skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knight Capital. It was a big deal. Not an old wive's tale. http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3522.html
As an Australian living in Japan, I quickly recognised that as the Japanese word for ten thousands! :P
TVs and phones are very low-margin products. Batteries are high margin products. I think the RadioShack cost for a 2-pack of AA batteries is about 5-20 cents, and they charge like 5 dollars, right? A TV or phone costing $500 to RS probably sells for $502. At least, that's how The Source works in Canada (former RadioShack).

Telecom contracts, however, are high-margin, and they'll have to continue increase their mobile contracts significantly if they want to stay in business.
Could ES6 be ignored by industry because of its stark difference to ES5?
The Space Shuttle's cargo bay was the size it was so it could carry military satellites to orbit. Vandenberg Air Force Base was going to be a west coast launch site for the shuttle, and it seems as though every astronaut use to be a Navy pilot. Our program was plenty "militarized."
The level of FUD here is astounding. AngularJS is not perfect, nor certainly are the major competitors. React seems to be dribbling out a piece at a time to us and each piece gets its own name and arrives in its own time. That makes it a little bit difficult to use as a framework. Hopefully it will all eventually jell and provide a really different take on how to build the front-end. I'd love it if there was a third choice with the same level of support behind it out there to give both of them a run for their money.

But this is reality here: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=angularjs%2C%20ember....

See those lines hugging the bottom of the chart? They're everything that isn't AngularJS and React. React is clearly on the uptick and AngularJS on the downtick for the partial Feb data they've got, but everybody else is in the noise level.

Yet people here would have you think:

1: It's old! - Really? 1.0 shipped in mid 2012. In three years we will have gone from 1.0 to 1.4 and some work done on 2.0.

2: It's going to change tomorrow when 2.0 comes out. - Really? Have you spoken to the other guy just above? He seems to think it's decrepit, you're worried that anything you build with it will have to be thrown away tomorrow because of its astounding rate of change.

3: Using the Chinese menu system of putting together a front-end framework is perfectly viable. Just pick something from columns A/B/C/D and throw it together and start using it. You'll find lots of people who can answer your questions, there are books written on that particular combo of tech, and there are developers out there by the hundreds you can hire who will have no problem diving right into your projects.

No. It doesn't really work that way. Pick an arbitrary grab bag of stuff and maybe you'll make some excellent choices. But you'll have to live with that decision for quite a while. Even a less popular stack like Ember.js is going to get more third party support than whatever you decide upon for yourself.

Above all, please do a quick experiment for me. The next time somebody tells you that AngularJS is a dead end and you can't rely on it for years to come, ask them what they would have recommended back in 2013? Just two years ago. What set of stuff would they have advocated then that would be doing so well today and have this long lived future into 2017+ that wasn't AngularJS? Backbone.js? I don't know of anything.

My point is this, the front-end and JavaScript tech is changing at a rate way too high for anyone's predictions about two and three years down the road to have a lot of merit. AngularJS seems like a reasonable bet to have done well and have lots of info available about migration from 1.X to 2.0 so at the moment I'm still on that path. In the meantime I hope to learn more about Facebook's stuff to see if it gives me useful ideas or to see if I can incorporate parts of it into AngularJS (Flux seems interesting for instance and would likely slide into most of the frameworks). But the people below who speak with such certainty about the future... Maybe they don't see it as clearly as they think.
This is terrible.

The pole needs to be able to move back and forth to accommodate different fulcrum points with relationship to differing weights.

See video at 1:20 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWAO3ZhD8_Q

Plus, the flat dual pole method allows for some spring in the pole so that it doesn't weigh down the carrier with each step.

I'm glad that this was posted by OP. We need to be able to discuss design failures like this, instead of just down voting them.

I think all this could have been avoided if the design firm had been forced to use a pole for all their carrying needs for a week, or even a month, out in the field. The first two things that they would have discovered is the beauty of moving the fulcrum point and the fact that it's nice for a pole to have some bounce to it.

