skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fellow programmers that don't use an IDE and insist on vim or emacs..

I often work on large projects with dozens of programmers and the developers that don't use an IDE are very small-thinking. They don't seem to know any libraries besides the base libraries and can't integrate large systems together.

They're fine for writing algorithms but beyond that they slow everyone else down.
TIL there was such thing as Hukkster.

R.I.P. terribly-named business I never heard of.
1. University procurement systems and methodologies(the PO / cost object etc).

2. The difficulty in finding people with specific technical expertise in a university setting. People spend enormous amounts of time troubleshooting problems which could be easily solved by just talking to the right person for a brief amount of time. Yet, typically people have no idea what is going on outside of their group / lab and lack a mechanism by which to find people locally or remotely with the domain-specific expertise they are looking for.

3. The lack of a wikipedia-esque resource for bio or a resource to onboard new investigators and students into a new field. Textbooks are paywalled, journal articles typically assume a base level of knowledge of the field, and reviews can be very hit or miss. Someone should create a way for leaders in each sub-domain of science to select the top reviews for new entrants into their respective field, and establish a curated collection of such reviews. Going off of citation count or potentially impact factor would be a good start.
As someone who grew up with C and C++ have to say that I rather like Javascript. Sure it has its hacks and edges but whenever I code stuff in it I find myself being about 5x more productive than using Java or C/C++.
Your comment is circular reasoning. GP says "they have no reason to mug me", and you say "they're mugging you because they're mugging you".
I leave the screen on and I'm at about 40% in the evening.
Worker Queue: My First JavaScript Library
Web workers in practice (HTML5)
I love using Firefox Developer Tools, but there's a really annoying bug[1] (been around since 2002!) that prevents Django sites from working properly with the Debugger. It's really the only thing that is preventing me from switching to Firefox for development :(

[1] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156435
Stanford Med School to Deploy Google Glass for Surgeon Training
No, of course not. Anyone writing a comment should only use words everyone that is ever going to see the comment already knows.
Houston man charged with child porn possession after Google cyber-tip
There are distributed social networking systems that have being experimented with. HN has stories showing off a few of them. Facebook has real competition from people who don't have data aggregation or advertisement agendas.

Barriers to entry for these tools are: the technical expertise to setup and run the programs (which is low low low, but still enough), and the obvious lack of users to give the system meaning.
One thing which is still missing is the cache viewer. I still need to use an add-on for that when necessary.
What a terrible ending to the article. What Musk is warning against is a system that is capable of accomplishing it's own goals, and if those goals conflict with our own goals then there will be trouble - especially if the AI is clever enough. Whether or not we are living in a simulation is irrelevant - we are still agents with goals.

Maybe the author was trying to be silly, but, if that's the case I can see why he writes for CNet at not Comedy Central.
I would say that the problem is "SomeReallyFancyTypeName" where you've created a ridiculously long type name (one of the reasons I avoid Windows programming at all costs).

That aside, editors don't handle tabbing very well. It's far more space-efficient to insert two tabs instead of 8 spaces, but space and bandwidth are so cheap these days, no one can be arsed to fix what is viewed as a minor problem (use enough spaces and sooner or later, we're talking real bandwidth).

Then, there's the moment where we have to decide what those all those tabs (and sometimes spaces) mean, depending on the language, the layout rules, personal preferences, etc. For example, some people write Python with 2 spaces at the beginning of a line (which is plainly heresy). Others write it with 4 spaces (which is damnable blasphemy). Which is right?

And how many other languages are like this?(hint: any language in which layout is indented for any reason)

And concerning line length - what's the maximum allowable length before wrapping? You say 80, I say 132 (sometimes more), but I run terminal in a full-screen mode with 13-pt type, single-screened, never side-by-side.

Personally, I've learned my lesson. I'm waiting for editors to smarten up before I muck around with proportional fonts for code. Again.
I wonder why the downvotes? This is based on observation on large-team projects. Maybe you have a different insight?
Conversely, a lot of things "just work" in RHEL/CentOS that are challenging in Ubuntu, especially when it comes to hardware vendor support. If you run on Dell hardware, for example, their firmware update packages only work on RHEL without significant effort.
Or somehow Britain and its overseas colonies didn't have any standardized spelling for words for a long time, and so spellings fell in and out of favor and whatever was in vogue in each place at the time the earliest widely-accepted dictionaries were compiled became the "right" spelling for that location.

(speaking of which, Commonwealth English has a stronger tendency to hypercorrect and create false spellings which actually differ from the imagined root; "foetus" is the classic example, since the Latin root was actually just "fetus")
They covered the mirrors in the house so Richard wouldn't have to look at his hideous face.

