skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like others here, I don't think WP is terrible if you look at it through the eyes of their typical users.

I also disagree that nobody is building a better WP: I recently started working with Webflow, which is very good, quite powerful, and writes very clean code (better than most developers could write themselves).

And, on a more wysiwyg level, there are plenty of new companies like Squarespace offering a service targeting the same user-base as WP.
That's hilarious -- in fact the full quote is even better. This guy hits it right on the nose:

jeff atwood: "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. Writing Photoshop, Word, or Excel in JavaScript makes zero engineering sense, but it's inevitable. It will happen. In fact, it's already happening"

Good foresight considering he said this 2009.
You have to be born in Florence in order to play and not have a criminal record.
I think you vastly underestimate how capable developers are of learning new programming languages.
You know it's mostly House/Senate republicans who are voting for it right? Strange bedfellows really.
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This seems to suggest you don't even need dbus daemon running to have things working: https://people.debian.org/~stapelberg/docs/systemd-dependenc... just using the library doesn't seem bad to me...
I never actually played it but I know what you mean about macros. Before UO there was a game called "Flash Attack" for Galacticom BBS and it was a really fast-paced multiplayer game, you had to have a good macro setup in place just to keep up, which led to a lot of creativity that was really fun. This was around 1988 and the latency was mind-blowing fast. And it had in-game multiplayer chat where everyone could chat at the same time and you could see them type every character, which made it a lot more personal. All in text mode.
It's a little shallow but not wrong. It definitely got me thinking in that direction, and it's a great deconstruction.
I do like SuperH. Especially the later ones. The SH4 had the most delightfully odd, fully pipelined 4x4 matrix X 4x1 vector instructions. If you could fit your problem in that box, you could get so remarkable speed for the clock.
Ah, Kitsune. I studied the paper for that as well as Rubah, a DSU for Java, quite a bit while working on my bachelor's thesis - which was implementing DSU in pure Java. I was pretty suprised with how little code you needed to make it work (for the one program I was testing on at least ...).

Unfortunately due to some failed prototypes and general lack of time I barely managed to get the basics working, there are little to no tests and I'm pretty sure when I handed everything in I knew a couple of critical bugs that hadn't been fixed.

The code isn't public right now, but if there's interest I may be able to make it open source. Just have to talk to a few people first.
You can't have it both ways: on the one hand, say that big-O is about arbitrarily large unrealizable values, but on the other hand make a bunch of exceptions for where things don't matter in practice, lest you be theory-gramming.

If you go the route that requires you to handle arbitrarily large tables, then computing a hash with a long enough value necessarily requires more steps, even if you assume all operations on length w integers are constant time -- because eventually your keys have to be larger than w, after which computing the hash increases in number of steps with the key size.

This is still different from the sorting problem. You can have a consistent computation model in which memory seek times are constant (even if unrealizable). That seems fundamentally different from a model where a hash computation is constant steps but also has arbitrarily long output.

The issue isn't whether the scaling of the hash computation matters in practice, but whether the big-O is properly O(1). And even if you did just care about "in practice" limitations, you're stuck with the problem of the hash computation taking longer than any realizable trie lookup would (as another poster mentioned is common), meaning that the O(1) claim misrepresents performance relative to another data structure.
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Then why are Airbnb rentals in SF more expensive that in other cities? Hint: they all charge what the market will bare.
Location: Waco, TX
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Technologies: PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, SQL, C#, C++

I have completed student projects and one
application for my college in C# and C++,
but I do have business experience in the web stuff.

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I don't call any of this bland (just some small selection from my most favorite tracks):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiiFO1cB1Y - Adam Skorupa, Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz and Michał Cieleck.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GimDJUcL0_I - Adam Skorupa, Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz and Michał Cieleck.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qnhn1mCL18 - Charles Callet.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzaDb5wFLH8 - Adam Skorupa and Paweł Błaszczak.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BArA23NqVI - Adam Skorupa and Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz.

And term AAA is misleading. I evaluate each game on its merits, not on whether it's produced by big publishers or not.
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"Sorry, this full post is only available to Registered Users"

OK, Goodbye.
Yes, but not for the reasons normally given.

