skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's absurd.

Late adopters wait because they'd like somebody else to flush out the early bugs. If this is actually Canonical's plans, that 14.04.1 is the first release expected to be stable, then if I were a late adopter, I'd just wait for 14.04.2.

The let's-trick-people-into-adopting-something bit is basically an attitude of customer contempt. It's assuming that the release knows the customer's business better than the customer does. Whether it's right or wrong, it's a dick move, and acts to decrease trust.
What are some updated rails guide/book
Ive been trying to teach myself rails through agile web development 4 book, but i started to run into errors at the cart section..after doing a lot of searching people are saying that the new rails update wont work with the book anymore.

What are your recommendation for an updated book?

Thanks!
I don't understand the outcry at "ageism" in advertising. The point of advertising is to address your target audience, not everyone.

The vast majority of products simply do not cater to every demographic. Racism might at least be reasonably considered inappropriate unless you're marketing a product that specifically targets some races and not others, but ageism? It's highly likely that whatever it is you're advertising does have a well-defined audience in terms of age.

This is just another rung on the political correctness ladder. Expecting everyone to include every possible demographic in every conceivable advertising campaign is idiotic.

Making it about "what people want to be" (from GP) misses the point as well. If you're not aiming your advertising at your target demographics, you are failing either yourself or your client. That's not discrimination; it's business. Discrimination is "you're not pretty, you don't get a discount or aren't allowed to use this service."
Ubuntu 14.04 will power “first commercially available Ubuntu tablets”
Yeah, from employee standpoint RSUs are generally better. Late stage companies (GOOG, FB, AMZN) universally grant RSUs. For an early stage company I could see a few counterpoints why not go the RSU route:

1) ISOs are still tax-advantageous if you have the means to exercise them. It turns out that most of the senior hires that arrive at a rapidly growing company are hired for experience, and quite often are wealthy, so for them ISOs are a better deal. Probably minor detail, but with all else being equal a wealthy hire for VP of Sales or VP of Engineering position is more motivated to go the ISO route.

2) Companies nowadays stay private for longer periods of time, and private company shares are getting more liquidity bit by bit (SecondMarket, SharesPost, Equidate). For someone who left the company selling a portion of their holdings, either to get some spare cash, or/and to cover the tax bill associated with ISO exercise, would be nice. RSUs rob employees of that opportunity - the R is gone when company says it's gone.

3) There's certain advantage to companies having golden handcuffs on people. Frequently that means that your earliest or most productive hires are not even shopping around, since they know their share of equity is material, and they are aware they cannot cover the tax bill, so might just as well enjoy the current job.
Guns And The Children Who Own Them
If you haven't already, read KSR's Red Mars (the first of the Mars Trilogy):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy#Red_Mars_.E2.80.94...
This is wonderful and touches on Kubrick and chess:

http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/rare_1960s_audio_stanley_....
Huh, been getting a lot of hits on imgur.
If anyone's curious, the repo is here. I'd totally love any suggestions! I'm doing a lot of this stuff for the first time.

https://github.com/bichiliad/warmd
> What type of application is that, in your opinion? Would you use it for a web-based app? (Many boring corporate apps are now web-based, and not just because the developers want that. The business people often want it too.)

I think this is mostly a lament of how very, very, very horrible web-based apps are for the developer. Delphi gets you pixel-perfect interfaces that work on a 486 with windows 95 right up to todays windows 8 (there is a version of delphi that would get you 3.1 support as well). With one recompile, the same app runs on android, ios. I have trouble writing a web-app that supports 2 browsers (and especially have not found a way to test that this is so without manually going through the app), yet every delphi app supports over 8 runtime environments.

> Modern languages don't particularly encourage or discourage that style of programming. Let's assume we're comparing Delphi to Ruby and Python as the modern competitors for the high-productivity, just-get-it-done language. Those languages have standard libraries with rather minimalist APIs, so I don't see the bloat there.

On the web there just isn't any other way of doing things. This is supposed to be flexible and "good" design, but here's the catch : changing one tiny thing in the backend requires you to change (e.g. go from 1 to 2 phone numbers per customer) :

1) the backend itself

2) the business rules in the second tier

3) the RPC/REST/... interface to the second tier

4) any and all frontend code interacting with this data

In delphi, by contrast, you change the backend, and that's it. At runtime, mind you, you don't even need a recompile in most cases. Tables will automatically start showing it, forms will magically contain the new field.

> I agree...this is not forced on us by modern languages, it is current culture/fashion. There are so many cool geegaws out there today, it would be a shame to not use them such that you can include that experience on your resume (to hell with the additional costs and complexity, let someone else worry about that.)

I think part of the question being asked here is "how do these help application development" ? How do they improve the applications ? Well, they make them worse.
Whenever I read about the eccentricities of famous, wealthy people, I remind myself that these are the same kinds of quirks that I have, just amplified by near infinite means. This is also, perhaps, a warning against reading too much into a famous, wealthy artists' eccentricities.

