skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, lots of large projects that have a choice of states carry with them "nice to haves" which are policy changes that would make the choice "better." Intel played this game with their factory they put into Arizona, Google with data centers (and Google Fiber of late), Tesla with battery factories.
tcpdump is one of my pet responses when people ask me why I still use terminal-based tooling.
I agree with you, it's way way way too long. And overly dramatic. I gave up reading pretty quickly.

However, judging by other comments here, I'm not sure there really was any "importance" to "dilute". It's probably just a way for apparatchiks to justify all-expense-paid vacations twice a year.
That's quite a bizarre solution, but I suppose it could work. Imagine if it was widely used... The delivery driver could just go through business parking lots in the city and drop off packages into people's cars. No entering buildings, no leaving packages in the bushes or out in the open. It would be much more efficient and ought to make the packages more secure.

Of course, I can think of plenty of reasons why it wouldn't work, too. How do they avoid chasing your car around? What if the digital key system is insecure? What happens when thieves learn to watch the UPS truck and break into all the cars it places packages in?
IMHO this editor ony will be a improvement to those that are used to something like GEdit, Notepad++, TextMate, Adobe text-editors and Github's devs. I don't think that there much here for ones that use LightTable, VIM, Emacs or some fancy IDE for their everyday job.
I use five things:

For reading a single thing later, I use Instapaper: http://www.instapaper.com/

For bookmarking links (and sometimes making notes) I use Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:wpietri

For following RSS feeds, I use NewsBlur: http://newsblur.com/

If it's relevant to an upcoming task, I'll paste it into a note on my task tracker: http://kanbanflow.com/

And then when I'm working on a specific thing, I sometimes keep a journal in Evernote and paste in notes and links.

Other than that, I've stopped tracking things. My natural inclination is to hoard information. I've mostly stopped doing that, trusting that if I really need to know something I'll be able to find it again.
If you are so concerned about downloading anything via HTTP, why not always use a VPN? At least that way you aren't susceptible to local MITM. Just make sure you trust your VPN :)

Edit: Oh, plus you can always use a checksum to verify your download packages [1] :)

[1] http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.26/SHASUMS.txt
I'm guessing the same way you break it in humans. Like this:

http://www.davidairey.com/anamorphosis-and-the-art-of-chalk-...
Wow, the GitHub hype machine is working extra hard these days. I think this is at least the 5th article that hit the front page about Atom in the last couple of days.

Are we still seriously discussing a closed source, non-free, Mac only Sublime Text clone that was written in Javascript and as it turns out, is painfully slow?

Say what you will about Proggit, but at least the discussion there isn't all "OMG I can switch from Sublime now!!!". Jesus Christ.
Is it the existing system the "bad" kind of Java (J2EE 1.4/EJB 1/xml hell/Abstract Factory madness) or the nicer and more modern RESTy/Dependency Injected/JEE6 (or Spring) variant?

And I recall that one of the trickier requirements is correctly sending and acking enrollment info (EDI?) to and from the many (dozens?) of insurance companies involved. Is that piece looking ok?
"These highly-overloaded terms are a constant source of confusion for people trying to learn different programming languages."

Yeah, they mean yet something else in statistical software.
Its a sweet deal for companies if you think about it. Maybe benefits are different in Canada, since I heard that the Govt. provides healthcare, but in the US, the employer has to provide that. Plus, more salary, 401(k) etcetc.

Actually, from another viewpoint, for small companies its very beneficial to hire interns; they can be used to work on projects which might be interesting but have low financial returns.

Which leads me to conclude that > 3 month internships should perhaps be allowed only if you're working at a startup, or small-scale shops that can't really (I mean really really) afford to pay you. For a company like Broadcomm, that doesn't make sense.

