skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know its not justifying the delay or loss of packages, but this is "the real life". My parents had to flee their country because of their belief. Don't tell me you are that idealistic and naive to belief that prejudices (of any kind) are something of the past.

All i am saying is, if you want to make business, dont mix it with such a "theme". I have yet to see companies like Apple or Google or whoever release products like "iMuslim" or "Google Jew", its dumb and unprofessional.

And if you happen to be that militant and want to release to biased product by all means, at least be that intelligent to not make it visible on the package. What would happen if you produce fucking dildos and you are so proud of it that you print out a hi-res picture of the product and put it on every package you send away. I wonder how many of these packages will arrive to their destination...
> Keep religion to yourself, in all endeavors.

Including posting stories to HN!
Same with osmocom.org (their site is down atm. though), but they've among many things built a GSM base band stack, running on real phones.

While certainly not intended for every day use, it's very handy to atleast have something for research and learning where you can access all the protocol layers. Just imagine the TCP/IP world if no one could ever send/receive any packet/frame/bits/protocol below the application layer.(i.e. TCP/UDP/IP/Ethernet was just a black box on a silicon chip).

That's basically the GSM world, at least until the osmocom guys made their own stack, running on cheap and old nokia phones.
I'm curious - what makes scrypt superior to bcrypt?
Previous HN discussions of Qubes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4472403
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645170
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2477667
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1796384
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246990
It's tax season: smart advice for selling your startup
Public companies have great leeway in how they present transactions. You aren't required to divulge M&A details, and they often won't be below a certain level.
Forbes.com = sensationalist drivel

Why are these posts continually upvoted?
I'd like to see it AB-tested against some gibberish non-sense written in arabic.
Development Process Shenanigans: What We Do at TripCase
7 faces of ‘hacking’ hysteria
Right now, as near as I can tell, you basically can't implement an Erlang supervision tree in Go. You don't have anything like linking, which really has to be guaranteed by the runtime to work properly at scale, so bodging something together with some 'defer' really doesn't cut it. You also can't talk about "a goroutine", because you can't get a reference or a handle to one (no such thing), you can only get channels, but they aren't guaranteed to map in any particular way to goroutines.

I've done Erlang for years and Go for weeks, so I'm trying to withhold judgement, but I still feel like Erlang got it more right here; it's way easier to restrict yourself to a subset of Erlang that looks like a channel if that is desirable for some reason than to implement process features with channels in Go.
You're assuming an lot of clever forethought on the part of Yahoo. I find it hard to believe their PR team are that cunning. It's more likely that Yahoo are desperate to rejuvenate and buying up the nearest hot startup (at whatever price it takes) is politically easier than forming an internal skunkworks to build something cool, which would be way cheaper.
In addition to being time-hard (like pbkdf2 and bcrypt), it is also space-hard.
His intent is to see what happens. I did not see anybody being apologetic.
let's not pretend that he is an innovator

C'mon, this can't be the first time you've noticed that "innovation" has been overused to the point of meaninglessness in tech. "Disruption" doubly so. Don't harp on this kid, he is no less innovative than 95+% of "innovation" I've heard about in the last year.
The Internet? Bah [post from 1995]
Introducing JayData And Kendo UI
UK snoopers charter pits privacy against security
> People that might not have much experience with generics to start with.

Well, I as someone who has professionally worked with C++ for over 5 years and used C++ templates quite a bit, I never ever needed generics in Go even once.

Why do you think is that so? Maybe because I do not force my C++ style of thinking onto what language features Go offers and instead write idiomatic Go code?

(n.b. I did more than just playing around with Go a bit, I wrote serious applications in Go some of which are in production use)
Not really. I'd rather see something I'm interested in than some random crap.
I read in forbes that this kid was supposed to write a machine learning search algorithm that would slay the titan google beast and bring balance back to the ad force.

The moral of this story? Invest in the opposite of what Forbes says will go do.
Rules are meant to be followed, not broken. That much is obvious. Occasionally, however, they deserve to be broken.
I think he means compared to a us website.
Because 140 parcels, not randomly selected, is nowhere near enough to meet the various statistical tests needed to draw meaningful conclusions.
> The site is setup to require that you watch ads

Then me running AdBlock is not an issue, as the ads will be displayed as part of that requirement. There are numerous sites that do this already.

