skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sencha has a TreeGrid

http://dev.sencha.com/ext/5.0.1/examples/tree/buffer-rendere...
On the other hand, thanks to people like John Tukey, technical folks can now spare the suit and still be taken seriously. The price he paid may have been worth the benefit we now have.
The article ends by admitting the possible influence of testosterone on behavior, which could actually mean that Ben's performance was significantly different than Barbara's. For what its worth, there's a reason folks change gender, and it involves behavior and biology. If they didn't change, there'd be no point to it. Behavior and biology are very significant factors in how you appear and are perceived.

So we can say 'of course its gender bias' but how is that actionable without knowing what part of that bias is due to what? Is it behavior, culture, aggressiveness, what?
I've got a full time job, and I've done startups - both are obviously valuable. A friend of mine approached me recently with the idea of doing a startup - but he didn't have any ideas. He wanted to do consulting in his chosen space to find that idea.

My problem with this is that, in my mind, it doubles the risk - you have go into consulting (which is not risk free), then hope you find an idea. There is then additional risk of starting the company and finding out if the idea is a scalable product - I've had it happen twice that we thought we had a product, but it turned out we had a product that required so much consulting to launch we were essentially a consulting company.
Those that assert 'Comic Sans is objectionable' are arguable the ones refusing to acknowledge how subjective it is, right?

Clearly its understood that aesthetics are based on associations. I'm here to assert: a significant fraction of the population (non-designers?) have no associations one way or the other.
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Looks like Blue Apron is doing much better with the same idea in the USA - according to CrunchBase they raised $50M in round C several months ago (http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blue-apron).
I cannot believe this is happening - that is truly insane.
I guess an app like this would be better off, if it didn't use the FB servers at all.
Consulting isn't all that risky depending. I never made as much money as when I was part of a consulting partnership. But the work was less glamorous/interesting. Mostly solving legacy system problems (where by definition companies might have lost their expertise and have to call in an outsider).

At least a startup is always new and fresh, at least with a good product. That's why I gave up on consulting (that and the other partners had a falling-out) and have been in startups every since.
Near the end, they talk about how police can use psychological pressure to keep someone at the side of the road, not telling them they can leave any time the initial traffic stop is over. They then make 'productive' use of that time.

Why you should never talk to police: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I can confirm that it works in Chrome. (I tried with a Korra episode. It started playing almost instantly, with a few image glitches here and there.)
It becomes more complicated as they then act on those predictions. Thus mucking up said predictions. And by doing so requires new predictions (expensive guesses).

(I just watched DaysOfFuturePast)
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Still you get paid the whole time. You meet risk-takers. I've gotten almost every job for 20 years from connections I made at my first startup.
Oh, fully agreed. I think my main point was that OO in a language such as OCaml has very little to do with OO in a language such as Scala (or Java). I'm agreeing with the OP that the marriage of OO and FP in Scala is problematic.

Yes, we can use less currently mainstream (note: not less correct) definitions of OO, but that doesn't help the Scala=OO+FP position.
try again, resized the machine, too many users
The United Shakedowns of America.
i can just take the react lib to host it on my own
Yeah... having had to implement a couple of workarounds, I can't say I disagree with you. Which is a shame because I think it's a library with great potential and awesome features, but right now needs fixing and polishing rather than new features.

Any plans for developing Sensei Grid past what your use case requires? I hear all the cool kids get to paste cell ranges into their grid plugins :)
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How do you know that book is "fantastic and totally worth the price" if you hadn't known about it before? Have you purchased and read it in the day between reading the article and writing your comment?
That's a lot of different things. Perhaps you could focus on one and try again.

If I was doing forensic analysis on a server under such circumstances I would have made note and reference to that as well.

The footnote is not forensic, and not evidence, and there's no good reason for it to be there. I doubt you are a forensic investigator so it isn't relevant what you think you would have done, but if you were a good one I suspect you would have kept packet logs of everything you saw.
Link-baity headline: nothing from the HP books is being used, the HP books are being used as an example of successful i18n.

One could remove HP entirely from these and have a shorter, more focused presentation with no dashed/violated expectations.
He was carrying $75,000 raised from relatives to buy a Chinese restaurant...

They took $18,000 that he said was meant to buy a used car.

...was stunned when police took $17,550 from him during a stop in 2012 for a minor traffic infraction...

The deputy found $75,195 in a suitcase in the back seat...

They were carrying $28,500 in church funds meant for the purchase of land...

