skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I imagine, because it's a relatively new language. In case of other ones the reasons are probably of entirely different nature.
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like V-2's top-level comment explains, there are lots of ways to interpret these statistics and it's easy to jump to false conclusions if you don't take the time to look for context.

In Ruby's case, the total number of repositories on Github has continually increased -- it's just that since it was such a huge part of Github's early user base (the Rails community was probably the first big adopter of Github, which makes sense since Github itself is written in Rails) percentage-wise it has dropped significantly as more communities adopt Github.
The TV that I wanted was not available without the smart functions. In fact, most new TVs aren't. It's not like I chose to pay extra for the smart stuff.
Great programs that are still available free from Microsoft ;-)
This is just _public_ repos, right? That might skew numbers a bit.
You missed "but" after "PHP" ;)

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Beautiful use of D3. Looks like something Bostock himself would've made for the New York Times.
Open issues per repository is an interesting one.

I'd love to see open issues / LoC / repo for each language.
I've been looking at this question for a while. I think you really have to go niche, by topic or geographic location.

I would love to engage some conversation around how to grow these types of communities.
Ask HN: How do tech startups control access to source code?
I am consulting with directors of a company who are concerned about how much access employees, especially new ones, have to their source code.

They are concerned of an employee taking the code that builds their app and using either parts or the complete code base in a way that detriments the directors' business.

My suggestion to them has been that for an employee to be productive on a code base they will need access to the complete source, especially as a lot of their code is legacy and has a lot of business logic quite heavily coupled to it. Side by side with this, there are heavy legal and career ramifications to an employee running off with the code, and even if that doesn't stop them, the actual usefulness is likely very low to someone without the brand and infrastructure.

Can people suggest examples from successful engineering heavy companies of how they determine who can access what?

(I have already found that Google provides all employees with complete access to all code and have spoken in the past to Facebook employees who have given me the idea that Facebook does the same.)
Rust is showing some interesting traits. Despite its slow start, it's catching up quickly enough.
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> People who have been diagnosed with something, and then pursue alternative lines of therapy, usually manage to use those alternative therapies responsibly, because they are actually thinking of them using the mental framing of "treatment for condition" rather than "fun recreational substance I seem to enjoy even more than other people."

Are you sure? Prescription drug abuse is rampant. And in my experience, most of these people do legitimately need the drugs they're abusing - but they also see them as "fun recreational substances." I've noticed this seems to be especially true for anti-anxiety medications and painkillers. People take them to treat their conditions and to enjoy the way the abuse of it makes them feel. I think the fact it's a legitimate prescription makes it "okay" since in their minds they need it and there's no harm in taking extra because of that.

Of course, then they run out of their prescription before they can refill it and then there's some miserable days (or shady transactions) ahead.

I'm speaking from extensive experience in Mississippi. Maybe it's different in wealthier places. I do get the sense those are are better off tend to adhere more to the correct dosing schedule, but I have no idea how to begin untangling cause-and-effect there.
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It is more physically addictive, at least. I'm not so sure about psychologically.

Withdrawal from physical dependency of high doses of caffeine is decidedly unpleasant (with the potential for week long bouts of diarrhea, night sweats, uncontrollable shaking, fever and massive headaches, for example - from personal experience after going of pre-workout supplements with doses in the 400mg+ range of caffeine)
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They will never be awesome. It is like having built in navigation in your car vs an iPhone. Built in is proprietary bs that will always be out of date, and hardware refreshes will take like 5+ years because how often do you get a new tv. Right now my roku runs about 1000x faster than my smart tv and is really just superior in every way. Stand alone boxes will always be better because the software will be better and hardware refreshes happen much faster.
IBM does, don't ask me why.
Sorry to nitpick, but docx is a file format, and not even a particularly original idea for a file format (ODF does it without riling RMS).

In other words, you might also say:

"[Oracle] is a proprietary ecosystem where choices are made for the benefit of [Oracle]'s shareholders and nobody else."

but no one would say

"And death to jar."
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Hahaah :)

We think it will work for public people with tons of cold emails daily, like pg
>smear campaigners

Wow, multilevel irony!

CB Insights actions, arguably, constitute a large scale smear campaign that is not adequate to the original transgression of the startup.

