skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
is this another implementation of zero-install, by the guys who did the rox filer (port of riscos file manager to *nix) ?
懐かしい is another that comes to mind. It's like nostalgia but it's way more positive and can be used as an interjection. Or 我慢する. In fact, I'd say there's a huge array of words that really just don't translate well on their own and yet are often spoken as stand alone sentences.

Meaning just isn't chopped up along the same word boundaries in different languages.
RSS and custom sources is something we need to work on - will see what best we can do here. Thanks for the feedback :)
Third-ed. Contrast way too low. Why not use #000000 for the background color? Everything just looks washed out as it stands and almost has the effect of making everything look disabled.

How about something closer to this? http://i.imgur.com/qQr0xId.png
Being a "hybrid FP/OOP" language is like taking a pure soup and allowing anyone to put a little bit of fecal matter in it and still thinking the product is "A-OK." ;)

Opinion aside, it's still true that some classes of algorithms are still too slow in FP and benefit from procedural mutation of state. But those should be managed very carefully as they destroy concurrency. I linked it elsewhere here but I think John Carmack's comments on this are quite lucid, and he is merely talking about using a functional style within OO languages: http://gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functional_pro...

The thing is, 16-core CPU's are coming out soon, and we still have 99% of software that cannot take advantage of that well, at least within a single process.

One clarification

> Erlang - Message passing as envisioned by Smalltalk

Smalltalk, despite being called an "OO" language, did not come up with the gigantic class inheritance chains which have been attributed to OO.
Oh, oh, I know this one! Tiny, hard rocks?
> No real intrinsic value.

Not necessarily true. Gold is an excellent conductor of electricity and resists oxidation. Diamonds are good at cutting stone and concrete.
So, let's rewind to a world of significantly more socially conservative attitudes to sex, partly driven by patriarchy, but also very much driven by the absence of easy-to-access, reliable contraception.

Two young love-birds are getting frisky, guy says "don't worry, I'll marry you", they get down to business, and then he bails. Poor young girl is now damaged goods. She's plausibly even pregnant, but even if she's not, her marriage prospects are down. She can sue the guy for breach of marriage promise.

Then the law changes, breaching a marriage promise is no longer something you can sue for. In the same situation, the guy's promise to marry the girl no longer hold the same weight because she can't sue -- so they come up with a bond instead: An expensive gift that is forfeited if the guy doesn't keep up his promise to marry.
Highest end Android phones have usually better hardware than iPhones, and also they have their prices bloated just to look "luxury" like the iPhone.
Scalia, the Role of the Judiciary and the Sorry State of Our Public Dialogue
Why not an (ex)-council house?

Or do you really mean not a council house, in which case the question is "what letting agents are advertising current council houses?"
It usually manifests as a person who will pay more up front for something with a lower total cost of ownership.

For example, Person A buys a new phone for $500 every 2 years. Person B buys a new phone for $525, and spends only $75 to replace the battery for a 3rd year. After 6 years, Person A spent $1500, and Person B spent $1200. Person B preferred to buy a phone that was more expensive up front, but cheaper to repair later.

But the other side of the equation is that the company selling to Person A makes more money by diminishing repairability. Person B is furious that Person A even exists, because the producers would always prefer to sell to the person willing to pay a higher price.
It's nothing like duck typing -- type classes are a major thing in Haskell, which should tell you how far from duck typing it is ;) They're also present in Scala (as the OP mentioned), in Rust as Traits, and C++11 had a proposal for Concepts, which are quite similar as well.

The short but slightly inaccurate description is that type classes are a way to allow interfaces to be implemented separately from the way you define types.
"Andy Aaron, an IBM Research researcher, said mispronunciation was the “biggest problem” in preparing Watson for “Jeopardy!”"

Ironically I'd say that mispronunciation is probably a trait that would make it seem more human.
That's why the newspaper should not be charging directly. There needs to be a network that they all take part in. The big guys will get most of the money as they should, but the little guys will be able to get a piece as well.

The ID thing is not difficult and keeping it anonymous is also pretty easy, but I don't think anonymity should be required. It should be an option.
Mondo has an API at least, so you can still use Mondo with a 3rd party app :)
Trial Illuminates Porsches’ Rise to Power at Volkswagen
Several sources (including Adobe's own blog post on the issue [1]) suggest that the problem is in the update code, but the Backblaze guys say (and show, in videos) pretty clearly that the deletion recurs every time the user signs into the Adobe Creative Cloud account. Is this actually some DRM bullshit?

