skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, everyone seems to be obsessed with figuring out how the words of these long-dead fellows applies to stuff they never would have imagined rather than trying to figure out what would make good policy today. Founding-fatherism is basically the unofficial state religion of the US now.
This project uses the MacvimFramework. It might be a dig at Sublime/Atom's re-implementation of Vim keybindings
> It's an argument maybe for wanting to increase market share. This piece suggests that Google has motivation for breaking other platforms though, which I find ridiculous as it will only diminish their returns.

I'm going to guess you weren't active in the industry when Microsoft was at it's "peak".

Try this little scenario in your head:

Google owns web properties that are highly trafficked on a variety of devices/browsers.

Google then says "hey guys we're going to make the web better by building a browser ourselves!".

They're quick to focus on making it faster using existing standard technologies.

A bit later they create some non-standard stuff for their browser like Dart, Native Client, WebP, etc.

Slowly they start to rely on these new things they've created on their highly trafficked websites, and encourage people to use their browser because it will give "a better experience".

Yes, some people will find an alternative (if they are able to make that choice, and it hasn't been bought out/squeezed out by Google's "free" offering) thus "hurting" Google, but if they have to sacrifice some of their user base in order to have more control over the rest of the user base, they will absolutely do that.
I don't view Google as either evil or benevolent. I view them as a corporation that acts in its own self-interest (as you'd expect). They do a lot of good things for the tech community such as releasing open source code. However, I often avoid their products because they are not open about what they track and record. That doesn't matter to many people, including many people in the tech community, but it matters to me.

Google arguably tracks online activity more than any other company. They propbably know more about your online behaviour than you do yourself. They have made tracking appear to be a perfectly reasonable and normal thing to do. They even have an OS (ChromeOS) that tracks everything you do from the apps you use to the web pages you visit, to even the documents you print (all routed through Google's cloud print service, even if your printer is sitting next to your ChromeBook). This isn't even done anonymously given that you have to sign in to use these services (you can't use a ChromeBook without signing in, using it as a guest limits what you can do). How many people would be happy to sign in to MacOS, Windows, Linux and know that everything they were doing was being recorded and tracked? Meanwhile, the tech community just gives Google the easiest ride possible on such matters.

I don't believe Google does anything remotely sinister with the data it collects. But it is a staggering amount of data that they capture. And if you read their lengthy privacy policy, it's notable how little it tells you. How is my data aggregated? Who sees it inside Google? How is it anonymised (if indeed it is - no mention of this in their privacy policy). Some of Google's services ask for very personal info: date of birth, mobile phone number. It's reasonable to want to know what Google uses this data for. Is is really just for security and verification? If they cared about privacy, they'd actually tell you. Their statements about privacy are always framed in terms of security. Yes, privacy is not possible without security, but security does not equal privacy. To me Google's attitude is summed up thus: we'll do everything to keep yoru data secure but we won't stop tracking you to death.
Oops forgot a link: http://teenpro.net/
I fail to see how this is better than to use gvim, which is crossplatform, together with NERDTree, CTRL+p + some other language specific plugins that can run on your server, on your desktop (which can be windows, linux or osx, whatever you like).

Feels like the authors effort would be better spent on helping some project like NeoVim instead. https://github.com/neovim/neovim
Is that really necessary? It's not like the police can say, well, you don't have the phone number of a lawyer immediately accessible, so we'll just deny you your fundamental right to have one.

I guess you might end up spending more time in jail than if you can get someone to help get you out, or something like that, but you're not going to be railroaded to trial just because you didn't prepare a lawyer in advance, as long as you assert your right to have one present.
Reading Literature on Screen: A Price for Convenience?
Protesting didn't really change anything there. A long campaign of organized violence did. There are far better examples of effective protests than the American revolution.
MacVim is emulated? What does that mean? I thought it was a graphical interface like GVim just with a couple of OS X keyboard shortcuts.
I will admit that logic is not incorrect because I was the one who made that very claim: http://minimaxir.com/img/hn-front-page.png

The variation, however, is minimal between the timeslots. That image didn't also look into the game-theoric implications of other successful posts during that time.
Taco: unified task list with a single view into all of your existing tasks
You can set Firefox to only reload tabs on access.
What other keyboard shortcuts are available other than hjkl? It looks not even the arrow keys work.
I choose Windows for my home and business because it's got the most logical and stable desktop experience. It's simple, utilitarian and it works extremely well as evidenced by it's world-wide usage in homes and businesses of all sizes.

I choose Windows Server for my business because it's by far the easiest network server system to setup and maintain while still offering me the absolute best experience for maintenance and control of my enterprise.

