skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scala has jokingly been called Hascalator [1], but not everyone who is "ready" to make the leap to Haskell can actually do it (existing work tied to JVM, dependencies on JVM libraries, etc.) or wants to do it (better ability to reason about resource usage, familiarity with tooling, etc.).

[1] https://twitter.com/yakticus/status/577663763991564288
Virtual memory should be handled by the operating system not re-implemented by each application.
Well, to be honest both of them are quite good at promoting themselves. Just in different circles...
What are the new features old packages don't have access to?
Idempotency Patterns (2010)
They may have had wildly different beliefs about their relationship, and there may be some critical details left out.

Imagine the case where you haven't met the neighbor before, you notice them before they knock and they look like they've been hanging around there, and it's really hard to figure out what they're trying to communicate.

Someone hearing about this might reasonably report it as "wow, calling the cops on a neighbor asking for a ladder", while you might see it as "weirdo I've never seen, who looked to be casing my place, and stammered out some BS excuse about wanting a ladder when I confronted him."
For that I often use:

netstat --ip -a -p

Those particular options mean to show just IP ports (UDP/TCP), in all statuses (active, listening) and to display the local process which is involved.
Are you by any chance leaving Google Docs pages open for a long time? Safari runs great on my machine, with windows and tabs open for weeks at a time, and the only problem I ever have is with Google Docs, because Google Docs is a gigantic memory hog. If I leave a Google Docs page open for a day, it usually ends up consuming several gigabytes of memory all on its own. For a company whose focus is the web, I don't know why Google can't get their memory usage under control.

(Caveat: I haven't actually tried leaving a Docs page open for a day in a while. I stopped doing that when I discovered how badly it behaved. It's possible Google's fixed it, though I doubt it)
2008 MacPro 2 x 2.8Ghz Quad-Core Xeon , 28GB RAM, drives are SSD.

Just keep tabs open, they eventually start chewing up hundreds and hundreds of MB of ram each, and slowly grinds itself into the ground. Relaunch, it's snappy again.
Sounds like a phrase that's blowing up.
I must admit, every time I saw the phrase "close-knit communities" in that article I thought "curtain-twitching suburban Nazis". The problem the article was actually about suggests they'll be on an uphill battle with this one.
That's not how substantial presence test works exactly. SPT only counts time spent on a qualifying visa type (TN, O1, H1B, L1, etc) and not time spent on F/J/M/Q/A/G, which is I think what OP was alluding to. It's also not >180 days, it's if:

QualifyingDaysThisYear > 31 AND

QualifyingDaysThisYear + 1/3(LastYear) + 1/6(YearBefore) > 183

For further information:
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/subs...
Negative on Google Docs.
​Smart Electrial Sockets Could Be the Next Botnet
Give it a try, see if you like it. I'd suggest a variety streamer first. The main thing for me, is that it's entertainment, not really the game itself.

Visualise this: Imagine your favourite comedian cracking jokes, now imagine him cracking jokes while playing a video game. Now imagine a chat of thousands joining in and interacting with your favourite comedian. Now imagine yourself talking to and cracking jokes with them. This is, in essence what many popular streams are.
> Because corporations know that, says Prof. Heemskerk, coziness and complacency may arise. “If you have only long-term investors, how do you keep management on their toes?”

We've a ways to go before the pendulum has swung enough in that direction. I'm more concerned about the tendency to seek short-term profits at the expensive of long-term investment in today's Wall Street CEOs.
tl;dr absolutely nobody at any time has cared, because there is no reason to, and if it weren't a GNU pet project it would be a "whatever happened to" My Favourite Toy OS filed in dusty history with all the others.
Another guess: the article says the plasma actuators can create weak flows, so a small push of air toward the trailing edge of the wing would create enough of a vacuum to re-attached the flow.
> But, he adds, that would require indexing to grow immensely from today’s levels. Probably not until passive funds are at least 90% of the market could such chaos arise, he argues.

That's a pretty hypothetical scenario, isn't it? Index funds, ETFs in particular, are a brilliant idea that allows ordinary people to participate in the success of market trailblazers.

If it wasn't for index funds most people wouldn't be able to make reasonable investment decisions because they're not investment bankers who deal with that sort of business on a daily basis. Even investment bankers fail with their investments most of the time. It's usually just the few successful investments or things like arbitrage that balance out the odds.

Ordinary people usually neither have the knowledge nor the resources to do investments this way, so index funds probably are the best option for accumulating wealth over a period of time.
One hour.

Think of it as a mini-book.

I shared the Google Doc so you can save it to your Gogle Drive and read it when you have time for something longer than a blog post.
Hmmm... is anyone offering an index of indexes?
Haha it's like it's written by Trump's USCIS: "We prefer immigrants whose businesses succeed."
> I wish having an advanced degree was a criteria here.