However, if the site chooses to render the site regardless of the capabilities of my browser, I can assume it's acceptable. Just as radio stations allow me the ability to change stations when commercials come on, or I can mute the TV and not watch the ads, requiring me to consume the advertising is silly.

And yes, I know what you are saying. Blah blah blah, it's what they intend the price to be and all that jazz. But at the end of the day, if I request something from you, and you give it to me, you can't be upset if I choose to read only part of it.

Hell, I counter it's more immoral to put demands on me before I agree to it. You say it's the price of the content? Well, my counter-offer is AdBlock. Sites are free to disagree with this counter-offer. Unless bargaining is off the table.
I use https://dnsimple.com. They offer only DNS services (no web hosting). It's a bit more expensive than other registrar, but it's sooooo easy to use. The additional price is definitely worth the extra convenience. There are pre-defined templates for popular services (Heroku, Google Apps, Wordress, Blogger, etc) which will create the dns records for you. I love it and won't go back. Plus the user interface is not bloated at all, compared to what I've seen elsewhere.
Thanks - I was misremembering or had misunderstood how they had identified themselves (I was thinking they changed the name in the from address, not a much more visible piece of tape.)
Better if it was

would_you_mind {
// Code here
} i_cant_be_asked (Exception £e) {
// Politely move on
cheerio('Message');
}
This is what happens when you let HR buy software without adult supervision.
Read more carefully, please.
People often talk about the impossibility of armed revolt in a modern nuclear state. "You'd be killed on the first day," they tell me (not that I'm advocating armed revolt here, just to be clear). What they forget is that an armed revolt in the United States would still be chiefly a political act. America would have the eyes of the world on it, and there would be propaganda from both sides. America of today would be hesitant to bring the full force of its military down on a militant group if the group could successfully paint themselves as freedom fighters.

This would only work if the revs were in response to a truly tyrannical act, say if a president were to declare a state of emergency and indefinitely suspend elections. Think of the Arab Spring, Waco Texas, or the negative response to police brutality on the OWS protestors. Think of the imagery (and it would of course be filmed) of a hardy group of patriots facing off against tanks and bombers. These are powerful political images and could bring in diplomatic pressure, outside military aid, etc.

I'm not saying a revolt is likely likely to succeed, I'm just saying it more complicated than a cut and dry, "they have bigger guns, so the revolutionaries lose."
>You are confusing OOP with subtyping.

No, I am not. OOP can certainly exist without subtyping, but scala has subtyping for objects. Haskell does not have subtyping.

>I'm talking about things like the Dynamic type, existential types, HList

None of those add subtyping. What would even be subtyped?

>experiments like OOHaskell

An abandoned experiment that is not a GHC extension.

>Actually it matters the most

You are free to think that, but nothing you said after that support that notion at all. We're talking about learning functional programming for the sake of learning functional programming. Haskell is better for that than scala is. Ecosystem is entirely irrelevant.
You have a very good point. Thought process and vision are what make or break a product. As close as it is to other news aggregators, there may be a perspective that the Founder has that Yahoo team doesn't.
I'd guess less than $30 mill?
I moved to http://www.atmailcloud.com and have been really pleased with it.

It's $2 per account, you can host multiple domains under one control panel, it has email, contacts, and a calendar under one roof, and offers iPhone/iPad provisioning as well. You can also create subadmin accounts if you want to delegate responsibility for a certain domain to someone else.
The logo it's an animated gif. That's awesome. The only animated gif I ever seen on a web site that actually is stylish.
The actual statistics are in teeny tiny print near the bottom. They don't give the raw data, unfortunately.

I'd copy-paste the text here, but everything is embedded in images. (Which is absurd.)

Also, one of the four comments I can see is not like the others. (It might be removed before you see it.)
NASA technical reports database goes dark
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned OpenMoko so far: The attempt to create a truly open sourced mobile phone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openmoko

Sadly, it failed and was abandoned in 2009.
Xavier Niel, Iliad group founder, launches free programming school called 42
I think you may have been mishearing http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arsed
It is not in your best interest to be a criminal.

So why are people criminals?