Your comment, arguably, constitutes a low scale smear campaign as you have no proof that startup founders have posted those comments. Any other CB Insights competitor/enemy could use that opportunity.

So much drama out of a non-issue.
> had more environmental problems

vs.

> produce more hazardous materials

There's a big difference between those two.

You can't possibly think that your environment is worse than the common environment of a medieval european. You have a house insulated from the elements, a wide variety of food sources which you can't imagine ever running out, you've never gotten a disease from drinking the water available to you... and on and on.

The worst you have to worry about is accumulation of toxins that may take decades to manifest into disease, and maybe if you live near a coast, you might have to move inland a mile in 40 years.

Modern technology and productivity have almost entirely insulated us from environmental problems. Ask yourself if you or anyone you've known has personally experienced an environmental problem that was anything more than a mild inconvenience or irritation ... or not entirely based on fear for the future.
Sold out? I don't see how to buy it ..
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> C++ has the greatest number of opened issues per repository, then comes Rust, then Scala. All right.

> Does it indicate that they're more tricky than others and hence more bug reports?

They're all static languages. In fact, so are C# and Java (the next two of the top 5).

Two of these (C++ and Rust) are also in the top 5 for pushes per repo. C++ being top overall.

Imho, some of these stats needs to be scaled with respect to LOC. The push/issue ratio might be good as well.
You mean older. Python's initial release predates Java's by 4 years (although its v1.0 was only in 1994).

More frustratingly, Haskell is older than both.
OK, we agree then! Clearly a heated subject. I've encountered numerous people that equate addiction to routine, and that was what I was speaking out against. My apologies.
The whole comment can be read as both straight or sarcastic, really.
Don't work there but applied a while ago. There was interest from FarmLogs until I mentioned I couldn't move there at least for a while. After that email I got radio-silence, so I assume they don't.

ps: not bashing them for that, just giving you a data point
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Is the payment to get the email delivered or to get guaranteed response?

I'd prefer the latter for two reasons: 1) as a receiver I don't want to miss out on a potentially interesting email just because the sender couldn't pay (for technical or financial reasons), and 2) as a sender I'd like some sort of guarantee if I'm going to pay for something.

It's probably the more difficult approach of the two so I suggest testing both approaches and see what works best.

Congrats on getting this far already. Like you say it's not a new idea, but who cares about ideas. It's about execution anyway. Looking forward to the launch!
Don't know about YC, but most funds don't invest in competing companies, and sometimes the strategy can even be broader: "don't invest twice in the same area".

For example if you already have an investment in email application, you will opt-out from similar investments in the future.
Sadly, competent human drivers are rare. Humans are terrible at paying attention to boring things and accidents are too rare to keep people's attention. Worse it's the edge cases where someone is not paying attention that tends to lead to most accidents.
> Samsung explained that these sorts of ads were supposed to be opt-in only and was working with Yahoo to improve the system.

No user would opt-in to commercials, ever. I don't believe for a second this system was designed with opt-in in mind.

Whenever an ill conceived feature like this is brought to the light, it's always explained as a bug, glitch, or some screw up in engineering. Well, it's not a bug. It was specifically designed to do what it does. If anybody screwed up it's the people at the top that think smart TVs are a good idea.
But they said the design was copied. Also, non-trivial parts of the design are in the exact same positions in both examples -- it seems to me like the question isn't even if the design was copied, but more of whether we should care.
Basically, buy a NUC or 4K Android XBMC/Plex box, and use Smart TVs as dumb TVs with HDMI 2.0 input. BTW, I have just bought a Samsung UHD TV so it's completely necessary for me now...
I agree, and that could be dangerous for Apple in the long run. But they still seem to be ahead, especially when it comes to laptops. I've used a Nexus 4 with great pleasure for about two years, and being back on an iPhone 5S, while slightly better (in my opinion), is only barely worth the higher cost.

I hope that happens to laptops too, because I'd love to have alternatives and some more competition.
Languages with near flat or decreases in 2014:

- Ruby (that was a bit surprising)

- Dart (I guess the lack of native browser support is the killer here)

- Typescript (I'm surprised this didn't take off)

- Puppet (Interesting.)

- ActionScript (obvious now that Flash is dead)

- Scheme

- Common Lisp

- D

- Fortran

- Logos (huh?)

