skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do people remember 1999? 24% of people in the developed world and 5% worldwide had internet access. No one had mobile broadband (remember WAP?), and wired broadband was just starting. Virtually none of the public .com companies made a profit.

However, the NASDAQ was basically where it is now. Many people I knew were getting multiple job offers with incentives like a Boxster S or a 4-day workweek thrown in.

We may or may not be in a bubble now, but the excessiveness of that time really felt like a different level to me.
The End of Asymmetric Information?
It's interesting how this suddenly shifts into "journalistic independence" territory - what about who reports on that? What if some influential source would receive some financial aid for proper reporting?
I'm excited for the ideas here and have been following Stellar.

But I'm hugely disappointed to see that they went with C and C++ for their new core codebase. This is the kind of code that needs strong safety, security, and correctness guarantees, and here in 2015 we have several mature languages with better safety & correctness guarantees.

C# and Java are both mature and mainstream, and either would have been a sane choice. Go is slightly less mature but also a safe and conservative choice.

(I personally love where Rust is going too, but I could excuse people for not choosing it yet due to immaturit.)
In other parts of the world people are killing each other over land and space to live.

The U.S. prevents people from using it's land and space with violent force.

I suppose if it continues to do that, the U.S. specifically won't have a problem ... as long as it keeps doing that?
Emotional Design Creates Products Users Love
Haha, yes you're right.

A person from a decade or two ago might find a lot of things odd such as taking selfies, Facebook checkins, talking on a bluetooth headset, holding a 5.5" phone to your ear when the 90s was all about miniaturisation, the shake-to-shuffle a song, etc.

It's only an oddity because it's not common.

I am sure that things will gravitate toward gestures as this space evolves. It just seems like a very convenient way to interface and offers the path of least resistance for users.
A half century of propaganda convinced Americans that common interests do not exist and that any form of cooperative social contract equals Leninist communism. Because you know,if we help each other pretty soon all independent business activity will be illegal and we'll have Gulags.
> But can you understand just how utterly unremarkable and unimpressive it is having kids? From this side of the mirror?

I can sort of understand how you might not understand it if you have no idea what's involved in being a parent.

But you do seem to be ignoring some stuff:

i) The biological imperative. Not everyone has this, and it's important not to stigmatise people who just don't want to be parents. But it's strongly there for many people, so having children seems to be important.

ii) "You stuck your penis in someone (assuming you are male). That's all you did." well, it's not that easy. For some parents it's a lot more difficult than that; and a few adopting parents don't even have the stage involving biological gloop.

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2295.aspx?CategoryID=54

> Most couples (about 84 out of every 100) will get pregnant within a year if they have regular sex and don’t use contraception. However, women become less fertile as they get older. A recent study has found that couples having regular unprotected sex:

> aged 19-26 - 92% will conceive after one year and 98% after two years

> aged 35-39 - 82% will conceive after one year and 90% after two years

iii) For most parents it's a big step. They make a concious choice to stop contraception and to start trying for a child; or they start the adoption process. It's not like buying a car or changing job - both of which are pretty significant life changes for some people.

iv) Oxytocin

v) sleep deprivation and some form of domestic Stockholm Syndrome. You have to give up so much for a child, and your life totally changes in ways that you can't fully predict until it happens. So you kind of have to say how brilliant it is.

vi) The fresh perspective a child has will teach you about the world. You learn most when you teach someone else. Watching a child learn how to manipulate a toy or learn to read is enriching.

And so many people repeat this - that children radically change their lives, and that their children are the best thing they've ever done - that I'm surprised you haven't considered whether it might be more significant than just "You stuck your penis in someone".

(I don't know much about adoption but I do know some very kind, loving, great parents who adopted so I'm trying to be inclusive of their experiences.)
Fluxible – A Pluggable Container for Isomorphic Flux Applications
Just going to your site, the value is not immediately clear.

One possible thing to consider: Have a public chat room on the homepage connecting some sample chat rooms. Allow users to jump to the rooms in different services.
Sure, but this one is much more advanced than the the one in the Chrome Inspector, which only formats. This one renames variables and functions, adds comments, and even annotates types.
Yeah I'm not sure if a pay model would really work with this kind of thing.
This is pretty crazy analysis for what I see to be a pretty simple phenomenon. Put the truncated "Oh" in front of the "no", in order to indicate emotional sentiment, and you have your simple explanation.

"oh no" = hat tip to an [unexpected] unpleasant feeling

"oh yes" = hat tip to an [unexpected] pleasant feeling

Take the "Did you see any birds at the park?"
"yeah, no, I didn't see any" = "Oh yeah, it would have been nice to, but no I didn't see any.
Hey! That is my waifu!
Humans have launched things like this as well. Orbital Sciences does it with their Pegasus rockets which are launched from high-flying airplanes. They are still chemical rockets though.

