skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got on twitter on day two or three (I'm user 1019 I think) and... it was incredible boring back then. I mean really, really boring. I stopped using it immediately.

Eventually I picked it back up, once there were more accounts I found useful/interesting.

Today they have the opposite problem: too much disconnected content: my feed is filled with 100s of random, disconnected headlines, links to top 10 lists, random comments from fiends, etc.

I don't feel overwhelmed, but it's hard to _casually_ engage twitter and feel edified by the experience.

I think to win the long run, Twitter has to be more valuable than just a seemly chaotic feed of information rushing by. They have never solved this problem well. At least, not for the casual user.

If they did, I think they would see their user adoption rate increase. That doesn't solve the monetization problem alone, but it would sure would help.

Update: fixed some spelling.
Erlang came from Ericsson, SML from Bell Labs. Erlang's contract based programming idiom is another, and perhaps better, approach to high reliability fault tolerant system implementation, but though I was thinking about it by virtue of thinking about software for high reliability fault tolerant systems developed by telecoms, rest assured I was not writing about it. The reason I wasn't writing about it is that it would not have answered my comment's parent.
What's the value of that PR? Attracting quality employees or boosting VC interest? Because I highly doubt their target market is reading articles about startups in the NYT.
So then what? Am I supposed to connect to multiple servers, one for SHAs and the other for blobs? What is the point of that? To be fair, by this point in the article I was just skimming it.
I'm curious why the S/N ratio collapses like that. Is it because those who contribute to the noise level are slower to move to new platforms? Is it because those who contribute to the signal are faster to move to new platforms and/or adverse to popular platforms? Perhaps a combination of both?

I suppose a part of me wonders if the answers to these questions could lead to a more stable platform. Yet that seems unlikely, since platforms don't seem to be holding traction longer than their predecessors.

It seems like Reddit might be at least one possible evolution that could lead to increased longevity. Their trick is to have user moderated sub-communities as a first class feature, and keep the churn high on those communities (subreddits). That seems to be a way to allow the cyclic birth and death of platforms/communities to occur, but still keep people within the overarching Reddit umbrella. Though I think ultimately Reddit will suffer the same fate as Digg; it's only a matter of time before management makes enough mistakes or corruption reaches critical mass.
I concur. This is the first time I'm seeing it too. I come from a C++ background, with recent experience in Python and JavaScript. I'm rarely impressed by new languages, but for some reason, Nim feels like what I wish Python was.
Future was when I watched Steve Jobs flick his finger to scroll through contacts when he was introducing the first iphone. Prior to that I always felt scrolling through 200+ contacts on my sony ericsson phone was unnecessarily hard. It has been almost 8 years since and I can distinctly remember the awe on my face.

I am living in the future ever since.
Yes, there is. It's a Ruby one called Lewsnetter: https://github.com/bborn/lewsnetter
I wonder if it was an automatic merge or whether someone just didn't eyeball the code properly?
But he had the map data and the text data all compressed into a single image -- the text would have been warped as well.
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Mercurial was a real eye-opener. Before a friend basically made me try Mercurial, I was using Subversion for managing my private projects, and it was not exactly fun. Especially when I was working on my laptop (netbook, actually, but that is totally OT), away from home, without access to the server.

Mercurial made VCS fun. I recently moved on to Fossil, because I do like the integrated wiki and ticket system for smallish projects, but without Mercurial I never would have gotten there.

I also like Mercurial's hooks. I am not sure if other DCVS support that, but hooks are great. (Fossil doesn't appear to have them)
Can't wait to try this. Been using atom for a year. Been hearing some great things about the new Visual Studio (compared to a few years ago).
Good Encryption Doesn’t Make Good Government
> Over 10 years the government will save $1.32 for every $1 invested for fuller support for the chronically homeless, Sacred Heart Mission estimates

32% return on investment sounds like a lot to me.
Debian/kFreeBSD also cannot run systemd -- it's been designed for Linux, rather than for portability.
I was at that same Wikipedia article, but I got there from the "Functor" disambiguation page. I assumed that "function object" was a synonym for "functor" within the context of those listed languages. Perhaps that assumption was wrong on my part...