So it doesn't only happen in horror movies!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053459/
"oh best take my phone out of my pocket, my watch is ringing".
This excuse has very often had the result of denying basic jobs and services to people in developing countries.

Like the GP said, "alternate ways" are imaginary until someone else does it. The best way to provide an alternate solution is to provide an alternate solution. The worst way to provide an alternate solution is to complain about it with that typical rich Westerner indignation that some people face harder choices than themselves, with the end result sometimes being that no solutions at all are provided.
An Intro to Videogame Design History
Crow bar is a long range weapon, so get in close. Knife is probably the most difficult to defend against - certainly more so than a gun.

I did this exercise once, where my training partner held a paintball gun a couple inches from my chest. My job was to disarm him without getting shot. His job was to shoot as soon as he saw me move. It took five attempts before I got it. And getting hit at that range is a great incentive - all we had on was a facemask and overalls over shorts and a t-shirt.
Macintel: The End Is Nigh
What industries are you interested in?
> And I have a hard time getting upset that Facebook might beat out Experian and friends to become the credit bureau of choice in some developing countries. Why should I have a dog in that fight?

Put aside developing countries for a moment - in the US, the three credit bureaus are very heavily regulated, and as a consumer, you have a lot of rights regarding your credit report.

Experian must provide you with free access to your credit report every year, they must explicitly mark any negative information, they must give you the right to challenge any incorrect information, and even if negative information is correct, they can only hold onto it for a certain period of time.

They also are limited in the ways that they can share this information with others, and in the ways that they can join the information from your credit report with other information that they or others may have in order to create a more "complete" profile about you.

This regulation is all very good, as it limits the extent to which one's credit history can harm one's prospects at financial progress (or even basic necessities of life, as even rental applications often ask for your credit history). It also means that someone in their 40s is not still being held back by poor credit decisions from their 20s that caused them to declare bankruptcy in their early 30s.

If Facebook were actually subject to all of these same regulations (and we trusted them to abide by them), it would be one thing, but I'd be very skeptical of how Facebook would handle this responsibility either in the US or in developing countries.
Hukkster?

Were they represented by the law firm of Dewey, Cheatham and Howe?
Can you list some specifics that seem nice but are actually a bad idea? I would be interested and I'm sure others would be too.
In the US you go to a movie theatre to see a movie.
GP says "they uave no reason to mug me"

Reply says "do the muggers know that? They mug people, and they might not know that an iPhone X is worthless to them"

That's not circular.
Nice stuff. I hope chrome dev tools gets these features soon.
The outer antenna on the black iPhone 5 is not grey, it's black. The white iPhone 5 has the correct (grey) antenna.

Otherwise, good job.
The other thing to keep in mind is that 51% doesn't let you destroy the network, it just lets you spend money twice maybe. And if the Chinese government double spent, or helped other people double spend, it would all be on the public ledger. There would be a record of the forks, and there would be people to testify "I sold X to Y and the tree forked".

So it's not so much that Bitcoin would be destroyed, as a new avenue for theft would open up. Probably temporarily, as other groups would respond by fighting back with more computational power and probably with ad-hoc blocking.
> I believe you. That's why I still wonder why your professor hasn't taken action on it.

He took action and now the class is taught in Clojure.

> And of course if the car breaks which you drive

That's exactly my point!

We weren't driving our car. We were having a test drive.

If it were our car (i.e. if we were users) we would've taken it to the garage, but it wasn't. You don't take a car for a test drive at the car dealer, and then decide to get it to the garage if something's broken.

When you take a car for a test drive and it fails, you just leave it at the car dealer and move on. Just like we did.
It's a bit annoying that you can't even talk about this stuff without the basilisk interfering. Maybe we're dooming ourselves by laughing at the basilisk incident instead of taking the potentially larger issue seriously.
Dustforce Sales Figures
You can buy pre-loaded credit cards at gas stations in the US, although I'm not sure how they work for online orders.
They don't know it now, but eventually people will figure out that they're impossible to fence.

You're lowering the reward while holding the risk constant. As technology makes the street value of stolen items lower and lower, eventually street robbery will be less attractive.
Is access to small consumer loans really that significant among the problems facing Rwandans, Paraguayans and (I forget the other places[s])?

It seems to me that, if it were, there would already be a better solution than Facebook in place. Or if it is just about to be, that Facebook is unlikely - even with this project in place - to be in the best position to provide it. Unless they get really close with local regulators, but I doubt they have it in them to shimmy up with the local fuzz to be the most favoured credit bureau in Paraguay.
Bovo is a Gomoku-like game for KDE
Well, I am not sure what very rich are. I am quite not sure of the definition of rich. Let's say privileged people.