A key part of getting to space and staying there is going fast. Getting yourself above most of the atmosphere makes it easier to go fast, but you still need to get up to the same speed. Realistically that takes chemical rockets. We know of other options, as mentioned, but they have problems, as mentioned.
He's a thoughtful writer, and a writer first and foremost. He takes it very seriously. Frequently posts about things like style, typography and serious journalism.
I believe both of you, but our process did/does nothing to overtly catch cheaters, we hired directly off its conclusions, we hired at a rate faster than most VC-funded cash-flow-positive YC companies, including in SFBA, and we never let anyone go (nor did anyone ever quit while I was there) once we made an offer.

(Matasano is also not a company where it's easy to duck attention and coast; the tempo is 2-3 week engagements that wrap up with metrics that everyone cares deeply about).

The conclusion I draw is that cheating just isn't as big an issue as people think it is.
Yup. My local library only has so many copies of ebooks, and they're almost always checked out. One book I was looking for had a four month wait list. For an ebook!

Hoarding ebooks like physical properties is not a good way to behave.
I won't spend my time watching TV. I have at least 3 solo projects I could be working on. One of them could be the next-biggest-thing since Facebook, in theory. Small chance, but either way, I'm not sleeping 15 hrs a day.

Are you telling me that the only way you to do anything productive in your life is a constant axe hanging over your head?

If your wife tells you to empty the dishwasher, does she have to threaten you with divorce at the same time?
We're thinking something like a video might be a better approach... Public chatrooms immediately face the graffiti issue.
I had multiple other meetings daily but I felt these had more utility as they were related to design and requirements. We were unfortunately forced into daily stand-ups due to a department-wide "process" so to your point about self-managing, that was quite absent here.

I see a lot of people talk about 5 min stand-ups or 15 min stand-ups but that misses the point. The main issue is interrupting someone for any period of time for an (IMO) unproductive and trivial statusing when so many other methods exist to get their daily status and leave them alone.
ISTR Diigo breaking our rules for the delicious API... In 2007? I guess some stuff doesn't change.
Honestly? Just write your own SVG code. If you inspect the elements the output data is super simple and easy to understand. NVD3 just wraps D3.js which just wraps utilities that output relatively basic data. Well, d3js is a data-binding system that's way too god damned complicated if all you want to do is make some simple charts which is how it's used 99% of the time.

I've spent more time trying to manipulate chart libraries into doing almost the same thing but just different enough to cause pain and suffering. Output your own path data and it's a million times easier.

For reference here's what I made: http://forrestthewoods.com/unbalanced-design-of-super-smash-...
Rendr (Airbnb) is a Backbone plugin/library to make this sort of thing work for them. (They are no longer working on it, AFAICT.) Otherwise there's not too much out there sitting in between the client/server boundary.

I tend to think it's because this stuff gets too complicated in a hurry, so you kind of need a more structured framework around it. But who knows.
If a recruiter approached me, then sure. The recruiter is at least keeping an eye on my resume. Otherwise I will not apply. Taleo is a black hole.
Personally, I enjoyed reading through the article all the way very much. Gruber is not writing for people who want an answer to a particular question or who are looking for tabular comparisons. He gives you his experience with the watch, and a description how his opinions of various features changed after using them. He gives context for his opinions about it as a long-time watch-wearer, and detailed personal examples of its problems.

I don't think a review that just gives an opinion without any context is useful. How can I judge the relevance to my life if I know nothing about the reviewer's? With something as personal and intimate as a watch, the details matter and the context matters.
I wonder how important (and difficult) it's going to be to have a desktop app for this. Everyone I know that uses Slack, Hipchat, etc. has the desktop app.

Do you plan to offer one / is that possible?
U.S. Dot-Com Bubble Was Nothing Compared to Today’s China Prices
If they wanted to borrow from Slack (as they have for so much of the UI), they could make that toggleable. Slack lets you disable avatars entirely and/or switch to a single-line view.
Then I realized that this is what it must be like to live in poverty.

That's also what it's like to live in depression. Everything about your comment sounds like depression to me.
This tool has been helping me connecting public gitter channel to my Kato room, to stay up to date. Gitter seems very slow for me (yet).
I'm unconvinced this is a better solution than sliding a finger along the side of the bezel - or possibly around the entire rim, for different functions.

Considering the technology in the crown, it's possible this would have been cheaper and more reliable as well as a better fit for the haptic features in the rest of the design.
What do you mean by slow -- performance?
Hacky Easter 2015 (until May 31)
I think people just like to complain about something. If you have kids its that. If you don't its your annoying coworker or that rude waiter or your car is making a funny noise and its brand new so WTF.

If your friends are doing nothing, and they aren't a single parent, it's their fault - because they would rather be with their kids, or doing something else. It doesn't take two people to watch/play with a kid.

