skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can imagine generics being useful if you create large amounts of context-aware types, like was discussed in an HN post a week or so back.
There's some work going on in MediaWiki to try to separate out theming stuff so that it's actually feasible to write a good theme. A big problem is that Vector, the default skin for MediaWiki and Wikipedia, half lives in an extension and not in the skins directory.
Why Men Won't Be Going Extinct Any Time Soon
On the other hand, investors are unlike employees in that they can be ignored if they're not a good fit/not adding value/worse yet, detracting value. Except if they're on your board.

I guess all I'm trying to say is that it would be cool if there was a way for investors/entrepreneurs to try each other out first.
"If you can afford to invest $80 in Apple stock, but you cannot afford to invest $565 in Apple stock, you should not be investing $80 in Apple stock. I can point you to some very nice index funds, or just, like, I mean, open a checking account."

Index funds and checking accounts have not given nearly as much return as Apple over the last several years. Why shouldn't people who can afford to risk $100 but not $500 have access to these returns?
The key difference as highlighted in the video introduction is that Pop animates arbitrary properties on the model layer, allowing for easily cancelable and continuous animation. This approach is contrary to the Core Animation's transactional model, animating only the presentation layer.

If you are referring to the UIKit keyframe animation API that was added in iOS 7, that API has existed for some time at the Core Animation level. Keyframes are difficult to get right, and don't model physical systems like springs very well.
I would love to get some feedback. Thanks!
How do you TDD CSS and dynamic transitions on the UI, according to the target browser layout, in all devices request by customers?

For example, TDD a CSS responsive transition among Chrome, Safari, IE, iOS, Android, WP, TV settop boxes across multiple resolutions.
Five Views of the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley TechFair
The Ice Sculpture Business
Just curious- what issues are keeping you from upgrading?
3 Reason Why healthcare startup Should join Y Combinator
How about 500 USD to be settled in bitcoin (or similar virtual currency)? The metric for winning will be where the top (by market cap) 10 finance companies are headquartered at midnight Apr 28, 2034. If more are in NYC, I win. If more are in San Francisco, you win. If it's a tie, the "next highest" will be added until it isn't a tie.

Deal?
"Dietary quack" is a reasonably sizable chunk of HN audience.
It's pretty clear that autonomous vehicles are going to be standard, sooner or later. The technology will be mandatory for any new vehicle allowed on public roads.

I'm just curious what's Google plan for it. Are they solving the problems, getting patents and licensing to car manufacturers? Selling devices, with data collection built-in? Something else?
Y Combinator’s Further Evolution Into A Seed Fund
Asian workers now dominate Silicon Valley tech jobs (2012)
I. You shift the goalposts a lot. E.g. in the same sentence you mix statements about the future and the present, e.g. "we will" and "today's technology".

> I haven't heard one yet that we won't be able to overcome with today's technology.

BTW, LIDAR doesn't work in snow and rain. Today. It's not clear that it works for multiple independent vehicles, either. We may only have self-driving car, singular.

II. Also, in your scenario, even if you do send that car over to your wife to use once you get to work, the same car will get more wear and tear than two individual cars b/c it's doing the same work plus more to go between you two.

III. You also mix up the moment when self-driving cars become as safe as humans with the moment they become safER than humans.

IV. You also overly dichotomize safer vs. not safer. What if they kill fewer auto drivers, but more pedestrians? What if they kill fewer adults and more childen? It's not that simple- our values are reflected in our choices to deploy technology.
StackOverflow: Famo.us true-size Surface Hack
New Relic brings in $100M more ahead of IPO
Yes, this sort of thing you can fill in anything you like. I have a friend who can legitimately tick about half the boxes, and does so.
Exactly. There used to be larger trading cost discrepancies when you weren't trading in lots of 100. (The per trade cost from brokerages were higher) Now the issue is that you can get steered to paying full bid-offer when you shouldn't need to.

The writer is very good at cutting through the clutter on issues like this.
You seem to be confused about the point I'm making, about innovation through self-experimentation.
Homeland Security: Don't use IE due to bug
Ask HN: What place should "branding" have at a tech startup?
This story is part self-serving rant, part curiosity about HN's perspectives on this.

A while ago I worked for a startup that built mobile apps in the edtech space. Our apps had decent traction for the market we were in, but it didn't look like this was going to become a "venture scale" business anytime soon. We had just received a bridge loan to keep us afloat when the CEO decided that what the company lacked was branding and better "storytelling".

So instead of the normal avenues for app promotion: reaching out to communities, building an email campaign, advertising, etc., the company spent $30,000 (a large chunk of our remaining runway) for a "brand" consultant to teach us copywriting. At the same time, we were holding meetings with an advisor who spent time putting together indecipherable brand decks where he talked about "using spiral imagery to indicate upward progress for students"—it felt like a scene out of "Mad Men".