Your point about chronology is noted. I have no rebuttal.

> What do you suggest Haskell users should do? Stop calling functors functors? Sheepishly demure and say "okay you're right, we're wrong" when someone says that functors are how C++ does them?

Stop saying "we're right, you're wrong" when someone says functors are how C++ does them. Accept that C++, C#, Java, and the Gang of Four can use the term to mean what they mean without them being wrong. Ideally, recognize that, within the wider world of programming, the FP use of the term is the minority, and so some effort at translation to the majority terms may be appropriate.

That said, I'm well aware that I'm talking to the wrong person. Comments of the type that I'm complaining about occur on HN, but I don't think they come from you.

The only quarrel I could pick with what you said was your original comment, when you faulted C++ for not adapting the term from category theory. I had my timeline wrong in my first reply to you, but I still think that, since the roots of C++ are very far from category theory, expecting it to go there to find its terminology is a bit unfair.
I had the hardest time following Cortazar surrealism.
Inappropes.
> having been working a lot with node/iojs modules the past few years, I find that experience even better. I'm pretty sure others who are using scripted languages with a REPL can probably state the same

In Ruby-land, the pry gem called on a binding (binding.pry) is a godsend.
Bills are always named like this. It's just something short to put on a sign.
"You are not ready for immutability."
It's easy and fun to dismiss Macdonalds, but their "slime" burgers are made from beef (no pink slime even). I doubt that cheap hotdogs are made from better ingredients.

"I doubt that will only result in a 5% cost increase and that it will be much more."

Well -- make your case.

A Bloomberg reporter guesstimates that doubling salary costs at fast food franchises would increase prices by 25%.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-08-02/this-is-what...

But that's pretty much a worst case scenario (assumes that everyone working there is minimum wage -- in fact from the figures I see, no-one at Macdonalds earns the Federal minimum wage).

I suspect if you did the analyses what you'd see is something like this:

1) Increasing the minimum wage would have flow-on effects to other salaries causing wage increases across the board.

2) There would be price rises generated by increased labor costs, and also by more money being in the economy (this would improve GDP, but that's not a useful measure).

3) It would have a significant stimulus effect (low income people tend to spend more than save, so giving them more money has a high multiplier effect -- it's really the best kind of stimulus). This would reduce unemployment.

4) A lot of people who have multiple jobs to survive would be able to give up some of them, which would reduce unemployment.

5) Some companies would make do with fewer employees, which would increase unemployment.

6) My guess is 3 + 4 would overwhelm 5. Combined with 2, this would raise interest rates.

Seems like a pretty desirable outcome all round.
And obligatory West Wing "Gall Peters Projection" clip:

"What the hell is that?"

"It's where you've been living this whole time"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-PrBRtTY
My adventures with React Native
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Email isn't a community or platform, so I wouldn't lump it into the same logical pile as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. Email is just a distributed means of communication, and isn't tied to any particular organization or community. So it won't suffer the same syndromes that platforms do. (note that I point out in particular that it isn't tied to a particular organization. Facebook messages are a form of communication, but they're tied to a platform/community. Thus it suffers the same cycles). But, e.g., email platforms suffer cycles. Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, etc.
How to Implement an Iterating Adapter
While I absolutely agree with the sentiment, I must point out that they accidently have SSL, even if they don't know it, because CloudFlare. It's just not forced, which is unfortunate. And yeah, the lack of privacy stuff is concerning.
Been playing around with it and I like it.

It's good for web development, and that's a smart move by microsoft to product a lighter weight ide for this purpose.
That sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen. Imagine they have the "wrong" old-dog adopted by an innocent family, and something bad happens afterwards? Who is the family going to blame exactly? More importantly, who are you going to call out if that were to happen? Be honest.
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Thanks a lot. Was great
Possibly fewer or more than one backdoor per jurisdiction.