Additionally, the pictures of them trying on the poles, in their corporate meeting rooms, gave me the absolute creeps, smacking of entitled ignorance, to both the problem and the solution.

God I hope we aren't backlashing and heading back to an age of internationalism with regards to design, just because we became such relativists in post modernism that we thought that no single solution could be better than another.

Arrgh.
> famous drug addicts

With that much selection bias you'll probably find exactly what you're looking for.
Tried remote yet?

I'd love to do away with my daily driving grind, but every time I emailed someone I got a "we don't really want remote developers, we just say we do; have you considered moving to SF?". Unfortunately, it's unlikely that I'll be getting the same spacious 2BR2BA (with 2 parking spots!) for $800 in SF (not to mention one block away from daycare), and I don't want my salary to be eaten by rent
Encapsulation doesn't in any way prevent you from exposing multiple levels of abstraction.
Split also provides some spring to the pole.
Haven't used it but you may find https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712703 of interest
I didn't find any aspect of psychedelics numbing. Rather the opposite for me.
Please don't call me lazy. I tried to understand the announcement and it just didn't make a whole lot of sense so I asked questions about it.

@cperciva answered those questions for me in a much more pleasant way than you did.

That being said, the reason I am confused is because it doesn't really change anything. Releases were already for the most part supported for 5 years, and new releases were already cut once every two years (look at 9.0-RELEASE and 10.0-RELEASE).
Yes, the pivot as well.
> I don't really care about .DS_store etc as they're hidden

They ain't if you are on Windows.
>Virtualbox still exists. I guess. It has not done anything in about half a decade, though.

What do you mean? I use VirtualBox for lots of stuff and it gets regular updates... it's also faster than VMWare in most benchmarks I've seen. Perhaps you're thinking of something else when speaking of 'not doing anything'?
Why don't they implement their own local, monitored, cell network. They could still charge for minutes and data, but control what can be accessed and also monitor communications. Disney cruise ships have something similar called a 'wave phone'.
jdonaldson mentions the pivot as well. Yes, the current pole allows the user to pivot to be parallel and perpendicular to their pole.
A few little arguments in favor of this practice:

1. You plug a USB device into one Mac. It asks you if you want to use it for Time Machine. You say no. Now, no other Mac will ask you this question again—because the preference has been stored on the drive, instead of on the computer.

2. You create a folder with an app you've written in it, and customize it with a cute "drag [this] onto [shortcut to Applications folder]" background, centering the icons on the background positions and sizing the window to perfectly fit the representation. You then copy this folder to another Mac (or any equivalent process, such as converting it into a DMG disk image and having someone download it.) They see exactly what you saw.

3. You keep an external hard disk that you frequently move back-and-forth between two Macs. The first time you plugged it into one of the Macs, it was indexed. Each time you modify it on either Mac, that index gets updated. The most recently created files are the most likely to be the ones you'll want to find through Spotlight when you plug the disk into the other Mac—but if the index was machine-local rather than disk-local, the new Mac wouldn't know about the new files yet, and would have to finish re-indexing to find them. (This is, of course, what happens when you modify the disk on a Windows computer, and it sucks. We really need a "metadata index API" to start being an expected offering of a filesystem, such that all OSes interacting with the filesystem can read and update it!)

On the other hand, Windows' Thumbs.db is exactly the sort of thing you don't want cached on the media. It'd be a great innovation if, say, cameras could pre-generate Thumbs.db files so Windows could immediately show the user what was on an SD card the first time it got plugged in... but cameras don't, because Thumbs.db is a random proprietary format. So, instead, it's only useful in the same situation that the Spotlight index is: moving a drive full of photos back and forth between two computers. Which might have separate screen DPI, and thus be set to show different thumbnails, meaning new thumbnails will get generated anyway.
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You are correct. Fixed fulcrum, not a good idea. Non-fixed fulcrum, a great idea. The existing design is better on this case.
Running a virtualized instance of BSD does not point toward or away from any particular host OS or piece of laptop hardware. Virtualization brings all brands and Operating Systems into the mix.
I'm sure the first book was very good but I never read it and feel negatively about it. Why? Simple. Because it was on the high school required reading list. I looked around at the teachers, looked around at the town, looked around at the larger society in which I lived, and decided very early I was having no part of indoctrination.

