skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This simple extension:

https://github.com/greim/Backbone-Subscriptions

...eliminates much of the need to clean up the kinds of event handlers that prevent views from being GC'd. Essentially, it contrives things such that the references preventing views from being GC'd consist in the DOM itself, so that when a node drops out of the DOM, views attached to it are automatically free to be GC'd. Serves our purposes rather well.
yes also using Chrome v33
I hope that the idea of separating I/O from computing gains traction in the next few years. Dropbox, Google Docs/Drive, app stores, etc. all prove that there's demand for true cloud computing at the hardware level (unlike the web-based kludges currently offered).

I'm imagining a world where monitors, keyboards, touchscreens, etc. are all just dumb devices with a network connection, interfacing with a nearby server, which acts as a hypervisor platform for nearby peoples' operating systems (which might 'follow' a person from home, to work, to the grocery store). Brushing aside privacy issues, it almost seems feasible - and infinitely preferable to the fragmented mess we have now.
That may be, but the rug has been pulled out from under "literally". One will never again be able to assert something ... literally ... and expect to be believed.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally

1 : in a literal sense or manner : actually <took the remark literally> <was literally insane>

2 : in effect : virtually <will literally turn the world upside down to combat cruelty or injustice — Norman Cousins>
Agree in principle but I think with the web being so varied it's hard to have a one size fits all.

Certainly it shouldn't be abused for general websites, but for sites that represent something that's more 'app like' say a game, it's a fair way of indicating to the browser we'd like the UI removed more than not.
"Transparency is, in that sense, terror-enabling."

What a load of propagandistic nationalist crap.

The government claims to have a monopoly of violence "for the common good" even if every individual is harmed (!). Then it wants every individual to not know anything about how it is going to do that harm. The only reason people can put up with this if they have religious belief that government is somehow formed of superior super-people, not the same mortals that require babysitting as all voters supposedly are. The logic of government power is broken on so many levels, just like your christian testaments. Yet millions are bullied into believing this crap. (Which leads to all sorts of catastrophes - economic, health, wars etc.)
On account of it being better and more light weight? :o)
Is this just municipal San Diego? Or is this the county of San Diego?

It doesn't sound too bad but I live elsewhere in the county and would like to understand. I can leave if this is going to be a huge problem for me, though I would prefer not to.

Thanks.

Edit: Sorry if this sounds stupid. I previously lived someplace where the city and county government were combined. I don't think they are here but ...:-)
this comment is trolling.
Various facts applying I have heard as little as 8% and as much as 30% for a typical Angel round. Venture backed Seed funding usually being within that range.

It's good to be flexible but to have enough of a belief in what you are doing that if the first offer isn't the right offer you are willing to walk away in search of the right deal. Having a ceiling is generally good.

You want to make sure you can last 2-3 rounds before giving up a majority stake.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."

- John Philpot Curran, 1790 (attributed by Lord Denning, 1988)
Agreed, in fact what's surprising is that anyone thinks it's surprising that the JVM with its billions of man hours and primary usage in mission critical finance/banking/etc is anything but one of the most performant, scalable, robust, well-tooled platforms around.

>Aside from terrific performance, the JVM gives you the best concurrency platform out there (though not the easiest to use)

Though I'd probably still reserve that accolade for Erlang OTP/BEAM.
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Octane is the continuation of V8 benchmark (and contains all of the V8 benchmark tests) — V8 (the JS engine) was specifically designed to provide good performance on those tests (this is why V8 had a generational GC from launch, for example; though somewhat amusing last I checked Carakan (Opera/Presto's last JS engine) was quickest at splay, primarily a GC benchmark, despite having a very naïve GC!). The tests new in Octane don't display such a clear disparity, as V8 wasn't designed for them.
> Someone correct me if I am wrong but I don't think Bitcoin took genius levels of C++ or cryptography knowledge.

I think bitcoin is direct evidence of genius levels of C++, cryptography, and general software engineering knowledge. I'd place on par or better than git by Linus Torvalds (and as such I expect Mr Nakamoto to be someone much more like Linus than Dorian.)

The genius is in its relative simplicity, completeness, and effectiveness at both stating and solving the given problem. Upon seeing and understanding it (to the degree that I do), I'm curious at both who was able to invent it and what work it was that they built upon.
A false world that's at least informed by the real world can be more compelling than something totally abstract.

I'll always remember riding around in stolen cars in Vice City, a city that, while not real, is lovingly informed by the real world. If someone made a procedurally generated Vice City that I could drive through forever, yes, please!
That's the problem, while you say we shouldn't use the argument that "spies need 100 percent transparency", they do pretty much use the opposite argument, that we can never know anything about what they're doing, often even their overseers, because it would "endanger national security".