No doubt there's injustice that needs to be addressed, but it's tough to have much sympathy for idiots. There's simply no logical reason to travel with that much cash. These people should feel lucky that the police, and not someone else, took their money.
> I think the structural sharing is the definition of persistent data structures, as distinct from immutable data structures in general.

Oh, yes, you are very much correct. I just wanted to highlight that is itself a feature of Clojure's behavior.
Because the penalty for that speed is higher fuel burn. That's why Boeing is having trouble selling the 747-8, and why four-engine airliners in general are getting phased out.

My source for the wing sweep thing is also Joe Sutter, in his wonderful book. Also highly recommend Widebody, by Clive Irving, which is sadly out of print.
Insights in the post are incredible. Even though the details make the Indie way look a bit risky, the adventure part seems quite tempting. Wish you best of luck and thank you for sharing :)
> But before going the Xamarin road I would look more into QT.

Which is also commercial, unless you plan to release an open source app.
Don't take the criticism and questioning too hard. The comments on this forum is from people you barely know and vice versa.

By the way,

> The contract was presented to me on paper and in Portuguese

... given what the company does, I might have taken it as a joke.
As someone who has read up on typography specifically to pick better fonts for the worksheets I give to my students (teaching English in a foreign country), Comic Sans is actually a very good font to use. As a handwritten style font, it was designed specifically for legibility. The characters and easy to distinguish and it's actually a good font choice for dyslexic people.

Since the topic of the presentation is in the field of education, I think that Comic Sans (and other similar readable fonts - Comic Neue, Open Dyslexic) is a very appropriate choice. It shows that the presenter is cognizant of getting information across efficiently. And for all those detractors, I'd like to ask them, "Do you ever use Comic Sans (or similar fonts) in your classes? If not, why not?"
This is sort of related. A couple weeks back I wrote some Salt States to install mailpile. My long term plan was to use mailpile as a web client.

http://russell.ballestrini.net/mailpile-salt-states-for-ubun...
In what concerns GNUStep, has it improved the situation of a partially supported NeXTStep and Cocoa around 10.4?
'“9/11 caused a lot of officers to realize they should be out there looking for those kind of people,” said David Frye, a part-time Nebraska county deputy sheriff who serves as chief instructor at Desert Snow and was operations director of Black Asphalt. “When money is taken from an organization, it hurts them more than when they lose the drugs.”'

Wait, what? I was unaware that 9/11 was perpetrated by drug traffickers.
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Awesome, thanks for the explanation!

I think I understand the appeal of structural typing: you are defining implicit anonymous interfaces as you write objects, and automatically grouping objects that share structure. But in which case is this more useful than, say, defining type classes or using explicit interfaces in mainstream OO languages? Or is it a case of preferences?

I can see a difference with objects: in most mainstream OO languages you cannot retrofit an object to comply with the interface you want if you don't control the source code and the object only differs from what you need on a triviality such as naming. But what about type classes? Isn't this what they are there for?
Interesting article but only made 1/2 through because the WP mobile site is so horrendous.
> Companies are looking for cheaper options so .Net isn't exactly on fire.

I work with Fortune 500 companies that have 100% Microsoft stacks.

MSDN yearly licenses are a drop in the ocean in these companies.
I was told a story about a focus group of women who had to judge a bunch of shawls. Almost every one of them said they preferred the colourful shawls with bold patterns. After they were done each of them got to pick a shawl to take home as a thank you, and they all picked the plain-coloured ones.
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What's a good adsense CTR? I googled and there's a lack of information on this subject. What's your CTR?

As an example, my niche blog with 2 ads per page gets 1.3% CTR.
Yeah and basically 99% of the invite spam originates from games... if there'd be a way for users to disable ALL fucking invites I'd be happy.
The problem with comic sans is the associations it has, not the font itself.

Comic sans is the preferred font of passive-aggressive clip-art smattered notes that use "quotes" for "emphasis" to explain that men of the dorm "must" rinse their shavings down the drain or that this is America and we speak "English".
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“Those laws were meant to take a guy out for selling $1 million in cocaine or who was trying to launder large amounts of money,” said Mark Overton, the police chief in Bal Harbour, Fla., who once oversaw a federal drug task force in South Florida. “It was never meant for a street cop to take a few thousand dollars from a driver by the side of the road.”

I love watching how systems of people operate. Fascinating stuff.

Over and over, what I see in U.S. history is somebody who has a real problem that needs solved -- perhaps a gnat is flying around the house. The problem looks really sexy on TV. Politicians can thump the table and get lots of votes.

