skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I wrote "That's seems like needlessly negative views towards an admittedly small portion of the population, when the point is mostly to just start doing real things, and nothing to do with actual clothes."

The context of the story is that one should wear clothes in real life. Otherwise the underlying analogy doesn't make sense.

Also, regarding "Not sure why it’s called going viral, it should be going exponential, lol!". The assumption is that the dynamics of how they spread is similar to model of population growth for viruses, bacteria, etc. These follow a logistic function - a sigmoid or 's' curve. Early on the growth appears exponential, but at some point it flattens out. After all, there are only about 7 billion people in the world, which sets a hard upper limit.
Outside of developer tools the software landscape for Linux doesn't look that great.
I believe the issues were more in terms of not being able to stage/market the product appropriately...

If "Google+" was first an initiative to create a universal single sign-on across all their own product lines (OAuth/OpenID), to better unify "profiles" which they did some of but didn't push it... and allowed the individual communities to continue to grow on their own (YouTube, their Blog thing, etc)... actually kept reader and extended with their own comment system etc.

By going that route, they could have made your "Google+ Profile" the center of your presence/contacts for the different social hubs. In the end, this is what happened anyway, at the cost of cannibalizing a few products, and alienating others, instead of doing the profile first, then offering "follows" across the sub-communities in a single interface later.

I think google's engineers are/were skilled enough to go this route, which would have been less "pure" architecturally, but more organic and better received.
Google, Where is my Linux support?
It would be cool to have a Windows "official" package manager, however I don't think their initial launch is going to be that.

From what I understand, it's more of a "package manager-manager" so it manages other systems (like Chocolatey) rather than running the repos itself.
zeromq over loopback or with pgm is prob as good/fast as UDS
Looks not bad. Iam planing a little microframework for personal use. Maybe i will use it for that.
> The same could be said about La sombra del viento, 100 años de soledad or Neruda's poems in Spanish.

That's a surprising choice. Most Spanish readers would say that La sombra del viento is nowhere near an undisputable masterpiece such as 100 años de soledad, or even Neruda's poems (the literary stature of which is perhaps more contested).
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Google Photos, the Endlösung for Privacy
The whole "disrupting tech bro" shtick not flying in the DPRC? lel
Whenever I see a wasp or a bee or a hornet, I present it with my arm and pray that it will grace me with it's sting, and summon its siblings to join in.

What a privilege it is to be subjugated by nature's sentient, motile organisms! My only regret is that these magnificant creatures don't sting me more often, but alas, it is the right of any autonomous insect to do whatever it wishes with it's sting, and who am I, but a lowly mammal, to coerce its gifts?
This is an understandable reaction considering how much like the robots in films it is. It's movement is Terminator-like, perhaps unsurprisingly given what James Cameron was trying to evoke when he directed the film. That slow, juddering, 'unstoppable' machine type of movement reminds us of things that are more powerful than we are - heavy machines, trucks, industrial equipment.

If it was more rounded and animalish, maybe with a fur coloured coat of paint, I think it'd be a lot less scary.
I hope that at least the standard libraries that come with Go are thread safe (?)

Do they test them on a regular basis, appropriately, with GOMAXPROCS > 1?
Military research is extremely important. The use of military tech in civilian applications is the reason for a lot of stuff we use daily, as I'm sure you know.
This comment chain gave me slight anxiety. I hadn't heard of either Webpack or jspm before. Modern web dev is overwhelming.
Hammer.JS
I run an exponentially growing fully automated business that is limited by my available operating capital. If VCs are useless (or finding a good one is a lottery), what are the other reasonable ways to raise capital (that don't eat all the profits nor want to control everything)?

I would prefer Vinod's brutal honesty to fake politeness any time.
His criticism isn't that 2nd tier VCs have lower returns. It seems to me your point would make sense if his criticism was of 2nd tier VCs for lower returns. Since that isn't a fair comparison if they don't get a shot at the best deals.

I think his criticism is pretty obviously that VC often don't add value (no matter what tier they are at). The things mentioned in the article seem be criticisms of business as usually (not of some performers getting lower rates of return).

It strikes me he realizes some VCs provide great help. And sure the cash is often helpful in growing though the growing quickly may well not really be good for the business when it distorts the companies focus to making huge financial bets to get huge returns.

@dhh provides lots of good criticism of VC funding, in my opinion. Watching his activity or going through his history would provide more details on the problems created by accepting VC funding. Of course, lots of people with lots of money don't see things the same way he does.
Is it ironic that I only saw this comment because of DARPA funding?
I remember going to both and getting lost in the sea of choices.
A bit like the food courts in Singapore/HK.

