skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's true clients think they want a CMS system, the reality is however the one who does the updating is usually you.
Perhaps you should start with a manual instead of C headers: http://web.archive.org/web/20041022042401/http://www.kx.com/...
In the long run, I think these types of tactics undermine great journalists and writers everywhere and insult the intelligence of readers.

If so, it's been happening for over a hundred years. There was even a clipping from a newspaper from the Victorian era making similar gripes going around on Twitter recently (but you only need to look at the headlines in 100+ year old newspapers to see how it was no better then).
How many big WordPress sites do you reckon can say, "Fuck it, it's all static anyway"? I mean, your blog, sure, but the New York Times?

(Who are, interestingly enough, putting a non-PHP-based high performance dynamic front-end in front of WordPress using... WP-API.)
Actually, I studied philosophy in college, with a focus on logic. But it is hard to find work as a philosopher, so I took that logic training and now apply it to computer systems. So, back to my original point - Spock the character and Nimoy the man were inspirational in my choice of career paths.
That says more about you than the term, it's not top in an incog search.
> If you’re a regular reader of this blog or my Twitter feed, you know how hard it is for me to write the phrase software engineer.

Of course. As we all know, real engineers drive a train.

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I've been on IRC since 1991, that is 24 years. I am 31. I started when I was 7.

I can't imagine the Internet without IRC.
Business Insider is not "journalism". It's clickbait, like Demand Media and AOL. The founder is one of the founders of DoubleClick. From Wikipedia: "CEO and Editor-In-Chief Henry Blodget is a Yale graduate who previously worked on Wall Street until he agreed to a permanent ban from the securities industry and payment of a $2 million fine and disgorgement of $2 million."
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My memory has failed me somewhat, but in fact, that link states Archive.Org as one of the "parallel projects", which is the Internet Archive. No?
Yes, it applies to every ethics code. I picked medical ethics because it's typically the most respected, and I had a fun rebuttal to it.

Checklists augment human memory, preventing people from forgetting parts of frequent, repetitive tasks. I don't think people forget parts of their ethics often. They might "cheat" a little for impulsive decisions, but that's the extent of it. If you spend weeks applying, interviewing, and accepting a position making malware at a company, it says a lot about you as a person. That's where the vast majority of malware comes from, not otherwise ethical people who sometimes backslide.
FYI, we maintain a list of Clojure-using companies at http://clojure.org/companies

Also, there is a more up to date list of success stories to be found at http://cognitect.com/clojure#successstories

We'd be happy to add more companies and stories to either page!
> Also, isn't the whole point of engineering to screw around looking for something new where we don't know a lot.

If anything, that's the diametrical opposite of engineering. One of the objections to "software engineering" as an engineering discipline is that there isn't enough history from which to draw conclusions on best practices.

> The "work only in an area of competence" sounds a lot like let's bring back apprenticeship and try and create a static craft instead of endorsing dynamic exploration in field where we assume most things aren't yet discovered.

One point of professional licensure is to demonstrate a minimum level of competence. Practicing outside of one's area of demonstrated competence defeats this purpose of licensure. Nothing prevents a mechanical engineer from designing a circuit, but they sure as hell aren't going to stamp that circuit diagram.
IMO plex and xbmc serve a different purpose.

Plex/xbmc is a more of a home entertainment system. Vlc is merely a media player (that is incredibly awesome at what it does, thus the reputation).

I use xbmc on my TV in the front room because it tracks where I am in a series and which movies I've seen. I use vlc on my computer to watch a one off documentary or something.

I think you could build a plex or xbmc like system using vlc but to compare them I think is comparing apples to oranges.

For what its worth I stick to XBMC when I don't need a web interface. Plex isn't entirely Foss, xbmc is.
I like comparing this idea to Ricky Gervais' movie "The Invention of Lying". To think about the first person to lie in a news headline... It's just hilarious.
it's almost like when SGI built that big hq in mountain view
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googleplex
You gave him a precious, totally selfless gift. Thank you.
To get either page updated, feel free to email me at alex.miller at cognitect.com.
IRC's longevity and appeal is fascinating - it seems like that the more constrained the bandwidth of communication, the more compact the configuration, and the more quirky and charismatic everyone's favourite clients (be they irssi, weechat, mIRC, xchat...) the more staying power a comms medium has. My workplace started off life ~15 years ago as a channel on a small student IRC network - the company effectively evolved out of IRC. The importance of IRC bots (be they eggdrops, or pircbot, or whatever) also seems to have become core to IRC culture - a well implemented IRC bot can be an incredibly powerful tool for glueing a community together.