I have one and it isn't so bad. I'm more productive at work because my time is more accounted for. Things are a bit hectic but it's not like I'm in some coal mine in Siberia. Life is mostly the same.

We can't do all night 5am ragers, but we can individually show up and go home around midnight. My wife still does happy hour once a week. I usually get some extra time on weekends to play some games.

A friend of ours still watches 2 movies/week in the movie theatre, because that's what she really enjoyed. Another goes to brunch every sunday, because it's a tradition with her friends.

Basically, you pick what you care about the most, and cut the things that don't matter as much to you.
That's just a stupid implementation of a welfare state.
I love all the people trying to help him with wise words but seriously... You're 26 and you're worried about being "too old?"

A lot of the things we're blessed with today did not exist 10 years ago (especially in the IT world.)

There are people out there with no money, no degree and are older than you that have a better outlook on this stuff than OP likely ever will.

People change careers all the time as they want or as is needed. OP has been an 'adult' for all of 8 years and fears he's getting 'too old...'
Check out the comments here, for instance:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061229/004931.shtml
Yes, exactly - htop is a curses application that shows instantaneous samples of a few system metrics, but it mostly lists processes - this is nothing like Vector at all...
I have a guess about how this will turn out...
A lot of people who post on my facebook wall seem to think that it's the beginning of the Singularity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E I hope they're wrong if it looks like this.
This is great because he says "Yeah, no", notices it, calls himself out for it, and then immediately does it again, and he stops and calls himself out a second time, and then you can see him make a visible effort to omit the "no" the third time around.
The most layman explanation of skill in poker I've heard is this.

Everyone agrees chess is a game of skill. If 2 players played 1,000 games of chess where the winner of each match wins $1. In the end the most skilled player would have the most money.

Take that same scenario except after every 10 matches the players flip a coin and the winner of the coin flip gets $10. Over the long stretch the more skilled player will still end up with the most money. However in the short term it's possible for the less skill player to be ahead because of a few lucky coin flips.

Over simplification I know. However I've used it to try to point out the relevance of skill and luck in poker to people who have no concept of it.
A Bold Plan to Plant 1B Trees a Year with Drones – Drone 360: Drone 360
It might become normal. But look at Google Glass - the "weirdness" attached to it absolutely had an effect on its success.
Because the DEA is operating a separate program from the NSA's.
Ah forgot about Rendr, it is kind of the intermediary step as well. Either way, awesome work :)
Looks like there are multiple paths for success :)
Human being is such a complex machine, I don't know why people think that there is only way to succeed - _genuine_ motivation for the job. What is genuine and what's not? If the job is getting done, who cares!

Sometimes its just good enough to be like cockroaches to survive and succeed.
Usenix LISA has changed a lot in the last 5-10 years (Call for Participation)
Did I miss it or is there nothing in here in relation to secure coding. Ship first I guess.
A great way to connect a bunch of public IRC rooms to your internal system!
I mean UI mainly. UI performance, yes.
Show HN: Enums in Rails
Definitely no apps.

Our goal is to be the plumbing that connects other apps/services. We think the main value here is the possibility to use whatever app/service you like best to communicate with other teams.
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What grammar rule is violated? The question "is it not?" Is completely valid English and common with French speakers.

I would literally argue that it's ironic that most English speakers have a bad command of the language. Of course you're experience may be different. The reality is that grammar is often, especially in spoken language, is butchered. It's affect is that many people could care less.
Kerf – array programming and query language for iOS
Well in bitcoin, of course, trust would map to computing power.
This is a pretty handy guide to technical skill levels but I've found (over my 30+ year career) that these skills only comprise about 15% of being a successful software engineer (lower case).

Software engineering is all about communications: There communicating your desires to the computer which I'd estimate at the above mentioned 15%. And the rest which is communicating amongst a large enough team to create something useful (and many problems are bigger than a single person can solve). There's communicating with your future self - I easily forget my previous code by about six months out. There's also communicating with another future maintainer, which is somewhat harder than communicating with the future you.

Start-ups tend to disregard many of the skills (and related costs) of the remaining 85% because failing to successfully get to market and become profitable is deadly on it's own. But the successful start-up will eventually have to transition to a more maintenance/continuity/reliability focused organization and there are plenty of pitfalls during that transition. (Note that I realize there are wide variations in how that transition can occur).

At some point, any communications that was put off becomes technical debt ... and like the old commercial says - "You can pay me now or you can pay me later". Either way, developers that only know the technical skills on this competency matrix will either have a lot to learn or be out of work.
Whats googles protocol for approving apps? how do they not notice the problems before the apps even hit the store?
Graffiti could be interesting ;)
Obviously we've got a ways to go to support more platforms. (And some platforms have a ways to go with API development)
Seems simple enough to me. The "No" is directed at defusing a redundant introductory lecture.