I don't.

I didn't do very well at school. Wasn't for me. As soon as I left and I started work at 16, I excelled.

Now, I could choose to work for a company in London @ +£120k a year or even apply to the US. But I choose to launch my own start-up instead where my passion and technical ability can potentially lead to 7/8+ figures salary. With this, I am definitely looking at the US primarily instead of secondary!

The only requisite here is that your start-up succeeds and through the company can satisfy the required amount of jobs.

My google fu isn't great right now, but 2 examples I can think of that didn't do well at school either. I hope they are correct. Richard Branson and Sir Alan Sugar.

> A few years ago, I noticed that Britain would give a blanket visa to anyone with an MBA from a list of top international schools. How about something like that for people with Masters/PhDs (in STEM) from top-50 schools in the world.

Great. Then make this another type of visa then. Don't penalise the individuals like myself who through self-tuition and hard work can start up a company and try to make it a success without an university education and sheer will.
What should we do if the Islamic State gets nuclear weapons and the means of delivering them to their targets?

That's the context he's speaking of, and I think it's dishonest for you to make it appear as if he's talking about attacking a peaceful Islamic country such as Jordan.
This sounds like the holy grail for international founders, but how likely is it to pass ? Anyone here in the know ?
No. I don't believe so. Think of Typelevel Scala as a tool to help people test out improvements to Scala as a whole, not as something that is going to deviate significantly from Lightbend Scala.
I admit I was skeptical about the universality of such a result right away, but I didn't look for an opposing view specifically when digging around. In fact, I was actually trying to find the complete text somewhere.

So instead I found this, and now just to provide another view:

"Does ethnic diversity erode trust?: Putnam’s ‘hunkering-down’ thesis
reconsidered"

From the conclusion (page 40):

> Our findings and conclusions contradict the view that the increasing ethnic heterogeneity
> of community life in the 21st Century represents a worrying and corrosive influence on
> trust between citizens. An important limitation to this generalization is that our
> conclusions relate to Britain in the mid-2000s. Failure to corroborate the pattern of
> results that has been observed in the United States does not negate those findings but
> does, we contend, pose a strong challenge to claims of their universalistic nature

In any case I don't think that (when you find problems correlating with diversity) diversity is a cause, but that there are confounding forces at work. Just my believe though.

[0] http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/15382/2/Sturgis(2011)%20Does%20eth...
By the way, for anyone who's curious. The original link has 4 upvotes and the Doc has 52 people reading it now.
interesting, but as others have pointed out, it doesn't show us anything we can form conclusions from. It's just an interesting coincidence or correlation.
My grandmother uses a Nokia C3. Until she switches, every group in which she participates will not be encrypted.

It says on the Nokia C3 version of the app that Whatsapp won't support that device next year, possibly because of that.
FULL DISCLOSURE up front - I work in the index/ETF business. I help maintain ~75 indices, many of which have ETFs linked directly to them.

That being said, I fully believe there will always be active investors. As others have mentioned, if there is an opportunity to make money in the market due to something like passive index funds being slower on the uptake, it will be made.

If I had to interpret the core argument being made here, it is basically that there is a fear of a positive feedback type scenario where money keeps getting dumped into companies simply because it always has. But it can be highly profitable to beat out the slow, passive money by doing your due diligence. For this reason, active management will always exist.

Also, I am fortunate enough to work on some of the more complex and interesting products in the industry (at least I believe so, haha). I can tell you that there are definitely sanity checks put in place for this kind of scenario. Most of it revolves around fundamental ratios built into these product methodologies (i.e. P/E ratio must be within a rational range, company must produce stable income for the past 5 years, etc.). More importantly, securities in these portfolios are frequently weighted (at least in part) upon those fundamental ratios. So if a company starts to deteriorate, the size of the position in the fund will be decreased. Much of what the article talks about seems to be negated by this and becomes a non-issue. I think those arguments would apply more to benchmark products which don't have those kinds of requirements. Then again, many benchmarks are used for exactly that - benchmarking - and aren't directly invested in. There are, of course, indices like the S&P 500 that have significant sums of money attached to them, but they are the exception, not the rule. Most index products deemed "investment-grade" are STRATEGY based, not benchmark based.