Maybe there would be a Five Eyes back door, for the US and its Friends with Benefits. Maybe European. NATO. Warsaw Pact.

Muslim. Suni and Suffi. Turkey would have at least two, one for NATO and one for however they identify as a nation and a nation of Muslims.

California's backdoor would carry a warning about carcinogens.
I don't think facial recognition over such a large dataset is feasible, but they could probably try to match the exact image itself.
"What's inside there?"

"One moment of perfect Javascript."
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(Time Machine Scene)

Napoleon: "It's a piece of crap! It doesn't work!"
Uncle Rico: "I could of told ya that"

Time travel still doesn't work.
Still relevant.
After opening a few files it's up to 100-150MB, so not as lightweight as I originally thought. That doesn't affect its responsiveness, though, and I have plenty of free memory.
Nicely Animated HTML5 site
App store analytics
Three-dimensional printed throat implants save three infants
I think they are trying to just punch up the status of the service, making those be the first brands people associate with it.
In that sense Linux doesn't replace other Operating Systems. But of course it does and that's the sense in which I used the word "replace". As with Windows and Linux, Python is used in lieu of MatLab frequently for new applications as the total number of applications grows.

MatLab is also often replaced by R these days.
I think the service is too expensive for an audience, that knows how to put a website online and what hosting costs. I think it should be either cheaper or more expensive but full service ("Answer these questsions, our designers/writer take care of everything for you").
A tool to help combat distractions like Twitter* and focus on one thing at a time: http://focusr.co.

*Although I'm pleased with Twitter's self-awareness here, and I'm not saying there's anything intrinsically wrong with services like these. You just aren't going to see many successful entrepreneurs wasting their time on these services (unless they're directly responsible for engaging users through it).
Names have no meaning? I'm pretty sure that's dystopian.
Where is your Nepal relief money going?
A text I sent to a friend a few months ago:

"On shift on 5th and mission. A bus goes by with an ad: WHAT IF THE INTERNET WAS FOR YOU? Mobile phones everywhere. I read this on MY mobile phone: http://popehat.com/2013/12/06/nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vulcans-... All this while working as a contractor electronic valet. Feels like a Stephenson novel."
Almost the same results.
Pynchon is kind of like this. He layers so much symbolism and allusion layered into every sentence.
> SQL, CSS, HTML

None of these languages are "functional" by any reasonable definition of the term "functional". CSS and HTML aren't even programming languages.
An intro to the latest version of the polyglot Komodo IDE
If this was even a remotely feasible problem with modern cryptographic hashes, DNSSEC, TLS, SSH, package management systems, most authentication systems, etc. would all be dramatically broken.

If I had this capability I wouldn't waste it on injecting javascript into web pages. I'd create forged browser upgrades and go from there.
You're not talking of the past, you're confusing dream with memory.
It's a primary key, a handle for the thread of the bill, a (human-friendly) designation. Even important CVEs get named.
almost 26, it guessed 34; i think we all know how we feel #rageagainstthemachine >.<
I feel like I live in 1984. Not sure if this is what future supposed to be like.
Not sure what happened at the beginning but the past years the shipping and support has been great. I can see this would kill your interest; don't think EvilDragon does that to anyone though.
Have Microsoft employees taken over HN ? All I see is MS on HN....every positive MS article out there is on HN now.
There is indeed no great solution to 'prominence' in the OSM data. There have been efforts to add population information to places, and to promote so called villages into so called towns when they are locally important, but those efforts have not been completely systematic (so they might be better in Austria than Minnesota, and even worse in Wisconsin).