Clicky-clicky-click in the free UI-admin-tool that is included and I've got a new IIS web site up. Click...I've got a new SQL Server database built. Click...I've got a a new Virtual Machine, etc. Click...I've got a .NET app and developer workflow already built and scaffolded without having to memorize one single command.

Unix operating systems including Apple's don't offer anything even close to the experience that you get with Windows. That's why people choose Windows over Unix when they actually think about it. After that, they choose Windows simply because everybody else is using it, making it the default choice. (This is all in my highly experienced opinion of course.)
No, but a lot of editors have some level of vim emulation (eg, Atom, or IntelliJ, or VisualStudio, or XCode) that always comes up a bit short. The point the author is making is that this actually embeds vim and is not a re-implementation of vim features.
What is this? All I get is some PDF links that won't open unless I create a (paid?) account. Link spam?
compiling pypy also takes about half a day...
The option isn't between a job with irregular hours and a job with regular hours. The option is between a job with irregular hours and no job.

With all of the talk about raising the minimum wage drastically (small increments are fine), or something like requiring a certain minimum shift length, it will push small business owners towards non-human workers faster (automation and robots).
For nomadlist, it uses google doc backend with a decent frontend. Can someone point to an example code that would help do that ?
I didn't see your reply when I wrote my comment above. You are right that you are not robots. Currently irregular shift workers are cheaper than robots, but that will not be true forever and the more expensive we make workers, the cheaper robots become.
Eric S. Raymond's changes to the Jargon file (2003)
on interest accruing that penalises payments that fail to meet a time deadline or a premium amount a company can very quickly make the money back that they lent out while still having the individual held under crippling debt,

if i use a credit card foolishly and put myself into 2500$ debt, and over time receive a number of fees due to my late payments, my 2500$ debt can rise to 5000$ effortlessly,

at this point if i pay the bank 4000$, they made 1500$ off me already, then they decide to sell the remaining 1000$ for 1/12 its worth the original lender has been given 4083$ for an original 2500$ loan,
and now the credit adjuster or whoever bought the debt could make 917$ by collecting the 1000$

i'd like to see statistics on how much an original debt was, how much has been paid into it, and how much it sold for

then we can discuss potential for 'total loss'

i wonder if you went to the lender and offered to pay your debt back at 1/12 its cost if they would sell the rights to your own debt to you?
For me the problem isn't packing things into my brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out ... the problem for me is figuring out what are the right things I want packed into my brain
Have you ever "looked under the hood" ? Browsers aren't your average weekend open source project, they're behemoths

I've sometimes wondered whether the barrier to entry is the biggest thing holding back FOSS.

I'm an experienced developer, quite capable of diving into the kind of code these projects run. Now and then I have enough spare time that I might be able to make a useful contribution. I would be happy to support some of these projects in the spirit of giving something back.

Every single time I look at a major FOSS project where I'd like to help, the very first thing I run into in the developer documentation is an installation/build process a mile long with absurd overheads. Large FOSS projects often require a whole set of custom tools. Many don't comply with normal conventions on the host OS; I'm on Windows, and assuming every developer in the world runs Linux is a particularly common problem. Quite a few require installation of a specific version of a certain compiler toolchain.

I understand that portability is difficult. I've worked on projects that had to be compiled on many different platforms. I've worked on projects that had to be cross-compiled from one platform to run on another. The issues raised by these environments aren't trivial.

Even so, I have never worked on a successful professional project that managed to make things as complicated as large FOSS projects almost always do. And while I'm happy to help out if I can, I simply don't have time to ensure that I've got this week's project's specific preferred version of a VCS, Bash, GCC, and so on installed so they clutter my standard file system, environment settings, registry, editor/IDE preferences, and all the other things that any developer surely wants as clean and tidy as possible while they work.
Unreal iOS Building: They are probably building the .ipa on their server and then sending it back to you
Since 2.1 has made dramatic decrease in GC time, now the largest contribution on the NewRelic graphs is in Ruby Interpreter itself.

Are there any improvement on that front in Ruby 2.2?
This is the code in PHP:

http://pastebin.com/QzE1pNQ2
If we're talking about someone that passed the software engineering PE, then yes, I think they get plenty of (well-deserved) respect. I'm guessing that's not whom the article is referring to however...

I met a lot of "software engineers" that think their mad coding skills are singularly notable or worthy of respect in business. They're wrong. Technical ability is but one aspect of business. The developers who get that, who have other business skills and/or are willing to learn other business skills I greatly respect and value. A developer who is competent at coding and has one of good communication skills, project management skills, interpersonal and conflict resolution skills, is of much greater value to me than a developer who is excellent at coding and mediocre elsewhere.
hi, i was born in China, immigrated to Europe when i was 11 years old.
though where we live has huge influence on our persona, it can't make us who we were not.
Growing up is not a one person challenge, try to surround urself with peers & mentors, participate & contribute to international no profit projects ( i was involved in the UNIDO program, the branch of UN who promote investment & tech transfer, it was a eye opener for me, and my first dive into the business world)
I agree with b6 on college stuff, cause most of them are built to be social pressure reducers, they just "gaged" people ouside of the world as long as possible.

