skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How widely is this adopted? FX is one of those tools I'm a little leery of because of the possibility it may be abandoned by Oracle if not enough people use it.
That seems like a poor reimplementation of XML namespaces.

Why not use XHTML at that point? If XHTML ever had a clear mission statement in life it was that.

I mean I thought XHTML was a curse a few years ago when it was The Thing Every Good Designer Uses™ since it couldn't be rendered as XML in the most popular browser. But hopefully that's not as much an issue anymore. Or maybe it is. I haven't kept up with IE.
I find the existing bill of rights quite adequate. We don't really need anything new, maybe an amendment here and there but in reality most of today's issues are already covered, they're just being utterly violated and nobody seems to realize as the ap has so eloquently demonstrated.
Same reason that people are more likely to namedrop the make of their car (when it's not particularly relevant) if it's a premium brand.
I've gained an affection towards IntelliJ after having to use Android Studio for some development.

Much more flexible nicer and customizable (from a UI pov) than Eclipse-based IDEs.
The man behind Inflationary Universe Theory finds out his theory was just proven
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/mh370-debunked-image-of-pla...
Aren't there like 4 other Turing award winners at MSR that also somehow escaped poaching (and are there any at Google)? I think you may have the wrong idea about where researchers would prefer to work...
I click the "threads" link up top.
I see the major advantage in being shuttling between a field (or port) in which conventional transport can be utilized, and a specific disaster locale in where you cannot land a 747, C130, or dock a PANAMAX ship. Utilize those for the long-haul, then use the airship to shuttle between your full-service port and the specific locations which are cut off.

When you're talking about the difference between getting supplies to a region that's cut off from the rest of the world, even a 10km or 100km haul can be hugely useful, and the airship can cover that distance in 6 - 60 minutes.
-__- IT'S. A. FUCKING. WATCH. -__-
So, how did that help the other shareholders?
Lack of Tail Call Optimization is still a bummer in some cases.
Is that quote from something? I really enjoy the dubious logic.
Well, SPDY is enabled by default on 1.5.11 from what I understand, so they better push out 1.5.12 out (at least not seeing it yet)
The post was an advertisement itself.
Lightweight OS X configuration management tool
Sony takes on Oculus Rift with new PS4 Virtual Reality device
PHS Approves Medical Marijuana Study, Marking Historic Shift in Federal Policy
Many of these "non-realisms" in Minecraft are specifically for better gameplay.
Coffee Withdrawal: Quitting Caffeine Is A Mental Health Disorder (2013)
Yes, but we can learn from how other governments are dealing with problems like these. (Britain, for one, doesn't fine people for injuring themselves, I believe.)
I suspect it's the smallest they can do while still meeting the technical requirements.

There is definitely a size below which usage would suffer too much for many people, but such a device doesn't need a very large UI, since most of its utility is in displaying small bits of information quickly, and extensive data input is performed better on a phone anyway.
My money would be on that as well, though not at crazy odds.
I've noticed that people in a non-obvious minority group tend to be pleasantly surprised when they find out that someone distinguished is from that same minority group.

In addition to the example of gay/lesbian people, I've noticed that Canadians (nationality) and Jews (religion) tend to show this trait. It makes sense - it's pleasing to learn that one of "your tribe" is doing well.
Thank you all !
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not..

Most over 30 who want to show off their wealth actually do wear a watch, an expensive one at that. I don't know where you get this bs notion that NOT wearing a watch is a sign of wealth. You don't have to be rich to afford a $50-80/mo. contract but you do for that $100,000 Vacheron.
Does anybody know if static libraries made it in?

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/178
Sony Computer Entertainment Announces “PROJECT MORPHEUS”
Livescribe just picks up "you drew a line here". For an artist, this is not enough. You need to pick up how hard the line was drawn, you need to pick up pulling out colored pencils or markers or paint and poking at your sketchbook that way.

I personally don't do much finished work in my sketchbook - I'm all about Illustrator - but a lot of my friends still love traditional media, and will casually whip out something amazing in their sketchbook because it's what they have to work on when the urge strikes.

Artists are an extreme example, a non-artist still might be using multiple colors for their notes and whatnot.
Power and money aren't the same thing. Power is the ability to control your environment .. i'd say that's exactly the "lot of other things" that tech cares about. Power derives from generating wealth, which is making people's lives better.

Of course, people have always moved money (and information) around (and always will). Just as we've always moved goods around. That wasn't my point. When "Brittania rules the waves" became Britain's national anthem, it was because ruling the waves (and moving goods) was the main source of power in those days. Since then, shipping has become a commodity. This is now happening to finance.
I think the suggestion is that this swap would of happened early in the flight. MH370 heads away disguised as the other thing. Once enough time has passed then the other thing turns off the transponder and then heads off, perhaps being detected by defence radar along the way.