All this makes it incredibly hard when considering what could come after IRC, if anything. XMPP's MUCs just don't seem to have the same sticking power, and meanwhile things like Slack and HipChat come along and risk hijacking all our comms into closed silos rather than the relative openness of IRC and XMPP.

Regardless, after 15 years of addiction to IRC we're having a go at coming up with something better that still has some of the same appeal. The project is called Matrix.org, and the main differences to IRC are:

* Open federation; anyone can spin up a server and join in.
* Conversation history (i.e. scrollback) is the main building block - a room's history is stored (partially or completely) over all the servers who are participating in a room. So there's no single point of control or failure.
* Compulsory cryptographically signed message history (necessary due to the open federation)
* Simple HTTP/JSON client-server API. (Server-server API is also HTTPS/JSON)
* Store arbitrary structured data in the room - not just text messages. So you can use it for setting up VoIP calls; whiteboarding info; random device telemetry, or whatever.
* Built-in distributed file storage (no more DCC, for better or worse)
* Strong identity and end-to-end encryption (via a variant of Axolotl; currently in dev)
* Support for 3rd party IDs - contact people based on their mail address, phone number, or whatever details folks chose to identify themselves by.

So if you like IRC and are interested in a fairly radical alternative, please drop by http://matrix.org/beta and say hi. It's in early beta, but it's fairly usable - we have Android and iOS clients and SDKs for python, perl, iOS, Android and an increasingly active dev community. Also, it's not frozen yet, so now is a great chance to get involved and make sure we get it right :)
The founder’s Impostor Syndrome
The story of the original Tilde Club is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8432703

Sadly, I was slightly too late to join the original, but there are now a number of similar clubs with available space. Tilde Town is where I spend my time, and it seems to be a nice, friendly place.
It's actually remarkably easy to filter it out. You're doing it right now by reading HN. Same with sub-reddits on reddit. The clickbait headlines either get re-written to better describe the actual content or are ignored altogether. Better than that you can typically skip visiting the actual piece itself and instead read the comments which are generally more interesting anyway.
There aren't any abandoned malls near the existing offices.
For what it's worth, MTV doesn't mean Mountain View to anybody who doesn't live or work in Mountain View.

To everybody else it means MTV, making the things you say very confusing.
Hasn't this already happened? Who gets taken in by clickbait headlines any more? We all follow @savedyouaclick on Twitter to get the best bits, and ignore everything else.

The second problem is that he clickbait style of story is eminently easy to algorithmize. What will happen when there are a million websites running algorithmically generated stories all pulled from each other?

The biggest problem for journalism posed by the Web is that it has made advertising almost worthless. It used to be that newspapers could charge enough for ads to pay journalists decent wages. Now the Web has both vastly increased the supply of advertising space, which even with modestly increased demand has driven the price down by a lot, and allowed advertisers to measure the effect their ads have (spoiler: not much) which has also driven down the price.

Partial paywalls have helped some venues, and that may be the way journalism goes in the end, but subscribers weren't enough to pay for newspapers and it's difficult to see how they are going to be enough to pay for websites that perform the same function and so have most of the same costs.
Sure. I get great results from Adderall and have heard good things about Modafinil. Tried it once with little effect, but it was from an Indian pharmacy and who knows how pure it was. I can't draw any conclusions whatsoever from this. Similarly, some people swear by racetams but I have adverse reactions to them (tired, eye strain, bad moods).

The internet is chock full of anecdotes about various nootropics, but very little empirical data. Gwern (linked above) tries to blind himself in some of his experiments, which is good, but still N=1.

What needs to happen is, IMO, people interested in nootropics sign up for a "trial", pay for the drug and any minor equipment needed to test efficacy, the trial administrator gets a pure sample of the drug and sends it out blinded to the participants. Then the results could be collected and possibly even published (in a journal that doesn't have an IRB requirement).

It could go even further if people could cough up the cash for a cheap genetic variation test like 23andme, and then the efficacy could be correlated with genetic variants.

But as it is, we are in the absolute dark ages about our knowledge about nootropic efficacy in normals. It is complicated by the fact that the most likely candidates are often controlled substances.
It's interesting that Google's office plan is garnering a lot of negative feedback.

When Apple announced a plan to make one giant office building to house its entire corporate workforce, the general consensus was positive. Even Cupertino's politicians praised its ambition and assumed wealth it will bring to the city. Has anyone been in Cupertino recently? It feels like almost every single office building in that city is occupied by Apple now :-|.

Not saying any of it is bad, unless you consider a scenario with Apple needing to sell its "mothership" to any future potential corporation.

