skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make some good points, and I agree with most of them. The thing that troubles me is that Go seems like an exellent language for the most part. I really like it. That being said, it's unfortunate that in order to use it, I feel like some basic choices that I've come to expect as a programmer are taken from me.
You'll love getting new versions of the Ask toolbar every time Flash force-updates...

More seriously, I have a software setup that I have configured to be secure and useful. Switching to a newer version of $whatever might help or hurt in either category, but it's a change I want to make deliberately. I don't see why changes preferred by $randomBrowserVendor or $adCompany will automatically be in my interest.
Did you simply apply to gigs seeking programmers? I met with someone wanting an Android app, only for them to leave with 2 weeks of work while not paying a dime for it and being unreachable. I guess this is the only risk which is worth taking and a better way to negotiate would suffice.

How does Guru set itself apart from elance?
>I have had the exact opposite experience with the Go community. In particular, I've found community hubs like #go-nuts and the mailing list to be professional at worst and friendly at best, and always helpful.

That has not been my experience reading go-nuts. Almost any language improvement idea, however valid, is met with snark and you-re-doing-it-wrong answers. And there have been many, and from quite serious developers over the years.
I'm the author of this blog post and just want to comment that it's very hard to rank a fresh site ahead of the restaurant's true website. The inbound links from Yelp, Trip Advisor, Urban Spoon, and Open Table give carry a lot of page rank and it's likely got more history behind it too. Although I bet Order Aheads App could be doing some cross linking schemes in the background to elevate their sites. But it's only by claiming their Google Places profile that they get to intercept the primary traffic. Look at what happened to Order Ahead site for Bar Pintxo after updating Google Places...it fell to 4th in the SERPs.
I like the idea of writing Go independently from the Go tool. Could you offer some brief insight into how dependency resolution might work, and link to some projects that break the mold?
OK, so I think you should say that on the site. How much of that $100 million investment can Ninefold actually access today in order to spin up servers? The way you phrased it is not truthful, and makes it sound like you built a bunch of mainly unused custom datacenters full of racks and are just waiting with your fingers crossed for the hoardes of Heroku defectors to come and load up the servers.
The name wouldn't be very appropriate, then.
We're talking about risk/reward tradeoffs a lot in this thread. Doing a startup vs. working as an employee is one of these tradeoffs. If you do a startup you'll get paid closer to what you're actually worth, but maybe you don't generate any real wealth and go bust and get paid zero. If you're an employee, you get to hedge that risk against taking a small fraction of the wealth you generate.
Which is still ugly.
Do you mean you wish it received just bug fixes automatically? Or are random unsolicited UI changes OK too?
It is rumored the app store would be named Cosplay.
Shocker: You completely misread the data from that source.

Table B in the link you posted shows 31,650* white people in poverty out of a US total of 46,180. That's 68.5%.

* all numbers in thousands
>It is opinionated (a more useful word than pretentious), and it is this way across many things.

Well, opinionated doesn't mean much quality wise. Either you have the right opinions or the wrong ones. If you have the wrong opinions on something AND are opinionated about it, then you're stupid.
Why do you need a SWAT team when there's a bomb-threat? Are they going to shoot at the bomb with their guns?
Well, there's still JavE for those things: http://jave.de
I think he means that they're worried about employment after their stint as traders.
>There are more people in the #haskell channel on Freenode IRC than #clojure, #scala, #lisp, #racket, or #ruby.

Which doesn't mean a thing. How many of them are employed developers working in the language, as opposed to dabblers?

Very few professional developers I've known hang on IRC. It's 2014 already.
Agree with everything you say, but it is worth noting that the insights you get from static analysis on desugared forms (which can be very large and complex!) is much harder to interpret than static analysis on the original forms.

So to make static analysis tools useful on macros, they really need some way to map back to the original source forms. Not all tools do this (either at all, or well) - and to the extent that they don't it is an big impediment for static analysis.

Also the killer challenge: macro expansion in Clojure can depend on a mutable environment at the time of macro expansion. This makes it impossible to do reliable static analysis, unless you are able to recreate the runtime environment at the time of macro expansion in your static analysis tool, which is hard/impossible in general.

This is part of the motivation for my little Kiss language experiment: with immutable environments you can keep the power of macros, but avoid the mutable environment problem. Ideally, macro expansion would be governed only by things that are provably compile-time constants (not sure how feasible this is while maintaining the dynamic flexibility of Clojure that we all love... but it's an attractive idea at least).
Why extensions that hijack your search engine like Window Resizer are not removed?
Romanian saves OpenBSD?
So do the Oatmeal comics.
They had lease specials for as low as $250/month. If you can run all-electric the majority of the time, your TCO is damn near free.
Also I would guess that people who like Clojure's philosophy are much more likely to build simple / loosely coupled / composable services than a big monolithic project.
According to this[0] they're hashed using the "Portable PHP Password Hashing Framework"[1].