We have to give up this silly notion of free will. The more we learn about the brain the more it turns out to be a fantasy.
Well, this is almost certainly illegal. (What is described by the article.) I wonder if any kind of investigation is going to follow. Perhaps not criminal, but journalistic. Freedom of speech is paramount to a broad spectrum of Americans, as far as I can tell, and I expect many would be interested.
Believe me, this is not a lottery, at least in this case. No, I don't have any facts just my intuition. I consider this more in lieu of the case how BillG got the DOS contract.
Google “Full Value Of Mobile” Calculator: Assess Mobile Marketing
Only if you try to interpret it out of context. The only subtyping in scala is on objects. Without objects, scala would not have subtyping.
Cancer patient is immortalised as 3D character in PC game
I once heard Joshua Schachter describe this kind of acquisition by a public company as "somebody in corp-dev falls in love with your product and has to have it."

In other words, it's not repeatable. This is nothing new. It happens all the time.
His intent is to see what happens. Read the sentence again
Not forgetting Mendelssohn as the prime example. Neither Mozart nor Chopin wrote anything comparable in stature to the Octet written when Felix was 16 years old. It's one
of the those pieces where within a minute or so you simply 'know' you're listening to a work of genius. Yes, entirely o/t especially on this site. Sorry!
How Steve Kamb turned Nerd Fitness into a six-figure business
I think people like to over-exaggerate the difficulty of learning Clojure. If you have one person on the team who is fluent in it, the rest of the team can pick up enough of it to be productive in days.

The place I work at used to be exclusively a java shop, we introduced Clojure for a project a year ago and everybody loved it. So, far we had co-ops learn it, contractors, and the whole team. I'm just not sure who these people who can't learn Clojure are exactly.

It might be more difficult to read initially if you've only worked with one family of languages, but that doesn't make it more difficult to read inherently. In fact, there are many benefits to readability once you're familiar with the syntax. It's a lot more regular, there's less special cases than in most languages, and you can see the relations in your code visually, since you're seeing the same AST that the compiler sees.
hg tip is very stable. If you want to start your project on Go 1.1 then just checkout the tip and use it.
You can upgrade to Go1.1 when it's released with very minor changes when it's released.
Normally I have a kneejerk reaction to someone calling someone else jealous. It always strikes me as someone projecting their own jealousy onto someone who very well may have legitimate criticism.

That having been said, it is a bit rich for Vibhu Norby to be concerned about the hurt feelings of employees by making a 17 year old a millionaire. That is an incredibly, incredibly, incredibly, narrow area of the social consequences of wealth to focus on. I have a hard time taking such a myopic point at face value.
The word 'likely' renders this technique useless.
They did some statistical tests on the data (look at the bottom of the article) which, AFAIK show that the number of boxes sent is big enough to show a significant difference between packages with atheist branding and those without them.

What is the methodological objection to the article claims?
For your forking pleasure: https://github.com/ivansafrin/Polycode
Maybe they discriminate against public display of private belief in general.
Numbers every algorithm designer should know
I had the same thoughts. You may be able to reduce bandwidth if you're doing something like responsive images (even then, over a mobile connection, I'd rather low-res images be sent to phone despite the pixel density of my screen), but at the expense of taking longer to start rendering. There's probably a sweet spot between time to render and page weight, but I think this probably makes things worse. I'd rather see things load slowly than double parse the document and see nothing but a blank web page (which i might interpret as the site being completely unresponsive).

Perceived load time is often as important as actual load time. A site that takes 10 seconds to load but spend 80% of that is showing a white screen may feel slower than a website that takes 15 seconds to load but only 10% of the time is white screen.
Good on him. Doesn't matter if it makes sense to us (it doesn't to me but hey, its not my money!). The kid got minted, his employees probably got a good deal out of it, his mum must be proud as punch. All in all, congratulations kiddo, don't spend it all at once.

What baffles me most though, is that Yahoo would conduct a CS type interview to the employees, failing some of them in the process (if that bit is true). I have over 16 years of real hard world experience and I would never dream of passing a CS type exam. Is that really a gauge of excellence?
Or Latin: http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Lingua-Romana-Perligata-0.50... http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata....

I mention this because this is no mere regex "rename the keywords" exercise either, but a decent attempt at really making Perl work in grammatical Latin.
Try MIT one, i guess that you will like. I have just started learning python ( after learning javascript ) in i find it best resource available.
In China, Yum's KFC is a luxury brand, according to my Chinese friends. It is more expensive and higher quality than its Chinese competitors.

