skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try building a production rest api using flask, with encryption, authentication and authorization backed in, taking care of internationalization and localization. See for yourself how many lines of code you will need and obviously see which one is more readable and cleaner. Do the same with go and you will know what I'm talking about.
Go is good for its own use case for solving Google scale problems which requires additional efforts and time. Python is very approachable from the beginning. Moreover the wealth of documentation and help makes it so much easier when you hit a roadblock. You will need twice the amount of time to do the same in go.
I like the idents you've added as well. Was the style you used one of the styles on the American MTV? One of the big things I remember about MTV (Europe, at least) were the idents, including the track/artist ident at the start/end of songs.

I haven't been able to find a decent archive of them though.
> They should respond to a "scram" signal that clears an area for things like rescue helicopters and firefighting aircraft.

This is a massive thing.

An issue I see though it whether everyone will play by such safety rules. Yes Amazon and the like will, but once the site of a delivery drone is commonplace other drones will be around either for publicised purposes (such as event recording, or people like Google updating their aerial maps) or "hiding in plain site" (i.e. those recording without permission or delivering less legal cargo). Who will be able to regulate those to make sure that they confirm to such safety standards (quick answer: nobody). Also the scram signal itself could be open to abuse.
Reminds me of the Pinto case in the 1970s. Back then, Ford saved a couple dollars on each Pinto sold by not adding some protective parts to the fuel tanks of the vehicles. In rear-end collisions, the connection from the tank to the filler neck was prone to rupture and spill fuel under the crashed vehicle, which led to some 27 deaths. Amidst a huge scaldal, the NHTSA ultimately forced Ford to recall the vehicle.

Think Ford learned it's lesson? Think again:

Today, the IIHS used to only test the safety of the best-selling version of each model. Ford, knowing this, equipped the best-selling SuperCrew variant of the F-150 with additional steel bars stopping the wheels from intruding the cabin survival space. They did not add these steel bars to the SuperCab and standard versions of the F-150.

Testing for the SuperCrew variant achieved a top safety rating. Additional testing of the SuperCab variant produced a "marginal" (i.e. 2/4) rating with components intruding 8-12 inches into the driver's survival space. Ford spokeswoman (from TFA): "All of that is to meet regulatory requirements and achieve public domain ratings."
If they didn't then a lot of repos would be removed or censored. If they don't though, then - similar to the 'retard' censorship - they're inconsistent and using double standards (which BTW is also a trait of the SJW subculture the c+= repo parodies)
Thank you OP!

> 95.1% C

Any intention on making this available for other languages?
But what if all SF users had a free and painless transition of their projects to GitHub?
Thoreau's journals removed a good deal of low-level daily frustration from my life. At one point, he and a friend decided to change the way they began their knots, and found it much better. I decided to try that, and my laces quit untying themselves.
I can confirm there is an opening for something new. We use FogBugz (and pay quite a bit for the hosted version), because GitHub issues are too simplistic, and we hate JIRA.

However, FogBugz has its share of problems, and I'd gladly move to something else, if only there was something better. Must-haves that many companies miss are:

* flawless E-mail integration,

* task numbers,

* API that lets me attach code commit links (linking to GitHub) for reviews.

As to why not FogBugz — a number of reasons and annoyances. It's slow, expensive, too complex in many places, we've encountered a number of bugs over the years, and Fog Creek strongly resists changing FogBugz. Even relatively minor changes (we wanted FogBugz to detect cases based on "#1234" case numbers not a "Case #1234" string, because if you don't write in English, writing "case #1234" is unnatural) are refused.
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> Even giant commercial flights end up below 500 feet all the time of course, well at least twice for every flight.

That much is covered in the diagram in the article: anything near an airport is designated no-fly for the drones.
> the English How are you? or the German Wie geht's?

As a cultural aside, I would like to point out that the German "wie geht's?" is used to actually prompt a superficial answer about one's state. It's perfectly acceptable to reply with information like "meh, I'm having some trouble". The same goes for almost every other country.

But the (US) American "how are you?" does not afford this. Like the article describes, anything but "fine, thanks, and you?" is not considered a valid response. This still trips me up when talking with Americans...
I bet there are at least 3 teams each in HP and IBM that use separate GitHub enterprise installations.

For these companies, using public GitHub isn't even a question. It would cost far more in terms of lawyers, managers, etc to approve use of public GitHub than to just buy an enterprise installation for a department.

