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This was posted last week. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8998008
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Obvious plagiarism is obvious. It has nothing to do with tree-maps in blue palette.
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Meh, let's not overestimate our current selves.
They are more or less agreeing with you that convenient scaling is a feature. They just use a bad analogy, and you talk past each other a lot.

(I agree that they miss the point that you aren't promoting metric)
No, in this case, he was being dumb. He started out with a complete non sequitur, and then got fixated on that.

Clarification: the guy was being dumb, but I was dumb for engaging with him in the first place. I'm in no way 'blaming' somebody for being dumb.
I think that a good point he was making has to do with " Right now".
How about we compare apples to apples and stop trying to make cases for the future, when google or apple take over the car system can mean 3-5 years from now.
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Ask HN: What is “full stack” actually?
I'm reading all those "full stack" topics and can't help but scratch my head.

What does it describe? Is this some common basic term I'm actually missing?

To me full stack would start way down at the hardware design and end just when the computation has finished and (possibly) persisted to disk. A vast field that I can't possibly hope to learn in a lifetime.

Dear HN please enlighten me
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There is nothing wrong with companies "copying/stealing" designs. But it is wrong when you are criticizing others for doing so while you are doing it.

See TechInAsia previous rants on "copying designs":

https://www.techinasia.com/flightfox-copy-rip-off-nomadlist/

https://www.techinasia.com/china-startup-copy-listener/
It's time to start buying large monitors, I think.
Languages have momentum (growth, static, decay), and to change the momentum, something big has to happen, and usually big things do not happen. Past performance can generally be used as a predictor of future performance.
>Trying doing that with cocaine or heroin. Actually do not try it because you will be addicted and have serious health consequences.

This only because heroin is illegal. Pure heroin is very gentle and harmless drugs. The worst you can get from pure heroin is constipation. While it may be unpleasant compare it to the effects of long term alcohol use which includes cirrhosis, serious heart problems, etc.
You right, it discriminates poor people, but it is hard to imagine that anyone can build next google without money
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Why the all-caps title? It looks like your shouting.
Most of the time, I use straight gdb to debug my C code because that's how I was introduced to it. Then I was told about gdb -tui, which starts gdb with a curses like interface in your shell. It's a nice little trick I wish I was told about earlier.

I have to relearn gdb every time I use it, so if anyone knows of a good resource (tutorial, blogpost, book) please share it :).
well , also a help desk. Tried to learn to code, failed so many times.
Americans didn't simplify and streamline the English language, certainly not intentionally. If you're talking about the spelling thing, there were no standard spellings at the time when the US broke away from Britain; standards were independently created at a later date.
If only there was a way of analyzing the quality of the repository. Are those 1000s of snippet-size JS libraries and Ruby gems meaningful?

It's interesting that strong static languages have more issues open (top 5) - easier to spot them?
Oppose the totally insane system used along with U.S. paper sizes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_density#Basis_weight

In order to figure out the actual mass of a sheet of U.S. paper from the reported basis weight, you must know how many sheets of paper were in the "basis ream" and what dimensions they were. The basis ream sheet dimensions may have nothing to do with your final sheet of paper, and the number of sheets varies too.
Is there are reason that B5 sized paper sheets are only available as imports from Japan in Europe?

The strict interpretation of the B series as a packaging format for the A series only seems somewhat archaic.
Jesus, besides the merit of CB Insights' claim, this whole thing reeks of incompetence. You're a YC-funded startup and you can't do your own visual design? I'll admit that when I need ideas/designs, I'll often head over to the D3 gallery page, copy the relevant parts of the code, but at least modify it so that it looks different, and actually meets my needs. What's comical is not only did they purportedly rip off a design, but they ripped off a pretty prosaic one. And I don't know what's the worser sign of their operational capacity, that they signed into a competitor's product to take code/get inspiration, or that they couldn't even be bothered to come up with fake email addresses, or that it required 12 employees to go in and successfully make off with the designs.

Edit: Also, as a data-handling-person, the startup's defense that their inspiration is "only the way data is displayed" is annoying...data display is very important...but also, data display is the first thing people see, and I imagine is the thing that makes it into slidedecks in lieu of actual proof of quality of data analysis and data research...if you have the resources to be great and different at the "backend" part of data work, you most definitely have the ability to not just borrow someone's design...as good data display often follows a bespoke understanding of the data itself.

Also, I must credit HighCharts and its well-documented API as getting me through various crunch-time oh-shit-I-need-a-web-graph-right-now situations http://www.highcharts.com/demo
How do I calculate the opportunity cost of not migrating?
I still go on walks to "waste time". Feels great. I don't see our legs being completely obsoleted yet.
Indeed it says: "You will receive your new device and the cover in March." and "Availability: Out of stock" if you try to purchase it.