Basically, there is room in the market for both. I think we are simply seeing the progression towards a new equilibrium, nothing more. That equilibrium is where the new balance of those willing to take a higher risk meet those that want the less risky, low cost products that we provide. There is simply a much smaller portion of the population willing to pay higher fees and have a larger risk (but with possibly greater reward). And that is due in part to the fact that many money managers don't have the returns to keep people coming back. It's also due in part to people's mistrust of the market (and financial industry in general). They are simply allocating their money in accordance with their risk appetite.
I can totally sympathize with someone who is self-medicating, although to me that is a completely different situation as I'm sure they are not self-medicating with heroin and crack.
Sebastian Thrun and Danny Shapiro Self-Driving Car Meetup
Indeed. There is a reason for the inverted pyramid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid
To me, at least for professional gamers, they're really entertaining to watch. They understand the game they're playing completely and are dedicating themselves full time to be the best player.
It is something that I admire, plus it gives people that "live" for playing games a chance for a decent life and job.
It doesn't make sense UNTIL you treat it as a competitive sport. I've played video games in my life but never treated it as something that I should improve my skills in. When I started playing Magic (the card game) I started to watch streams to learn better plays. It's about skill and skill development just like sports.
Thanks for the link to "The Sequence". I tried out the first 10 levels and love it. Hoping more people get in on this thread... btw epalmer, as a less experienced developer, I also enjoyed reading some of your recent comment history.
Here are their terms from March 2015: http://web.archive.org/web/20150309163745/https://www.digita...
There's also E-2 visas you can get (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa) to run your own business with a much smaller investment (15-100K) assuming you're a citizen of a treaty country.
So I took a look, and I must say that these options are disappointing. The first isn't really about grammar checking at all. LanguageTool seems to have many rules, but browsing them they still seem to be fairly superficial (though I may be wrong on this score). Much as I dislike Word, it clearly has the upper hand.
Those were only looking in our stellar neighborhood though, right? Would a galaxy of infrared "stars" be detectable?
Gravity waves are caused by moving objects, and the waves themselves move. So if you did see constructive interference between gravity waves, it would be temporary. Gravity waves also tend to be extremely small, small enough that it was only this year (2016) that we were finally able to detect them (at LIGO).

Here's a video of what standing waves look like in water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpEevfOU4Z8
The subtitle is "Piecing together a celebrity scientist".

A celebrity?

I've seen him interviewed once on Charlie Rose.

In May 2002 CNN put him on with Bill Bennett.

In 1986 he debated Boston university president John Silber on local Boston TV.

How is he a celebrity?

He mentioned in a speech once how someone on NPR wanted to talk to him, and how the higher-ups at NPR canceled and then limited his appearance, as he was apparently banned.

He also was prevented by the IDF from attending a talk at Birzeit university in the West bank, something he said hadn't happened (being refused admittance to a country he was to give a unievrsity talk to) since he tried to enter Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Even The Nation has spiked positive reviews of his books.

Someone with so little exposure on US airwaves over the decades is not a celebrity.
If you trade with your own (possibly leveraged) funds, sure. If you're trading with other people's money and rely more on asset management fees than profit-sharing, then your personal expected profits fall when index funds become more popular.
" Now astronomers can study dark matter with less interference from the regular matter background"

There is no such thing as 'Dark Matter' yet.

Would you people please stop talking about it as though it exists?

It is, at this stage, a very crude idea.

There is no evidence of its existence.

We assume 'Dark Matter' exists because our relativistic equations are broken and it's the easiest thing we can imagine to 'fix' the problem - and we conveniently use the theory to make up for some other flaws as well.

There could be many other reasons or characterizations for those phenomena.

Maybe we should wait until there are some nice direct experiments that strongly confirm that the 'nothing there' is actually 'something' :)

If fear 'Dark Matter' is the 21st century equivalent of 'aether'.
I don't really find this objectionable. Maybe we have differing definitions of "Islamist regime"? If I imagine, say, the Taliban or ISIS in control of a country with nuclear weapons capability, I wouldn't blame our leaders for ordering a nuclear first strike.
You can't really get massive global PR with a potato-chip bag though.
Not only that but for most workloads you would need lots of memory bandwidth to supply the cores.
It's not pedantry. Gravity has no will and no choice, thus blaming gravity is useless. Police does have will and choice - it's not a law of nature that if you call the police they'll kill somebody, police is not a gun or any other mechanism that you just fire. These are people, who have free will, minds and responsibility for their actions. That's the whole point, only humans can take blame, and when their choices result in bad results, they should take blame for their choices, not redirect it to others.

> Police make mistakes, and have their own biases, to boot.

You say it as if it's some kind of excuse. It's funny that for reporter have biases is a culpable offense, but for the police it comes out as a defense instead. It doesn't work this way. In fact, random civilians have full right to be wrong, police are (or supposed to be) trained professionals that are paid to be better than civilians at this. So for them to behave worse than a random civilian should be a firing offense, not an excuse.

> If you call them on some random non-white person in your neighborhood, and disaster ensues, you're partly culpable.

Nope. The police function is to protect people. If they instead hurt innocent people, this is their fault, not somebody's that called on their direct and proper function. Their refusal to perform the function is their fault. Just as if you walk on the street and get mugged, you are not "partly culpable", because you could've walked on other street or stayed home - people who mugged you are fully culpable, because it was their choice to do it.

