skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this. Really resonates. It is fast becoming clear that js is our c and jquery is our c++.

Things like coffescript, backbone and angular are attempting to provide a cleaner interface to the memory management which we could equate to the Dom. High level, abstract models, and allowing us to think of things in much more elegant ways.

jQuery wasnt anything new, we had seen others similar, none however got the ease of use down quite like jQuery, and certainly none of them got the market share.

While this guys post isn't all that useful to me, maybe even a bit odd to find on HN, I still am greatful for this thread and will definitely be taking another pass of angular this weekend. Seems like it's a bit better understood and I think I'm clearer on its intent. Discl: I was previously in the camp that felt angular was taking us many steps back into coupling of ui to js. It sure seems that way but it may have been the case we were just doing it wrong way back then (on click=)

Edits: new phone, autocomplete, hasn't adjusted yet.
There are degrees in how harsh and public you should shame.

If as a manager, I allow people to frequently complain about their peers with the other people absent, it sets up a terrible precedent. As manager I would become the bottleneck as people focus their energy on politics rather than problem solving.

It's not black and white, but how you lean.
Oh, seems more fun if it would not possible to goto continuous orbit and just count the complete loops you can make.
This link is really interesting (more interesting than the original article).
I like it, and I think I'm going to use this in some of my sites. Just a minor correction though: You should add the tag rel="nofollow" to the links so that the search engines won't accidentally follow them.
Pontoon: Translate websites. In Place
If this is ever implemented into Firefox properly, will see the difference in speed or is this mainly focused on security?
Couple of words:

This is only the tip of the ice-berg n if us, the people, keep acting like sheep and never question "authority (whatever that word means anyway), they will have their way with a very nice fascist-like nanny/police state...

Nothing to see here people, just abuse of power which we will call "normal procedure". Nothing to see here, carry on with your dreadful lives...
4chan Business Board Possible Influence.
What does the word “Baked” mean when describing code?
You don't necessarily have to be a Chrome extension to do that if you can run a native app. You could read Chrome address space as a debugger, for instance.
To me it is better than Facebook because Viber uses your phone number to identify you, no registration needed. And as a consequence it can tell you all persons in your contacts who have it too. I don't use Facebook but my phone numbers list is huge.
"Limes inferior" by Janusz Zajdel (1982) is also very interesting. Sci-fi in a post scarcity world where stupid are provided for, and smart are forced to work.

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

Author came up with Identity theft, spoofing, NFC, all while living in communist state in the eighties.
I'm not saying it's great news, but I really can see where they're coming from for this.

Note that they're only doing this for Windows. As someone who occasionally is roped in to providing tech support for a sibling who keeps installing malware - someone who is going to fall for those repackaged versions of VLC, or one of those 'your computer has viruses, click here to install Super Security 3000' or whatever* - I can tell you that malware for Chrome along the lines of browser toolbars and ad injectors are real and out there in the wild and being installed automatically by these kinds of things.

The computer has Norton Internet Security, of course. Which does sweet FA as far as I can tell.

* Note to self: Install AdBlock on that computer.
Don't panic.
This is how the game is played, last year around march prices hit $265 and the mayor players sold a BTC in big chunks and made a lot of money, then there was a DDos attack on mt.gox price went down to around $75. This year new game that mt.gox announced that there is a problem in BTC transactional system. Prices starts to drop down, people in panicking sell low, BTC "whales" buy cheap, after that every thing is ok, BTC prices doing up and the process continues.

So the best thing to do is nothing, watch and enjoy the game and see how BTC will hit $2000 by august-2014.

Best wishes
Also the concentration of power, corruption, and depredations against individuals (gulags etc) were predicted as an outcome of socialism and communism by Benjamin Tucker, a contemporary (and critic) of Marx.
Arguably, Esperanto was created by one hobby linguist about 125 years before today’s linguistic research, so I would not stress that too much.
I used Cytoscape. Has some awesome network analysis features.
Yeah, I'm sure you can construct very specific scenarios in which it would be a roadbump; I don't deny that (in your scenario, for example, you can just replace Chrome with the latest dev channel binary instead of a random patched binary.) I remain unconvinced about it as a "reasonable" threat model. Having native app access is a much greater security risk in an of itself. I wouldn't begin to worry about invalid browser extensions if I knew I have a rouge binary running.

I think it is obvious what their real motivation is.
That game is even worse
This is an outrageous abuse of power by the cops, and shows the damage that one bad cop can do. Imagine if you didn't have any backing or support.

