skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scala can run in command line mode, which is pretty useful for learning.

If you are coming from Java, as I was, the learning curve was pretty shallow towards doing useful things.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala01228....
I don't think it's the say bit that's the problem. I think the problem's in the do bit
Milo and Kate aside, I would say that Kinect has leapfrogged its competition, though in the same breath I would also say I am aggrieved by the Courier project fiasco.
A user creates an account and he gets a random url. He shares it with people he would like to hear from and those people can comment on his profile under their real names or aliases.

The random urls are there to make sure someone doesn't guess your profile and trash it with anon messages.
I usually get about 2mbps on my Verizon 3G, which is faster than my home ADSL connection. I´ve thought of my wireless as very fast, though perhaps not from a global perspective.
> it is very difficult for me to do so when the "good stuff" is buried in WP's lists and categories. More information is not necessarily better :(

Category too crowded? Sure let's just delete a few.

May I suggest you just add a new category for "notable programing languages"?
Both you and yummyfajitas are making the classic error of espousing an unpopular opinion amongst people who tend to irrationally believe magical romantic things about evolved bags of meat.

It's a fairly well established biological fact( caveat - there are of course exceptions )that female primates, including humans, respond sexually favorably toward high status behavior on the part of males.

The Red Queen is a good book, but there are countless others. Sperm Wars, Sex At Dawn, The Evolution of Desire, and myriad academic papers that these books reference, paint a very clear picture of female sexuality that few will ever want to believe.

n=1 is irrelevant in this discussion. As far as I'm concerned, the actual scientific evidence is quite clear on this matter.

Edit: removed reference to emo hipsters. Not constructive.
I'm no nutritionist, but there's no way a chicken has almost 700mg of sodium naturally occurring in 8 ounces of its breast. Not sure what WA is sourcing.

(Computerized nutrition advice taken with a grain of salt joke here...)

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Edit: it appears to be averaging results from the USDA NDB. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
Too late to edit

s/50/5/
Well if the only allowing you to create software is a patent arsenal, there is trouble indeed...

Plus Red Hat did get sued eventually anyway by a troll claiming a patent on more or less any kind of GUI.

Sure, flinch against the patent mafia if you don't have a patent arsenal. Just don't be surprised if another troll walks through the door in five minutes asking for more money and/or more GUI crippling...

Edit: The most frustrating thing about all this is it difficult to determine if this is what has kept Linux GUIs lame or not; Information on the various decisions involved is spread in dribs and drabs around the web. You would think anti-patent organizers would at least keep a list of these actions.
I'd like to know more about the dating lives of the guys who DON'T think this line of thinking belongs in the previous century.
> I don't really see the government regulating addiction.

So no lessons learnt from the taxes laid on alcohol, tobacco, gambling (and depending on where you're from pharmaceuticals and perhaps even narcotics).

The governments method of regulation for addiction is to tax it. I wouldn't be surprised if online games begin getting taxes above and beyond simply the companies revenue.
Thats a very important question, as without an answer it seems like the original comment is just excellent Public Relations. *Did not mean to imply that it is PR :)
Who does sqrt(x^2) for abs(x) ? Speak about accidental complexity in love
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I stopped reading at "but not these devices to sell computers".
What!?

You can be thoughtful and accommodating without being a doormat which is what you appear to be alluding to.

Breaking this down to an evolutionary biology standpoint, what advantage would that sort of psychology provide the woman? It has the opposite effect on the intended outcomes, that of security and stability from which to raise offspring.

The whole treat em mean, keep them keen mentality might work in the short term and get you laid but a happy productive relationship it will not build. Eventually the woman is going to go elsewhere to obtain the security and stability a healthy relationship provides.
Good point. I think the appeal is that they can expand their fleet by signing more companies to use Uber than any given taxi company could expand its fleet.
Link broken. I thought it was deleted

fixed link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greys_Law
"However, I would say that you're committing a logical error; we have a certain set of patent laws, we have software leadership, and you seem to conclude therefore there is a causative relationship. That's not logically sound."

No, I didn't go that far, but I certainly used this fact to place the burden of proof on people who claim that the "current software patent laws are broken".

"What I see out there in the world is that very few people are creating software because they are incentivized by a patent system to do so"

I see the exact opposite: what is the point in coming up with an innovative concept if anyone can steal it the day after you make it public and reuse it without any consequences?

I have a strong suspicion that we would be seeing a lot less start ups if such laws were not in effect.

