skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Quora a few years ago when it was explained to me that it was a good way to grow your own brand if you have expertise on a subject. Not sure if growing your brand is still a big motivating factor why people post content there, and if it is, hopefully users are made aware.

Otherwise I just haven't felt it superior to my normal way of finding answers and learning things. If not Wikipedia, Subreddits are troves of good, expert information.

And yes, the Library of Alexandria comparison is a little insulting to humanity.
You don't think there is a group of people who will, when confronted with the choice of hunting down a torrent every time or paying $10 a month to watch GoT/True Blood/Last Week Tonight/etc, could decide to pay?

Especially considering outside of the US where the choice is: pirate it or don't watch it.

It seems silly to just leave those money on the floor, even if 90% of the people will still pirate content.
That's a much better way of thinking about it.

The real problems I've seen emerge when there is a clear mismatch between the organisational structure and the obvious (to everyone) solution to the problem involves altering that structure, even slightly. At that point everything becomes impossible.
After California decriminalized pot, teen arrest, overdose, ebola broke out. Think about it.
This book is still a great read even if you aren't planning on Rails development. It's a great introduction to fundamentals plus it goes over Bootstrap which is immensely helpful. If you are self-taught in another language you can still benefit from this book.
WPF died to me because of its complexity. I absolutely hated my last job doing development in that environment.

The complexity of the design was overwhelming and yet pointless. Architected to space it was. Take a look at the signature and inheritance diagram for the "Rectangle" class.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/system.windows.shapes.rect...

How can they possibly extend upon that without making it uglier!? Just leave it in maintenance mode like with all the other failed MS GUI frameworks.
I thought maybe it was announced along the new Devices, but the bottom of the page says "Last updated September 16, 2014.". As far as I know, the current anti piracy measures Google takes are already cracked (though I hope to be wrong).
i love my z1c. i can't justify replacing it after only nine months for the newer model, though.
"Quora is a free service built on venture capital that will need to monetize its users over the next couple years, and wouldn't you know, they really want you visit quora.com, and they really want you to create an account."

What are some ideas about what Quora's long-term business model might end up being? This is the context needed to judge this article.
John Gossman from Microsoft here. Windows Server containers use the approach sometimes called Operating System Virtualization, just like Linux containers, Jails, etc.. The Wikipedia article is a pretty good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system%E2%80%93level_...

They are process based. They do not depend on HyperV and can run on Windows Server on bare metal or inside any hypervisor or cloud.
Indeed. At $99 [1], equipped with 802.11ac [2], a far more powerful processor that is capable of playing 4K video [3], you could ignore Google TV in its entirety and probably justify your purchase just to use it as a Chromecast Deluxe.

[1]: Reported by TechCrunch. Regular Chromecast is $35.

[2]: Possibly with 5GHz band? Regular Chromecast is 2.4GHz 802.11n only.

[3]: http://blog.laptopmag.com/intel-bay-trail-tablets-benchmarks... regular Chromecast maxes out at 1080p. EDIT: Aww, its specs say that it only outputs in 1080p.
Funny how when I look for a technical answer to a problem on Google Quora never shows up ? while i get dozens of answers from SO.

Quora could have been so much more than it is, it doesnt look very successfull to me,because of stupid choices.
My point may not have been as strong as I thought, but that tends to support it - airplane and boat engines do need to operate at max power nonstop, so they're designed for it. Consumer automobiles usually just accelerate for a few seconds and cruise at relatively modest speed, and I'm pretty sure their cooling and other related systems are designed around that.
Redittor calls out the creators of the Kickstarted campaign 'Anonabox'
Yes, to me this sounds less like a business model issue and more like Quora has implemented a "right to be forgotten". I wonder if this is related to a kind of "leaker" culture on Quora where people answer questions about companies where they work ...and later may change their minds about it.
I strongly support the legalisation of all drugs.

> Associating the use of marijuana specifically with schizophrenia is absurd

It's not absurd. There's strong correlation between people who have a psychotic illness and previous cannabis use.

There are several different things people say about psychotic illness and cannabis.

i) smoking cannabis causes psychotic illnesses even in people with no underlying illness

ii) cannabis causes psychotic illness in people who already have a previously unseen underlying illness

iii) cannabis triggers episodes of illness in people who we know to have a psychotic illness

iv) cannabis has no effect either way

v) cannabis has high correlation because people are self medicating

vi) cannabis is protective

If you have a family history of psychotic illness it's probably a good idea to be cautious with drugs. That's not a controversial statement and it's intensely frustrating when people ignore any possibility of harm from cannabis. (The illegality of cannabis, and the ethics of research involving people with such a severe mental illness, mean that the research is not very good.)

