skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems relevant to this post - http://stratechery.com/2013/obsoletive/ - that's often been posted on Hacker News about obsoletive vs. disruptive technology.

I see this as Chipotle offering what is effectively an obsoletive product - fast food that's cheap but also has some valuable nutritional content - compared with McDonald's, who were capable of offering a highly disruptive low-end product in an environment where there was an information asymmetry.

I find this interesting because, to me, it's a demonstration that themes of obsolescence and disruption can apply to much more than just pure tech businesses.

I've never eaten at Chipotle myself (do we even have them in the UK?), but wow this is some great PR for them. Reminds me of when everyone just happened to start raving about Nando's a while back. Kudos to whoever set this up.
What jobs that we'd like computers and robots to do require self awareness?
... And what a shock it was to see that Ruby is not more popular where I am in Europe. However, when I was looking for work, I had other skills to work with.

There is plenty of JavaScript jobs here, outside Java and .NET. Possibly though, that's a given.
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Are you on Windows? I did see a post about elevated privileges here: http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=17470&p...
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If Roman Abramovich (or anyone else) wants to sink vast amounts of money into football clubs that's their call.

For me a better comparison would be that $140m is slightly less than the unit cost of an F-35B.
A text editor is made great by the plugins it has, I see no reason why a sufficiently dedicated crowd of people could'nt create better plugins in Python. The main developer has only to concentrate on a fast and easy to use text editing API so to speak.
I completely agree that Fluxible feels very verbose.. Did you try Reflux.js?
Not what I thought it would be before clicking (too much internet for me, I suppose).

One would imagine that testing would need to be fairly regular (no pun intended), so I'm not sure what the $5000 figure is meant to represent.
So we found a test to separate scientists from crackpots. Just ask what they think about JPEG!
"The very same bug used to be present in early Windows mobile GPU drivers"

Not just the early ones, no :)
Report: US to grant foreigners limited NSA data deletion rights
>We've known capitalism is broken since at least the times of Karl Marx.

By what measure is it broken when it's produced literally orders of magnitude more improvement in human living conditions than anything in the thousand years prior to the advent of capitalism?
> I've never used "Ctrl-S" as the "fast save" when writing documents. I don't know actually anybody who does

I, for one, used to have this habit. The notion of "not knowing anyone who uses Ctrl + S" is a bit funny - are you really aware whether people around you do this or not? How does it come up?
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Closest is probably http://facebook.github.io/flux/docs/overview.html
I work for the UK Government Digital Service - my views don't necessarily represent my employer.

There are lots of comments here around the idea of whether you would work for a government if you disagreed with their political views.

What I love about working on GDS projects is the potential to improve so many people's lives. People often don't have a choice when it comes to interacting with government - it's often a legal requirement, and there's only one way to do it.

So, even if sometimes I may disagree with aspects of policy, the reality is there is going to be a digital service based on it. And I can help a lot of people by being part of making it as simple as possible.
You're emphatically emphasizing something I conceded in the second sentence of my initial comment.

I was definitely more focused on the 'current operations' aspect of things though, not the autonomous vehicles. If there's a human driver, the little disruptions to the road system aren't a disaster.
Google now opens support for third party apps
I thought it was some prize for new developments of the old time internet Gopher. Oh well, I'm getting old...
Until we are honest with ourselves about the sexual dynamics (including what our wives or SO's think) that exist, we will go no where on this issue.
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Related: On that left-brain right-brain roles split(it's not really that way): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8989685
Atom has a 2 Mb file size limitation. Ridiculous.
It is not.

But that is the point of Scientific knowlege, is it not? Falsability...
Rats! I was going to make the Accelerando connection too! While we are on the subject of being outcompeted, Saturn's Children is also a pretty good read.
There's another demo here: https://github.com/zertosh/ssr-demo-kit
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Canonical launches IoT app store
A gradient fill with hot pink is always a good fit for business analysis.
We all know LinkedIn is a 'match.com' or 'tinder' or 'okcupid' for the majority of folks. "We only hire hot chicks..." a quote from the article, is very truth telling. Lets be honest folks.
super excited for a Europa mission!
First look at OnePlus’s OxygenOS reveals a flat and colorful UI
By watching normal non-programmers people like my girlfriends and programmers people like my colleagues with whom I worked closely. Former just don't do any Ctrl-anything during the writing. The later simply never needed Ctrl-S, just like I. Autosave really works in the most common tool, Word. When my girlfriend lost her work, it was never for the autosave, but for manually saving over something she did before or Word corrupting the file during the save (the corrupted file was still luckily readable by OpenOffice).
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It's really cool that MMOs are opening up for psychological and economic research.

