skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Annoyingly but predictably, I don't really have any nontrivial code of my own around that doesn't violate any of the (entirely reasonable, except for x509) constraints.

GopherJS happily compiles itself, however. The raw source code looks to be about 250KB. The native binary ends up 7.7MB, and the unminified js is 3MB. A pass through UglifyJS with default options reduces that to 1.7MB (I have not tested the result):

~/gocode/bin$ ls -lh *gopher*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 nknight staff 7.7M Oct 14 14:02 gopherjs
-rw-r--r-- 1 nknight staff 3.0M Oct 14 14:32 gopherjs.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 nknight staff 233K Oct 14 14:32 gopherjs.js.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 nknight staff 1.7M Oct 14 14:41 min-gopherjs.js
~/gocode/bin$

Edit: Oh, and the playground example minifies to 300KB:

~/gjstest/playground$ ls -lh
total 1784
-rw-r--r-- 1 nknight staff 194B Oct 14 14:05 main.go
-rw-r--r-- 1 nknight staff 536K Oct 14 14:53 main.js
-rw-r--r-- 1 nknight staff 42K Oct 14 14:53 main.js.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 nknight staff 300K Oct 14 14:54 min-main.js
~/gjstest/playground$
So are we talking about laws or morals here? My stance has always been that the legal argument carries zero weight for the average person, along the same lines as the slight speeding that anyone who owns a car has done. Yeah it's illegal, but who cares? You're not going to be in trouble unless you make a business out of it.

Morally? Then, admittedly, it's murkier. There's a point to be made there though that the "damage" the industry always crows about is less of a real thing (supposed damages higher than the country's GDP, suing networked printers, that kind of thing.. these are not the actions of rational actors with facts on their side) and more of an excuse to be made for exerting greater control over culture. That's getting a bit meta for this thread, though.

Are we at the moral event horizon? I can only speak for myself: We blew past it sometime around the Sony Rootkit scandal. Respect is earned, not given freely - I certainly don't lose any sleep over that blockbuster movie sitting on my NAS or that EA game I download to ensure it's not garbage before shelling out $80.

For you and anyone else? Can't speak there. I just wish everyone would stop conflating legal and moral.
I meant the overall graphical design. And I wasn't being sarcastic.

I do however like your point.
Without taking a position on Readability, there's more to the calculation than client side vs. server side. For more see my post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8455648
The recruiter is a nuisance; someone that moves you closer to what it is that YOU WERE SOLICITING for in the first place would be a welcome response.

That's exactly what a recruiter does, though.
I'm not sure I get it. Is your idea to gather news for a specified time range, or around a certain location (like the name "the traveler" would suggest)?
Could also be used prevent your competition form poaching your workers for the buck an hour more that you're not willing to pay.
Looks a lot like the ARM architecture.
Fascinating reading as usual. The C++ articles that get posted on here really are enlightening.
Muphry's Law! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
We're in good pitching shape and it's definitely the right market. My thinking is that early stage companies should not be spending big money on conferences and it will all things considered run us 5K. I also think it's straight up disingenuous to have an application process if acceptance still means you have to shell out cash to participate.

The other side of this is spend money to make money.
Paid advertising rarely works. I think the growth hack is pretty clever. Perhaps they should pay to be allowed to growth hack.
I've never gotten the flu shot, and hadn't planned to this year. I'm in great health; my immune system seems to be functioning extremely well. I never get sick.

However, I am concerned about the needle-haystack phenomenon with ebola.

Can you link me to a reasonable, digestible abstract about the real pros-and-cons of flu shot?
> Native OS datepickers do not exist on the desktop: not in the browser, not anywhere else, unless you count the Windows clock dialog.

Their existence is why this is such a popular browser feature request:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.contr...