Which is one reason to turn to the Natural Earth data, it has been curated more systematically than OSM.
Website that guesses how old your are
Leaked Lyft Document Reveals a Costly Battle with Uber
> an experimental interface for running hg over a git store

It would make me very happy to be able to interact with Git repos through an interface that didn't make me want to kill myself with a rusty railroad spike.
No paraphrase Yogi Berra :

Nobody posts on Twitter any more, there are too many Tweets.
Safety! Having "my_cat" and "myCat" as different variables in the same space sometimes ends up with using the wrong variable, especially when using tab completion.

The feature is not meant to encourage developers to use "my_cat" and "myCat" randomly within the same file.
According to Wikipedia by employee count Red Hat (7500) is 10x the size of each of SUSE (750) and Canonical (700) but the SUSE and Canonical numbers cited are a few years out of date.

Anyone have more up to date numbers or other ways to characterize overall size or contribution to open source? Am also curious whether SUSE or Canonical do any public policy, perhaps just as a side effect of selling to governments. Red Hat apparently has a "Global Public Policy" department though there's little info about it on the web. In theory a larger entity can reap more benefits of policy activity including lobbying, so will do more of it.
A Natural Amenity That Comes with Breckenridge Homes for Sale
If you have been thinking about Breckenridge homes for sale and you love observing wildlife, you are about to get the best of both worlds. There are different species of birds in the area for ample bird watching.

Great Horned Owl – this species is notable for its big feathers that look like horns. These owls are nocturnal, so you will have to go out at night to see them. You can go star gazing too!

Peregrine Falcon – This falcon is found in its habitats, which is around cliffs and water. These birds are fascinating to watch, swooping in on their pray faster than a major league pitcher can throw a baseball.

Bald Eagle – This big bird of prey is the cherished United States symbol. They are found nesting high in trees near bodies of water. You will surely need binoculars to find this beauty!

Breckenridge homes for sale are in great proximity to ample bird watching.

http://listings.searchbreckenridgelistings.com/toppicks/75694/216897
Microsoft has created a website that tells you how old you aren't
One of the big problems is that in space you not only have low temperatures you also have limited ability to reject heat (no real convection to speak of, only conductivity; which is bad because you can get heat seep into other parts, or radiation, or to a much lesser degree ablation). This means that it is harder to engineer parts for engines; you can have a heat range of +1000C to -200C and also subject often to uneven, and for restartable engines repeated, cooling and/or heating, which all leads to fatigue.

Secondly you have issues with fuel/oxidisers; cryogenic fuels/oxidisers need to be regularly stirred in low gravity because convection doesn't work the same as it would in the presence of gravity. This is why most RCS systems use non-cryogenic hypergolic bi-propellant fuels or mono-propellant fuels as the systems are much simpler; pressurised tanks, one or two one-way valve(s), possibly a catalyst, a combustion chamber and bell for the simplest of systems.
Note that there's a difference between predicting your age and estimating how old somebody looks (i.e. you could look older for your age).
http://dragonbox.de still sells them; I got mine via that site.
> These include the concept of changeset evolution coming to life and the announcement of both Facebook and Google choosing Mercurial over Git.

Perhaps this is true for Facebook. But I can say that Google most certainly does not use Hg over Git. The Go source code used to be under Hg, but they've recently migrated to git.
> What? No. That's not how the Vorlons worked at all.

Maybe OP has only watched through season 3
With a sufficiently large vocabulary, it is easy to distinguish between cosmetic depilation and trichotillomania. While drugs and therapies are prescribed to people suffering from the latter (clomipramine, acetylcysteine), they are also available over the counter for the former (thioglycolate).

One could also make the argument that perhaps it is real life that is interfering with the daydreams, rather than the other way around. If that's the case, we also have drugs to treat that (alcohol, psilocybin, heroin, marijuana, nicotine, LSD-25, cocaine, MDMA, etc.).

Keeping it out of the DSM won't stop anyone from inventing treatment options.
this is a moment at which you should try to elevate yourself over cheap gags for karma points on a bulletin board.
I'm not an electrical engineer, but I do own a bicycle with a 250 watt motor, and I'm pretty sure BBC left off a bunch of 'kilo' prefixes in their article.. That or I just need better energy delivery to my bike wheels.

