skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how to tell if a technology is complete.

When computers started they were beige boxes, now they are decorated and colorful - so we know they are done.

People worry about how phones look, so those are done.

The first smart watches were functional, now they worry more about aesthetics, but none are actually on the market. So that technology is not done, but is getting close.

Cars have been all about aesthetics for decades now.

Etc, etc.

(Don't assume "complete" means they don't improve them, it just means any further changes are minor, and mostly unimportant.)

Airplanes for example seem like they are done - but they are not sold on looks, so they are not actually done. (Maybe a little bit on the inside?)
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It seems clear cut now when we grow up being told "everyone is equal", but that's because we have the luxury of seeing all moderns humans as a single species with no close living relatives. How would we classify Neanderthals if we found them alive today? How far removed from "our own race" do you have to go before something isn't a human? How about someone with a different number of chromosomes such as a Down's syndrome patient?

I think the real problem isn't classifying animals - aborigines really do have a different genetic history from every other race. It's that we somehow equate "not properly human" with "deserves to be abused". Until we can escape from that mentality, we're really no better than these zoo keepers. We've just moved the threshold a bit.
what's the story behind the food court?
> have "too many" commits on something simple ... it looks "bad" to employers

Really??

I have frequently, in the line of my consulting work, advised my clients (those self-same employers) to worry when they stop seeing a healthy flow of commits from a developer. (Not necessarily to github, rather to whatever VCS they're using.) One friend - like myself an experience dev. - wired ctrl-S in his IDE to his VCS commit command!

Mistakes, meandering explorations and wandering up entirely wrong paths is all part of software development, and is precisely what your VCS is there to help you manage. The notion that some (potential) employer might consider using it to the hilt as a "bad" thing sounds profoundly worrying to me. Probably not someone I'd want to work for.
I went to Gunma a couple months ago and saw this first hand. Small villages where abandoned housing outnumbered occupied buildings 2 to 1.

In this case it was in a more mountainous area, but there's a lot of community collapse going on (the tsunami probably exacerbated the trend in some areas)
That can't possibly work though. Patents only give an incentive to patent things that can be expected to be independently discovered or reverse engineered sooner than the patent expires. There is no reason to patent things that could be kept as trade secrets for longer.
I am indeed concentrating on the types of companies YC would invest in. I don't know anything about lifestyle businesses but what you say sounds reasonable.
I have done both. The answer is that it depends on what the problem is your are trying to solve, and what the team who will be doing the work has skills in. GWT uses the Java language and React uses Javascript so the two worlds are totally different.

Recently I picked React, but seeing the recent improvements in GWT I realise that GWT has improved leaps and bounds in the last two years and does somne things better than react
Walmart's store-brand insulin is Lilly's Humulin. It was NovoNordisk's Novolin until 2010.
Culture isn't race... Are there actual comments from "race realists" somwhere I'm missing, or are you raging against something that doesn't exist?
Garden path title...
"how would a woman be abandoned as a consequence of a 100 year-old baby dying in 1915!?!?“
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How does evergreening works? After all the patent for the original molecule has expired ... so it is free to be copied.
And arrow key scrolling. So slow.
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Who called it ugly? I think its looking awesome.
Did you just compare racists with pedophiles?
No it doesn't, not if you launch satellites where customers want them. Kerbal Space Program should really bring home the big fundamental about orbital mechanics: plane changes are really expensive.
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Sounds good! I also added the mood tracking to my personal time tracker ( Haptime.in ) .

I think the ability to determine the overall mood status and understand the correlation between projects and work will be a key to improve the employer AND employee AND client happiness.

It's nice to see I'm not alone :) keep going with the work ;)
> Teslas are in line with other luxury sedan

Yes but their interior, one of the most important parts of a luxury saloon car, is terrible quality. I've been in nicer vans.
This is really cool (unfortunately google docs never manages to handle the load). This is a great initiative, and I only wish for it to be better so I was wondering how would something like a "medium.com" style blog work for it? Their annotation is actually pretty cool.
In any case, thanks for doing this! (and if docs.google.com continues to stay the way it is, may I suggest using onedrive? I've seen facebook docs on it don't fail under heavy load, it runs on azure)
Other issue is de-orbiting and module replacement. Monolitic station would be very dangerous and maintenance nightmare.
Really? What about all the adventure games? The MUDs? The text adventures?
Can you really overload S3? Also how long is the expiration time of CloudFront?
Interesting article. It's amazing how humans manage to engineer and build such complex systems.
Interestingly, I know someone who's the chief scientist for a company that has developed a non-invasive blood glucose meter. It measures the glucose content from earlobe.
http://www.groveinstruments.com/

Looking at that page, the funny part is that someone decided to use the marketing term "cutting edge" for a technology that specifically does not cut your ear to measure blood glucose...
Haptik, an Indian startup has accused Akosha of copying their app
What we really need is a fully distributed search system which can deliver results as good as Google in the same time frame. Such a system, which would essentially be just a protocol, would level the playing field. Add to that a distributed DNS and we would have a truely censorship free Internet.
Disagree strongly. Computers are way uglier now than they were in the 90s (beige boxes).

