skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, that would be the one.
Correct. But React is also a step behind ClojureScript based React wrappers :) like Om and Reagent.
Yes I am. I make analytics applications for sales&marketing departments. Forecasting/Simulation, Segmentation, Text analytics, etc. Typical client - establishment with 500-1000 employees. Projects are delivered to the clients as a SaaS solution, because they need maintenance. Quarterly invoices, 1 year minimum contract.

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The day developers aren't needed is the day we no longer need jobs.
My experience in a programming conference and why you should go to one ASAP
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Apple probably only bought the rights to use the tech in civilian applications.
> the business doesn't care and would rather have something that works

True, but unless you own the business, the business' goals are not your goals. The business wants a working product; you need to stay relevant in a career. Sometimes these may align, but not always.
Free: https://archive.is/hfbkz

I tried to catch an Uber ride from Heathrow before, and it was a total nightmare in terms of not knowing where to go, having come out of the wrong exit, and the driver ending up in a car park. Really, the airports benefit from allowing them too, as they reduce traffic congestion and the number of confused people milling around looking for where their ride is...
You can't know for sure who looks at your resume. There could be obnoxious people at even the best of companies. Maybe if everyone stopped improving their CVs the problem would go away, but that's hard to do when you're living off your last paycheck.
"If we're gonna "understand" each other, first we gotta make 'em suffer like we're sufferin'! Like when they stop a fight because someone got injured! But I know that'll never happen… that's why there'll always be war. It always rains here and I hate it. It's like this whole country is a big crybaby. I'm going to change it… and protect everyone!"

http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Yahiko
>I did an informal survey of the team (who had previously been working from their respective homes) about whether they'd prefer their main desks to be in private offices or an open room, and the winner was the open office.

I think it's a case of peer pressure. Nobody wants to be seen as the anti-team-spirit guy who wants to work in their office alone. But deep in their heart I bet all of them wanted a private office.
Yeah I played around with building levels in TextEdit while I was developing the app - it's a lot of fun watching lines of text turn into platforms for Mario, and it allows for iterating on level design really quickly :)
It's not so much 'A-B and B-C' but rather 'A-B this week' and 'B-C next week'.
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At this scale, a factor of magnitude or two is of little consequence, and odds are, you can get general buy-in within a "factor of magnitude or two" of the number of humans to live from the vast bulk of people who might have sensible opinions.
It's totally in HT's business model/corporate DNA. Hot Topic's business model is about commodifying, accessorizing, and packaging subcultures in order to sell them at a huge markup.

ThinkGeek conveniently packaged nerd/geek culture as a set of things you could buy. Delightfully nerdy things, sure, and their employees seemed to genuinely be pretty nerdy but the model is not too different from HT. Now that being a nerd/geek is starting to become 'cool' (see recent uptick in portrayals of geeky/nerdy protagonists in non-comedy hollywood, etc.), HT probably wants to package up nerd/geek culture, and acquiring ThinkGeek was probably the most straightforward way to do that.
> How can something that doesn't really exist such as space and time possibly be warped?

Think of a surface of a ball: it locally looks flat, but globally is pretty warped. This is an example of a warped 2-dimensional space. The spacetime is just 4-dimensional analogue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold
This phone looks really interesting as a backup/utility, especially for people who travel a lot with many sim cards from different countries... Has anyone found somewhere to order internationally?

EDIT: Specifically that exact design, there's something about it..
Case in point: HP/Compaq
Is that the story in which there's a discussion about whether space-time is continous or discreet, the former case allowing infinite computation as you dive into, the latter not?
Yep, based on the name she's Hungarian. Also proof-reading is hard, because most of the time you cannot see your own mistakes.
This is likely a truly unbranded OEM feature phone based on a Mediatek or Spreadtrum reference platform. Resellers then add their own branding to it.

I couldn't find that exact one but a bit of searching turns up similar models:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/9000mAh-long-standby-power-ba...

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Original-H-mobile-X8-4...

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/Original-Xiaocai-X6-...

It is a bit surprising at first to see such enormous feature phones still in mass production, but it makes sense that the conditions in developing countries would favour more rugged designs and versatile physical features; in that environment a thin touchscreen smartphone made of mostly glass and metal would be an overly fragile piece of kit with little advantage.
Yes. Person-up. Adult-up, whatever. I'm not very PC. ;)

For the record, I changed it to (wo)man-up.
100% agreed. Working now on angular app at work (not my choice) I see state flying everywhere which will inevitably lead to something awful. The argument to push it back into a main controller and let it flow downward only seems completely unrealistic if not impossible and the api certainly doesn't encourage it at all.