(I know near flat is subjective, but still these are the languages that are not seeing much growth in 2014, and what likely isn't growing strong in 2014, is likely to continue that trend in 2015.)
I've used tree-maps for data visualization before too...I've never heard of cb-insights though. Furthermore, I've written an additional piece of code that let's you decide what colors to use...so it could be blue and white...

While I agree that there's some suspicious similarities in content (potentially plagiarism, although you're in the same vertical...) and style, the use of tree-map visualizations isn't plagiarism, nor is using bar-charts with a line on top.
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Perhaps you meant older?
There is almost always somebody at fault.

With people, yes.

With robots, perhaps not.

If you think of a collision as "someone doing something wrong" (as the police do) then a robot car can't really be responsible for a collision because all it can do is follow its programming. It's literally impossible for it to be 'careless' or 'dangerous' in the same way that a human driver can. Consequently, any accident between two robot cars will always have to share responsibility between the two owners (or possibly the manufacturers, but that's highly unlikely). It'd be exactly the same as if two human-driven cars hit each other in blameless circumstances today - the costs are just divided equally, or each car's insurer pays for the damage to that car, or something.

Robot cars will massively disrupt the insurance industry.
It's not fanbois, it's actual real-life users who love it. (Not all of them, but a high proportion, in my experience.)

Windows 8.1 is terrific on tablets and devices with touch screens. My wife loves it. I think most if not all the hate came from stuck-in-the-mud XP users, and from Windows 7 users with non-touch screens. Which is fair enough.

Those are, of course, the vast majority of Windows users, so -- even though most of them have never used it seriously -- they drown out the real Windows 8/8.1 users.
It is a fickle market though, it won't last forever.
And on top of that, the exact same capitalization and abbreviations are used. At least they took the effort to rename "last year" to "last 4 quarters" in one occasion..
Windows Server 2003 had a live patching feature [1] and it was also applicable to kernel patching according to [2]. For some reason it was quickly abandoned, though.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781109%28v=ws....

[2] http://jpassing.com/2011/05/01/windows-hotpatching/
This is hardly the first or worst example of a YC company copying something. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3523024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3529607

Being prepared to do this kind of thing is a core part of the YC values: http://paulgraham.com/founders.html

>Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two-Shoes type good. Morally, they care about getting the big questions right, but not about observing proprieties. That's why I'd use the word naughty rather than evil. They delight in breaking rules, but not rules that matter. This quality may be redundant though; it may be implied by imagination.
Documented and well known is preferable to most of the in house stuff I have come across. Need a Django developer, then there will be a few out there. A new developer on your own in house framework is always going to need some time to get up to speed.

Sure I may be on Stack Overflow for some answers, but you can guarantee that the in house equivalent won't have any Stack Overflow answers at all.

My personal experience is that open sourced libraries in CPAN / PyPI are almost always of a higher quality than in house stuff.

Maybe it depends on the language. When I go for Python / Perl libraries, I usually get something of a high quality. JavaScript stuff always seems a bit more like you describe.

I would say that the developer of the in house stuff leaving is going to be at least as much of a problem as people abandoning open source projects (which are open source, so you can continue to maintain them yourself).
Driverless cars will in the far future also be able to minimize the injuries and deaths when an accident cannot be avoided by deciding who should be hurt and who should not.

For example it might hit a motorcyclist with a helmet, rather than one wearing none. Or a single older pedestrian walking on the sidewalk rather than a young one suddenly crossing the street.

It's frightening.
I submitted this at the source of the report a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9021305
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I've been reluctantly repeating this "fact" over the years. Although I've always been concerned about the rampant hangovers and dehydration that would have occurred as a result of drinking so much beer. The fact that this is not a fact makes more sense.
Yes, context is key! In addition to what steveklabnik said about Rust, the other interesting bit of context is that the deluge of breaking changes[1] has resulted in a very interesting phenomenon: everyone chips in and submits PRs to library dependencies that haven't been updated by their authors yet. The pace is so fast that most of the time, in my case, it's just a matter of "I haven't gotten home from work yet and there are already 3 PRs against my repos with fixes for the latest Rust nightly." As a result, many of my Rust projects have an oddly disproportionate number of contributors/pull requests relative to other projects I have that are more popular.

