skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If I truly needed Actor stuff for performance, I'm probably going leave the JVM and reach for Erlang anyway.

Erlang has a kind of narrow use case though. It's pretty much only useful if you really need the low-latency high-availability actor model. It's amazing for that but not for much else. Elixir fixes some of the warts, though. Scala is a truly versatile language, being able to replace Python, Java and Erlang, and inheriting most of the strengths of those.

Btw, Scala has all of the major concurrency primitives (STM, futures, actors, mutex etc.) and doesn't dictate you use any of those.
I wondered how soon "Coming soon" would be. Now I have to update my recent blog post [0] before the final two parts are even out :) - part two is out tomorrow BTW.

There seems to be a bit of an arms race with Azure right now. The current map [1] has four more regions "Coming soon". Looking forward to London.

[0]: https://unop.uk/on-aws-vs-azure-vendor-lock-in-and-pricing-c...

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
Is it more important than dead people in middle East.
I would actually agree with OP that Trump is not anti-democratic, ideologically speaking.

His ideology is actually the other extreme - it's mob rule with a strong leader who can do whatever they want (phrased as "whatever needs to be done"), having the mandate to do so from the mob. Very similar to the current arrangement in Russia, for example (yes, elections are rigged, but Putin would still get a large majority even in fair elections), or now also in the Philippines.

Trumpism is anti-democratic in practice, because it doesn't have actual popular support, and so has to resort to conspiracy theories to explain it away by claiming that elections are rigged etc, effectively trying to disenfranchise its opponents. But its adherents don't see it that way - they genuinely believe that there's a conspiracy against them, and they would have won in fair elections; so from their perspective, they're fighting for democracy.
> Edit: if this "1998 interview" exists, Google appears to have no knowledge of it.

It's always interesting to me how technologically literate HNers suddenly forget how to use a search engine when they don't want to acknowledge a point. It took me like 15 seconds to Google. Bottom half of the page:

https://books.google.com/books?id=UjO6L2hv0mIC&pg=PA341&lpg=...
See also: http://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/562/

And the blog post by Semantics3:
https://blog.semantics3.com/why-the-u-in-upc-doesnt-mean-uni...
> The trust I have had in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, ABC/NBC/CBS, Democratic and Republican parties has been irreparably damaged.

To borrow a phrase that usually makes me think of a milennial with a punchable face, "This^100."

I always held those news organizations skeptically in the back of my mind as Every Educated Person Ought To, but this is just...unbelievable.
Brilliant piece. Pilger at his best. Thanks for sharing.
https://www.paddle.com/ ?
If you haven't noticed the media collusion you are both blind and dumb.
Mob Programming vs. Meetings
NRx is generally seen as a subset of alt-right.
Since we're evidently devolving to a reductionist game of "which is worse?", can I throw in a round? Choose one:

a) mishandling of classified information

b) insisting that as commander-in-chief, you will order the US military to commit war crimes

Which do you think more directly harms US interests abroad?
I share the exact same story. Progfun is a really smooth introdu tion to FP in my opinion, no crazy syntax and only the core concepts. For any deeper concepts and if you don't understand what FP really means you should check out a purely functional language.
Why single out reddit? I wonder the same about 4chan and hacker news.
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No, not sarcastic at all - I just didn't think anybody besides me would be crazy enough to want to read such a detailed treatment of an old text editor. Guess I'd better get started writing ;)
> chris11 Whereas Trump has a history of racism.

"Last December, after the council refused to lift the restrictions, Mr. Trump filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Palm Beach, alleging that the town was discriminating against Mar-a-Lago, in part because it is open to Jews and African-Americans. The suit seeks $100 million in damages."[0]

Like back in 80's when Trump was fighting for blacks and jews.
Read the wikileaks. Clinton campaign's gameplay memo is to create Trump is 'crazy racist' narrative through media.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB862335923489989500
Good. I have downloaded and viewed a lot of WD movies with torrents (I'm a near homeless man in Italy, no money to buy/rent DVD). Now I can give back something contributing to the open source project.
> Aren't those, pretty much by definition, the traits of a poor manipulator? A great manipulator wouldn't seem so false.

This is a good point and it baffles me to be honest. I said "great" manipulator because it seems to be working so far. Great manipulators don't necessarily need to be great with everyone all the time. Or maybe she intentionally wants us to think she's a poor manipulator so that we trust her more? But that surely fails Occam's razor.

To answer other comments, I didn't get this impression solely by watching her on TV, it is corroborated by her history as a politician and recently leaked emails.
This is a thing that I've (somewhat counterintuitively) seen discussed in my Software Engineering degree quite a lot, the idea that there is this divide between "programmers" that just implement things, and Architects or Designers, who actually come up with the idea.