It's too bad. Because it probably is a good book. The bible might be as well. But I'll never know because suspicion of indoctrination ruined it for me. Maybe this is a personal failing. But putting books on the high school required reading list is a good way to make thinking people suspicious of motive in my view.
mmilano mentions benefits of non-fixed fulcrum as well.
That's really just silliness on the part of Apple; if they're creating dotfiles on a FAT32/NTFS/ExtFS disk, they should be setting the Hidden attribute for those same files. This is what e.g. Samba does automatically for network-attached FAT/NTFS folders on OSX/Linux clients, if I recall.
Unfortunately, Ballmer's managerial approach is what killed it. He might have known that helping developers was the way to go, but he also thought that competition in the organization would lead to better performance. My understanding is that this idea failed in some of the most vicious and destructive ways possible. I hope that the very visible failure of his cut-throat management style and setting up so many disincentives to cooperation in the organization is highly recognized in management-theory circles. It turns out making your company a terrible place to work with everyone at each others throats isn't a good idea. Whodathunkit?
Cool, I retract my complaint then.
Yet IBM CEO was given a raise after last year.
it doesn't really change anything

The timeline for dropping support of point releases is important. The rest is mainly about improving communication: Many users were not aware that we supported releases for 5 years, for example, because all they ever saw was the advertised "12 months" or "24 months" for point releases.
Offer something valuable every week or fortnightly. May be unique content as a blogpost. It can certainly help!

Also, I believe you can improve your form for signup. Its way too basic. Try to improve UX if possible!
A Bookmarklet That Creates a Game of DDR on Bandcamp in the Browser
We don't know what happens with YY, but yeah, at least a terrible syndrome.
How long ago were you there? Things seemed to start to dive 2-3 years ago.
I understand that major devices will be impossible or difficult to merge back, especially if there are invasive changes. In the past though even relatively simple changes were not MFC'ed until someone asked for it, and once MFC'ed it took a long time for it to appear in a point -RELEASE. Tracking stable/ isn't for the faint of heart, and especially isn't for those of us that want to do binary upgrades.

Will this change in the support policy allow point -RELEASE's to be made more often, thereby more closely tracking changes on that particular branch of stable? Rather than some of the 8+ months that have happened in the past between point releases?

Thank you for clarifying cperciva!
Do you really think that any risk-based company would operate under any of those philosophies besides "pull over gracefully"?
So does a retail presence in every state mean that Amazon will pay sales tax?
Sounds like the only thing that would fit your bill would be IntelliJ IDEA using Java bindings for either wxWidgets, Qt or GTK+?
And the kids whose parents couldn't afford to have them genetically improved? They just exist as some sort of permanent underclass?

If you think the inequality and the way poor people get treated is a problem now, wait until rich people are actually genetically superior to the poor.
i'm completely agree with you about it being in general a great progressive thing, a dream come true.

The devil is always in implementation details. I can't avoid amazement about extrapolating Monsanto DNA-modified seeds tight licensing control unto human "designer" genes.
Indeed. I'm reminded of this org chart comparison...
http://www.bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts/
I also believe that nuclear/solar will provide us with our holy grial energy source; but we've been expecting this for the last 50 years so I don't hold my hopes too high.
Yes, the understanding for how long point releases will be supported makes a lot of sense and will definitely help. The rest (5 year support timeline) was already something I understood from having followed the project for some time, I just didn't understand if this announcement changed my understanding thereof.
So far as I am aware, ALL usable operating systems are burdened with that sort of thing. I'd really like to see someone at least attempt a clean-slate OS. Make it 64-bit only from the start, vector fonts to support HighDPI displays from the beginning, etc. It would likely accumulate such cruft over time, but I would expect there to be substantial advantages to building from scratch something that rolls in all of the research advances and assumes capable modern hardware.
"Crash-only engineering" is a method of systems engineering, not device engineering; it only works if you get to design both sides of the socket.