Reminds me of the EVE full time economist:

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/06/21/real-economist-tak...

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/05/21/eve-economist-int...

I hope that the lessons derived can be applied to the "real world" (can we simulate a virtual Greece? :) ).
reflux.js isomorphic support is still in flux https://github.com/spoike/refluxjs/issues/144
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I see this argument over and over but I've never heard why it's too slow. I enter a key, the text is immediately updated. Sure, starting the editor takes 3 seconds but that's about it. Not only that, but Atom gets a faster startup with every update. The only thing I found bothersome was the 2 MB filesize restriction.
"... cannot be substantially and exclusively owned by the ratepayers ..."

Does that sentence mean that it's illegal for a municipality to form co-ops, and then for example lay their own fiber and then share the costs equally?
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> Unions do nothing to contribute to productivity (in the broader economic sense). If anything, they are a hindrance to it.

Yes, unions are (supposed) to defend the interests of workers. Not to make it easier for bosses or shareholders to profit from the workers' work.

Whether or not today's unions are still doing that is up for debate though.
NASA posts a huge library of space sounds, and it's free to use them
It's interesting to see how much Christianity changed Scandinavia by suppressing parts of the culture, while at the same time so many symbols remains.
From the maypole to wishing my relatives God Jul. :)
I was actually disappointed to see yet another Go promotional event. Can't the IETF complain for infringement? I guess not...
I have to say, the Pi 2 comes across less as a bit of fun and more as something you can really start doing interesting things with.

Currently investigating image processing and ANPR using OpenCV.
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Hey,

Swedish guy here. Any link to a non-Norwegian page with this content?
Alt[1] has isomorphic support but there are some trade offs such as you're unable to use actions on the server. But you can still keep your stores as singletons and have them be concurrent. I'm still juggling on different ways to tackle this problem to offer more flexibility. There are a couple of example apps sitting in the iso[2] repo which is an isomorphic helper class.

1: https://github.com/goatslacker/alt

2: https://github.com/goatslacker/iso/tree/master/examples
> The OPs question was whether Capitalism as we understand it now, is suited for the future when we expect most kinds of labour to be done by machines.

Capitalism "as we understand it now" is not pure capitalism, it's capitalism accompanied by a welfare system. Why is that not scalable to a future where most labour is not done by machines; what's qualitatively different between 70% of the population working with 30% on welfare, and 10% of the population working with 90% on welfare?

>Which means automation will give rise to an increasing number of people who cannot undertake non-automatable knowledge-work, and thus become doomed to be unemployed, and leads to a self-reinforcing cycle out of which they cannot escape. This is a problem that the civilization has to confront, and our current way of thinking about economics will not work there.

How is it a problem? If they're less productive than robots in every way, why not just put them on welfare? Current economics handles this perfectly.

>If we consider that each of us is beholden to the collective past of entire humanity, the idea of ownership and 'fruits of labour' becomes just a social construct. This construct nevertheless is required today and for the foreseeable future as the only practical way to divide resources. However it is a complicated and probably intractable idea, and is not at all axiomatic as you seem to make it out to be.

'Fruits of labour' is axiomatic in the sense that rejecting it necessarily entails violence. Eg, if Joe picks an apple, but is not allowed to keep the fruits of his labour, this necessarily entails violence or the threat thereof to take the apple away from Joe. If Aaron sings a song and Camelia offers him a pumpkin in exchange for this, but they're not allowed to trade freely, this necessarily implies some violence or threat thereof against them to prevent them from making the exchange. If Martha builds a car for Fred and Fred offers Martha a house in exchange, but then it's decided Fred shouldn't be allowed to keep the car, violence or the threat thereof is necessarily required to take the car from Fred. Unless Fred wanted to give it away freely, for instance charity, but he's perfectly capable of doing this anyway under a 'fruits of one's labour' system.
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I don't really like Atom because of the webkit usage, but I strongly agree that using a closed source text editor is a terrible idea for a programmer... when that editor stops being maintained all the time investment learning all it's time saving tricks is lost.

Luckily I've been burned really early in my programming career by TextMate to know better: all my tools must be OSS and cross-platform.
They're pretty clearly doing it as part of an 80s theme associated with RadioShack's boom times.

edit: I'm so wrong. I just tried out a few other Bloomberg articles. They all have the same theme. Holy crap.
I think it's just Jon now. I believe there was another developer at some point.
Well I'm not a Pi user but thanks for bmap-tools. How did I not know about this before?
The ST3 API is actually quite terrible. Superficially, it looks OK, but in truth it is:

1. extremely buggy (its trivial to crash ST3).
2. extremely limited (basically 3 pre-made widgets)
3. subject to buggy third party software for distribution (package manager often ships broken/buggy code).