I switched in college, basically by forcing myself to write all my papers and AIM chats in Dvorak. It was painstaking at first, hunt-and-peck, particularly since I didn't have an actual labeled keyboard (I'd made a printout of the Dvorak layout instead). Took me about 2 weeks to get up to about 30 WPM (I'd been a 90 WPM Qwerty touch-typist before). It was another 6 months or so before I matched my Qwerty speed. Oh, and in the process I forgot how to type in Qwerty; I eventually re-learned it, so I'm now bi-keyboardal, but it was unnerving at the time. I'd say my typing speed now peaks at about 10% faster than it was then, but I'm usually thought-constrained and not typing-constrained.

I'd say it was worth it for a number of non-obvious reasons:

1. The process of switching is very illuminating about how our brain handles subconscious, autonomic tasks - much like how I imagine learning a new language is. I found that about a week and a half in, I had half the keyboard mentally mapped in Qwerty and half mapped in Dvorak, such that I'd often type out unintelligible polyglot sentences. And for several years later, I'd be triggered by whatever was up on the screen: if I had an IDE open, I'd automatically type in Qwerty, while if I had an AIM chat or word processor open it'd be Dvorak. This is useful information whenever you're trying to build a new habit.

2. It's a built-in security device. Even if someone gets ahold of your computer, they probably won't be able to use it.

3. It helps a bunch with RSI. You stay over home row much more with a Dvorak layout, there's much less finger contortion, and so it's correspondingly less strain on your hands. Given how much I use my computer (and how I'm occasionally prone to tendonitis), this has been a godsend.
This is excellent both to help understand how neural networks classify inputs, and to understand a bit more about topology in general.
Zozi raises $30M
Sooo, a Gitter clone?
Indeed. I generally like Obama (except for Espionage Act prosecutions, continued existence of Guantanamo detention centers, and drone wars), but this one makes no sense.

Can a conservative republican explain why the Republican leadership is supporting this? I can't really understand why free market people would be in favor of state-granted and enforced-at-taxpayer-expense monopolies. Nor do I understand why extreme patriots would be in favor of Investor-State Dispute Systems. The latter seems like a sovereignty giveaway, to an unaccountable international body. In a way, ISDS seems like big government gone wild, but it's an unelected, unaccountable international government, which should offend small government types, too.
Smalltalk probably supports this as well, but what's cool about Common Lisp's condition system is that it doesn't depend on user interaction or debugger to work. Conditions let you separate the code making the decision about how to handle an error from actual error handling. The decision doesn't have to involve interactive debugger, you can have your code making the choice about which restart (unit of error handling code) to invoke. The common use case is that you install various restarts as you go down the call stack; then, when an exception happens, control goes up the stack until appropriate decision code, which selects restart, and control goes back down the call stack to the selected restart block.

It's an incredibly flexible system that makes exception handling much more useful.
People have been writing "Wordpress replacements" forever. Writing a new blog engine is practically a rite of passage for a web developer; the problem is that nobody has yet produced one which is as easy to deploy, configure, and maintain.

Even if they did manage to, they'd have a massive amount of momentum to overcome in the form of the theme and plugin communities; there is so much turnkey extensibility available (for better or worse) that it comes with an awful lot of end-user value baked in out of the box.

Wordpress is slow, and its plugin/theme architecture breeds security holes like nobody's business, but that doesn't matter to your average user who does 90 pageviews/month and doesn't care about security until they actually get attacked.
I've tried the instructions (npm run setup) on both a Mac and Ubuntu and resulted on several screen-fulls of npm ERR! messages. Again killed my mild curiosity for React.
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I don't think so - at least according to their site, the J2 build chain uses Xilinx ISE: http://0pf.org/j-core.html . The only fully open FPGA toolchain I'm aware of targets Lattice/SiliconBLUE iCE40: https://github.com/cseed/arachne-pnr
I don't see a loss. I see a win.

In Elixir, I have the full power of Lisp-level macros, in a functional immutable pattern-matching language, with a ridiculous level of concurrency (you can spawn a million or so processes in a second on your typical laptop), hot software upgradability (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96UzSHyp0F8 for a cool demo), access to the entire repository of already-existing battle-tested Erlang code...

