skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Point still stands, but thanks for the "Well Actually".

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
You're lucky. I use Asana for my personal tasks at work and I wish we all used it, but the PHBs want burn-down charts and such so we officially use Jira.
2 things jump out at me:

1.) many of the recent addition to Rails imitate the bloat that caused people to flee from Java frameworks

2.) much of the praise about the simplicity and elegance of Ruby now applies with even more force to Clojure
Damn copyright trolls. It's a shame this can't be more known.
I still like it best, but also like the combo the current Objective-C allows. Mainly, it makes it easier to remember what the heck each parameter is supposed to be while reading the code. Its nice to have that information in the code instead of looking at the docs.
Health care in India has a lot of issues, but it's affordable for most part. And if you read my reply to plaguuuuuu below, I wrote that it's still not good - but going the US way of insurance lobbying is not a solution either (because certainly, it's not working). Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who don't even have money to pay food, understandably they won't have money to pay for medicines. They get free government treatment in many cases (though no free food). There is a new Food Security bill passed late last year which is made to tackle those 42% undernourished children and other poor people. Implementation of that, in a populous country like India will take time. Poverty is a complex problem to solve.
The average "temperature" of empty space is 3K, due to heating by background radiation. That's a big enough difference to have a warmer sun-facing side and a cold, shaded side.
Have you read James Bowman's Honor, A History [1] or any of his other writings on this subject [2]?

1- http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/honor

2- http://www.jamesbowman.net/honor.asp
Or you come across as old. I do it all the time, as well, and that's something I've been told. (I'm over 50.)
Yes, then I think ES fits our application well and you should really take its advantage to provide your web interface for searching those documents.

I'm more interested in the second case, but I don't think ES fits due to the huge volume of data to be indexed.
I know NASA has been publishing reports on all of their missions for a number of years. Here's a small collection: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/alsj-mrs.html

I believe that after Challenger, NASA has even published technical reports regarding all aspects of the cause of failure and the steps to prevent it.
Too cool to be true :). Love it!
It seems to me that making games for the iTunes App Store has become a "red ocean strategy." It's fiercely competitive, and there are now some monster sharks (e.g. King, Zynga). I don't like the sharks, but hey, they're sharks: they're doing what sharks do.

Time to look for some blue ocean, I guess.
I daydream about the fact that we're slowly climbing toward a lisp/st OS without acknowledging it. As you say nowadays people accept and enjoy having hackable userland (dom/javascript) and it's only a late bolted on addition.
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Hadn't considered Riak, but I can see that it has some full-text search capabilities. Any idea about its features and how it compares in performance, as a raw search index?
My biggest shock was "Why haven't I heard about this lunar rover before!?"

I'm not news hound, but I do spend too much time on tech sites (HN/Reddit) that would report this. I remember years ago mention of China (and India) moon missions. But, really first man mad object to land in 37 years should have been blasted over most news sources.

After shock... "Kick ass, we're (finally) getting back on the moon!"
Have you actually programmed in COBOL? I find it nothing like COBOL. Maybe AppleScript, but not COBOL.

I find it faster to read since I don't have to glance at API docs at the same time.
Our stance is that, as an app developer, you should not care too much about the technology behind a backend. You should rather stay focused on the front end.
This rings true to me (social circle : early 20's - early 30's).

Related : my (ex) girlfriend once noted that "k" - as opposed to "kk" - was a sign of mild annoyance or anger. Turns out I was actually annoyed when I used it, but hadn't even thought about it consciously until then.
I love when something I've been using in production for what seems like years just announces now that they've reached 1.0.
http://spaceindustrynews.com/nasas-mars-orbiter-sees-signs-o...
While in college I also felt out of place and friendless for some time. My suggestion to college students now would be to join clubs around your interests. Soccer, ultimate frisbee, archery, chess, trading cards, what ever. Just make a little effort, and I am sure you will find friends. Join clubs you personally like, rather then clubs that make you look cool or something like that. This way you'll actually hang out with people who like the same things you do, and may give you more of a chance.

To colleges, create a system that makes it easy to organize such clubs and maintain them. Like a college centric meetup. Set it up and promote the hell out of it to the first years. Perhaps there is a startup opportunity here, to make the system and sell it to colleges! Facebook works well for this, but it would be easier to do this if there was a central repository of different group that college students have started, and a simple way to request university resources, like rooms, etc.