Fukuoka also has food stalls with plenty of good ramen if someone is heading there
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Welcome, FinTech – you've been a long time coming
Ninite is always the first thing I download on a newly imaged Windows PC. It makes it so easy to install all the programs I use frequently.
What amazes me about VCs is how passive they are about the whole process. Why sit and wait for talent to come to you? Why not go out and hire the best people and then put them to work with adequate funding and see what they come up with? If every start-up ends up pivoting as soon as they get funding why not bypass the whole process and just put a great group of people together and let them come up with something fantastic.
Dunno, maybe practice Zen Buddhism for a decade or two.
Maybe downvotes could be split in two.

1. a downvote button, which is available to everyone, but affects only the ranking on the comment list (no graying out due to too many downvotes)

2. a "flag" button, which is available to people with higher karma and serves for moderating.

...because, it seems perfectly human to want to express disagreement with a downvote. I can totally get it, and would/will probably have a hard time restraining myself ^^
> Finally, note that all the new enhancements have come without breaking backward compatibility.

Doesn't string interpolation break from ES5?

"${foo}" means something different in 6 vs 5, right?
I really like that this happens on HN.

A crap gif and half a paragraph add nothing to the video imho.
My goal is to have a busy server, because that minimizes wasted resources :) The more users I can handle on one machine, the better.

And latency is important. I can't have a user performing a lengthy operation, while at the same time blocking all other users. Real (not fake) threads are needed to combat latency.
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No one seems to be discussing how this can be improved! Here are a few points:

1. Real cheetahs don't run like that. The action of both pairs of legs is staggered for smoother motion and control. Check this out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=131wvVGjZUc

2. Looking at this jumping-over-obstacles video, it seems like the robot is lacking flexibility. The real life cheetah's hind legs go quite a bit underneath in preparation for push off. Contrast this with how the robot's hind legs are a little too behind and the robot stutters a bit after every jump. If the robot could put its hind legs further it would make for a smoother landing.
Talk to a non-VC person with money to invest and who has shown that they are willing to take a risk. If what you have is real I am happy to talk to you about your business and if things stack up put my money where my mouth is.
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> What if the obstacle is at the edge of a canyon? It will suicide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_jump
Template strings (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...) use backticks, instead of double/single quotes.

let a = `${foo}`; //Template string
var b = "${foo}"; //same as in 5.
Your going to need some pretty advanced manufacturing to be able to make these for the forseeable future. I certainly can't see it being cheaper than humans with AKs for a long while, especially in the kind of environment where your "mad leaders" operate. Besides, the majority of "gain" is being able to fight wars without putting yourself at risk of casualties. A "mad leader" would not care about such losses.

The moral issues in this are no different to those of the use of drones, which are very well discussed.
> No database required.

Filesystems are the new database.

So does this CMS support search?

How does it manage permissions?

I found the docs to be a little light on details. I guess that will change in time.
This is neat, but from a usability standpoint most mechanical engineers prefer to work with draft style sketches rather than a node-based interface. Thus it is neat and impressive, but I am not sure it is what the consumers in the CAD market desire.
Otherwise you might have seen the comment because of some other funding (for example ITU). Arpanet wasn't the only development of its kind at the time, it just was the one that came to dominate the market.
OK, this is incredibly nice.
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Are ES6 Promises swallowing your errors?
Promoting the feature that it dissolves in acetone (and one day water) seems like this is being designed with nefarious purposes in mind. A robot that erases all traces of itself after completing its mission.
In Japan, they usually think fish in vegetarian food is normal.
So you need to take care of the ingredients even when they clam they are vegetarian restaurant.
Generics were added to Java 1.5 in a backwards compatible way: all your existing Java code would build fine with Java 1.5 javac. So it is not inherently impossible.
Yes, paid software riddled with malware, rootkits and other niceties is unheard for.

Bad people do bad things. Paying or not paying has nothing to do with it.
One idea is to make S&P as a company and every citizen under a certain (family) income bracket are allocated non-tradeable equal share in that company. Every listed company is to pay an amount equal to some formula derived from its share price and market value. The money collected every year in the pool is then divided among all shareholders equally.

- Mandate all entities to get listed and traded. Otherwise tax at a punishable rate.
- Simplify reporting obligations so listing is not painful.
- Reduce corporate tax to a fixed amount under-20 percent and income-tax under-15 percent so companies and individuals have incentive to register and get listed.

This would ties the single most important metric of capitalism, share price, to the democracy that makes capitalism possible at first place. Also all derivatives or executive compensation, investor returns are related to share price.