That said, I'm interested in weight- and aero-dynamics; so much power comes with a bunch of difficult engineering problems, like keeping the car from killing you in a variety of interesting ways. It would be fun to see this on a track.
"We eat in restaurants, buy branded toiletries, build
skyscrapers, create legislative institutions, travel in
flying machines, write poetry, and search for meaning in
relationships, temples, and scientific books. Humans have
discovered antibiotics, sent probes into space, decimated
rainforests, shared a billion views of clips of kitten
behaviour, and decoded their own genomes.

But there is one thing that humans have singularly failed
to do, and that is to properly understand their own behaviour. "

— Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis:
Gaining Control: How human behavior evolved

The Thirties had seen the first generation of American
industrial designers; until the Thirties, all pencil
sharpeners had looked like pencil sharpeners; your basic
Victorian mechanism, perhaps with a curlicue of
decorative trim. After the advent of the designers, some
pencil sharpeners looked as though they'd been put
together in wind tunnels. For the most part, the change
was only skin-deep; under the streamlined chrome shell,
you'd find the same Victorian mechanism. Which made a
certain kind of sense, because the most successful
American designers had been recruited from the ranks of
Broadway theater designers. It was all a stage set, a
series of elaborate props for playing at living in the
future.
- William Gibson
Unlikely. The U.S. voters best chance is to elect a candidate in 2016 who will pardon Snowden in 2020 on his last day in office. Then we can draft Snowden's ass and make him president for 4 or 8 years. That's a suitable punishment for his crimes.
yeah, Cortazar stuff is great,

wow, another Lucas fan!
http://cronster.com - Working on similar concept, though not the same.

Threads revolve around chronological events created/added/managed by the user - think running race, wedding, conference, concert, etc.
He led an eagerly evaluated life.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9466298
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Nope. Why would I ask the same coding questions every time? Nobody has written the same code or worked on exactly the same problems with exactly the same tools during exactly the same time.

I would question you on the specific things YOU wrote and how YOU would solve problems.
> having reduced consumer pricing expectations for both apps and on-line services to the point where hardly anyone makes any money in that market any more except for the huge advertising networks.

Individual developers might not make much money, but the profits for Apple and Microsoft depend on the sales as a whole across all developers. In Apple's case, they're making plenty.

https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/01/08App-Store-Rings-i...

It remains to be seen whether Microsoft can get anything close to that momentum going in the Windows Store, but it's pretty clear they're trying to move that way.
I deeply value Change logs. I have the same pet peeve when I read things like "other misc. fixes" etc. If you have to write that, you might as well not write anything.

I love Change logs where it explains what issue was fixed or if a new enhancement/requirement was implemented and bonus points if it mentions the actual source files added/edited.
There's already some discussion of this[0] although this submission is clearly different.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9466298
Microsoft makes it easier to build Minecraft Mods using Visual Studio
If I get what you mean, yeah, it was through Craig. EvD said he was going to help the leftovers, but all he said he could offer me was an RMA'd unit, IIRC (or pay an additional $300 to get an upgraded one).
Tried this picture: https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11040377...

Told me age 25. I'm flattered. ;)
It's a hard problem. When coding, I have to come up with sufficiently descriptive names for all methods, all internal variables, all classes, all modules to fit those classes in. Sometimes I feel the urge to cheat, to give less than fully descriptive names for things.

Inevitably, this comes back to bite me when I go back to revise the code and find I can't immediately understand what the code is doing, and the first thing I find myself doing is renaming poorly-named constructs.

Congress has very different constraints when naming bills, but the end result is the same, adding the burden of a hard-to-do-right, yet high-visibility responsibility to already-overworked staffers. I'm not surprised at all that the names for most bills are sappy and nondescript.
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