Then these politicians get elected and suddenly we're building industrial flame-throwers to get rid of gnats. "But it's only for the gnats!" they say. And it is -- for about 20 years. Then it slowly becomes a tool like any other.

Part 3 of this story is the most interesting. It's where the rest of us figure out how we've gotten screwed and start clamoring to have something done about it. But nothing happens.

Democracy's bug? That every generation feels like it is special, and that the problems it is having are special. So they "have" to start heavily mucking around with the system. Most every time, these fixes work -- until they don't. Then we're stuck with them forever.

I don't have an answer here, just venting.
Obama Names Megan Smith as Chief Technology Officer of the U.S
Why must this require google login at all? It should not be mandatory. . .
Now that's a Kin-Dza-Dza grade police force.
So Many Platforms, So Few Developers
I feel the same way, because I really liked Handsontable.

Sensei Grid will be kept simple, but additional functionality will be provided through plugins. I don't want to flood the core grid with functionality that would lead to complexity. However smart pasting is something I would consider including in the core.

Btw I just updated README.me file and added goals, blog posts and other info related to Sensei Grid - https://github.com/datazenit/sensei-grid/blob/master/README....
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Seems like the 9/11 rhetoric is slowly but surely transforming into the war on drugs rhetoric. "We passed laws for terrorists...no terrorists, so I guess we should use them on drug dealers then!"

Actually, many of the "anti-terror" laws have included in them drug crimes, too, and that's what the vast majority of National Security Letters are used for, too.
I'm half American but have grown up and have been living in German speaking cultures all my life.

I have found that people here simply respond well to a little bit of formal language, so it's not surprising the author would habitually use it. People tend to take it as an implicit promise that you know what you're doing.

You can usually get away with a little semantic trickery though; of course we do market research, we're a serious business after all. It's just that in the startup context, the best way of doing this is trying stuff and actually observing behavior.

When called on the bluff, invent a qualifier: Oh of course market research works differently in the startup context; we call it "highly iterative" market research. (Schnelliterationsmarktforschung).
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Qt has been available under the LGPL for several years now.
I know that warpech and his team (the author of handsontable) offer commercial support for handsontable. Have you tried reaching out to them and asking to get specific bugs fixed? I'm only suggesting it because you mentioned gittip as a way to push open source dev. forward on your blog entry.
Make sure facebook is not blocked. Same problem for me since i am running self control.
So you're building an Emacs-like editor on an Elisp-like language. What are you hoping to do differently than Emacs?

(Not being snarky, languages and text editors are both interesting projects and worth experimenting with, and combining the two is especially interesting to me.)
Just deployed a new script runner backed by sandbox-exec! Thanks again for the tip!
> The contract was presented to me on paper and in Portuguese, 7 pages in total. The only thing I understood was the caption, 'Contrato de Trabalho'. At the time no one said anything about being able to break the contract without reasonable cause before 3 months had passed.

This is pretty appalling. I don't think the burden is on the offerer to explain the contract in full to you. I feel bad for you, but you kind of shot yourself in the foot on that one.
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I'm pretty sure rock died in the 80s. If anything file sharing will help revive it.
Did you find any ideas while consulting that you could use in spinning up a startup? I agree with you about consulting.
> I for instance can't recognize comic sans or any other font than Courier by sight. So for me it carries no insult.

While you might not be able to recognize the exact font used, (What's the difference between Arial and Calibri?) you can still look at the general category of font. Times New Roman and other serifed fonts have a connotation of formal writing - the New York Times is written in a serifed font. Courier New, for me, has a connotation of formal military orders (Don't ask me why they write it in that font. I assume it's to be consistent with the 1920s) Even if you can't name the exact font, you still get connotations associated with it. For many programmers, seeing Courier New in a block of text implies code. I'm sure that the reason for doing it originally was probably arbitrary, but it's the established manner of doing things, just like wearing a strip of silk or nylon around your neck is considered more formal than just the collared shirt.

Comic Sans is a font that is used to convey informality. It's something that you would use, as one of the Stack Exchange answers cites, as a daycare sign or a pamphlet targeted at children. It's a tool for the job that it's designed for. And while you can use any text to present information, (Any tool becomes a hammer if you try hard enough) it's not the proper tool for presenting formal findings or writing a newspaper. And that's okay - there are plenty of other fonts with the desired level of formality.