As a programmer and software developer that spends a lot of time trying to think of other factors beyond the technical, but who respects the code a lot, this has bothered me. Respect for the code is born from the fact that it is the only thing that will give you a hope of having a correct understanding of a program, as documentation can easily fall out of date.

I do wonder about getting involved in technology arguments. 99% of the time, I'd agree (though I will joke about vim being superior), but there aren't any technological arguments worth having? Not even a "what are the tradeoffs between X and Y for Z use case" discussion?
I haven't seen anything that egregious from the NYT. Can you link to this email, please?
Some small points of feedback:

1. It's a personal thing but does that 'YaroFit' splash screen add anything? I almost clicked away because I hate staring at a logo whilst a website loads.

2. The website is super bootstrap. Not really an issue in beta but it looks a little rough around the edges, particularly in respect of the nav bar.

3. The colour of your CTA doesn't really chime with the rest of your site's colour palette. Is that deliberate or did you just pick a bright colour? I'd maybe re-think this slightly.

4. The spacing of the padlock and text of 'login' and 'sign up' is a little narrow. Maybe add more space there. Also the repetition of the icons is quite visually confusing.

5. Your 'How it works' section is good but I don't feel like you've told me exactly how it works, or why I should use you. Why is Yarofit better than Fitocracy, a spreadsheet, or just my memory of what I'm lifting? You need to differentiate yourself a wee bit more here.

6. I'm an iOS user - so knowing that it's Google Play only is a big turnoff for me. Maybe this would be an opportunity to have something saying 'iOS coming soon' and a button to let me add my email so I get notified when it's out? Also nice way to build up a list of users too.

7. Your about section doesn't actually tell me that much and also uses a gmail account for the contact. Perhaps change that to 'hi@yarofit.com' or something?

8. Your images are loading pretty slowly, at least on my end. Maybe do a quick analysis on Google PageSpeed Insights and see where you're losing speed?

Hope the points above are helpful, it looks like a cool idea and I love anything fitness related so fingers crossed that it goes well :)
As long as we're randomly talking about Russian colors, there's a color that I used to hear a fair amount in Russia that I don't know of an equivalent to here in the US: рыжый.

Maybe it's not a common color term there, either - the most context I've heard it in was describing a dachshund's hair color[1], and the second most common is describing a redhead's hair. Maybe the English equivalent is "ginger", but I always thought of ginger as being a much lighter color.

[1] http://www.allsmalldogbreeds.com/breeds/dachshund-smooth.jpg <-- an example. Это рыжая такса.
Trump's comments include a promise to commit war crimes (targeting the families of terror suspects).
If my parents bought me a present after I had received a bad mark in school when I was a teenager my twisted mind would have interpreted that as a catastrophe, "my god, they really do think I have failed and now they are even trying to bribe me to be better, they must be desperate".
Netflix shakes off weak subscriber growth and its stock is skyrocketing
This thread received a large number of user flags and was also heavily penalized by the software flamewar detector, but we've turned that off.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12729270.
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Have you read this page? https://azizonomics.com/2013/06/01/the-trouble-with-shadowst...
The way in which TrueCrypt "became abandoned" does not inspire confidence as well. Considering they left a cryptic and very strange exit note that many perceived as a notice of law enforcement activity.
Yes, and English is full of them, especially in law. It's hardly random. English law was informed by Roman jurisprudence. And Latin was used in books and courts (especially ecclesiastical courts). I'd have to look up more details, and if interested, your searches further into this would easily surpass anything i can remember!
It's interesting how the level of variety of the assets does not translate directly to the game. I do actually suspect that there might be some sort of prefabrication going on with the creatures, or maybe some bug with the generation code is simply not using all the available asset combinations.
By the time her father said this to her, she obviously already had strong intrinsic motivation. Her parents just did a good job of managing it.

How to create intrinsic motivation is a harder question. There is some research that parents can create it by setting and clearly communicating expectations from an early age. But it's not conclusive.

We're clearly deep into nature/nurture territory here.
For bash or any other application using the readline library you can configure it for vi mode by adding 'set editing-mode vi' to your ~/.inputrc. Note for bash you can instead add 'set -o vi' to ~/.bashrc to avoid setting the mode for all readline applications
Ceramic kitchen knives aren't a very good idea for the same reason. They are very hard and scratch resistant, which keeps the edge sharp, but they easily shatter when dropped.