"It's not hard to conclude the value of patents are negative"

It's obviously not hard, but it's also incorrect :-)
People keep saying that... And meanwhile, you can barely make a call in New York City during peak hours.
Aren't we talking about marriage here rather than a relationship between teenagers?
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Making an effort means thinking about your relationship, if that means thinking about it and deciding to put a problem aside for a better time, that is still making an effort.
3 Months To The 1st Million Users, Just 6 Weeks To The 2nd Million For Instagram
This seems like as good a forum as any... what exactly are the rules for two-lane roundabouts? From which lane is it okay to exit? If you're in the inner lane and want to exit onto the left lane of a four-lane road, do you have to watch out for people in the outer lane, or do they have to watch out for you?
Thanks - hadn't seen this. HN didn't catch the dupe as the same article was submitted from a different url, which is now a 301 to this article.
Yay, IE 9 is a HUGE improvement over earlier versions. Should make a big difference in rendering speed. I still use Webkit browsers on my PC though.

I wonder, is there a Webkit based browser app for WP7?
I think we can, but that sort of code takes longer to write, test, and launch. You'd want it to be really robust before you showed those sorts of options to 1B+ people a day. So the Chrome extension is a good interim step to see how much traction it gets and what sort of data emerges as a result
"My personal belief is that if a woman chose you for your social status, you made a mistake getting involved with her."

I'd suggest reading the book cited by the grandparent. You're a little naive on the topic. The vast majority of women marry for social or financial status, but it's an unconscious mechanism.

In the end, it's all about optimizing genetic fitness and resource availability. Our genes do this automatically, and it's not limited to humans.
> The app store doesn't let you make malicious or pornographic apps

How could Apple possibly prevent a sufficiently covertly malicious application from entering the app store?
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I'm sorry, but this article is poorly written. The Google Knol article, http://knol.google.com/k/simple-simhashing , is much better.

It is clear that the author does not understand what a hashing function is. He says, "Your programming language of choice's API will almost certainly have a few acceptable ones within arm's reach", but that's not true. Firstly, what is a programming language's "API" ? Secondly: most languages that I'm aware of have no builtin hash functions; they are usually libraries (I know, I'm getting pedantic here). And thirdly: most hash functions that you'd find in a library don't return a floating point value that you can operate on with a "min" function (or even an int value). They typically return a string of 40-, 128 or 256 bits (depending on the function). So you'll need to map the hash returned by your hash function to a value that you can compare; for example, by grabbing the last 4 bytes and treating them as an unsigned integer.
I guess we will have to see? :P

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Three words: Gift credit cards.
Union Square Ventures is only a small part of the NYC funding landscape. First Round, Betaworks, RRE, DFJ Gotham, IA Ventures, Starvest, SAVP, Softbank, Rho, Greycroft, and that's just off the top of my head (I know I'm missing some), in addition to firms like Spark / True / Kodiak / CRV that often come here to invest and Sand Hill Road firms that are newly opening offices here like Canaan and Accel.

Don't get me wrong, USV is a great firm to work with, but you can comfortably do a round in NYC without ever having to talk to them. Don't let the fact that Fred has a popular blog blind you to the rest of the ecosystem.

I also think you're underestimating how much interesting technology there is in NYC. Yes, a lot of it is related to advertising or the financial sector. But the type of scale many of these companies are working with requires 'hardcore software' by anyone's definition.

I do agree that recruiting is hard here, but recruiting is hard everywhere.
"Hidden" features of C#
I know this questions is asked in different forms couple of times in the comments, but here it is again:
1. Will there ever be Firefox extension which do the same?
I'm Russian and I almost never read Russian wikipedia articles about programming.

Reasons:
a) Terminology is English and looks very unnatural in Russian. Terminology translation is even worse - when I read in Russian I need to make double translation to understand.

b) Most Russian wiki articles - is just translations from English wiki.
There's a Webkit .NET project, but it looks like they're not anywhere near done.
But most people aren't dedicated enough to trolling to get a gift credit card so they can verify the fake name they want to troll with.
"You are aware that the very definition of a fact precludes it from having exceptions, right?"

He's talking about statistical distributions. "It's an established fact that six-year-olds are taller than five-year-olds. There are exceptions."

I'm not sure where he got the "hipster" stuff, though.
Well of course - there's no libraries for Py3k.
I think the fact that Matt frequently comes in here to discuss Google's search results shows that it is not just PR.

Unless you want to categorize everything Matt says publicly (whether here, on his blog or on twitter) as PR...
These guys are working on it: http://reprap.org

An open source 3d printer design with the goal being to use it to print all the parts for then next printer.
2mbps is great, I remember having ADSL. However with cable internet I've maxed out at 14.5mbps on a 16mbps advertised connection, although I'm actually testing at peak usage time from a wireless connection, so in ideal connections I might actually get what they're advertising for me (until I hit their bitcap which will be spot on 16mbps).
I have only ever seen incorrect answers on Yahoo Answers, so our experiences definitely vary. That's the beauty of allowing custom blocklists though.
So this is not a database, per-se, but a document base?
If I have to wrap every data element in a file, doesn't that add overhead?
Honestly, what's the benefit to me of this over say, SVN+HTTPS with 10 minutes of config?
I note with mock irony that this works fine on blekko.com in any browser. You push the "this is spam" link in the SERP results and poof, its dead to you.

