skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're forgetting the many thousands of lines of code that went into writing the web browser it runs in, and even more that went into the underlying operating system.

I think the point being made here is that the OP only had to write 99 lines of original code using a few libraries and tools to get a rather impressive web based spreadsheet. If that's not impressive to you than your standards might be slightly too high.
Researchers Attack Europe's Human Brain Project
#JerkTech: Is ReservationHop a Disruptor or Not?
UberX in NYC now cheaper than yellow cabs
I think you can actually do this in Houston ... where, last I checked, there are no zoning laws ?

I was there in 2002 and there were people running mini mart stores out of their front porches, in a completey residential neighborhood.
Yeah, I think what you call legacy command line tools are the biggest part of the problem, but the mere fact that there are new and old ways to do things _will_ be a problem in the future.

In general, Windows tends to give you an API whereas UNIX historically is data centric. My experience is that I prefer the latter. Greatly.

For example, to get change stuff in the AD environment at work, the local windowshead wants me to send the changeset in a home cooked format for his horrible PS muck to parse. Integration with configuration management systems is spotty at best, and if I in two years time need to revisit the change I have to pray that particular backend still exists.

If I did it in UNIX I would just accept standard diff:s, keep data version controlled, and be done with it.
Swift's safety, expressiveness, and strong static typing
Oh, I don't know, it's kinda handy when you need it. How often have you wished for that in CSS?
Herringbone Wang Tiles
Agreed. Any Drupal developer who is having a hard time finding work, come to DC. There are over a dozen shops hiring Drupal devs right now.
Oculus VR acquires game-networking engine RakNet and makes it open-source
Data mining reveals how downvotes lead to more negative feedback
My Favorite Emacs Add-Ons
I wouldn't say so, when Java was 5 years old there was Forte4j, Netbeans and VisualAge for Java and Eclipse 1.0 [1]. All of them offered superior tooling to then major language as C and C++. People wanted nice IDEs, and majority didn't want Emacs and Vi(m). And Java was already in top 3 language. Go is nowhere near Java's success, even considering its age.

If Google didn't bother to provide a great IDE support so far, and is not pushing for Go in a way Apple was pushing for Objective C, there's no evidence that it won't end up as just yet another abandonware from Google.

[1] Writing from memory, so might be wrong.
Aether v1.1.1 is released for OS X and Windows
Europe, UK travellers must keep mobiles charged or lose them
At this point, there are two things that can happen independent of one another. The first is that the cabby lobby pressures the authorities to drop the hammer on Uber. The second is that they cabby lobby pushes against some of the regulation and certifications they have to deal with. In either case, the cabby lobby has a lot of work to do, and I don't think it will be pretty.
America's inequalities can cause arab spring like crises
We've recently started down this C#/Postgres route. One of the main decisions to use C# was static typing, so I wanted to keep this with the data access layer as well. I've decided to use dotConnect for PostgreSQL so I can use EF. I figure I can use dapper or another micro ORM after I get into performance issues.

Our biggest problem with Postgres is actually the lack of a good GUI. I'm using 0xDBE for the amazing auto complete and PgAdmin for everything else.
Why classic rock isn't what it used to be
In case any of you have a business w/ a physical location, yext.com sells a service that lets you manage these details (business hours, location, phone #, etc) across several different sites (Bing, Mapquest, Yahoo, etc + ~50 others), rather than handling them all individually.

(Disclaimer: my partner works there - but I don't get a commission or anything :-) Just seemed relevant to the discussion)
Is this going for reusability? Don't see any mention of that. Maybe I'm blind.
How does the First Amendment apply to Yelp reviewers? Is Congress making laws that abridge the rights of free speech in Yelp reviews?

On a separate point, I think the percentage of customers a corrupt business owner could defraud is pretty low. Happy customers may post reviews, but defrauded customers will go after a business like angry hornets. A small number of frauds will become a disproportionate number of negative reviews.
Hi, thanks for the feedback! Sorry if it comes across as bragging; the line count is kept minimal both to reduce reader's cognitive burden, and make inline commentary feasible.

Technically, Web Worker is not a library, and Traceur is used to translate ES6 to ES5 while browser support catches on, so AngularJS is the only library used.

The non-Traceur ES5 version at https://github.com/audreyt/500lines/tree/master/spreadsheet/... has exactly the same line count, but with more idiomatic workarounds that's less clear to students new to web development (the audience of this book).

It is possible to replace AngularJS (the only external library) with regular blur/focus/change handler as @xem shows — without affecting the line counts — but the separation of concerns between view, logic and worker would be less clear.
My first major was aerospace, then I switched. Starting to wonder if I made a mistake.