For instance, if you want to have degree in order to practice accountability or being a pharmacist, or being notaire, or being a lawyer then you need a practical internship. Since there is a limited amount of position offered, then being a «son of a» de facto gives you some priviledges that will translate in real money.

Since the state regulates these liberal professions there income are guaranteed to be above the average (given some conditions that are too long to detail, but noticeable).

So it is very tough to distinguish privileges and wealth.

I cannot measure if I am right so it is pure speculation of me. I can actually say I experienced these situations at first and second order. However I cannot say if it is that important in both frequency and impact as I claim it to be.

I am very close to hasty generalisation fallacy because it is hard to be objective when you measure the system in which you are. My point of view is not neutral at all, all the more I feel emotionally involved as an actor in what I describe. I chose to run away instead of being either the victim or the bullier (I came sadly to be both at some point but not enough to feel sad for anyone).

However, I am totally fine with my biases. Although sometimes when I tell these stories, I wonder if I am suffering of delusion because it is not my actual reality at all and it feels so impossible.
Love the UI on the new site, 38 pages of stuff to look through. It uses git though so it must be better.
Upper crust?!? Dude you have no idea. But thanks, I'll take this as a compliment.
A Contrarian View of MITx: What Are We Doing?
I've learnt a lot on MITx, and I've also benefitted form other MOOC providers. But MIT Prof. Flower's views on OCW & MITx are not wrong.

I would love to know what the people here think about MITx, edX (& other MOOC providers) and how they will affect the future of education.
Yes, of course you want to direct your efforts at whatever will bring the largest marginal benefit -- and you're right that that can change if other people are already working on the absolute best things. However, that doesn't mean that all the other options are equally good! Would Facebook's money be better spent on internet access, or by being one among many working on sanitation? It's not a forgone conclusion, and it would be nice to see people be more data-driven about how they spend their charity money.

In practice, the internet thing is probably Facebook's only option, since it's the only one they can convince their investors to back. This isn't really charity; they intend to make a viable business. I really like that aspect of the plan. Charity comes and goes, but businesses tend to stick around when they're making money.
Why would your animosity be targeted at the language and the developers.

The market wants what the market wants. Surely most of the time, in most cases, it is the client that signs off a design and a developer follows the brief?
The CPython Peephole Optimizer
Syntactically, I would say javascript is better than PHP. PHP only recently got around to allowing array shorthand, and I don't even know if the most recent version has anything like js' object shorthand. The way javascript handles anonymous functions and closures is better too - it's just easier to write.

Though whenever the DOM gets involve, both break down into awkward messes.
Show HN: Baby Name Generator that finds names via available domains – YC Hacks
Dark Souls and Demon Souls, two games normally only noted for being extremely difficult, are some of the best examples of ludonarrative assonance I've ever seen. The mechanics of the games not only reflect the events of their plots cohesively, but also serve as metaphors towards larger aesthetic and philosophical themes shared by the stories and settings.
The first asset for publishing is reputation and credibility.

People do publish http://www.bondyblog.fr/ (bondy are not the only one, but the most famous).

And they show the positive side of our place: creativity, openness, intiative.

And it is cool. They just don't have any audience.

When something happens, google news never index their point of view as relevant for you, nor do the journalists ask them to publish except some confidential alterweb media (like rue89/mediapart/indimedia).

It is fun that the social fracture also affects google algorithms.
My favorite (im)plausible thruster using this effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_vacuum_plasma_thruster
In my experience AJAX is used a lot to do the opposite of 'loading down' a site. Often used for staggering page load - preventing a huge download time at first page load and means one page sites can be possible, with many images even, and not take 2 minutes to download on mobile.
I think even before AI becomes intelligent enough to potentially destroy us. They will be intelligent enough to get used as smart weapons that are controlled by only a handfull of poeple that seek to controll the world. For Atomic bombs you still need a lot of people to keep them working and effective. AI Robots on the other hand could work, repair and advance themself.
Healthcare, consumer internet, real estate, enterprise data, sharing economy, travel, journalism...

There are more, I've done projects/experiments in a bunch of these areas.
Sounds like he's trying to remake AOL/Compuserve/et al...
having a second screen for notifications and short information bits is really useful. After a month with the LG Watch, I'm convinced this is an essential addon to use with a smartphone.

It feels really stupid now to think that my phone would make some kind of noise to inform me that something new happened, and that I should probably get it out and unlock it to check if this is maybe something I want to act on right now.

Android wear is smartly not about "an Android phone on your wrist". It acknowledges that your wrist is a great place to glance at information, that this is what watches have always been used for, and provides a dead simple interface for exactly this usecase.