Of course, this is just my subjective viewpoint. I'm inclined to believe that my sense of justice might be very skewed.
Curl is obscure?
Any name that we'd come up either wouldn't capture the general case or would be just as arbitrary as Monoid ( ignoring historical usage). The gist of this argument is that Pacabel and the like can't describe the concept using the traditional OOP evocative naming style but insist that term "Monoid" is wrong because of some irrational aversion to terms from abstract algebra. There's really nowhere for this argument to go...

Imagine trying trying to describe a monoidal category or topoi in the OOP style, it's like trying to describe what a Fourier transform is to someone who insists on using roman numerals.
India's mission to probe Sun before 2020
I recently discovered netbrake. Super awesome tool to limit the bandwidth used by a process. http://www.hping.org/netbrake/

Also its written by antirez :)
Great job! I've been using tty.js for a while but it is a little unstable and I love Python so this is a perfect fit.
My friends and I were heavy Wave users back in college. It was simply the best tool available by combining chat, Google docs and forums into a single tool. It was slow at first, but after the first 6 months of improvements it became progressively very responsive.
Bankrupt Mt. Gox Reveals Location of Lost Private Keys
Nah, its not that, its that there are not enough controls to make the claim. Lets create a strawman and see if it works for you, lets say your "job" was fitness equipment tester, and the more you worked the more exercise time you got in. Historically there is a sort of bell shaped impact on health here where exercise increases your overall health up to a point at which point too much of a good thing starts impacting your health in a negative way. If you were at the global maximum on that curve, either working more or working less would cause you to be less healthy.

For people where they are more 'at risk' at work than they are not at work (say 'deployed soldier') working less is statistically safer, for folks who have the reverse (say submariners) the reverse is true.

The discussion usually comes around how do you narrow the claim to make it either provable or disprovable. Is it true for all programmers? how about for 'all java programmers' or 'all java programmers in the bay area'. See the challenge?
> Try harder, or get forked.

I really like that, and fits so well for some FOSS projects.
Southwest Chicken Chili Recipe
I don't know about Ace, but CodeMirror only loads a small portion of the file text into the dom. I regularly load 40 kloc javascript files in Light Table without any noticeable pauses.
I'm using ConEmu as a wrapper for standard cmd and cygwin, works well for my needs.
How to launch a startup without knowing a line of code
The matching engine described in these documents is not anywhere close to state of the art. The big exchanges can get you fills wire-to-wire sub 100 micros now with binary protocols that you can just cast into a struct without parsing. Open sourcing it wouldn't be a big deal. Heck the original ISLAND would probably give them a run for their money: http://josh.com/notes/island-ecn-10th-birthday/

Besides, exchanges are a network effect problem primarily. People will continue to trade where there's liquidity unless a new market offers something substantially better. Look how many people still used Mt Gox with its constant freezes and rumored insolvency.
"In this new Digital Age, the Press needs to find a new model"

It did. In this digital age, small time publishers and blogs can now have an audience thanks to advertisers. If they're popular and providing great content they will, at minimum, make enough to cover the cost of hosting. They have a potential viewership of 6 billion people. Without advertisers, this just wouldn't exist. The internet would be different at the fundamental level.

Most people severely underestimate what advertisers bring to the table in terms of enabling content producers.
How about no special treatment for Texas auto dealers?

If computer retailers do not get their own special little protection in Texas, why should auto dealers?
This is nothing new. I saw a similar report with a different video over a year ago (couldn't find the link).
I know the use of object-to-HTML-mappers is only going to grow from here on out, but I really don't see the appeal in most cases where pure HTML would have been a perfectly readable and lightweight choice. We're becoming so scared of angle brackets that we seek refuge behind object-like constructs that are nothing but yet another impoverished and leaky abstraction layer above an already abstract markup language.

Look at that nightmare of a rendering code and tell me you'll still want to touch that when the time comes to go back and modify it in a few months.

I had the displeasure of working with Jade on a recent project. Not only was it more difficult for humans to parse than the HTML it produced, it was also slow to execute and generally cumbersome to modify. The main purpose of its existence might just be so programmers can lie to themselves about separating code from templates, and making those templates look really sophisticated at the expense of productivity.