In the case of a system that needs hard-realtime input once it gets going (like milling equipment), the "crash-only" suggestion would be for it to have a watchdog timer to detect disconnections, and automatically switch from a "do what the socket says" state to a "safe auto-clean and shutdown" state.

In other words, crash-only systems act in concert to push the consequences of failure away from the site of the failure (the server) and back to whoever requested the invalid operation be done (the client.) If the milling controller crashes, the result would be a mess of waste metal ejected from the temporarily-locked-up-and-ignoring-commands process equipment. The equipment would be fine; the output product (and the work area, and maybe the operators if they hadn't been trained for the failure case) would not be.
Took me a while to figure out what was going on.
How does this compare/contrast vs opencl.jl[1]?

When working in julia, what are the benefits of tying oneself to CUDA (and not running accelerated on on-die graphics or on amd gpus) -- or doesn't nvidia work reliably/well with opencl?

[1] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/OpenCL.jl
You run the risk of it, sure. However, early mover advantage is quite large in all things. Including finding the right abstractions. To paraphrase a witty quote, how do you know the correct abstractions to make? By making the wrong ones.
The forgetting curve
Sad to see another awesome bookstore go.

First Bogey's Books in Davis, then even Borders. :(

From what I heard at the time, Powell's (one of the bookstore others would sell their inventory to) was overwhelmed with shipments from closing bookstores and the market rate for used domestic books was quite low for a long time. Has this changed?
Hopefully users will push back; demanding to be given more options, and more control. We've gotten to a point where the role technology plays in our lives is too integral to keep letting that control slip away, one "harmless" feature at a time.

Amen to that. Unfortunately it seems the trend is towards hiding the filesystem/concept of files completely from the user and replacing it with app-specific isolated storage in a proprietary format, which is even worse than unsolicited filesystem modifications. (On the other hand, it could be argued that these modifications would become even less noticeable in such a system... which is good or bad depending on who you ask. I'm firmly on the latter side.)

A physical write-protect is something all removable storage should have.
>The world fresh water supply is renewable and renews at a rate several orders of magnitude greater than human consumption.

I'm gonna need source on that one, please.
And Paul Erdos, one of the most prolific mathematicians, would say the opposite:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s

He took speed everyday, and said it gave him great ideas. On a bet, he stopped taking them for a month, and said that month was a waste of time.

I suspect most successful speed users aren't going to talk about it like he did.
That's correct, but the GP comment is unfortunate in that it is either a deliberate misinterpretation of my comment, or one made from a very superficial understanding of the text.
Oh, it's not the most likely hypothesis; not having access to the book yet I can't even say if it'd even be a relevant question. My most likely depressing scenario is that it's a less interesting novel that wasn't published at the time because it simply wasn't as interesting, and Harper Lee isn't in a position to evaluate it because she hasn't read it in fifty years.

I'm hoping for a happy ending here, though.
Just be careful. A coworker of mine did this recently and forgot the -name part. Accidentally deleted everything, including the .git directory. He sure wished he had pushed that day.
Incidentally, the HN favicon seems to be #dc721f, which isn't consistent with the logo on HN or topcolor.. and the logo at the top-level http://ycombinator.com seems to be #f16522. (Through my color picker, modulo dithering/gradients/aliasing artifacts.)
Not only that. It's pretty much impossible to see where you are in the text. If one is going to get rid of scrolling, it should be replaced by something better. I just find this to be unusable.