Plus, even though the 4th amendment clearly states that you can't even seize stuff from a person, without probable cause. Yet, they keep saying that they can, and it's ok to do it as long as they don't search it. They intentionally omit the seizure part of the 4th amendment.

Look at it this way. Would it be ok for the police to come into your home, no proper warrant other than a "general warrant", like the writ of assistance for which Americans rebelled against UK, and take your stuff, as long as they promise to not look through it?

I think that would be completely unacceptable and immediately be declared unconstitutional. Yet, NSA keeps pretending it's completely fine to take your "digital" stuff as long as they don't look at it.
Assign keywords to different search engines.

This lets you do queries like such:

Type "g hello" into the url bar - googles "hello"

wa integral from 0 to 1 of ln(x^4)dx - can be set to wolframalpha

w France - my wikipedia one
We have to remember that our founding fathers were terrorists in the eyes of the British.

I think a big step towards stopping terrorism would be to stop sticking our huge noses in everyone else's business. Whenever we take from one group and give to another, we create terrorists. This is a pattern we repeat over and over and instead of just minding our own fucking business we, as a country, feel this need to "save" the world from oppression (and hey, why not make some money while we're at it?)

So then what do we do? Up surveillance and carpet bomb countries in the middle east with drones. What does this do? Kill all the terrorists?? I'm willing to bet for every one terrorist we kill in a drone strike, we create 10 more because we killed someone's father or brother (or hell, their dog).

> One has to give credit to the US govt.'s efforts though: not a single case of terrorism on US soil after 9/11. That's pretty impressive.

Boston bombing? A citizen bomb strike is a terrorist act, generally. And the US government didn't do shit about it because they are completely incompetent. Our government consists of a large number of baboons spending our own tax dollars to instigate, fund, and at the same time fight terrorism all while chipping away at our rights little by little.

Yay, go team.
Among all the "Yeah, the 100,000+ salary doesn't quite cut it, I cannot afford kids" you're my hero. You started much earlier than I did (something I regret at times, when my eldest is 17 I'll be past 50..) and I love your trading skills further down this thread (website -> flight hours).

From one dad to another: I'm trying to provide the same. You're inspiring.
> Whatever you do, be intentional and do it because it's the right thing for you to do in your life

I'm not going to morally judge someone for benign lifestyle decisions, but it's baldly not true that someone can just live whatever life one wants without affecting the people around them.

Keeping your kids out of school, verbal abuse, avoiding vaccinations, trapping people into relationships with pregnancies, running out on child support, substance abuse during pregnancy, unprotected sex with strangers ... there are clearly things that are intentional and (ignorantly) someone's right to do. And they are clearly the wrong thing to do, for the individuals involved and for society at large.

I realize that you probably didn't mean to include all those decisions as valid in your sweeping case for non-judgemental social norms, but the fact is that norms are incredibly important because, especially when it comes to family, decisions do affect other people. If we can agree that some norms are important, the only discussion is about which are important, why, and how much.

I'll go one further and defend social diktat since it's probably not something most people consider. Given that norms are important, I'd rather people enforce these norms outside of the laws. The norm used to be that gay sex was a bad idea. People were (and are) thrown into prison and legally executed because people decided to turn social norms into laws. Since norms are greatly affected by technology and culture, keeping enforcement confined to social pressure provides a level of protection to people who decide to try something outside-the-box.
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I don't think you can become a popular cross platform systems programming language without being pretty decent.
I think we can expect more from full professors than people in the checkout line. It's hard to imagine any professor in any other discipline not being fired for that.

Here's another feminist who also did the same (and was eventually made to resign for it, thankfully): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Daly
>...about $220k a year in SF. That's workable.

That's depressing. Sure, it might be workable too. But depressing. That's a little over a million dollars in FIVE YEARS. Ok ok, one or two more for final take-home pay.

And that's still merely "workable" rather than "Oh boy we've got it made!"
I have a Macbook Air that gets referred to as "the skinny computer" around the house. (as in, "I hate this f'ng skinny computer. Why won't it let me copy a f'ng photo???).

It would never occur to me to refer to it by its model name.

My wife has an iPhone 5s. As in, "Hey, toss me your phone. It has a better camera". Guess we're safe there too.
Ancient Greece did not genetically survive. We have remnants of their culture NOT by virtue of their genetic fitness nor the continuance of their civilization, merely because we discovered their artifacts and the people whom they enslaved had children who fancy themselves as the children of the masters of their ancestors. Don't be fooled, Ancient Greece's failure to mention the importance of the nuclear family should be evidence as to what happens to cultures that lay aside such. Namely they are wiped out and their heritage is merely whatever is picked up by those near by after their society dies and goes through the throughs of civil and social collapse. The fact that Florence had a Renaissance to go through, thanks to discoveries of artifacts of the long dead Greeks and Romans.

