skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but built upon the Bluetooth standard (already existing). And not exactly life changing...
When we want to get something done, we typically reach for what is most familiar.
Well, the changes in Tolkien books are always to the worse, or restoring the order, but a little worse than it was in the beggining.

Social and ethical equivalent of 2nd law of thermodynamics basicaly, and loses are converted into stories instead of temperature
Is anyone else just waiting for GitHub to capitalise on its brand with a move into source control for the rest of the enterprise?

Stuff like the swipable image diff:
https://github.com/blog/817-behold-image-view-modes

or map diffing:
https://github.com/blog/1772-diffable-more-customizable-maps

are truly fantastic features; I imagine they already have some sophisticated diffing algorithms and visualisations in the pipeline for word docs, spreadsheets etc.

I guess there are some ease of use issues; (minor, imho) and there is a - possibly better - paradigm in collaborative editing a la Google Docs? But otherwise i'm sure a "github appliance" would work pretty well in a lot of non-software environments.
I never heard of that!

Here is the secondary problem - GitHub sides with these people called Social Justice Warriors. Basically, if you make a bad joke on Twitter, or say something that gaming journalists are shills - they harass your employers and ruin your life.

GitHub supports and protects these people. They will censor anyone with an opinion that doesn't speak glowingly of their politics.

Make a joke about feminists? Your repo gets shuts down.

A user makes a joke about cross-dressing on twitter? SJW's find him on twitter, look up his repository and harass his issues until he concedes to merging a code of conduct. The people didn't even use his software.

This is like persecution. I don't care what people do behind close doors - but I don't like the idea of being guilt-tripped to show enthusiasm about any political idea. That's not professional or what open source is about.
instagram has a massive userbase. advertising potential is much larger.

people expect advertising on a social network. if github started doing that, developers would throw a shit-fit and bail
As much as i agree that latency reigns the human mind supreme, i find that video just a little bit disingenuous, since they compare vector drawing with bitmap drawing.
Python doesn't reject ideology. It's ideology is "minimize required background knowledge and learning curve".
Haven't seen Sense8, and most probably won't any time soon since Netflix is not available where I live. But trailer looks nice. One thing, maybe call me ignorant, but if you take any wave, pick random points, use "algorithm" to pick notes from it and then remaster it to create something like music it's not going to be "brainwaves music" but just reorganizing random data and assigning notes that sound nice together to it.
In this way this is more accurate "part of body" symphony [might be slightly NSFW]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk-5RVMerfI
Ahh back when the "M" in MTV stood for "music" (and the odd Beavis and Butt-head episode).
https://www.localeapp.com/ does a pretty go job of this for Rails apps. We used it with 13 remote translators and I can't recommend it enough.
I've found in the past couple of years Go has fallen into that pragmatism bucket for me. If I need to throw something together quickly it's a good tool for the job thanks to the simple syntax, decent tooling and significant standard library.
tell that to airbus engineers. Perhaps you can boycott flying on every airbus because it says "retard" to the pilots on landing.
Because he needs money.
I'm so glad that we've finally moved past the silly arguments that human reaction times are too slow to need more than 60fps. It's not about reaction times, it's about latency. The future, in this regard, appears bright.
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I just installed Windows 10 and discovered this screen by accident: http://imgur.com/HqfGoPl
I somehow feel like a social contract between me and my operating system was broken here. If an app does this it feels different because I can close the app, but an operating system by default? What if I was on a metered connection?
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Looking at the title, I assumed this was going to be about audio versions of Wikipedia articles. Obviously, this is much cooler!
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Nice reference discussion, thanks. Sounds like we're on the same wavelength.

Our main issue (IMO) is that if you get a SQL Server person in to solve SQL Server performance issues then you're likely going to go down the route of one massive all powerful SQL Server box which just compounds the problem. A broader solution of moving away from pure SQLServer and towards distributed work, caching layers, etc. is probably a saner long term path to take. But in business short term thinking generally takes precedence over long term.
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If you're just building an artificial biological neural net, then why use human brain cells? Certainly other forms of brain cells would work pretty much as well, with less ethical issues.
AutoIt MVP member here (James on the forums).

I'm really glad to see a replacement for AutoIt and AHK and potentially, if not already, cross-platform too.

I can't speak for AHK but AutoIt has made huge progress over the last couple of years. Jon has been working on new features, especially improved COM support.