The other side of this piece may also be a warning against spending too much time preparing, just because you have the luxury of doing so. Yes, as his assistant says, that's just how Kubrick worked. But when Kubrick had less means, he still worked that way, I just assume that he had less means, and eventually an outside party would push him to actually complete something. When you have near infinite means of your own, that push may not exist, and you may end up being less productive as a result.
Ask HN: How to validate webapp idea before mvp?
If my idea takes a considerable amount of time to implement, is there an easy way to validate it before I develop an mvp and prevent people from implementing it before I do?
Hurray for the short stack philosophy! But how is starting with linux shortening the stack? Why not start with forth?
In addition, is it possible to downgrade without creating new app?
How certain is everyone that Apple will launch a wearable? I just don't see it personally.
At 60m, what's with the diamond areas in the eastern Carolinas and northern Florida?
It's about the short stack. From the page:

Okay, what is the ultimate goal here?

There are tons of approaches to learning to program, and reasons for doing so. You might want to build an empire, or just have a few extra skills in your back pocket. Levinux supports your pursuit either goal and everything in-between. It does this by focusing on one particular “short stack” approach: learning the least-possible software possible of the most timeless nature to enable you to do interesting things. It can be your primary programming environment, or just sort of a safety-net as you pursue other more sexy platforms like mobile app development.
What's the model of router that people are recommending for Ubiquity? I recently upgraded my parents to an Asus and was extremely satisfied with Merlin's builds of the Asus firmware. Ideally, I just want something that runs Debian and lets me install packages so it can act as a home server. Why isn't this a thing yet?
You could try phoneburner.com.
You can just ask for feedback about your idea to random people at meetups, on reddit or with small talks at hackerspaces for example.
Maybe this will help: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/33493/how-do-i-ge...
I loved it for that too. It's amazing how much easier most things are in Delphi. Yet everything remains possible. I wrote a windows application firewall in Delphi, and that worked. Man that was a great experience.
I know :/ but you can spell it: Play s Zone. If you say Plays Zone someone might miss understand for Place Zone.

You had to tell a friend and he miss spelled?
I'm working on a web-app which starts like a feature-rich to-do list app, but shifts the focus towards planning out larger life goals, and tracking progress:

http://imgur.com/a/tSPHP

In particular this week, I've been working on solidifying the quantification side of the app (see the first two screenshots) - i.e. making day-to-day productivity (and lack of productivity!) towards big goals something that's measurable and the user can be held accountable for as they look back over past performance.

I've added more of an explanation to the imgur captions.

The site's currently in a launched-but-heavy-iterating stage at https://nachapp.com
Show HN: Solving the "shy guy" problem (and others)
Interesting, but I wish they would've given more information on how they metered the cityscape. "Underexposed" can be a very relative term, as some parts of a non-uniform image will need more exposure than others to be properly exposed, hence the reason why HDR is a thing.
apologies for the repost (had to fiddle with something), but here is a quick and dirty userscript to display imgur links in hacker news threads. I thought it would make screenshot saturdays nicer.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/471215

the screenshot i'm posting is everybody's screenshots ^^
What I see in closed source systems - this is particularly clear in MS - is that the developers are always waiting for the controlling company to do something.

I don't see this same attitude in open source - the users are common major contributors to the ecosystem.

Just something I've noticed.
I think a HN show is a good idea but I'm not sure the Diggnation bro vibe is the right fit for most of the HN audience. At least I hope not.
True, but since if one has a job working for an enterprise like that makes me want to kill myself in a hurry I consider that a feature, not a bug.

QT will get you into C/C++ programming, which will get you into backends, which will get you into much more pleasurable programming jobs. Yes, likely there'll be limited QT usage once you're there, but ...
eh, davno je to bilo :)
The robot is ready – so when will deep sea mining start?
The word "worm" has also not-so-positive connotations when talking about computers, thanks to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
Wikipedia Usage Estimates Prevalence of Influenza in the US in Near Real-Time
You are conflating a pay schedule with a pay rate. The GP's point is that a salary is meant to be a fixed pay schedule where competing your duties to your enployer's satisfaction entitles you to continue getting paid an agreed-upon amount on a defined schedule. If it's metered by time, that's really just an hourly worker with a multiplier on his punchcard.
Not free, but Dollar Photo Club (www.dollarphotoclub.com) seems to be one of the more cost-effective offers I've come across in recent months. Certainly cost-effective for anyone requiring a steady stream of stock photos for blogging or some other purpose.
Http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=MagelangWAP
> that the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the NRC predecessor nuclear licensing agency, had previously convinced the FBI not to open a criminal investigation into the material’s disappearance.