Throughout this period, I was making the argument to the rest of the team that we needed someone with digital marketing experience who knew what an A/B test was, and that these other efforts were ineffective and wasteful. I wasn't winning the argument and growing increasingly frustrated at the money being hemorrhaged on "branding" and left the company.

So I guess my question is this: was my antipathy towards the emphasis on branding efforts justified? or is there still a place for mad-men style advertising at the tech startup? what evidence is there on this question, in either direction?
In the real world, there is no such thing as "trust" at all.
This is actually called 'verification', not validation [1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verification_and_validation_(so...
Interesting. I guess like patio11 said it's key to build up one then automate as much as possible and then move to the next. Thanks for the answer
Stanford scientists create circuit board modeled on the human brain
> Don't require "successful outcomes" all the time, slowly and methodically enjoy the journey and keep on eye on forward progress but don't demand it.

Which is exactly where most of these "I can code all day, I can code all day"[1] programmers fail. As soon as an obstacle comes, they crash and burn because they are too used to riding a wave of endorphins.

[1] reference to FPSDoug, in case anyone remembers him.
The posted article is about a backported feature that changed expected behavior and killed mysql processes. That is literally instability introduced by a backported patch. The security/stability problems in backported features speak for themselves; you don't get bugs in features that don't exist.

I'm not making an argument about who has more changes. RHEL just has bad changes. Bad because they're changing expected functionality. Bad because they're introducing unnecessary features. Bad because they increase exposure to security and stability bugs. Bad because their changes aren't documented publicly. Bad because they keep trying to support an antiquated platform that every other enterprise has moved on from. Bad because it's much more difficult to modify, and includes less support for modern hardware (unless it's patched in, again increasing problems). Bad because they have less testing and review. Bad because it creates vendor lock-in. I can't actually think of a single good reason to use a RHEL kernel, other than the vendor-locked-in support contracts and industry certifications that use RHEL as a standard.
I'm thinking there could be an agreement you sign when the car is purchased that states that the self-driving abilities are not to be fully relied on and the driver must be fully aware and ready to take over at all times. Thus if the car ever crashed by fault of Google they can say the driver should have been paying attention. This would have a lot of downsides. For instance, DWI's would still be a thing.
You are thinking of the wrong failure mode. Going too fast to react to a piece of debris is something a well programmed robotic car will never encounter in the first place. It will not go faster than the limits posed by its perception (known) and road conditions (approximately known), and err on the side of caution. It knows no impatience. It is aware of its surroundings at all times, which means it may go faster if it knows it can change lanes, or slower if it perceives a lorry behind it.

In extreme situations where a human would outperform a robotic car, the robotic car will simply be slower. I would, however, assume that in most situations where somebody perceives the car as too slow, what is actually happening is the human overlooking some risk factor.
People don't hate Java for being boring, per se. They hate it for being inflexible, verbose and having a bureaucratic culture.
Would you agree going through legal channels will be way more effective/possible if the problem maker's name/address are known?
If the average self-driving car-as-a-service costs $100,000, then replacing 50 million old cars with 25 million new cars is a $2.5 trillion dollar expense to get your "windfall".
Probably not a great idea to stop on the highway.
I think his point is that if one share costs too much, you generally shouldn't be so all-in to one stock.

By and large, the people with $100 to spend aren't beating the index on average. Transaction costs eat up too much of it. Yes there are outliers, but companies don't split to enable low income buyers the opportunity to buy single shares.
Only in the same sense that you can "compensate" for deafness by learning to lip-read.

Source: Played all my games across the Pacific ocean in the 90s with 300+ latency.
http://wikipediaredefined.com/

Step 1: Toss out the globe covered in runes from languages from all around the world and just use the Latin W.

Step 2: Remove or hide all languages except English from the home page, and hide the means to access those other languages under options and accessors written in English.

Step 3: Replace or supplement menu items with graphic symbols likely only recognized or used in Western cultures.

Step 4: Throw in a Share button because Social or whatever. Also include a Print button that likely only works in certain browsers because nobody knows how to use their browser's built-in Print button.

Step 5: Install Frontpage on Wikipedia.

Step 6: More colors and graphics.

It's as if the article was written about this very redesign.
> We didn't "get" physics 50 times better in 1990 compared to 1940

We don't have to. The fundamental rules are discovered slowly. The frontier has been expanded & there's plenty of room in the spaces between. We can now utilize these rules to create & build. The rules of physics are being assimilated by the rest of the culture & it's properties are being utilized more than ever. This trend is accelerating.

There is plenty of room for exploration, "cheap" growth (scaling), & turning over new leaves in biotech, tech, biology, medicine, robotics, ai, software development patterns, etc.