I was told back then (late 90s) that there were no jobs doing anything non-military, and that the only thing I could possibly do if I wanted to work on anything cutting-edge was to work on weapons systems.
a la google: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~scs/ ?
I'd love to see current and better data for how many hours full-time Google employees work per week.
The CEO is a former Space X employee, so I'm sure he's aware. Maybe there was some opportunity, but Space X wasn't interested in pursuing it.
From the article:

Unfortunately, the United States is the last of the G-20 nations that has yet to transition to chip & PIN, which means most ATM cards issued in Europe have a magnetic stripe on them for backwards compatibility when customers travel to this country. Naturally, ATM hackers in Europe will ship the stolen card data over to thieves here in the U.S., who then can encode the stolen card data onto fresh (chipless) cards and pull cash out of the machines here and in Latin America.
Methane is simpler in some ways -- no helium, for example. The big question marks here are composites and aerospike.

Aerospikes have been tested but have not (as far as I know) flown. Composites haven't flown at this scale as far as I know.

So yeah they have their work cut out for them!

BTW: SpaceX has done some revolutionary things around reusability, but I mostly agree -- other than their reusability efforts everything else they've done is good old fashioned rocket science + cost control.
If you don't get someone to recommend you to a good agency, you just have to try until you got a new one.

There are some signs that might help you, like that they do have an office, down payment, etc.
Careers in CS most certainly exist at Google, Yahoo, MS and Facebook, several of which have research labs in Europe (see MSR, Yahoo Barcelona, Google Zurich).
The cynic in me sees this as a way that Google could e.g., pay someone 80% for an "official" 4 day work week knowing full well that the competitive types working for them will end up pushing themselves into a typical 5/40 work week (and beyond) anyway.
The link to "silliest Kickstarter campaign ever" currently points incorrectly to the human-powered helicopter (again). The correct link is here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad

Also the tie-in for how Kickstarter is the new Buzzfeed is pretty much non-existent. May as well connect the dots yourself without reading the article.
According to the article, the reason they still have magnetic strips is so they can be used in the USA:

"Unfortunately, the United States is the last of the G-20 nations that has yet to transition to chip & PIN, which means most ATM cards issued in Europe have a magnetic stripe on them for backwards compatibility when customers travel to this country."
Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things
I really wanted to use Scala+Play to get away from the MS stack, but the documentation for Play was pretty hard to navigate due to the volume of documentation and the breaking changes in 2.
Yes, I did read the article, and my comment stands.

It is absolutely a case of the business owner not caring. It's completely understandable to not care about something that you don't know about. But if you do care about it, then you will learn about it.

As a business owner, you need to care and know how your customers find you. Be it Bing Maps, Google Maps, the phone book, etc. And you need to care that your information is correct in those places, and that means you need to know about them. Or have someone act on your behalf who can check them for you.
Yet even with a huge conventional army, the US were unable to secure the territorial integrity of the Ukraine as originally agreed upon in 199x in return for giving up their nuclear weapons.

Hence, neither a conventional army nor human-operated nuclear weapons (an actual real life example rather than a sketchy sketch of this would have been the Falkland War, btw) provide a sufficient deterrent, making an automatic Doomsday device à la Dr. Strangelove the only logical choice.

Is that what you’re saying?
So what is the market for small satellites? Is it just the companies that have existing (big) satellites needing to replace them? And now with miniaturization, it's possible to replace them with smaller, cheaper-to-launch versions?

Or is this meant to provide alternatives for other sectors? If I wanted to build a new cell phone network, would it be potentially cheaper to launch a bunch of small satellites than build out the ground infrastructure (towers)? Even though a satellite in LEO is significantly farther away than the average cellphone tower, would it work because line-of-sight is improved?
Thanks for that about '$', I didn't know we could rename sessions.
Almost sounds like a cause for making some type of TODO tool for TMUX
If it looks like a word, then it is a word
>What's the hierarchy of the upper-upper end neighborhoods?

It's not as much a hierarchy as different areas appealing to different types of people and families, with a big property size/walkability dividing line being I-280.

Let's say you have the nice problem of spending $10M+ on a house. If you want acreage and multiple guest houses and privacy and your own vineyard and stable, you might end up west of the 280 in Woodside off of Whiskey Hill Road. This is the Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs (Jackling House), Thomas Siebel, and Gordon Moore approach. Trivia: I was talking to a general contractor last week who said Gordon Moore's home upgrades/maintenance on his estate in a private valley on the north end of Woodside kept his business afloat during the 2008 downturn. If you want significant acreage, you'll need to budget tens of millions.