This also suggests the importance of bit ever talking back to police. I know of situations in Chicago where acquaintances were beaten up by police for disrespecting them.
I'm curious. Which useful extensions are you talking about and why are they not listed in webstore? The one extension that I mentioned has two versions. The non-webstore version doesn't abide to Google's T&C [lets you download Youtube videos].
I dont remember seeing any robots (other than Data) on Star Trek. How do you propose to fix broken replicator? or a toilet? Best case scenario is you throw whole thing away and put a new one - now someone has to unbolt the old unit, get the new one out of storage, push it through half of the ship and mount it.
I'm always hoping Plan 9 will take off! Such an interesting system to experiment with...

Would be interesting to see what would happen if a cloud provider offered an (updated) version.
Like you, I often re-read books or re-watch DVDs. But I find the enjoyment that I gain from this is different the first reading/viewing, and I'd prefer to experience both. Spoilers would detract from this.
Human greed pretty much takes over. Social pressures won't work because people will always want to "keep up with the jones" or show off what they have done. The only way you could have post scarcity is if everything and anything in the living reality could be created, which of course is just highly improbable if not impossible due to the emotional nature of our species as well as differences in individual needs and wants (I.e. Not everyone can fall in love and be married or be just as popular or be just as good I sports). Personally, I don't think there is a reason we can't have a better welfare system, I just don't think we should care about those who do not contribute to society. If all people in Star Trek are now in it for the bettering of the human race than that would mean not a single person is thinking of themselves, which much like greed, is a natural human state of mind. Do we know what/who is going to better society, no we don't. However, with capitalism people democratically choose what does and doesn't. To have government subsidize specific items/ideas we leave capitalism and start having a centrally governed panel who picks the winners, or at least subsidizes them. Let the free hand of capitalism decide who can contribute the most to society and let the people also decide who much they should be rewarded. If anything it's not economics that needs to be changed, rather the human psychology that needs to be reformed.
I think the problem though is that language is ever-shifting. This leads to insanely stupid grammar nazi arguments over things like "Who does this belong to?" vs "To whom does this belong?" And that argument has been going on for at least a century.

Regarding glyphs you have a number of problems. These include phonetic shifts. So for example, in English we have a word like courtyard. This is a compound word with two components, court (from French) and yard (from Old English). Both of these come from the same PIE root. Now this isn't too bad with court and yard, but let's look phonemes of another sort: what PIE kw- vs gw-. gw- became qu in Old English (hence words like queen), while kw (which becomes qu in the Romance languages) becomes wh (what, where, whorf, whirl). This is still arguably separate from a w sound as most people I know pronounce where slightly differently from wear.

Combine this with the fact that we have lost letters (thorn and eth, primarily) which refer to distinct phonemes which we now use th for.

To come up with an optimal language, I think you'd have to make it fully prescriptive and heavily spec'd out (like computer languages are) but this isn't the way human language works. I suppose someone, probably me, has to point this out, and if you didn't get the subtle jab at discussions of pronoun cases, please re-read this sentence, slowly.
Mozilla is one of my favorite tech companies. Servo is a great example: Mozilla is willing to engage in fundamental CS research. Not only are they trying to put together a parallel, secure browser engine from the ground up, but they even created Rust to do so. This is truly long-term work, which seems rare in an increasingly short-term world.

And Rust isn't just another C clone with OOP or CSP bolted on: it's principled, relatively elegant and takes full advantage of the last few decades of PL research. All while being practical—it has to be, since it's evolved with a Servo as a concomitant project. A non-trivial companion project like that seems great for naturally guiding a language! Not many other languages can say any of this, much less ones actually poised to replace C++ or at least do actual systems programming.

And Mozilla is doing all this in a completely open and transparent way. I think this is incredibly important: anybody can get a glimpse into active development or even contribute. Just go to the relevant GitHub repo[1][2] and you're set. This is the way open source is supposed to work, rather than having companies develop behind close doors and dump source code occasionally (although that's also better than nothing).

I really wish more companies would take this sort of approach with their open source or basic research work. This gives me more confidence in Servo, Rust and Mozilla as a whole, especially compared to many of Mozilla's competitors (both in the browser space and in programming languages).

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/servo/ [2]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust
I keep saying, that if I lived in the US and was picked out for jury-duty I'd have an extremely hard time of voting to convict anyone, even violent criminals, because of the nature of the US prison system.

Even more so because it is unclear whether it actually makes the public any safer, given the extreme re-offending rate.
Open source WhatsApp API gets taken down
Oh dear. Yet another garden firmly walled.
What happens when two chatbots try to seduce each other
Seems very high to me too but I don't own a car and I have a non-radio alarm.

I wonder if they count things like office visits or internet streamed radio. I'd say we are outliers but many don't own cars.
> Or does no-one in the Valley wear suits these day?

not to be _that_ guy, but there are markets for stuff beyond SV...
(Here's the comment I posted on StackOverflow, I wanted to share it here too.)

I haven't read all the comments, so forgive me if I'm just repeating the same stuff (on another note, I hope I am).

