skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but at least if you can get them to that bar or at least "Open Location" you can semi-predictably get them to a website where you can get the problem solved or narrowed down.

Once you obscure URLs, web browsers become _impossible to support_. Of course Google doesn't care, because support isn't part of their lexicon.
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That concept is known as multiple discovery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery (or "simultaneous invention")
Hacker's Musings.
This is the price Quora pays for user-hostile tactics like hiding user-generated content and forcing login - their reputation precedes them. Interesting that this author lauds them as an example to emulate.
Very nice. Congrats.
One possibly positive factor is that both founders have several years of previous startup experience (I believe starting their own non-tech businesses).

Even something as small as starting a delivery company, or a tutoring company, is I believe a huge signal of someone's determination/entrepreneurial spirit.
It is confusing because there are these other things (urls) you could put in to the address bar that cause something different to happen from searching google.
"A Florida man..." -- should be disclosed in the article title (kinda how the link domain is shown).
> Meanwhile smartphone performance has skyrocketed.

It's mainly because they started from zero in the first place. But I can tell you the performance of newer phones is nothing like 3 times of last year's ones. The increase of performance in single thread is also stagnating on phones, and you will soon hit a barrier in how much you can deliver per watt and per core in the same form factor.

PCs hardware is increasing at a slow pace because there's plenty of power available to run most applications very well already. On phones, demanding applications can make your phone crawl, so obviously there's a clear need for better performance, while my 4 years old laptop still runs most applications just fine.

That's also why PC sales seem to stagnate: you don't replace your PC as often as your phone or tablet.
There are usually a couple near grocery stores where I live.
Hmm. Hadn't thought about that. Good point.
You can disable it by going to chrome://flags/#origin-chip-in-omnibox, change it to Disabled and restart chrome.

Edit: Apparently a useful comment offering a solution to the parent's comment is not HN worthy?
With all the facial recognition software, I wonder why they just don't put a camera on top of the light, recognize traffic coming, and optimize to maximize flow.
Shifting the add-on bar to an extension is the right way for Firefox to head. The core product is simplified, removing something that a very small fraction of its target audience want, and the feature is shifted into an extension. You can still have it, but it’s shifted out of the core. The maintenance burden is then shifted from its being something that might be accidentally broken in the core product to a separate extension that can focus on that one feature, and do it better.
Even if the fact that the earth has survived until now proved it will keep surviving forever (I'm still alive and kicking but I don't think that means I'll live forever), looking at history shows plenty of species going extinct..
Not sure what you are aiming at here. Nobody does marketing for the whole population at once. You know, marketing target segments of people, and you have marketing for younger people as well as for older people, and design follows the needs of each of these segments. It's not because there are more older people in Japan than in other countries in proportion that companies stop targeting younger people. Come in Japan and you'll see a very different picture with most of the culture catering to younger audiences.
goingpostal (also a Terry Pratchett book)
This has to be one of the main motivating factors, to get more search traffic and thus ad clicks.

If there's no way to enter urls, then all that's left is to search google.
> Afaik, in this case it's 'net/http' that pulls in a
> dependency on cgo (again, unless we rebuild the whole
> go toolchain with cgo_enabled=0).

You can also build with '-tags netgo'[1], and use go for name resolution, but still use cgo for when else you may need it.

[1]: http://dominik.honnef.co/go-tip/2013-09-07/#netgo
Actually that 'might' be ok. I'd have to try it.

On the other hand seeing the URL helps me decide if I'm on the correct webpage. mybank.com vs pretendingtobemybank.com Of course I try not to click those links in the first place but I do look at the URL to check that some link I clicked took me to the right place.

There's also plenty of apps I use where the URL is useful info. For example JSFiddle. If there's a /N in the URL I know I need to click "Set As Base" before I'm done. Of course if that's the only site I need that on maybe not a good argument. I'll have to think about if that comes up on other sites for me or not. That's also a dev only issue probably.

I wouldn't mind having 2 modes, user mode and dev mode. I can certainly accept that non-devs have different needs than devs. My only point is I'm trying to avoid frustration. I have enough that in my life. I don't want chrome to pile on more and I can see that their current URL bar already causes me frustration often while doing dev and even while just socializing on the net. At some point that frustration will lead me to find something less frustrating.
Is data really so heterogeneous? How many files in your home directory are generic, with bit-exact duplicates existing in the home directories of many other users? And the remaining files, which are uniquely yours -- what percent of each of them consists of generic data, like file headers?
While that is true I think you might have more impact than you realise :)
That's just bizarre.

If you pay the players that much less, then they'll play for clubs in other leagues without pay caps. This will lead to less revenue to clubs (less money from TV rights deals, less merchandising, etc).

