skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal, but I've used Simple for almost two years and while the mobile app really is great, the biggest benefit I've gotten out of it is the "Goals" feature. Surely there are other budgeting systems out there that do the same thing (be they software like YNAB or just being better with money in general), in my case having it all integrated with my bank really changed my spending habits and as a result I've paid off all of my revolving credit card debt and I am now a much more responsible spender.
it was a round about way to resolve the issue that google wallet/android pay wasn't accepted at many places. The solution is about as dumb as it sounds. I liked it because it was a really quick and easy debit card essentially. So I would use it at places I didn't trust since I could limit the amount on the card.
With the title "Cold Email Opening Lines," I was half-expecting things like "I don't care if you live or die," or "Millennia from now, when the sun engulfs the earth, nothing we do now will have mattered. Buy my service."
I still find it odd that we can receive carbon copies of time cards and receipts for ATM visits (..on thermal paper which decays rapidly), yet when it comes to voting for our state elections we have no record of our vote and everything is handed off to 3rd parties with seemingly no provable accountability or transparency.

"It's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes."
Because it takes ~2 years to wrap the EP uncore around a new core and validate the whole thing. Expect Skylake-EP around a year from now.
It think it's that you can't release GPLed code, even LGPLed code, through the iOS App Store, per Apple's Terms of Use.
The article says that "in New Delhi, the national capital, there also is a separate helpline dedicated to deal with crimes against women, one to report missing children and another police line that is an exclusive response center for senior citizens".

This reminded me of the extremely large number of emergency numbers in Brazil:

100	Secretaria dos Direitos Humanos
128	Serviços de Emergência no âmbito do Mercosul
180	Delegacias Especializadas de Atendimento à Mulher
181	Disque Denúncia
190	Polícia Militar
191	Polícia Rodoviária Federal
192	Serviço Público de Remoção de Doentes (ambulância)
193	Corpo de Bombeiros
194	Polícia Federal
197	Polícia Civil
198	Polícia Rodoviária Estadual
199	Defesa Civil

(Note that Brazil also has at least 29 other free call numbers for various public and telephone company services, in addition to the ones listed above.)

This is five different police forces that you can call, plus a separate crime-reporting line, among other things. It's hard for me to imagine that users make very optimal choices among them in emergency situations.

On the other hand, I feel a lack of a standardized way in the U.S. to call the police for non-emergency matters. You're supposed to look up the local police department's non-emergency line in the phone book or on the local government web site.
You didn't think of Mars candy? I was wondering who the hell Whistle was, though, and what they could do for candy.
https://twitter.com/pmrondon/status/648251230804946944
That's something they're working on with CastAR. They're developing an attachment which clips onto the front of the glasses.

http://www.castar.com
Lets encrypt fixes the encryption problem sure but does anyone else feel that all we really needed was really great documentation on what to do instead of an intrusive set of scripts?
I'm sorry, but pure single core performance ended circa 2007. This is the end of the road.

It is shameful that in 2016 we still don't have, say, parallel rendering in browsers. All hope is for Servo.
Nice. The doc at https://bitfusionio.readme.io/docs/bitfusion-boost is a bit misleading with the possible configurations. Maybe add one configuration with multiple Boost Clients(CPU) and many Boost Servers(GPU)
If you are referring to indices on expressions, MemSQL definitely supports them. In MemSQL you do it by creating a computed column (http://docs.memsql.com/v5.0/docs/persistent-computed-columns) and creating an index over one of those. Computed columns turn out to give you a significant perf boost since you only have to run the expression once (at INSERT time), and never while executing a SELECT query or seeking in the index.
Do you ever get problems with the socket still being in use after nginx is shut down?
I've been using Visual Studio for more than 10 years, it never required a login to work or sent any information to Microsoft without a clear permission.

Having said that, if you really feel that Visual Studio is disrespectful of your privacy, you shouldn't be compromising on that and simply not use the application. I don't understand people who whine about services while they are enjoying them for free.

It's always the same people you never hear complaining about having to create an Apple account to use their developer tools.
Yes! That definitely reinforces my understanding. So Rust is more like C and less like C++ in that it is pass-by-value everywhere, with the exception that references are not pointers but _real_ references.

Does this make things like "const int * const x" (in C syntax) pointless in Rust?

Does that mean that in Rust I can only pass to a function an immutable reference to a mutable object, but not a mutable reference to an immutable object?