Given the number of times I've dropped my iPhone, I would probably be unwilling to purchase a ceramic model.
Ubuntu 16.10 – Yakkety Yak
I dove deep into Scala a short while back and I can concur with those that thought the documentation was sub-par almost all around, from Scala-Lang site itself, to big things like Play Framework to across small userland libraries. The saddest thing was that I wanted to improve those docs, but I didn't know how. When I finally got to the point through tedious trial and error, I couldn't even remember where to start. It doesn't help that there's 10 ways in Scala to do everything, but no way to find out which is the best one, or the worst, or one that even just works with your current version. Surely this the tone of this post is quite whiny, but it really did make Scala hard as hell to approach.
Immersion is nice for "experiences", but AR has the potential to be used all day, just like smartphones. Besides, they'll eventually converge.
Anonymous sources, speaking to a blog. Does anyone seriously believe this constitutes evidence?
Multiple accounts, particularly ones which are 1) detailed and 2) generally support one another, are a good start. Even if you don't know who the individual reporters are.

As an example, the UNHCR follows a similar protocol when investigating reports of atrocities. The individual reporters, while not fully anonymous, frequently have no previous basis to assess credibility. If their stories generally correspond, you've got an indication of truth. If the stories differ on material points, there are problems.

The story of Susannah from the Book of Daniel (Bible or Torah) has an excellent early exemplar of this: the stories of two claimed witnesses differed materially in the description of a crucial tree, impeaching their credibility.
OSTIF's financial support is sad. Why is the open source world so generous with time and so cheap with money? Kudos to DuckDuckGo for apparently being the only business that pulls their weight; another great reason to use them.

https://ostif.org/top-ostif-donors/

Top OSTIF Donors

These are the individuals and organizations that have given
the most support to the OSTIF.

Individuals:
Derek Zimmer – $1947
Zach Graves – $188
Amir Montazery – $200
Ben W – $30
Nathan N – $10

Groups:
DuckDuckGo – $25,000
VikingVPN – $1000
A special thank you for website support from Mike from
HTPCGuides.com

EDIT: On a second look, is that list really accurate? The fifth highest individual donor gave $10?

I read about the founder and long-time developer of a well-known, respected Linux distro, who had to move back to his hometown because he couldn't afford the Bay Area and has no health insurance. Maybe some of his millions of users could chip in a little for the incredible service he provides to them. How depressing.
http://www.salon.com/2016/02/05/in_debate_hillary_clinton_bo...
I know you weren't replying to me but I've never seen it. I also would never condone that kind of behavior, or even be associated with people who did that.

Someone actually flagged my comment, which to me is pretty jaw dropping. This isn't a topic we can discuss? Okay.
Most of the stories of planned releases were either misdirection or outright lies by bloggers and other media sources looking to make Assange seem like the boy that cried wolf. If you look at Assange/Wikileaks' proposed release dates, they mostly are on schedule.
Not all Hillary/Trump supporters are what the media wants people to believe. I have met intelligent, thoughtful people that support Hillary/Trump for many different reasons. We need to quit simplifying the argument of everyone that disagrees with us.

America appears truly divided.

40-50% believe in trump and even strong Clinton supporters don't think that she will bring change (stability maybe :).

Peter Thiel has always been a contrarian, that's what makes his investments/strategy insightful.
> if you're going to do anything, you should try to be the best at it

I think this is an admirable heuristic in certain circumstances. It's important to note its perversions.

If you're measuring value by social ranking, you're incorporating others' values into your discovery process. This makes it difficult to do anything groundbreakingly unique. How can you be first if you're the only one racing?

(Then again, genius versus madness is a retrospective measure.)
Spinning cogs in the background?

Didn't even notice them, so I clicked back to the article. Sure enough, there are spinning cogs.

Didn't notice them, no distractions.
I'm completely in favour of understanding why people think what they do - apart from anything else, it's almost impossible to persuade them of anything different if you don't start from a position of sympathy.

In order to give you the opportunity of gaining a position of sympathy with me; one of the reasons I was asking about 'validity' is that it sounds formal and logical, but it doesn't seem to be being used in a formal and logical sense.

I think you're using it to say that we shouldn't dismiss perspectives, even those that have a high correlation with incorrect opinions (even though I'd struggle to define 'perspective' except as a bundle of opinions). While the intention seems admirable enough, I still find myself wishing for a bit more precision over what exactly is being said: obviously experiences aren't invalidated by the person experiencing them having false opinions, but the opinions formed from those experiences can absolutely be false, and occasionally even in the strict formal, logical sense invalid. If we're not talking about experiences (since the argument is almost never about what the other party experienced, but rather about what it means), and we're not talking about opinions, then I'm not sure what we're talking about at all.

Maybe I should just take this as a shorthand for describing a useful attitude to take rather than a description of something in the world, i.e. saying 'it's worth understanding why people think what they think, even if it's wrong, rather than dismissing it out of hand', and then I could agree with it.
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>"OSS"-NC

would be proprietary software you don't have to reverse engineer

>[AGPL + another] still allows any 'customer' to use your software for commercial work without contributing anything back other than attribution

How so?
All news have to emphazise fear. It doesn't really matter what part of the spectrum they are on, what they fear is different, sure, but it is the same emotion. Thus you read only the bad thing in the world, and while it is commendable that you want to see all sides, shouldn't that include the good news too? For example how many of your blogs included the fact that the world reduced the number of people living in poverty, a feat that seemed impossible, 3 years ahead of the deadline? That, based on this, we are actively planing to remove the last half, BEFORE 2030?