(Disclaimer: I work at Blekko)
The Japanese title on the about page translates to something like "Heart-Pounding Library: The Legend of Gatsby", which is how I think the book should have been titled.
> I can think of more ways to determine the original publisher.

Please share them. Thanks.
Lots of good quotes here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-q...

My favorites:

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your
code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

-- Rick Osborne

I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.

-- Anonymous poem
Here's an example. I've stumbled across others in the past. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fl6i0/email_add...
Reading the face of IBM’s Watson
There's a huge difference between being commanded to "Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much" by other people, versus doing these things on your own initiative as part of your relationship.
I think your accusation is too weak before lacking any evidence. There are many local market and web distributing the apps, for user, Google is not the single source. Maybe you don't know the fact is "For China users, they CAN NOT access Google market". Your world is not my world.
"5. Scheme

And finally, start scheming, or thinking strategically. Being strategic might sound cold and calculating, but it’s something you probably already do with your spouse, whether you admit it or not. For example, if your friends invite you for a weekend away, no spouses, and you want to go, you naturally start thinking about how you can make this happen with minimal fuss, what you can offer your spouse in return, how to bring it up, when to bring it up, and what type of flowers to present as graft when you’re in the midst of bringing it up." - ugh..that sounds like a horrible situation to be in, wtf. Why would you get in such a place with a girl?
A Y in a box. I wonder if they considered doing it in orange?
I'm pretty sure both of those evaluate to the same value.
> Both you and yummyfajitas are making the classic error of espousing an unpopular opinion amongst the emo hipsters of HN.

No offence, but if you actually had the facts on your side you probably wouldn't feel the need to resort to insulting everyone who doesn't share your opinion. Emo hipsters, really?
Possibly because it might have been a story about an actual Frenchman?
"Watson can understand and answer better than the vast majority of humans on this planet."

Only for extremely limited definitions of "understand".
I think this is exactly the difference between the "Android philosophy" and the "iOS philosophy" when it comes to design. I'm glad both exist; I'd personally generally like to see things mature and great upon initial release, especially because of how long you tend to be saddled with the negatives of a bad initial design. But there are people and usages that want/need features more than they want refinement, and that's fine too.
doesn't the comment you addressed suit both your listed criteria for "relevant"?
OptmizeGoogle seems to be more up to date:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/optimizegoogl...
I installed the extension and blocked experts exchange first thing ... not sure if I'll even use it for any other sites ...
One of my teachers in high school was named Rafael Rafael.

Grew up somewhere in Indonesia (I think) and never got a last name. So they just duplicated his first name.
I don't mind if people use fake names to protect identity. I don't like astroturfing and sock puppet accounts. The conflict between trying to allow the former and prevent the latter is at the heart of Quora's dilemma on this issue.
Is entrepreneurial talent overrated?
Those people offered their own alternate theories
[snip]

Another theory not in his list: Reality itself has a well-known liberal bias.
neither. Avoid numbers entirely.
Google should make one of these for Bing also - with the option to send google my Bing blocklist.
I understand the fine line you have to walk, and I'm glad to see that you guys take it as seriously as you do.

Personally, I'm glad that you're putting this out as a user-controlled thing. I like the fact I'm able to get rid of results that aren't necessarily spam or SEO'ed garbage, but I where I still know that I never want to see results from that site again.
Snap. I wonder how many others did the same.. going to guess a reasonable number.
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I asked a member of the webspam team to prototype the extension after reading this Hacker News comment on January 1st: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2058408

We've absolutely done similar things in the past, but that comment was the spark behind this most recent Chrome extension. I hope that's specific enough. :)
Sounds like an excellent feature. Just seems kinda weird that Google would start using user-click data when they were complaining so much about Bing using it.
Hmm, I know it's a bit of an esoteric language, but Java has a method called "hashCode()" which is common to all objects, and does indeed return an int value.

That's points 2 and 3 covered, I'll leave it up to you whether or not you want to split hairs on what's part of Java's "API" (a sensible reader would probably take that as the Java Class Library in the case of Java).
Coffee helps women cope with stressful meetings but not men
Tip to bloggers: put your NAME on your blog somewhere.
I love pop psychology books that tell me it is fine to be lazy and uncaring. /sarcasm

We aren't talking about dating here, we are talking about long term relationships. The whole Red Queen thing breaks down when we add artificial human constructs such as marriage and monogamy.