It's the calculator apps and the pizza ordering apps (stupidly featured at I/O) that put this great product in danger of being misunderstood.
> Digilent Basys 2 is, if you're a student, only $49

The article appears a little outdated because I bought this board last year as a student for $69.

http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=BASYS2&N...
The biggest problem with Ubuntu Mono is the rather small size of its punctuation, especially dots have been nearly invisible for me. Other than that, the Ubuntu family of fonts are fine indeed.
The Cypress chips are amazing. And you can even buy a basic Cypress PSoC dev board for $5:

http://hackaday.com/2014/06/16/cypress-launches-5-arm-dev-bo...

Tragically -- as is the case with FPGAs -- the development environment only runs on Windows.

I really think these companies are missing out on a large market segment of software developers who are increasingly interested in hardware, but who work exclusively on Linux or OSX.
I'm not bitching but it's a tad confusing it's called React because I assumed it's a UI library similar to ReactJS (whereas it's more like Rx and friends). Still, awesome to see ideas from Rx getting traction in all languages!
Employers/job research websites that require to provide a GitHub account. If you never pushed commits onto GitHub, you can basically kill yourself.
Is +2pts of people who say they're more likely to buy worth 4x the budget? Hard to say...
"During the eight-week campaign, 18.1 million women aged 45 and up saw at least one ad, according to Nielsen’s research. That was 56 percent of the target audience. The number who said they were now more likely to buy MegaRed rose by two percentage points."

Seems like the classic media sales approach is alive and well, and that it's boosting Facebook's revenues. The issue is that the way that Facebook shares data (or rather doesn't) makes meaningful analysis possible.
"the [Facebook] ad strategists were saying they wanted him to spend money to show ads to every American woman 45 and older on Facebook — as many as 32 million people."

no kidding...
Hopefully the authors would update the pages.. but yes.
hopefully he'll succeed
Lattice does offer free licenses for the low end. They're certainly not going to give you a free license for PCIe; I'm pretty sure Xilinx and Altera don't either, that's still a premium feature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_State_of_Palestine
Even kids who go to law school don't learn how to practice until they arrive at a firm, so this is not an obviously inferior method of training.

If you aspire to BigLaw this will never get you there, but if you want to be a consumer-facing plaintiffs' lawyer (where the reality is that well-executed advertising probably beats a stellar education anyway) this might be a wise move.
Yes, and other wristwatch devices (calculators, computers) haven't taken off. Even if it was self-contained. Perhaps many people don't like wearing watches. I don't.

A heads-up display seems much more useful and convenient, solving the shrinking-display problem.
One time on "What's my Line?", a "federal prosecuting attorney" came on the show (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXjD7cMVJKg) and was asked if you needed to be a college graduate to have the job she has. She answered "not necessarily". This is why, but after a conference with the host, the answer got changed to yes.
I agree, except that even on modern machines HL stops the game every 2 minutes to load the next area (this is especially painful when the train is moving through the intro cutscene.)
It's interesting how rare it is. Apparently an average of two people a year pass the bar via this route in California.
Although you should be willing to work very hard it's actually a mistake to skimp on sleep. Proper sleep is probably the biggest element in consistent productivity.
Good points. Though I'd say that at least Altera provides good support for most of their devices in the Web Edition.

Also Altera and Xilinx (I think) provides a free version of Mentor Graphics simulation tool ModelSim that supports up to moderate size designs.
I was astounded to read:

> [Psychology] is actually leading the way in tackling a problem that is endemic throughout science [replication]

"Throughout science" presumably is meant to apply to everything including physics, biology, etc. In fact, the article explicitly recognises "Failures to replicate" in several other fields (medicine, biology, observational astronomy) which seems to contradict itself - it's a big special thing when a psychology journal publishes replications, and they are leading the way! Except here is a load of uncontroversial non-replications from other fields.

Perhaps I'm just being spoilt - being in High Energy Physics, almost everyone I work with has an understanding of the statistics involved, and extremely skeptical outlooks on everything that is anything less than perfectly rigorous - along with (usually) multiple separate experiments all measuring (or capable of measuring) the same thing.

One big example I can think of was DAMA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAMA/NaI - found evidence for dark matter, and a successive experiment by the same team http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAMA/LIBRA has found the same result - but nobody "believes" the result, until it is measured by somebody else, even though nobody can find a cause for the false positive (assuming it is false).

Finally, I link (again) the Feynman 1974 Caltech commencement address, where he actually talks about this reproducibility issue:
http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html
If you feel you need productivity methods, it's a sign something is wrong with your goals or process.