On suicide, this may sound cold, but if you want to kill your self, do it. Honestly, I feel it's every persons right to dispose off with their life as they will. But DO NOT threaten suicide as a way to get attention! Doing so is no different then you taking someone as a hostage and threatening to kill that person just to get attention. You are basically saying to the world "Pay attention to me, and if you do not, someone is going to die, and it's YOUR fault." If you feel really sad, call your friends and be honest, tell them that you feel really sad and you NEED someone to talk to desperately. If they are your true friends, they will make time for you. I would, for any of the people I call friends, no matter the time of night or what ever. And if they ignore you, telling them you are going to kill your self isn't going to change anything, they are not your friends, and they don't give a shit. Call your parents or family, if that's an option. Parents may seem like distant and not understanding at that age, but in most cases they will stick by you even if you have no one else.

Finally, just food for thought, my dad once told me this about evolution: In nature the "winners" are those creatures that pass their genes on to the next generation, and the "losers" are those creatures who's genetic lineage is cut off. Just based on the fact that you are alive today you can be assured that you come for a very, very, very long line of winners. So, when you feel down on your self, just remember, there are millions of generations of creatures which came before you. They figured out how to succeed in life, thus making you possible, and so will you, just give it time. Just about the only way to lose in life it to stop playing. So check out if you like, but if you stick around, the odds are on your side.
This gem is from the 'breaking changes' list:

“Geo queries used to use miles as the default unit. And we
all know what happened at NASA because of that decision. The
new default unit is meters.”

I like this release already.
The act of watching someone changes their behavior. How would you work differently with a crowd of people standing behind you and shadowing you the whole day? How would you drive differently if a cop followed you everywhere you go?

It's possible to be watched without changing your behavior, but is beyond the capability of most humans.
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I find that I have a (probably irrational) inclination to think that about virtually every technology company I hear about, regardless of size. This can range anywhere from "how can they employ FIVE engineers, it's just a simple app that does X" to "how can they employ TWO HUNDRED salespeople, it's just a simple website that does Y."
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> You know what's fun? Pasting in text from Ernest Hemingway and seeing what he did wrong.

I was thinking about giving some Joyce a pass through this...
I do believe it was the Gemstone folks (http://maglev.github.io)
I thought pickle output was just JSON? Shows what I know.
> Was that intended to be an example of a low value comment?

Essentially that is how it ended up. After rewriting it a couple of times from the original link to lmgtfy I probably should have just said to myself "You know, if that was a serious question on his part he would have done a search and known the answer long before I could compose this reply, so just let it sit there." I attribute it to being depressed at the lack of response to the 'Take Action' stuff yesterday which has put a huge damper on my mood today. After this comment I won't say anything more on HN until my mood improves.
I agree that it's not the only API people would need, but as a high-level API it's loads better than the localStorage API.
Furthermore, practicing biomedical researchers rarely, if ever, take a single study as "proof" of a hypothesis, no matter what the P-value is.

Replication and plausibility in the context of other studies are taken into account, however these additional parameters are difficult to reduce to numbers.

A recent blog post (link below) describes the actual practice of (good) biomedical research fairly well.

http://www.tcpinnovations.com/drugbaron/the-all-new-good-old...
Yes, the Czech version only sounds like a person after a stroke...
Fantastic idea in our constant dialogue about the convergence of tech and entertainment in LA. Will be very interesting to follow as this develops through the semesters or however they are organizing the accelerator.
Please edit this to include a line break, or include 4 spaces at the front of the line.

You've fucked page layout for mobile users.
The team is still working on it. There is hope still.

http://gbtimes.com/opinion/jade-rabbit-still-fighting-despit...
The Asana mobile apps are garbage, I don't know if you're ever used them, but it's like they didn't even try.
It's very risky for your business to depend entirely on the closed platform of another business. It really shouldn't be surprising that 'sharks' are ripping off smaller developers in these marketplaces. They've proven to be better adapted to the rules of the game.
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I look at those commas and wonder why? Is there a reason other than "must keep separators from normal function call"?
While the second reference was for Merriam-Webster, the first was for Oxford. So if you really want go against BOTH of those dictionaries AND english.stackexchange [1], you'll be making yourself deliberately obtuse. You might want to glance at the Cambridge American English Dictionary as well [2][3].

Can you not loosen your grip on this opinion in the face of evidence? Is it clear to you that people make dictionaries so that we can communicate more efficiently, get more done, understand one another better and improve our experience on this planet, not to be fancy? I'm telling you this because in my dream, this is a website of people helping each other achieve the goals of their lives and details like this may help you, too. I enjoy it when people bring me fresh clarity. I'm not trying to beat you into a pulp until you agree with me.