[1] https://blogs.adobe.com/adobecare/2016/02/12/creative-cloud-...
Tumblr is what you want to see. For me you is porn, for my girlfriend was mostly Benedict Cumberbatch and Harry Potter gifs.
I think the increased supply is partly a matter of Iraq's recovery, the lifting of sanctions on Iran, and perhaps also the rapid increase of US production since 2011 (partly due to fracking?) These producers want revenue more than they want a high price.
As a commercial pilot that has been hit a number of times by lasers, I find the report over the top. At the speed and distance the airplane is when hit (180 kts, 2000' high when 6 miles from the airport), you see they are trying to laser you, but is extremely difficult to fix the beam on you for more than some ms. At that distance the laser is quite wide too, and the cristal provides some protection. Also the beam comes from your side, and usually you don't look directly that way, so it's hard yo get a direct retine hit.
I don't know what type of injury did the pilot suffer but all the cases that I know the laser was just anoying and a distraction.
It must be prosecuted, but banning all lasers is stupid in my opinion.
Can we make sense of the Malheur mess?
On it :) Contrast has got max feedback - thanks for helping out
Doesn't really encourage them - if anything it gives them an excuse to never take down out-of-date listings if users are doing it for them (eventually).
An Interview with Durandal's Rob Eisenberg
Containing the plasma isn't really the problem, it's containing the heat. Because of the way turbulence works, you can pump as much energy into the plasma as you want, and all you'll get is more energy leaving the system instead of heating it up.
And how much you say you did pay just for agitating Android users?
Cheap gas means cheap transport, means cheap energy, means cheap manufacturing. It is good for the economy. The thing is, it takes adjustment and stability for these benefits to work out. And also, too much of our economy is tied over speculation on oil related goods.

If the oil prices stay low (which is totally unsure) then it will be beneficial over the course of a few year, but right now the economy is adjusting.
Cool, this is something I had on my project backlog.
Actually, they had to monitor the same type of gas meter I have in my basement (and they are produced in my neighborhood).

Currently, it seems I just have to lurk around on HN long enough until someone posts a solution for a thing I was thinking about.
A Digital Decade: Sex
Except that all four of these people were brought into the country as young children. Were you in control of your life when you were five?
Stock prices are always inversely correlated to fear.
Some people enjoy sports cars the way you enjoy a family vacation.
But both Java and Kotlin interfaces can provide default implementations. So when I say "make a class implement an interface even if it doesn't declare it as so", that included interface default methods coming along for the ride.

The best explanation of Scala type classes IMO is here:

http://danielwestheide.com/blog/2013/02/06/the-neophytes-guide-to-scala-part-12-type-classes.html

But as you say, what Scala calls type classes are more of a pattern with some language support - you just define what is essentially an adapter, but one which is constructed/used implicitly.

Being able to write:

interface Foo {
val prop: String
fun someMethod() = "we are set to $prop"
}

and then being able to treat any Bar as Foo as long as it has some property "prop" but without regard for whether it has someMethod, sounds pretty much the same thing as Haskell/Scala's idea of type classes to me.
Yes, except for calls to virtual functions, which actually become

(&x)->vtbl[N](&x, y)
Hackevents – All Hackathons in One Place
Project Estimation Checklist
Nanny State UK
4USXUS Is Your One-Stop Shop for Keeping Up with Your Congressional Reps
The dude in the video editing 3 Go files on the same screen with Atom :P
I wish I was brave enough to do that.
well with news aggregators I still lean towards a micro transaction system. you got to rise to the top to be noticed and that may mean covering areas of the news many consider beneath the paper in question.
Marvel 2.0
What is the concrete difference between you and an estate agent or aggregation site?
Show HN: Post better annotation of embeded YouTube videos
Stone Brewing just says no to 'Big Beer'
Gearogs: on a mission to be largest database of audio equipment on the planet
In general, even, "And also, too much of our economy is tied over speculation."
And wait until they learn of the universal medical care, the parental leave, the unemployment benefits which are the rule, not in Germany, but in the European Union.

Compared to the US, Europe is a social paradise. Of course, in reality it's far from perfect and there are forces dismantling or wanting to dismantle this system in about every European country. These days Syrian refugees are the perfect scapegoats.
That is only one side of the equation.

Due to rapid technological advances in shale oil extraction (ie fracking), North American companies have radically changed the daily global supply of oil, which of course puts downward price pressure on it.

Much of the recent price drop can be defined in terms of Saudi's getting into a price war with these NA companies, trying to push them off the market.

Not only that, but this technology is a long-term game changer, ie it will be only a matter of time before all the world oil players (Russia, Venezuela, etc) co-opt this tech and start extracting much cheaper oil from their fields, which of course the markets are anticipating as well.
If only people were as concerned about the BLM as they are about the NSA. . .
When reading about the markets and in general, finance stuff (which I do and enjoy actually), there are times that I feel as if we have just entangled ourselves in the most epic, largest and most complex system of epicycles on epicycles that we have ever seen.

I know this is very simplistic, and in the end there is probably some reason below all of this... but sometimes, it just doesn't look like it.
Nice write up. I wish they wouldn't use light grey text, however. Form over function?

