skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's weird how the children of those hippies are in a frantic pursuit to turn those ideas back into silo'ed, patented and monetized startups, while still claiming to be open. There lurks a deep incompatibility between the two, but still so far the system is working. Money seems to be one of the things the hippie revolution did not change, and while there is brand new technology for money, we 'll never see a "couchsurfing for money".

In the end, here we are talking about it in the forums of a private startup incubator...
Interesting that his only other comment on that profile was also a reply to a comment of mine.
That's not catchy. That's equating moving from one employer to another with betrayal. It paints the person moving in a supremely negative light, the kind of feeling you normally reserve for those that join the enemy during war time.
Can you please elaborate this model further? Just wanted to know further details about this. Thanks!
Something neither of us has mentioned, that I thought of last night, is early adopter syndrome.

Here are some examples of great projects from masters of their crafts that do not have trendy web design and have been "on the web" for a long time:

http://www.w1ghz.org/

http://www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm

You might like the first link other than operating about six orders of magnitude higher frequencies and solid state instead of hollow state.

The first example doesn't have any CSS or javascript at all! But there is a lot of excellent content on those examples.

The early adopter syndrome is if someone has been doing this stuff since the turn of the century, they're quite likely to continue doing stuff that works. This creates a self selection effect.
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This strongly reminds me of my favorite Derek Sivers post titled 'There is no speed limit'. If you haven't read it please do:

http://sivers.org/kimo
And US West spawned out of Ma' Bell.
Am I the only one whose location data is missing?
That's an easy way to dismiss anything that would change anyone's life anywhere.
Intriguing, but would be nice to see how it actually works. Like a video showcase on the homepage.
That was quick! Thanks!

I didn't know that Moiré pattern could appear on a screen "without" a second grid (or rather, I didn't realize that the pixels of my display could serve as the second grid, which is kind of obvious now that you said it).

New screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/7W9FI :)
Searched for "varicose veins" - 0 results. I guess they have no clue. Please check your genetic predispositions before standing for long periods of time.

Also: "my fiancé was the first to notice that my buns had gotten firmer" - I think this requires an independent third-party check.
Yes, but that's a really simple model; it's to true 3D vision what Wolfenstein 3D was to 3D graphics. The only thing driverless cars need to do is (1) recognize obstacles, and (2) recognize some predetermined objects (traffic lights, ...) and then use predetermined behavior.
Related: Chinese Search Giant Baidu Hires Man Behind the “Google Brain”
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Yes if the percentage of extremists relative to the size of the whole organisation is minuscule (there are 1.7 BILLION muslims). Not to mention the muslim community (if there is such a thing) is much more diverse then the KKK.

This is like saying that because there is a KKK that all white people are racist.
It would be vice versa: developers who use third party tools (outlined in detail in the linked report) would make more money (according to the survey).
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I work at an enterprise software house, where we have two old (20+ year) applications that are making us shit-tons of money despite the spaghetti code that has developed over the years.

We have around 5 developers who have been with use for 10+ years who know everything there is to know about it. It's very buggy of course, and we have a substantial 3-layer support team.

The problem is that, although there is lots of documentation, it gets out-of-date quickly and doesn't actually define the system or how to fix problems. So the 5 experts are needed so that he newbies can have a chance of addressing issues within the SLAs. Without these 5, we are screwed.

If they chose, they could hold us to ransom. they are excellent, professional individuals who wouldn't do this .. but there is a risk.

We COULD have those guys spend 6 months documenting the code, and what it's supposed to do. We COULD get them to set out structured training for new recruits .. .but these 5 are developers not trainers.

Are there any companies that provide expert consultancy for this kind of thing? A company who would come in and tell us how to do this effectively? If there aren't any then I'm totally going to set one up.
I'm sure it's technically possible to scrape Amazon. I'm much less confident that it would be legal.
> I've always believed that APIs on websites are more than just convenience - they're a way for corporations to exert control over the data they give out, sort of like DRM.

Back in the days of Twitter API fiasco (2012/2013) I was playing Mass Effect, and this little gem of wisdom stood out for me as something eerily relevant:

"Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays, our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it."

(context without spoilers for those who haven't played the game: mass relays are devices that allow long-range FTL travel, left behind by a mysterious ancient civilization; every species in the galaxy finds a mass relay at some point, which leads them to discovering other species and becoming a part of galactic community)
Well, that's like "gun's don't kill people, bullets (or holes in vital organs) kill people".

