skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineers repulsion from Ada -- for being an icky DoD invention -- has probably held the art back several decades. We're only now getting measurable adoption of languages like Rust, Scala, Clojure, or Haskell that attempt to assist programmers in writing safe code -- admittedly in ways that mostly supersede Ada's admirable but now outdated efforts.

Now Spark is introducing further safety features, and you're jumping on the bandwagon again to make sure that no one bothers to learn from it. Please stop.

If every CS101 student in the last 20 years had been taught to depend on, for example, bounded numeric types, verified pre and post conditions, and buffer and array overflow protection, the world would be a much better place. Let's try to not make the same mistakes (over and over) going forward.
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Although I agree with the general concerns raised in this thread FB is not sending raw audio to its servers and thus is not "listening" to you. The majority of work is done on the client-side. Specifically, a short audio sample is analysed client-side and turned into an audio fingerprint (the rough audio equivalent of hashing a value). That fingerprint alone is sent to the server for matching. Note that there is no way to reverse that process (hence the hash analogy) to get audible sounds out of it. Of course, this is all based on the assumption that Facebook is telling it like it is but given the fact that the difference in bandwidth use is an order of magnitude that's very easy to check.
I've seen this even in small companies.
It would seem there's a conflict of interest between Wikipedia and those that report on it, since there's some overlap there. Reminds me of the old Upton Sinclair quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate doesn't include App Code or any of the C-family language products and unlike Ruby and Python there aren't plug-ins available for that either.
I just updated to version 15.

A little off topic: even though my IntelliJ license is paid up for another month, I just signed up for the complete toolbox. Seems like a really good deal and I am happy enough with the revised license.

I am a polyglot programmer so also having the professional versions of RubyMine, PyCharm, and WebStorm is great. (BTW, IntelliJ is also my dev environment for Clojure and Haskell)

For many years JetBrains gave me complementary licenses (because of all the Java books I have written) but for the last few years I have happily paid them. I basically 'live' in IntelliJ.
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Ok that's the critical difference - I have warrants. Due to all the reasons you mention. They vest; they have a cliff; they expire 2 years after severing our relationship (which has never happened).

And what startup has liquid stock? I'd love to work there.
I didn't down vote you, but my guess is the "Better late" part. In what way are they late? There aren't many governments who are committed to using open source software in a mandatory fashion. I can only think of 3 off the top of my head. So, I think they are on the leading edge, if anything.

One other point about you comment is that, while being succinct is excellent (something I need to learn), I couldn't really see what point you were trying to make. Sometimes it seems obvious to you, but to someone else your comment really could mean anything at all.

So, what were you trying to communicate on the topic?
Based on the account ages/activity/postings, it looks like a lack of coordination between different departments/recruiters in the company rather than being intentional. Curious how the mods will handle this.
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I hardly ever get headaches and I have three CO detectors in the house that I changed the batteries and tested when I moved in, but I didn't know about the symptoms of CO poisoning in non-lethal doses.
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I don’t see how this would work. When the browser renders an “ff” ligature, it does not do so by converting every “ff” in the input into U+FB00, as such it will never use this font unless the user input actually contains U+FB00 which is unlikely.
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Governments around the world aren't rushing to adopt open source. As far as governments, they're an early adopter. So, it shouldn't rate a snarky comment.
There wasn't a subscription last time I used IntelliJ (2+ years ago) unless I somehow missed that option. Cool.
We did the Time Travel one at Real Escape and it was great fun. Very exciting. There's another at http://paniqentertainment.com/sanfrancisco that was all right. Definitely liked the Real Escape one more. The operators all act as if they're part of the whole thing.
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Why can't the world just pick one design for plugs?
I'm all for less inequality but putting in artificial caps doesn't do any good either.
I've used both Kotlin and Scala a bit and for some very specific message passing/protocol tricks, Scala was able to let me do what I wanted more than Kotlin. That was maybe 6-12 months ago, so I'm not sure if that has changed.