Maybe RobotJS will have a community too? It'd be great to see UDF's and a thriving ecosystem.
I'm not comfortable with people casually contributing to nodejs. Can I have that banned?
20 years ago is when I graduated high school. We used to actually watch MTV. Talk about nostalgia.
check out George Dyson's great book of the same title that covers Butlers' essay in detail

Very recommended reading

http://www.amazon.com/Darwin-Among-The-Machines-Intelligence...
Do you have a view on Redis cache? It seems to be more popular than memcached at the moment.
Very nice, I think I'll use this as my background music when programming. Reminds me of a similar (real life!) thing: The Sea Organon in Zadar, Croatia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtDYTeB5J-8 Skip to 5:00 to listen.
And while on the matter, I've yet to understand why the Parthenon marbles are still not returned where they belong: in Parthenon.

Could someone help me understand why this matters? Why worry about events centuries past when there's so much to worry about in the future?
If you were on a metered connection, it wouldn't use that connection to update, but you have to define a connection as metered, also how does this surprise people its been there for months in the insider preview
Nope, the enterprise version is _not_ the exact same ruby/chef codebase. See for example this blogpost [1] where they announce LDAP sync. New features are often released on the public Github before they are included into a new github enterprise release.

That being said, the enterprise version is very close to the public version. They are probably branches of the same repositories.

[1] https://github.com/blog/category/enterprise
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I still find charting tools that do not allow interaction with the a group of charts to enable further filtering very lacking. The gold standard I evaluate any charting library against is http://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/

My reasoning is that most dashboards should be designed to enable data to tell a story and enable users to interact and create their own story.
"So, they'll continue paying politicians to ensure the status quo and collecting all kinds of fees/interest."

I'm waiting for a politician to really go after the banks on this his very issue. Yes, we have other problems, but capping/eliminating fees would get my attention.

There's only one Elisabeth Warren, and the Bankers are making her out to be out of touch with the way the system works? Could anyone imagine if the government let the banks suffocate in 2008? Sure Jamie Diamond's bank would have magically survived--according to that ego?

The innovative competition that would have arose from the ashes might have been interesting? We will never know. Why do I feel these banks are in conclusion with fees?
Liquidity for the founders, early employees and previous investors can also be a reason to have another funding round.
You can doubt as much as you want it's just a fact. But I'm not saying it's good either. As much as I like python as a scripting language I don't think that's it should be use as widely as it is now.

Concerning Haskel it still lacks some pragmatism to solve some pratical problems such as install and cabal hell.
I assumed it would be about the reliability of the facts in Wikipedia compared to other (online) media
Congrats to the Github team from Livecoding.tv. Keep the good job up!
AWS already launched a competitor called CodeCommit.
Clang is dramatically more complex than the Plan 9 compiler, and doesn't really qualify for satisfying Theo's prediction.
About a year ago I switched back. Ubuntu doesn't really feel like it's providing me anything Windows cannot, and Arch tends to go down burning when it is most needed to be reliable.

My biggest problem was multiple monitors. The setup was, and still is, an absolute pain to get working properly with difference screen size and dynamic docking/undocking of a laptop.
It's a possibility if the drones are delivering food for Amazon Fresh... That would be so awesome!
>How many people reading this are 50 years old? Lisp is 50 years old — and for the most part, the lifespan of a programming language is closer to the lifespan of a dog than to that of a person. Only one other language (Fortran) is that old and still in use. Why has Lisp survived? Not because it’s useless. People still use it because you can write working code in Lisp way faster than you can in most so-called “practical” languages.

Sorry to burst this bubble, but tons of languages created in the same period or 10-15 years later are still in use.

Fortran, which he already mentioned. COBOL is still in use (much much more than any Lisp, just not in shiny new startups). Forth is still used here and there. C of course which is about 12 years younger but still around 40ish. Pascal is still used (in far greater numbers than Lisp). Heck, even BASIC still has tons of fans, either in VB disuise or in the the various commercial BASIC's around.

With this in mind, Lisp being "50 years old and still in use" is much less impressive -- since one other 50 year old, and several 40 and 30 year old languages are still in widespread use. We use lots of 3+ decades old languages - so, it's not like we only use "new" languages and Lisp is the exception.
BLE has no correlation with the previous bluetooth standards. Which is why you need a BLE compatible dongle and device.

> And not exactly life changing...

Ya Good luck designing a ultra low power multi use protocol that runs on a single coin cell over an entire year, as your next weekend hack. /s
Apart from being really easy to use and taking some pain out of git (arguable since we're talking about developers but could be worth more if they branch out to authors etc.) the major value of GitHub is the brand name.