Technically correct, but doesn't really take away from the first thing.
Maybe you've disabled the feature?

https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/3118687?hl=en
The quoted /proc/cpuinfo reports vfpv3 and neon, so it does have an FPU (and it even has the Neon SIMD instructions, which not all SoCs of that era do).

From my perspective the softfloat-vs-hardfloat balance has tipped and I would say that "most Linux software for ARM" is now hardfloat rather than softfloat. But your view on this kind of thing depends a lot on whereabouts in the embedded world you are: if you're at the trailing edge then you'll see a lot more ARMv5 non-FPU devices.
I use Pricenoia to check prices in the different european Amazons, because pretty much all items can be shipped to other countries within Europe. As far as I know camelcamelcamel doesn't do that :(
Yes, it's a repost.
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I seriously don't understand the "I hate Java" meme. My job and hobby languages are all JVM, front-end notwithstanding, but I cannot get a firm grasp on where the hate is coming from. This is about as sensible as me saying "I hate Python" or "I hate Ruby" so I will avoid installing it on my machine. It's just a language and a runtime.

If you don't like writing it or working in it, then sure, we all have opinions on what makes a language good. Not wanting to install a piece of software because it runs applications written in that language just strikes me as a bit silly.

Maybe I just have Stockholm Syndrome after all of these years.
How is the support of C only in QtCreator? I always read C++ on the project page.
Excellent post, but I don't know why you linked to that cheesy video for the Timbuk3 song. The actual "official" music video can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY (http://fixyt.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY).
You mean it /should/ use an order of magnitude less CPU power, but ATM that's not the case - smartwatches seem more like a previous generation of smartphones sized downwards, with a patched OS.
Article explaining: http://gigaom.com/2014/09/08/bill-gross-the-guy-who-invented...
> and in the second case you probably know the API and important functions already (from the previous step) so the auto-complete is not needed anymore.

I don't know about you, but I don't memorize functions/classes when I program. I don't always remember proper capitalization (is it HttpClient or HTTPClient?)
The third-party sources don't specifically need to come from academia or be research articles. Third-party sources can perfectly well be (and often are) practice-oriented and come from industry: books from trade presses, articles in tech magazines, etc. Tons of languages on Wikipedia with well-sourced articles aren't from academia: CoffeeScript, Go, Clojure, TypeScript, Dart, Arc, D, Erlang, Swift, Scala, etc.
The businesses aren't gambling, in that case, they are hedging. The investors are the gamblers.
This is a great write-up.
Hi! I posted a few thoughts on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8284370
Yeah, especially given how that one is apparently a pound in weight. How did they even manage that? Fill it with solid iridium?
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Well, for a smooth user experience in the times you do use them - as the article points out, scrolling is kinda jagged in this device, possibly due to sub-par hardware (or the OS isn't tweaked to the available hardware).
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>communalism and libertarian politics

Aren't these two things completely mutually exclusive?

(NB: Obviously, being able to choose communalism or individualism as you prefer makes the two semi-compatible, but not the aforementioned as a public policy...)
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You can't understand this. It is emotional... ;-)
Some notes on this (from experience):

This is because the non-YouGov polls are quite slow to aggregate data. For example Ipsos Mori is mainly scheduled physical panels and not online (some of it is still paper collection!?!) so any shift in behaviour isn't immediately noticed. It can take a week or so for anything to become apparent.

Opinion changes very rapidly when there are political items on the table. Sometimes within hours. YouGov wins here as it can constantly obtain data almost in a stream-like format and adjust rapidly. They had a thing called BrandIndex that did that a few years ago as well with brand opinions based on advertising and press scraping.

Usually the last minute swings are because there has been a lot of focus on this subject recently in the press which means people are likely to commit to firmer decisions based on research, actually decide to communicate their decisions or are relatively conservative at making decisions.

If you look at how these things are worded, they are always in the form of NO to the status quo and YES to change as well. This means that people less conservative with their opinions will be apparent up front and people more conservative (and usually more intelligent) will lag behind.

The nature of the vote depends on which group goes which way.

Watch these stats over the next few major political events - it's really interesting!
No, not at all. I would argue that one implies the other. Historically, and still to this day in much of Europe, the term "libertarianism" is a synonym for anarchism, i.e., libertarian communism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism
Seems more like a ploy to sell books than peer-reviewed scientific research.

Doesn't this sort of thing happen every few years whenever someone decides to write a new book on the subject?
A lot of early days Java apps built with Swing were slow and ugly. I think that's where a lot of the "java is slow" stories come from.