The battle cry "nobody should write literal HTML anymore" is not a good enough reason to do this - in fact it's not even a reason at all to begin with.

The example code in the article, well, I'm sorry to say that it's unreadable, convoluted, and huge for what it actually does. Both versions are terrible in their own way, only the JavaScript one is also deliberately sabotaged in order to really stand out as an abomination.

That being said, if there are people looking at this going "my, that does look mighty pleasant" - all the more power to you. A huge part of programming is finding technologies that map well to your brain. It just doesn't work for me at all (I needed to vent that just now, thanks for bearing with me) and I kind of hope I'm not alone.
Have a look at Uncle Bob's fitness app, IIRC this is written using the red green refactor cycle, in fact I would suspect most of his other code on github will be the same.

https://github.com/unclebob/fitnesse
I don't think showrooming would be catastrophic to the industry. If test drives are important to selling cars, manufacturers could pay dealerships to keep their cars around on lots for that purpose, or come up with a meaningful incentive structure to reward them if the test drive leads to a sale (you can incentivize the customer to help with the tracking, too; just give them a big enough coupon). And alternative manufacturers could sell through the Internet or at their own dealerships, at their discretion.

And certainly used-car dealerships aren't going to evaporate under this scenario either.
I'll never understand this when a $5 digital ocean VPS could perform far better, and probably a lot cheaper than the extra electricity he's burning at home.
Ryanair Will Fly to US for $14, CEO Says
What's preventing me moving to python 3 is that I'm using Flask, and it makes it pretty clear that you probably shouldn't be running Python 3 unless you have some special reason.
How is that comparison at all relevant?
Obviously, if it were profitable then revenues would have to be substantial - above total operating costs. Any percentage of that would be a massive expenditure.

Whereas if it is not yet profitable, then revenue could be tiny - i.e. you might be 'vetoing' (with your comment) a $50 expenditure that serves to generate huge amounts of free advertising and goodwill for Reddit.

Frankly with this level of analysis, it would surprise me greatly to learn that you have any money remaining to invest.
Web technology - adding memory usage to solved software problems since 1998.
You do realize he's being sarcastic, right?
To be fair, Monoid's operation in Haskell is called 'mappend'.
> "Car dealers are important for the same reason a shoe store is important."

Interesting comparison. Are there any laws preventing sneaker companies from selling directly to the consumer in Texas? Do shoe dealers have their own special little protectionist laws?

Or could Nike open their own corporate owned and operated store to sell Nike brand merchandise, if they were so inclined?
What flaws did you find in Socket.io? What were some flaws in other libraries?
Rob, I have some spare compute on Rackspace you are more than welcome to use if you want it. Hit me up on Twitter. Same same username.
If you have Nginx+HttpAdditionModule installed I don't see why not.
The protocol can only handle 7 transactions per second.
The typical attack in the past involves two devices, one by the car and one by the key. But that attack only works on proximity fobs for obvious reasons.
Discontinuing support for all third-party messaging networks
sublime and notepad++, sure. I doubt, though, that they think they're going to move many away from using a full-blown IDE like NetBeans, Eclipse, Intellij, etc.
What's really shitty, in my opinion, is that they're giving 3 days notice, and only 7 days to download your chat logs for those networks. (For those unaware, retrieving your chat logs has been a feature of IMO for a very, very long time).
"Why is it that 'positive integers and minimum' is appendable, but 'integers and minimum' isn't?"
> Yes sure consumption has increased with affluence but Many people don't realize how hard it is for an unskilled and unconnected person to find any kind of work.

I wish the focus of the US public discourse was less "how terrible is it that these unskilled people can't find jobs" and more "how can we provide economic stability to these unskilled people and help them become skilled"
> pretending they will be better off if the only access to Tesla is a mail-order catalogue.

