skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely don't like this proposal. SPA:s is under a heavily innovative period. Standardizing it will only slow downs its' development.
When I visit my dad over in Maui, every Tuesday night there is a hippy jam. Have went several times over the years. It used to be this cool thing that you didn't really need an invite for, it was open to all. However unless you knew someone you'd never have known about it. The last couple times I've been over there, ever since smartphones/facebook/twitter got so popular it kind of ruined the whole vibe. Now all the sudden there are all these kids from paia showing up because someone posted online about it.
Growth hacking case study – ZEEF
> something like dead simple self hosted email

That's not the infrastructure he means. An email server has to be coded in a language / runtime; who develops those pieces? That's what Maciej means by "infrastructure": the languages and runtimes everybody else then uses to build sexy products.
Perl? I have only the vaguest recollection of those days. It looks like LWP is about 20 years old[1]. It's based on libwww which goes back to 1992[2].

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~ether/libwww-perl/ (see changelog)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libwww
I'm a native english speaker who just happens to be a terrible speller. I consider it a measure of project success when someone who isn't a native english speaker corrects me :D
Good point. You would need something on the scale of all the world bot nets combined to even begin.
Usually somebody jams some sort of runner into a Maven project as a different build step or something

Like this? http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/
Am I mistaken, but this kinda looks like XForms. Why not just use XForms?

Edit: Obviously I understand that XForms isn't a viable option these days, but that is kinda my point. Why isn't XForms an option? Those reasons appear to apply to this proposal too...
I'm not following the rejection of heat, can someone explain that to me? I thought it was cold out there and heat had to be generated?
Why “variables” in CSS are harmful – an essay
The pleasure I get from entering text in boxes certainly makes me biased, but I find that reading with an eye toward writing a comment shapes my understanding. Though magnitudes less than ordering my thoughts via actually writing [hopefully] thoughtful comments.

I suppose that the emphasis on What I read shaping what I write has pruned my reading. I skip more stuff likely to devolve comments into the flames of political debate and name calling. Anyway, passive consumption is different from polyglot interest.
Question/Poll:

Do you prefer `changelog.md` or the releases tool built into github (IE: https://github.com/evantahler/actionhero/releases).
The Python Invasion of the Everglades Is Even Worse Than We Thought
This is interesting, but like others I think HTML should be kept strictly for templating, and this adds an unnecessary amount of logic. It might be tempting to see this as removing complication, but in actuality it will probably add to it by reducing separation of concerns.

I think it would be good for less ambitious projects, but in the end it would cripple the building of more ambitious ones. If we already have Angular/React/Components/Whatever, shouldn't we just keep working on them and leave the HTML spec unpolluted?
PHP optimization can be direct sold to hosting companies. They want it - they want their shared cloud hosting to use less resources, they want it to be faster. Because faster PHP means more clients on less servers, which means more money.
DNA map of UK migration history shows Vikings drew the line at pillaging
I guess this is a perfect use case for http://genius.it/eloquentjavascript.net
Seems like BBC in a mission to defame India. They also seem to forget the problems in their country and focus on others.

See this:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/4...

45000 British students caught. Although this article was published in 2012. Worth noting that, this kind of news are not news at all for BBC.

EDIT: For all the downvoters. You got the right to do it but read this article starting from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_BBC#Indophobi...

BBC was earlier criticized for being Anti-India, Anti-American, Anti-other religion stuff.
How does one cheat in IMO? Is your high school teacher your country's IMO team leader?
Personally, I'm not a big fan of GitHub releases. They're not really part of my code, or my repo. They're some metadata locked inside github that doesn't carry along with the project.

A CHANGELOG.md is part of your repo/project. You can change where you host your git repos (eg: gitlab), and carry that over.

Disclaimer: I don't use changelogs either. I can't be bothered with them. Users technical enough to want to know what's been changed in such fine grained detail can use `git log --oneline`.
Not if it was built from practical experience.
Or... "the latest patch for <brand>(tm) protects your genome against future cell aberrations so you can safely consume our (carcinogenic) products. Update your system now?"
"I agree with you in that I don't care, myself; but I don't think it's fair to judge the people who do care."

And through natural selection, those kind of people (who care, that is) will dominate the human genetic pool, while the ones susceptible to falling into the provider role will systematically be weeded out, like it or not!
For much of the last 5 years, I've been one of a very small group of people maintaining, developing and improving Open Dylan (http://opendylan.org/) (a Lisp-like language without Lisp-like syntax).

I've managed to fund some of the work by doing other contract work. It has also given me a lot of experience working with pretty much anything I want in the compiler, debugger, linker, run-time libraries, performance tools, C bindings generators, networking code, garbage collection, type systems and so much more. Some of this has resulted in further contract work, some has resulted in contributed fixes or improvements to other libraries.