I find the educative/interactive animation/game funny. The one that you are forced to play before getting to the checkout screen.
"ASN parsing code, in general"... this sounds like you're a bit stuck in ad-hoc ASN.1 parsers written in C...

We actually use combinators for doing that - this explains our ASN.1 library in more depth: http://openmirage.org/blog/introducing-asn1
I see driverless cars removing the need to own a personal car (within urban environments). Some people unfortunately want the private space that a car provides to them.

Driverless cars enable better car pooling. "Would you be happy sharing your journey and reducing your charge by 50%/66%/75%"

I see entrenched taxi firms having a massive issue with these.

Note I've assumed that it would be legal to have a car drive around without a person in the driving seat able to take control. However I think this is a critical legal point to get to to make driverless cars a persuasive transport solution.
It would be really neat to see how many repos have been abandoned per language (e.g. no activity in X)
English is far from being streamlined.

In fact it's the only language I know that requires you to learn how to pronounce EACH word.

Most languages only require learning how each letter sounds, and maybe a few dozen di/trigraphs, the rest is regular. Not so in English.
Ouch.

Error: EMFILE, too many open files '/root/hyperloop/views/error.jade'
at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:439:18)
at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:290:15)
at handleTemplateCache (/root/hyperloop/node_modules/jade/lib/index.js:171:37)
at Object.exports.renderFile (/root/hyperloop/node_modules/jade/lib/index.js:360:10)
at View.exports.renderFile [as engine] (/root/hyperloop/node_modules/jade/lib/index.js:350:21)
at View.render (/root/hyperloop/node_modules/express/lib/view.js:93:8)
at EventEmitter.app.render (/root/hyperloop/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:530:10)
at ServerResponse.res.render (/root/hyperloop/node_modules/express/lib/response.js:933:7)
at /root/hyperloop/app.js:109:9
at Layer.handle_error (/root/hyperloop/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:58:5)
> is likely to continue that trend in 2015.

Going to state the obvious and say JavaScript. For all of the obvious reasons but also because ES6 is going to make it more palpable for those who formerly found it distasteful.
I can't warp my head around how quick Vega is to rise (ESA's new light launcher). Here's a video from its qualification flight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IZ6d4wTCg

So far, everything is going well on the mission but I'm very anxious about the reentry of the IXV.
raldi didn't say that anyone was or wasn't being dumb. He said that "instead of BLAMING OTHERS for [x], YOU might want to [y]".

Blaming others is a poor lifestyle adaptation. Whether or not the other guy was actually dumb or not isn't relevant.
Only because they're unique and don't get repeated for months on end. If you could show me a unique ad every time, I might be ok with it. But in general, I see the same shit day in and day out and that's what's annoying about it.
2^4 x 21 mm x 29.7 mm ~ 1 m^2

Yup, he was being dumb.
"Loading time" needs to be considered unacceptable by industry. It's really blatant. I was at a Subaru dealership, ready to plunk down on a brand new 2015 Impreza, when the guy told me they all have the touchscreen infotainment setup. I asked him to show it to me. We sat in the car, he turned the key, and the first thing that showed up on the screen was... a loading bar. I walked out and bought a 2011 Mazda.

Making me wait when I didn't have to before isn't acceptable. I don't have to wait with my "dumb" TV. I don't have to wait with my non-infotainment car radio. Whatever benefits you think your new product has, introducing load times makes it instantly unacceptable to me.
Sort of disconcerting that R is somewhat flat in terms of its growth though.
Thought this was really interesting. Wish I'd read it a year ago before I started working with my juniors. I feel so inept at times because I can be impatient and rude without even meaning to be. I regularly get paranoid that I'm not teaching anything other than bad habits.

Will be interesting to see how long I can keep up the "just don't type" advice...
I think he's referring to the number of repositories (which is not a percentage of total) is pretty much flat in the last year.
he probably copy and pasted it from the page.
http://hyperlooptech.com/careers
In the "Engineer - Test & development" position, one of the qualifications is:
"Knowledge of database software such as Microsoft Excel"
Not sure I want to get on a Hyperloop! =P
This is an excellent point. During university, I was part of a team that published a business case centred around the story of Vidalia Sweet Onions. This guy had developed a technology that took a sample of onions from a farmer's field, crushed the onions, and analyzed them for the characteristics that made for sweetness. The batches were tagged with grid numbers to enable farmers to confirm which plots of land had the type of soil necessary to make truly sweet onions. This then enabled the farmers to guarantee the sweetness level of various onions. The old guard was absolutely against it, as the collective of farmers that sold under the brand of Vidalia onions partly depended on the mysticism of not knowing which plots of land were able to generate sweet onions. Without this testing technology, the farmers were all on a level playing field, irregardless of their actual soil composition. The testing technology was able to clarify which emperors had no clothes. Whether a farmer can or should be able to own the data that is critical to his success is a question people never really had to consider before.