Of course, Jetbrains' products are a proof that you can use Java to build modern apps that are pretty good.
It's not that accurate then. I'm a YouGov member and keep getting polled on most of their topics most of the time,including scottish independence more than once even though I don't get a vote (which infuriates me, that I don't get a vote on if the people my tax money subsidises get to run off with my hard earned money...).
It's a commonly repeated SNP canard that non-scottish people don't have opinions on it, along with that they would somehow be able to use the pound despite every single political party and the EU saying they can't.
This is perhaps the wrong place to discuss, but reading Noah's piece you just linked seems just a little narrow-minded... Given the struggles I see to recruit and retain contributors (who overwhelmingly $work to 17:30 and take school holidays), I'm left wondering truly how many open source projects (maybe the top 0.00001%?) can really afford to (let alone actively engage in) building their existence around these pathologies.
that's what I wanted to say :)
For the Python users out there, the wonderful itsdangerous (http://pythonhosted.org/itsdangerous/) library offers the ability to generate JSON Web Signature compliant tokens.
>Is it bad that not everyone understands Hegel or Heidegger? Does that make their writings less useful?

No, but programming languages are not like Hegel or Heidegger. They have network effects, and they need a good ecosystem.

It's more like a political/state philosopher (like Plato, Marx etc) or a reform theorist. If he could not get people on his platform he wouldn't have the influence he needed to influence policy, which would be bad for him.
Communism itself is the opposite of individualism; a centrally planned economy doesn't need innovators, it needs Citizen 647,203 to work at his assigned job in Agricultural Collective 63 and not get thoughts above his station lest he be sent to the gulag.

I'm British, and I can tell you libertarianism here does not mean anarchism (or the popular US version of 'libertarianism' either, AKA conservativism with legal cannabis).

Also remember why communistic economies fail - again, it's the lack of drive to innovate. If you have a dull, tedious, mind-numbing job and you get paid (or food stamps or whatever) the same value no matter whether you work hard, innovate, and improve processes or bump along at the bottom doing the bare minimum, people are going to gravitate towards the latter. As such, technological development stagnates, processes never change even when deeply flawed, and bureaucracy becomes entrenched in defending their own jobs.
The script that renders the comic seems to consume an ungodly amount of ram. It ate up close to six GB's of ram on Firefox running on Arch Linux, and forced my X server onto swap.
On Chromium, the comic is navigable, but the page still consumed close to one GB of memory.
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Ok, maybe I should finally buy Kerbal Space Programme
Thankfully thanks to native code resurgence and also Clang's work, it is changing.

IBM had a version of Visual Age for C++ that tried to offer Smalltalk like developer experience, but it used lots of memory back then, and it failed to get enough customers.

There was also another company selling a similar product, that used to sell Lisp Machine software, but I don't recall the name any longer.

C++ Builder is also quite good, but thanks to Borland/Inprise/Embarcadero mismanagement gets ignored outside big enterprise projects.

Currently QtCreator refactoring seems to be quite limited still.
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As someone who helped convert #1110 (Click and drag) into one of the (subjectively) better zooming implementations (http://dump.ventero.de/xkcd1110/), I immediately wondered whether Pixels would benefit from Seadragon as well. Then I noticed that it's infinite and I wasn't quite sure anymore whether a DZI could do that properly. Perhaps by generating a sparse DZI on the fly in the browser. But that way probably lies madness, too. Also anti-aliasing would have to be turned off beyond 100 % zoom of individual images, which I'm not sure is trivial to hack in there.

Still, I think from a UX perspective the slightly springy behaviour of Seadragon is much nicer than the algorithmic rigidity of things like Leaflet or Google Maps.
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link to original article HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8283583
I think it's because I have "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" Firefox feature disabled.
One man's "strawmen" are another man's real issues. If you disagree with someone on what the problems are, all he says would look like strawmen.

That doesn't warrant a "douchebag" stamp.

Plus I don't think the word "douchebag" or "douchey" os appropriate for a discussion among people that are not 17-year olds, 20-yo tops. There are far better adult swear words available if needs be.
Some discussion around this topic previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8080442
Link to previous discussion of this topic (pre New Republic): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8080442
Why so many people hate Java ?
Let's start with the fact that it installs an auto-update system that tries everthing it can to trick you into installing adware (ask-bar).
Brilliant. Thanks in advance.
> for example, to know that "he went through the door" means that "he's not in the room any more"

> sure, the computer is able to recognize a bottle on a table, but doesn't have an internal representation of the 3D world that would tell him that glass bottle ... should be handled carefully (as it can break, as opposed to e.g. a ball)

To be fair, these are also true of human beings in the early stages of their development (object persistence; the cry of "oh dear" that every parent of a toddler comes to dread).
> And as much as I like Nimrod, I feel there also a bit of language-fatigue in the community. There are so many new-(ish) platforms and languages ...