Am I alone in this, or are there actual arguments why paging is better than scrolling?
Is Medium looking to be to magazines what the Huffington Post is to newspapers?
That article didn't even mention dark matter and dark energy. Those also "contradict basic physics" in the sense that they need to be conjured into existence to explain our observations.
Ahh, I see. Yeah, I guess I meant that each paradigm is inherently a different value for different domains, and so therefore has a different value for programmers who specialize in their domain(s). And when someone checks out a paradigm that doesn't match their domain, they may end up complaining about how the tool isn't good.

Love the links. Listening to Blow talk now. Will look at the longer book later.
I do not like sites that try to do pagination and page-turning. If I wanted that UX I would get the ePub version of the content.

The UI is not "unseen" either: there are grey divider lines between UI components, and the expected interaction is not even hinted at.

How do I copy a paragraph that spans page boundaries? How do I bookmark a section of interest in a longer article?
I'm sorry, what? That sounds awesome.
I know that second-guessing Russian scientists about the efficacy of their weapons is something Americans just can't resist doing. But .. really? You honestly don't think 5.45x39 would stop a Russian bear? This, based on how many years of living in a bear-infested area, like the Russian scientists who made the decision .. ?
I agree with the GP; I don't think code reviews or testing was the problem.

I think the best-practices they violated is that they deprecated and repurposed a flag within a single release cycle. That sort of activity should take two release cycles at least, one to remove the old functionality and one to add the new functionality.
> Does it become wrong because you make a list instead of doing it indiscriminately?

Yes, it indicates this is wrong. There's a profound difference between killing someone in the heat of battle versus the president reviewing kill lists every Tuesday. The latter suggests a lack of imminence. Add to that he's a citizen and that the battlefield is any place where "terror" is.

Arguably, al-Awlaki simply preached dissent. Granted, you can argue he was a traitor actively trying to harm the US. In that case, so is Hammond, and a lot of other people conveniently on official lists.

Just because you disagree, even vehemently, with al-Awlaki's message, does not mean that we should compromise our principles of due process. Larry Flynt wasn't an ideal poster boy for free speech advocates. But his justice affirmed the strength of the 1st Amendment and was a small step in erasing racial boundaries (he published interracial porn shortly before being tried on obscenity). So I think lumping al-Awlaki and Hammond together is very much productive.
It looks to me as if "unseen" refers to the UI being "invisible" or "unobtrusive" to the user. One might be tempted to use words loke "obscured" or "obfuscated" if one was less charitable.
The Sears & Roebuck dealer store (Smaller Sears stores in typically in rural locations) remade as an Amazon Prime depot/storefront?
THIS... buying 2nd class real estate locations won't improve it just with a new name...
A massive data dive proves that languages and genes evolve together
Leadership in small business
Not rsync (and not a fan of LTS), but hopping around his major points.

Five year support for a release every two years still means three balls in the air.

No dedicated timeline for minor releases. Could still be 13 months between 11.1 and 11.2.

Doesn't address question of what actually gets back ported. Will new em updates go into stable?
Interesting, and reminiscent of what Douglas Hofstadter has called Sphexishness <http://www.personalityresearch.org/evolutionary/sphexishness...
Show HN: CSS grid generator
I'm from México and I'm going to travel to the valley in three or six months because I'm launching an app.

Your app would make my life easier because I want to meet angel investors, incubators, accelerators, co-working spaces and VC firms.

I'm all ready in your beta list!.

I'm also looking for early traction, so I would be follow how the conversation about betalist.com goes.
.Net actually promises a bit more 'write once run anywhere' than Java. Java stuff is not, and does not seek to be, binary compatible across platforms. .Net is. I'd really love to see, once .Net is all open, browser makers to throw the CLR into the browser. Overnight it would release us from the tyranny of js and let us use basically any language we ever want.
*that hour.

Surely you don't cruise through to the end of a day without pushing at least once before lunch? :(