Of course, one can work around the bugs with sufficient time by figuring out the magic order in which API calls can be made, or by dumping them into setTimeouts. In the mean time, Atom is building a modern, extensible editor on top of two other extremely popular platforms.
> I've never heard why it's too slow.

Because it uses Webkit and Javascript rather than being implemented natively.
Yes, this is the current consensus of the scientific community. During subduction of plates (mostly oceanic crust full of water under continental plates of lower density) the volatiles (mostly water) exits the subducting plate and lowers the viscosity and density of the overlying mantle material (viscosity describing the 'fluidness' of the material, higher viscosity = less fluid). The material will then rise up and there will be volcanism, recycling the material back to the surface. This is what you see in most major volcanic arcs, such as the Andes or Japan.

The idea that plate tectonics and water are intrinsically linked (at given circumstances) is pretty solidified. The theory of why not such much; the idea above fits our current data best, but data from the planet's interiour is hard to come by and I expect some updates to the theory within a few decades. It's nice that this is currently not critical knowledge for humanity.
I use Atom over Sublime Text these days but there's no denying that it's much slower. It'll improve as time goes on but it takes longer to start and can very sluggish when a lot of text is being displayed. I also frequently hit the 2MB limit, far more than I thought I would do.
It's great. SB3 beta has been completely stable for me the past year, so looking forward to testing the new builds.
Who knows? Bunch of cheeky bastards with a flux capacitor obsession really.
GDS in the UK is staffed by a lot of ex-Guardian people, and that is telling. They're amazingly good at building web sites, and shockingly bad at enterprise.There's also a lot of ego in the senior technical staff (technical architects).

GDS is very good, but GDS faces some challenges. Introspection takes humility.
>How? Does a union provide a path from the factory floor to being an engineer without needing a degree, or... what?

They tell the management that the current situation is really dumb and won't fly, and they have the power to back it up. A union should ideally work for the self-interest of the workers and fight for a larger piece of the pie that is the company, but also try to make the pie bigger.
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Autonomous vehicles seem to set off this distortion field that makes otherwise intelligent people ignore everything they know about the state of any number of technologies and the nature of bringing enormously complex systems from research labs into production. We could probably have autonomous vehicles in a limited way under controlled circumstances like interstates in a decade or so. Though if that's optimistic I wouldn't be surprised given that this would be a feature of $100K luxury cars. Robo taxis? My money is on multiple decades which is utterly uninteresting for a VC funded company today.
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Given that the only thing that has changed is the more powerful CPU, I'd say same fun and more interesting things! ;)
It looks like there is only an English trailer for now.
Probably not, especially suitably advanced life, but we don't know. Our world is still very narrow. It's an ethical question that should be discussed before we destroy stuff. If the consensus was to go ahead anyway, that's fine too.
The text on the page is mostly English.

Also it's kind of funny that you should ask, since as a Swedish person, you're probably better-equipped than the majority of HN readers to understand a few words of Norwegian. :)

Here's a trailer, with English subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SCHfV97D7I.
It shows in English for me here.

Quartz also had a brief article on it: http://qz.com/333940/what-three-norwegian-fashionistas-learn...
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Slightly off-topic, but I'm a big fan of the design and UX improvements that the GDS is bringing to gov't services. Please keep it up!
Better link: http://www.aftenposten.no/webtv/serier-og-programmer/sweatsh...

This one shows the whole thing. One can watch all episodes online with English subtitles.
To be honest it was so long ago I can't really remember too much. I recall trying to learn SQL and relational theory but just not getting it and thinking I would never use it anyway - how naive I was! That might have been A-Level.

They taught us BASIC, I can't remember the computers we had, I don't think they were popular ones. I do remember one of my colleagues really struggled with his practical project because he named all his variables a, aa, aaa, aaaa and so on. There was a maximum variable length of 8 characters so things went all wrong when he needed to use 9 variables. I don't think we were taught anything about quality software development, using decent variable names, algorithms etc..

Overall I did find the courses incredibly easy and I aced both without even trying. It was university where things started to get a bit more challenging.

I did science and maths as well, I did get much more out of those courses.
That doesn't solve the problem, it merely changes its name. There has always been the need to match workers to tasks.

In stable, large companies this was done with middle managers and human resources departments, which meant that you nominally got to keep the same "job". Remove that, and there's still a need to allocate resources, that now will be filled with things like the API's the article talks about, or "freelance-like" human resources companies.