Also, just because they have (and sell) a product that does this, doesn't mean that they use it, that it's appropriate, that their devs want to use it, etc. Separate departments in companies of these sizes act like individual companies, IBM even has the term Blue Dollars for money that they spend on other IBM services.
What kind of situations would result in previous investors looking for liquidity? Assuming it is a trade for equity, it would be counter-intuitive do divest a fast-growing company if you are at least risk-neutral, which VCs should be?
Ask HN: Do developers have a version of writer's block
I've not been a developer for long but the blank look of the text editor has hit me. Is there really a version of writer's block for developers?
A lot of these problems already apply to people walking around, cars, helicopters and private aircraft.
"Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions", This is relaxing because the of the harmony determined especially by the bells.

In addition, the WikiPedia is so powerful because the green dominates the purple..
I thought this was a discussion about Asperger's, not every single mental disorder under the sun.
A lot of companies have regulatory requirements which require them to host a lot of their support services, and for many companies with small dev teams (~1k-10k employees, 10-100 devs), management and policy is strict enough that they will just buy the enterprise version.

Remember that inside the enterprise version, you have full control over all the organisational structure - essentially giving you an extra level of granularity on permissions. That's quite important for many companies.
How t.onthe.io differs from Google Analytics?
So we are saved and we don't have to worry about global warming any more, nor even food shortages? All we need is lots of water and to farm in the desert. Awesome.
> It never ceases to amaze me how negative the HN community is to new ideas, technology and generally "trying new stuff" that has never been attempted before.

Partly I think this is people setting themselves up to be able to say "I told you so!" at a later time. You look less silly predicting a failure that doesn't happen than if you extol the virtues of an idea that later turns out to be complete hogswash under further scrutiny.

Though to put a more positive spin on it: critical thinking is a much neglected skill. Sometimes things genuinely aren't well thought out, and identifying and documenting a problem are the first steps to someone coming up with a solution.
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Nazi "philosophy" (mostly misinterpreted Nietzsche) isn't the sine qua non of fascism.

And while I agree that the term might be a bit ill-used here, there's definitely a tie between reactionary conservatism (and fantastic romanticism) and some fascist regimes. So maybe one could call it "proto-fascism", although I'd generally try to avoid this particular f-word, as it does tend to Godwin discussions.

And, yes, Moorcock was definitely writing in the pulp tradition. He might be quite political, but his worked isn't fully steeped in it. Quite often it's traditional "sword & sorcery" (a term Moorcock helped to coin), maybe with a single trait that differentiates it from other fantasy or that he wants to delve in. Elric was a counter-Conan, and the runestaff saga presented Great Britain as the evil empire.

The "Nomad of the Time Streams" trilogy is probably one of the more obviously political of his works, but still, it's mostly about adventure.
Thanks for your feedback! No, I am not building an email list, but I understand your concerns. I have to think about better approach.
Thank you for linking that.

That's why I love Hacker News and some subreddits. Whenever there's an interesting story in the news, it's usually full of misinterpretations and sometimes outright lies. But on their HN/Reddit discussion threads you can often meet people who are either directly involved in the project or know someone who is first-hand, who can cut through the bullshit and say how things actually are.
You are right, it shouldn't be working like this. I need to redesign this solution. Thanks for the feedback!
> but I'd assume that drones may come out favorably in terms of accident damage

I'm not sure that we should assume that.

Anything that is 100-400 feet off the ground is inherently more dangerous than an equivalent object resting on the ground, simply because of what happens when it fails and gravity takes over.

We can compare automated flying drones to manually-operated cars. We could also compare automated flying drones to automated cars.

The drones scenario might end up safer than now. But I would not assume it.
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Regarding (Slack/4)... I believe that toomuchtodo is talking about the following features within Slack:

* Stars: the ability to privately star individual messages (so you can easily find them again)

* Pinning: the ability to publicly highlight specific messages within a channel, much like pinned posts in a forum (effectively channel-wide starring)

* History links: click on the timestamp next to any Slack message and it'll open a canonical URL for that message, allowing you to drop these links to specific messages or points in a conversation into other chats, GH issues or anywhere else you fancy.
New Intel storage is 1,000 times faster than your SSD
http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html no idea on it's accuracy but interesting nonetheless (For the record I scored 37 and I'm not (afaik) autistic).
What I want with such charting solutions is something to export or copy and paste data from excel and put it into a chart. Just that. No need to manually edit a javascript file or html code beyond customising the appearance once the data is in there. Is this available somewhere?
Moreover seems like our perception of time and space do change during a saccadic eye movement.

At least according to that paper from ten years ago : http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v8/n7/abs/nn1488.html

Maybe is there more recent researches in that field.
Über fast JIT virtual machines, maybe. Even bytecode interpreters are likely simpler because while you still have to compile to the bytecode, it is generally simpler and higher level than x86 or ARM assembly. Direct interpreters (based on the AST) are slow, but dead simple.

What makes you think interpreters are more complex?
> One way to illustrate this is to use a computer analogy: in a way, my CPU runs at a higher frequency, which has allowed me to emulate with software the hardware that I'm missing.

