skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to make a decision a few days ago, and I decided to go with Ionic framework. We are in a very early stage of building our very own startup with a team of 3 persons of which I am the sole developer. Because of this, things that effect my decisions may be a bit different than yours.

Questions that you should ask yourself (And my answers in paranthesis)

1. Do I need to develop for Android, iOS and other platforms at the same time or near future? (YES)

2. Do I have expertise on any? (YES for Android, goddamn NO for iOS)

3. Do I have time to gain experience for the domain? (NO, expected to build an MVP for Android and iOS in 1 month, while continuing a full-time job)

4. Am I going to develop a dumb client or some heavy tasks are going to be processed by the app? (A dumb client which will make some API requests)

5. Do I have excellent web development skills? (Yeah)

All questions are important, but the answer of the 4th may push you to go native if you are doing some things that would make use of CPU/Memory as efficient as possible.

Also the Cordova or Ionic or any other similar frameworks are just a painkiller which does not solve a problem but hide the problem, which is lacking native app development skills/time. Except for a few examples, there is no app that is used by millions which are not native.
I am you there.

Mercurial was more friendly to us Windows developers.

But with Microsoft embracing Git this isn't any longer the case.
Looks great. Presumably being React powered means it would work nicely with the various ClojureScript React wrappers such as Om and Reagent.
They do seem to talk about writes per second. That means you must flush to disk, not read from cache.

[Edit, more info]
They seem to run with multiple clients which also stresses the system. From their explanation
* The clients simulate 320,000 concurrent sessions
Git is equally hostile to everyone! Long live Git.

(Maybe the way to advance the poor Gui user interaction experience is to write frontends for it?)
Gerrit looks pretty horrid to use to be honest.
They stated that Java is the language platform, laught at the idea someone would like to try to use Scala instead and mentioned you are pretty much on your own if you feel like using the NDK.

Search for Google IO 2014 Android Fireside, video is available.
Sort of. On Linux, libstdc++ depends on the NSS system which dynamically loads libraries to implement things like getpwent(). Last time I had to actually make a portable static executable (admittedly some years ago) this was a real problem, and it was easier to statically link everything except libstdc++, then ship a copy which was loaded using RPATH in the linker settings.
Why Sound Torture Works
> The potential Bitcoin investor suckers who listened to me would have saved themselves from losing the $100+ dollars on each Bitcoin they bought since the current price is below $360.

What would you have said in 2011?
As I've been saying for some time regarding the current employment / opportunity situation: we're not going to educate our way out of this mess.
I'm currently reading a fascinating book on world-class performance, "The Art of Learning" by Josh Waizkind, a chess and martial arts champion. It gives some really great insights into the world-class players' psychology. Highly recommended!
Until a judge with *IAA lined pockets comes along, that is.
An app isn't only about the ui -- maybe you'll need some background operations, and you'll need to coordinate between multiple inputs. Go sounds more suited than Java for that.
Growing irrelevance? Fortunately Rails is still getting better and better day by day, and its performance it's too, thanks to improvements in Ruby. It's no way near to leaving the scenes, and possibly your nightmares...
You serve ads. That's necessarily high-availability, especially around Christmas, when people are trying to grab eyeballs. If the company closes down, who's making sure everything is all right? Or maybe your stuff is that reliable? That's pretty impressive.
The FDIC estimates that 7.7% of the US adult population is unbanked, and 20% is underbanked [1]. Being un(der)banked is often very costly, it's one of the worst ways where being poor is very expensive [2].

On a global scale the issue is even worse, there are billions of people without access to proper banking services. I can't even begin to imagine how much time/energy/value/productivity is wasted globally due to that. Bitcoin, or another similar solution, may be the key to helping to bring those billions out of their economic exclusion and into a more prosperous reality [3][4].

[1] https://www.economicinclusion.gov/surveys/2013household/ (2013 National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAxL4TB6pmQ (Spent: Looking For Change (Documentary))

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NfNwjJfrOg (What Bitcoin Means For Unbanked Economies)

[4] https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/cell-phone-connected-unbanke... (The Cell Phone Connected the Unbanked, Bitcoin Will Bank Them)
I've experienced this since childhood. Among other things, eye exams, as well as having any exam with an otoscope can trigger it. I noticed that this is especially so if I can hear the doctor breathing.

The experience seems to be the "opposite" sensation of, say, fingernails on a chalkboard. I seem to be especially sensitive to those annoyances, and others, such as forks scraping plates, etc. I wonder if there is a proportionate increased sensitivity to ASMR experiences.