Meanwhile in Clojurescript I have undo functionality without thinking about it - mind blowing because it's something I never expected to see in a web app without much pain.
If that was his argument I'd be happier with it. As described, his goal was to encode comments in the function name and describe caveats in test cases; none of those steps sound like 'write a javadoc'.

Javadoc and comments are both forms of code documentation. Perhaps we can generalise OP's point to the following:

"Most of the things programmers say about documentation of code are excuses for not writing any documentation at all"

I'm not going to use a library without documentation in favour of one that is documented. Above a certain minimum standard, it doesn't matter how 'clean' the code is if you don't understand why it exists. Cute naming simply doesn't make up for a lack of documentation, and avoiding documentation should be considered a cone of shame, not a badge of honour.
If these truly experience "as little as 10 percent of the friction of a regular ball bearing", I wonder how they'll change skateboarding.
> The colony barely survived because people lacked the incentive to work

This is a narrative, not a plain fact.

Many people continue to do work without incentive. They feel demotivated, they don't need the money and can go live in mom's basement. They do it out of boredom, even habit or inertia.

Also, it can be difficult to determine people's incentives, they're not always aware of those themselves, so short of telepathy you can't always claim to know whether one is there or not.
Beyond Moore's law
I wish GA had a real concept of a user. It's very difficult to incorporate "offline" events like cancellations that occur over the phone.
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I think web technologies are a bit like AI and VR; they catch up in waves to meet demand, but they don't simply replace everything all at once.

IMHO, the reason for this is that once web technologies almost catch up to native, native buckles down and fights back (e.g., Swift), and as long as native can keep developers happy, it will always own serious market share, since it is closer to the metal (faster) and necessarily has access to more APIs (more features).
Will be hard to compete with those big libraries like angular and react, b/c they have yet a large community, IMO I like angular on top of react (didn't like the way you create DOM with javascript, tried it 2 years ago, maybe it evolve but I doubt it).

Also I'll wait till the project get more mature and get a significant community, b/c I'm not with the energy to learn every library that come out there, maybe will test with some small project but not with big projects, yet.

Keep working on it, but try to make it more intuitive and easy to use (didn't read well the docs, but just seen it quickly). ;)
And yet "we" keep on trying...
> I am however feeling so overexposed to new libraries and frameworks that I can hardly muster the energy to even look at it.

That's the nature of the job. In the front-end new frameworks are born all the time, new apis are created, new paradigms are "invented". Coming up with the "perfect" framework is clearly a work in progress.

Here is a list of the techs I had to learn and work with during my career :

- flex

- jquery

- extjs

- backbonejs

- angularjs 1.x

- Reactjs

- angularjs 2.X

And i'm only talking about "view frameworks" here. Not even about the crazy js pipelines involving build tools, running on nodejs , 3 different CSS pre- processors , ...

And in 1 year i'm pretty sure i'll have to work with yet another new framework because managers think framework Z isn't cool enough anymore.

Again that's the nature of the job,because front-end techs are evolving. Everybody was praising backbone 3/4 years ago. Then everybody was praising Angular then everybody is praising React as the new hot stuff.

In the front end, either you keep on learning new stuff, or you're out of job.

Those who believe they have "job security"(as I read in this thread) because they chose angular are lying to them self.

Being a front-end developer means having to learn a shit tons of libraries , techs and apis everyday. You can't just tell yourself , "I'll learn X and i'll be all set" like with server-side techs.

Yet today the biggest challenge isn't even choosing a framework, but more like choosing how to transition from ES5 to ES6. Because the tools aren't ready.
I don't actually work on Web related stuff at all professionally, I am only using these things because they are my "side projects".... but I do like to keep on top of things when I can. I think just saying that someone HAS to keep on top to be able to be a developer is a bit much.
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He didn't say all technology is diseased. He was talking about the web. Writing native applications is still as fun as it has always been. Not that there isn't disease there too, but it isn't scripted and marked up to hell like the technostew that is the current web, which is what the parent was describing.
Geography. The replies I've read, as they so often do, ignore geography. SV might move rapidly from one to the next, but the city I'm in is more conservative and moves slower, so all I've ever seen much of from recruiters are jquery, knockout, angular. SV is the gladiatorial arena, and only the survivors make it through the filters to elsewhere, so elsewhere has fewer to deal with. If you engage with SV news while living elsewhere you'll still be trying to keep up, but if you hang back, things are a bit more laid back. Or, make the decision to ignore every other tech. If the next one is along shortly, you'll not likely miss much.
> not have to carry cash and worry about whether I have enough to go back home

