skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. OK, you have prima facia case that some problems won't be problems anymore. But the problems you mention are mostly nice-to-haves and not must-haves. For example, I can do static analysis manually or when it's safe (pre-commit, during saves).

> If we were talking about any other coding problem and I suggested you keep all your data in a complicated text serialisation spread across several hundred text files...

Except developing code in a team of size greater than one is a distributed computation problem. Distributed persistence mechanisms are basically a bunch of files spread across a system. And they deal with some of the same problems (availability, versioning, reconciliation, replication, etc.). Speaking of which, these are problems are typically solved through tools (git, etc.) that presume textual languages.

3. To be more concrete:

Q: How do I post code samples to sites like StackOverflow?

Q: How do I create patches from and apply patches to my codebase?

Q: Does git (or some other offline editing mode) work?

...some of the answers may include statements like, "Well, wiring and metadata is all XML (or something) under the hood, so use your existing merge tools." In that case, we're dealing with two things: a language and a configuration spec. We're not really talking about a system that's friendly to coders after all.

...again, these are technically solvable problems. I just think people are vastly underestimating the level of effort needed to get to feature parity with the current way of doing things.

The best way to prove me too skeptical is to develop a decent-sized project across a decent-sized team, which is something non-text development tools (including Excel and Photoshop) haven't been particularly good at. My bet is that this won't happen and that at best Eve will be a successful enterprise tool for domain-specific problems that can be tackled by small teams (again, like Excel, Photoshop, LabView, etc.).

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Adobe is a successful company.
> But although I got treatment, I quit at around the age when, according to large epidemiological studies, most people who have diagnosable addiction problems do so—without treatment.

Looks like he's not claiming that no-treatment was his particular path.
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The author's a woman, FYI.
It's a product for handling background jobs, typically generated from web applications. It's similar in function to resque, delayed job, etc. Rails is bringing native background job support to Rails 4.2 in the form of Active Job[1], so these background job runners will become even more popular I imagine. Sidekiq itself provides a service/daemon (well, the processing part of it), it does not provide the ability to implement your own service/daemon.

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They don't run those, they generally contract them out to Sodexo or similar company. The only reason they are there is because students spend money on them. You should have more of a problem with student free spending ways than with the universities just providing for their habits.
How much of that is due to the (relatively token but non-zero) membership cost? I subscribed there years ago because I enjoyed the conversations and found it to have a good signal-to-noise ratio.

Granted, this is subjective to some degree as what I consider "noise" might be considered "signal" by others. I think that it worked because their intention was to make the sort of community that they wanted whereas Reddit seems more interested in making a platform for everyone.

I can see the use for each approach and I still find it one of the best things about internet communities in general. If you want something different, it's relatively easy to take a shot at making something more to your liking.

I just think that same $10 or whatever that it costs to join the SA forums and motivates most members to avoid shitposting would also present a barrier to the sort of broad, mass appeal Reddit is shooting for.
I have high hopes for this area. There are a huge amount of ad-hoc problems that are today solved most easily by throwing together an Excel file, even for a very competent programmer. There is currently no faster way to manipulate and do small scale programming on data. For decision analysis and modeling, you go straight from excel to a full-blown program, without any other compelling options.

A product with some interesting ideas in this area is Calca: http://calca.io/
I take issue with the headline, and I didn't see any support for it in the article -- that people simply grow out of addiction. Treatment or not, we can call that process of reducing one's addictive behaviors growth, but I don't think you can find any addicts -- former or otherwise -- their families, or addiction treatment specialists, who would call that process simple.
> There'll be a lecture twice a week (four "semester hours", 2 times 2 * 45 minutes) and a two semester hour exercise session. The lecture will be held by a professor [1]; the exercise session for undergraduate courses will generally be conducted by a TA in smaller groups.

That sounds like an average course that I've taken at my university here in Norway.
I joined and posted something and a few things jumped out: no place for a link to the project (if there's a home for it) and no way to edit or update posts. Weird.
If you are referring to the cosmological constant, not really: You still need rest of physical laws & constants for life to exist. Changes in the others could compensate for changes in the cosmological constant (for instance, strength of gravity).
> there's not much general ed to speak of

If by 'general ed' you are referring to optional classes that are not necessarily related to your core subject or electives, I would like to say that you have very much the option (and in most reformed Bachelor-type programs it's a requirement) to take such classes and choose among many types of seminars ranging from communication and negotiation coaching to optional language classes.

Also note that in contrary to (or so I think) most for-profit US universities which impose a rigorous bookkeeping on credits taken vs. tution fees, students at German public universities can -- on their own initiative, by asking the professors or offices directly -- easily listen in to or take exams in random classes, even from other departments. If the professor agrees, they'll get a singed certificate with a grade which they can use for credit in their electives. I on one occasion took a Psychology as well as Economics classes, and had no problems in turning these into useful credits.