[0] https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1813965
[1] http://www.openwall.com/phpass/
What are the "real" ASCII box drawing characters? -| and +? It already uses them.
Probably. It's not substantively different from "the NWO is sterilizing our children via the water supply" here in the USA.
I wrote this post originally and totally agree about the Flash sites and PDF menus being debatable for those types of websites. But these restaurants have good websites and these hijacker sites aren't more useful. The Eat Street sites have a map, order online button, and a menu...and it's not sexy. The Order Ahead App is pretty solid. But it was promoting downloading an app to order food at Bar Pintxo. But Bar Pinxto wasn't even an "available option" to order. It's driving traffic to download their app and not a bit of value to the restaurant. It's OK to build a website to promote your online ordering. It's hijacking the Google Places profile that is sketchy. These restaurants are upset when I explain what happened.
This is awful. It is not only awful due to being relentlessly insensitive, but it it another affirmation of something that has always taken place in marketing: dehuminzation.

We think about "conversion rates", "retention rates", "buy our CRM to keep track of all of your relationships!" just like that jerk who kept a spreadsheet of his okcupid dates. (Okcupid dating is similarly dehumanizing - one begins to treat it like an online marketing funnel.) Like we're all sheep being herded through a funnel-shaped fence by some social media manager in midtown.

Turns out these are just people, trying to get by in life, who don't really benefit that much from folks trying to scrape every iota of data about them just to get 'em to buy what, in this case, a pack of cheap ballpoint pens or something? Sheesh.
More than 80% of households have a kettle in the UK, I would say 99%. That doesn't count businesses, shops or other places that will certainly also have a kettle.

We do love our tea.
Solar time vs. standard time map
I'm more interested in what Go might be like without whiners.
I wrote this post. We claim their Google Places profiles in the same way the hijackers did and then submit a request to Google to update the URL back to their original URL. Here's a link: https://www.google.com/business/placesforbusiness/
I've seen that hypothesis floated for hybrid-electric cars also, in particular to explain why more conventional-looking cars like the Honda Civic Hybrid failed to make a meaningful dent into the Toyota Prius's marketshare.
Do you ever worry about running out of juice while driving? This is the only thing that prevents me, it's the situation where you don't have any juice but need it somehow. It would be great if you could put gasoline in it to generate electricity. It wouldn't even be used frequently (otherwise no point in saving money by using electricity only), just for emergencies.
Consider this scenario: Perpetrator calls in a bomb threat. People evacuate. Perp goes inside to do [something illegal].

At that point, a bomb sniffing dog is not going to be terribly useful, but firearms will be.
I agree with the point philosophically but a lot of recent data suggests that it's getting harder and harder to get consumers to pay for apps and the alternatives are limited today with ads being a well understood model to support developers.

What has been working well has been in-app purchases so I wonder if we will witness a faster move away from banner ads to having limited versions of apps that have unlockable feature sets.
Looks like a nice library, but I'm not in love with the syntax; I find it a bit confusing TBH... But it packs some nice features, specially the validation and precendece awareness. A simple overloading helper works for my needs though, ie: https://gist.github.com/elclanrs/8515458
Jobs was more than a "shrewd businessman". Building Pixar over 10 years into one of the top movie studios was not some "shrewd" business decision. Ditto for NeXT, the early Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad.. It's more accurate to say he was a visionary who took a long term view.

It's only in retrospect that we have the luxury of looking on his track record as smart from a business standpoint. Woz even criticizes the early Mac for losing money. Says Scully saved the company. Which tells you a lot about what separates Woz from Jobs.

Folks like Woz were a big influence on Jobs. So were a bunch of other people. The idea that he just took other peoples' ideas and marketed them is the same old trope. He took the best raw, undeveloped ideas from the billions around him and fit them to together and refined them into something accessible to everyone. VERY FEW people can do that well. He proved he could do it, not just once, but countless times in multiple categories.
whoops, I mean to post that comment to the papaver comment:/. Nice to spot this link building scheme in the background. This could aggregate some significant link weight over time if they have some more complex than Google normally catches and penalizes with reciprocal linking.
>In our field, tools get chosen not by merit but by what's the current fad. It's unfortunate, but this fact makes those two questions unhelpful in moving the discussion forward.

That's an idealistic and elitist response.

Very removed from the empirical and scientific spirit, which would suggest that if people use other languages for large projects (say C/C++) there are reasons for this, besides them being "fashion victims" and "doing it wrong".

Some of those reasons would be the appropriateness of those languages for the computers of the 70's - 90's (at a time when Lisp machines were slow and resource hungry), or the availability of tons of library code afterwards, the better control over the memory layout needed for large scale projects like a broswser, an OS, Office or Photoshop, etc etc.

