He was a assistant professor, so perhaps he needed something big to get tenure, or leave anyhow.

Edit This is a comment about the state of the educational system, not an excuse for forging data.
think of it this way, though: the taxpayer is forced to pay for this. Before you say, 'but basic science wouldn't be funded otherwise', consider Janelia Farms, or Glyn Research Ltd (which discovered the chemiosmotic effect and got the nobel prize), which are/were funded privately; and if they commit fraud then only the donors are left holding the bag - a risk they know to be taking when they make their donation.

As for prosecution, the agreement to get only three years is awful; Consider Leo Paquette - who kaiboshed a grant idea in (secret) committee and subsequently stole it - and got a 5 year suspension of grants. This was an affront to the rules of granting, not science itself; and yet got a harsher pushishment; shows where the priorities of the authorities lie.
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It doesn't look like the FreeBSD Foundation is in danger of failing the IRS "public support" test any time soon; but yes, that can theoretically be an issue.
I'm one of the developers for 0AD, and I have to say it's really not that hard to get started. I began checking out the source code and developing patches only about eight months ago (I didn't know /any/ C++ when I started, only some JS and Python), and in the mean time I'm gotten very familiar with the codebase and joined the official team. In fact, the multiplayer lobby in this release was primarily developed by myself.

Feel free to join us on #0ad or #0ad-dev on quakenet if you have any questions.
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Lua: Because my dog is called "Luna"

Python: Is cute to prefix everything with "py"

Javscript: Haha not as cool as suffix it with "js"

Ruby: Pff i have the coolest nickname and it is "Rails"

Clojure: Oh please, you aren't as classy as "La Clojure"

C: The power of soul and possibility control!

Go:tta Catch 'Em All!

Erlang: ErrrrrrrLang!!!
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Note to future startup founders: Make sure a vesting schedule is setup. (Pretty) please!

With a vesting schedule in place, parting with a co-founder (voluntarily and involuntarily) is much cleaner.
Coffeescript: Javascript is too ugly.
There's a profoundly messed up bit of thinking deep in the psyche of a lot of Americans behind this. I think, more or less, it has to do with the idea of America as a specific (and even ideal) instance of the Just World hypothesis -- that is, America as a place where one is more free than anywhere else (even perfectly free) to make their biggest dreams come true, or fall as deeply as their character flaws will take them.

Thus there are two kinds of people: the "Worthy" (good, honest, hardworking, smart), and "Those People" (lazy, dishonest, moochers, criminals).

In this narrative, Those People deserve a hard lot. Second chances? That's for Worthy people who just hit a spot of bad luck. Or people who can change, and given that Those People have deep character defects, what are the chances of that? The only thing that could possibly get them to change is harsh discipline and a hard life. Plus, why waste a decent job on one of Those People when there are so many Worthy who need a job and deserve it more?
Besides the issue of his seemingly trivial prosecution that others posters have noted, I also wonder what he spent the grant on, or planned to?
You'd be someone that Epic wants. They make health care software.
Does the disavowal tool negatively affect the sites being disavowed?
I briefly looked for co-ops when I moved across the country to a city where I didn't know anyone after college. They were popular at my school, so they had to exist in some form in the real world, right? But I found nothing. It would be interesting to see a return to the formation of communities like this as people become more physically/emotionally isolated by technology.
Matt, this is fascinating. Not for tablets - there's been plenty of data suggesting people primarily use their (say) iPads in the home. But for smartphones, wifi being predominant is not what I would have expected.

Is the data you've seen internal Google data, or is any of it available to us non-Googlers? Would be interesting to know the ratio of usage, how it varies by time of day, by activity, etc.
Haha, good troll. GMOs = science. Anti-GMOs = anti-science.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6968822
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How do you pay for a pardon? (I'm not from the US, so don't understand the legal system.)
> It could just as well be left to the individual team members to identify or not.

This is not possible the way it works now (one HN user submits the application for the whole team). Asking isn't any more awkward, but it is unnecessarily so, in the sense it does no benefit to the team (vs the equity question, which forces a discussion thats likely been put off too long). I'm not white myself, but I'm more concerned about people with ambiguous ethnicity (mixed, adopted, immigrant etc) who may not like such questions (particularly as many applicants are quite young). Nonetheless, I agree that's a minor quibble.

But I just don't see YC as having much of a role in solving such social problems other than how it already does so (by funding startups and (now) non-profits to "make things people want"). YC may have an outsized influence in tech, but it's really a tiny, quirky little band of ~20 people (>(1/2) of which are part-time).

Clearly YC would benefit if more underrepresented minorities learned to code and started companies, but it seems the best way to do that is to make those things easier for everyone. I.e. fund startups that improve education (clever, code academy etc) and startups that make it easier to start startups (fundersclub, wefunders etc).
What about the paintings data? Where do you obtain it from?

EDIT: I see the-athenaeum provides that information as well. Do you have a plan to keep up to date with the changes in locations?
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This reminds me so much of a toy I had when I was a kid, with a catchy commercial...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph

commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoSECiRl-pI&t=8m49s
For Java I would suggest "Lisp is too powerful for Joe Programmer, and parentheses are scary"

Java as essentially Lisp's bastard child is I think undermentioned in language history.
What makes you think that your brain may not be 'poorly written' for supporting 24 hr+ uptime? Think of the brain has having bad garbage collection or a memory leak, so at some point in time you have too much built up memory that needs to either be dumped or written to disk.
Imagine if, instead of wars, PMCs, and MRAPs, those trillions had been spent on a thorium "moon shot" and creating a system of individualized education. We wasted the opportunity at the end of the Cold War.
That's because they were assimilated before the age of PC and multiculturalism. We used to insist that immigrants adopt the same culture and values that we have. Now, we encourage those people to recreate their own cultures here, only better.
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Laos remains crippled by the Vietnam War, even though they were never involved.
Excellent question. Yes, it did set me apart. Everyone laughed about how I "talked faggy". Other than being made fun of, which my skin was thick enough to not care, most of the other inmates just thought they were taking advantage of my skills. They didn't realize that I would have freely given those things away.

The barter economy was interesting. Artists actually did well because inmates would supply pictures of their wives and girlfriends and the artists would draw them on white bandanas soaked in floor wax to make a canvas.

My skill set was my intelligence but since I didn't need anything in exchange I let people assume they were taking advantage of me for legal help and other similar things. Since I didn't build up any wealth through the barter economy, I had nothing to steal. I was more useful undamaged.
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