The nice thing about the globalization of the internet is there's an unprecedented amount, quality, & interconnections of minds to advance our global knowledge. We are also undergoing cultural change that fosters collaboration and decentralized intelligence. There's also a lower barrier of entry for one to contribute to global knowledge (i.e. you don't need a PhD nor do you have to be a white male from a privileged background).
Jot: CL note keeping with directory-based queries.
https://github.com/defunkt
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Galileo_gambit

"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
A 16 year old kid decides that Go isn't suitable for writing an embodiment of Principia Mathematica. Surprise: Haskell is a better Haskell than Go.

Go is a something like C, but with a few more features plus GC and come neat concurrency facilities. Why would anyone expect that to be anything like Haskell, or even to have a type system even approaching that kind of power?
Oh tell us please, wise one. About the difference.
Launch your Angular JS development on a solid structure
Ask HN: What are your unused domain names that you would give to a good owner?
Domain hoarding is a real problem, why not share them with Hacker News. If you see a domain name you like, tell the person what you would do with it and they can decide to give it to you or not.
The problem is that this wasn't a bug fix, but a behavior change. Worse, it's an undocumented behavior change. This is the sort of thing that can and should be documented.
Cloud App Monitoring Company New Relic Raises $100M
>After all the total quantity of intelligence and hard work available around is millionfold what you can provide –you're just a drop of water in the ocean. Rather use your imagination, the one thing that makes you a beautiful unique snowflake. Intelligence and hard work should be merely at the service of our imagination. Think outside of the box. Break out. Shake the axioms.

Given this sort of nonsense, it's no surprise the author is (Probably, since they all are) some kind of vitalist. He probably doesn't think brain emulations are people!
This is really bad!

This practically mean that most EU companies can no longer use American based cloud providers, even if data are hosted in EU. Even email address is 'personal identifiable' private information and needs to be handled according to EU privacy laws.

Irish Google got already sued for cooperation with NSA.
People use REPLs for more than "toying around and learning." They can be very useful both for exploratory programming (which is different from toying around in that you're actually trying to accomplish something) and debugging. It seems more likely to me that Go doesn't have a good REPL because Go just isn't very amenable to general-purpose REPLs, which is the same reason C REPLs tend to be more trouble than they're worth.
I've noticed it stops filling the canvas when I switch tabs, why is that?
Android-Powered Laptops
Google's Guava project receives an interesting "bug report" ( Oct 2012 )
Chainsaws + engineering skills...my new calling.
this made my Monday
This is why CPUs aren't getting any faster:

https://www.google.com/search?q=c+%2F+5+ghz
Facebook Open-Sources The Animation Engine That Powers Its Paper App
Well, that's if you assume that Cars-as-a-Service don't need to be stored anywhere and magical disappear when they are not in use.

I know Google has magical fairy powers, but last I checked, a self-driving car is exactly the same size as a regular car, and takes the same storage space.
I suspect the higher standard question will be resolved in a couple of ways:

* NTSB review: Airplanes face higher scrutiny than automobiles (despite the lower overall casualty rate). Part of the reason people have grown comfortable with air travel nonetheless is because the NTSB analyzes what went wrong after each crash and recommends (mandates) certain changes. Moreover, as far as government agencies go, the NTSB does its job reasonably competently and independently.

* Gradual introduction: It's unlikely fully self-driving cars will be introduced all at once. What's more likely is the gradual automation of certain driving functions (sort of like cruise control, automatic parking, and other feature sets). I think any system that hands off control from a robot to a human introduces its own safety risks, but you might see something like a dedicated autonomous lane on a freeway with special parking areas where humans can safely resume control for driving in the city. There's also augmented driving where a car is primarily human driven, but will do things like pre-charge brakes and give advanced warning to a human diver when it believes the human is about to screw up.

* Economies of scale: Large business organizations will probably get comfortable more quickly with autonomous cars than individual consumers. If FedEx and UPS support policies like "no left turns," they'll probably be among the first to get on board with fully automated trucks. And you'll certainly see some support for the insurance business, if autonomous vehicles really do result in lower overall accident rates.
> and usually I trust in human comprehension and intellect

Mistake #1 when dealing with someone who is already doing something dishonest.
The technology inside the self driving car is amazing. It almost makes me think that we will have AI at the same time we will have a self driving car.
I think it is always such a difficult design decision when to leave a popular site as is i.e. 'ugly' and when to introduce some improvements. While I agree with the general comments here that any redesign to giants like Wikipedia, HN, etc, should be really thought out carefully, it is also difficult to believe that there is no room for improvement!