Except Tesla is available outside a mail-order catalog via Tesla-owned distributorships.
I prefer to stick with and editor that, for the last several years of using, I completely don't understand, and likely never will.

So I use emacs.

I don't really get all the IDE hype outside of what I consider to be the big 3 required ones (due to vendor restrictions or in AS's case, isn't Eclipse): VS, XCode, and Android Studio.

For the rest, it seems that vi and emacs do what would be needed, and work on everything. Why not just improve on those two products instead of making new ones that are simply short lived fads?
What happens if you cut the wire?

https://s3.amazonaws.com/crowdhoster/chui/uploads/ckeditor/p...
Exactly. The only reason dealers might disappear in a world where manufactures are permitted to sell directly to the consumer is that dealers do not actually offer any advantages that consumers actually value.

If dealers provide such a necessary service, then they won't be in any trouble. That they think they are in trouble is really them saying all that you need to know about them.
Reminds me of some ezine from the 90s.
Someone should! My money is still on the General Fusion [1] folks (inertial confinement) to come up with something before or around when ITER gets online. They at least have a hope of being able to build functional power plants that don't cost billions if they can crack it. Jeff Bezos has invested a bit of money in the project.

[1]http://www.generalfusion.com <- they reworked their site!
#nitpick
Yes Proggit instead has a ton of posts about how this is shit and, "Why do I need this when I have [emacs/vim]?" when none of them have tried it.

The general population of HN seems to cares enough to upvote them (original post has 1300pts which is high) so either write an extension to block them or just ignore them and upvote other articles. GitHub has a lot of good will with people who read HN so of course articles about them will be popular. See: whenever GitHub goes down.

Same thing happens with bitcoins and pretty much any other popular topic.
This is a fucking joke? "scrawled onto the back of a Starbucks receipt"?! Did I smoke fucking LSD?
It could be that $10,000 is the amount some mid-to-high level manager can probably write off.

Also $10,000 is a significant amount of money.
As soon as it interfaces with a lock, you're talking about a high degree of mechanical complexity and hassle to install, at which point you might as well chase the high end of the market with every bell and whistle possible.
> I wonder how much of comfort is attitude or perspective. I also happen to be a single man living in a high-rent city (Palo Alto). My income is about $30,000.

I live in a shitty small apartment in a run down part of SF, and my annual rent is $20,000. Either you're talking net income, PA is way cheaper than I've been led to believe, or there's some factor I'm missing
> Yes, you know, I thought about that a lot. But I'm not entirely sure that's true. Are you?

No, I am not. Ha! I guess I am exposing my own ignorance of _the right way_ to do things like this along with what my comfort zone is.

If I want to going to write a package to insert the current date at the cursor point, for example, I am likely going to just open up the webkit console and write code in their until it works (I did this) — instead of going to atom.io and finding their API documentation.

One cop out too I was thinking about is that one could easily write a plugin to 'edit in' and assign a keyboard shortcut to handle the big files in their robust editor de jour.
Free software typically doesn't force you to share changes either, as long as you don't distribute the binaries. Patching GPL code and using it in a web application without ever releasing the source is perfectly fine.

The Affero GPL was designed to force the release of source even in that case. That's the only license I know which has that property though.
I'm a huge proponent of both ClojureScript and Facebook's React. However, this is a severely broken comparison.
The argument about closing rural dealerships is silly. Dealerships make their money servicing cars and not from selling them. So there will always be a need for service centers in those rural areas as long as the OEMs keep selling enough cars one way or another to warrant it. Otherwise other independent garages will prop up and service customers.
I was certain this had already been posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567186 (from 2 years ago[0]).

I think the difference is in the trailing slash of the submitted link.

[0] Oh god, no.
I'm curious as to why he is celebrating a single Node process handling 135 concurrent connections.
Googling for statistics about the profitability of rural car ownership seems to be a fruitless task, so I can only speak from the anecdotal experience of one who has spent most of their life 1. living in rural areas and 2. has worked for and started businesses providing services to rural car dealers with the son of a big-shot sales manager for multiple dealers. (Alarms/physical security and web services/social media bullshit, respectively.)