But in Woodside you don't get very much within walking or horseback distance, except Roberts Market/Bucks/Woodside Cafe. If you prefer the south bay with even less within walking distance, you might end up in Los Altos Hills or the hills overlooking Saratoga or Los Gatos. Portola Valley is another option.

If you want a 10,000+ ft^2 estate behind walls close to El Camino, you choose Atherton. If you want to be able to commute to SF and don't mind cooler weather, you choose Hillsborough. If you want to walk to a thriving downtown area with excellent restaurants, you (likely) lose the walls and gates and buy a more modest house for the same price in Palo Alto. The Palo Alto approach is what some Google and eBay executives have done, what Steve Jobs did in addition to the Jackling House, and what Tim Cook reportedly has done.
> They are, without exception, all miserable fucked up debased individuals who are so idle and unfulfilled they end up spreading their emotional contagion to all who are unfortunate to be in their way.

Really? Without exception?
Google Has Given HTTPS a Huge Boost
If it's your email, can't you just send a password reset?
Visualizing how lenticular lenses work
Merkel may possibly know a lot about spying. Who would have thought?

Did Merkel work for the Stasi?
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-317907

The past of the current German president may not look much better (IM Larve)

Anyway, should anything of this be true, the top German leader may be tremendously vulnerable for blackmailing.
Can yext do anything to protect you from attacks like those mentioned in the linked article?
I think many people living in the US are unaware of just how bad the rest of the world has it, sometimes.
A Spotify/Polymer app to listen to the less popular tracks of any artist
Moolah is done.
Why the heck can't I scroll down on the results page? It keeps resetting my position when I use the scroll bar.
No, it's not, because calling someones phone is also culturally dependent. Because in Germany, when you are calling someone, it is expected that person picking up the call will speak up first and introduce themself. Something like: "Herr Mustermann, hallo!".

You see, if you are calling person from Germany, knowing how to address him is not enough, you shall still know how to make a call. If you don't know that, you'll be rude anyways, and if you know that, you'll also know a proper way of addressing persons in different cultures.
Google Street View Pulls Its First Cruise Ship Aboard
Sounds like most of these things are pretty important for the business (except for maybe the overly long meetings). We'd all like to code in a bubble, but there are other things involved in running a business.
Inside Google’s Big Plan to Race Amazon to Your Door
Hushmarks.com is a very simple solution in that you can just add their bookmarklet to every browser you use.
This was the second time I really read through reviews on yelp. The first time I was reading reviews about a restaurant I love and reviewing it myself. And when I say I don't trust yelp, I meant the user base :)
Despite? :) Americans can freely spy in Germany because of the close relationship. In fact, thanks to our close relationship, we hand our data over for free in many cases (SWIFT, zomg!).
Yes I think the ability to be somewhat extroverted (given a short enough time interval) would be good for me... I remember taking the Briggs-Meyer test in 2005 when I was doing pretty good socially and moving up in my career, I wasn't extremely introverted at that time, just on the cusp.

Then, yes, I got more isolated. I moved away from the city where I grew up (Portland, OR) and had friends to a rural setting (to a small farm, which was I dream of mine)... After 5 years on the farm, I had to move out (and am still dealing with all the negative feelings of betrayal by my parents and siblings for how it happened), and I moved even further away.
Drupal 8 incorporates quite a bit of Symfony, so learning Symfony starting now will probably open some Drupal doors in a year or two when 8 is stable and being heavily used.
I'm not going to turn this thread into a debate over the merits of individual contributions to CentOS. All i'm saying is whatever RH develops gets shoved into their distro with seemingly no regard to the customer. It's not just that they're adding new tools, they're also forcing you to use them.

The nice thing to do for your customers is to make new technology optional, and provide alternatives for people who have 10+ year old infrastructure that they don't want to spend 2 years upgrading because it's now full of legacy systems. But RH not only shoves anything they want down your throat, half the time they're not transparent about the changes taking place, and you just have to hope nothing breaks your apps (kernel as an example, but userland package changes are similar).
you're right, the 210b version can be run from the JS console. The 227b is a... standalone app.
Keeping Live Events Running Smoothly: Part 2
If everyone is dual income, 6 digit salary each, where are their kids care givers going to live? Are they going to make a 6 digit salary each, too?

I can't stand dual income. I can't stand commutes now, either. That's why I left the bay area last year.
Sure you can! Just search exhaustively over your ultimately finite programs. There's a really simple algorithm for that, though the performance is a little wanting.