(I'm now looking to potentially fund a student for some work this coming summer.)

Now, I'm taking a lot of what I've learned from that and starting up a small business (not looking for VC) to produce a new kind of developer tool. We plan to be open source and have some customizations and packaged products that businesses will be interested in and suspect we can fund ourselves that way. It'll be a long hard slog to get there, but we're pretty excited about what we're doing.

In general, I think there are a lot of things that could really use improvements. Our shells haven't changed much in the last 20 years. (I wrote a post about this last October: http://waywardmonkeys.org/2014/10/10/rich-command-shells/.) Almost everywhere you look, there are things that could be better. Most of them are a hard sell as a business. Some sort of increased infrastructure funding would be great.

Along those lines, there are programs that provide funding for some of those sorts of things. Stripe had an open source residency program for a short while. Mozilla funds some projects. The Knight Foundation funds a number of things a couple of times a year. Even Comcast has a funding program (http://techfund.comcast.com/). I'd love it if organizations over a certain size allocated some funding for some work that might benefit them, but would also have a wider benefit. If someone has 50 or 100 programmers on staff, they can probably afford to sponsor someone for 3 months or a year at a time. And who knows what might come of some of it...
Temperature is more like "undefined" in a vacuum, since heat is the motion of matter and there isn't matter in a vacuum. Vacuum is a good insulator, which is why a Thermos is an effective storage vessel.
This analogue is seen through any sort of MOOC that you do. Register for one (especially programming/maths/science-related) and google some of the homework questions. There's heaps of sites where straight answers are given (as in, multichoice options to a question, no explanation).

For some, that seems to be worth their time. I don't even understand.
What germline? The next generation is going to design their children too. This is an oxymoron.
If you're lucky. I've seen a lot more home-rolled ones in Java.
The use of XMLHttpRequest to fetch JSON has come to dominate to the point that people seem to forget that it had any other use, but it is worth occasionally reminding people that the original purpose was to fetch HTML, which the browser turned into DOM nodes via its fast parsing path, which could then be added to the page via DOM manipulation.

I fully realize this is not what the linked page is proposing, but it is not clear to me that using that wouldn't be a better idea, leaving the selection of templating to the user. Template languages, while smaller than programming languages, share their characteristic that there isn't obvious One Solution That Solves Everything. You can optimize them for different use cases and it is not clear to me that we can or should privilege one over the others. Given how rapidly the web is heading away from an overprivileged programming language being the only choice, this seems like going the wrong direction.

(Also, if your template language is slowing your server down, fix that. That's a problem with your implementation language, not the fundamental concept.)
Did you consider looking into any crowdfunding options? Perhaps with Kickstarer or Indiegogo? That's been used by some to both generate seed capital, help get products to market, and test/validate the model.
Introductionary link, with everything you need to know before you read this blog post:

https://github.com/erikarn/himenobmtxpa

(This benchmark) "shows a dramatic difference in behaviour between Linux and FreeBSD/DragonflyBSD (and likely other BSDs.) It turns out that most of the difference is due to memory layout by the allocator. The matrices are large, and jemalloc page aligns these. So there's significant cache line aliasing effects."

The blog article author measured then the speed of the above benchmark adding different offsets, and gave some useful links.

Best read not on the original blog site (ugly javascript dependency and moving wheels, I do hope such technologies get to be avoided) but on the link given by aw3c2 here.
Not sure what you mean by "official"? As of 0.9.0, MDG hosts all the 3rd party packages on the "official" Meteor Package Server. (https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/08/26/meteor-090-new-packag...)

I guess you want every package to start with "mrt:"?
If you want a thorough explanation of concepts (as opposed to the 'black box' 'use this library' approach taken by many tutorials I've seen) then I highly recommend John Foreman's (Data Scientist at MailChimp) book "Data Smart".

He implements algorithms on practical problems in Excel. I know that may sound off-putting but it's so much easier to visualise what's going on when you can see vectors of data change in a spreadsheet compared to trying to debug arrays in a more general programming language.

What led me to John - something I heard about here actually - was his blog called 'Analytics Made Skeezy' where he creates fictional 'drug dealer' GTA style examples such as "Forecasting Made Skeezy: Projecting Meth Demand using Exponential Smoothing"

http://analyticsmadeskeezy.com/blog/

I have no affiliation with John, just liked the blog enough to order his book and the book was excellent too

Good luck! :)
Yes but the job-offerer is not in the driver's seat- you are. That's the point.
Plasma 5 is still a little janky, but this has been improved a lot, and should hopefully continue to improve (it has a much more consciously opinionated design team than 4 ever did).

The Linux desktop space is a real mess at the moment, but KDE is the best of the bunch for general, modern computing.
I've always found it interesting that people say this book is targeted towards beginners. If this had been my first programming book, or one of my first, I know the chapters starting with functional programming would have really confused me.