If you brought this in across Europe, you'd have fewer professional players, either because they went into a different sport, or a different profession altogether.

But the article blithely assumes club revenues wouldn't be affected.
> Dukes believes, though he has no evidence
Chip is a UI term (that widget is a chip, names styled as blocks in a To: field are chips, etc)
i've developed a system. should be out "real soon now".

but if you want something that's been out for a while,
and has been shaken down pretty well, try leanpub.com.

there's also pressbooks.com, and penflip.com, and more.

-bowerbird
> Incidentally, cameras appear to be following a similar trajectory to PCs, with sales falling off in the last two or so years.

Yeah, but just like the PC, phones are never going to replace reflex cameras, for a number of reasons I will not develop here. It's not because a market actor gains or loses that it wipes the entire market - and that was Dustin's entire point.
Tig 2.0 (and 2.0.1)
I have been using tig for a long time now and love it. Some nice changes for the 2.0 release.

By the way, if you have a .tigrc, it will likely break. Check out "man tigrc" for how to set options in tig 2.0.

Here is my tigrc: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/11445566
This is basically used for this little gem:

http://symas.com/mdb/

LMDB is at the heart of the ubiquitous LDAP ( OpenLDAP ) and is very well optimized ( look at his benchmarks ). Now they are optimized for reading, which is important.

I would imagine mmap-ing with large amount of write will result in unpredictable performance....
I have been using tig for a long time now and love it. Some nice changes for the 2.0 release like mouse support and completion in the prompt.

By the way, if you have a .tigrc, it will likely break. Check out "man tigrc" for how to set options in tig 2.0.

If you install it with homebrew like I did, be sure to pass in the --with-docs flag to generate man manpages like so:

brew install tig --with-docs

Here is my tigrc: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/11445566
Facebook to place ads in other apps
Chrome tries to get rid of flags so likely they'll remove that option in a year or two if they decide no URL is FTW.
I believe this would qualify as a Java library https://github.com/peter-lawrey/Java-Chronicle

"This library also supports distributed, durable, observable collections (Map, List, Set)" "It uses almost no heap, trivial GC impact, can be much larger than your physical memory size (only limited by the size of your disk) and can be shared between processes with better than 1/10th latency of using Sockets over loopback."
I should clarify that I would want a power user option to actually turn this behaviour off, beyond the ability to just click to show the URL. Most users don't, but I glance up at the URL fairly frequently to orient myself.
You can actually use and contribute to Servo already—it just isn’t at the day‐to‐day browsing stage yet. That’s what’s meant by the Q4 goal.
In this case they did a bunch of mock-interviews with people who had been through the YC process and got other developers to review it. I think at the end of every such interaction they could have asked those people how they will describe the product in 2 lines. Then they can take those responses and build a solid, concise response. That response, presenting views of people who are not the developers/not so close to the product, would probably appeal more/make more sense to the interviewers since they in a similar position of seeing a new product.
Lol. Somehow people like you actually think this of Taleb. To reach people like you, we have to try other ways other than true substance. If Kahneman one of the heroes of modern intellectual culture is friends with him and they receive each other well and he does not agree with your banal analysis of him, is that not good enough(?). Terrence Tao links to his fourth quadrant articles, is that man's clout not enough? Mandrelbrot too.

I wonder how people like you get away with such utter mis-characterization of him? It was how people receive Taleb and Graham that I realized that one person's true identity doesn't matter and that people like you somehow exist contraire-chic indeed.

Indeed your post is probably just tribal signalling. Subscribe to his FB, read his posts, you truly find an incredible man of genius. He can admit to be human.

I don't know what else to say but when I see stuff like this about him(like valleywag people probably saw comments on Graham). I cannot think of any other way other than to plead to the audience that the person they think they see of Taleb is not what it is, and the commentator above me mislead, or is mis-leads.

I like how people some-how point to him calling other people idiots is somehow something outrageous to the point of murder, this is a place of extreme passivity though. Grothendiek protested vietnam by giving lectures in the forests while the U.S bombed nearby, Guass was quite stern, etc etc. Genius comes in variety.
A bit tangential, but there's an interesting field of design called game design.

In a company with clear responsibility division, game designer is not responsible for making things look pretty at all - the art director is. Instead, his focus is fully on core utility of game - fun. Inventing it, testing it, tweaking it, data-driving it.

I think many designers in other fields would benefit greatly from taking a jab at a small game prototype.

From history-defining classics like Pong and Breakout to iPhone, iPad - coincidence? Doubt it.
I copy and paste URLs all day long too. I use CMD+L to select the whole URL and CMD+C to copy it. No big deal.
NBA sets wheels turning for Clippers sale; Oprah in wings
> I NEED TO EDIT URLs.