That is just ridiculous. After the Soviet Union fell I remember all these "experts" talking about the looming dirty bomb threat from stolen nuclear materials from Russia, Ukraine and other such places.

Yet nothing has happened, it turns out they do have a pretty good handle on it. And here is hundreds of kg of bomb grade uranium missing right from the country with the supposed many nuclear "experts".

I don't even know what to say. I guess, if you commit a crime, just commit such a fucking big crime that anyone would just be too embarrassed to admit such a crime even been committed.

> And any disclosures about Israel’s bomb program would of course have threatened the Carter administration’s Middle East policies.

In my book, some state with bomb grade nuclear material would surely derail any peace process, in pretty much any region. Look at the war in Iraq that was launched over "WMDs" that we still haven't found. Or the embargoes and threats again Iran over using centrifuges. Fuck they should have just stolen the damn nuclear materials right from the DoE and be done with it. DoE would have been too embarrassed to do anything about it. "Hey Bob, yeah we just found out Iranian agents stole 300kg of bomb grade Uranium from our storage facility...." <Bob, the head of DoE> "Yeah that is too embarrassing, we can't let anyone know about this.
No, google doesn't. I've built a similar solution for the Cocos2D documentation that is going to be released soon.
I've added a php server component to deliver HTML snapshots to google crawlers for that purpose.
Postman: a powerful HTTP client (for Chrome) to test web services
Bears On Stairs: stop motion animation of 3D printed pieces
"But here’s the true innovation: Gillette’s new razor will use P&G’s current blades"

I'm confused. A new handle that let's you keep using existing $4 blades doesn't sound like a new business model. It just sounds like an iteration on the handle that will encourage people to buy their handle over the competitions' handles and thus sell more $4 blades.

What am I missing?
I switched to a single blade razor a while back. Blades are like 10¢. It's amazing.
Here are a few of the software/startup people I follow. (I don't know any of them personally but I've met/emailed a few)

@patio11

@asmartbear

@raganwald

@hnshah

@MikeIsaac

@shanley

@hunterwalk

@steveklabnik

@paulg

@pmarca

@jedgar

@ryanbigg

@zedshaw

@peterc

@DanielleMorrill

@naval

@VCdelta (this is a bot that tweets changes in VC portfolio pages)
It's amazing how fortunate it is that it's so hard to make the one weapon capable of destroying the world. Actually, I've always wondered if it was true that humans really had figured out a method of destroying the world if humanity goes insane. Out of curiosity, are there enough nukes to theoretically remove all life? What about all mammals?
To expand on this, Programming in Scala is based on Scala 2.8. We're now on 2.10 with 2.11 coming up (it's in RC mode right now).

Fortunately, this means that the book is up-to-date with 2.8's major collections refactor.

I would say the biggest change to the standard library since then are the deprecation of scala.actors and their replacement by Akka actors. I think that's the only chapter in the book that's no longer relevant. There are a few smaller ones (replacement of scala.Application with scala.App) and a few nice additions (implicit classes aka Ruby monkey patching) but I can't think of anything substantial for a beginner.
I would not rule out the possibility that this "theft" story is a cover for what really happened.
At 60m a considerable portion of the Brazilian amazon would be invaded by the sea.
LMGTFY...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Metaphorical_usage
I've been doing a lot of 3D modeling recently and have wanted to sign my work, so I added text rendering to the Clojure library I've been using:

https://twitter.com/adereth/status/457217237313925120/photo/...

Learned a bit about font rendering and Java's awt packages.
Microsoft bought not only Anders but also about 30 other Borland developers over the course of several years. Borland sued, but eventually reached an out of court settlement.

I sometimes wonder what Delphi would look like today, had Anders not joined the MS fold.
Cisco, Juniper, et al have built/are building a lot of networking gear around Cavium and Broadcom multicore MIPS parts. Intel is muscling back in to the arena, though.

The IXP was an interesting family, but I recall the toolchain being less than pleasant - although at that time the MIPS vendors weren't covering themselves in glory either.
About a year ago I switched to a straight razor with disposable single edge blades. I can get a pack of 100 Shark Stainless Steel blades for just over $5, and I usually change them out every 3 shaves or so. I skip a day every now and then, so all of my shaving needs are taken care of for $5/year.

After a week of practice, the straight razor is just about as fast as any typical razor, much closer shave, and less irritated skin.
Even living in Japan is not enough. I'm able to get by for days in Tokyo with only please and thank-you's. Even one or two days using English-only, my SRS flashcards indicate I'm forgetting more vocabulary than I'm learning.

My suggestion is, wherever you are, find one or more native speakers to talk with at least every day. If aren't any in your local area, use Skype or some other video chat to talk with native speakers.