I liken it to mining. The companies who dig for various mineral deposits make significant investments into exploration of the ground. Their exploration generates a ton of data. They use that data to determine where to dig further and estimate the financial potential of the deposits. This then determines company stock values. It's ludicrous that such data may not be owned by the mining company that generated it (or acquired the rights for it). Obviously, what's happening with farms and FarmLogs is not a perfect analogy. But the parallels are interesting.
Notably not part of the review: the economic impact from hundreds of thousands of drivers becoming unemployed. In fact, no mention at all of the wider political landscape in this review.

It's one thing having the technology in place - and we're some way away from having something that can manage London - it's another thing entirely getting it deployed.

Driverless trains have been a technical reality for decades; the Tube still has drivers (and "captains").
> Our terms of service which all these users agreed to prohibits this explicitly – You may not access the Services if You are Our direct competitor, except with Our prior written consent.

Is that something that is actually defensible?
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I do this a lot for printing out (research) articles, and the answer is that the text gets shrunk much more, and the margins increased to account for the difference. (This actually turns out to be useful in practice, since there's much more whitespace to take notes in.)
Lack of demand in the States for ISO 216 sizes in general makes it so that relatively/comparatively few stock such paper in the U.S. When wanting to print to the edges (full bleed), publishers will often print on B sized paper sheets with crop marks for A size (and then crop the paper to A size) or similarly print on A and crop to B.
Isn't this an Elon Musk venture? I see no mention of him on the website.
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Some Facebook users don't realize they're on the internet
they could use some caching for this site.
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17 of the states on the slate chart have 0 or 1 lynching listed (I think 1 incident does not indicate prevalence).

The mob violence outside the south was also less racially directed:

https://books.google.com/books?id=CR0TMCIfE14C&lpg=PA154&ots...
Accountants around the world are now going to start calling themselves Database Engineers.
Let's work on a demand for a metric standard instead of this..
Another old reference to drinking water over wine, Daniel 1:11-16

So Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink. “Then let our appearance be examined before you, and the appearance of the young men who eat the portion of the king’s delicacies; and as you see fit, so deal with your servants.” So he consented with them in this matter, and tested them ten days. And at the end of ten days their features appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king’s delicacies. Thus the steward took away their portion of delicacies and the wine that they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.
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Hardware refreshes are an absolute killer. I have a 2007 car, which works fine, and a 2010 iPad, which is no longer receiving OS updates. Welding the two together benefits neither.

The best compromise would be car-as-peripheral; have all the buttons map to a USB HID device connected to a flush-fit tablet dock. Just remember not to bridge the UI directly to the same CAN bus as the fly-by-wire throttle.
Or do all of that and buy a dumb TV instead of the "smart" TV, putting the ~$200 savings into the NUC or other box. No sense in paying for a component you'll never use.
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Who was blaming anybody?
No worries. I could have articulated my ideas better.
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It says that right in the article.
As far as I know, he simply came up with the original idea and refined it with his engineers from both SpaceX & Tesla. He 'open sourced' all of it in hopes someone else would try and actually build it (perhaps with his help). I suppose this is the "someone else."
I've probably overstated the role of the civil rights movement there. Certainly, part of the outcome of the civil rights movement was a national expression of the unacceptability of racially motivated mob violence, but things like state police forces and the national guard (both were more willing to resist mobs than local police had been) and changing attitudes in the south had contributed to starting the decline.
While not exactly covered in shit, things where far more dirty than we are used to. First off dirt floors where fairly common, though this quickly became dry hard pact dirt which is better flooring than you might think. Second running water was uncommon let alone vacuums and dish washers. Even bathing was far less common as getting a warm bath together was difficult in the winter and bathing in freezing water is unpleasant. Add to that indoor fireplaces added quite a bit of smoke and soot into people’s homes.

That said, some things where higher quality back then. For example modern fast growth wood is far lower quality let alone things like particle board.
>My apologies: I wrote that post in a fit of anger and I wasn't careful in how I spoke.

Same here. Best regards.
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Everyone I talked to about it since has said "nobody seems to care enough to bother completing it"

It is kind of a niche feature, really.
CSS (like all written works) is copyrightable, so if there is clear evidence that the CSS was copy/pasted, CB Insights would have a case on that basis. Damages would be negligible, so it would not be a case worth pursuing.
That's exactly my plan.
Oh, I agree. I was as dumb as him for participating in it. If I'd any sense, I'd never have engaged with him after it became clear that he was fixated on something completely separate from the actual point.
Hi everyone.