The division is periodically reassessed as people join or leave pool.
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Google I/O is using Elevator.JS (Click on 'back to the top' link in the end)
How Savvy Startups Use Unique Data to Go Viral
Can you provide some examples of languages where people regret having implemented generics at all (as opposed to wishing they had been implemented in a different way)?
If we had less war on this world, I would be glad to have a few stuff less we use daily.

Seriously.
Pretty cool.
(fyi: arrow keys navigation skips randomly skips chapters)
This is amazing.

I am so impatient though - I want to scatter bricks on the landing-side of the jump to see how it copes.
This isn't finished.. Your about page gives the following:

>Hey there! This page is included as an example. Feel free to customize it for your own use upon downloading. Carry on!
> See there: https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=31127

Strange, almost every comment on this page say the crapware was added by SourceForge, e.g.

> The offers are added by SourceForge, they are borderline crapware to put it nicely.
https://www.beeminder.com/gmailzero will do this automatically for you. Together with https://www.followupthen.com/ it makes it pretty easy to keep Inbox Zero.
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Streaming a designer designing
This is one instance where a naive approach may be better than a library... the two times I've written/used JWT one time I used JWE (encrypted tokens) with a private key... the other, I only supported public/private signing (no HS256).

In practice, I tend to treat specifications as guidelines, more than absolute. I wrote a simple SCORM implementation for an eLearning software that was mainly for testing content being developed. This became the LMS for a VERY large aerospace company for about 9 years, not to mention evolving and being included as a base for several products since (over the past 12-13 years). I didn't implement the entire spec, only what was most needed for my own use. It went over 11 years before a missing piece of the spec was requested to be added.

I guess the point is, when you have something that is as relatively easy to implement as JWT, it makes sense to do it yourself, and only implement those pieces that you need.
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The basic truth about broadband that cable companies want to hide
Well this is a CAD software from a parallel universe, you wouldn't know what those mechanical engineers from that universe prefer.

I'm a physicist and I only used one CAD software occasionally. In the CAD software I used I had to clone primitive objects to use them in multiple operations. If I wanted to change one dimension I had to update all the clones. Simply the acyclic graph model works better for this than the tree model. (Also some operations were irreversible, that was absolutely inexcusable.)
To add a bit of historical perspective, AutoCad could be extended through Lisp (AutoLisp), back in the day. So I posit that this approach is nothing new and unlikely to be what the customers of CAD packages don't already have.
They call those "entrepreneurs".

I worked in several companies bootstrapped by very wealthy founders.
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Probably not cheaper for larger customers, but the easy API & payment flow are for sure part of the success.
A $350 or less smartphone provides more value than three or four $100 textbooks any day.
Couldn't agree more and have considered building something similar in the past. Seems like such a gigantic project though.

I'd probably host my own mail if it were a matter of installing one server, hooking it up to a database (much prefer the idea of storing email in a database than mbox files) and giving it a few details. Even better if it came with a simple web interface for viewing email and for configuring.

I've set up mail servers in the past but I've always been left a bit uneasy, as if there's a possibility I've not quite set it up right.
Another French one: http://www.defab.fr/

They're heating water for consumer purposes. I met one of their founders yesterday, they're pretty neat!
I agree. How do you learn to become such a great front-end developer?
The punnett square of social orientation towards peers is interesting, but a little stark.

1. warm & competant : admire
2. warm & incompetant : pity
3. cold & competant : envy
4. cold & incompetant : contempt

I definitely know people who fit profile one, that I do not admire, and some who fit profile two, that I don't pity. I also don't harbor strictly negative opinions or emotions regarding cold personalities, although I suppose incompetance is rarely a welcome character trait.

Come to think of it, it would seem that most of the working world is aligned toward producing profile three, wouldn't it? That doesn't really bring forth any sort of jealousy, so much as it is just depressing.

I guess there's probably always room for neutral respect and civility... which is somewhat cold... but uh... geeze, sometimes social sciences can be brutal, huh?
Awesome! That was quite inspiring - you managed to travel, contribute, write and go to events while still keeping up with all of your coursework. :) I often complained about lack of time for crossing-out things from my to-do list but it is my late realization that, one can be as productive as he wants and time is not really as big as constraint as it feels.
Wait what? Those expensive machines make war harder, not easier.

Central African Republic has war with child soldiers using machetes and guns. It's an unpleasant truth: humans are disposable.

This is evidenced by a bunch of stuff - rich westerners have their clothes made by poor people locked into unsafe Bangladeshi warehouses; have many of our goods made by low people in terrible and dangerous conditions; by our lack of interest in garbage pickers or street children or etc.
Can you even use PayPal for accepting credit cards without redirecting the user to PayPal?
Looks nice. I have been working ten years professionally developing a CAD program, and if I could time travel and give my ten years younger self a single tip it would be to use a proper geometrical kernel (like CGAL) rather than doing anything with floating point.