It's a tool based network effects grab of sorts which is why the social components of GitHub are very important (imo). However I'm not sure the network effect is as big as it needs to be. Theoretically it's not that hard to migrate the entire network (-the revenue generating parts but it's the OS stuff that generates the network effect).

I'm not entirely sold that the brand is strong enough and can't be overtaken by competition. So far they seem to have a friendly relationship with GitLab et al. but it will be interesting to see how they'll handle those in the future. My guess it they'll try to acquire whoever they perceive to be the biggest fish.

That being said, the valuation seems acceptable to me given the current standing of GH. While the switching cost is low in monetary terms (and technically not hard) if you compare it to other brands where the switching cost is low in monetary terms like Coke vs. Pepsi the valuation makes more sense.
I'd also argue that developers tend to not switch around wildly as long as the tool is perceived to do it's job well (which GH does).
And one that teaches Haskell loses prestige in employeability minded people -- but then again Oxford graduates don't much care for those things, privileged upper class as they are.
I really wish I could do something like that for our system. We need to hit the database almost every time a query comes in.
Starting to play sound without user confirmation is a default tab-close. I wont even take the time to look at it. Bonus point for not being flash that hijacks the browser shortcut.
Fwiw the remaining sculptures in Greece aren't left outdoors at the actual Parthenon site either, in order to protect them from damage (though they are nearby). The Acropolis Museum [1] stores 5 of the 6 Erechtheion caryatids (the 6th is in London), as well as the portions of the Parthenon frieze that weren't removed by Lord Elgin. On the acropolis itself, the Erechtheion has replica caryatids, while the Parthenon is "bare" with no frieze or pediment.

The museum is arranged with the intent to display the complete set of pieces, with blank space deliberately left for the missing items, so in terms of technical housing I don't think there's a problem (this was part of the political motivation for building the new museum, to have a credible facility for the sculptures to be returned to). The caryatids are currently arranged as a set of six, but with one spot empty, and the frieze is laid out as a full-sized display of the entire frieze, with the pieces that the museum possesses inserted into their correct place, and plaster casts used as placeholders for the missing parts.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_Museum
I wonder if it makes sense to disable some of that information in JavaScript. You couldn't disable it for js videogames, but I see no reason for most websites to be able to track your behavioral profile.

The problem is that behavioral profiling will get better. How long you stay on a page, which links you prefer, and potentially a lot of the metrics that companies routinely use to A/B test their page would also reveal your behavioral profile.

It's a similar problem to rhetorical analysis. It's difficult to publish a paper anonymously if you have other publications because the rhetoric is likely to have your fingerprint plastered all over it.

Privacy is rapidly eroding and it's not clear the trend can be reversed.
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This Survey will help marketers in Keyword research and also will find out the customer behavior over the search engine.

What exactly will you type!

- When you are searching for a logo design company or agency?

- When you are searching for a web development company or agency?
Please share phrases what exactly will you search!

PS: I have asked this question over the reddit as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/3evlwo/survey_how_do_you_search/

Hope my thread is not breaking any rules of this community.

Looking forward your feedbacks.
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Sometimes it's a much larger portion. For example, when Twitter raised its last pre-IPO round of $800 million, half of that immediately went to cash out early employees and investors. FB also did this when DST invested. Most venture funds aren't set up for the current timeline to liquidity (I'm sure to VC's chagrin).

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240531119035202045764823...
Apparently not on github, however.
I didn't use the preview (like most people) and again, it never prompted me to make me aware of this.
And what will the output to ./public be like? If webpack is using it's own cache busting asset links, how do we use that against sprockets? I think I'll just still stick to Grunt/Browserify
I hate it when sites like this don't date articles. It is a trend that I think is unhelpful.
Another 50 year old language still in use is IBM's RPG - you can even compile it to .NET bytecode nowadays. And there's also Prolog (40 years).
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Python's design choices (imperative, untyped, interpreted, etc.) are just as ideological as Lisp's s-expressions.
Will it really work on a large user base?

There are a lot of approaches around (big data, profiling, machine learning, ...) based on the assumption that people usually behave in the same way. And they really do.

This thing is quite the contrary.
and how much money do you give them? Also, how painful would it be for you to switch to a different company (e.g. bitbucket)?
I have 0 expertise on valuations so would not comment on that but I do think that github has a near monopoly when it comes to hosting a popular open source project.

Git* sites are pretty much same as Github but they simply dont have the traction and are unlikely to have till github does something stupid. This is very similar to the fact that while Android is open source any any device manufacture can make an Android phone, only Samsung seems to be winning while everyone seems to be a minor fish in the pond.