[1] http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19811/using-utili...
[2] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/american-english/...
[3] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/american-english/...
Nice - let me know how it works out, would be cool to hear.
There is some support for interfacing LLVM with a GC, but LLVM itself does not include a GC.
Surround Computing Is About to Change Our Lives
Exactly. It's asking to help get back privacy by giving private information. I understand why it's done, and it's quite useful to a lot of people. Still, having another option would be nice.
It was definitely on the front page of all techie sites, including HN and Reddit.

Many comments thereof lamented the lack of coverage by the mainstream media.
> In my opinion, free speech is lost the instant you start eroding it with heinous laws that limit it.

I don't know about heinous, but, say, incitation to murder shouldn't be protected free speech (see, eg, Rwanda). So you have to live with limitations in a civilized society, the debate is only on where to set these limits.

> However, the messier question is whether social sanctions should be imposed upon citizens by non-government actors whenever hateful or potentially offensive speech is used. For instance, should an employer be allowed to fire someone because of public racist remarks?

In my mind, employers should abide by the law. Otherwise, it's just as easy to fire somebody for expressing political opinions you disagree with. This shouldn't be a ground for termination.

> What if that employer is the government? What if the remarks were offensive to the government (think anti-war)?

French civil servants are supposed to be neutral in terms of politics, just like soldiers give up a number of rights during their time of service.
Peace – Me first
Apparently the sentence "my telly is red" has an adverb and uses passive voice :P
Very interesting reaction. It is a very rational decision to turn things over. But it looks like that it made you even more burned out.

Yes, once it happens, we have to turn around and do something else which is also productive. Give yourself enough relax both physically and mentally, then go out and talk to more people, you may get some positive energy and idea to make yourself refreshed.

To me, coding is like playing game. It's part of the language we use, but just talk to the machine instead. Somehow, I think programmers are really less superior, just like we are in the eye of the business people. We can do a good job to talk to machine, but may not be good to deal with people and make money. On the other hand, we are proud of us that we can make machine work according to our idea, we can create program to do whatever things we like, it's more or less like God created the world.

So trying to be God is not easy. Let's take a breathe and go further.
This sort of thing is happening increasingly frequently. I really like the idea of AskPatents ( http://patents.stackexchange.com ).

It seems to me that as developers we need a similar site where people can start objecting to overly broad trademarks, especially single word ones which are targeted at web service and application name related trademark classes.

There are probably much fewer trademarks issued that patents, and they are easily searchable online, eg the UK Trademark Journal is at http://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-tmj/tm-journals/2014-006/index.html .

A trademark is also much easier to object to than a patent ( http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-other/t-object/t-afterpub/t... ).

It would be a great weekend project for someone to create a web app which does some of this. You could even charge businesses a fee to monitor words that may affect their businesses.
User stories should be about behaviour changes
It's a tool explicitly designed for the dumbing-down of text. It might have its uses, for instance when you're writing ad copy, but applying it to everything you write would be a mistake.
Alan's lectures tend to cover a lot of ground. There's a bit more to what he's saying here than just 'money isn't real', the lecture also touches on what we give value to, how pursuing money as the route to happiness leads to multiple issues. He touched on guilt in society too, which isn't directly about money, but shows how the way we shape our society affects our individual behaviour, which is linked to what was said about money.
look: routing_field
Quantum computers: cracking existing codes but creating new harder ones
Facebook drops HasOffers and Kontagent as MMPs
I've never heard of such a convention. With the exception of the occasional error or typo, I use correct grammar and punctuation in all of my text messages.
I don't know anything about what Hemingway's rules are or what writers suggest in general. I can say, though, that during my AP English class, these are principles that we were taught in school for good writing. No doubt, you always take everything with a grain of salt so the writing doesn't have to be so rigid. But I find this app to be a great one, especially for people who want to improve and analyze their writing.
Two factor auth is defined as something you know plus something you have.

Two-step verification (also known as two-factor authentication) is a process involving two stages to verify the identity of an entity trying to access services in a computer or in a network. This is a special case of a multi-factor authentication which involves the presentation of two or more of the three authentication factors: a knowledge factor, a possession factor, and an inherence factor.
I don't think you could accurately estimate by looking at just the blockchain.
The websites down I guess.
> So, what's the advantage of Smalltalk over Ruby?

Smaller language, more coherent, first-class blocks, clearer messaging syntax, message cascading, conditions, …

> a better Smalltalk than Smalltalk

Not by a long shot no.