/s

(On a more serious sarcastic note, searching over your impure state space is somewhat more challenging. It's unclear how very finite it is, but I'm sure some reasonable spherical user assumptions will trim it to feasible exhaustiveness)
I thought the same thing (and I can't test it right now, our vcenter host is currently powered down because of thermal issues we're having during an asbestos abatement next door, another story)

However on my Windows 7 machines, even with Google Chrome, connecting to the vcenter host's web interface asks to install two additional plugins that are not as far as I can tell Flash related. My boss does a decent job keeping up with the patches for most things, so if maybe you stopped upgrading when they started breaking stuff it's possible we might be running a newer version than you.
Do Software Developers Really Need Degrees?
I don't see what that explains. The 100m has a bias towards fast people, but if you just assess skills...

Weightlifting has a bias towards strong people, but if you ignore the fact that you have to lift heavy weights to win...

The OP's claim was that with enough effort and some luck, anybody could play at any level (including top level) at any sport, not "at any sport, after changing the definition of winning".
Sounds more like a cluster of tactical problems that can be solved individually than an overall strategic failure.

I don't think it is a matter of the smartest minds of our generation trying to solve long term unemployment, but rather solving the problem of human effectiveness and happiness.

The idea is that we don't have to waste peoples lives on everlasting drudge work.

We've created this economic system collectively. We can change it. We have before. Around 1900 we were, on average, paying 40% of our wages for food and working a hell of a lot of hours to do it, mostly with farm work. Now we pay an average of 6% of our wages for food and work around 40 hours a week to do it.

It is better than it was and there is no reason it can't get better still.

There are people who will still work a lot -- I'm sure I'll be one of them, but we shouldn't really have to with how productive we are per capita and how truly cheap it is for people to live.
oh, awesome. It's always a pleasure to find that the golfing we do inspires other people to do other projects ;)
$10K is an unreasonable amount of money to cite here. Heck, how many of us even have credit limits that high? Check or wire transfer is what I've used for such sums in times past.

Also, I don't know where you live, but in most of the US (by state and population), we're allowed to carry concealed handguns after jumping through some moderate hoops, and in the places I've lived like this, Virginia and Missouri, muggings are also not-coincidentally much less frequent (that was particularly clear when I lived in Northern Virginia with D.C. and Maryland a subway trip away).

I routinely carry ~$450 and a .45, more if needed, and just don't worry about credit card compromise aside from uses on the net.

ATM compromise is another story, of course; the one I use with a bank account with "a lot" of money is in a Wal-Mart open 24x7 that's part of a bank branch open during normal business hours, there are so many easier targets I'd be really surprised if it got hacked. The other one I use never has more than $1,000 in the account. For that matter, I don't let the first one get much above $2,500 before transferring money out of it.
How Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe hacked Metcalfe’s Law
> the choice of model is usually quite subjective

Actually it's not. That is one of the most remarkable things about the universe we live in: it's really hard to come up with compact models that are consistent with all the data. So you can eliminate the vast majority of prospective models by eliminating those that 1) aren't consistent with the data or 2) don't compress the data efficiently. What you are left with is invariably a very small number of potential models.

The bigger problem is people's unwillingness to let go of their cognitive biases. For example, economists still (AFAIK -- I don't actually read the economics literature) make their careers publishing papers based on the efficient market hypothesis despite the fact that there is overwhelming evidence that markets are not efficient. There's no getting around the GIGO principle.
Thanks for the link, I love checking up on his progress from time to time.

Small note, he seems to have downgraded his goals though from "winning a PGA tournament" [1] to "obtaining PGA tour card" [2]. Understandably, since the former would be incredible hard, but still...

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/dan-mclaughlins-10000ho...
[2] http://thedanplan.com/about/
> just on the basis of knowing why we're here.

But we're here to convert heathens so they don't burn in hell. Why would we want to ever leave this puddle that, so obviously, was made just for us?

/tongue-in-cheek
Yes, yes it does.

I try to do as much as possible via Python and maintain a jumpbox for running the full client.

More importantly, I avoid VMWare wherever possible. These days there are plenty of excellent, fully viable alternatives which weren't quite there just a few years ago.
As a Fusion user, it is interesting to me that Fusion appears to be getting ESXi/vSphere management capability:

http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/vmware-fusion-te...
Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seemann: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1935182501
>I thought there was still plenty of cheap land in the Bay Area, but people all want to live in the ritzy bits.

There's lots of vacant land on the SF peninsula, but no cheap land. There is cheaper land (not the same as cheap land), as you say, in the east bay, but the non-SF tech jobs tend to be on the peninsula or south bay.

BTW, this is the first time that I've heard Belmont or San Mateo or Redwood City being described as "ritzy." :)
> My cash has never been stolen. I have never been mugged.

And I've never been in a car accident. That must mean there is no reason for me to wear a seat belt!
Had to binary search to find 164.
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