I was so thankful when the City of Dallas passed laws requiring all cabs to accept credit cards and install credit card readers. That made riding in a cab much less painful... until I discovered Lyft, and now I'm too used to doing everything on my phone to ever go back.
Every cell has a full copy of the current operating plan, not the entire history of all preceding operating plans. Storing the entire commit history of our DNA would be much more space intensive.
I think it's been on that trajectory for longer than 2 years. They lost anything that made them unique or interesting years ago. It just became Dr Who/Star Trek/Star Wars/LOTR/whatever franchise of the moment shit.
I'm quite sure I've read somewhere that information cannot be lost in the absolute sense, lost to us: yes, lost irrevocably and irrefutably: no.

In that sense, 'a sufficiently advanced AI' is not magic, because when people say that they definitively have something in mind, at least the people I often discuss this with do.

In short: if you're smart(fast, precise, determined) enough to look at the individual molecules of a puddle of brain-goo. And if you can infer the way it has collapsed by ray tracing those molecules back through how they collided with each other/the walls of your mold then it should be possible to reconstruct the spatial form of the brains at least. That's a pretty big IF obviously, but equally obviously not impossible. If only you can look deep/far/fast enough.

If you want to be theoretical about it, then yes. There is probably an upper bound on how smart/big an AI mind can possibly be. And thus there is a limit on how much information it can extract from arbitrary systems. So I agree with your assertion that there is information that even the smartest of all AIs cannot possibly reconstruct, but I'm not sure that the brain is such a structure.

Any justification about why/how 'a sufficiently advanced AI' could come about is more questionable.

Many knowledgeable people are making guesses based on our current understanding of intelligence/computation/AI, and then extrapolating. The paradoxical thing is that on the one hand AI-doomsday speakers tell us no to anthropomorphise (for good reasons) with the motives of an AI, but on the other hand apply human reasoning/understanding to predict such machines/patterns.
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> A little less contrast. Black on white? How often do you see that kind of contrast in real life?

While grey on white may look better, actually reading text is easier as black on white.
Did the universe start with a five-dimensional black hole?
You make really good points, it's just that if it costs $3 to get to one place and $17 to get to another (in fact if you are going FURTHER from the other direction, it costs just $4 to the CBD), one has to wonder why there's this enormous cost gradient, and whether that's just a question of consumer price-sensitivity.

Theoretically if roads were a problem a rational transport network would incentivise rail use, but in fact taxi use is effectively subsidised by about $10 due to the expense of trains.

I'm just talking about Sydney though, don't know about Brisbane.
The end for Mandriva
Not at all! Honestly there are some WONDERFUL things about angular. There are some bad ones too.

- Polling for changes vs. event driven
- two way data bindings causing infinite redraw loops.
- "feels like O(n^2)" performance on ng-repeats / large pages

but things like the templating, directives, data-binding... they are all really good things.

And dependency injection! They have really moved the needle forward on client side testing.

No angular in itself is not a mistake at all. There are mistakes without question. I suspect the angular 2.0 release will address many of the major criticisms. Though, I haven't read much about it yet.
You are absolutely correct. It is hard to compete with Google and Facebook. Possibly impossible. I love what I do and it is great experience developing jsblocks.

And one last thing you could check OneScript - https://github.com/astoilkov/OneScript. Do you think it is simple?
After I gave the talk, an audience member came and thanked me for giving such a nice Haskell talk. I said "shhhhhh!"
While it does appear to be similar at first look, they are actually different technologies.

C3 requires a plane / helicopter / UAV to fly (very low, 500m) over an area to capture the data, then it can be processed into a 3d map. Seems similar to street view, but from the air. Takes continuous images of an area.

Vricon however is using satellite imagery taken from just a few angles to then generate the 3d data. This means it can be done anywhere in the world, without needing to fly there. Which means the process could be started almost immediately, and without endangering anyone if the area is dangerous or remote.
honestly, thought the defeat was in the other direction. Although I am a stubborn native app loving, cloud denier, i fear more and more that I am in the minority. Everything new is web based. It is true that there are perfomance hits, communication bottlenecks and added complexity to developing on the web, but i think the biggest hurdles are slightly less obvious. Security requirements are exacerbated and the size of development units have grown intractably large.
More speed requires better direct HW access but every time the web wants more, the blackhats push back and take even more.
What happens when facebook advances react, google remodels appengine, AWS changes... Nothing is static, making the "who broke what" question sometimes impossible to answer.
If we had a system to reclaim the energy as it flowed down the other side - like hydroelectric generator to power an electric water pump - it might not be too expensive.