This is a horrible idea, if you ask me. Language barriers are there because there are languages. If you keep supporting languages, there will always be language barriers.

English speakers, especially Americans, feel bad about "making people speak their language". I have seen this many times. But it's just ridiculous. We don't need more than one language. Having more than one language:

1) Creates a language barrier, thus slowing down advancement.
2) Gives people a reason for discrimination, just like nationalism, racism, and religion.

When you say that "If just one little girl in Brazil sticks with programming because an answer on this site helped her finish her first project, well… that’s not good enough!", it sounds like a really humble thing to do, but it in fact is the opposite. You are overlooking the fact that there's a lot of information regarding programming and many other things in many different languages already. I'm not a native speaker of English, and I learned English thanks to my interest in programming. First I started with reading stuff in my own language, then I realized that I could learn much more if I read stuff in English. And that's how it should be.

I don't care if it's English or any other language, but we only need one language, not three, not two, only one. The rest is just noise.

To wrap it up, disguised by a seemingly humble thing, you are supporting language barriers, by supporting languages. I'd expect better from you guys.
This is actually quite amazing insight.

The ironic bit, that each group will tell how other group is bad by doing exactly the same misconduct.
Triathlon Wear
Sneak peak at Kumu, a web-based relationship mapping tool
I find it ironic that when the cop starts talking he mentions that in the US people should be thankful because they are given a Miranda warning, because, according to him, in other parts of the world like in "Spain and Italy" cops beat up citizens. Last time I check such abuse can't be seen anywhere in Europe. More cop BS.
Indeed, but that backtrace can be completely unrelated to what caused the memory corruption, so it's definitely more difficult than with managed languages, which was the point I made.
I feel sick reading stories like this. Yesterday I read about the guy that made a stupid facebook comment and is now facing 10 years in prison. He will probably win and walk away a free man, but still he had to spend 2 months in prison.
Reading these stories or stories about the TSA I really do not want to visit the USA in the near future.
There are good options on-line for suits (look at CommeUnCamion.fr for an extensive source of mainly lower-end, but still very fashionable offers from the same city), but anything remotely tailored is very much a personality and body-type thing — neither translate that well with on-line photos; the whole point of a (classic) suit being to shroud imperfections in dark cloth, i.e. hard to photograph.

There are IT-based innovation, like (still in Paris) Costumes Samson, that uses 3D imaging of your chest for a perfect cut (roughly three-to-four numbers for a suit); they have a web presence, but the added value is still in-shop.

Is anyone in the Valley wearing suits? There certainly are, fewI presume — but it doesn't really matter in Paris, where every entrepreneur wears: dark suit, white shirt & jeans no matter what; and where having a well tailored of any of these three is a great conversation starter.
So what do you use your high school physics for in day to day life?
Can you not just wait and transfer your coins to your own private wallet and then sell them on another exchange?
One third of all Android devices being sold (that's over half a million a day) don't have GMS on them. If you want to find them I'd suggest you start in China, or a FSF meetup, or Amazon headquarters.

I have GMS on my Nexus phone, but I also have the F-Droid repository, the Humble Bundle store (and briefly had the Amazon App store too).

I also have Chrome installed on my Ubuntu desktop (though I mostly use Firefox, and have Chromium too). And Steam.

What was the fucking point again?
I doubt this is the reason. The reason is that less-educated users are being tricked into installing extensions they don't want and that make using their computer miserable for them. Meanwhile, anyone that wants to write their own extension need only click a checkbox.
Now that you mentioned it, Idiocracy (2006) is also post scarcity idyllic universe.
LinkedIn made a great report, a year ago, I think, on what words were over-used in CVs; not sure if they compared it to common English, or click-though of the profile. I guess Hewingway could do the same, but they'll need your usual reading activity for that: outside of SV/HN, ‘disrupt’ is still mainly something rude you do to a speaker.
Or just use a browser that doesn't restrict what you can do to it. Like Firefox.
32 and 46-inch Android Coffee Tables to hit the market soon
It's a rewrite of the engine from scratch, focused on parallel computing. So yes, it's going to be a massive improvement of speed, security and overall revamping.
> But I would think (and remember reading somewhere) that phonetics shift more quickly where there is no written record of the pronunciation. Chinese has dozens of mutually unintelligible dialects (Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, Hakka, etc.). Maybe this fragmentation would be much less if they had a phonetic writing system in the first place.

This is why Latin, which had such an alphabet, didn't split into mutually unintelligible dialects like Romanian, Spanish, and French, right?

> We can still read old texts, even though our pronunciation of the words has changed vastly. If you go back far enough (e.g. to the time of Chaucer in the 1300s), it becomes hard to understand what is being said, but practically speaking I don't see this as a big problem.