The tree rep is very cool. It could probably render implicitly using distance fields without even needing triangulation. http://iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfunctio...
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It's awesome how the nodes update as you drag things around in the viewer. I wonder whether there's a way to visually specify constraints (two points are coincident, two edges abut one another, and so on) instead of representing constraints implicitly through connections in the node graph.
I did write an SMTP and POP3 server to learn Go a while ago - I was still learning the language, so the code is messy and terribly designed, but it works for receiving and reading emails. Together with a sendmail wrapper, I have been using it instead of postfix/dovecot due to my naiveness to write postfix config files:

http://github.com/trapped/gomaild
Apple post Steve Jobs' return has been more strategic and conservative in their PL investments. Hence why swift was kind of a surprise.
Sounds more creepy than anything else. Why would I want Google examining text elements in every app I'm using?
Seems like it's fixed now. Thanks.
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I do believe, that it is first not a question of money (being cheaper).

You do not have images of flag covered coffins returning home.
You have no insubordination.
You have the possibility to do economic promotion without being labeled as doing such (regarding international treaties (at least here in the EU)).
You do not need all these training facilities.

Just to name a few.

So they will even do it, if it is not cheaper to do (imho). And logistics can be automated as well (delivery by drones, something like fueling done by other drones, and so on).

I believe we will see drone-carriers analog to aircraft-carriers being at least semi autonomous as well within our lifetime.
Internet of Things – Angels and Demons
Interact with a Camel route using direct and Seda in memory message transport
A Javascript library licensed as GPL?

Good luck at guessing how "static/dynamic linking" applies to javascript. Then wonder nexus between the concept of "distributing" and HTTP downloading.
It's license trolling at its finest :)
This is really nice. Seems super easy to use, unlike other CAD/3D modelling software I've tried before. I think a lot of software could benefit from this 'timeless' graph/node based approach, rather than most UI's which only let you see the latest version with a long undo chain. It reminded me a bit of Bret Victor's drawing tool[1] too.

Only problem, to me, is that it seems like a lot of work to get a UI like this off the ground. It'd be lovely to see support of a node-based UI built into some common UI frameworks.

[1] http://worrydream.com/DrawingDynamicVisualizationsTalkAddend...
Seeing a recently posted vulnerability article, I now see your point... which is funny, in practice, I found JWT so easy to implement a naive solution, I only implemented the pieces I needed as my own authority... One time was JWE (encrypted) with a private key, and the other was asymetricly encrypted, not HS256 ... so there wasn't a means to bypass the intended method used by the system.

Yes, if you are going to implement/support a number of mixed methods for generating tokens (or a use a client library that does), you absolutely need to confirm that the expected header/signature matches.
I learned Ancient Greek in school at the age of 15-17 years. However, I never used the language afterwards, so that description seems to be appropriate.
Perhaps the engineers who designed cheetah did learn about how real Cheetahs run, but there are other constraints that are not obvious.
In the 2005 the Turkish currency lost 6 zeros: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira#Second_Turkish_lir...
If the founders are wealthy is the company really bootstrapped, or just privately financed?

If VCs think the idea is worthless and execution is everything why waste time listening to pitches? Just hire the best people able to execute, give them the money and get out of the way.
Wow a persistent pop-up on all your apps, what a great idea.
Meta bagging algorithm
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Actually testing every app sounds like a challenge Google isn't interested in taking on.

There's also the question of whether apps will still behave gracefully when receiving dummy data. Some apps may misbehave in ways such that it's not immediately apparent that the root cause is a permissions issue.
What's unsettling about this is that Slashdot also belongs to the same company that turned SF into the crapware distributor that it is now.
Email hacking: another home-seller robbed of £270,000
Show HN: StumbleUpon for designer portfolios
That's very likely considering what they are building.
I would say it is a close second thing. If I have a slow system, I will move to faster runtime before modifying any code. Going from CPython to PyPy, if possible will almost always gain you enough perf increase while you refactor the slow parts.
That depends on your perspective, particular since it says in the article "eventually, it'll be doing it inside your body". I believe it's intended for medical use.
What that article says is incredible, awesome and I wonder if I could replicate it. It probably uses some Xilinx proprietary info about the bitstream though.
2014 study [1], press release [2], and interpretive article [3]:

Instant noodle intake and dietary patterns are associated with distinct cardiometabolic risk factors in Korea

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24966409

[2] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140812121642.ht...

[3] http://www.care2.com/causes/did-you-know-instant-ramen-noodl...