Every car dealership I worked with had obscene profit margins (primarily from service), dealerships routinely collaborated with each other (a handful of old men owned most of the major dealerships for hundreds of miles and went to lunch together regularly), and all had nothing short of abusive business practices. Most of the owners had started out as salesmen and eventually worked up enough money to get a dealership of their own, at which point they rapidly expanded to multiple dealerships (which would imply a well above average rate of return on investment.)

Thankfully the 2008 crash gutted a lot of them. Hopefully tesla and the manufacturers can deliver a killing (legal) blow - without government-enforced monopoly status, they'll die quickly because they really don't really add any value to the consumer and cost tons of money.

Sorry for the rant, the entire subject is infuriating.
Are you're purchasing cars every week? we're not talking about groceries here, cars are a long term investment and if you're saving money by not having a middle man that extra drive once every 3-10 years (lease/purchase) is not going to be a big deal. Plus, 500 miles? are you referring to Alaska?
Just as evolution doesn't judge by anything other than success (a cockroach is arguably more "evolved" than a human), neither should technology. A simple mechanical twist-bolt happens to have significant technological feature advantages over a fancy mobile-enabled whatsit, even if it's lacking in other areas.

You pays your money, you takes your chances. :)
In that case everyone in the industry is a charity case. Almost every invention, from the advent of integrated circuits, digital signal processors, LCD displays, even Google all the way up to the Internet itself — came from publicly funded research projects. In the computer industry in particular the "you didn't build that" claim is probably more true than anywhere else. Shoulders of giants, folks.
I assumed it didn't, if it did that would be even worse. The problem assuming you trust the creators of that site is that since the connection is unsecured the javascript could be modified for a compromised version w/o you knowing. Even if you watch your connection like a hawk and make sure it doesn't send any data out it could generate a key that might look random but is really based on some shared secret only the attacker knows.
If you're having trouble finding a job where you can use node.js, try other things.
It would appear that Nike has plenty of stores in Texas. Indeed they can operate in this manner as they are inclined.

http://www.nike.com/us/en_us/sl/find-a-store/
This doesn't prove Coinbase gets their Bitcoin from Bitstamp, but the plot makes a compelling inference worthy of further research:

"Coinbase buy price is pegged to Bitstamp" (Dec 2013):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392422.0
I've had discussions with my friend in NYC. He's married in NYC, I'm single in SF. My salary is $10k/yr more than his, so why do I feel like I'm barely getting by, while he's doing all these crazy Rich New York Person things.

So I did some rough calculations. According to paycheckcity.com, despite his making $10k gross less than me, when you factor in tax differences (between states, and his marital status), his take-home is $6000 MORE than me.

If you make $65k gross in NYC, and you're married, by half-assed extrapolation that puts you in the same boat as a single person in SF making $80k. Still not 110k, but a substantial difference.
this is a terminal, not a shell
> Great for everyone, except for the people who now live five hundred miles from the nearest car dealer.

Don't expect draconian legislation to support your lifestyle. I'll subsidize the postal service, so everyone gets mail at a reasonable rate. But that's it. It is not a right to live in the middle of nowhere and still demand the luxuries of civilization (to be imposed by legislation).
Texas has a bit of a split personality, which I guess is fairly common in conservative states towards the West: on the one hand it tends to be in favor of small government, free markets, etc., but on the other hand it also lionizes small towns, rural areas, the "real Texas" that isn't Houston/Dallas/Austin. Those two kinds of preferences are often in conflict, since small-town Main Street, left to its own devices, does not necessarily prosper in a modern economy.
> why not always use a VPN?

Because then you're susceptible to remote MITM? VPNs are useful but do not replace end-to-end encryption.