Google's office plan does seem a bit overly optimistic but clearly pitched in a way to win support of Mountain View. Right now I don't see anything in the blog post that speaks to engineers and managers who actually WANT to work in the buildings, so I hold judgement until they share more about that part.
and what movabletype does.
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> If you’re spending more time during each request doing database work rather than PHP work, then you’ve got a problem that needs to be fixed.

For most webapps, I/O typically should be the bottleneck. This holds especially true for wordpress, which has nothing computationally heavy to do, and is...rather liberal with the way it queries the database. Certainly the large installations I've managed spent most time doing I/O (either in the database or memcached.)
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Why are the mobile versions (Windows) looking so nice, displaying cover art... and the OS X version looks like from the 90s

I would really like to ditch iTunes, but iTunes is just nicer and easier to manage.

Apart from that... I love you VLC :)

Edit: What The F*???!! I just googled out of curiosity for screenshots of the windows version: http://www.neowin.net/news/new-vlc-windows-8-screenshots-sho...

When is this going to come to OS X?
Not really - to me, it implies that 90% of EC2 instances are not running on a vulnerable version of Xen...
but there are all over the country. why not give people to option to live somewhere else?
Yeah it's an obvious bootstrapping/critical mass problem. It will be interesting watching to see if it does cross that line. If the usability is never there I can imagine it never quite taking off, and something slightly better/more usable/with the right timing winning out.

But you could have said the same thing about email/the web in the past.

A global communication network and protocol without anyone using it is pointless. The same for a global value transfer protocol.
It seems obvious _a_ protocol, probably blockchain based, will gain mass adoption eventually.
This is not journalism, but clickbaitism! All the tricks new "media" does today are just disgusting. Breaking things into pages to increase page views and stuff, stupid ads all over the place especially inline to make you click by mistake and so on. I don't mind pay walls if they have some sane model. Unfortunately, none of us have made a good-enough startup to give a better experience for those willing to pay. I don't mind paying $0.25 per good article, but I don't want to deal with any of the tricks - ads, suppressing outbound links, stupid carousels with a new pageview, etc. Give me a better experience and I will open my wallet for you! Otherwise, thanks, but no thanks!
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It's funny, but I'm such a stickler when picking out produce, and even meat selection, that I'd have a hard time trusting someone to pick out my apples, etc... How has this worked out for you?
Such programmers will rely heavily on automated tools and will have to follow a clearly defined process because driverless cars will always involve human life. The cost of a simple misconfiguration is extremely high.

Besides, I fail to see how this can be considered manual labor or even the possibility of allowing average programmers to fill such positions.
All I take is 2000mg of B12 twice a (work) day which does seem to help in concentration.
Nimoy made a splendid adversary to LAPD detective Columbo in the 1973 episode 'A Stitch In Time'[1]. I'm surprised that the New York Times article doesn't mention it at all because it is one of the best Columbo episodes, with a couldn't-see-it-coming twist in the end.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069900/

Incidentally, William Shatner played the villain in 2 episodes of Colombo: 'Fade in to Murder' (1976) [2] and 'Butterfly in Shades of Grey' (1994) [3].

[2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074328/

[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109458/

Apple fanbois will be interested to learn that Columbo loved to use the innocent-sounding phrase "Just one more thing ...." while faking an exit.
And so would I class is not based on money as one Tory MP said referring to Heseltine, deputy PM at the time – as saying "The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy all his furniture"

Which was toped by an even grander MP who remarked "that is a bit rich coming from someone whose father had to buy his castle"
When did Apple deprecated Quicklook? I can't find any mention of that. Generally when frameworks are deprecated it's noted here too:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MacOSX...

Also no mention:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Look

Quick Look's media support is pretty sparse, but that's due to its use of Quicktime X for most video and audio. QL supports plugins from third parties though so... yes. You don't need to replace QL, just build a plugin for it.
That's anecdote, not data. Having 10 examples doesn't validate your point.

And for the a16z stuff you quoted, the first paragraph says "10 ways to damage your fast-growing tech startup".

Thanks for classifying Google as a fast-growing tech startup, but I think the startup phase was over a long time ago.
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The link he gives there isn't his own site, it's an online typography ebook by Matthew Butterick, a professional typographer. I expect most of the knowledge in his comment comes from there as well.

It's worth a read: http://practicaltypography.com/
One reason HN is worth a look once in a while - content is curated by an educated consumer community. Also headlines here provide at least some basic context (source, original year) to make a better guess whether a click is worth the risk of disappointment.
So you're saying if Google really wants happy employees they should open more offices in downtown SF? :)
I like posts like this from OmniRef exploring the RubyVM internals.