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkCalendar.html
In that case I am obliged to ask:

I love the Australis UI, did they make it stay?
Biotech Startups Tap Spider Genes in Quest to Spin Silk Gold
I watched the video...is this anything more than a mashup of groupchat and speech-to-text? Couldn't something similar be achieved with Google's speech to text API and IRC? I would've been impressed if the transcription was amazing, but there are errors in the video ("foreclosure" instead of "surfer culture", for one).
I think that was trying to be a pastiche of/homage to/rip off Woody Allen's bit on Mechanical Objects, which it's very similar to. (Excerpted and linked below)

> I have never in my life had good relationships with mechanical objects of any sort. [...]

> About three years ago I couldn't stand it anymore. I was home one night. I called a meeting with my possessions. I got everything I owned into the living room. My toaster, my clock, my blender. They never been in the living room before. And I spoke to them. I opened with a joke. And then I said "I know what's going on, and cut it out!" I have a sun lamp, but as I sit under it, it rains on me. And I spoke to each appliance, I was really articulate. Then I put them back, and I felt good.

> Two nights later I'm watching my portable television set, and the set begins to jump up and down, and I go up to it. And I always talk before I hit, and I said "I thought we had discussed this, what's the problem?" And the set kept going up and down, so I hit it, and it felt good hitting it, and I beat the hell out of it. I was really great, I tore off the antenna, and I felt very virile.

> And two days later I go to my dentist in New York. I had gone to my dentist, but I had a deep cavity, and he'd sent me to a chiropodist. I'm going into a building in mid-town New York, and they have those elevators, and I hear a voice say "Kindly call out your floors, please", and I say "sixteen" and the doors close and the elevator starts going up to sixteen. And on the way up the elevator says to me "Are you the guy that hit the television set?" I felt like an ass, y'know, and it took me up and down fast between floors, and it threw me off in the basement. It yelled out something that was anti-semetic.

http://www.ibras.dk/comedy/allen.htm#Mechs
I think most developers understood not having these features at launch. But it's been over three years now, and progress has been glacial at best. No one believes that Apple can't implement these things; their actions demonstrate that they don't consider it a priority.
Top score on the leaderboard is apparently "-13:-37":

1	-13:-37	AM2080, w3rp
I'm pretty sure Chrome's market share is more related to it being advertised on TV, google.com, and being bundled with other software than because of the Omnibar...
It was up last night.
I have never gotten a flu shot in my life. The last time I remember having the flu was over 10 years ago ... actually, the last time I can remember actually being diagnosed with the flu was on the day before going to first grade. So make that 20 years ago.

Do those shots really do anything much?

edit: the last time I had a serious viral sickness it was a combination viral and bacterial angina (mononucleosis combined with a normal angina) and that was about 8 years ago.
I could never get over how slow the App Store or Software Update system was. I have a quad core Ivybridge i7 MacBook, and I still sit wondering if the Software Update program is working. I know it is frustrating in Windows land to have to repeatedly click "check for updates", particularly on a fresh install of Windows 7 but I was surprised how sluggish the App Store app was. Behind the scenes it is a HTML browser embedded I think, which I found particularly odd given the encouragement for Obj-C native development on the native platform. Just an observation - correct me if I'm wrong!
Jony Ive Vanity Fair Summit Interview
Well, it's a bug if you're worried about income inequality or the continuing polarization of America. It's a lot like White Flight.
>Our statistical analysis of the reproduction number of EVD in West Africa has demonstrated that the continuous growth of cases from June to August 2014 signalled a major epidemic, which is in line with estimates of the Rt above 1.0. Moreover, the timing of Rt reaching levels above one is in line with a concomitant surge in cases in Sierra Leone and Liberia. In a worst-case hypothetical scenario, should the outbreak continue with recent trends, the case burden could gain an additional 77,181 to 277,124 cases by the end of 2014.

Not good. R~2 is a deeply scary figure. R1.7 is better but still wildly explosive. 1.4 puts us in run of the mill "ballooning epidemic" territory.