I suppose an alternative - getting a modestly-sized (6 foot diameter?) drill and drilling from mid-Oklahoma to Eastern-Arizona - wouldn't be a lot cheaper. The tunnel would only have to be approximately 1000 miles long.
Anarcho-capitalists maybe.

The anarchist movement branched out from socialism and tends to be much more humanist than that.
> those workers will eventually be used for something more productive. A net gain.

Not always. One of the more strident criticisms of this economic recovery (since 2008) is that the size of the workforce has shrunk because some workers are unable to reenter it after having been laid off. The increases in efficiency seemingly aren't translating into higher wages or more jobs, just more net returns to the finance folks.
Why are you not curating a curated list of curated curating-lists?
Did you publish the code anywhere? Nice job btw.
The web only works for mobile when you have a responsive design, which again for most people means adopting one or more frameworks. News stories should be perfect content for a mobile web presentation, and yet we have Flipboard. The app is free and the service is sub-based, so business model wasn't the issue.
> As far as the namespace goes - I guess, but there is nothing to stop you from coming up with your own namespacing scheme using nested CSS classes.

This doesn't work when you are just yet another developer on the team.
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People have been working for age trying to generate passable text by looking at n-grams for whole words. It is quite surprising to see that all along we could have done better by using a simpler model!
I've tried this one one time ago and it's really useful
> I'm quite sure I've read somewhere that information cannot be lost in the absolute sense, lost to us: yes, lost irrevocably and irrefutably: no.

This is probably not quite at the requested standard of backing up a claim, and sounds very like "but you can't prove it isn't true!" But I'm not the one making a claim.

In any case, please back up your claim. What is "the absolute sense"? How does it differ from "in a practical sense", with examples?

> In short: if you're smart(fast, precise, determined) enough to look at the individual molecules of a puddle of brain-goo. And if you can infer the way it has collapsed by ray tracing those molecules back through how they collided with each other/the walls of your mold then it should be possible to reconstruct the spatial form of the brains at least. That's a pretty big IF obviously, but equally obviously not impossible. If only you can look deep/far/fast enough.

Noise floor. In this case, thermal noise.

Also, you literally can't know that much about all the molecules in your puddle of goo. (Heisenberg.) We do not live in a Newtonian universe.
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A business decision to use a specific network protocol doesn't define what web and network protocols are.

It is is just a consequence of what network protocols happen to be open by default.
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>no one gives away their work for free
>it made zero sense to share things for free
>We only have an organized form of that currently

And yet much of the technology that power the internet that disseminates this idea you have run on GPL licensed software.
This comment would be better if it wasn't inflammatory. Instead of

'People of your ilk are fond of resorting to the old canard "everyone needs a roof over their head and food in their belly"'

you could have written

'People are fond of resorting to the old canard "everyone needs a roof over their head and food in their belly"'
So cool to see more and more iOS dev get on board with open source.
Npm/browserify will load only one copy of jQuery if the semvers match. The only "problem" with that is that if you get duplicates, npm doesn't report these out of the box. It's rather easy to write a script to detect these (if one doesn't exist already).
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Thanks. That looks like the SV experience. I realise that this is an SV site, but it sure is tiring hearing the 1%s point of view as if it's the norm across the industry globally.
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I dont understand, if mithril is good why would you want to try react? Personally I'm trying to solve a problem (make complex ui easy to code and understand)
Either mithril solves it or it doesnt..?
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Seems like a really simple way to do a level-editor on paper - draw it, scan it and convert it.
Best way to get me to not watch your video is to take away the controls and my ability to skip around at my leisure. Urgh.
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I think really highly of Ive but I'm sure a lot of those are "spend 5 minutes giving feedback, get your name on the patent" kind of situations.
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I just got back from Ghana, where I was evaluating an ICT in education project, and one of the people on the team that was implementing the project had this phone. At first I thought he just had an old phone, then I learned he had downgraded from a smartphone. Then I thought maybe he was doing it for ironic retro style points (which is not really "a thing" in rural northern Ghana in the way it is in London or New York). He did acknowledge a certain smugness about the "anti-style." At the end of the day, it seemed like the practical durability and the long battery life were the clinchers for his decision to "downgrade".
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on record: I loved working in Mithril and am a huge fan of Leo one of the nicest guys around.
Maybe because it doesn't use Java for some people, :)
"Surely there must me some more noble use for such technology, in theory at least."

Having real time 3D accurate data would be really useful in nearly any civil engineering scenario. Cost is probably why they don't market it that way. Probably cheaper to hire a few guys with a theodolite than order a bunch of hi rez satellite pictures still, then.