skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What struck me the most in your comment is the fact that people just disappear. It's the same with me. If I don't call the other person won't either. If I call he/she is busy, on vacation, doing something else. If we meet we can stay up all night, chat, laugh, have a nice time. Then we both go on our separate ways.

I really didn't understand how this works. I know that now I work a lot. But I wasn't like that when I was younger. Nevertheless it was always me that had to keep a relationship going. If I didn't do anything things faded away pretty quickly. If I did the relationship agonized for a while before ceasing.

I know that I am not unpleasant - people don't talk with someone for hours just to be polite. And only one person has ever told me that she always hated me because of how annoyingly smart I was. But then again I went to university where one of my fears was that someone is smarter than I am (and probably a lot of folks actually were).

When not at work most people relax with a game of cards, small talk about repairing the car, the new update for the phone, etc. What I do for fun when I am not programming is read about consciousness studies, biology and nutrition, philosophy, physics. If the person is up for it we can talk for hours on such a topic. But most people most of the time are not. I have two kids and I like talking about them - kids are fascinating and incredibly funny at the same time. However people who don't have kids don't have a clue what I am talking about (I was the same when I didn't have kids). People who have kids usually just want a beer. I like running, hiking, riding a bike - good topics for a conversation. Until I say that it's fun to ride a bike at night, while it's raining.

So I was at lunch with my colleagues one day and it suddenly hit me - the problem is not that I am smarter or a genius or the like. It would be nice, but actually most of my colleagues are as smart as I am and some of them are smarter. The problem is that I cope with pain and hurdles differently. When people stop to rest I usually push some more. When they seek a shelter from the rain I want to ride more. When they need to chat with someone I need to read a book. I am a hyperactive introvert with a strange set of interests. I am a little different and because of that it's much harder for me to make friends.

You say that you have started so many projects. To me this means that you have a lot of energy and it's quite possible that people just don't want to play catch up with you – it’s tiring for them and they may actually prefer to just relax.
Hmm, I'm not terribly familiar with the West Country accent, but from the little I know, "I" could be drawled out to "He", no? If not, disregard me :P
This is offtopic, but I have to say it's the first time I've seen Bush Jr. described as "suave"!
Yep:

http://i.imgur.com/flVGSe4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/IemE3cm.jpg
Agreed. It's certainly putting me on the defensive.
I think I'm getting hungover just thinking about how bad it must be to be working in a whisky factory, hungover. Ouch.

Nice character-building, tho'!
Fast cars like that already exist, the main problem with those is that thanks to drag (air + surface), they become really uneconomical at higher speeds. 800 of the Bugatti Veyron's 1000 BHP only kicks in above 200 kph, maybe later - that's how much extra power is needed to squeeze out the last bit of performance to reach that max speed. Do that times the amount of cars, and you see the problem there.

Although it probably would work if the cars drove in a partially evacuated tunnel. But then you wouldn't have the downforce needed to get the cars through corners at those speeds. If you put the cars on monorails though, maybe...
Oh I heard of that one a few times before. I think I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
Yes, because the iPad has a large screen. It doesn't work well on iPhone-sized screens.
Jekyll – how to use different settings for production and development
History of the tampon
Sadly, none of the stuff I've seen on Hyperloop addresses the civil engineering problems brought up by Alon Levy and others (https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/loop...). In short:

- The Hyperloop paper doesn't mention how trains would cross San Francisco Bay, or include a cost estimate for doing so. A new bridge? A new tunnel? Both would add greatly to the $6 billion cost estimate.

- That $6 billion estimate also assumes that elevated concrete pylons can be built for much cheaper than any other project, with no mention of how.

- The proposed track doesn't go to downtown LA; it ends at Sylmar, which is still ~25 miles from downtown and even further from most of the LA area. A 30 minute ride becomes much less exciting when it takes another hour or more to reach your real destination.

- With the proposed 30-second headway, the system's capacity is only about 25% of a high-speed rail line, and 30 seconds still violates the crap out of typical safety standards (you can't run trains too close together without risking a collision if you can't brake quickly enough).

- There are no intermediate stations; this is obviously a problem for the Central Valley, but it makes life inconvenient for plenty of other people too. Eg. someone in San Jose (pop. ~1 million, greater than SF's) would need to spend an extra hour or more getting to San Francisco vs. a station in San Jose itself.
8 x improvement on a dead battery... that's still a dead battery isn't it?
He's also a patron saint of Discordianism.
surprisingly Stackoverflow isn't listed there yet... :P
Record number when compared to what? Has the exact same offer been made before?
Congrats guys! You know we're big fans of Tyk already (it says so right there in the testimonial)

Highly recommend this to anyone looking for a modern, light, powerful API management platform/service. We use the on-prem, open-souce version but I'm sure the SaaS version is just as good.