Some NPR programs, such as "All Things Considered", also seem to invoke ASMR. Interestingly, Family Guy did a gag [1] wherein it was an annoyance, which I thought odd. Makes me wonder if this really would be considered ASMR and whether it really does irritate some people, where others are soothed by it. So, some experiences can invoke the pleasant ASMR-type response in some, while invoking its opposite in others.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQSO0RbmHBI
It's useful if you want to schedule a function every x seconds:

for range time.Tick(1 * time.Second) {
fmt.Println("tick")
}
Well, the frost bite might end when the hydrogen meet some oxygen.
It wants to go back 10-15 years - not create a new order as is usually implied by the word disruptive. Reactionary might be the best word for it.
What mistakes?
Real systems programming would be possible with a little more help.

Meaning a few more operations exposed in unsafe.

The problem is that the average developers never saw Oberon line of languages or are unaware how much of libc is actually written in Assembly.

Maybe with Go 1.5 fully re-written in Go, it will be easier to sell this scenario.
Thanks! we're putting a lot of detail into the animations to make it feel as native as possible. The touch events too - you'll notice that if you touch a link, and move too far away, it'll un-hilight; then if you move back it activates again, just like on iOS. Or in a scrolling panel, scrolling cancels the touch event.

We've had a great experience building with React, and browserify - it keeps everything organised and modular, and is pretty much perfect for mobile app architecture.
They are regular consumer drives. They are even markedet and priced as that.

They don't even have super capacitors, which more and more consumer drives are coming equipped with standard these days.
The problem here is that work is apparently valued at zero cents an hour. If that's the value of your work, it's a hobby. Don't do free work.

If you want exposure in the blogosphere, start your own blog. You still won't make money, but at least the ad revenue is yours, and you won't see someone else running away with a few hundred million that you worked for.
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This is however a tooling issue, not a programming language one.
The fall of THQ
If you want or need to use makefiles to do whatever you want to do, use makefiles.
Not sure why it should matter to them. This is a small package for Go, they are a company.

Configura is a Spanish word that means "you, set it up" (more or less :), and the RAE (Royal Spanish Academy) didn't complain yet :D

Just kidding, but seriously, I don't think that there is any problem with the name, I also thought that I was so original and there are some other packages with the exact same name.
Electrical pulses could replace many traditional medicines
There's two types of electronic nautical maps: raster and vector.
Raster maps are basically scanned paper maps, and contain all the data. When you zoom in, you are basically enlarging the map, it will not show more detail.
Vector maps are contructed by a database. When you zoom in, more detail emerges that was not visible previously. Like buoys or reefs...

There is no software method to "find obstructions on my route".
If you want to be sure, you need to zoom in at maximum level and follow the route you are going to sail, otherwise there is a possibility of missing out on information.
With that in mind, I tried to use the phrase in a more wide sense than some other language communities would. But you're right that that phrase might as well be disassociated with the language at this point, to avoid confusion. Better to find a new word for it.
It will be possible in C++17.

http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2014/n424...
Incompetent FireBird Developer Woes
Streem – stream based concurrent scripting language
Pull request merge strategies: video aids
Looks like a good idea as well, I started this project after a small discussion at work and here we want ENV vars everywhere.
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I think, however, that you can preceded mandatory terms with a + sign to require it to be present on page.

That was my first reaction too, but I tried it out and it still doesn't work. In fact, the result is kinda funny:

Googling "webhcat primary key" got me 3 results with "webhcat" on the first page.

Googling "+webhcat primary key" got me 5 results in total, none of which contains the word "webhcat".
Exactly. And you can even move to a contry where they don't have legal agreements with the EU so that you can't get sued for doing something which is legal in your (new) country
Creating a living style guide for GOV.UK
I'm not sure. Off of the feature list, it looks like a framework, not a component library. It takes over your app structure, build process, etc etc.
Giant Swarm – Simple Microservice Infrastructure
For me, I've only really had the sensation once, triggered by the writing of a fountain pen and the soft and slightly rasping voice of a university supervisor. I'm very familiar with the "doesn't quite work" feeling, though. Anyway, it seems to be scratching kinds of noises for me.
I was at a lecture about security in C/++ code a couple of weeks ago. His conclusion was basically:

> There are no silver bullets with regards to safety in C/++ code; in order to achieve security, the programmer has to pay the price of being forever vigilant.

A lot of the complexity of Rust is for eliminating security pitfalls which are inherent in C/++.
Gold has no value whatsoever as well. Yet it's considered a commodity. Even money has no value whatsoever. Money is a promise from a government to grant some goods or services. If the government gives up, or its companies close down or leave, or decides to devalue its currency, you lose money regardless.

Commodities are assigned the value humans agree on, according to market. Bitcoin is no different. It's a digital commodity, but a commodity nevertheless. It will have its bubbles, but they are fueled by human greed, not the nature of bitcoin per se.
They'd have to make Dalvik a compiler target. Could work, though.
>I think there's a great analogy for why he cares so little about his intelligence: do you think Michael Jordan sat around admiring his build, his height, etc?