I'm using Canary with this option enabled, and all you have to do is click the domain box, then you can freely view, edit, and copy the URL.

All this update does is hide the path portion of the URL. That's it, so IMO, this story is way overblown. Google isn't removing the URL bar, they're just acknowledging the fact that 99% of users don't need to see 99% of the URLs they visit on a daily basis.

Why do Hacker News readers need to see a URL that looks like this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7677031

Why do users looking at Amazon Fire's landing page need to see this?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CX5P8FC/ref=amb_link_412...

Why do EBay shoppers need to see this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Garmin-nuvi-2555LMT-5-GPS-Navigation...

They don't. Just trim it down to the domain and call it good.

Oh, and it's worth mentioning that to copy/paste URLs, it's still only one click away, because when you click the box, it auto-selects the entire URL.

Edit: As I review my post, in the context of this story I find it humorous that even Hacker News trims the URLs I pasted because of how obnoxious and unnecessary they are.
Glad you put spreadsheet in that list. "Spreadsheet" is also programming, just one form of programming that by accident of history made it to "things users do".
Essentially he wanted to be a cofounder of something.

It was decided that he would 'merge' with reddit, but the reddit guys described it as him turning up one day and them having to deal with it.

He was flaky and got fired.

Yes theres lots of other details but thats the gist of it
This is a new UI experiment that's deployed to a small fraction of users. We're looking at a few key metrics to see if this change is a net positive for Chrome users. (I imagine it may help defend against phishing).

My personal opinion is that it's a very bad change and runs anti-thetical to Chrome's goals. I hope the data backs that up as well.

But regardless, this change is far from shipping as the new default behavior and the reaction here will certainly have an impact on the feature's future. As mentioned, please feel free to disable it at chrome://flags/#origin-chip-in-omnibox
Did they remove this feature? I've just updated my Canary and I don't see it.
Update: Yup, it appears in the orginal blog post[1].
[1] http://garybacon.com/post/new-awesome-bar-in-googles-chrome-...
Internetarchive 0.5.4: A python interface to archive.org
stop using Chrome

That may solve this particular problem, but then which browser do you use instead? Firefox has had its history of similar changes (although you can still use extensions), Opera post-12 lost a ton of customisability, and IE, although appearing to have the fewest irritating interface changes, also has the most rendering quirks. (Personally I'm less concerned with the rendering quirks than the UI changes, so I tend to use IE most of the time, but I use various versions of all four on different sites - at the moment I have Firefox and Opera open as well.)

In my mind, they're all headed down the same path, just at slightly different rates. The idea that you can choose a different browser is starting to become more and more of an illusion.
Cool! I'm still playing Discworld MUD (http://discworld.starturtle.net/) since 2000. It was my saviour through my leukemia treatment.
Congratulations dude!
Forget the Higgs, neutrinos may be the key to breaking the Standard Model
Aren't you agreeing with him? We don't just let anyone drive any homegrown vehicle anywhere with no rules.

Driving is highly regulated. You need a driver's license. Cars need to be equipped with certain safety features which must be inspected regularly. You're only allowed to drive on certain prepared surfaces, etc.
figure out why some device in Windows Device Manager had a question mark next to it or what driver cocktail to install

I did this just last week with a fresh Windows 7 installation because the drivers for the Ethernet adapter had to be manually installed...
Life in Canada, Home of the World’s Most Affluent Middle Class
This all means law enforcement and the government will fly drones wherever and whenever they want.
A browser doesn't have much in terms of visible elements, (excluding the main display area) beyond the various toolbars and buttons on them.

If we start considering even those as optional, where does the simplification end? Then why don't we take out the bookmark bar, navigation bar, menu bar, status bar etc and attain supreme simplification by displaying a single text field which should lead to search. Surely the user can search for add-ons from that field and get whatever they want. It'll have the side benefit of helping users attain UI nirvana as well.
Out of curiosity, why are you so desperate to get away from R? Is it for the speed of a high performance language?

As you mention, the vast selection of libraries (and the continual development of these libraries) make even the python module universe look small (in reference to statistical methods, statistical algorithms/machine learning, plotting).

Further, not only are there a lot of libraries.. but many of them are bleeding edge written by the same people who originally invented the given algorithm. Most similar libraries in other languages (like Python) have incomplete ports of these libraries to them often not written by the same people. Not to mention, the documentation behind these algorithms is often excellent - besides the usual man files, there's "vignettes" (detailed instruction manual) as well as an entire journal that now has become a place to publish papers detailing the usage and implementation of many of these algorithms.

So I'm curious, why leave?
Since this is getting misinterpreted: I'm not saying software (or computers) should be locked down, DRM'd to death and hidden. I'm saying that hiding complexity that does not serve the average user is desirable, and browsers are going down the same path now that cars did a hundred years ago.