The best case estimates of R-naught for Africa don't have a whole lot of "best" about them.

Clearly the dataset outside Africa isn't large enough to support meaningful analysis yet. I hope it stays that way, and Africa can get its arms around this thing before it kills millions.
> Firefox 32.0.3 is using 21 GB on my Mac

Wow, that is just insane. Checking right now, it uses ~950MB for me on GNU/Linux. That's with 14 tabs (among which 2 that use flash player) and 20 active add-ons (gestures, self-destructing cookies, header modifier, adblock plus, etc.).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_re...
Additionally, in the real world, people use the google search field as a URL bar. It really boils down to people just not understanding how things work / are supposed to be used.
They handed them out at one of my previous jobs (corporate gig). Everyone that went for them came down with a mild flu after the shot and then proceeded to catch every other flu that came around during the winter.

edit: I hadn't realised sharing experience was such a downvotable offence... note I observed this over 3 years. Obviously the flu jab targets specific strains of flu, if the jab you get doesn't target the strains that happen to come round that winter then it's not going to help at all. I've no idea how well they can predict which strains will be in circulation but in my experience, not very well.
They raise your antibody serum levels so you are better able to fight live virus.
For others who wondered about the R-naught reference - how many people one infected person will then onwards infect.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number

Measles is 12-18, Ebola 1-2. Before that makes you feel comforted, 1918 flu had r0 of 2-3.

Great.
Is your immune system unusually effective, or do you simply have a lower exposure because people you come in contact with get their vaccines?
Don't optimize for self esteem. Optimize for total progress over a given amount of time. If you're afraid that people will judge you an amateur, then use that fear to drive you by posting everything public. Learning is basically an exercise in being embarrassingly wrong about a succession of things over years.

There are harshly critical people online, so what? Make them work for you. Most people at a high level are humble and non-judgmental about beginners.
They wrote up some info on an alternative today: http://blog.conspire.com/post/100016691078/why-we-arent-usin...
I love the idea! I think it has great potential.

Some criticism: I think the website needs polish. It looks a little amateur, which might put off some users. And it took me a while to understand what it was about.
This is useless syntactic sugar unless there is a forward compatible ABI with comes with it. That includes modules being able to use different versions of a dynamically linked libstdc++, i.e. modules compiled with different compiler versions. Which will never happen given the resistance from compiler folks to agree on a standard ABI.
Amazing to see why they are going after this problem. One founder grew up in a fully deaf family and another founder is deaf himself.
Do you have any examples handy of sites that work in Chrome but not Firefox or the webapps that have bad JS performance on Firefox?
How to Start a Startup, Lecture 7: How to Build Products Users Love, Part I
Please note that I was not referring to technical complexity, rather cognitive / UX complexity.

I've been creating software for many years, I'm well aware that feature requests that look quite simple on the surface can require significant development efforts.

Having said that, implementing trials / upgrades is no a technical problem per se, it's more a question of spending the development resources required (yes, obviously there will be assumptions in the whole infrastructure that would require a bit of work but nothing that should have taken years to implement). In-App-Purchases were introduced a few years into App Store's existence, so it's certainly possible for them to implement major features when the willpower exists (and I'd wager implementing trials / upgrades would be easier than IAPs, although that's my guess, I have no internal information).

In any case, I very much doubt the reason for not having those features implemented is because they don't have the available development resources - it's more likely a decision was made that those feature do not align with Apple's vision of how the MAS should work.
Ditto for Denver and Boulder. Lots of the work available. I'd say that Boulder is a bit stronger for startups, but I think that is because Denver is larger so startups are a bit more diluted.
Healthy people with healthy immune systems aren't supposed to get the flu shot to prevent themselves from getting sick. They're supposed to get it because it drastically reduces the chances of passing the virus to at risk populations (who would have a much harder time fighting the virus than you). There are almost a quarter of a million hospitalizations due to the flu in the U.S. each year.
Have you read the front page of the news recently?
I agree, and am cautiously optimistic that people will have more options in or close to C++'s niche in the future. My comment was made with regards to the (surely significant?) market share of people who opted for C++ in the past and are stuck with it for better or worse.