So a plan that requires the use of another fast aircraft for no particular advantage...
Permalink: http://blog.pmarca.com/2014/03/18/when-carl-icahn-ran-a-comp...
You can argue that they're not always the same thing, but they're certainly not orthogonal. Consumers are a huge and extremely important part of society and the idea that the fulfillment of their preferences is completely unrelated to society's wellbeing is just silly.
This. I realize the perl people love to have twenty different ways to do everything, but when I'm trying to get maintainable code out of an average team of programmers I don't mind the verbosity and I don't mind the lack of cryptic language features.

The original java architects took operator overloading and the macro preprocessor out for a reason - you can end up with orders-of-magnitude more ugly code if those features are abused.
I can't say I completely know where you're coming from, but I can certainly try to imagine. I'm only in my 20s and I look at people younger than me do much more incredible things which get me down.

What changes is that, I hope that knowing all of this (everything you've mentioned included), I can help others not make the same mistakes as me or make them at a faster pace. I think doing that would make my life be worth something more having helped propel truly brilliant people further in their lives. Hell, one of those people might just cure cancer.
What contributions to computer science research has van Rossum, Stallman or Torvalds made? It's not an engineering award, it's a research award.
I quite like my vaio z 13" though they've stopped selling them now I believe. Higher spec than the best airs, lighter too and feels great to work on http://youtu.be/OWkG6wVWGds
> The fact that FF runs in a single process seems to be a major security issue since the web views are not sandboxed.

Running content in multiple processes, by itself, doesn't help security at all. It does help stability, since if one process crashes the rest of the browser need not; that's particularly important if running plugins like Flash, which crash in a stiff breeze. But if untrusted content manages to exploit a separate browser process that doesn't have any additional sandboxing applied, there's nothing standing between it and the rest of your system.

Additional security, however, comes from then applying sandboxing features to those separate processes, following the principle of least privilege.
I up-voted your submission not because I'm looking for a co-founder but because you are doing the right thing. As a single founder, I've learned the hard way, that the smarter you are, worst off you are. It's a little too late for me, as my technology is pretty much at the stage where I can look to sell off the IP or look for VC money. But for those that are just starting:

* DO NOT START A COMPANY BY YOURSELF *

I always thought it was BS and stupid that PG would put so much emphasis on looking for co-founders, but I've learned the hard way, that he's not saying this because he's biased but it's because he has experience. Starting a business is hard and I've found the more talented you are, the worst off you'll be. If you are capable of doing everything, you'll try to do everything and it's just going to spread you too thin.

If I had to do it over again, I would start a company with 2 other co-founders, where each co-founder had one or more of the following skills:

- Very good programming skills

- Very good ux/design skills

- Very good marketing/business skills

Knowing what I know now, I should have spent at least a year looking for a co-founder and stayed at my cushy 6 figure job. And only start my company when I found somebody that could function close at or above my level.

I figure there are a lot of people on HN that have above average skills/intelligence and the worst mistake they can make is believing they can do it on their own. You can certainly succeed on your own, but it's going to take a VERY heavy toll.
I really don't have a problem with erased generics for the same reason a poster below pointed out.
That phrase really rankled me as well. It's the sort of crap that makes me question the veracity of the entire article, as well as the intelligence of the reporter / press-release copyist.
Hey, I'm wondering about what effect you're trying to achieve. Do you mind spending a few moments telling me about it?
Food is essential to survival, but we don't rely on the government to provide it.
How do you design for connection?
This just isn't true.
>And show me a music prodigy who hasn't slogged through 15 years of mind-numbing practice every single day.

I think you'll find most music prodigies spend hours lost in playing beautiful music. Very different from mind-numbing.
And got shot.

Like, 12 times.

So, try not to get too inspired by him ;)
It's become an idiom. Stoplights may not be the best way to control intersections, but you know what to do when you see one.
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I'm still on the fence, I am a current PS3 owner and figured PS4 was a logical next purchase. Then I realized how awesome Kinect was visiting my friend and how much more of a 'next gen' feel it had. This might be the killer hardware but I'd rather just have an Oculus Rift :(
> Unity is not too common yet (and hopefully will never be as long as it remains proprietary)

7 of the top 10 iOS games were developed with Unity, so it is already a really big deal for game developers.
Maven is horible. Hth
This is fantastic news. It is good to finally see some competition in the modern VR headset industry. While the VR industry may be in it's infancy, competition may help to accelerate its development. I can't wait until GDC, where we can see how it compares to Oculus's headsets.
HN is like Haskell: desperately trying to avoid success at all costs.
>people don't want to pay for stuff, and will love a product to death if it enables piracy.

That's blatantly false at worst and misleading at best. People will love a product to death if it allows them to consume media on fair terms in an easy way.