Just watching movies and TV shows and reading books doesn't usually work. You need to see the facial reactions of a native speaker as they listen to you speak.
I think a better way that might treat copyright and patents equally well is to make it a continuous act of will and treasure to keep things from the public. Right now, the default state of a copyrighted work like you mention is essentially automatic eternal restriction. Patents, once issued (for little relative cost) remain in force for more than a decade with no effort required for upkeep.

Restricting "intellectual property" from public use should require exponentially increasing effort/cost as time goes on. I think this would allow the system to automatically discover the value of the restriction, and help redistribute the cost of maintaining that restriction back to the public which provide it with the force of law to begin with.

tl;dr : Each year you hold on to a copyright or patent, you should be required to pay a great deal more to the governing body that grants you that monopoly to keep it in force.
They may have scrubbed voice recognition in anticipation of an iWatch-like product.
It probably locks into the blade in a certain fashion that is patented. Therefore if you use their handle, you will also use their blades.
Almost. If nuclear war starts there will be regions that will be not nuked (neutral countries, territories not threatening either side and so on). Basically most of northern hemisphere would be destroyed. After the war clouds of extremely radioactive dust would kill most of the life, mutate rest (making for example most mammals unable to get pregnant). Southern hemisphere would be mostly untouched but the radioactive clouds and winds would take it tool for hundreds of years. Majority of life would die out (human race would most likely survive despite scary stories - it would just go back to what it was 100 years ago). Casualties would be counted in billions. Most flora and fauna would be destroyed. Dusts in atmosphere would make changes to the planet cooling it a bit. It would take hundreds of years for our civilization to get back to what it is now (but most northern part of globe would stay uninhabitable). The hope to restore humanity would be in hands of Australia, New Zealand, Argentina.
Giant lasers could control the weather
I've been using twin blade razors for years now and they are so much cheaper and effective than this titanium 5 blade guillotine nonsense.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002ZZGZ3O/B004D9R9OM...

There's no innovation needed for shaving except for the realization that you can shave for less than $10 a month.
Why not educate potential employees on how they should utilize unlimited PTO? This could be taught in school or some other non-biased source. If people aren't taught how to utilize their PTO (or vacation days for that matter), then there will always be the option for abuse.
It sounds like the "innovation" is that the new razor handle will use blades from existing P&G blades, as opposed to them using blades designed specifically for this handle.

Feels like another example of this would be HP making a new printer model that can use the same shaped ink cartridges from an older model.
The US doesn't like to do too much upfront HVAC costs, and for whatever reason generally just wants something simple. I used to work for a company that resold European systems that seemed to be about greater upfront costs in things like room occupancy sensing, humidity control, airflow analysis of the room, etc, which would've saved a lot of people money but they just didn't want the upfront cost.
There are not enough nukes luckily. 80% of humanity would be wiped out but remote places like Australia, Siberia and parts of Africa would be unaffected, so in theory humanity could survive. The biggest problem is that potable water would be a problem since you don't have any infrastructure left to clean it, but of course those remote locations could fetch clean water if they are lucky. In the last centuries we got child mortality rate really low, that would probably go back to 40-50% like in the middle age. The life in the post nuclear war world would be very difficult, you probably know what I mean if you ever played with Fallout.
Gillette uses a different bladeset for each handle type. For example, the Mach3 cartridges don't work on the Fusion and vice versa.

To entice people to switch, years ago Gillette mailed out free Fusion handles with a sample cartridge. The handle was free and could be used with new cartridges you bought.

Now it appears that they are going to charge for the handle, which is indeed a shift
In this scenario, how long would it take for the radioactivity to completely disappear and start re-inhabiting and re-populating the northern hemisphere?
Functors, Applicatives, And Monads In Pictures
Not sure, but I believe there are nuke-proof bunkers that could secure humanity if such an event were ever to occur.
While not Delphi, I really like it and I am playing with it now, thanks for mentioning it.
I wonder if http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition would help.
West Side Art Goons Debut Video
From Michigan, The West Side Art Goons are here, bringing the streets to your face!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GJ7MvwGG-Y
I buy my blades off eBay. Can get under 2$ a blade if you buy in bulk

Since I also shave my head bald daily, I go through a lot of blades
Was thinking about a straightedge/ single blade razor.

The description of the new Gillette handle sounds just like http://www.headblade.com but with some ball bearing/big ball system instead of wheels.

I don't see the innovation.
I always thought the blade would have been the innovation, not the blade holding vessel.

The headline caught me off guard. I thought it would have been blade that lasted a lot longer
A Node.js module for implementing BLE (Bluetooth low energy) peripherals
Original Story, for context is summarized here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apollo_Affair

This is from 1965, as for the "facts" YMMV
I'm not too sure Australia would be unaffected, there are quite a few US bases / radar stations etc on Aussie soil...the Chinese/Russians may not like it if it came to a head..Antarctica and Greenland maybe?
Just today I interviewed "web developer" who was not able to create new web project on his computer (which he supposedly is using for web development).