Notice how the response just moves the goalposts a little further, without trully answering. Even, for example, if you are right and languages are used because they are fads, you failed to answer why LISP wasn't picked as a fad itself.
"Do not create an extension that requires users to accept
bundles of unrelated functionality, such as an email
notifier and a news headline aggregator. If two pieces of
functionality are clearly separate, they should be put
into two different extensions, and users should have the
ability to install and uninstall them separately,"

Kudos to Google. Now if only they applied the same logic to the advertisements between the search box and the actual results. Search results and advertisements only represent the same functionality when my search query expresses my intent to purchase something.

I know advertising is Google's business model, so before anyone points that out, let me point out that I've also never been offered the opportunity to purchase the ability to use Google's search without advertising. They should follow their own policy here and give us the ability to uninstall advertising from Google even if it does come with a monthly subscription fee to do so.
If it's spare HOV capacity, then I agree. But if adding the electric cars to HOV lanes increases the congestion in HOV lanes, it might degrade their effectiveness in incentivizing the behaviors they currently incentivize. For example, the attractiveness of either carpooling or riding the bus declines if HOV lanes get slower. Carpooling in particular needs enough of a delta in the regular v. HOV trip times to make up for having to pick up the other carpool members (unless you live in the same place).

One solution is to allow a capped number in, to incentivize purchase but only up to a threshold that doesn't overly degrade HOV trip times. I believe that's what California did for hybrids, allowing HOV usage for the first N purchased.
What if the "break down" process costs more time than sequential development?

And I can tell you even tiniest pieces are totally related to one another. E.g. Render a webpage seems totally independent, but it's not. You'll need customizable font, you'll have to write your own font render engine or used shared library with OS GUI, then you have language charset encoding problems with is related with OS environs, then you have Unicode problem which down to the deepest path of OS kernel (hint: file system)

Even rendering a datetime in Javascript requires locale date time settings from OS. Then you have NTP to sync them and such, it's a total clusterfuck.
I am ambivalent about this news item on many levels.

- It sounds like a nation-building project. Those are so 1950.

- It sounds like an Orwellian way to get a backdoor into peoples' mobile devices and, among other things, know where they are at any given moment.

- It sounds like a reasonable protection against the mad geniuses at the NSA, especially for devices managed by the Chinese government.

Are all mobile devices sold within China to use this OS? Without being self-righteous, because I am aware of many problems in my own country, I feel bad for people there.
I think the official estimate is 8 years, give or take 3 depending on average temperatures.
Sadly, it reminds me of The Office where Michael Scott would always remember one striking fact about someone to connect with them.

It seems this third party mailing list populated the wrong fields with some sensitive info. Terrible mistake, really. Must've been an awful jolt when they saw it.
> The battery pack is expected to retain 70% to 80% of its capacity after 10 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Leaf#Battery

8 years happens to be the length of the warranty on 2011/2012 Leaf batteries. Either way, combined with the optional $100/mo protection plan that gives you a new battery if yours ever loses 30% capacity, I doubt any Leaf buyers will be on the market before 2021 for any reason other than wanting a new car.
" I don’t have any answers to how to make it better. I’m not even sure it can be made better. "

Sorry, but isn't the answer just to change the zoning laws preventing residential buildings over 3 stories from being built in most neighborhoods? This seems pretty straightforward.
Nice. Sent this to my gf's little sister (she's 17 and there aren't a ton of teen jobs floating around where she lives)
Radians were confusing for a bit, and then somone explained that a radian is a measure of angle just like the degree, except convently set up such that there are 2pi—or approximately 6—radians in a circle. And why is this convenient? Because, among other reasons, that's the circumference of a unit circle. This makes expressing the results of certain calculations cleaner. 360 degrees, or about 6 radians. Sometimes degrees are easier to use, sometimes radians are easier use. Holy fuck, what's confusing here? If you divide 2pi by 2pi you get 1. But if you divide 2pi by 360, well that is some irrational number.

Can't believe our educators have freaked so many people out about thinking and are so freaked out themselves that radians are some bogey man to so many people, myself included for a few months in high school.
This is in many ways worse than the incident where Target outed a pregnant teen to her parents by mailing coupons for baby stuff to her, at her parents' address, based on her shopping habits.
Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas from the Computer Age: Paul Graham
WolframAlpha Problem Generator
Loved this book.
Billionaire?
Title: Failed Business Owner
Thanks for the feedback! If you have any ideas about how you would change the syntax, I'd love to hear them.

And that overloading helper function is cool :)
Maybe this was meant to be a private note? I.e., a customer service rep at some company found out about their daughter, and they wanted to make sure other customer service reps would know about it and show appropriate sensitivity, so they added it to the CRM database. But somehow it ended up in the address instead of a private note field, and it was passed on to other companies.