I personally recommend this book after another more introductory level book on JS.
Throwing their code on github, releasing cross-platform applications, and making it free to upgrade to Win10 is a big step in the right direction. They should also make Windows itself open source and just sell enterprise support.
who the hell is this Curl guy? who cares if hes 17 today.
> I don't think I could bring myself to be a "Bright" for that reason (see the-brights.net)...

A name is enough of a reason on it's own?
Using these sensors is cool, but not so different from what other car companies are doing (Ford, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, ...?).

It seems Google is the "odd one out" relying on primarily on different hardware (LIDAR).
I too noticed this in my graduate program. However the majority 70% were Chinese, and they did the same exact thing you say. They would come into the lecture hall early and plan out their seating arrangements for each and every exam. It was clearly noticeable they were cheating. I cant speak to Indian students as there was only one in the entire graduate program.
This will change with upcoming grid storage. Then we can generate all night and store it, spread the burden out and extend the life of our generation capacity.

Oh, except for solar, It won't be helping.
Did Disney's The Lion King Rip Off an Old Japanese TV Series? (1999)
spa apps are more complex that the example. Sure it looks it could work but the amount of logic within an SPA is not just a simple click here , fetch json , replace html fragment. The title is a bit misleading. I don't think it's possible to do SPA without Javascript.
I enjoy Kubuntu and use it's cousin / child, Netrunner. Ships with all (most anyway) the things I wish Kubuntu shipped with, but a little extra I don't want, but that's ok, it's easier to remove things (Firefox addons) than waiting for the updates and what not. It even lets me use the "Windows Key" to open the KDE Menu, or at least their version of it, which is something I'm all too accustomed to from Windows. Been running Netrunner (Kubuntu derrived) for months now, on my main Desktop and my school Laptop.

I used to love KDE when I first used Linux because of Slackware, back before KDE4. It was adaptable to whether I wanted a Windows feel, Linux feel, or Mac feel. It still delivers in that aspect, and now it's much more mature looking.
Unless he's currently writing the patent documents for it.
Not 45000 British students, but 45000 students in British universities.
Track times are irrelevant achievement for 99% of people here (or anywhere), general handling performance not so much.
Not only makes it driving experience much more pleasure, it also increases safety (in those crazy split-second-maneuvers situations which might end up in car crash if things go wrong). It also increases general stability of vehicle, and so on.

My personal opinion - this is clearly future. I am glad for early adopters, to support this trend and this particular "disruptive" company, to benefits of us all and our kids.

Present - not so much for me. I run 10 year old 3-litre diesel bmw 3-series, which was dirt cheap few years ago, and costs me nearly nothing to run (oil & xenon light bulbs change). Various state and insurance fees are most of expenses.
These cars cannot compete on this segment (higher-middle class sedans), not in fun factor (ie that handling), not in price, not in reach - living in europe, I go quite frequently to road trips of several thousand kms... good luck with charging car along in present europe. It happened to me a few times I almost ran out of gas on remote german highways!

So far, it's luxury city car for me, with vast future potential.
As for why I should need a luxury city car, I have no clue...
Here's a great look at one set, that was damaged:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/STS120Sol...
Also, SketchUp. (http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/)
My reply below [1] talks about the pitfalls of the releaes too a bit. There's several other comments surrounding it already.

That said, I feel that changelogs are way better, being more flexible and more in control of the user. I do feel that a lot of people can't keep one that well though. We don't need fine-grained details of every internal code refactor on a major-release changelog, since it's only relevant to devs (and they'll usually see the commit logs anyway).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9237398
Heat conduction is very poor; you're practically in a vacuum, so you can only lose heat by radiating it.

On earth, you can dump your heat into the atmosphere or the oceans, which are both gigantic heat sinks. The entire surface of the earth then radiates that heat out to space. In space, you only have your own surface to radiate the heat out.
I think it's fair to say that it's "obvious" when optimizing for the same things Yudkowsky does. For instance, any issue having something to say about the Born rule seems to be his dump stat, if you will. This makes sense, because in the paper where Max Born introduced the rule, he suggests that it indicates only one possible correct interpretation (hint: it was not Many Worlds).

That all being said, no one really disagrees about the predictions of the math, and at least many-worlds has less completely ridiculous misinterpretations by lay-people, so both ends of the spectrum are tolerable to me.
I'm presuming that local constabularies and insurance companies adore adaptive cruise control.

A whole bunch of cars clocked at 12mph over the limit? That's a bonanza of low-mileage speeding tickets, which is good for police dept. revenue, and good for insurance company revenue, because it doesn't actually change the risk pool in exchange for a nice rate bump.
Can someone explain what "pluming" means?
Lots and lots of very bad ideas here -- backwards-incompatibility with previous versions of HTML is always a good litmus test that a proposal hasn't been thought through, as is "hey let's restructure everything around this one currently-fashionable design pattern". (I kind of love how he just casually embeds a SQL interpreter in the browser, too, that's a nice finishing touch.)