So for this specific case, if Chrome wants to hide URLs, go for it; and I'm sure there's a configuration toggle somewhere to turn them back on if you're one of those people who care.
In the terms of a venture backed startup, I’m not sure your company makes sense (only based on a shallow reading of what was posted). While you have traction, a talented team, solid tech, and a potential business model, there’s not a clear understanding of the next step whether broadly or even in the developer community. I would love to have a dev environment ready in a few min but I don’t know how that tech extends beyond my own pain point.
UK Border Force computer fault causes delays at airports and sea ports
> The problem is that it will be extremely difficult to actually enforce these regulations.

I imagine it'll also be very hard to track a rogue drone down to it's owner. Too small for radar, too maneuverable to follow with an airplane or helicopter. Will we see police drones with automatic drone pursuit abilities?
I don't see why Amazon would want to buy enough disks to support 100% of what they promise and then sell the unused capacity at below cost when they could just buy fewer disks instead. Either way they'd be in trouble if their EC2 customers suddenly started wanting to use all the space they were promised.
I doubt you'll find anyone willing to discuss Meteor (again), without a significant changelog entry or something hugely different happens with the product.

Possibly one of the most over-discussed products ever, IMHO.
slight variations of what has mostly been said: ilpostino, mailman (there is GNU Mailman though..), postmen, postmann !
Well, just to add a counter-opinion, I find myself often manipulating URLs directly, if only to truncate them.
I feel similarly. Criticism in and of itself is not necessarily of any value. Poignant, timely criticism from someone knowledgeable who possesses a modicum of tact? Much appreciated. The problem with most criticism is that it is just as ignorant and inadequate as its object. Criticism is often completely self-serving, which does not help the recipient improve.
I think we should hide zip codes from users, those are just "computer codes", after all!11
Marx in Manhattan: The curious survival of the US Communist Party
The idea is to be aesthetically pleasing and bait people into viewing their site versus throwing stuff out there. Supposedly it works better, but I'm not 100% sure
I think TFA talks about mapping files into memory...
Google releases Docs and Sheets apps for iOS and Android
Why do the two courts have such different opinions? It seems surprising to me, especially since Supreme Court justices and Federal Circuit judges are both appointed by the President.
Person Curve
I have noticed ads with a Twitter or Facebook logo followed by the username or page URL to search for, always reminds me of AOL keywords.
Recepie for (real) AI
Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur Ben Way's shocking domestic abuse case
I think you are confusing discoverability with navigation. It's good if you can discover all content through hypermedia, but why should you prevent direct access?! It's like saying that there should be an indes in every book (yes!), and therefore you should not ever tell anyone on which page of the book they can find something relevant (wtf?).
China is in fact by far the biggest problem regarding antibiotics.

So while you're busy being angry, don't forget to spread that anger around.

"Last month, the country's Ministry of Health revealed that on average each Chinese person consumes 138 g of antibiotics per year — 10 times the amount consumed per capita in the U.S. "

For those keeping track at home, that's about 41 times the total use of antibiotics in China compared to the US due to their population size.

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103733,00...
Cool! For a slightly different scenario, do you think there's a clean way to use postman to manage larger bulk emails with similar and different paragraphs other than trying to edit paragraphs in CSV? Sometimes I use my small project (https://github.com/bamos/yaml-mailer) to bulk email 10s of people with more personalization in each message, and I'd be happy to switch if a cleaner solution exists.

Example scenario: I applied to PhD programs ~5-6 month ago and liked to send emails to faculty members at each school I applied to telling them I was interested in their work by sending nearly the same email to everybody with a slightly different portion for their work.
Here is an idea: stop using URL's that are waaaay to long. And make them more human readable.
This makes a lot of sense from a lines of code point of view.
Advanced reactive programming for mission critical computational task!
There are two separate issues, I believe you refer to. There is the boot time, which has been considerably improved, and is less than a second. The second thing is the slight pause that you refer to (if I understand the post correctly), when executing stuff the first time. That is the JIT compiling and warming the code cache.
It ain't backed by any popular service, so very few people use it, so very few dev implement it, so very few people use it ....
Thank you for your response. From my experience, you're very right about resources to learn Python being very beginner-friendly. I believe I can build the prototype faster in Python, so that's what I'll do.

I don't care how my resume may be affected, so that's irrelevant to my decision. The idea of a language that evolves with the project is too tantalizing to ignore. So, I'll learn Clojure by writing fun side-project programs with it. From what I've read, learning both languages well will make me a better programmer anyway.
Trine is done that way as well. It's surprisingly immersive for a platformer.
I am assuming you have already tried this - but doesn't print and save as pdf do it on a mac?
An explicit state machine makes it very easy to observe a) what the current state is b) what the possible states are.