Do all these sites really have such amazing interfaces that should not be touched?
Yeah, and notably, you never hear grumbling about class inheritance, sometimes hear grumbling about exceptions, and constantly hear grumbling about generics. It seems like the amount of grumbling probably tracks the actual net benefits.
Amazon’s in-house delivery initiatives have not been
without hiccups. [...] Perhaps Amazon could benefit from
the slew of startups entering the space, either through
acquisition, or by learning from and copying and
identified best practices.

Seems to me if you're going to acquire a company for its experience, it would be better to acquire a company that had experience.

The startups that are legible in their 'age vs quality estimate', Kanga and Shyp, rely on self-employed subcontractors using smart phones. Here in the UK, delivery services like Yodel that use self-employed drivers have shitty reputations [1]; if Amazon want to improve end-to-end customer experience, I'd be surprised if they went down that route.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jan/10/yodel-worst-par...
In space, solar outperforms RTG on an energy-per-mass ratio until you get out past at least Saturn.

I love nuclear but it's not always the best answer. (OTOH, it is the best answer for anything that's going to land some place and need to function for more than a few months.)
Puerto Rico's first official Government Open Data API portal
Should you step in front of a Googlecar and get hurt, remember before you sue that it bristles with sensors and recording devices, and that it'll all be admissible in court.
If you need to know its location to circumnavigate a pothole, you are to fast to react to other, unexpected, obstacles.
Depends on the application, of course. Haswell introduced some really cool new instructions (both the Bit Manipulation set as well as the Software Transactional Memory set). Don't have any numbers off-hand, but these can definitely speed up certain workloads.
Wasted IT Resources
"Holy shit, the hosts file I just started tftping from nic.ddn.mil is over a megabyte now! Gonna take me an hour to transfer that!"
"is there going to be a big marketing campaign to make me and my manager feel comfortable"... I doubt it.

And this is why better languages fail: because language weenies have atypical minds, and can't comprehend why something marketed inappropriately to the mainstream never catches on as something mainstream.

This is also precisely why Java succeeded. This is also why LightTable finally got across what Smalltalkers had been raving about. It's really not only about who has the best tech or the best message. It's who has the best tech that can make itself understood.
Then I guess that Emacs users never get any work done? ;) (I wouldn't know, but I would be surprised if that was the case)
The problem is Skype recently moved to a centralized infrastructure instead of a P2P which has caused terrible issues for pretty much everybody. Allegedly this was done to allow the NSA to snoop on conversations easier.
With Google Shopping Express & Instacart as well as the Postmates and DoorDash's of the world - I keep wondering...at what scale do these become huge businesses? Especially Instacart and GSX - they have someone go shopping and bring stuff to my home for $4 and for free right now. I guess it's user acquisition land grab + demand aggregation? And then they can go the route of private labeling the best goods and ultimately own the customer and then charge higher prices? They can't possibly make real $ at $4 per delivery, can they?
Actually it seems they DID a redesign recently. The article title appears in Times instead of helvetica. (Edit: it's Georgia)
Similar to a segregation-distorter. This occurs in some mice. The gene causes copies of itself to be present in all it's children by making them all one sex (male). The gene is highly selected for because it makes twice as many copies every generation than the alternative gene. And there is otherwise no difference between a male carrying the gene and one not carrying it.

If you released a gene like that on a species, soon there would be no females left and they would all die out.
The program driving the car is aware of the limits of its perception, though. My grandma probably isn't.
With sqwiggle you can group conference a bunch of people by clicking everyone. You all get joined. Pretty neat.

Unfortunately the way it reacts to changes in bandwidth isn't up to hangouts or skype. We've got one team member working out in the sticks and it just drops out when his bandwidth gets choked. Hangouts on the other hand just falls back gracefully to audio only.

If we all had better connections sqwiggle would be more of a contender.
...for some value of "parsing"
Avram Miller says Steve Jobs has one more Apple intro
The number of times you'll wish you had a generic red-black tree or linked list in your life: many, many times.

The number of times you'll need a generic map or fold algorithm to operate on those structures: many, many times.
Do you have any sources for any of this information?

Because they seem entirely made up and the "issues when tires slip on ice" have been mitigated with computerized ABS systems for the past 20 years
Definitely. Just change your license so if businesses with incomes over $100k a year want to use it, they have to buy the Professional license that costs some appropriate amount (I'm thinking $2000 for a site license or $100 per install, something like that).

As a game developer I've seen a lot of small tools start doing this. Don't try and stop people pirating since you can't, but this way at least people who work at a business who aren't personally signing the checks don't really care if they have to pay a few hundred dollars to use their favorite & best tool.
Another possible explanation is that people who care about REPLs just use languages with good REPLs.
I was reading Crenshaw's "Let's Build a Compiler" txt file. Good memories :)