> and a better Python than Python

Not that one either.
you can grow a little larger than that by using some nodes only for aggregating/handling queries(holding no data/shards)

larger number of shards=slower searching (unless you distribute the shards to multiple nodes)
This immediately struck me as a ripoff of SQRL. I don't think there are any meaningful improvements in the linked solution.
we're actively developing better ones. stay tuned for updates!
Rise of beacons and fall of friction. Estimote CEO on uberization of everything
I get the idea, but I am wondering more on what kind of code will cause too much data to be retained and how to code around it.

What you just described is how memory is allocated, but can this cause it to be retained outside a function body?
There are rumors of an SEC-approved BTC exchange coming up. Once that happens, it will become possible to trade BTCs with the same level of confidence as trading Stocks, Currencies, or Commodities.

Somewhat unrelated: the Winkelvoss Twins are making an ETF for Bitcoins, and its going through the SEC right now. http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/01/17/lawyer-for-winkelv...

So at very least, SEC approved BTC funds are beginning to be set up. Its only a matter of time before a startup goes for full SEC approval in the BTC Exchange world.

Integration into US Society and Regulations is a good thing, and will give much confidence to the rather scary world that BTC currently is.
Oh - I have one! I just want to see examples of others so I can figure out ways to improve my implementation.
Sharks are doing what sharks do: they don't have a choice. People acting like sharks? They can choose other paths.

I get that they're responding to the incentives. Which is also fucked up. But I can hate the player and the game.
But then you get added security. This isn't two factor, this is one factor.
Yes. It's called a coordination problem: http://raikoth.net/libertarian.html#coordination_problems
>[...]etc.

Interestingly enough on the subject of networks and systems, many large commercial airplanes (air commerce and transportation are how much of the global economy?) are using a "totally unencrypted and unauthenticated" protocol [0][1] that can be used to transmit and inject packets (i.e spoof air planes) in the sky and wreak havoc on already worn thin aviation systems and controllers… available to anyone for under $50 and probably for free with some recycled gear lying around and ones local library… which should be fully implemented by 2020.

Also on the subject on making it real for the people, social networks have huge information leakages that people are only ok with until it ends up on a site that they never consented to or signed up for. Exploiting the fact that social networks and search engines can extract the vain behaviors of people, one or companies can easily exploit such phenomenon (for fun or for profit because corporations can have ability to absolve individuals of personal liability by exchanging capital gained from such endeavors to the State) to cause discomfort to such audiences that would not care or be aware of such things that are increasingly discussed on HN, thus opening up the discomfort surface for other issues to seep through.

All this to say, the means for The People (whomever and wherever they may be) to exhibit such control or sovereignty over themselves is already here (and always has, or so can be argued) if one looks around for just a little bit, so the time probably hasn't come but history suggests (especially in times of economic turmoil) that such times are always around the corner. But history also suggests that, in the aftermath of such things, they won't appear quite the same as they were looked upon before.

[0] http://dangerousprototypes.com/2013/02/28/defcon-20-renderma...

[1] http://youtu.be/HS38q3YXsY4?t=12m48s
Steve Jobs time capsule dug up after thirty years
A pretty big racial cognitive gap remains after adjusting for income, at least in America. Poor whites do better on cognitive tests than wealthy African Americans: http://glpiggy.net/2013/03/19/a-sociologist-looks-at-race-di...

African Americans are closer to European IQ levels than Africans, probably for several environmental and genetic reasons (better nutrition and schooling, ~25% European ancestry, etc)
> Success takes 9 months (to 5 years). There are no overnight successes.

From what starting point? The decision to try to be successful, when you come up with an idea, or when you start implementing it?
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Google does, when setting up 2FA. That's independent of using the app for other services.
In a lot of cases, you won't notice the result of every dollar spent on R&D (until much later on, when the technology becomes mainstream). For e.g. siri: might just seem like voice-to-text to you, but there's probably a ton of stuff happening in the backend in the fields of ai, scalability, personalization of the results, etc. Some of this stuff might have been known problems with known solutions, other things might have been applied research.
I thought the GC point was kind of interesting seeing as Objective C does/did have Garbage Collection (if you're an OS X developer). It's been deprecated and ARC is the replacement. There's been a bit of discussion about this in the past. Maybe if the first iPhone had come with the same hardware we're looking at today the story would be different but I tend to agree with the reasoning behind not supporting GC on iDevices. I feel like the hoops (some types of) Game developers have to jump through on Android even with todays hardware is validation of Apple's reasoning.

http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/xcode/322876-why-arc-ove...

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/09/19/the-unfamiliar

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2484079/how-can-i-avoid-g...
Is the shared economy racist?
What’s being posted on Facebook about?
seems right :

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh0BHJ7fUoc

- http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/MagLevAtRailsConf

Weird that it never got any steam or buzz ..