> You don't get what you don't pay for

German universities work for people who can act on their own initiative, they enable people to progress. Guidance is optional and provided on request/on intervention. I'm thankful for that by not charging as a for-profit institution, our universities don't need to cater to their clients as (service) staff.
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Interestingly it looks like the "sways" do a lot of their layout calculations on the server. Resizing the window triggers a call back that returns what looks like a bunch of styling information (this div goes here, with this Z index, etc.) which would ordinarily be left to the browser.

Perhaps this allows them achieve more than they could with the browser's layout engine? Certainly an interesting approach.

(edit: wording)
How have they rigged this page so that keyboard scrolling doesn't work? And why would anyone do so?
Found it sluggish even in Safari 7.1 (OS X 10.9.5)
Please don't bring LSD into the mix.

Damage by cocain and heroin are well known to the our medicine, while LSD is NOT. There is still an huge grey/dark area when it comes to damage caused by entheogens such as LSD. All we have is little bits of data, some little experiment here or there.

No, I'm not saying LSD is fun nor safe, but the propaganda out there about it is pure bs.
I was hoping to be able to find them in digital form to peruse. I may have but I do not have the credentials to read them. If you are a student you might try http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou02498
Thematically related: http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/01/tiny-brontes
The messaging looks pretty good!

What's your sales and marketing plan? Direct sales?
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In the video it wasn't "a button to share some link" but it was a feature to search the social media and embed content in your "document".

And even if it supports simple sharing, I don't see why this would be "totally uninteresting [there]".
It would probably be more convenient than uploading a powerpoint file somewhere or creating a separate website.

/edit: OK, there are two different mentionings of social media in the video. The first is about embedding content of social media and the second is about sharing the content you created.
The "+" icon in the upper left corner throws an error when you are not logged in:

{"success":false,"error":{"code":1,"message":"You are not logged in."}}

For some reason I doubt this is by design.

Also, when you upload a pic for the "screenshot", there is no confirmation after the progress bar disappears. No thumbnail, no "Ok, pic uploaded!". Nothing.

Another note: no place to put hyperlinks when you create a post?!

And I cannot edit my post afterword (to add a hyperlink in the description).
I took this as a challenge. I wasn't entirely confident with my understanding, so I created a fully realized version in C# available here: https://github.com/bmurphy1976/transducers-dotnet
They also managed to break mouse click, double-click, and drag-select.
> My last day is next Friday.

This is surely not the best thread to ask, but what are you doing next?
When you say Python, do you mean in terms of web development?
I couldn't find any mention of Mozilla or Firefox for that matter in the message thread. Is this just speculation about who the "vendor" is, or is there something I am missing ?
Yep, seeing this too across multiple machines!
I can't figure out how they think they're going to verify that "Sister Roma" is really being used by Sister Roma.

Also, this combination of sentences makes no sense: "Part of what’s been so difficult about this conversation is that we support both of these individuals, and so many others affected by this, completely and utterly in how they use Facebook.
[...] First, it’s part of what made Facebook special in the first place, by differentiating the service from the rest of the internet where pseudonymity, anonymity, or often random names were the social norm."

So they utterly, completely support pseudonyms, except when they're pseudonymous, anonymous, or random?
Yet still, Amazon is the only one with spot pricing. Nothing else comes close in on-demand cost to the ~$0.14 for an hour on a c3.4xlarge (16 vCPU, 30GiB RAM, 2x160GB SSD).
Dude ,
You are in MS. People kill for that job and you want out ?
Would also be great if it refreshes automatically. Over time I am sure you can also create an algorithm to predict the fluctuations in surge pricing. For example, you can get my address and then tell me how likely is it for surge pricing to die down based on historical data and predictions.
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He didn't say that 4 years of university was a prerequisite to being a "free thinker", but I think it's probably useful. You get to live and work with fellow students who hail from sorts of backgrounds and have different goals and aspirations from you. Most universities offer classes in a wide range of subject areas, and many even require you to take classes outside of your specialization. There's a high concentration of intellectuals to interact with. And you get a lot of time to think about life, the universe, and everything.

There are certainly substitutes for all of those things outside university (albeit scattered about), and it's questionable whether a full four years if needed. But, all else equal, I think the liberal arts education is conducive to "free thought", if not necessarily economic earning power.
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I don't think "simple" here means they do it easily, but rather that they do it on their own.
More or less, you start with a quantum chemical DFT calculation, the Raman frequencies are associated with the vibrations of the molecule (second derivatives of the energy, once you're at the relaxed potential energy state). Raman frequencies are shifts (Stokes and anti-Stokes) relative to the laser frequency.