Also, out of curiosity, how would something like a recv() call into the middle of an array (buffer) look like in rust? Something like "recv(sock_fd, buf + 5 * sizeof(char), buf_len - 5 * sizeof(char), 0)"?
Fantastic news that they have been released. Means I can get official quotes for them now!
It's extremely annoying, but usually the attacker will switch to another domain after a few hours or days.
The mail notifications can be delayed by a few days, depending on the individual mail server's settings, so you should see a slowdown of the incoming bounce messages after a while before it will stop eventually.
It didn't really feel impossible, did it? With today's technology, typing over chocolate bars seems natural ;)
Ah. I think the original commenter was referring to the lawsuits, not to SCO's business model when it actually had products and services.
That is a common argument on why copyright should not exist. Every time someone do something nice and want to share their favorite song or movie to me, I am told by society that they are doing something wrong and I have a legal obligation to decline. Its crazy, basic human decency should be freely given and freely received with no legal limitations. The courts should not be involved.
I just reached 501 karma and I can't see any download button. The threshold must have been raised again.

Edit: I am starting to see them now, but only on some posts. I suspect there is some kind caching. In any case the threshold is definitely still 501.
I don't buy that sitting through 30 minutes of online training will be enough to deter partisan judges. How else does this platform seek to encourage civil, reasoned political debate?
A related search I like is "why does this work": https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22why+does+this+...
Ask HN: Responding to a “blank canvas” job offer?
I'm a freelance developer, reasonably successful on the business side (6-figure annual net revenue, varied and interesting projects).

An enterprise client of mine that I really enjoy working with (on a contract basis) has tried to hire me as a full-time employee on more than one occasion, and I've gently, gratefully said no, as I value my independence, and generally want to continue in the entrepreneurial vein (for example, growing my consulting business by hiring employees).

They've asked me again, and basically asked me to set my own terms, including:

- scheduling flexibility (work for them only part of the week/month/year)

- contractual freedom to continue running my business when not working for them

- salary & benefits

Given that I'm already doing lots of contract work for them, I'm considering the options here while obviously trying to balance them against opportunity costs.

Salary aside, what would you ask for in this situation?
+1

And as I mentioned earlier if it's not voluntary there is no enforceable contract between the two parties.
Might does not make right. You can pass all the laws you wish to state otherwise but it doesnt change the facts.
While some (if not most) of the practices sound laughable or downright (Nigerian-scam-ish) fraudulent by Silicon Valley standards, they are brutally effective at siphoning revenue from the huge rise of technically-illiterate new smartphone users in Mainland China, especially in the economically under-developed regions. (think Soviet-esque industrial towns, coal mines, etc.)

Another interesting practice covered by this article is the practice of not only blatantly copying features, but also deliberately naming them as synonyms (in the colloquial Chinese sense) to the original. In my experience most people never tell a difference. I would imagine such practice getting sued and/or bashed to death were it implemented in SV...
Alright cool, I'll resubmit it as a Show HN post.
The article you posted seems to be a summary of the findings (as well as a poorly-concealed advert for a book) and doesn't mention any methodological flaws. Am I missing something?
I just used your service for the first time in Austin. I"m excited to see how it goes. The experience that I had through the online ordering portal my first time was near perfect. Wait time for delivery is acceptable too - although faster is always better.

This is a really tough industry to solve - particularly at the scale you are trying to solve it at - and managing growth concerns and the right markets to be in at the right time is really hard. Good job right now!
Show HN: Trendr
Hello,
My team and I would like to showcase an application we made as part of a 3 and a half week project. We're very eager to see what people think of our app so we decided to share it here on HN! Our vision for this app was to empower people within the finance industry by allowing them to visualize correlations between finance sectors and keywords that are trending on Google.

http://trendr.xyz

Please keep in mind that this is an academic proof of concept. There are several issues regarding Google rate limiting our application since there's no real API for Google Trends; it's entirely possible 'new' keywords that are not stored in our graph database will fail to load because the initial data we need from Google won't load.
Siberian unicorns existed at same time as humans, new fossils confirm
> Propaganda is not a tidal wave that comes crashing down on established opinions, it is a steady stream that eats at solid rock until it creates a deep gorge you could not have imagined structured in any other way.

Yes. However, they swing things in a single election cycle for marginal supporters of a candidate [which are the folks that really control the outcome in the US. The majority of the states are consistent.].

http://www.luc.edu/quinlan/stories/archive/why-attack-ads-wo...

> Roughly 14 percent of the students said the attack on their candidate made them support him even more, the researchers found. But an equal percentage of students said the advertisement weakened their support and caused them to move closer to the opponent—the one who ran the negative ad.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergan...

> •Just giving medical students pens with a drug's name on them made the students significantly more favorably disposed toward the medication than otherwise, despite their immersion in classes aimed at letting them rationally evaluate drug benefits, found a 2009 Archives of Internal Medicinereport.