(Also, if you're on certain meds you should stop smoking because the hydrocarbons in smoke interact with the meds).

http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg178

> Offer people with psychosis or schizophrenia who smoke help to stop smoking, even if previous attempts have been unsuccessful. Be aware of the potential significant impact of reducing cigarette smoking on the metabolism of other drugs, particularly clozapine and olanzapine.
Why is Node your only readily available option? There's nothing stopping you from writing the backend in C# (or anything else) and the client code in HTML and JavaScript.
Speaking as someone whose writings as a teenagers are often dragged up by Internet trolls with no disclaimer about when they were written, I find myself extremely, extremely sympathetic to Quora here.
The lack of Ethernet is a deal breaker for me. Ethernet is the only thing my chromecast is missing. I don't want games or apps, just a stable internet connection.
A study of code abstraction (white paper)
This was my first thought as well - either there's some major issue with SSL that allows MITM attacks which I'm unaware of, or this article isn't very accurate/precise.
I'd just like to point out that this is likely not to get better with this (arbitrary) decision to release a new OS every year. It used to be that we'd have a new release roughly every 2 years (from 2003 - 2011). This meant: 1. it was in development for 2 years and thus probably stabler to begin with, and 2) there were then 2 years to iron out the bugs. You'd get the new OS, there were some understandable kinks, but then by 6-12 months later it was pretty solid and you had another year of a solid OS ahead of you. It was perfectly reasonable to wait on the OS and let the early birds kick the tires first.

This is no longer possible. It feels that as soon as version N is out, they are scrambling to make version N+1. There is no downtime. There is no stabilization phase. You are eternally in brand-new isn't fully working mode. Of course the software is going to be worse.

Couple this with the stark reality that Apple has simply run out of ideas in terms of software. Every new version of OS X boils down to: 1. arbitrary UI tweak (forcing developers to refresh), 2. Gimmick features in Mail.app/Safari (RSS in Mail/Safari, Postcards in Mail, yet another 3d effect to re-arrange your tabs in Safari, annotations in Mail, etc etc etc), and 3. regressions of features that worked for years. Occasionally .Mac/MobileMe/iCloud will be renamed in hopes everyone forgets about the last round of data loss bugs/hopefully people get excited about this vague thing they don't really know the scope of.
I have pretty limited experience with desktop stuff (mostly Winforms) but with the SPA frameworks now it's about as expressive and deployment issues go away (which is nice in a small shop where you can't just foist them on someone else).
I think people here are generally willing to believe that this is solved if the hard problems are solved. Right now the skepticism is that the hard problems haven't been solved - but that's true of any bet that you make. Either the hard problem has been solved, or you're betting that your people will solve it soon.
There is another question beyond WPF being dead or not.

Is there any single UI framework that a dev can invest in for Microsoft's various platforms and have confidence that they won't be moving to some other UI framework in 12 months?

They seem to be in disarray moving forward in this area.
Depending on where you live you can indeed get a streaming only package from the NFL. NFL Sunday Ticket has a streaming only option for locales where DirectTV isn't necessarily an option. I live in Philly and can get it even though DirectTV is technically in my neighborhood

https://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/nflws/
You went directly for the bank robbery line, which is at the very least dishonest when talking about copyright infringement.

Your simple questions are loaded and therefore will not be answered.
The companion core of the ARMv7 TK1 is a low power Cortex-A15, like the grandparent comment says. This is different from ARM's big.LITTLE which uses different microarchitectures for the two clusters, i.e. Cortex-A15 + Cortex-A7 or Cortex-A53 + Cortex-A57.
Oh man, the crazy bugs I've seen in iOS 8 on my 5S. Last week I had an alarm go off, unlocked my screen, and it kept going. And going. Disabling the alarm in the Clock app did nothing. Re-locking and re-unlocking the screen did nothing. In the end, I had to just power the device off.
battery.
I remember listening to these years ago. The only way I could listen was by creating an IAX connection to Evan's (maybe someone else's?) PBX and dialing into the recording archives.

This isn't nearly as cool a way to access these recordings, but I downloading all of them anyway!
Your first mistake is assuming that "GG is sending death threats".

That is false.
Given your stated requirements, I'd use Qt. There's a learning curve, but no worse than with WPF or anything else.

But those are hefty requirements for a small in-house project! Spending a lot of extra programming time on production values is what you do when you're trying to appeal to the mass market. If nobody outside your team is ever going to use the program, that kind of effort doesn't pay off. Who decided the feature list and designed the user interface? Do they realize the cost and schedule implications?
Not to mention ISIS appeared.

There can be only one conclusion.
"Even women, who have next to useless pockets in their pants buy this size phone in huge numbers."

because they usually keep them in their handbag/purse?
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8458865
A few years ago when Google was offering $1m+ stock to counter employees going to Facebook, some people leaked names on Quora but then promptly deleted it. This event is likely one that influenced Quora's interests in this matter.