Welcome to the 80-90's, before the likes of C, C++, C# and Java kind of wiped the others out of most corporations radars.

I like being brought back into those days.
> The story goes that [the shawl] came from the murder scene of the Ripper's fourth victim, Catherine Eddowes, on September 30, 1888.

With a provenance like that, the mystery is solved beyond all reasonable doubt.
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> A lot of early days Java apps built with Swing were slow and ugly.

Specially because most developers couldn't bother to write proper Swing code, or reading blogs like "Filthy rich clients".
I wonder why they took GDB instead of LLDB, which was designed specifically to be nicely integratable with IDEs.

other than that, CMake is ok for a start, but some kind of support for good-old makefiles will still be needed. most of the projects won't be bothered to switch to CMake just to be compatible with IDE
I would put very big money on smart watches not failing.

What we're seeing now is something we see often in newish technologies - we take an existing technology and attempt to shoehorn it into another.

A smartwatch should not be an analog to a phone. It also probably shouldn't be a watch. But as happens so often, we say "put phone plus watch = product?"

There's very little here that's exploiting the advantages of a wearable on the arm. When wearables start exploiting their physical advantages, they'll stop being cool tech toys and start being useful.
So I have studied this stuff a great deal, and I am a convert (for full disclosure).

Beyond your biased opinion, I would love to see examples specific to Islam (which is casting quite a wide net; I am fairly controversail in arguing that Islam is not a uniform religion and no "Muslim" culture, notice I did not say Islamic, is not the same, not even during the Crusades).

I would say more accurately, as I have seen in my childhood and young adulthood in the US, that all science and knowledge-building is co-opted for political purposes, and religion is one of them, and perhaps the most common and obvious. This true of any socio-political movement, religion or not.

See global warming, abortion, stem-cell research, gay marriage. Frequently a vocal minority of US society (which is, if you want to go with your unified bloc mindset, a Christian majoirty country) says that facts conflict with what they devine from God's message, and it is wrong, regardless of scientific endeavor involved. Does that mean all American culture, and all Western culture denies scientific progress because God says so? Of course not. They are minority groups of, in my biased opinion, idiots who drag society, all of it, down.

I point this out because I, in my short life, have seen people paint Islam with a brush that is really a reflection of the elements of their own society they are oblivious to. And this is not a comment about you in particular, but all people. It is trend. So I say, rhetorically, look in the mirror. Islam is foreign to you and these kinds of observations, sadly, are you seeing yourself in high contrast because of the foreigness in your face. Sorry.
Just because you don't get a vote doesn't mean they bundle you in with the voting statistics. That and public opinion are separate.
I wonder if Russia would let him go if Switzerland did really grant him an Asylum.
>It's just that not every programmer has the intellectual capability to understand, master and use Lisp. That's a fact. I've seen that myself countless times at university in beginner's courses. Also many programmers don't need the features Lisp offers and are happy with other approaches. For them Lisp is too complex, too flexible, etc.

Besides elitist (which I wouldn't mind, if it was also true), this is quite false.

In fact I've seen more bragging and preaching than real world output that people care for from most Lisp advocates.

And even most of the things they are so proud of for building (with the exception of Emacs, which is also based on C), people have built in other languages and with more popular and full featured results.

>Lots of people can learn some basic Lisp or simple Lisp dialects. But once they use actual features of Lisp, which allows every user to radically change the language, the things get tough... in the industry stuff like that is not liked. They want tools and developers which are more predictable.

That's cowboy coder mentality stuff.

And in 2014, the ability to "radically change the language" is not that impressive. It merely boils down to: "Hey, my additions have the same syntax as native stuff and I can do meta-programming too". Sure, but first you have constrained yourself to a very specific syntax, so it's all a wash.
Well, I'm a heavy IDE user. On Linux I was on KDevelop (and now Qt Creator looks nice as well), on Windows mostly MSVC. I can't imagine working productively in vim and similar environments. But I still find Java based software/IDEs to be significantly slower and bloatware.
Yes that is their standard answer.

When it happens and Gradle gets fixed, then I can finally ditch Eclipse for my Android hobby development (mostly NDK based).
Nothing like a good tie-in to sell your product. Might just be genius. There's a growth hack right there.