> •Remember shaking hands with Bugs Bunny at Disneyland? Roughly a third of people presented with a fake ad depicting a visit to Disneyland that featured a handshake with Bugs later remembered or knew the meet up with the 'wascally wabbit' had happened to them, according to a 2001 University of Washington study. Even though Bugs is owned by Warner Brothers and verboten at a Disney facility, so it couldn't have happened.
I use Android Pay whenever I can -- it's near instant whereas the new chip cards take a comparably long time.
Why don't you learn C# and then come back and see if you feel the same way. It's a MUCH better language and environment than Java.
Wait a second, you got to announce it first before you can it. Chronological order has to prevail, else no rollback is possible.

Whatever it was they canned.
> The problem, as with most conspiracy theories, is the number of people that need to cooperate and stay silent, and the number of independent safeguards that already exist.

It didn't seem like a problem for Diebold. The 2000 general election had a lot of awfully-convenient-for-Republicans scandals with their voting machines in place.
Isn't this exactly what functional programming people have been harping on about for decades now?
What I meant to say is that all companies try to follow where the market is.
Microsoft isn't doing that just because they are losing their leadership in the market (which the OP claimed).
The Phenomenon of Mixed Naming Styles
Ever seen "thePlague of_mixed namingstyles WhereNoOne Seems_To_Agree on-what-to-use orWorse-they_start_mixingstyles"? Package repositories, command names, function names...it’s everywhere.

It’s hard to remember both the what and how of a name. Text-completion tools help for code but not package repositories and command-line arguments.

In systems I know where naming chaos ensued, there was initially consistency: one obvious, predictable style. Yet, as if to follow Broken Windows Theory, it only seemed to take one or two people introducing “whatever style they felt like” for everything else to break down.

Do people not notice when a pattern has formed? Do they not care? Do they not check first, and later decide they don’t feel like renaming?

A sign of professionalism is maintaining consistency within a unit. For instance, never have a Unix command like "cmd_abc -optOne -opt_two -optthree" (I mean, really, three styles in one command!?).

There are reasons to mix styles, if done so consistently. For instance: in header file "xyz.h", maybe every function is prefixed "xyz_", e.g. xyz_funcA() and xyz_funcB(). While this technically mixes two styles, it is predictable; and arguably, two styles make it easier to identify the prefix (compare: for "xyz_abc_def", is the prefix "xyz" or "xyz_abc"?).

Maybe you are joining namespaces, like C++ bindings for scripting. If C++ uses functionsLikeThis() and it implements TCL commands like "my_tcl_command", it helps to let the string "my_tcl_command" appear unmolested in C++ code instead of being transformed; if one can bend style rules to use someImplFunc_my_tcl_command(), that is superior to forcing someImplFuncMyTclCommand().

Interfaces and package repositories should be consistent. Languages cannot be, because there are good reasons to diverge. My hope is that developers twist names only when that is helpful, and stop arbitrary changes that ruin predictability.
What I've found lately is that almost all the docs and examples for the various "hybrid" mobile platforms are out-of-date or flat-out don't work.

My guess it's just that things are moving so damn fast in that space that it's impossible to keep up with the churn.
iOS 9.3.1: unresponsive after tapping on links fixed
It would be great if they at least open sourced failed experiments.
Were you there at GSAP(P) at the time?
I really liked this post. It reminds me of a similar post by James Hague[0]

A number of people seem to be hung up on what is meant by FP advocates saying "order doesn't matter". In all the literature I have read when I first learned about FP it seemed pretty clear to me that it meant "function composition is associative", not "function composition is commutative".

But whether this is obvious is beside the point. The hypothetical confused programmer is merely a rhetorical device to set the reader up to think more deeply about how they handle state. FP teaches us to push state changes to the boundaries of the system. OK, once it is there, now what do we do with it?

We handle it declaratively[1]. That's what treating the updates as data allows.

[0]http://prog21.dadgum.com/189.html
[1]https://awelonblue.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/defining-declara...
I sure hope so! I love .net, but we won't use Mono for political reasons (which are now complicated because of Microsoft's acquisitions.) But until De Icaza is no longer involved, we will not use it.
> Hacking voting machines to a significant extent would require a team of people, not just one guy, which dramatically increases the risk of exposure

As someone else points out, you don't need to hack the whole country, just some key locations. Also, you could hack the source; many firewalls from a major vendor had (have?) security holes because someone checked the necessary code into their revision control system. How secure is Diebold or whoever makes the machines?

> The reported vote count is usually very close to the predicted vote count

Suprise results, where the outcome doesn't match the polls, are not that rare. Recently Sanders' win in Michigan is an example. In the UK, in the last parliamentary election, I believe the conservatives did much better than polls predicted.

> always very close to exit polling results

If true, this is a useful check.