There is an arc in every art. It starts with the bare bone essentials, exposing the spirit and greatness. Then it becomes popular and amasses cruft until its unbearably overloaded and ugly. Then it gets stripped back to its original form, regaining its glory. And then we repeat.
I don't know Erlang, but I have done some Prolog and this sounds an awful lot like unification of an equality predicate.
Maybe this is now changing with the planes:

After flying a few of the newer Airbuses, I can tell you that now when I search for a flight I look what kind of plane is flying, and if there is the chance to fly those, I gladly pay the difference. Not sure in USA, but here in Europe we have a solid mix of Airbuses and Boings so there is plenty to choose from.

Haven't flown the new Dreamliner. Is it worth it?
I haven't been able to see the comments so I can't give feedback on that, but you should give proper credits to the book's author, Marijn Haverbeke and respect his choice of license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (summary) and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode (full license).
Did you just call homosexual people, racists?
Whitehouse IT isn't responsible for anything important like that. That kind of stuff resides in the dod. Whitehouse IT would be responsible for communicating the message of the President to the public, doing special projects websites to garner support for a bill the president is hot on, etc.

Nobody will die if these IT people screw up.
The Verge Is Sponsored by BP Oil
Is this okay? BP must need some far reach. I realize they're a company that screwed up but they did so in the worst way. It's different if they advertise in a movie theater, but popular tech sites is quite a reach. Should we group together and boycot The Verge or remain who we are and sit idly by?
100kg flywheels help hold attitude.

The Zvevzda module[1] has engines, used rarely. When Progress supply ships are docked, their engines are used for adjustment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvezda_(ISS_module)
I've heard of the forced removal of children from their families but this timeline paints a really dark picture for me of Australia's history. Makes early 20th century Australia seems comparable if not worse than apartheid South Africa.
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Perhaps a new class of network devices would be some sort of network auditor that sample traffic and check for diversions. These would have to contain almost exclusively open hardware and software and be buildable by individual customers.

Building audit boxes should be less of a complex task than attempting to do full-fledged devices that carry traffic. But I suspect large datacenter operators to have better control over the firmware and software inside their own boxes.
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Similarly, we should stop caring about domestic surveillance by the gov because the gov has been doing it for years and we've only learned of it now. /s

Btw, using Google Analytics is a lot different than using an Oracle database - Oracle isn't privy to what you're storing.
Not quite. I was trying to show that even today we're not very enlightened by comparing blacks with pedophiles. These are both groups of people who have been seen as "inferior" and "acceptable to abuse" simply for existing, rather than for causing harm.
Maybe the grandparent is talking about the illuminated open sign (since that's what the article is about), which from what I've seen of it is comparatively rare in Europe. I certainly wouldn't have described it as "ubiquitous, functional, and necessary", as baddox did in another comment to this HN story.
Thanks for pointing this out. I've added Marijn Haverbeke's name to the top of the doc and also linked to the license.
I personally fear the aftermath, because we're venturing into unknown territory.

You're assuming that the treatment will be within reach for everybody. What if only rich people will be able to afford it?
This is not a just-in-time compiler, it's an ordinary compiler. JIT compilers make judgements about which code to switch from some form of interpretation to machine code, on the fly. This project just compiles the whole equation.
Worth mentioning that Google mostly uses Closure Tools rather than GWT for most of their core products.
https://developers.google.com/closure/library/

Not that it's strictly relevant but people (including me before) often assume GWT is widely adopted at Google.
You don't have to be a member of a community to recognize something about it from the outside.

People can critique scientology without being members. The same can be done with medical research goals.
And how many launches can a single R7 make? That's the difference that has all of our jaws droppping, because it's going to reduce the price for access to space by an order of magnitude.
Ownership is for all structures on the stack. Box is little more than a rust-level wrapper around a raw pointer (well technically around a core::ptr::Unique which is the actual wrapper around a raw pointer)
They are definitely not a gem of art, but it never occurred for me that LED signs are ugly. They are functional and energy efficient, that's all what's needed of a sign. Though as other commenter have mentioned, "open" signs are not very popular in some (most?) European countries.
I agree it is a little pretentious. But at the same time what does it say about the user? Being pretentious means a user is attempting to sway you by affecting, say knowledge of culture (an emotive response) to an object than it inherently holds. In this case the aesthetic appeal to the interior of a bus, less seats and maybe they're made of leather but to the seat itself, there is no significance in its functionality -- we give it its meaning. That to me is materialistic and gives us insight as to how we can understand users.