Well, when you consider that Michael Jordan obsessed about his height before he was tall, there's a good chance that he felt that it was at least partly responsible for his skill.

In actuality, it did play a significant role. If Michael Jordan had the same level of skill, and was 5'9", he would have been above average(for an NBA player) at best.
Anonymity is hard in practice when so much of science consist of small niche fields where it can be pretty obvious who the author of a paper is by just reading the content.

A better solution might be to enforce non-anonymous peer-reviews that can be read by the public after the paper has been published.
That is exactly the market opportunity I'm seeing here: news sites for Spanish news that are based outside Spain. Reporting on issues abroad is still possible, and they may even be able to hire freelancers based in Spain.

Or to put it another way: with no way to find Spanish news sites online, Spaniards would become entirely dependent on foreign news sites, which creates an incentive for foreign sites to focus more on Spanish news in Spanish.
usually, as a shooting guard, jordan would be playing with 3 people taller than him on his own team, and only 1 person shorter than him.

just like basketball is not purely about body size and athleticism, chess is not purely about iq. And it is kind of idiotic that iq is the thing that people think must be the one thing that makes good chess players good.

after a certain point, iq probably doesn't matter. motivation, concentration, competitiveness, determination, experience, preparation, risk-taking, creativity, pleasure when thinking about chess... i really don't understand why iq is the thing that's talked about so much.

magnus clearly understands that some people will neglect chess for something else. The implication is that there are geniuses out there today doing other things instead of moving figurines over a grid... that's a very humble and wise world view.
Yes, I find it annoying because:

1) it's non-stop

2) there seldom sems to be anything truly novel in a broadly meaningful way (i.e. esoteric, if anything)

3) there is rarely an objective improvement on existing options

I no longer feel compelled to replace or adopt though, precisely for those reasons.
And it works fine on WP 8.1, which was a nice surprise. Good work!
Maybe more people should start crawling and seeing what they can extract? I remember seeing DuckDuckGo Instant Answers and thinking what a valuable resource that would be (having a database like DDG must have, I mean).

Then one would be able to do some "stuff Google can do" - say, analysing trends - albeit with worse sampling, and not depend that much on them.
I guess it can be expected that the Latin American news sources will adapt and publish Spanish regional content.

At least I see no reason for them not to do it. There is money on the table.
Why you should use SQL in data analysis
I was born in 1983, and I think Mr Happy Little Trees is not only is one of the best ASMR triggers, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't awaken the tingles in people that never before had it.
It does work on Google Maps, I find, but not on the main search page.

This is what I found: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=laptop+repair+bradford+pa&hl=...
If they're smart, Perforce will integrate their UI tools with Git. They have by far the best UI for a Git-style SCM.
All the King's Fools
Can't you use one of those online 'buy bitcoin' options? I understand using an exchange for just buying bitcoin is a bit of a hassle, but services like HappyCoins support online banking so you can just select your amount, choose the destination address, et voila.
If the OP is interested in having the same programming language on both the browser and the server side, I'd advice to keep an eye open on Ruby Volt Framework http://voltframework.com/
There was a time when an article of that length would be thoroughly researched before publication. Now, it seems acceptable to fill such articles with "going on a journey" narrative - e.g. "I personally, the reporter, sometimes had this, and it made me wonder this, so I looked it up. On YouTube there are lots of videos about it. It is called T.H.I.S. Nobody knows who invented it, but there have been lots of tweets recently. One video contains a picture of a that, and it has had 7 million views, although the sound quality is poor.." and on and on and on it goes like a junior school report.

Admittedly it does at least get a bit better as it goes on, but this style of "journalism" is very off-putting once you notice how insubstantial it really is. It really just is a long-form narration of a clicking-around-on-Google session.
Wow, adding templating there is a good idea :)

I usually did that with puppet in my previous job to create different confs per server/stage.
I was wondering why this sort of thing (i.e. agent based systems to ambiently "find, filter, and organize the huge amounts of information now available") are not more widespread. Is this an isolated set of hacks or did the work go off in some other direction?
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"Package glsprite blah blah blah TODO". Okay then :-D
ASMR artists worth watching (imho, anyways, and in no particular order):

* https://www.youtube.com/user/HeatherFeatherASMR
* https://www.youtube.com/user/ASMRrequests
* https://www.youtube.com/user/GentleWhispering
* https://www.youtube.com/user/OliviaKissperASMR
* https://www.youtube.com/user/Hlvillaire (Hailey WhisperingRose)
Npm has a new website
I dont want to brag. But there is also DBM inspired Java port. And in-memory mode outperforms java heap collections such as j.u.HashMap.
Yeah that's obviously the reasoning behind it however the specific structure with the forced 15 minute break as well has lead (unintentionally I assume) to a structure of work 9h on Monday-Thursday and 6h on Friday for most employees. So basically everyone generates roughly 2h of OT every week then takes a Friday off once they hit 6 (or saves up).