... AND it's readable. :P

Lisp with its powerful macro facility has had literally dozens of years to find acceptance and still struggles (argumentum ad populum notwithstanding, a userbase with critical mass brings a plethora of other advantages). Ruby found enough of a niche that I think there is something to be said for Ruby's style of syntax. Elixir gives you both, and then some.
It seems like this is, in fact, just a skinned IRC and not a reimplementation.
I use butterflies to write my code.

https://xkcd.com/378/
I remember there being a lot of these one year. I think everyone was still using Digg at the time.
Do users attempting to call each other have to be on the same switch? Or do you route data explicitly from one switch to another?
Because they're all owned by the same people who wrote this agreement.
Of course, it doesn't make "zero" engineering sense in any logical fashion. Only those emotionally distraught by the "imperfection" of JavaScript don't see the utility in applications moving to the web.

Which isn't to say the web is ready. But it will be!
Agreed. What's even more staggering is that Ultima Underworld 1 was actually released before Wolfenstein 3D, the predecessor to Doom! (March vs May 1992). Doom only came out December 1993.
Rare Book School
I could have sworn I saw a guy do this over at gamedev.net in 2003. I can't, for the life of me, find it.
I'm guessing you have to know french to apply for this?
Wow, when did they add database support? I'm pretty surprised it's been done before this release.
I'm by no means a progressive democrat and I am certainly no fan of Obama. In saying that, it's absolutely necessary to understand republicans are pushing for this just as much as democrats. It's not a red vs. blue issue, it's a red and blue issue.

To answer your question, there are probably many reasons, but one reason is because corporations are paying politicians. Here is a story from The Guardian that explains the payoff http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/27/corporations...

Also, here is another story from the Huffington Post that describes the corporate influence on the TPP. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/now-we-know-why-h...

One last comment, while it is indeed up to our politicians to vote yay or nay on this, it is absolutely up to the people to keep our politicians accountable. Right now, the American people are for more concerned about feelings and witty social media posts to care about the TPP. When Americans stop caring about politicians and stop holding politicians accountable, it's quite easy for them to pull something like the TPP.
This could be the first airplane on Mars
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We've talked several times with my colleagues about this, and we ended up writing things down : http://makina-corpus.com/blog/metier/2014/why-cms-will-not-d...

TL;DR : The sheer amount of work to get at least to the level expected by the users outweights most motivations. Maybe one day someone will come with a way better solution, one which Wordpress cannot cope with. And then, we will have another cycle. ;)
Awesome!! never saw this link they've mentioned -
http://react-in-meteor.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

I've been playing with meteor just recently and am totally loving it. I really like Blaze, but love React's component system, so not really sure which way I want to turn now... I'm almost thinking of just implementing a React-like dictionary in Blaze to keep it more 'component' like , because I really dislike the jsx transpiling.

Anyway these announcements are definitely making me more convinced that I should try Meteor in a production app. I see many good things coming for this project.
Ask HN: Family photo sharing service
TL;DR

Daughter was born. Want to share pictures with out of town parents. Want the pictures to be private. Pictures are able to be seen by people I have sent a URL.

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I was blessed with a daughter on June 23rd and my wife and I love taking pictures of her. Both of our parents live out of town so we need a convenient way to share pictures with them.

Ultimately I would love something that I can organize pictures into an album, keep that album private, and share it with others by sending them a URL. We are very private by nature, so I wouldn't want the pictures to be public.

I discounted Instagram because of their Terms of Service (grant of license).

We are currently using Flickr but I find the interface horrific: trying to add my Mom as "Family" was a insane. Thankfully she was already a Flickr user otherwise I would have had to get them to sign up -- from what I understand. And having to set the perms for each individual picture, as opposed to an entire album, is a little too fine grained for the use case.

Thank you very much in advance.
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C# replies: "Honey, I don't mind you dallying with some of those sexy other languages. Just make sure you bring some of the learnings back so you and I can enjoy them together <wink>."
It sounds like Sarah O'Connor is not too excited about this:

‏3 hours ago: Guys. I don't know what skynet is. And I wouldn't follow me - I tweet really boring stuff about unit wage costs and the like.

https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/616298629524004864

‏3 hours ago: Ugh, this is a bit uncomfortable. A person has actually died.

https://twitter.com/sarahoconnor_/status/616301003642638336
Contrast: In Europe typically no items in a grocery store have their price printed onto the actual product. Or even have price tags. You look up the product price by the price sign placed adjacently. It includes (by law) a handy price comparison (in the format of currency per e.g. liter/kg/g/etc.)

I think your system sucks donkey ass. :)
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