People are making it sound like the company was intentionally trying to use their dead daughter for marketing purposes. I doubt that is the case.
You said 3 months. Bridging gaps in time is useful and worth a fee, even at amounts of time significantly shorter than 3 months. I made no claim about all HFT being this, I complained about the metric you were using.
I think there are virtual stock markets that you can partake in to see how good you are (although this likely requires investing time which won't directly get paid back if you do well at it.) I wonder if people who do especially well in them can use virtual stock market success as a stepping stone to managing other peoples' money (and getting a cut).
TL;DR Read w1ntermute's summary below -- nailed it.
Illegal? Huh?

Please provide reasoning why you think it's "illegal." Otherwise, you're just spreading FUD, which is the whole reason for people believing a Linux distribution can't ship ZFS on Linux in the first place.
NorCal still has a couple things that they can do to alleviate congestion in carpool lanes. They can extend the hours to the carpool lane, or even make it HoV for 24 hours a day (SoCal does this).

My guess is that in a couple years we will see 24 hour carpool lanes in NorCal.
HFT front-running isn't about faster price discovery. It's about getting quote data in advance of the consolidated feed and executing trades a few microseconds ahead of the order flow.

If I'm buying, the HFT buys ahead of me and resells it to me at a higher price. If I'm selling, the HFT shorts ahead of me and buys from me at a lower price.

This isn't about liquidity or efficient markets, it's about gaming the system through preferential access to data and executions. It results in higher prices for buyers and lower prices for sellers.
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But what about the part where every boot has a distinct print? Or is that where the metaphor breaks down.
You take quite a logical leap from "licenses are incompatible" to "illegal to distribute them together." I'd love to know what led you to that conclusion.

As I said to the other poster, you're just spreading FUD.
"Or Current Business" is what gets me.
Damn, a customer. One of my final school projects in '91 was a text drawing program. Using it, I was amazed what effects I could get with text, background and foreground colours. Amongst other things it had line drawing, box fill with fg or bg colour.
Some junk mailers scrape the web for addresses:

King George II
Kermit Project
612 W 115th St
New York, NY 10025-7721

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/george.html
$20killionaire didn't have the same ring to it.
Scalatags: fast HTML rendering for Scala
Is it weird that OpenBSD struggles to keep the juice on in the post-Snowden era?
Is there a news reader that will preserve unread items forever? I like to collect months' worth of my favorite webcomics to read at one go, and I know the old Google Reader at least would just delete them after a while.
Realistically speaking, older versions aren't going to receive bug fixes and I'm going to always want the newest version anyway, so yes. But perhaps that's cheating because so far vim hasn't developed too many strange UI changes :)
We do not hold vast amounts of Bitcoins and have a vested interest in their increasing value, to the exclusion of other currencies, like the core Bitcoin developers

In my view there is some truth in the leading part of that statement, ie. that the Bitcoin foundation may be considered to be partly Bitcoin-blinkered and there are causes for concern around conflict of interest.

Most recent example: Jon at the Bitcoin Foundation explained that his failure to get an ISO4217 code from SIX Interbank Clearing in Switzerland was because they said such requests must come from an existing, recognized national bank. That means a UN-approved nation with an ISO code, and the central bank thereof. Which central bank worth its salt is going to stick its next out to hasten challengers to national currency? Even if one did, they may come up with another excuse: the criteria for codepoint acquisition do not appear to be publicly available. So I put X-ISO4217-A3, a proposal for a registry of IANA-managed, non ISO-approved currency-like commodities with nominally ISO4217 compatible codepoints as such has been the community's habit for new cryptocurrencies. Well, you'd think they would have some positive outlook on such a development - but instead they did nothing. When hastened they simply said "we'll wait for the ISO to suddenly approve XBT". I think that's a clear demonstration of Bitcoin-centrism, and it's not a good thing for the broader community. I think IANA or a for-purpose blockchain should get involved as a registrar to keep things open and transparent, ASAP.

Well done on this article, I think we need more of these posts that draw community attention to the big picture.
Understanding Mobile Analytics
Haven't used OBSD in years, but I do use OpenSSH all the time. There are lots of stuff lurking in my OS of choice, NetBSD, that came from OBSD. So I would like to thank Mircea Popescu for his generosity. I can only muster $A50 I'm afraid.

Edit: suckful spelling

Just went to try to donate. Can't seem to do it at the donation page. Can't seem to enter my Australian address in any of the US and Canada links. I am certain my CC issuer will decline it. What gives?
> For a minute or two, I thought about doing my final set. Then, I reminded myself that I plan to do this for the rest of my life and decided to call it a day.

Never.
Effective Go: http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

Short of that, read the source of some standard library packages. They are quite approachable.