But the main thing is that this doesn't solve any problem that exists. We can already do everything his proposal would enable; all this does is make it more inflexible.
Likely? Did anyone believe you can open-source a trip to Mars? Of course they're scamming. The most that will come out of it is a reality TV show for some badly-selected people in an RV in the wilderness, pretending to be on Mars for a few months.
I think that's largely attributed to differences in consumer/commercial culture between Europe & the US. In the US, it's entirely likely you might find shops and restaurants in a strip mall that have closing times varying by as much as several hours (a book store might close at 6pm, but the restaurant next to it is open until 10pm, and the hair salon next to that is open until 9pm). Being able to quickly glance and see what's open is a huge benefit.
If you or some other reader are in the mood, a browser plugin that would remove the vast majority of instances of text-align: justify would be a decent bite-sized project.
Can't express coherently how much the idea of "not going with this research 160 mph" irritates me.

Human genetic variation is so profoundly unfair. There is such a wide IQ range, such a wide physical development range, such a wide 'beauty' range. To think of condemning one extra person to be in the bottom of those ranges is painful.

What the hell can such a benefit be measured against ? The aesthetic objection of 'ethicists' ? (read: filosophers trying to answer unanswerable questions armed just with 'common sense')

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Btw: I am not sure that, given the possibility of writing genes, we'd know the right genes to alter. Just answering to the article on its terms
Agreed. And within that space, given 2 hours, I can probably come up with a list of 30-40 projects which could be done for budgets between $5k and $100k that would have meaningful impact on multiple organizations.
After 350,000+ Beta Sign-Ups, ProtonMail Takes $2M to Scale Its Encrypted Email
I don't like this. I would like to see a standardized html way to load html partials into other html, similar to ng-include. I think that is clean. But to start mixing logic? How are you supposed to render a JSON array loaded via ajax? How do you put in authentication information or headers? How do you do error handling? This is the stuff that is handled by angular or ember or knockout or aurelia or etc.
> Everyone’s into it because the responsiveness is so much better than loading a full page - 10-50ms with a clean API load vs. 300-1500ms for a full HTML page load.

Maybe if you start with an argument to support your claim, you want to have actual numbers. And those real numbers would tell a different story.
Losing heat is the principle design issue for satellites. Easy to gain it -sunshine, power generation, circuits. Losing it requires deliberate effort, and radiation is your only pathway.
When our little boy was 20 months old, we moved 2 hours' drive north to be in the same town as my wife's parents. This is probably the single smartest thing we have done in our marriage.
As for a name... Single-Page Apps Without JavaScript = SPAWJS. Or just SPAWS.
Both: keeping a changelog and copying a section to the latest relase after tagging it, since they're both Markdown.
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There seem to be a few initiatives happening in this space, some of which are being used to crowdfund/support open source teams. Once example would be https://gratipay.com/about/
Some of that is state money right? How much of it is VC?
your not wrong with losing hours...
When the alternative is 'allow random chance to produce a possibly-deformed child with no particular chance of success' its not hard to decide. Of course we want to improve our children! We spend our lives doing that after they're born. Now we have a chance to do it before. It obvious what we will choose.

And we know more about genes literally every day. We will start with small changes (remove defects). Then we will tune physical details (height, weight, strength, skin). Then we will turn to the serious stuff - IQ, longevity, disease resistance.

To complain that some children will suffer, is to ignore all the children that already suffer.
Well its got to match OP's title mate.
YC has publicly stated that long-term big visions are exactly what they are looking for. The problem isn't that you need time, it's that the result of waiting won't be big enough to justify it.
Providing the service as an option is fine.

Mandating it is absurd. That people would go so far as incarcerate people for pumping their own gas goes way beyond resolving an inconvenience and well into normalizing bureaucratic oppression. (Yes, that sounds overstated - but really, jail time for pumping gas? it's not about the pumping, it's about something being very wrong & dangerous about the mindset that thinks jail time for pumping gas is reasonable.)
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While in US Goverment is hiring engineering talent, in other parts of te world like where I live (Spain), this is still a dream.
At least your goverment tries!
I'm not clear on how what the Indians are doing affects the GPA of the Chinese or Americans in your example.
Do they blow the curve, maybe?

Also, Americans tend to put individual before group. I wonder if your example isn't so much cheating as a difference in culture.
I heard this from Musk before, on first sight it makes sense.
BUT - most current failures in cars are not components that are around for 100 years - these are usually fine if regular service is done. What fails miserably in new cars are all kinds of tech gimmicks that improve significantly with every new generation.
The only exception might be turbo charged petrol engines, but they are around for a while too.