(no affiliation here...just lovers of great software).
How to Seriously Fail at Business Development
I'm an aptitude user, but I learned the hard way that you need to switch to apt-get to do a dist-upgrade. Something broke. Can't recall what it was - I think I was dist-upgrading to Squeeze, so it was a while back.
Indeed, the brotherhood and sense of camaraderie is what a lot of people miss today, and may not even realize it. I suppose some people get that thru participatting in sports, I never did.

>> To this day no one has ever had my back and vice versa quite like this one grocery store night shift manager or this one sergeant I was assigned to in the army.

Conversely, no one has ever deliberately and methodically screwed me over the way my old sergeant did. That guy was diabolical. Crazy, mean, stupid, pick two, if you're lucky. If you're not then you get all three.
>... another important dimension to consider.

That's it, right there. One crucial point is that the elegant simplicity of the 'programming language power' rating is in fact full of messy bits and a multitude of dimensions.
It's been for many, many years and still is a mecca for motor cycle road racers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Man_TT
Right on. And this is why attempts to eliminate poverty fail. Poverty itself is not "one thing" nor is there any one cause for it, nor is there any one solution.
Losing doesn't mean you didn't try your best though.
Plato's Forms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Forms
Self driving cars, which aren't likely in that timeframe to do 200-300mph on roads that will exist, make rail and similar things, including hyperloop, more, not less, viable. They provide a solution to the need for a local transport component that doesn't rely on everyone owning a personal vehicle but still provides good local point-to-point transport to help enable the centralized long-distance arteries whose termini can't be convenient to every source and destination point without a good local network.
U-Prove Designated-Verifier Accumulator Revocation Extension
Why I Cautiously Support the App Store Change
Which is the world's 10th most dangerous city in the world?
How MIT Students Won $8M in the Massachusetts Lottery (2012)
Because it's a bullshit article that works on sensationalism. Instead of relying on facts it uses emotion to make a point and manipulate the reader. The use of the word "petite" is in my opinion not appropriate to describe a woman.
He said "He'm a farmer", and that's what the subtitles said, and he said that instead of "he's a farmer"?

I'm not sure what the question is. I've heard people from rurL locations say this, although it's more Bristol / Dorset than Gloucestershire.

I don't think the BBC has an agenda other than accurately reflecting what people say.
Programming Superiority Fatigue
Yeah I thought the same thing. Don't the Veyron's tires wear out in like 50km at top speed?
I switched to Arch after Ubuntu blew up upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 and 9.04 to 9.10 on my main device.
Politically and practically, I'd suggest you use Windows and their tooling to start with. When you're getting started they'll likely need to help you get setup and that's going to be difficult for them if you're using other tools. Later on, you can make more informed decisions about switching tools after getting familiar with their applications.

If they run production on Windows as well, there are likely bits of the software that won't be cross-platform (file paths, encodings are common ones). We have a mix at our shop (Windows, OSX and Linux) and I think we only get away with it due to everyone knowing what to avoid (through experience). We still step on each other's toes occasionally. It wouldn't look good if you spent a lot of time at the start fixing things just to get it to work on your platform.

I think Sublime has a vim mode (or plugin) that should give you similar keybindings and it has panes a bit like vim.

As to getting back to PHP, some good links have already been posted. Get up to date on Composer and PHPUnit, look at whatever framework they're using and build some demo apps on it.
PostScriptum.js – A new way to manage callback hell without promises
Even if it was a rock solid, proven solution major construction projects almost never go to plan.
Not a great article, it needs to note the majority are simply going home either because of inability to maintain permission to remain in the US or the inability to find a job they want.

Nothing wrong with that
When you pirate the software to begin with, license agreements are kind of moot.

Well, that and using open source software. Most of those dictates decide what to do if you want to use their code.
Sadly DVI connectors are thicker than my laptop.
>> "I'd finished college, got my degree and had a highly paid job in social work"

>Is that the famous British humor, or do they actually get paid pretty well on that side of the pond?

Depends on your perspective. I suspect a social worker's salary in the mid '80s looked pretty good from the perspective of somebody who grew up in a UK mining town (the failed '80s miners' strike and mass redundancies brought some pretty horrible poverty). Social workers are not well paid compared to people who do important work such as frontend web development[1]. Sometimes their managers do pretty well (probably not compared to what they could make in the private sector). In the context of HN I think pretty much everybody is unimaginably poor.