I will really really be surprised if investors did not assign a value to this.
Python wasn't my first programming language. And I think I gave a fair chance to other languages. But there come these moments where you are like "oh, this would be really simple in imperative code". Ideology gets in the way; to claim the opposite is just kidding yourself.

I probably gave the most chance to Common Lisp. It's a very pragmatic language too, unfortunately (largely for historical reasons), the standard library didn't keep the pace. It's not just a matter of what you can do, it's also the design. Python standard libraries almost always put the user first and the purity second.

For instance, Python would never add versions of functions remove-if, remove-if-not, delete-if, delete-if-not. That's mathematical purity (in if vs. if-not) and letting
the onus of choice on user (in delete-if vs. remove-if) instead of conservatively making reasonable default.

At the same time, Common Lisp library lacks things like function to strip whitespace from string; you can do it, but Python has it as a function. It's just hundreds of little things like these that make Python more pleasant to work with.

I genuinely want to like Lisp more than Python (I am learning Clojure about now, which is on par with Common Lisp when it comes to pragmatism). But sometimes it is just a little more frustrating, because of ideology and not putting user first when it comes to API design.
Quite a neat idea. It's a while since I've seen something from Yahoo that I would consider different or original. They also have a new Flickr app now which lets you back your phone's photos up to Flickr with 1TB free storage which is also pretty neat.
+1.

When I come to HN, I usually read all topics on the front page, then open interesting ones in tabs. After opening 10 tabs, I hear music, then I find the culprit, close the tab, do not look back.

Never play music without user permission.
No it's not. I work in open source and very rarely use github. git is a standard tool, github is only a polished frontend that seems to be a standard amongst web developers.
> application and protocol developers should avoid using UDP as a transport when possible.

Thank you for your thoughts, but can you also provide an alternative solution to best-effort, non-ordered, low latency package delivery?

Without that a wide swath of applications (e.g. latency-sensitive gaming) will become literally impossible to implement, and i do not think the recommendation of IPSec is useful for all applications.
this sounds like a good idea to me.

you don't need a huge number of people, you just need enough people in one rough location.

you might be able to get in contact with local community groups in an area who could benefit from the service. if you are initially targeting a particular area, you could also advertise it the old fashioned way by physically distributing notices / flyers -- i have seen this done for car-sharing services in my city.

if you initially advertise / promote the website to a bunch of people who are scattered all over the world, perhaps you'll struggle to hit a critical threshold of density for the website to be useful to anyone in any particular location.

edit: if you promote your website via something like product hunt, reddit, etc, consider the audience that you are promoting it to. are they likely to all live in a similar location? are they likely to find a car-sharing service useful? why?

edit^2: some other ideas:

* perhaps to get the first few people to sign up, you could drive them places yourself!
* you might be able to find per-city / per-town car-ownership statistics. this could possibly be useful in deciding which regions could most benefit
* you might also be able to find car traffic statistics. these could also be useful for figuring out where there might be large flows of people driving roughly the same way (i've found these before as publicly available data for my city)

good luck!
Just because I am not making a direct comparison to your exact wording, doesn't make my comment any less relevant.

Your basis of argument that if the benefit of satisfying curiosity greatly outweighs the benefit of X, it should be undertaken is absolutely wrong. To cite along the same track so you call out on relevancy again: Digging out historical graveyards and examining the bodies has its merit especially to increase our knowledge about the time period, however in reality going around digging into sacred places is also considered a douche bag move. Thus as said in the first comment, curiosity is something that should be kept under check.
Awesome! AutoIt is great. AutoHotkey wouldn't exist if it wasn't for AutoIt.

AutoHotkey has also improved a bunch recently. Lexikos picked up development and he's done a killer job. But unfortunately it (and AutoIt) will never be cross platform. That's why I made RobotJS.

I honestly never thought about a community but that's an amazing idea. A classic forum would be great, I've spent so much time on the AutoHotkey/AutoIt forums. I'd love for this to happen.
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Bye. Use Chrome. Or use less tabs. Or focus on one at a time.
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It would be good to have a "click to unmute" option as the default for how a browser handles audio. Click to play works well for Flash plugins, it might be good for audio as well.
Now this is a very interesting app, and is sort of almost what I would build with this theoretical 100k.

I feel like they are missing a trick with limiting themselves to just YAML/Rails though. I will keep an eye on this though, and hope they go language agnostic in the future. Seems to be a very well made product.