Don't fear for have failed some exams, cause those are just bugs from an antiquated sys，just hack your way out! lol
Http://iconseeker.com/search/tiger/3
If eye candy is more of a feature to you than privacy then what does that say? Would you give up all privacy and choice for something flashy?
Much discussion under this four-day-old submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8168569
Very intrigued. I want to draft some "one-hour RPGs" -- short stories instead of the usual epic -- and this research will help.

And if you're a HN reader familiar with RPG Maker, give me a shout (rpg at thirdtruck dot org). I'm excited at the prospect of collaborating.
Aren't there creatures right now that have effectively indefinite lifespans?

If I recall, some varieties of jellyfish and lobster have this.
The people's bailout was a form of protest that resonated with me:

they take donations to buy debt and instead of then trying to call in that debt, they just forget it, absolving the original debtor

http://rollingjubilee.org/
I'm going to expand upon this sub-thread to comment upon what I observed as one of the tyrannies of the U.S. legal system. Many are poorly able to or unable to afford the legal counsel they would need to competently navigate it.

In the criminal sphere, the motto (slogan, who knows what real strength it has, these days) "Innocent until proven guilty" was presented and meant by at least some as a counter-balance to such demands. Presumption of innocence was... well, at least "presumed" to mean that the system would work on your behalf towards an accurate resolution rather than just a convenient one.

Contrary to this, however, note that a validated and often employed legal strategy is to simply spend the opposing party into defeat. (Or, threaten to do so.) This happens in the civil arena. It also happens in the criminal arena, where the State can choose to bring relatively unlimited resources to bear against an individual opponent. (We are, as the general public, increasingly learning just how little oversight and restraint is exercised in how this is employed.)

They may not have to "prove" anything. Employing a litany of court dates, expert witnesses, appeals, etc., they can simply "run out the clock" of their opponent's financial resources (to mix my metaphors). Further, in the criminal sphere, we continue to learn more and to read and hear about just how far off the rails surveillance, unwarranted search, entrapment, interrogation, etc. can go.

Then, we also have the increasing use of forfeiture to peremptorily seize resources with no opportunity for defense. The increasingly broad and inappropriate use of no-knock search warrants that physically threaten well-being. Swat-ification that is turning policing into militarized occupation and further separating the police from the community...

Whose fault is this? Probably all of ours. Regardless, it is turning the legal system, for the general public, from something to respect to something to fear. It is not "our system", anymore, but "theirs". For various values of "theirs".

Not a good recipe for a society "based upon law".

P.S. I should add that I recognize what others say, that the U.S. is still comparatively quite good compared to many other places in the world.

But I worry about the delta. As well as persistent... "outliers" than do not seem to improve nor resolve. And than may be far more extensive than we, the "general public", were once led to believe.
I think we also have to consider conservatives who believe that there is inherent value in certain lifestyles that is independent of the products of those lifestyles. Automated labor will also free us to compete in whatever inefficient way we want. Just as garment technology has not stopped people from knitting, automated labor will still allow people to choose to be Amish.

Personally, I think we can find better things to do than work most jobs that exist today. We need to be open to the idea of perpetual changes in what we can and should do with our time.
Litescript is literate from the start. https://github.com/luciotato/LiteScript
> I'm going to guess you weren't active in the industry when Microsoft was at it's "peak".

Microsoft sold their platforms for money. Microsoft never open sourced anything. All of this "non-standard stuff" is open sourced. Dart and WebP work in Firefox as good as they do in Chrome. NaCl is open source and it looks like a failed project. How is this even remotely comparable to Microsoft's practices?

Google are being assholes often and they should be called out for it. I agree that it is frightening that they are getting so much power.

But this "Google is the next Microsoft" meme is demonstrably wrong and should die.
could be pretty good with more polish
Thanks for the input everyone. It's very helpful.
Wow, 1 hour and not one positive comment. I love this. For an user getting started with vim, just the mac-like design for sidebar and File finder is a million times useful.

Thanks Guys for making this!
Show HN: Sharewalla – A Service To Get People Sharing Your Content
Redphone can talk to iPhone users with the signal app.
Thank you. It's very much appreciated!
Just use a little sense. If you buddy suddenly beats someone up, there is a chance they pin you as an accomplice.

If you see some old lady get robbed, that's not coming back on you.