Netflix reduced movie piracy and iTunes reduced music piracy. Because they're not priced in an insulting way, and because they're friction-free to use.
If "AUM" is so crucial to power, why does the market value BlackRock at less than a third of Facebook?

AUM is debt .. so its value depends on what is being done with it. To what extent that these assets can be used for "financial engineering"? They seem rather illiquid to me (and apparently the market, which feels that BlackRock's 11k employees and $4.2 trillion generate less than a third as much wealth as Facebook's 6k employees and $18 billion in total assets "under management").

And how is funding successful new companies not wealth generation? Y-Combinator has invested a total of ~$10m invested for approx a 5% share of ~500 new companies with a valuation greater than $20b and growing. It's annualized RoR is north of 50% for nearly a decade, and likely to increase henceforth.

By contrast, Berkshire Hathaway grew at ~20% for ~50 years. I predict YC will blow those numbers out of the water.
Not applicable in this case.
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What I think will be the killer feature over Occulus Rift is that Project Morpheus has 60 virtual speakers, which (from the liveblog commentary) could lead to audio taking a bigger part in gaming.

I'm also looking forward to this tech being used for concert demos. I'd love to strap this on and listen to AC/DC's Live At River Plate, all the sound and the atmosphere of being there!

Shame that "no PC support has been announced" [1]. But some enterprising hacker'll get it going, no doubt.

[1] http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/03/18/sonys-ps4-virtual-rea...
I'm not familiar with the Ruby ecosystem anymore, so this is a genuine question: does the memory usage improvement here indicate a typical Ruby workload; if so, is this optimal, or are there profiling tools that can meaningfully help; and how much of these gains are the Ruby garbage collector v. the Go garbage collector?

Part of my curiosity here is that Go's GC isn't yet very good, so I'm assuming that something about typical Ruby patterns results in a lot of not-garbage on the heap, but I'm also wondering if this could simply reflect bad design.
It's important to remember that people said the same thing when machines started becoming part of assembly lines in the 20th century. The key insight was that while there was lots of very real short term employment pain, society's increased productivity allowed it to make more goods and services and thus employ more people than it did before. You're assuming demand is constant and different forms of productivity are simply competing with each other to fulfill it most efficiently. But that isn't true! As society becomes more productive, more stuff gets made, and more money gets created to buy it with, and everyone is richer.

Now maybe you think this time it's different, either because people won't be able to move up the "ladder" (like our grandparents learned to operate those machines) or that society won't be able to generate enough demand (which seems crazy to me, but okay). You could make that argument, but you aren't. Just pointing at innovations as job killers is like pointing at the sail and complaining about all the oarsmen who will be laid off.

Another lens to look at all of this through is the Star Trek future. In, like, three hundred years, what do you want society to look like? Like it does now, where people toil away at current productivity levels, or is everyone is vastly richer? Assuming you want that future to be awesome, how do you draw a line from here to there? Because the "we can't have technological disruption" attitude just can't really be on that line, right?
Once I got my head around it, I began liking it. If you're using Akka's clustering, SBT's multi-JVM testing is killer.
I recognize I'm in a minority here, but I'd love to see Graffiti [0], the old Palm OS glyph-based input method, come back on smart watches. I could write short text messages in-place on a watchface in Graffiti, or write two-letter shortcuts for different watch displays I want to switch to.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_%28Palm_OS%29
This is a very appealing concept. It would make the CircuitBreaker pattern a lot simpler to implement: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CircuitBreaker.html
Live in our world, play in ours.
It's really a matter of taste! I wouldn't wear a single watch you mentionted. Watch design shouldn't be about showing off your wealth but about unobstrusive design, much like the Braun watches do for example. http://www.braun-clocks.com/watch/BN0024WHBKG
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That Signal From the Beginning of Time Could Redefine Our Universe
This form factor had already been invented by Microsoft more than five years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WazA77xcf0A
Yay! Sublime Text style multiple selection is here! http://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2014/03/intellij-idea-13-1-rc...
That's the nicest, subtlest wording of OPIAF I've ever seen.
> Hmm. I've used that feature about once in 20 years of coding professionally.

Try debugging systems for which you can't access the system directly ... say in a product that you redistribute to customers. You will change your tune rather quickly.

For product development, having a good logging system is critical. And, honestly, other than rolling my own over the years (20+ years experience developing and distributing products), the Java logging systems are pretty decent. It can be a pain to get different logging systems to work together and properly configured, and I do wish it were better, but System.out.println() ain't the answer either. When I spend a little time getting them to work right, they do their job. And that is time well spent in my opinion for redistributed products.
He means that your wrists shouldn't be touching anything. They should be hovering a couple of centimetres above the flat area in front of the keyboard.
Sure, but those making that argument would be right to point out the NSA should be releasing all their data under the same logic.
I used to find, btw, the pressure of programming difficult to deal with on an ongoing basis. Then one day it occurred to me:

Perfection in the big projects doesn't matter. The world is full of crap software. Perfection in the little pieces however really matters, and this makes it possible to build better software.