Translate as:

"No, you don't have to explain further, I completely understand"

"No, stop, I've already heard of that and I'm totally onboard with your opinion"

I spend a lot of time being introduced to topics I'm already familiar with, but just nodding politely or saying "yeah" is interpreted as active listening, as "I'd like to hear more" rather than "Yeah, you can stop right there", which is too confrontational to use directly. What's your preferred way of expressing this sentiment, of interrupting someone in order to claim knowledge in their present topic, without indicating hostility or belittling them?

Extending one of the other posts, "No, your assumption is incorrect, I am in fact already familiar with this subject and I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment".
In both cases, people were generally sold on the product category, just not necessarily on the available products, or on Apple's version of it.

Smartphones were seen as a big deal long before the iPhone. Remember "crackberry"? The concept was accepted. Skeptics doubted the worth of the iPhone specifically, because it was quite a bit different from other smartphones (e.g. no hardware keyboard).

Tablets were a bit different, as there were no popular tablets before the iPad. However, the general feeling as I recall it was that tablets as a concept were cool and useful, and it's just that nobody had managed to do one well.

The iPod fit this as well. MP3 players were fairly popular and the advantages were obvious. iPod doubters were skeptical of the iPod specifically, not the general concept of portable digital music players.

The Apple Watch seems to be the opposite scenario. People are mostly not convinced that smartwatches in general are a useful product category, but a substantial number of people think Apple's version of it is good.

It's a departure for Apple. They typically wait for a market to mature to where it's at least somewhat proven, but the existing products are bad in various ways. Then they show everyone how it's done. In contrast, the smart watch market basically doesn't exist yet. There are a handful of extremely niche, experimental products, and that's it. Apple will have to convince people that they want a smartwatch, rather than merely convincing people that they have the best one, or that they've overcome the deficiencies of the other ones.

It will be interesting to see if they pull it off.
Leah Dunham doesn't seem natural to me.
I do practice programming exercises which get scheduled through Anki flash cards. I relearn things as I go. Then I look at my stats for a sec.

After that, I move on to working on my projects. Some stuff comes easier than it used to for me. Some stuff kicks my butt. Ultimately, it reinforces two things...

1. I've gotten better in some respects.

2. I'm still a lot worse than I previously realized.
There's Kindle Unlimited and FreeTime Unlimited for kids' books by Amazon, but neither Kindle Unlimited, nor Oyster had the books I needed.
I made this account to reply to you. Take or leave these ideas, it's all love to me. You sound burned out with your chosen profession. And it also sounds like there's a little fear-of-failure in your procrastination habits. Normally I try and avoid speaking for others but I only say this because it mirrors closely a lot of experiences I've had. I remember feeling the same way partially through school and basically every day after. I don't have a solution for you, but I have some suggestions. I remember at 26 feeling so old. And it's true - you are the oldest you have ever been. And you always will be. So you should probably forgo the obsessive comparison of your age with others. But 26 is a great age - it's probably the best time to be young. You have more resources, but you can still go a little wild without really alienating anyone. You still get to have adventures, you still get to make mistakes. Don't get me wrong, you can do that when you're much older too, but the stakes tend to get higher. You have money saved up for years? Take a long fantastic trip. Alone. Meet new people. See new places. Maybe it will relax you. Maybe it will give you fresh ideas. But at 26, I guarantee it will reshape you. SE Asia is so incredibly cheap yet well-trodden, The US is sprawling and gorgeously diverse, Europe is a different adventure with every train you take, Africa is... wild. Point being that you can start in your own backyard or halfway around the world, but you're at a time where you can really take advantage of the experience. Also, you're probably better looking now than you'll ever be again. Take advantage of that while you can.

-jayce
Looks really clean. Nicely done.

That is similar to my approach to emulating the Gameboy Color's Z80-like CPU. Not yet completed - probably never will be :(
“Shame on You.” – An Open Letter to Reddit's Ellen Pao
This gets posted to HN every couple of months... Can we, maybe create somethink like HN "Hall of Fame", where we will store all-time best submissions? just to avoid resubmitting it every time new generation of programmers digs them out.
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Losing want, is good. Many people strive and yearn for this.
Now that you know you don't want/expect anything out of life, you are in a position where you can serve humanity. You'd probably die tomorrow/next week/next year/next decade. You don't know. It's your duty to leave this place in a better state than you found it in. Assuming you have some skills that can help others, pass them on. Volunteer. Tutor. Plant trees. Build schools/shelters. Teach middle school math/science. Try to evoke the sense of wonder in engineering/software/physics in children, the same wonder that you saw in these fields once. Don't do it with the expectation that it would make you happy. It might not. Do it because you have to. Do it because there are millions of people who would give anything to trade places with you.
can i connect my IRC behind a vpn with a service outside of the vpn?