And as per some of the most 'creative'/'productive' people being single presumes that their accomplishments sprung out of their heads like Athena. None of them would have the very culture they played off of that enabled their greatness without the existence of nuclear families.
Do you work in sales? What do you spend so much time on the phone for? I spend ~1 hr a week on the phone and it's all to my family.
Well you are basically quoting Joshua Bloch of Effective Java fame when he says "please don't abandon the JVM, a lot of work went into it"(My paraphrasing).
"As you can see, some content just cries out for a full-screen display. Now, with minimal-ui, we can do just that."

True but this cannot be done programmatically, only with the meta value when the document loads, so you better have that sort of content in its own document.
He doesn't even sound..
I can't believe this is a real thing. It's not like there isn't anyone else in Russia with a Netflix account.
There's always the possibility for second acts, even moreso in this world where the rate of technological innovation and change is speeding up. But you vastly increase your odds of this by moving to a locale where you have the best odds of serendipity, namely Silicon Valley/SF or NYC. Without going into personal detail, I can guarantee this from experience.
Executives are waaaaaaay more succussful than actors in hollywood. And you have none in your list. It might be enlightening to do a demographic study of industry executives and their lobbyists in Washington. And then report back with your findings. =D
True, but it's a bit like the idiomatic "Throw out the baby with the bath water", but in this case we are keeping both the baby and the water.
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Japan will not survive in any real way, demographic numbers are such that whatever might survive will not look very much like Japan does now. They simply are not having enough kids, and have been on that path for a very long time with no sign of the dramatic change they would need to survive.
I just tried to buy, but you don't ship to Canada :-( Any plans to change that?
Happily, this story appears to have been buried shortly after I wrote that comment, sparing us both any incentive to hash out the merits of Winer's post.
"The fact that FF runs in a single process seems to be a major security issue since the web views are not sandboxed."

Only to people who don't really understand security. This whole "multi process" "sandboxed" meme started by chrome guys has really got out of hand.
While you can be 100% correct, it's a straw man and irrelevant to my point. You can simultaneously believe finance is rent-seeking and still 100% agree with my points in response to the original post: 1) finance is much larger in capital markets; 2) Icahn has legitimacy even if he turns out to be wrong; 3) We should not dovetail into a finance vs. tech argument.
I've been worried about this for awhile now. Unfortunately, I haven't really found any other products that offer similar functionality. I'm unsure of what I'd do if/when Google Voice gets cancelled.

I really only want two features, and it's hard to find something supporting both:

* Abstract my number away from whatever carrier I'm using, while still having outgoing calls show up correctly
* Allow sending/receiving texts via the web

Any suggestions? Porting my number doesn't really help if there's no where to port to!
>First, Mozilla has and does assist in the creation of FOSS game engines and tools

Parent comment didn't imply the contrary. "stop promoting nonfree software" doesn't mean "stop only promoting nonfree software".

>even the LGPL shows that absolute avoidance is not always the best thing to do regarding closed-source code

If you ask the FSF, the LGPL should really be used as a last resort. Unity is not too common yet (and hopefully will never be as long as it remains proprietary), so I don't see why we should push it forward by helping its integration. Same goes for HTML5's EME. I'd rather have a purely open platform with less features and popularity than a platform with an open base and countless incompatible binary blobs sitting onto it. And even the abomination that EME is would at least be an actual standard.

>Unity engine is a proprietary codebase, they also have lots of code that is FOSS

If you can't build it, it's not worth integrating. The only thing this is good for is making a FOSS alternative (although I guess they keep the important bits secret). I'd be using Google Chrome if "99% open source" was good enough. By using Firefox (though Chromium would be fine if it weren't for the user-hostile features), I precisely want to keep a clean FOSS platform. Conversely, I only use an Android ROM because there's no good alternative, which is not the case for Unity. So I wish they'd keep it out for now.
+1.

50 Cent is my #1 role model since he has achieved success despite adversity (Both of his parents were dead by the time he was 8 & he grew up in a rough neighborhood).
You may have smaller wrists than some of us.

Have some fat wrist porn: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kjed7wq0p23l42h/RbCpiuaGjH

I don't usually work directly on my MBP, being of the one true religion (external keyboard/mouse/monitor), but when I do, the first is approximately how my left wrist normally rests, and the second is with my Pebble on, showing the buckle in contact with the MBP.

It was hard to get the angle right on the second picture, so the position of my wrist is slightly off, but you get the idea.