Is there anyway to search through all of these types of source code annotations across the site?

I wanted to learn about method dispatch in Ruby, there was a post earlier on HN about this using OmniRef, I don't know how to retrieve it from the site directly.
Then how, exactly, do The Economist, Laphams quarterly and Monocle stay in business?
> > You seem to assume that because people disagree with you, that they must just be ignorant.

> If people disagree with me on things that are pretty solidly proven by my experience, then yes.

I guess I just am aware that others may have had different experiences than I have, and unless their opinion is way out in left field (like, "programming in assembly is just as productive as python")... then I assume they're not ignorant. People think Ruby is fantastic and I think it's pretty horrible, but I don't think they're ignorant of other languages, they've just developed different tastes.

> So your position is that we should take away features that people overuse?

Some of them, yes. Go doesn't have the ternary operator. I consider that a good thing. I've seen critical security bugs that had been in production code for years because someone misused the ternary operator in a way that never would have happened with a boring old if/else.

> So, lacking justification, you just segment off what you're saying into the realm of opinion, where if you believe hard enough anything you want can be true!

I'm saying that what makes a language good or bad is generally subjective. I don't think you can objectively say one language is better than any other except in extreme cases. Is Haskell better than Python? Is C# better than OCaml? It's like asking if minvans are better than sports cars... it depends on what you want to do with them and what you enjoy. I used to like to floor it getting on the highway and hearing the engine rev as I was pushed back into the seat of my v6-powered sedan... now I take great satisfaction in throwing a new couch in the bed of my truck and not having to wait or pay for delivery. Is my truck better than my sedan was? Would my truck be better if it had the same 0-60 time as my old car? Sure... it would also cost like $15k more. There are always tradeoffs.

You say the Go community is being blind to the benefits of generics, and we say you're being blind to the costs of generics. And I don't mean compiler complexity or speed. I don't give a fig about the compiler. I care about the complexity of the code. I care about error messages that make you open up 4 different files to try to figure out what combination of code is actually being run in a single place.

I don't think we're going to agree here, and that's fine.
Very disappointing to hit a landing pages with video that only collects email addresses.
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Actually, the gold mine is monad transformer. There aren't many things you can do with monads (and the OP's one is nothing new). The real power is in the combination of monads.
I wonder how they used programming languages which assign special meaning to those characters; use ASCII and the code looks fine but string constants with those characters will be very odd, use the local variant and the string constants look better but the code worse.

foo[1] = "\r\n";
fooÄ1Å = "ÖrÖn";

Perhaps it's something you just get used to after a while. The standard QWERTY keyboard has a reversed form of this "caseness" , with lowercase being []\ and their "uppercase" shifted versions {}|.
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> But if you think about it, this consumer is a very specific type–he’s a reader. The number one reason he’s visiting that web page is to read the text on that page, irrespective of the device he’s reading it on.

The consumer is also apparently a male.
I hear your point, though I believe it's the matter of individual reading patterns. I don't miss important tweets, just the opposite, I find them quicker.
This is true in BC as well: https://www.apeg.bc.ca/getmedia/e8d858f5-e175-4536-8834-34a3...

However, even in Canada the vast majority of software developers are not professional engineers.
Would it maybe be better to show numerous case studies in ethics classes? Instances where some person or team or organization thinks they're doing something good or "not that bad" which ends up having very negative consequences? I think that would drive a stronger message than a silly written code; it could also encourage people to potentially escape groupthink, question decisions, and whistleblow bad behavior when they've exhausted other options.

Obviously there are people out there who will never care about making ethical decisions, but I think there are situations where an otherwise ethical person might do something unethical without being aware of it. Malware doesn't count, since obviously no ethical person would do that (excluding arguments about intelligence agencies and warfare...), but a good target audience might be engineers working on software that has the potential to infringe privacy.
People have been using Facebook and complaining when it spills out their info years after Facebook got bad publicity for privacy related offenses. People still get offended and complain when their iOS app gets rejected years after Apple got bad publicity for needlessly censoring apps. People still use tumblr a year after Yahoo bought it and deleted many blogs to clean the site for advertisers, and that after they shut down the previous social network they bought. The users have a choice, despite how annoying those sign-up nags can be. They chose to use services which have reputations anyone can learn about if they care to do so, so yes it's partly their fault.
Part of me wants Anna Torve to do a reading at his funeral
Can confirm: It's certainly not a filthy basement, but it is in Kansas. Commute is great and CoL makes me wonder why anyone would want to live in SF/NYC :)