And I tend to eat a "power breakfast" and smaller snacks (apple etc.) during the day so I can live with a later lunch break. However if you don't check out after 6h the system automatically checks you out. So technically you can't just take the lunch break after 7h (you can take it after 5h).

In practical terms it's a nonissue really but the overall design just upsets me for some reason :D
According to Github 8.4% of glibc is written in assembly. You would actually expect that to be an over estimate, since assembly is guaranteed to be machine dependent.
While Cuil failed, it only cost them about $30 million to do most of what Google does.

They raised ~$30 million in two rounds, but their valuation was at $200 million by round two. I agree with your point though; the cost to develop a good search engine is dirt cheap compared to the value it brings.
This visualisation triggers it for me! http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/12/11/0900Z/wind/surface/l...

I also experience the 'frisson' sensation mentioned in the article. It usually happens when I visualise something slightly strange or funny! I have to physically shake it off.
They are targeting (1) helper libraries compiled natively (2) full screen games compiled natively. Not Dalvik.
The app framework is structured as a React mixin, everything else (lists, form controls, etc) is just React Components you can drop into your app. So for the most part how you structure your app is up to you (except for the scaffolding necessary for the view transitions). It's inspired by react-router (after the recent changes) in terms of getting out of your way.

Other than that, aside from needing some sort of compilation step for the JSX (our demo project uses browserify and gulp) the rest is up to you.

I haven't used Om or Reagent yet but I don't think there'd be anything preventing them from working with Touchstone.
You can do this with lisp-style syntax (which also (despite opinions to the contrary) is quite natural).
and very fast compilation! Almost feel instantaneous.
It'll make more sense when you know what time it is.
Ask HN: Follow Buttons vs. Share Buttons
Some sites put follow buttons on their pages so people can easily follow the Twitter/FB accounts of the site owner. Some sites put share buttons up, so people can easily recommend the content to their followers. What do you think is better?
No #ifdefs :)
@jed_watson will be able to say more but I don't think that's the case. Take a look at the starter project here:

https://github.com/Thinkmill/touchstone-starter/tree/master/...

You should be able to piece together the UI parts you need. The starter also happens to include the build process run browserify and create a phonegap build, that's all.

(disclaimer - I might be totally wrong)
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I don't really see the use of it. I want privacy. This is why I'm interested in BC. There are no other reasons. Using an 3rd party that has my bank data is pointless because I could just pay directly through the bank/CC/similar.
Is there any reason not to just use react-router?

Edit: ok I found the createApp mixin and I can see you're doing a lot of stuff in there to support the touchstone app... It would be sweet if you could delegate some of that heavy lifting and integrate with react-router at the same time...
> Most of the wasted money that Spain, Portugal and Greece pay are the interest on the loans they had to take to bail out the banks.

I don't know how you draw that conclusion. What source are you using? Interest expenditure in Spain is around 3.5% of GDP, just look at the Eurostat numbers. Then, mixing Spain's and Portugal's economic situation with Greece's is just comparing apple and oranges, as both suffer crisis for completely different reasons.

Have a start here: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index....

Then,

> Those loans provided by the international institutions are simply wealth redistribution, from the poorer southern countries to the richer countries.

If no loans where provided the savings of millions of people would of been wiped out, literary. It seems you would of preferred that.
Very inspiring story, both personally and in terms of the business. Congratulations!
Not as deep an article as I'd hoped, but it points to a difficult question. As reviewers of scientific papers have unprecedented power over what research gets published, who reviews the reviewers?

(A personal example - I have just spent a week constructing a counterargument to a reviewer who didn't read my paper properly. Imagine having an online discussion where your career success hangs on the response of an anonymous, disengaged flamer to a single post of yours: can you imagine how much effort you put into that post? Sadly this particular argument is pointless and serves nobody; it would be better use of my time to get on with actual research, but that's not how the system works).
Maybe the winning player is white and chess is a win by force for white. Or the same could even be true about black! (Probably not.)
Work Remotely to Escape the Winter and Snow
Ask HN: Any plans for a Hacker News inbox like Reddit?
Hello,

Just wondered if it was possible (or at some point going to be possible) to get notified when someone replies to a comment you've made, or a post submission you've made.

Quite like how you can see when in Reddit when someone has responded to a point you've made. There doesn't appear to be an easy way to do this on HN?

thanks
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Human rights for Internet users, here’s the guide
Is there any hard psychological or neurological research being done on ASMR?

Not to detract on people's experiences (I believe you!), but right now it looks as though there are a lot of different manifestations of the experience which are being grouped into one "ASMR" category, ranging from "it calms me" to "It feels nice" to "I get a tingling sensation" to "I am sexually aroused". I think this is why there is a lot of defensiveness about it being branded a fetish.