I still have stressful days, usually involving bug reports and unhappy users. However, for the most part that realization meant that rather than the stress being an ongoing thing, sometimes lasting days or weeks, it became an occasional thing usually lasting only hours, and the sense of beauty in seeing successful things come together has become more common. That doesn't mean you spend time chasing perfection on every little detail because a lot of things are legitimate tradeoffs and you won't know some deficiencies until it is actually used.

To me that is craftsmanship.
Can you point me to them?
Ask HN: Developer consequences for executive fraud in a startup?
If a developer owns equity in a startup and people, especially founders or executives, are engaging in fraudulent activity, can the devs be held responsible?
Yes, let's apply blanket rules to every experience. Sigh.

There are plenty of uses for fixed navigation that aren't spammy attempts to force app downloads. Users like them. Not all users, but most.
> What I think will be the killer feature over Occulus Rift is that Project Morpheus has 60 virtual speakers, which (from the liveblog commentary) could lead to audio taking a bigger part in gaming.

With old fashioned two-speaker headphones and binaural recording, you can already achieve a surprising level of audio spatialization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IXm6SuUigI
In the UK, based on an ONS report:

"Although unmarried couples are now more likely statistically to have children than married couples – a reflection of the fact that they tend to be younger overall – most children are still being brought up by married couples, as they tend to have larger families."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9953364/The-family-is...
That's crazy life you live in the Valley. We are nearly as remote from SF Bay Area as a place on Earth can possibly be (18 hour net flight time with two stops) and do not have many perks, but I would be very surprised to hear about a non-technical person being deprived of something because of being non-technical. Has do to something with our not-so-distant Soviet past, perhaps.

As far a job titles go, I read an article a day ago where the author suggested that when it comes to salary negotiation and you are not quite happy with the monetary part of the offer, you should at least demand a title that would show progress when put on your resume.
Offline + sync, and higher performance requirements are my two use-cases for desktop apps.
Absence of evidence is not evidence.
Yes, I also buy weaker slower and more expensive products because of buzzwords, and reasons
Agreed. I find it difficult to understand people griping so much about java logging. I know it's not perfect and I wish it were better, but it's really not that bad. Maybe if you come from Ruby or some other newer(ish) language, they only have one logging implementation (I don't really know the state of logging in other languages, so apologies) it's easy to point fingers. You learn your logging, use it, and be done with it.

I am currently in what you could consider log hell with a product based on OSGi. We have been using ops4j logging which has done a fantastic job of adapting the prevalent logging frameworks (log4j, slf4j, logback, and JUL) into the SLF4J API and we don't even have to think about it anymore.
>60 virtual speakers

oh, so you mean its a stereo headset?
You did read the official denial? The one we know is from Dorian. His English and punctuation is perfect. I fail to see how any argument that claims Dorian can't write English holds water. Maybe he wrote a terribly written comment somewhere but that doesn't mean he lacks fundamental English skills.
My crazy theory was similar. Swap early (perhaps on the ground so that MH370 might even never have left), other plane flies out, turns off code, and returns. The other plane is smaller and so can land on more runways than a 777, and even if seen would not arouse suspicious since no one is looking for it. Perhaps a transponder is even then used with a drone to make it look like MH370 flies out west over the ocean and disappears. Drone crashes in the ocean, but is small enough that even if debris is spotted, it won't be connected with MH370.

I bet the writers of "Elementary" could make a good episode out of this.
Except when a security patch comes out and the API changed between security releases and you have to potentially update configuration and fix third-party modules.
Measles cases in the US in 2011: 222
Flu cases diagnosed in week 7 alone of 2011 (the peak): ~5500
About 115 kids died of influenza in 2011.

So. You're wrong about the epidemiology. There's not much reason to think anything handled by vaccines is more transmissive than flu given proper patient management in the doctors office. And by your logic, the doctor should be turning away the dangerous influenza patients, since the actual risk of a child contracting and dying from flu is statistically higher.

P.S. - Of course waiting room transmission of AIDS is almost non-existent. I threw in AIDS for two reasons: First, during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, this exact "fuck those sick kids" rationalization was discussed in exactly these terms, and second, to spot the sort of intellectually dishonest types who would focus on that and conveniently ignore the rest of the argument. You win.
Before the announcement Oculus said, paraphrasing, that more people doing VR is good because it means devs will have more incentive to invest in made-for-VR content. Oculus's worst fear is not that Sony will make better hardware than them, but that Sony might make bad hardware that would give people a bad experience (motion sickness, etc) and kill this new VR renaissance before it has a chance to start.

http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/03/18/oculus-on-sonys-rumored...