Another factor that likely influenced this decision is that Quora has slowly made some content available to logged-out/anon users. Some sensitive answers written before this product change (e.g. answers on sensitive health issues) were likely written without consideration for these product changes and Quora wanted to ensure user trust could be retained.
So in this reactor design, the neutron shield would be quite thin, if that drawing is to scale I'd say like 30-50cm? in that case water in borax wouldn't be dense enough right?

A cool thing about the shield being liquid is that you could theoretically replace it while it's running. It could make the neuron shield double as the heat transfer medium too.

Of course I'm a total layman so this is just highlevel blabbering.
Blrt founder Chakradhar seeks $2m in funding for patented comms technology
Startups and Their 21 Sports Clichés
Mars Photographs Show Celtic Cross in Rocks
As long as the manager's prestige and power are tied to the size of his budget, he will be motivated to expand his organization. This is an inappropriate motive in the management of a system design activity. Once the organization exists, of course, it will be used. Probably the greatest single common factor behind many poorly designed systems now in existence has been the availability of a design organization in need of work.

This is a great point, and it's not widely understood. Organizations always try to grow, and once they've grown, they will continue to do work, regardless of whether that's what anyone actually wants or needs them to do.

For example, say a popular website has gone a long time without much design work, and people are complaining that the site is hard to use. In response, the people in charge of the website form a design team, which succeeds in redesigning the site. But now that there's a design team, they will continue to do design work, and the site will likely be redesigned periodically. This will happen regardless of whether anyone actually using the site wants a new design.
The Growth Paradox for Startup CEOs
There have even been reactors that produce more energy than they consume, just not in a practical, economical way.
Let's say I wanted all of it. How much data is that, or would I have to ask USGS?
Just as Eric Sterling, Ethan Nadelmann, groups like SSDP, and many other expert advocates predicted.

At least in terms of arrest and overdose, it seems so obvious; I can't fathom how people predict an increase in death, disease, and / or crime being caused by ending prohibition. What models are they using?!
Ask HN: The Bay Area has tons of dark fiber; why do we have no fiber options?
Oh, what would it take to get residential fiber up and running?
There is not enough data to draw any conclusions.
I don't get this. I have a Chromecast + nexus 7 as a remote and its already my preferred way of watching Netflix etc. Much better than a clusmly remote.

I hope this doesn't mean there backtracking on Chromecast.
> Parsing, at least, absolutely can benefit from a powerful type system: consider Haskell's Parsec library, which uses monads & monad transformers to express a powerful parser combinator system

But AFAICT, you don't really need type-system support to use monads or monad transformers -- Haskell's purity, static typing, and use of monads for IO forces Haskell users to become familiar with monads, which may encourage Haskellers to develop the skill to use them for other purposes, but there is nothing stopping you from using monads and monad transformers in a dynamically typed language.
The simplest example I can think of is the interval (0, 1].

Proof that it's not closed: the sequence (1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, ...) is entirely inside the interval, but converges on 0, which is outside the interval, therefore etc.

Proof that it's not open: the sequence (2, 3/2, 5/4, 9/8, ...) is entirely outside the interval (i.e. inside the complement), but it converges on 1, which is inside the interval (i.e. outside the complement). Thus the complement of the interval is not closed, therefore etc.
"does not lead to any number of doomsday scenarios envisioned by legalization opponents"... of course the real doomsday scenario - poorer employment prospects for Law Enforcement - hopefully will happen.
I've had limited exposure to WPF, but I found it absolutely delightful. When you work with web development for so long, working on a desktop app feels very refreshing. The toolkit lets you focus (choice is hard); data binding is awesome; components are all readily available; there's rich IDE integration which mostly just works; you can easily offload almost everything from the backend; and with some good sense, you can drag & drop yourself to a reasonably good looking and usable interface in record time.
How has Quora changed since they went into YCombinator recently?
Haha, my bad. They run on Windows
Something that should be easily fixed by allowing power or volume buttons to take pictures. I'm not sure why that isn't the case.
As I recall when Duncan first went o the hospital he said he had recently come from West Africa (or maybe Liberia in particular) but may have dishonestly denied having had contact with others who had Ebola. You're right that a fever on its own doesn't suggest Ebola, but that plus travel should have aroused someone's curiosity leading to further testing or at least observation.

Obviously, you could get a lot of false positives using a standard like that. But with a disease that has a longish incubation period and a 70% mortality rate, I'm OK with that. I'm no epidemiologist or even an amateur scholar of them; I just learned about it the same way as most other people, reading news on the internet, watching news documentaries on PBS, visiting CDC.gov. I feel I have the public health awareness of a normal middle-class adult taxpayer, ie nothing special other than a good level of general education and an interest in current events.