But even just considering new projects, I'd expect that C++'s inertia in terms of reputation, ecosystem and people's skillset/experience means that C++17 or even later will have plenty of time to measure up against the competition.
No it's not. The recruiter hasn't matched you with a specific job at the time they send you the message....they're just spamming you. A matchmaker would have already done this and is bringing you precisely what you were asking for. Gigantic difference.
Wondering this as well, I only recently learned that all these Kiva loans I'm participating in, helping to get it funded, had already happened! It kind of makes me wonder everytime my charity-team sends me a message 'only 5 more hours to get this loan passed!'. Not that I particularly mind, but my curiosity was activated as to how this works, why, if a different model can be better and what the benefits/drawbacks are.

So I'd love to learn if people know more about how all this works!
All was funny until I reached this paragraph:
"These enemies have almost unlimited resources. They always listen in to telephone conversations between Alice and Bob. And these enemies are very sneaky. One of their favorite tricks is to telephone Alice and pretend to be Bob."

Talk about ahead of its time...
Almost every German gamer (PC games are a big deal here) is willing to play games in English. Almost none of them have QWERTY keyboards.
I've dated several women that I've met on OKC for various lengths of time and they all agreed that for the most part OKC was a good experience. I could see how people without a thick skin could be turned off by the spam, but that hasn't been the case in my experience. The women I've met have mostly seemed to treat the spam similarly to YouTube comments, it's just accepted that most of them are garbage.
One of them described the experience with something like "It's Amazon for boys, for negative money." which seems like a pretty positive review to me.
It does seem so, I just wish I had an invite.
@jrochkind1

The type of distributed storage system that I'm speaking of relies on each node/user being a provider themselves.

For an example checkout http://storj.io/
no need for channel operations inside (go ) forms. Can be done anywhere.

Also, I meant clojurescript core.async, not clojure.
Note that Firefox only uses OpenH264 for WebRTC video, not the <video> tag. OpenH264 only supports H.264 Baseline Profile, not the Main or High Profiles commonly used for embedded video. Also, MP4 videos often use AAC audio, which Firefox can't playback.
I'm not sure if people would lose their taste for drone strikes. The reason people were upset about Vietnam had nothing to do with how many NVA or VC were killed (despite the fact that more than 10 times as many North Vietnamese soldiers died as did Americans, and often in much less palatable ways) but everything to do with the number of Americans slaughtered in living color for what seemed like no good reason.

With drone strikes, the harm only happens to the other guy (and yes, civilians can be "other guys"), and currently the other guy is pretty widely reviled in the US. There is already widespread guncam footage of drone strikes, as well as helicopter rocket attacks, gunship strafing, and bombing runs which give you pretty much the best seat in the house to view them. The aftermath can frequently be seen in mainstream news sources. I think the American public likes drone strikes just as much as "the current regime" and more videos won't really change that.
First Android L device Nexus 9 to launch tomorrow
Don't listen to this guy.

Get your flu shot.
I was under the impression that delivery cannabis in California had to be done by a nonprofit. I remember reading a court case about this a few years ago.

(although a good business model may be to offer free cannabis delivery along with very expensive cheeseburger delivery)
Not stopping this outbreak with all the resources we have is running a massive natural experiment in how well adapted Ebola can become for efficient human-to-human transmission. As a zoonotic virus Ebola in its wild state is very unlikely to be optimised for human-to-human transmission. Every new case is increasing the chance that a new strain will arise that will be efficiently transmitted between people. I am not too keen to see how well adapted Ebola can become to humans.
I think that's debatable. Trials could result in more software getting purchased (and fewer instances of feeling burned, meaning more likelihood of future MAS purchases). Lowering the 30% would trickle savings down to customers, as producers could price more aggressively for the same marginal revenue and try to drive up volume.