I'm convinced that there is something here.

One notable thing out of my childhood is dyslexia. It has taken some things away from me. Some of which I've figured out the 'emulator' for (handwriting, spelling). I'm still working on other things (messiness, forgetfulness).

However, for as much as it has taken away it has also given. I'm absurdly good at solving incredibly complex problems (both logical and sociological) and good at making fast high quality decisions. I think the reason is simple: most people naturally see "J" and "T" as different things, I struggle to do the same. That being said, while many people see two problems as different things, I can see the similarity: solving N problems with 1 solution. Another dyslexic once called it "intuitive reflection and rotation" - a name that I strongly agree with; the dyslexic mind automatically reflects and rotates both images AND concepts.

I strongly believe that many (likely not all) learning 'disabilities' are not actually disabilities. They are merely trade-offs. Children who have these 'conditions' should really learn how to capitalize on their unique abilities instead of being told that and treated like they are mentally disabled. So the kid can't spell, who cares?
Not necessarily a block, but I tend to procrastinate by "yak shaving" when I have something boring to do.

If you are really blocked in front of your editor, it is likely you are opening your editor too early, or trying to solve something too big. Go back to the drawing board or user and split the task in smaller chunks.
Got it working from Windows 8.
Speaking for myself, no. Sometimes I don't know which approach I have in mind is best, which can delay me a little. If I have no idea how to tackle a problem, there's always been enough literature to give me ideas.
Pythons scientific library situation is much much better than Haskell's at the moment. But I think that speaks much more to the strength of the python community than the weaknesses of the Haskell one

By comparison, I think that the sicilib situation in Ruby ( a language that's fairly similar in Python in many characteristics) isn't really better than the Haskell one
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I am Italian and I am a big fun of Rossellini. A few months ago I had a discussion with some people of my age (27yrs) about Rossellini and most of them don't know anything about him. The recent decline of the italian culture is a huge issue...
If you do not declare your ideology upfront you will still end up having one, only implicit and ad hoc.

This does not apply to Python, however. It does have a explicit, if not entirely serious, statement of its ideology in The Zen of Python. (For those unfamiliar, read http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PythonPhilosophy. It has The Zen and some discussion.) Python takes its ideology pretty seriously, too, as evidenced by how much the words "pythonic" and "unpythonic" used in discussions involving the language. In discussions around, e.g., Java you will find no terms of that sort.
Yes. It's annoying, because it taunts me with efforless click once or twice a day while it wastes my time with the annoying image matching for the rest of the day.
I'd even say: if they can get the problem solved for less than their salary and in reasonable time, hire them anyway - you're hiring them to solve programming problems, not to type them.
This is from July 1995, so the very early songs (eg January) are probably not in the site, also no music videos released after July are there right now.

Also many of the songs in that list are currently on the site, maybe you didn't got lucky (is random) and you didn't get the ones that were played enough times to be memorable (for you)

And no to mention human memory is very bad ;) ... (only half joking: http://science.time.com/2013/11/19/remember-that-no-you-dont...).
This sounds like just another sign of how Yahoo has lost their minds :)
Standard disclaimer: you should consult an actual solicitor!

I think it would somewhat depend on the judge's assessment of the situation, but I would think so long as you're acting in good faith they'd likely rule for you to pay whatever costs you can afford, and the rest would be covered by public finances.

It wouldn't surprise me to hear of judges deciding that the defence's legal team is grossly excessive and telling them they're not claiming for everything either, at least in the UK judges have quite a lot of leeway in what they can do in their own court room.
You asked for an example of crimes that would be eliminated with backdoors, and you got one.
I like to think of it like this:
If you're facing that 'block' feeling, it means the problem isn't fully understood. So, see that as an opportunity to improve your personal process. Qualify the problem, build the solution, then optimise.
Despite its many syntax quirks, AutoHotkey is an amazingly powerful tool for automating Windows keyboard and mouse input - I use it daily at work.

Having an equivalent tool on the Mac would be awesome, as I don't think anything in AutoHotkey's class exists right now...
I'm sorry that people are reluctant to name companies in these messages; I would absolutely love to know the companies in your first two examples.
Funny, I clearly have some troubles, and every times I read a description of a head condition, I wonder if I don't have that.
Why don't interviewers just have a conversation or is that so totally lost these days? I find it a whole lot easier to just ask the right technical questions in the first 2 mins. to decide on hiring.