[1] - Breaking changes have simmered down a lot in the last few weeks. We still have one more semi-big one in front of us, but hopefully smooth sailing from there...
Really nice statistics. I would love to know the name of that kind of statistics graph ?
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I've read a few books pertaining to the Galileo affair. It seems to be conventional wisdom that Copernicus had permission to publish his book, and that he was not attacked by the Church in his day.

I've also read that Galileo received favorable treatment from the Pope at first, then things went downhill for him later.

A weird tidbit, that I can't confirm, is that Martin Luther denounced Copernicus.
Yeah, why not post it on HN on Jan 28th? :)
I have a few set top boxes too, but I'd like deeper integration with the tv firmware itself, and that's something that they can't do unless the firmware was open.

In which case, we could have the same regular updates you get with a roku.
Yes: KSplice had software patents - Oracle bought them. And everyone knows what Oracle is like with software patents: aggressive!

I'm not clear what they actually cover, and can't look them up right now, but I'd thought they were specific on how KSplice in particular operates, both applying hotpatches and analysing the source to create them. I don't know whether they'd apply to anything else, or whether there is prior art, but they're an obvious landmine to be aware of and to avoid. So a simple fork wouldn't do unless it'd change the way it actually worked. A fresh approach was needed, and we seem to have two fresh approaches here.

I'm trusting they've been avoided here. They probably have, as this is much more general? The concept of hot patches are of course fine, people have been doing that for decades, and you can't patent concepts.

The lesson here: please don't patent stuff jn your open-source software, in case you wake up one day and got acquihired by Evil™.
Wow, even my "dumb" TV auto-switches channels when a new HDMI signal is received.
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I disagree, and I think this is doublespeak, but thank you for explaining this before I took the time to produce a patch which you would reject.
Try to kick out simple carbs (mainly sugar) from your diet, sleep well and start doing aerobic exercises like running, cycling, swimming. A lot of people reported improvement in their state - seems like exercise and better diet help balancing some neurotransmitter-related problems. Maybe you will be amongst the lucky ones that can fix it that way.
I'm not sure that kind of graph has a name, it looks like diagrams in circuits/code. My guess is that its a custom kind of graph inspired in the tools they knew for visualizing complex relationships.

But I'd like to learn more about those kinds of graph if I'm wrong :)
So much mindless discussion about "Linuxism" and incorrect usage of bash.

So little apparent willingness to help out. Kinda disappointing really.
Beer historically was 1-2% alcohol. "Drinking only beer" was not impractical at that strength, unlike modern beer.
"we definitely took CBInsights as reference" is the phrase

Now, it would be one thing to, for example, get the html/css and copy it, that would be illegal

But to merely use as a reference?

"Also, non-trivial parts of the design are in the exact same positions in both examples"

Such as? There's also a low amount of flexibility in most cases.

"but more of whether we should care."

Yes, we shouldn't worry too much ;)
Smart TVs are a good idea. Who doesn't want less crap plugged into their TV? However, TV manufacturers – for some reason – are ill-suited to developing the software that would make for a good experience.
That really doesn't make sense logically. The physical location of the computer doesn't affect whether it is proprietary or open source, or how frequently it will receive updates.

The navigation on your phone is probably better than the one in your car right now, but when Apple or Google take over the car system market you will have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto in modern cars that have high quality software with fast update cycles. There is no reason why the same thing won't happen with TVs. In fact as mpeg, stated if you assume the firmware in your next Smart TV is open, it will be possible to run customer operating systems such as Android or XMBC giving you complete control without the external box or wires.

Edit: Though what you say about hardware refreshes is absolutely right.
> I truly believe driverless cars are the only way we will ever see a massive reduction in this fatality rate.

What about reducing cars on the road through greater usage of public transportation?
I've lived in the US and also in a country that used the A-series extensively. While I've always appreciated the beauty and math of the A-series, I find the aspect-ratio of the US Letter paper to be much more appealing. A4 tends to be too long and too narrow.
Except that you only have to make a mistake once, you're really tired and a spear phishing attack happens and you open up that attachment - you're screwed. Hell, it may not do anything or it may install some super shady malware that will stay dormant for a long time.

Security is fundamentally broken - there is a lot of innovation that needs to happen to make our computers more secure. There are a lot of non mainstream systems that have better security, we need to move their practices/architecture into the mainstream.

Hell, when you see things like quantum insert - how can any user be expected to keep their machine secure.