The only change I see that could affect the price of sofware is paid upgrades, which does fundamentally alter the pricing dynamic by incentivizing an unpleasant upgrade treadmill in the worst cases. But the problem is, companies whose revenue is dependent on upgrades will still do so, only badly: either using "MyApp 3" (which is awkward, and doesn't allow upgrade pricing for existing users); or, using in-app purchases, which is a weird experience, and has a huge drag co-efficient by requiring developers to support all old functionality in the same app, forever. (Imagine if Pixelmator 4 had to encapsulate every last bit of Pixelmators 1-3, bug-free, within version 4. It's a recipe for disaster for both users and developers, making it cost-prohibitive to do under-the-hood improvements instead of just Features Features Features, meaning more technical debt.)

If there's another way in which my suggestions alter the price of software as commodity, or alter consumer pricing psychology, please point it out.
That thing they did where they shipped hot single ladies from NYC to meet rich single techies in SF

Couldn't find any mentions of looks or wealth in the TechCrunch article. Did you see it mentioned somewhere else?

I think you'd find that the dating industry is filled with companies that are ethically-challenged (or have been at some point in their history).
Yes I understand how vaccines work. But it just doesn't seem like seasonal flu ever gets in contact with me. At worst I will get a mild seasonal cold[1], which isn't problematic at all.

And I don't seem to get sick even when I make out with people suffering from a cold (like my girlfriend). Maybe I just have an abnormally strong immune system?

And while you could make a point of herd immunity, flu shots aren't very popular where I'm from. I only know of one person who's ever gotten one. The others either aren't getting them or our conversations don't steer in that direction.

[1] a bit of sniffles, some coughing, no fever or headaches
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You can speak to a human at Google regarding their API limitations? I'd be shocked if that was the case.
This is a very old concept, what changed is mostly scale.
Ah, given that context, that makes more sense / comes off a little less nefarious. I think it was mostly the references to forgetting an anniversary, trying to repair the relationship with a heart-to-heart by candlelight, etc., that took it to a kind of weird place for me.

Thanks for the link and the context!
I heartily agree with the devaluation of apps, the race to the bottom, the cheapest is the only one to install. The scourge of 99p apps on the App Store has spread to the other market-based ecosystems, where actual developer time and effort is considered very cheap indeed; most people I know who use Android will not ever ever pay for an app, for example. (Your experience may differ).
Sure! Myself I always liked it, just prefer to explore other options as well.

You are right, though.
If anyone is interested I have put up a post on my personal blog about Ebola and what needs to be done [1].

[1] http://www.tillett.info/2014/10/08/ebola-what-needs-to-be-do...
It's impossible to get the flu from a flu shot.
Besides humanitarian reasons?

How about this: the risk model for ebola is based on limited empirical data from past strains. The current outbreak already exceeds past outbreaks. If the virus is different than the past, or it mutates, then the model from which we assess that the risk is low could be wrong.

So helping to end the outbreak, for one, would cutoff many, many opportunities for ebola to mutate into something even worse.
There's already limited evidence that some transmission is occurring via atomized saliva/mucous. A truly airbone variant could cause a "get in your bunker and ride it out" kind of event.
Seems like it could be a clever way to solve the issue for players, but probably makes developers on those other keyboards quite miserable.
I think we're talking about the same thing. (Why does this keep happening?) Trending of metrics tells you whether an alert is useful or not. Has the database been getting full for over a month, or did it just begin getting full and the current rate of disk consumption means in 90 minutes it will be full?

There is no reason anyone should ever run out of disk space if they alert on the trending rate of disk space [rather than the actual amount of disk space used]. But this applies to so, SO many things other than simple resource exhaustion. Seeing the trends is useful to alerts, but it's also useful to humans who can review them weekly and plan for the future.