For medium sized molecule, a hybrid DFT calculation (which scales in computational time with N_eletrons^3 ) would cost a few CPU days of time, giving pretty accurate frequencies (there are known correction factors of ~0.95x to compensate for systematic failings in the theories).
What we are very bad at is predicting the Raman intensity from theory.
But you get the frequencies in the correct order, and can use this to assign observed peaks to particular vibrations within the molecule.

http://www.gaussian.com/g_tech/g_ur/k_freq.htm
Cool project. Would it be difficult to expand to NYC or other cities?
This link seems to be dead. Also keep in mind that you will have to file this in the state (territory) where the business is based. The above link is for Queensland. Have a look here for more info:

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I was hoping the same thing :(
Well, "war crime" is actually quite hard to apply to actions of the US, because they refuse to recognize the authority of the International Criminal Court in the Hague who decides whether these conventions were violated or not.
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I still hold the opinion that good typography and simple layout beats semi-interactive animated pages made up of static content (ie: graphs with real time update).
Google uses KVM instead of Xen. Google also has live migration which makes certain kinds of maintenance non-disruptive.
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As a sober addict I really can't comprehend the "flavor" of addiction the author describes. Most of my addict friends and acquaintances either worked at sobriety or died from using. Actually most died.
If someone can just stop, most would simply say the person wasn't actually an addict.
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Direct sales is really tough, but here's the plan:

1.) Seed to about 10-15 businesses I know personally - these guys have been using it for about a month in private beta and giving feedback.

2.) I'm a frequent guest on several ecommerce podcasts and blogs - going to use the opportunity to speak about the difficulties of wholesale for small brands, with a small link to OrderCircle at the end.

3.) Building integrations to Shopify and Bigcommerce, which should help us get listed in their app stores and drive traffic.

Open to any other suggestions!
I have to agree. If I don't know where my money is going, I simply can't countenance giving money to a nonprofit (or a company for that matter). I don't know what their selection process is. The one nonprofit they show on their site, Shelterbox, I've seen in action in the Philippines and I have a lot of issues with how they run their operation and the efficacy of their solution.

I've actually looked into that model. You wouldn't have to have partnerships with nonprofits, you can just mail them checks (they are already set up to receive donations and you don't need permission to donate!)

The wrinkle with that concept is with pass-through donations, the donor can't claim a tax exemption unless the pass-through entity is also classified as such. The way around it is to set up a clearinghouse with a bank that authorizes the pass-through entity to write checks on behalf of members. Then when you donate your $1 a day, it goes into your bank account, and checks are written from there every month to the charities of your choice. Then you have to figure out pricing and transaction fees with the extra overhead you're introducing across sending payments to multiple nonprofits.

Maybe it's not a big deal with $1 a day, but if you want to scale to supporting bigger recurring donations people are going to want a tax exemption.

It's a good start but I think it needs to be thought out more to become a viable product.
Could be swapping in and out of ram to disk? That makes a lot of noise (from experience).
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So he was an impresario before he was a poet. Unless, I suppose, there are even earlier books of verse.
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I just thought it seemed a bit arbitrary to link the existence of life on that seemingly-unrelated constant.

I'm aware of all the rest of the "fine-tuning" (please mind the quotes, yadda-yadda).
I like how the first comment on the blog is:

"Face it: You are simply trying to defend your CDN business as it is being bypassed by direct connections between content providers and last mile ISPs."

Its clearly a telecom employee that wrote that or someone who is ignorant. If they weren't, they'd realize https://www.netflix.com/openconnect was Netflix offering to do that for free.

Netflix is paying to get the data from their datacenters to the LEC regardless.
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"Functional programming in general tends to be better in terms of cache locality"

I've seen no evidence to support the "in general" part of this claim. I will agree that pointer chasing kills cache locality and that in some object systems dereferences have a bad impact on this. But in many functional systems you encounter the same problem with cache locality due to the nature of immutable data structures.
There was a Nokia, and they're practically all Windows phones, no?
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NPR covered this the other day:

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/28/352290040/finding-depression-i...

I thought about posting it to HN, but it says nothing about the actual test, other than that it might not work.
That's awesome.

Also, we should clearly file a class action suit for breach of contract the next time HN goes down. Would be tough to show damages though. My productivity would probably go up.
True. Even shells that are written with security in mind are bound to have some similar bugs, though perhaps not as easy to discover or exploit. I think the bash bugs have exposed some general flaws in the way we continue to trust input both from the internet and between processes in general.
Take a look at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.113.... . Object databases, XML databases and network databases were around long before relational databases. The key problem the relational databases solved is not having to bake the access paths into your data-structure.
This seems the way my brain wants to donate. I want to pick and choose instead of giving $1 every day to a random charity I have no idea how I feel about.
I think their new project plans to fulfill Bret Victor's vision in a way LT cannot. Bret Victor's demo was meant as a starting point. He was really advocating tools that help us understand the systems we create as programmers. Not live editing. I think Eve is an attempt to give us the tools to build and reason about our systems.