Say there response is to recommend to their friend, "Oh, I only use Uber when I come back home after a night out, but when I go to work I use Leap, I love that I can put my feet up on the leather seat across from me while typing away!"

Your user seems to have issues rooted in self-identifying through external means. Why is it that they feel compelled to compare Leap to Uber? To note I think it increases their socio-economic status (in their mind) for that brief moment thus generalizing them to the specific core of typical Uber users. This is a self-transformation expectancy that keeps them coming back to the product, Leap! They're not happy with themselves to a certain (obviously monetary) extent. As a business it should follow a categorical imperative to come up with a way to (a) accept the pretentious user (b) be pretentious product (c) BUT help user keep some measure of progress, allow them to get rid of that maladaptive urge >> make them begin a drawing, everytime they ride have them sketch one line at a time. Over the course of a month if they're active then they will have become a amateur artist in that timeframe -- a transformation. (d) feel good.
Yeah, his record pretty amazing. I mean, even his least successful startup zip2 'only' sold for $300m, earning him a 'measly' $20m, and that was his first one after college.
Before prod.ly I was always tweeting my opinions and sometimes a photo about something awesome I discovered. But those posts are drowning in the flood in very short time.

That's why I built prod.ly with a friend. So that our interaction with awesome things stay tied to the thing and remain discoverable by other people.

It's like a ProductHunt for the physical world.

Please also upvote prod.ly on ProductHunt: http://www.producthunt.com/posts/prod-ly

cheers
Oliver Drobnik

prod.ly Developer Evangelist
The backend part of GWT is really tiny : a RPC library which stays optional ; lots of people do not use at all nowadays.

I haven't took the time to look how react exactly work yet, but it seems the notion of virtual dom is really comparable to GWT initial component model. Even if the initial motivation is not the same, in both models there's a separation between the DOM and the components tree you manipulate.
I found Rails to be a massive productivity boost from the Java frameworks that I was using at the time (Tapestry, Struts, etc). And I still think it's the most productive framework for the typical web CRUD app. But the typical web CRUD app is a dying breed these days and the poor performance and maintainability of Ruby/Rails for building fast, concurrent APIs puts it at a disadvantage.
I'm surprised it's so new. And wget is only a year older... what did people use before then?
The video at the end of the article is absolutely fascinating.

Also, it's the first time I hear that rejecting heat is a big deal in space. If anything, I would have assumed that heating the station would have been a problem, rather than keeping it cold.
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Considering the name "Optical Bridge technology", I'm guessing this is yet another company trying to use the slightly different absorption curves for water vs. water-with-dissolved-glucose? This is not a new idea; I've seen lots of companies try this and fail because they (a) weren't accurate enough, (b) needed frequent recalibration, (c) were thrown off by exercise, dehydration, or common medicines, or (d) all of the above.

I'd love to see such a product become available, but I've learned not to hold my breath.
There is one typo in brush style typeface translation.
The word "萎縮" is pronounced as "Ishuku" not "Jishuku".
If writer want to "Jishuku", chinese character should be "自粛".
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Those were the early days of HTTP, so no, people didn't really get a lot of HTTP "manually" like that. We used other existing tools to get gopher and ftp though.

When I started my work on httpget in 1996, I didn't know about wget and I didn't become aware of it until several years later....
How long have GET/POST commands been around? Probably not as long, but just curious.
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isit possible to combine them? like, would my domain actually resolve if i change my name servers to cloudflare's, then cname it to incapsula? i'm just curious...
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Erlang has some roots in Prolog. Its initial version was actually implemented in Prolog.
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Thanks for the great feedback.

Just to note, it is an imaginary CV with imaginary companies :)
> If it was in Rust and someone used an unwrap() but there was no value, panic would DoS the system in much the same way, right?

A big difference is that the developer would have made the explicit choice at that point to dereference a pointer know to possibly be null. There's no implicit null (and having to wonder "by hand" for each pointer whether or not it could be null, with the risk that changes in any previous operation make make non-nullable pointers nullable without warning).

> Same for Java, or C#, or what have you

Java and C# also use implicit pervasive nullability, and at least deref'ing a null pointer there is a defined behavior.
At least it's concrete. Not some rotten wood.
For my last cycle tour in Europe, OpenStreetMap was godsend.