Basically I'm saying that I would have expected senior administrators and clinical staff at a large hospital to have significantly better awareness of this issue than I would, because it;s their job.
This guy has a beautiful speaking voice. I'm sure it didn't hurt when it came to social engineering his way around the phone network.
Not sure it warrants its own post, but it adds some depth/context to the "Nexus Player" device in particular (though it isn't specific to that).

Google is essentially doing an Ouya on both the hardware and software sides, but one with a much higher chance of traction (though admittedly, it is still very unproven, especially in light of their tepid support for Google TV, etc).
Any chance listen.ai will either be livestreamed or videos made available later (a la confreaks or similar)? I can't make it, but I'm super interested in ALL of this and really, really want to learn.
It is difficult to maintain focus on software as a hardware company (and vice versa). While Steve Jobs was around he was able to emphasize importance of both hw & sw. Over time the part of the company which brings the money receives increasing investment at the expense of the other. For Apple, maintaining a balance will be a challenge going forward. QA seems to be the first compromise.
I want to echo some of the comments in here: it doesn't matter what you think you will be developing with in the future, or what the framework du jour is (although some may say it is still Rails); if you want to learn how to build something, there is no better place to start than with this tutorial.

For all the "non-technical" people out there who want to see their ideas come to life, who are considering hiring contractors or paying for a class, or posting on HN or founder dating for a technical co-founder, stop. Take a step back. Forget about your idea for a week or two and immerse yourself in this tutorial and learn about what it takes to put something together. You and your software related projects will be better for it.
Instead of writing your message, steal it
But the distortion field that before exist a magical distortion field is still strong...

Similar to: Jobs make everything at apple, apple say it invented first (about everything), people that buy apple is a lunatic fanboy, bla, bla...

You have a more stable software or not. You can show numbers, or at worst, anecdotal evidence. But blaming in a distortion field?
Hey Carpy! Come back soon when we're all in town.
Dropout rates fell, but presenting the data as a percentage change of a percentage is a bad way of reporting the data since the number of students in the system may have changed because of demographics.
yay for that pretty much software patent (algorighm) describing obvious extension of ESC (25 years old tech). In fact SLS AMG Electric Drive had this very tech in 2012.
Unlimited free energy means we eventually global-warm our planet through waste heat. Works out at about 10% the potency of greenhouse gasses per MW.
I literally went the opposite. I switched to OSX soon after the Intel transition and loved it, after a decade in Windows land. I honestly just much prefer the look and feel of Apple products and software. I find them more enjoyable to use, consistent, more intelligently thought out and much less hassle.

I also used to hate Xcode 3 but as of Xcode 5 I've really grown to like it.

You're my bizarro opposite. I bet you hate the colour blue ;)
How bad would OSX have to get to actually have the year of Linux?
Maybe I oversold the feature list... I'm really just trying to do an incremental thing, a "single-page app" that helps tech support agents keep track of their tickets and what's going on with the rest of the team. Because the ticketing system is web based I figure I need to embed the web pages into the app. Then I need to make DOM calls to the page to get some info out of them, or perhaps make various GETs and POSTs to get the info I need, displayed alongside the webpage.

Not a crazy feature list, and like I said I am learning how to do this from scratch so it's kind of a 20% time hobby that I hope turns into something usable in a reasonable amount of time (3-6 months).
Just a quick note, Rustful has been around for longer than both of those projects. Rustful just hasn't had the same amount of press that the others have had.
How does Coursera make money?
Regarding the referenced talk at Strange Loop, I have noticed that I have yet to see a good talk ever done in that style where dual-presenters oscillate back & forth. Especially when they're trying to elicit laughter. I did manage to enjoy the talk between cringeworthy moments, at least.

There is an interesting slide at around 21:00 where they show four quadrants that represent:

What do you get when you pass a Term to a Term? (a function)

What do you get when you pass a Type to a Type? (templates, generics, type variables)

What do you get when you pass a Term to a Type? (dependent types)

What do you get when you pass a Type to a Term? (inheritance, overloading)

It was an interesting slide. It manages to make dependent types seem like an essential missing piece for the sake of symmetry. I'm not sure I understand the last one, though: how is inheritance and/or overloading the act of passing a type to a term?

Does anybody know if this idea is explained better elsewhere?
Historically, the problem with the cylinder + mirror configuration is that there are discontinuities (corners) at the seams where the mirrors join on at the end. So you lose a lot of plasma there. Interested to see how they've overcome that.
Could you detail what you mean by "poor tools" a bit more?

Everything I can find on the "New York Trigger" states that it was specially requested by law enforcement and designed by Glock so the trigger weight would more closely resemble that of the revolvers they were then transitioning away from. Were they more prone to failure or..?
From my experience, Facebook described to a T. I have a hunch you were thinking of the same site. Any other examples? I'm struggling to find any other examples that are as compelling
No.

Sites should try to get me to use them, I shouldn't have to try to use a site.