Of course, you're probably aware of all this, and your response is probably "Well, the rules are pretty stupid. People are taking academic presentations and scientific results less seriously because the font is funny." There's something to this argument, but the fact is that we all make judgments based on past experience, and adherence to social rules is one of the things we judge. If established rules state that you dress nicely to an interview, we negatively judge someone who shows up in a ripped T-shirt and jeans. We might be wrong about such a candidate - he might be the greatest worker alive - but more than likely, his cluelessness (or hostility) regarding the social rules of an interview says something negative about him.
While dojo once held a special place in my heart, it's not what it used to be and I think a lot of people have now moved away from it. I think the dojo dependency will be seen as a drawback by many.

Personally I spent ages waiting for WaveMaker to move to 1.7 and start using dgrid. Before I gave up on WaveMaker and dojo toolkit in favour of other technologies.
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This is actually so I can send you to a more appropriate Amazon (UK or US) because Amazon doesn't handle this themselves.

I built a script that uses your timezone to guess if you're near the UK and forwards you accordingly (this was prior to this chart existing). I linked the CB chart to it to avoid reproducing the same functionality.

I can possibly do this in a different way, but since it doesn't cost you anything ending up on Amazon I didn't really think anyone would be upset by it. I just did what was easiest and most useful.
You can use peerflix[1] for that, eg:

peerflix "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:44052304ac07aa461b4828c63c52a44f34df2ce7&dn=FIFA.World.Cup.2014.Group.B.Spain.vs.Netherlands.720p.HDTV.x264-&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337"

And then watch at http://localhost:8888 with your favorite player.

[1] https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix
Thanks for the tips! I'd love to move to LXC should an appropriate/feasible compiling solution become available :)
The day when the entire arXiv is re-typeset in Comic Sans cannot come soon enough. Rebels like Peyton-Jones are truly fighting the good fight.
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Another option that I'm currently using for a prototype at work is Java (or any JVM language) via RoboVM http://www.robovm.org - it works similar to Xamarin so it compiles Java bytecode to LLVM to a native binary. The advantage over Xamarin is, that it uses the Apache 2 license so doesn't require hefty license fees or a subscription and you are independent. RoboVM will be released in the next couple of month in version 1.0 and it works very very well.

My current prototype uses Java for all the backend / business logic (data base communication, file access, network access, threading etc.) and it communicates via a JavaScript bridge to a WebView UI layer for which I have targets for iOS (RoboVM), desktop (JavaFX), HTTP server (Jetty) and later possibly Android. All from a single Java code base which shares large amounts of code between the platforms.
And the likelihood of that integration is unlikely. Just because WebRTC operates over TCP does not mean it acts anything like a proper TCP socket. There is an unbelievable amount of overhead involved, not to mention how reliant most modern torrent work can be on UDP nowadays. It simply can't scale, it might be good enough, but it can't scale. In-client WebRTC 'support' would nearly mean an entirely different stack, built on WebRTC's clunky non-standards and take years of proper testing. Why go through the effort? And hell, torrent clients are bloated enough already.

And let's not even get started on the comparable differences in security (personal or code-wise) when running this all through Javascript training wheels, then through the browsers' secret optimization sauce, browser/plugin fracturing, then through the gamut of ads, fingerprinting, cookie drops, and who knows what else kind of tracking can be slipped in from here forward... Let's call it what it is; a cool, non-commercial, in-browser p2p file sharing protocol, not BitTorrent.
I've only ever encountered pre-tests on Udacity. For what it's worth, my experience of them was entirely negative.

That said, I've encountered several variations on the theme that lead me to believe there is a wider "thing" in education about activation and reinforcement.
I love how many people at HN have to preface anything that they say about their usage of Windows with a disclaimer, such as "When I was forced to use Windows..." or "Back when I used Windows..." or "Whenever I have to use Windows..."

It's as if, if they don't hide this perceived weakness, the alpha-nerds will eat them!
Seems to me that the real/only reason for SPJ not to use Comic Sans is that using it distracts people (in general, since he notes that he gets lots of comments about it, I'm not personally distracted by it) from what he's saying.

So it might make sense to use a font that goes pretty much unnoticed, to put the focus on the content of the talk. Then again, maybe he is thinking more along the lines of "if my font choice is the most important thing to you, feel free to leave/not watch this talk."

I feel like, if I were advocating something (FP, Haskell, new ways of teaching computer science, or whatever), I would want to do everything I could to keep the discussion on-topic.
But that defeats the purpose of a privacy address. The idea is precisely not to use your address as a way to track individual users, like a cookie tattooed on your skin. I fail to see how a hash of the MAC address is better than the MAC address itself.
What do you use instead of dojo now?