[1] That was the famous British humour
It's functionally impossible to drive at 250 mph for any meaningful period of time. Drag is a gigantic problem (as james may says "it's like driving through custard"), not to mention the fuel requirements to go that speed. One of the bigger problems is actually tires. The veyron's tires can only last ~20 minutes at those speeds and a new set is 20 grand. If you want to go those speeds you can't do it in the open air (unless you're actually flying) and you certainly can't do it on rubber tires.
When you resize a Redshift cluster what happens to the current open connections?
When I was 10 I watched a episode of Scooby Doo where all the characters took turns looking at the camera to say "ick, drugs" to really drive home the point that drugs are bad.

I remember it well because it was the most hamfisted writing I've ever seen. Until I started reading the tech press, that is.

The coverage of social issues in tech is a case study of writers snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Which isn't surprising, they're just following the lead of outlets like Jezebel who have done more to set women back than the C-suite of the Fortune 500 ever could.
Thanks so much! :-D
Amen.

I've also wrestled with these thoughts growing up. Atheists don't have the same sense of community that religious people do. Sure, I've done the meet up thing, sports, music, etc. but they all fizzle out. Nothing keeps people coming back day after day. Music festivals happen once a year, church happens every week with more than just a handful of people.

And reading all the suggestions below, I don't understand why people are recommending alternative religions. He stated he wanted the community, without the belief.

This is why I miss school. It was something that got a bunch of people together on a regular basis. You didn't personally meet, hang out with or like every individual person, but I think it had what the OP is asking for.
I would appreciate if it was less of an add and more of a discussion, but that's just me I suppose.

This would honestly fit better into a "Show HN"
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I think you have to remember how far back we're talking.
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What if it's a large project where you have to do all these things? Would you run ten different language runtimes, each with its own garbage collector? Would you pay the cost of marshaling and unmarshaling data at the boundaries? What about training new programmers to understand and extend your system? What if you want to move some functionality from one part of the system into another, can you do it easily? Etc, etc.

There's a lot of value in adopting one general purpose language as a company-wide standard, like Java. It doesn't have to be an excellent fit for every task, but it has to be adequate and not have any major flaws. That's harder than it sounds. I like the Rust approach (memory safety without GC), though Rust itself might not be the best possible realization of that approach.
The Parse SDK allows you to save changes and have them sync with the server when internet connectivity comes back.
Here's some "beta" feedback right here. Even before the downloading the application:
- Why should I use it, rather than find stories in blogs or on medium? Or on National Geographic?
- Why would I not share my stories on my blog?
- What do you give your future users? Think of giving, before asking for anything back.
How JQuery Works (An Introduction)
The guy who invented the term "Joule thief" incidentally also has lots of videos on LED lighting and other miscellaneous stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom
Why Use Google (1998)
I know, it just doesn't feel right. And like said before; I'm not the only one who thinks that. I hear it quite a lot.
I'd also say that ANY blanket, generic statement like this ("Women make gifted coders!") is hardly better than its negative versions ("Italians are loud!"). I don't see how it does anything but reinforce poor behavior.
We're unlikely to improve that by leading into articles by "reminding" the reader that women usually can't code.

The fact that more men work in most tech offices today doesn't mean that I, the reader, should be shocked to learn that coding ability isn't based on gender.
Self-driving cars that eliminate the need for personal car ownership (i.e. robo-Uber) are also unlikely to exist in that timeframe. What likely will exist is relatively slow travel on Interstate highways that don't require the driver to pay attention. Which will likely be interesting to a lot of people.

But the real benchmark for high speed rail (including hyperloop-like things) is how it competes with air on both total cost and time (the latter of which could be improved as a matter of airport policy and infrastructure). New York to Chicago in 8 hours--about half the current time--even at prices competitive with air--which Amtrak really isn't today--isn't going to be popular, especially among the business travelers who buy most of the tickets.
Actually the paper answers the question of how it would cross the bay--it wouldn't. The proposed "San Francisco" terminus is in the East Bay (IIRC, pretty far east, as well). A significant part of the cost savings of the route proposed as an alternative to the HSR route cones from, unlike HSR, not actually going anywhere near the urban centers on either the SF or LA end.
You got it totally wrong. Programming wasn't sexy until late '90s, when
internet bubble happened. Earlier it was just another occupation that was
boring, like electronics or mechanical engineering (to non-tinkering people,
of course).

By now it should be clear that by "sexy" I mean "desired to profess".

All combined, "the 'sexyness' theory" doesn't need to explain why at the peak
38% of the CS workforce were women. It's not meant to explain anything, it's
meant as merely an observation that it's untrue that men only got to IT when
it paid well. It was the opposite: IT was already a male-dominated field when
it started to pay well.
New York Times Bets on London Over Paris
The Absolute Beginner's Landing Page Recipe in a Nutshell
I understand what you mean. But in my remote, the batteries are not arranged in serial; they are arranged in parallel. That being the case, my remote can see both terminals of a given battery. Hence, I fail to see, as to why the mechanism cannot be implemented as part of such devices..