When actually typing (especially for more than a couple words, like I am now), my wrist isn't usually resting so heavily on the surface, but the buckle is still in contact with the laptop.

The scratching is annoying, as is the pressure on my wrist. This has been the case for every watch I've owned with several different straps, so I almost always take them off when using any laptop without an external keyboard.
Good bet, but wrong. I don't own a thing, I'm renting an apartment. Single income, wife's never started (due to the kids, plans to start Real Soon Now™).

I don't fear losing my job. Without bragging: I'm reasonably sure that I'm among the best developers the company has, easily. My life's even quite relaxed, due to my (earned) status. It's just boring. And sometimes annoying.

So I'm not afraid of losing my job. That is totally possible, but imo quite unlikely at this point. I'm just afraid of actively looking for a 'fun job'.
I understand why everyone gets upset at this - there are rarely enough cabs, especially when I need one now. But the law is and has been very clear about paid transportation. Why don't we focus more on updating the law instead of asking politicians to break it?
I personally think the Seattle uberlyft rules are stupid, but it's worth remembering something that gets lost in the noise of "futurism" that clonks around the silicon valley echo chamber: it's not inherently wrong to have laws that protect established businesses. I don't like cab companies, but I do want to know that my hired driver is insured. I'm indifferent to hotels, but I don't want my neighbor running an SRO out of his apartment. I don't enjoy high medical bills, but I like the ability to know that my prescription medications aren't radium-based elixirs. And so on.

To the extent that stability of certain kinds of businesses is essential to the stability of our society, it's actually a very good thing that governments are somewhat conservative about protecting the establishment. Moreover, there's no law of the universe that says that "disruption" is a good thing, and there certainly isn't any clean way to weigh the interests of one big established industry with those of a large, successful, wealthy competitor industry.

Anyway, I have a hard time getting worked up over the regulatory disputes of corporations -- we have bigger problems, not the least of which is the question of why those big, successful companies get so much influence over the laws in the first place.
Exactly. I put a lot of time and thinking into music because it gives the developer side of me time to breathe, think, and ruminate on the hammock to arrive at better insights.

I think a lot of this "always on" crap that people want to think they have to do stems from insecurity. Definitely do side projects/open source/other things as you want to, but it's not required in any form. The result is substantially better when you do it because you really want to, not because you're trying to level up your resume.
Rumors are Hangouts will finally integrate it properly soon: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/03/18/google-reportedly-pl...
> Me either.

neither*

(btw, I have an asterisk after the word "neither", but it doesn't show because of formatting. anyway to make those show (I tried adding a space after it))

Edit: when I submitted with text after the space after the asterisk it worked. But how would I do it if the asterisk was the last character in my post?
And yet no one seems to complain about the Nike fitness bands, devices that collect the same information and have the same access to your phone's always-on network connection -- a device that's made by a company that actually sells you shoes.
Why fiction? Why reading?
Can you please give a use case of a program that a few hundred ms delay during startup would be an issue?
Microsoft Research is one of the best CS research labs in the world.
Problem is ... I suspect that the Wearables SDK will be another case of Google launching proprietary libraries on Android. I have no problem with proprietary, but a lot of people think that because it's Android, it is open. It isn't. Core Android gets slimmer, Google's tie-in to your business gets fatter (unless you re-write their APIs). As an example, developers followed the location APIs in to the Play SDK ... switching from an open, core API to the Play API without fuss. It's creep if you ask me.
any sources for apt-get available?
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I wish you all the best.

I don't think I could muster the courage to do just that. Maybe your situation is different (here, we got just one income: Mine. No savings account or any property) or maybe you're just braver than me.

Again, I wish you all the best with your change of career, I just cannot imagine doing that myself.
May I ask why you would want to speed read a technical book?
... and also this makes Java a great choice for large distributed teams of programmers of different levels of expertise.
I'm using mine with RunKeeper and it works great. I'm pretty happy with my Pebble's notifications as well.
Having said that, I didn't have great expectations to start with. I wasn't going to play games on a watch. I wasn't going to type responses to my SMSs or e-mails. I'm happy because I don't miss calls anymore. I see my notifications instantly. And when I'm outside running, I can easily see my distance, pace etc. And I only recharge once a week or longer.
He's using SVG fonts without WOFF or EOT versions.

For whatever reason they aren't rendered immediately. Double hitting the F12 dev bar usually sorts it.
I don't like excessive regulation any more than the next guy, but creating a new business in a regulated industry and then calling all payments "donations" just to get around the law feels like a practice that is... dangerous at best.

The regulations were crafted by elected representatives of the people, if they aren't good, we can change them. This is Washington State, we passed both marriage equality and legalized marijuana at the ballet box. Surely we can legalize cars with ridiculous pink moustaches.