Preventative steps: https://backblaze.zendesk.com/entries/98786348--bzvol-is-mis...
Using Native Libraries in NativeScript
> p7zip is not anyone's first guess the first time they see a .7z file

I know, googling "7zip OS X" and seeing that the first link ends up directing you to p7zip, is incredibly hard.

> You really should have a reason to push something like 7zip

How about, it has the best compression available from an open-source compressor. RAR is not open-source.
You might want to double-check with some leftists on that. There is very clearly a large contingent who considers it evil.
Are the Saudis hoping they can limit the benefit (to Iran) of the opening of Iran's markets enough to tip the scales the next time there's a decision to be made about either defying the West or keeping markets open, such that they become isolated again? All that I've read about their recent moves claims that they're doing it to counter Iran, but that doesn't seem like it'll work long-term unless they expect Iran to be out of the game again fairly soon. Otherwise they're just wasting money for a delaying tactic.
It's not just a default, you can provide an adapter specific to the type:

implicit object IntMonoid extends Monoid[Int] {
def zero = 0
def plus(a: Int, b: Int) = a + b
}
implicit def endoMonoid[A] = new Monoid[A => A] {
def zero = identity
def plus(a: A => A, b: A => A) = a andThen b
}

You can't do that with a default method.
Llvm-m6502: Experimental LLVM back end for MOS 6502 family processors
Alan S Blinder recently pointed out that cheap oil is mostly good for the economy (except in North Dakota and Iran). He also pointed out that markets can stay irrational for a long time.

I don't think oil is the cause of the market drop: stocks had been overbought for a while (if you look at historic P/E ratios), so it is natural for it to return to normal.

Also, the increasing interest rate is going to put downward pressure on the stock market, even if the economy does well. Right now that is what I consider to be the main cause of the drop. What I mean is:

In the market, there are day-traders, and long-term traders. The day traders are mostly responsible for the day-to-day gyrations of the market, and they've been looking at the price of oil as something to follow. Underneath that, though, the long-term traders have been removing money from the market (leaving it in cash, or switching to bonds), so even after the day traders get done, there is still a net negative.

Of course, that's a simplification for explanation purposes because I don't want to write a book here.
Too many people have peed in the pool
So is there no way to treat the windshield to deflect the laser light? If not then pushing towards fully autonomous landings and takeoffs is a better solution to trying to ban something you could never realistically ban. Either that or create detection systems if possible that can direct authorities
Show HN: An escrow project we have been working on to support freelancers
I think the answer is "with great difficulty". When you're developing something like this, you might have an issue with:

- Experiment

- Model

- Approximation to the model

- Numerics

- Code

(- Compiler & hardware)

So, your answer might not match experiment. Maybe the experiment is wrong. Maybe it's an expected effect due to an approximation you used. Maybe your integration grid isn't sufficiently converged. You just have to systematically eliminate these, often by comparing to more expensive but verified simulations, or analytic solutions on simplified models.
The way the ffmpeg maintainer behaved – as malevolent dictator – in contrast to the more open development approach of libav, is a pretty big issue, don’t you think?
On his death bed, Werner Heisenberg is reported to have said, "When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he will have an answer for the first."
PS: Co-founder at BookFusion

BookFusion can be used instead of Calibre to not only manage and organize your eBook library but also to:

1. Read ePub, PDF and other major format ebooks
2. Send your eBooks to your kindle device if you have one
3. Easily share your eBooks with friends and family the way you would a physical book.

Web: https://bookfusion.com/
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bookfusion...
IOS: Coming in 2016

I would be happy if you would take the platform for a spin and send me your feedback at dc@bookfusion.com

We have lots of updates for 2016
What's the gain? If you turn your recursive algorithm into an iterative one with a stack, you are sill subject to all the same problems.

They probably don't use trees and quicksort at all.
How I realized the incredible impact great bosses have
Real Estate and Divorce Advice in One. Bad Marketing?
consider this simple proof:

price is a function of supply and demand.

oil prices are low because demand for oil is low

oil is an input into nearly every aspect of the economy

thus low demand for oil could imply low demand for goods for which oil is an input (it could also reveal some kind of major efficiency improvement or the presence of some substitute for oil (or an increase in the supply of oil).
> I'd like to ask you again to stop implying otherwise.

I don't see where I made that insinuation. I also don't see where you made that strong stand... so it doesn't really matter.

Please stop asking people to stop things - it's petty and annoying. Make your case clear, and knock off the half-speak.
Ask HN: Why do dev communities still use mailing lists?
Just wondering, as I see this all the time.
Mattel Unveils ThingMaker, a $300 3D Printer That Lets Kids Make Their Own Toys
It really does look a lot like Taboola.

Here's their click-bait trash (I have no other words for it, it's not even good advertising): https://s3.amazonaws.com/external_clips/attachments/43217/or...