> hacking could not be used to create a very close result that could trigger a recount, or it would need to be combined with actual ballot theft

That assumes there are ballots to steal; many voting machines are electronic.
Am I the only one who hears about like 75% of Google's products for the first time only when they issue EOL/EOS notices?
Your entitled demands aside, it is not "known" that Apple secretly helped the FBI crack one of their phones despite claiming to resist the FBI publicly.
Simple has been fantastic for me the past two years or so; give them a shot.
I believe Google Wallet works with any credit card because the payments go through Google, and then Google bills your card.

NFC tokenized payments (e.g., Apple Pay and Android Pay) use an alternative credit card number issued by the bank. Payments do not go through Google or Apple, and only the bank knows that this alternate number is associated with your credit card account.
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
I'm afraid I'll be lurking for some time as I'm in the process of (soft) launching a product. But I like the pure java approach. While serverless is much more mature (obviously, duh!) it is however Node centric (which is great if you are in the Node universe).

Also maybe consider adding a Gitter channel.
Ignore Fidelity's Dropbox and Snapchat Valuations
One of those announcements that makes me stop everything and reminisce... This is simply incredible! I could actually run 100 production Windows servers on this with my Data-center license... the ROI is insane... thank you Intel!
This looks like it's focused on the UK, anything tailored for the US? HR is fairly regimented here and I want to ensure the free HR system will not land me in court.
I really don't want twitter/instagram/youtube to move in this direction, but I do think that your plan would work pretty dang well. :-(

Wanna start a badge company? /notsureifsarcasm
We used to have pensions. Some government jobs still have them.

They went away along with the idea that working at a company for 20-35 years was a thing that people were likely to do.

Part of the recent liberal reforms of the Obama era is the SIMPLE 401(k) plan, a method for many small businesses to offer a retirement account.

It includes:

A matching contribution up to 3% of each employee’s pay, or
a non-elective contribution of 2% of each eligible employee’s pay.

No other contributions can be made. The employees are totally vested in any and all contributions.

If you establish a SIMPLE 401(k) plan, you:

Must have 100 or fewer employers.

Cannot have any other retirement plans.

Need to annually file a Form 5500.
Interestingly enough American pets are more overweight/obese on average than their Human masters with more than 50% of cats and dogs being overweight or obese [1]. People care deeply about their pets and consider them to be part of their family. This is why people will spend thousands of dollars on vet bills and why pet insurance exists. If you can get people to care as much about their pets health as their own, which is already true, this could be a great investment. The problem is raising awareness that most pets are overweight and that they need to eat healthy and exercise just as much as people do. Mars just has to lead a pet health awareness campaign and then sales will take off.

[1] http://www.petobesityprevention.org/2012-national-pet-obesit...
Agreed. But again I say produce a victim or there is no crime.
What individual is the victim in civil forfeiture? No one but the owner of the property in question. That individual is the one harmed by the state. And should have redress for the states theft of his/her property. CF my $50,000 in gold bars? I'll sue for the return of my property AND ten million in damages. No cap in damages. Make the state bleed. CF is a crime.
Thanks for the informative post. I know you didn't make it to advertise, but do you mind sharing your product name/info? It might be interesting to people following the discussion who have a similar situation or concern.
As suspected by hisham_hm, I'm paid to code in Scala.

At my previous job I tried to introduce some functional languages without much success. The stack was C++/Java and a lot of Python. I learned Scala because it runs on the JVM and I thought that may help.

Later I moved to another city and when looking at job offers I saw a few Scala offers (and no Ocaml in sight) so I settled on Scala.

IMHO Scala gained traction because it runs on the JVM. It's easier to train Java devs because you can start by writing Java-in-Scala and incorporate specific features as you go. The web ecosystem is nice (at work we're using Play.) There's also a few killer apps, like Spark.

I'm currently trying to become as proficient in Ocaml as I am with Scala, but I'm already working with Scala 8+ hours a day so it's not that easy.
What you won't learn in stats classes
Really? What difference does that make?

Oh it's ok for a totally crooked cop to charge me with a completely bogus felony, cost me 100's if not 1000's of dollars, and destroy my job because I had proir weed and MDMA charges from a decade earlier?

Well ok I guess if that's how you feel about things.
Those tools are very nice, thanks for putting them together.
> This hardly classifies as a joke.

Given that it was built for humor and amusement, and that you can view stuff like the Washington Monument like a dick joke, I disagree.
#3 must be the most underrated software feature ever. Too bad that it is at odds with the model of making money by selling new software revisions. Maybe the slow move to paid subscriptions will spare us the hassle of re-learning UIs for no good reason when we are old and grey :)

(How much would i pay for a carefully maintained subscription of Office 97? Well, not that much, but that is more than i paid for office software since)