I keep seeing more and more dis-associative non-communication being presented where the interviewer attempts to do less and less. Its lazy and a crap way to treat people.
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HubSpot Fires Marketing Exec in Book Scandal
Top Gear's Clarkson, Hammond and May Sign Amazon Deal
The EU system is generally that you can't just "fire" people, you have to have a reason: either documented underperformance or misconduct. You can make redundancies by eliminating positions, but again this is subject to consultation and fairness rules.
Altium Designer, industry standard when it comes to designing electronics (pcb, schematic capture, solidworks integration for enclosure design).
Maybe not so much writers block as periods of indecisiveness - sometimes theres soooo many ways to do something, it can be hard to decide the best way or the easiest way to do it. Or if a problem is complex, it can be hard to pull the trigger and commit to a way to do something.

If I find myself starring at the screen for more then 10 minutes and not writing a single line, I try to walk away - don't open a news site and waste time - literally walk away and go do something completely different. Take a walk, go for a bike ride, clean the house, take a shower, make something with your hands, whatever you do. Your mind will work on the problem in the background - it helps me often.
The whole article seems like it was written by Amazon PR. In addition to that not really counting as journalism, there really ought to be a disclaimer disclosing to the casual reader that the owner of the Washington Post also owns 19% of Amazon and is its CEO/Founder/Chairman/President.
Not VC's. But perhaps friends, family or fools who helped on a seed round. Granted, in the case of Github this seems very unlikely.
An API would do the job just fine.
I think from now on we will always have to at least think about the climate. It is not a stable system and we can easily impact it if we do not take care, and at the same time we will need to impact it at some point (eg new ice age).

But hey, it is good training for terraforming other planets I guess, at least the research will be more mature.
Intermediate solution: you could just buy them unemployment insurance. Or write into their contract a much longer paid notice period. This is more common with executive-level staff, who are difficult to get rid of without a "golden parachute".
I've had an opposite experience, but with just one company: CloudMine. They gave me a personal and technical interview, then a project to add a feature to their existing codebase. They paid me $300 for my work. I was way over time estimates and I didn't get the job, but I will always respect them for that.
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Just been reading up on this. Python has sort of read only closures where the free variables are stored against the functions. You can't alter a variable inside the closure like you can in JS. Personally, I don't mind - I'd rather have a better idea of which scopes are changing which information, but I don't think they're considered "true closures."

More over here - http://stackoverflow.com/a/23558809/171450
How does this classify as 'hacker news'?
I agree with the above. Spend some time thinking about the problem before you dive in and start coding. Once you've identified the necessary pieces, start chipping away.
Reference to a global, shared variable.
AFAIK, GitHub uses GitHub to build GitHub. I'd say GitHub is a large project.
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Hmm. Amazon has a couple of original series with a-list talent, but they don't seem to be getting the kind of excitement that Netflix has been. This kinda looks like Amazon taking aim at Netflix, and after already de-throning bookstores and electronics suppliers and cloud hosting and getting into the services market too.

I've been really happy with Amazon so far but I'm not a big fan of their fingers being in so many different markets.
Well, I solved this for myself, installed the Stylish plugin and got found a styling on the Userstyles page for it, so now i have a super sexy firefox scrollbar
I guess an important distinction here is popularity by choice rather than circumstances - many basic, cobol, pascal, etc. programmers may prefer to use another language.

Then again many lisp programmers may be in the same situation, e.g. AI or emacs users ;)

I think overall continued popularity is a less interesting metric than actual demonstrations of benefits of a language, as far as we can given how incredibly difficult it is to demonstrate an actual quantitative advantage for _any_ language.
Can you show people using the word "stupid fool" in hate crime? Because we can do that for the word retard.

Can you show people using the word "stupid fool" in a genocidal program of mass murder? Because we can show the Nazis testing their mass murder techniques on "retards" before moving onto Jews.

Can you show doctors not providing medical treatment to people because those people are "stupid fools"? Because we can do that for people who were labelled "retards".

Can you show doctors conducting medical experiments on people without their knowledge because those people were "stupid fools"? Because we can do that for people labelled "retard".

Can you show people being forcibly sterilised against their will because they are "stupid fools"? Because we can do that for people labelled "retards".

Can you show people being segregated from society because they are "stupid fools"? Because we can do that for people labelled "retard".
Wow! That's great!

Had hoped that Netflix would sign them, but Amazon must have given them a better offer and/or better work conditions, where they have more freedom on what they do.

Nevertheless it's going to be great to see the three guys again! Loved Top Gear, and have watched every single episode, so if the new show will be just half as good, it's going to be great!
Autism in the workplace: 'Always thought you were a bit weird'
"Amazon Instant Video is an Internet video on demand service by Amazon in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Austria, Germany and soon India."

Looks like I have torrent this as well
Can't believe you air heads are seriously comparing Scheme to Python. Scheme is a nightmare, it's only good for academics who have nothing better to do and the 1% of your projects where functional programming may actually be beneficial to what you're trying to do.
You are lucky. There are plenty of people with learning disabilities and no such obvious upsides. I think your case is the exception, rather than the rule.