Workers will still keep a stable relation to the APIs they know (as learning a new one takes time and effort). The only thing lost in this name change is the safety network of a legal work contract.
It's really neat. Would be cool if it had attachment support and stuff like that as well.
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That's an interesting way to say "there's a line item in a budget that hasn't been passed".
...sometimes even hacking of the "forcefully applying a sharp instrument" variety. That poor MAV!
VLC for iOS is back in App Store – not by VideoLAN
In Biosphere 2 the human volunteers ended up IIRC needing a few millilitres of liquid oxygen injected every 6 months or so. Perfect? No, and we'll probably never get to 100% perfection. But it's pretty damn close; if that was all you needed you could ship a big supply from Earth every decade or so, and it starts to look relatively affordable.

(Of course most parts of space are much more hostile than an Earth desert)
http://blog.jilion.com/2012/12/14/introducing-sublimevideo-h... So we were promised the SublimeVideo Framework but that never came :(. So anyways, does anyone know any other video player with the ability to customize the media player extensively?
Pfft. Or you could just press Alt-Space, M, and then the arrow keys to "bind" the move to the mouse movement. This will let you bring the dialog back onscreen.

On second thought, I'll be glad when I don't have to know that.
RAM also doubled to 1GB.
If you're asking why I use git at all, my IDE crashes often enough that I don't want it to be my sole store of history; also I want that history available to my colleagues or my future self, weeks or months from now.
The BBC did their own version of this in 2008 called Blood Sweat and T Shirts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood,_Sweat_and_T-shirts

The gimmick was that most of the kids were ludicrous pampered upper middle class fashion students with no sense of perspective, or at least the programme was edited to portray them as such. Much of the entertainment came from watching them subjected to backbreaking labor while their self-contained worldviews crumbled around them.
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I've always seen the difference between round numbers as being a question of arbitrariness.

If the price for a new TV is exactly $1,000 it strikes me as a price that was arrived at arbitrarily. $999 just gets rounded up in my head. Whereas when I see an amount like $1,012 I feel like -- rightly or wrongly -- that there must be some logic behind the price. That it represents a price set for a reason other than mere marketing.
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What tragedy ?

Measles

How can we do that ?

Vaccination.
CryptonorDB – privacy aware cloud-mobile db
That is a great point. A year without a single beta build, and yet they have not explained to the consumers anything.

Just resumed, as if nothing has happened. That is a warning: you are at mercy of a small & private company, which does not seem to care much.
Ask HN: How do you document your processes?
Working for a large enterprise I find some attempt at process documentation is often made when new projects are running, which over time goes stale / lives with the project rather than being updated with the business/processes. There's no cohesive view of the organisation whereby you can drill down into the detail of each piece.

Do you work for an enterprise, a startup, or something in between?
How are your processes documented; are they across the business, or maintained in silos?
What tools do you use to aid in documenting and maintaining these?
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> I think they want a seriously diversified revenue stream

I totally agree with this. If I were working at Google, the main thing that would keep me awake at night is the long-term dependence on a single-source of income, i.e. advertising. And there's a lot of reasons advertising is not a good business to be reliant upon. It's pretty terrifying when you look at their revenue stats.

I'm surprised they haven't already achieved this diversity yet, though. Surely at IPO it would have been their number one concern?
I remember, back in 2008, I directly asked him if I could make something like his page and showed him a screenshot of my version.

Mine had a keyboard and a pencil instead of my face.

He said to go ahead. At the end I didn't, but that's a different story.
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What really marketers miss is the difference between raw data and meaningful data.

What is raw data?

Number of visits
Unique Visitors
Country

What's meaningful data?

Source/Medium
Time spent on
Intent of user
Visitor journey etc.

Turning meaningful data to scale a marketing strategy is more important than anything.

For an example, if a specific blog is sending you massive traffic and the visitors are converting into subscribers and buyers.

Then you should look out for a way to add more of similar blogs to double and triple your conversions.
Should it be so easy to install security certificates?
I feel like that's an old way of thinking. If websites are too grow up and become first class applications, and advancements in Chrome and Firefox are paving that way, we want the browser to become a very thin runtime that doesn't impose any behaviors of its own. It should be mostly transparent to the user that they are in a browser. The fact that different browsers use different shortcuts makes that all the more important, that browser shortcuts need to be invoked in other ways that won't conflict.
I'm not sure if it's happening now, but at one point in time F5 wouldn't work to reload the page if twitter is loaded.

And not to mention google plus, that swallows Ctrl+PgDown and Ctrl+PgUp, which happen to be shortcuts to move through tabs. So you are moving through tabs, then you suddenly stop, and you have to reach for the mouse.