If you assign blame at the wrong place, they only result would be that people that need to change won't change, and you get more of the same problem. Which we are amply witnessing right now.
couldn't there be an immutable approach to this, a folded view of history. Mark commits of value, hide the iteration ones. The log reflects the folded history first; if needed you can unwrap for full details.
Make the move. FastMail is great. I didn't even know there was a fiasco (I knew they changed their pricing structure to make it much simpler, but it doesn't really affect me in the slightest as a normal user). I switched from Google to FastMail a while ago and I haven't had a single regret.
While we're on Abbey quotes...

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.” - EA

This quote has always been a source of debate for me. Does the idea of wilderness need no defense? Must we create heavily managed spaces simply to prevent the tragedy of the commons from occurring? Does the fact that wilderness is a political designation mean that it is not truly "wild"?

I'm of the mind that because societal negligence of our natural world leads to its destruction in one form or another almost certainly, then yes, the idea of wilderness needs no defense, but one can argue that the designation itself leads to a place losing its "wildness"...
how about watching people talk? talk shows are some of the more profitable programs in television, but all you're doing is watching people talk. oprah built a whole media empire on talk shows. entertainment is in the eye of the beholder, and when you have ~150M beholders, you can build a pretty good business [1]. :)

[1] http://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/technology-media-an...
> their topic of expertise

Who is the expert on how the pie should be divided up?
The 180+ products used by YC Summer 2016 companies
Kernel Information Leak and Multiple DOS Issues Within Kaspersky Internet Security
This whole industry of game streaming is operating in a gray zone.

It's a matter of time before we see some big lawsuits against the streamer and streaming platforms which make a lot of money by publishing the whole content, without any royalties to game developers /publishers.

For certain games. it doesn't spoil or ruin the fun factor for viewers, but some others it just removed the incentives to buy a copy of the game in the first place.
ES6 const
I'd want ECMAScript's `const` shortened to something like `ref`, `val`, `cst`

- it's the most frequently used keyword

- it's not really a constant but more a 'shallow' constant

- it conflicts with console.log auto-completion
In the short term, capital outflow from selling of REITs by Financial Index Funds will depress the REIT prices. Financial Index Funds have much more capital invested in them than that in the REIT index Funds. Any REIT selling by Financial Index Funds will have bigger impact than any REIT purchasing by REIT Index Funds.

Come tax time, lots of investors in Financial Index Fund will be in for the surprise, a larger capital gains unless Financial Index Funds decide to spin off REIT holdings as a separate REIT Index Fund instead of selling REIT holdings.
Do you have some citation for this "fiasco"? They did change the plans but I was unaware of any significant unhappiness. (And existing users can keep their old plans anyway.)
I don't think loss aversion would be a big problem, as the owner would not be required to sell. They'd only be required to pay tax on the difference, if higher offers come in.
You guys are really lowering the discussion level here with your insults and innuendo and meta commentary.
Reports never killed anybody. You can't kill a person with a report. Police is not some mindless robots that are programmed to kill on a press of a button. They are humans, and they should bear full responsibility for their choices, not somebody who asked them to perform their direct function (for which they are paid from the same person's money, btw).
That's behind a soft paywall, but this other link works:

https://www.google.com/search?q=The+beach-house+lawyer+calli...
My thoughts, for what they're worth:

To absorb style, it's my opinion that you should read a lot of material written in the style you want to absorb. Basically, you gain familiarity through exposure. (This will do nothing for your accent. Accent, as you say, is hard to change without a lot of conscious effort.) I'm not sure where you'd find this material, though. Maybe class materials from a well-regarded business school?

The advice is common to develop skill in a target language by picking up a girlfriend who speaks it natively. For your purposes, this is dangerous; you'd need to be sure that your partner was the correct social class (not that difficult, if they already hold the type of job you want), and that you don't pick up a style of speaking that tends to suggest to natives that you are the opposite sex (this is a big risk).

Speaking with a noticeable foreign accent will mean a lot of people don't find it odd that you make grammatical mistakes. Your mistakes are quite minor; as long as your accent isn't preventing people from understanding you, you might well be better off keeping it.

Finally, based on your comment I wouldn't expect you to have any trouble conveying or receiving information in English. Furthering your English is basically a vanity project. (Not to say that it wouldn't be helpful in career advancement -- it might be! But you're well past the point where misunderstandings are a risk.)

I hope some part of this was helpful.
Game developers don't have any option except to restrict public display of their games in some way.

There are now plenty of people who enjoy watching but not playing games.

Game developers need revenue for this firstly because they deserve it, having made the entertainment, but secondly because former players are now just watchers and not paying money, reducing revenue.

My guess is that games developers will permit public display of a restricted part of the game, like level one only, and will require royalties for display of other sections of the game
Reading further, it looks like it's getting fast-tracked, which is great news.