I can't wait for my next cycle tour there. I'm hoping that AirBnb provide me lots of affordable accommodation choices where I previously had to cycle long streches.
There are ways to make plane changes cheap (do them high enough, use gravity assist, etc.) and they could be useful when shipping fuel higher from Earth's gravity well, but I admit, current space missions are nowhere near that complicated.

Also, while expensive, plane changes are still cheaper delta-V-wise than punching through the soup our atmosphere is.
Hmm, that is a very good point. Still, I look forward to the day when our ability to explore space gets far enough for focusing on aesthetics and making pretty crap to not be something unreasonable.
To avoid NSA, Cisco gear gets delivered to strange addresses
Until the possibility is established, many people are going to make fun of, and sideline those working on a solution.

However, I think this thought experiment can bring them to understand that their own beliefs are temporary. If there was a popular movie that followed the plot of how the cure of aging was slowly accepted in society, for example.

Just a short story might be a start.

I think the problem is not that people "support" the idea, but that they are not properly aware of the alternative.
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> Rough estimates say we may have a billion users already.

This cannot be true by a long shot. Or am I missing something?
They're mentioned in a February 1996 changelog entry for libwww-perl, so at least 19 years.
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I've been running my mail server since 1997. I've got once blacklisted due to someone spamming URL to my web site around. It seems that your email can get blacklisted, even if you don't send any email.
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What I can't understand is why Ruby's standard implementation still has such terrible performance after all these years. Yes, the language is quite complicated, at least syntactically, but semantically it's similar enough to Smalltalk, and most Smalltalks have fast jitting VMs, including Squeak and Pharo (CogVM). The Ruby community is enormous by comparison and full of productive, opinionated developers who write tons of code, books, and blog posts, and yet the standard implementation (MRI) remains abysmal (sorry).

It's really unfortunate that the MRI devs won't support Rubinius or event adopt RSpec to ensure interoperability with it:

http://rubini.us/2014/12/31/matz-s-ruby-developers-don-t-use...
Japan is a cut rose. Cut in a clean way. Kept at an optimal temperature and sitting in an optimized floral solution. It will last quite a while in a very attractive state, but its still cut from that which renews and replaces.they, like much of the world, are in for either a great mutation or an extinguishing.
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I don't have the exact link, look through firstlook.org's documents. There was a leaked slideshow about it. As to avoid confusion, it's worth noting that it was social media vote manipulation, not general election manipulation.

I think it's in the same document as the "Mass propaganda" / "Discredit an company/individual" slides.
This is absolutely amazing. Pez-dispenser-like abdomen implant that modulates the dosage of Naltrexone which, as the article suggests, "takes the high out" of opiates. Trick the body and voila, freedom.

“Methadone you always felt medicated, albeit subtly,” says Dowsett, referring to the opiate given to injection users that is supposed to control cravings without inducing its own high. When he’s on naltrexone, though, Dowsett says all that goes through his mind is: “God, I’m free.”
If you count a user as a system which has curl installed, and has run it at some point, is curl on iOS and Android? If so, you will be in that ball park I imagine.
Maybe it'd be useful to have a standard for mailing list confirmations that would let the mail client keep track of what you actually sign up for and/or confirm as opt-in.

As a user I also appreciate the ability to report abuse to someone I trust to deal with it.

But as someone operating various mailing lists for customers, the vast majority of the time when we get abuse reports from customers that "never subscribed", we have detailed history records showing that they did actually specifically take action to subscribe and confirm. This is consistent with pretty much every other thing - for every action in the systems, there are always customers that insists they have done no such thing.

Until we show them the audit trail.

Users are notoriously bad at remembering what they did. Which is not so odd given that most of the time the action is an inconsequential spur of the moment thing that they do or don't do as a matter of reflex and never think about again. But it makes "Report as spam" horribly abused.
I believe they originally come from the libwww-perl project? According to wikipedia it was first released with perl 4.0036, which was in Februrary 1993, but I can't find out if it included GET and HEAD etc already then...
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RFC 1945 dated may 1996 mentions GET and POST methods

http://www.rfc-base.org/txt/rfc-1945.txt

HTTP has been in use by the World-Wide Web global information initiative since 1990.
This specification reflects common usage of the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.0".
the behaviour of an individual does affect his creditability though.
Thanks for the heads up. I was mostly happy the thing worked well (except for arrow-key scrolling) with js off... I wasn't aware of this (mis)feature of Firefox (I can see the rationale of using line-height for scrolling a line at a time, so it might be safe to say that the css is at fault here).
Same exposure to the sun, but no air convection.
It all depends on how you count and what a "user" is of course, but this little list helps to give a picture: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/companies.html