Also, if the police don't put you under custody, you don't get Miranda rights and you don't get the right to a lawyer necessarily. You'd have to pay one yourself.
I follow stories through http://www.policemisconduct.net/ which is from the CATO Institute. There are people out there trying to stop this abuse but its an uphill battle against an establishment whose strength might even exceed the Teachers groups
Why Britain created monarchies in the Middle East
Maybe in a perfect environment. They haven't evolved planned death because the chances of surviving longer aren't very high. From an evolutionary perspective death enables: mutations, variety and adaptation. Without it a species will stagnate and become extinct.
> Have you ever "looked under the hood" ?

Actually, I have. I know it's not small, but Firefox' code was quite structured.
There are some examples of how to draw routes, markers etc on maps using google maps API at https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/... and similar. Once you get it working on a webpage it's fairly simple to convert to an app using Phonegap. I made an app that way for finding bars open - kinda works ok. ('late bars london')
Heartbleed wasn't the fault of C... It would have been caught if OpenSSL didn't implement their own allocator by Valgrind and other tools. Seriously, have you ever used valgrind? not a difficult tool to use

What he's (erik) really saying is, if someone hires me to build a skyscraper, and I show up with fatigued and rusty scrap iron.. when the skyscraper fails, I should blame iron, and we should all have a talk about how terrible iron is, and why no one should be using iron. And whenever someone points out that I used rusty scrap, I'll just say, well titanium wouldnt have been rusty! Why arent we all using titanium?
> Buses are the only reasonable answer and much more modular to adjust to changing demands as years go by

The problem with buses is bus routes are too easy to change or eliminate.

To get me to give up my car, a public transportation system needs to have good coverage of where I need to go, when I need to go, and there has to be good reason for me to believe that it will stay this way.

Buses can provide the good coverage, but it is almost impossible to provide the assurance that this will continue. If some route I depended on when I picked where to live has a ridership decline, some bean counter can cut that route, or move it a few blocks over to try to get more riders. I can't easily move my house a few blocks over to match the new route.

For buses to really work, there has to a strong commitment to stability of routes and schedules, so that people can base long term plans on them. I don't think most US cities have the political and financial stability to make that commitment.
‘Lifemapper’ shows where Earth’s organisms live today and might go tomorrow
Seems like DataRobot is building their team directly from Kaggle's leaderboard [1]. Yet another top Kaggle competitor the article doesn't mention who joined DataRobot is Xavier Conort, who was ranked #1 for a very long time.

I'm very curious to see how they go about automating preprocessing and identifying algorithms to use, as I thought this step was part of the hard-to-automate magic that separates your data scientists from data analyst/statistician/etc.?

[1] https://www.kaggle.com/users
A nation cannot productively govern no more than 2 million citizens.

Decentralize World into Cantons as in Switzerland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_switzerland which will create more local jobs in the economy.
Ferguson, MO alderman needs help getting Twitter verified
To Curb Global Poverty Every 3rd World Currency Should Be Pegged To OPEC Oil For 4 Years
Did you even use it?
My guess is that you were swapping. In addition to slowness, this explains how switching to an external hard drive for the files you're compiling would help, since it would reduce contention on a single hard drive.

Next time it happens, check if you're out of memory and using a lot of swap space/virtual memory. If so, you just need more RAM. Also, the best upgrade for any computer these days is an SSD, an HDD being the slowest part of modern computers.
I just want to add how important your browsing choice is. Everytime you visit a site you vote for a browser. Its one of the easiest ways to help keep the web open.
Are "antineoplastons" the only treatment option left for her?
Right, because on a comment thread about google's ever-increasing control over the web/etc, the following are irrelevant:

* A court case about breaching US federal privacy laws

* A court case about Google using it's relationship with device manufacturers to negatively impact a company with a competing service

* An article about how Google tracks mobile users and the disclosure/notification about said tracking, with input from the EFF

* An article about how Google was less than open and transparent about the handling of an employee who spied on/stalked four underage users of Google services

* Several articles about what are basically deceptive practices - paid inclusions, much less identifiable ads compared to organic search results and artificially increasing the search rank of it's own properties when a search mentions a specific competitor

* An article about Google's decision to refuse any interaction with a news agency that posted an article discussing Google in relation to privacy concerns, in which they demonstrate the risks by publishing material about Eric Schmidt that was found via google searches

But no, you are right. None of them are relevant. Remember what I said in another comment about cult-like status? Should I call Rick Ross for you?
> Large FOSS projects often require a whole set of custom tools.

I was about to say that for the two projects I've tried this with, Filezilla and Firefox, it was actually quite reasonable. Especially Firefox, given its size, was surprisingly simply even if compiling took longer than I thought.

But then I read you are on Windows. Yeah, that's hell. I tried a few hours on Filezilla before deciding that it's just too messed up.
Google goes DARPA
Faster Python calls in Cython 0.21
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