That said, there is something pretty cool about Kotlin that I like. Congrats on 1.0 Beta.
For what it's worth this seems to be some unrelated vandalism from September 1st

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Livecoding.tv&typ...
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Boss Linux is based on Debian. I don't think there much difference between the two.
Assuming what the Debian project is saying is true, that's not very nice of Elastic.

The changelogs do indeed not seem to contain any vulnerability information anymore. I'm curious what the "actively discourages from doing so" is about.

Curious to see if other projects will follow suit.
Either present a counterargument or GTFO. Ad-hominem attacks do not contribute to the conversation.
"one of four proposals selected as DoD’s language"

Does anyone know about the proposals that weren't selected?
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I might not be completely justified, and I don't feel all that great about making such a claim. But at this point, I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude. He dug his own grave by accepting funding, and then doing everything possible to throw it down the drain.

Why, are you actually interested in defending him in this thread?
It is actually, because we know that relative equality is a bigger contributor to happiness than any sort of absolute growth. Put simply, people would rather be poorer and in the "same boat" as others than be slightly wealthier but face massive inequality. So if you think part of the job of the economy is to maximize human happiness it absolutely matters. http://inequality.org/happiness-and-inequality-study/
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FWIW, "Rush" hit the black hole theme back in '77: "Cygnus X-1". Nerd rock doesn't get much air play :-)
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I personally love urban life for the most part. I grew up in the "boonies" and I sometimes think that childhood/teenage boredom due to not having many things to do or other young people nearby influenced my feelings on the matter.

But the one thing that makes me consider moving to a more rural setting is the fact that I sometimes want to make noise (playing instruments, etc) but there aren't as many opportunities when I live in a townhouse. I mostly just compromise by playing at lower volumes (less fun when it comes to playing guitar or whatever), playing through headphones (again, less fun because lower volume or using headphones doesn't give the satisfaction of how a guitar or bass sounds through a proper amp at "rock and roll" volumes).

Still, I'm not a total asshole so I limit my volumes and I only play during hours when it's much less likely that anyone nearby would be sleeping. I also keep that stuff in the basement so it doesn't "leak" out as much that way.

If I had the money to just buy an old warehouse or a property in a remote location for playing music or watching movies on a projection screen with theater-volume speakers, I'd do it in a heartbeat but that's just a pipe dream. I don't have the funds to purchase or rent access to such a space.

So for now, the solution is to play music quieter/at more "decent" hours and keep the theater experience restricted to outdoor movies at a friend's house in the country during the summer. For these sorts of activities that go hand in hand with loud volume, you really are more limited in the city. It's not enough to make me give up short commutes and walking/taxi access to bars, restaurants, and arts/entertainment venues but it's definitely a consideration.
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I must be running a public service then. We find it easy to stay 100% busy, and 2000 X rate is well north of the number this thread started with. No need to up the rate; maybe the market would support it. Working less sounds attractive though!
Kotlin has a much simpler syntax, and much simpler semantics, than Scala. Specifically, it's largely a very, very good syntax, and small class library extension, for otherwise-vanilla alternative syntax to Java.

This is the whole reason for its existence: Kotlin code cleanly interoperates, in both directions, with existing Java code. From my own experience, this means that it's very easy compared to Scala to introduce into an existing code base: you can sanely go class by class, file by file, cleaning up code, relying on the existing unit tests, without breaking anyone's workflow. As a result, it has, in my experience, proved a lot cheaper than Scala to train new devs in it as well.

That's not to say that it's all just syntax, though. Kotlin also brings null safety, traits, builders, and some other key things over from the Scala, Groovy, other sources, which has proven to be a major productivity boost. Its collections library is a lot saner (IMHO) than Java 8's due to better generics support. It adds data types and value semantics for when you need them as well. But it does so in a way that (again, based on experience introducing Kotlin into a company after Scala had failed to gain any traction) is a lot easier to teach to most developers, and a lot easier to integrate into existing workflows.
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