But this wouldn't be the case if we wrote English phonetically today.

For example, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/Gawain?rgn=main;view=fulltex...) is one of my favorite pieces of Middle English literature, and exactly contemporary to Chaucer. It's hard enough to read without some knowledge of Middle English but you'd be totally lost if we wrote nait instead of knight.
Man Confronts CEO of MT. Gox In Tokyo
Also covered by The Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/02/14/bitcoin-protester-confronts-mt-gox-executive/
I saw a post-screening Q&A with Duncan Jones and co-creators a few years back and he mentioned that when they were prepping to make Moon, it was around the time of the Hollywood writer's strike, so there were lots of productions on hold, which had the happy side-effect of meaning there were some awesome old-school FX people available to work on Moon.
if you zoom out on the page the icon and points board do not scale well.

Nice game
I tried Fedora a few months back, (as I wanted a specific kernel), but I found it required a lot more tweaking and configuring than Ubunutu or Mint or Manjaro. It felt like Linux was 7 or 8 years ago.
Career outside the Matrix
That syntax looks familiar. Is that the new style BDD framework... Brazil?
The Matrix shows the path most HN readers already know.
Actually, the line
Debt is a law...
Should be Interest is a law...
I wonder how those sites can keep up with technology compared to Net-A-Porter, Amazon, etc.

Paying programmers who can develop such sites looks expensive, and reaching a scale with sales margins is rather difficult I would say.
Ponify Lock your Mac or spread the Pony Love...
Documentation really is not beginner friendly. Try watching these screencasts which will introduce you to the workflow and the beauty of AngularJS and you will make a small application during the exercise:

AngularJS Fundamentals In 60-ish Minutes by Dan Wahlin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9MHigUZKEM

Introduction to Angular JS by David Mosher:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ILQOFAgaXE
Out of interest, have you tried upptalk?
So, talking about Servo being "implemented into Firefox" might set the wrong expectations. At the moment it is very unclear if or how it will be turned into a consumer-facing product.

That said, the goal of Servo is to improve both speed and safety.

In terms of speed, part of the project is research into parallel algorithms for various parts of the web stack. For example Servo today has parallel implementations of various parts of CSS. The goal here is to make the sequential performance on par with the best implementations today and then get a further speedup by using multiple cores efficiently.

In terms of safety, the choice of Rust over C++ provides substantially stronger compiler-enforced guarantees of memory safety that should help eliminate a large class of bugs that have caused numerous security issues in current browsers.

If this sounds interesting there are plenty of ways to get involved; come chat on #servo on Mozilla IRC.
Thanks for the new program. It is we were looking for....
I think julia could have a real good future. I started looking at it a couple of weeks ago and liked what I saw.

Its well worth a look IMHO.
> "More often than not, you are still overpaying on AWS vs a simple leased server"

Sorry, didn't explain myself properly: that's exactly my point. Unless you have enough scale to enjoy the benefits of on-demand shrink/grow, you're better off with offers like the one you posted or even other cloud providers like DO.

A good thing about AWS is that it ended up forcing down prices for leased servers.
super good use of a snow day. really cool. would want to see a high res version of the graph and maybe a summary of the largest viral effect.
I made Ghost work with multiple users
It is a very rudimentary solution, but it gets the job done in a simple case, when you need a small number of trusted users to post to the same blog.

The usual disclaimer of sleeping dragons in the code applies, enjoy.
Keep in mind we only have his version of the story...
>capitalism would be a good system //

The reason we have overlays on capitalistic systems seems to me to be because capitalism values the masses [people] at approaching zero, except where slavery/soylent green/organ harvesting and such is allowed.

Scenario: Humanland has a dearth of population who're not adding culturally or through labour to their pure capitalist economy - if they kill them and use them for animal feed they will both add resources and reduce outputs. Under capitalism, why not?

Capitalism starts with financial wealth and aims to increase it through competition.

Communism starts with human society and aims to support its needs through cooperation.

The later always seems to be far more reasonable to me. You intimate [I think this is what you're saying] that there has never been a capitalist economy and that this would be best - absolute market freedom - I'd like to see a communist society that didn't degrade in to a dictatorship.

In recent historical economic systems it seems this pithy aphorism is apposite:

"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." (J K Galbraith, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kenneth_Galbraith)
So you agree that Objectivism and libertarianism are split/separate/etc? You agree with me and disagree with the OP?
E-junkie has different model. Intubus helps immediately spread and distribute the content. Some more about it http://goo.gl/YqFj3L
Squarespace: They Asked for My Password.
I wonder if Chromium will enforce this behaviour (which is pretty anti-user) or will have an opt out.

I use both Chrome and Firefox interchangeably anyway so not using Chrome won't be a hardship.
Um absolutely not. I am not giving my ssn to a random police officer.