The same applies to my wall-clock (which uses a single battery)
I'm not sure how 'an extra hour' is critical when driving takes many hours. Its still an order of magnitude faster, right? It takes 'an extra hour' at the airline terminal and I put up with that for every flight.
I flagged and unflagged, because I would rather give my reason: I'm not a fan of the submission title. I feel like it should be a "Show HN" title with the name of the app and short description, this is a little click-baity.
Three observations, of the smallest fine tuning variety (its pretty good as is):

The essay fluidly rotates between two points of view best expressed by two direct quotes: "Note: this is about tracking fashion, not a comment on the actual virtues of these languages." and "getting things done". I don't think those are synonyms or have much to do with each other so the close intermixing is a bit jarring. Often enough they oppose each other. They don't get along so its hard to use them as supporting arguments even if true.

Another observation is hard to quote but boils down to languages and paradigms are synonyms, which I disagree with. A language is a pile of paradigms wrapped up in some syntax to formalize it. You can write FORTRAN or perl in any language. Or functional, at least somewhat. Its easier to write worse programs than the language and very hard to write better programs than the level of the language. In that way LISP is the master language above all the others because it can express seemingly anything therefore if everything is beneath it, its above everything. The third paragraph is closest to what I'm trying to express and it comes very close to hitting the mark.

It would be interesting to see logic programming in a safety critical embedded space. I'm not sure if it would be "good" interesting or "train wreck" interesting. That would be an interesting suggestion for the second to last paragraph. If you define safety as solving a full set of safety constraints, then automating it would look like ...
This looks great! Do you have an ETA on 2 way synchronisation with Github?
HTML5 version of the video game Elon Musk wrote in 1984 [link plays sound]
> on the existing infrastructure [...] at 200 - 300 mph within the same timeframe or shorter.

This isn't even remotely plausible. 250 mph in a conventional car is more of a party trick than a transportation strategy.

You can get a few very specialized cars up to these speeds on a few very specialized tracks, that's it. Even if you built a much longer straight section (you're not cornering significantly at these speeds) the question isn't going to be how many of them can you get from A to B, it's going to be what runs out first, fuel or tires. The range would make todays electrics look positively luxurious. Fuel efficiency would be low single figures.

You can't beat the physics here - you are fighting a velocity cubed term and it will always win (on existing infrastructure).
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Self-driving cars going at 200-300mph for long periods of time seems unlikely. At that point you might as well build lanes for maglev trains.

Also, the hyperloop technology could at the very least be useful for transporting stuff across the ocean (and hopefully cheaper than it is to do it by plane).
> they just say; he/she died of X

That's what my sneaking suspicion was. I recall having heard expressions like "after a long battle with illness", but your point makes a lot of sense.

Actually, I realise there's no mention of losing in that expression, which was made clear to me after finding this article

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carole-brody-fleet/long-term-i...

after searching Google for the above phrase.
The author holds up Yesod's low adoption rates (compared to what? Ruby on Rails? Ruby was arguably Flub a few years ago, and Yesod is much younger than Rails) as an example of how powerful programming languages aren't making as big of a dent as they should be. But the thing is that yesod is a CRUD web app framework, and although Haskell is quite capable at CRUD apps, they're not where it really shines. Look at Haskell (and OCaml and F#)'s adoption rates in the financial sector and you'll see "Flub" kicking some serious ass.
Show HN: a simple iOS widget for checking Google Analytics
300 mph at sea level atmosphere on land is pretty tough to do efficiently, you're looking at ~18x the drag force of normal highway travel with only a ~4x speedup. Self-driving "trains" of cars can alleviate the drag force, but I haven't seen any 300mph "train"ed proposals that would work on existing road and bridge infrastructure.
Maybe it's because I don't live in the US but I couldn't disagree more with this. Public transport is infinitely more valuable than just something used on a few short routes/use cases. When designed properly they are far quicker, safer and cheaper even if we had self driving cars on the road.

And it is ludicrous to imagine self driving cars moving around at that speed: (a) there will always be non self driving cars which will cause accidents and (b) self driving cars no matter how good will still cause accidents e.g. sensor failure, poor weather condition, inability to determine future road quality, edge conditions etc.
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Because WWDC is awesome!!! (Use MooChat to make quick gathering!!!)
Previous item that mentioned this but the blurb is kinda bogus - spiders have nothing to do with it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9659276 (spider DNA was used as an insipiration apparently).
As an open source user, I'm always baffled when I run a proprietary application and I start to read this big box of confusing, useless text before realizing it's a EULA.
You could call it the hypercarloop.