We are not a Silver Back leading a band of gorillas, we are far more complex than that. Sure, signalling plays a roll in initial conditions, impressions and attractiveness. However once we get past the monkey brain and into the far more complex social behaviors humans have developed there aren't just a couple of sliders to adjust to determine how successful a relationship is.

I would love to hear of anyone having a successful and above all healthy long term relationship using the ideas you espouse.
I hate to reply to my own post, but in this case I think it's good form.

I'm going to give notice as soon as my boss is back from wherever he's gotten off to.

I do have another job offer that I'm debating. I think it's probably better to turn that down and finally get out of this backwater (a city of ~40k people in a mountainous US state).

That means moving in with my parents in Nebraska until we get things together for a move somewhere more startup and tech friendly. While I'd be happy moving to the Bay area and eeking it out in a one-bedroom place, I'm not going to drag the wife and dog (can you even find dog-friendly places out there?) into that.

I hope none of the affected parties reads this...
What kind of sources did they cite in their contributions?

(I agree with you, assuming those articles were sourced, that it is appalling to delete sourced content. But that has happened to me. Point-of-view pushing is a huge problem on Wikipedia. Coming with sources, in my observation, saves articles from being deleted entirely, but having good sources doesn't save a paragraph from being deleted entirely in an article devoted to pushing a point of view.)
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#hash
yeah, i hear that one all the time. based on some arguments i've gotten into with liberals recently (i'm a centrist), i can state somewhat definitively that it's not true.
I'm not sure what the solution is.

But I think that one can articulate the problem of abusive monopolies as being narrower than simply companies leading the market.

The distinction between rent-seekers and profit-seekers is rough but it's a little closer to the original complaint. We can define abusive monopolies as companies which have acquired not just a strong position in the market but also a legal or force-based cudgel to drive off all serious competitors. Telcos having a monopoly on civic rights-of-way is an example of this. Companies using software patents to scare-away competitor are another example of this.

One problem in dealing with this situation is that in a fair, "commodity" market, margins tend to become "paper thin". Thus there's a lot of capital out there chasing opportunities to get a choke-hold on one or another markets. I don't have any idea what to do about that.
HiredNext v2.0 released
my advice:

MVP

multiple, built in parallel or serial

redouble your effort investment on whichever seems to be getting most traction
Within the terms that were then understood, they're very well on the way to that though.

The first office I ever worked in, as a summer job as a student, was computerised but used them as glorified typewriters in the main. All the master documents were on paper, punched and organised into lever arch files. Backups? What's a backup? Think back to an old office; row upon row upon row of filing cabinets, carefully indexed. I don't think I've seen that in at least 6-7 years, maybe 10.

I can't remember the last time I found a document where the master copy was on paper. Regularly referred to paper copies are almost exclusively annotated working versions which get destroyed at the end of the process. We circulate documents on paper in some contexts but are equally likely to email them to each other, and that's rising - more often than not, paper is a reference copy for a meeting rather than our master copy.

My employer stopped doing printed payslips and went fully electronic over a year ago. I have paperless billing from two utility companies and could set it up with a third, I just haven't got round to it. I rarely print photos any more. I read eBooks probably slightly more than paper books and definitely read online news rather than newspapers, while magazines are tentatively stepping towards full electronic distribution through both websites and tablet apps. I basically don't send or receive letters any more.

Paper won't go completely any more than cars resulted in the extinction of the domesticated horse, but it seems to me it's heading for much the same specialist/luxury niche in the market.
I did not look at the article, but if you need to example "let" to someone, JavaScript 1.7 (Firefox) and ECMAScript4 have exactly that: a let statement for binding lexically scoped variables.
The example autocomplete on Seatgeek.com is indeed impressively fast.

I might have to use this in my next service.
There is a fundamental difference between Deep Blue and Watson: Deep Blue truly did just do a brute force search of a decision tree. Watson does not. It employs machine learning techniques to find correlations between words in the questions and words in its (enormous) data store.

Yes, Watson is brute force compared to a human brain. But Watson is still fundamentally different than the brute-force approach of traversing decision trees of a well-defined rule set.
I guess I simplified it a little to far. "Making an effort" also involves continually examining your own behavior, testing if it is constructive and helping the situation. This sort of self examination is a very useful tool and can be applied in all facets of life, social and career.
That's the ugly part about the whole thing:

Apple takes quite a lot from the open-source community, starting at the kernel, continuing with the user-space utilities, up to the HTML rendering engine.

And at the same time they threaten open-source developers with lawsuites and/or leave patent situations deliberately unclarified (such as in the case of the patents against Freetype).
The URL isn't enough of a give-away?