Forgive me for saying this, but "The more the world changes, the more the world seems to stay the same".

Didn't something very similar to this happen a long time ago with the Apple vs. Microsoft "Look And Feel" copyright lawsuit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microso....

And as it turns out, both parties probably copied design elements created by Xerox PARC... which were probably originally created by some researcher(s) there who read scholarly articles by other researcher(s) who probably wrote about the possibility of things similar to the created design elements existing in the first place...

So who invented what, when?

I sure as heck don't know!

But what I think is amazing is how computer history tends to repeat itself... <g>
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> Practially speaking, design is legally indefensible as intellectual property

Really? Isn't there any IP protection for a websites look-and-feel? Need some lawyers to opine on this.
My mum emptied my savings (I probably had about £5 in change) at the age of 7 to buy another pack of cigarettes. When I found out, she promised she would pay me back.

She never did.
Most of the time it means backend and frontend programming skills (eg: JS for frontend and Ruby for backend).
As far as I know, "Full Stack" is a misused term for developers who are able to do everything from devops to front-end development/ui/ux design.
Makes CBInsights look pretty good, actually.
You have to learn to pronounce each word with Chinese too.
This is really cool and a great write up! I've been using React for about 6 months on my side projects and I really love it. The only issue I have now is, where do I learn Flux? I mean I can go through the tutorials that they have , but there doesn't seem to be any standard Framework or canonical way of using it.

From the article "When Flux was announced, it was just a pattern. Facebook didn't release a library. We adopted the pattern for our new web client. However, because we built our Flux library from scratch"

Are there any posts/blogs that highlight the different flux frameworks? Or any recommended way to get started? There seems to be so many right now I'm feeling kind of overwhelmed on where to start (Fluxy, Fluxxor, Reflux, etc..)
Link to the referenced analysis, for those interested like me: http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/01/30/war-spikes-in-the-eve-o...
http://www.laurencegellert.com/2012/08/what-is-a-full-stack-...

tl;dr Someone who's familiar with

- Hosting / Server environment (SysOp things)

- Application development (Front / Backend)
B5 paper sheets don't seem to be easily available in the UK.

B5 books are the most common size though, most of my school exercise books were B5 or B4 — that allowed me to glue in a sheet of A-sized paper, possibly folded in half.

Why do you prefer B5 to A4 for paper?
It's worth noting that beer hasn't exactly had a uniform makeup throughout history. The kind originally made in Mesopotamia and given as rations to soldiers was much more nutritious than the kind we drink recreationally now.
I would guess it mostly have to do with understanding the complete flow and parts of a web service or page. From the HTML/CSS in the front end, javascript somewhere in between and then how the backend language/API talks with the database.

Then how to configure/update/trouble shoot the web server and related issues like database performance and mail server errors
If they are trying to seem as immature and incompetent as possible, this is definitely a great way.
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A full stack web framework might mean a web framework that encompasses an ORM, routing, templating, email, possibly a built-in admin panel, and pretty much everything else that you need to develop a CRUD app. Recently, they might also encompass a front-end toolkit for doing AJAX-y things.

A web developer saying they work on the "full stack" means that they both write server-side and client-side code.
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It does not neccessarily imply mastery in all layers of the stack but rather familiarity and often the skills to understand and fix bugs in other areas other than your field of expertise.
To answer your question about my preference... For non-fiction books, A4 pages seem too big for me, A5 pages seem little too small to me, and B5 pages seem just right. Again, this is just for non-fiction books. Fiction books I prefer more A5-sized. Just my own personal, subjective preference. That's all.
Darn, I guess I missed it then - how did you get to the order screen? Were you on time? Want to sell me yours!? :P
I think the opposite. Why would I buy a smart TV, pay the premium for that, get shitty software that I get stuck with for 10 years, including its obsolete hardware and processor, when I could just buy a $100 box that does the same thing if not more, made by companies who specialize in this stuff (Google, Apple, Roku, Amazon), and change it say every 3 years?
It's cool to see the startup growth analytics industry heating up. I thought Mattermark was first, but it looks like CB Insights was founded before them.

Regarding the plagiarism, I think this will blow over pretty quickly. Not a fan of what they did, but as long as they weren't stealing data, it isn't unforgivable. UIs are almost always influenced by one another, they just made the mistake of following their inspiration too closely.
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Nice, but I find the following statement a bit misleading.

> Is it possible to communicate six bits of information by the flip of a single coin?

Considering the fact that you can choose among 2^6 coins.
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