And now compare to the Indy homepage... for a paper which has historically been pro civil liberties and not afraid of going against journalistic norms, this is a real pity.
>But these are indeed success stories. That's two well known takeovers. But for every Instagram there are 5 Tumblrs.

Can't disagree with this was more aiming to disprove your hyperbole, so opting to not engage in the more implicit general discussion of "are takeovers ever worth it beyond minting management and professional services?", I am refining the scope of the discussion to takeovers involving high-profile companies:

Perhaps the perceived prevalence of failures for a given takeover is a by-product of the winner-takes-all dynamics of internet businesses which is becoming more apparent:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/12/ratio-tech...

In this particular case, Yahoo failed to find its core winning competency and is (slowly!) falling into obscurity and Tumblr was one casualty of its many attempts to stem its decline.
This is a fairly common programming mistake to make, nothing to do with Adobe being invasive. I remember when eve online's updater deleted C:\boot.ini in 2007 for example:

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/about-the-boot...

That said I completely agree Adobe's software is disgustingly invasive, just not for this particular reason.
> How is gold superior to diamonds really? Both are stores of value, but their value based only on others' willingness to trade for them.

Because gold is (relatively) easy to sell but "Selling individual diamonds at a profit, even those held over long periods of time, can be surprisingly difficult"[1]

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/82feb/8202diamond2.ht...
How I stopped killing myself and finally started delegating
There is no "objectively best", only "that which is best suited to the problem at hand".
>Movebubble, the startup that wants to make renting in London suck a little less, has picked up $1.6 million in further funding, bringing total investment to just over $3.4 million.

>Meanwhile, it’s not currently possible to actually rent a property through the Movebubble app

So I guess the MVP didn't include actually helping people rent a place and getting their perspective on the entire process in a "real world" sense before raising $3.5m?

Disclosure: I work for jumpshell (https://www.jumpshell.com/), where we are launched in Boston and Chicago and people can actually complete the rental process through the platform as well getting your feedback about the entire process so we can better align the incentives of the different market participants.
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job has a ton of useful links. job boards and companies that hire remotely included
Great start. Need more sources to choose from.
I would've willfully and knowingly violated the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, if I'd lived in the 1800s US.

I would have helped slaves escape from slave states into free states, and would have harbored them in my home (and whatever property I owned) in total defiance and violation of the law. And I would've been willing to go to jail for it.
This is a Pilots Association saying they should be banned, not the government banning them.
Show HN: WifiMask – Public Wi-Fi security for everybody (on OS X)
I have to comment on touch ID: Biometrics are in no way an authoritative option for the simple fact that they cannot be replaced. You can identify the user with it, sure. But you should never use them to authorize anything because if stolen or compromised, the user cannot change it. While you might say the scanner + data storage is secure, this is just temporal and can change over time. As revocation of the biometrics is identical to revoking the user, this is to be avoided for authorizing transactions.

You can, however, identify the user with something like biometrics, and afterwards request an authorization of the transaction with something else (possession of key (good), +pin (better), or easiest a simple 'yes'(less than good)).
Yes there are many areas where Hillary will be a horrible compromise.

However you need to lookup what "conservative" means if you feel a republican president is going to allow more liberties.

Trump isn't just financially conservative (at least for everyone else, not for himself) he is very socially conservative in his most current reality show (aka running for president). Ironically a decade ago he was fairly socially liberal.
I'm amazed by the number of people that declare the shared mutable state of the current languages as their bottleneck. You'd think everybody is suddenly working with realtime stream analysis on huge datasets and are battling millions of concurrent users these days.

My thinking is that if you are so popular you can afford maybe to start 20 more 5$ instances. And really I find it hard to think of problems that cannot be solved with 20 x 5$ DO VMs at least in Java.
Better understanding does bring you closer to making something tangible happen.

The heliocentric theory was a breakthrough for a variety of technologies. We certainly would have found going into space much more difficult if we still followed the geocentric theory.
Nothing is wrong with that, but in a situation where one malevolent dictator acted against the will of every single other member of the development team, and forced them to fork, it’s hard to argue that his version is the moral one.
Cheap oil means countries such as Saudi Arabia must sell stocks in order to finance their expenses. Together, state owned oil funds own a single-digit percentage of all publicly listed stocks.
Seems the butthurt/£ ratio with Apple devices actually represents really good value for money.
And some people enjoy their shiny diamond engagement ring the way you enjoy your sports car.
Lifetime values, customer segmentation, lead scoring, customer life cycles, customer attrition and also quite a bit of reporting. Some text analysis. I use R because it offers superb speed of development, extensive documentation, commercial support and many partner opportunities with the likes of Oracle, Microsoft, Alteryx, Tableau, Tibco and pretty much every analytics vendor. In my experience, R's slowness has been greatly exaggerated.