Let me guess, nobody? It is arguably one of the top 3 best humanitarian news ever, but almost nobody knows, because it isn't fear and so doesn't sell.

That and also consider getting yourself checked for depression.
That depends a lot on the background of each developer.

My introduction to FP was via Caml Light, SML and Lisp, so either Scala or Clojure are approachable to me.

I don't use any professionally, as our customers only do standard Java and C# projects, but among the programming languages I dabble when travelling, I tend to play more with Clojure than Scala.
I couldn't up vote this enough. I recently had an interesting encountered with a Senior Director who argued that his quarter million pound project was never supposed to reduce any of the work required to actually delivered the final product.

Since he was cornering us to take the blame, I showed him the mirror and proved him wrong with evidence. Conversation immediately shifted to our contract renewal which is due shortly :)
Assange cannot be arrested in the Ecuadorian embassy without the permission of the Ecuadorian ambassador. The British police can't enter the embassy without permission. The balcony makes no difference.

> That norm is routinely violated in other places

No, it isn't. That would severely damage relationships between the two countries. It's more than a "norm", it's a fundamental principle of diplomacy going back millennia.
> 10% of the questions the rest of the semester will be how to do something in the IDE. And, occasionally, you're not going to know the answer.

Most of the things they will need to do will be laid out for them before hand. I also have nothing against them asking me more questions. I'm technically paid by the question and it's better for them to ask these questions in an environment that is as conducive to learning as a classroom instead of needing to ask a boss/coworker on the first day of class.

> Saying "I don't know" can be intimidating to someone who doesn't have 20+ years of experience.

Sometimes the answer to other things is "I don't know" but, every time I didn't know something and I have to help a student I always follow it up with "but let's dick around with this a bit and I'm sure we can get it working"

> As for source control and automated testing--congratulations, you are now Mr. IT-guy for 30 people for the next 14 weeks. And students can be really creative in wedging their repositories. To this day, I still have no idea how one student managed to create a recursive repository in Subversion. You really have to be committed to accept the cost of the things I recommended.

If a student is paying 15-30k a year and I'm making 8.50$/hr to help them I have absolutely no problem helping them. They are quite literally paying my salary. I've answered emails at 2am before an exam, met up with students on weekends before exams, and spent hours with students to help them "get it".

School should be about getting taught the material you need to succeed. It should be our goal to achieve that even if it's a little hard.

And again, I don't think that student is going to be making a recursive svn directory in front of their boss after you helped them out of that ditch and it's a good thing you did.
It just occurred to me.

There's a difference between political speech and political action.

When you express your political views, you're using your right to freedom of speech.

When you donate based on your political views, depending on how big that donation is, you're carrying out a political action. You're getting involved in politics!

I think the best resolution in this scenario is to consider a political donor, past a certain amount, no longer a private citizen, but a public figure, and bring his/her actions under media scrutiny, just like a politician.

Thoughts?
It's not about the number, but rather about the accuracy of the statement.

I don't have any problem with what Clinton said. Based on the numerous polls, she is absolutely correct. It may not be a politically prudent thing to say, but that's not an ethical matter.
No.

EDIT: for context, if you go read the actual emails, what you see are totally bog-standard comments of a PR team reacting to a story once it posted, and again when the NYT updated it, as the NYT (and other papers) often do.
I think the short answer to your question is "both". You need a portfolio with diversified product risk and diversified strategies. You don't need to be a quant to make a basic stab at this with the typical retail portfolio size, there are tons of tools for free on the internet to do this kind of thing. Most people who know enough to not be in managed funds still have no idea how to have anything but basically a 100% long equity market portfolio (I'm intentionally grouping together mostly meaningless 'diversification' between highly correlated segments like midcap/largecap/nasdaq/dow) except to make it long bonds. So I think there's basic product and strategy knowhow to organizing and maintaining a portfolio.

The reason I said both is because of the 'maintaining' part. Without some level of activity, its effectively impossible to be engaged with the market enough to take advantage of opportunities and manage your portfolio to keep enough diversification and reduce the internal correlations in your holdings/strategies.

It might sound complicated but it can be learned and it isn't rocket science, and there is a lot of great technology to assist anyone, not just software devs. Managing your life savings is a better investment of time than many other pursuits, in my view.
I won't comment on the physical assault, but I do know there are no identified suspects in the firebombing. It's a bit premature to blame Trump's opposition.
For what it's worth, I've used a (real) Geiger counter to examine not only a banana, but potassium supplement pills. I wasn't able to detect even the slightest increase over background radiation from either.