I know that's hard to believe from the vantage point of the U.S., where KFC and Taco Bell are pretty low on the food quality scale.
How to make use of Nashorn on Java 7
I'm a former DIY Cellphone hacker, and builder of several commercial GSM telemetry systems... Even using an integrated module you'll still run into FCC certification issues. Then there's PTCRB certs, CTIA membership, and carrier certifications. Of course even if you have the money you'll realize that all of these things have been done to the integrated module (which you haven't modified) before it ever hit the market.

OpenCell - my 2008 entry into the DIY cell phone game: http://web.archive.org/web/20080709054225/http://www.widgetr...
Eurozone’s bully boys will come to regret penalising tiny Cyprus
No love for $x, $y, or $z?
Today Is Y Combinator W13 Demo Day
Another good resource :- http://learnpythonthehardway.org/
If Apple actually was using the practices listed: refurb parts, lower warranty coverage, etc. is it really a propaganda campaign? [1] Even evidence of a TV Show paying a celebrity to juice impact of their story is hardly evidence of government involvement.

The only evidence I see of government influence is in the outrage against usury being directed at the makers of aspirational products, rather than the predatory lenders. If the bank essentially is the government... you can't really bark up that tree directly. But, again, they dont' seem to have been fabricating charges against Apple.

[1] That said, I understand Apple's bind; they need lower costs and lower prices for China. So they have to do something. But it certainly sounds like they took a brand-damaging anti-user approach. (And Apple didn't seem to deny any of it.)
I thought Go 1.1 featured precise GC on the heap and conservative on the stack. Is that incorrect?
Mitosis: Hot swapping Go code while maintaining application state (golang)
BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Patents Live Streaming Protocol
I actually think this kinda makes sense. That or relationship building with the investors. Plus, Yahoo! hasn't been making any new waves for quite a while. They needed to make something happen somehow to get people excited.

The founder might be brilliant and I could be wrong about this whole relationship building with investors to try and get attraction nonsense.
World's First Bitcoin ATM Is Announced
>you can even program in a functional way without using them.

For a very tiny limited subset of programs. Anything beyond the most trivial of toy apps will use them.

>And also you can have languages which aren't putting the emphasis on FP at all and yet who have higher-order functions

Where their usefulness is seriously hampered by the language not being functional. This is the primary reason people think HoFs are no big deal. They've never gotten to actually use them in an environment designed to make good use of them.
Node.js Screenshots open sourced on Github
Let redundant slashes be our last problem on the internet.
Amen!
Also, Project Euler for "Practice Exercises and Projects", and
vim+python-mode and geany for IDE's.

python-forum.org and #python on irc.freenode.org for getting specific help.
Agree PepperFlash has some quirks, switching between the default mic and the enhanced mic (for noise cancellation) some times crashes, as well as some other odd ones. I do have twitter but I'm one of the few that don't use it (only for testing purposes :D) so best if you hit me up via email in profile.
This really does appeal to me, but I wish it didn't rely on Cassandra. That's a heavy dependency if you would otherwise have no java in your stack which many mail servers probably wouldn't. It's certainly an interesting departure from flat files or standard databases though.
“Pocket for Publishers”: Because people are actually ‘reading it later’
> - You're comparing raw PHP with frameworks from other languages. Try not using frameworks in other languages.

Then try using Perl instead of PHP, maybe, so you can have fun importing CGI libs? Because PHP is a web dev framework. Don't argue with me, argue with PHP's own history page:

"... the very first incarnation of PHP was a simple set of Common Gateway Interface (CGI) binaries written in the C programming language... Rasmus rewrote PHP Tools [so the] new model was capable of database interaction and more, providing a framework upon which users could develop simple dynamic web applications..." -- http://php.net/manual/en/history.php.php

> I'm just saying that such comparison isn't really fair.

As presented, it's absolutely fair, otherwise you're comparing a web app framework (PHP) to languages that don't have, for example, HTTP POST handling unless you import those libs.
Maybe they got some real nice licensing terms from SRI.
This is the first resource the article mentions.
The class is called "functional programming principles". As I said, if you want to learn functional programming principles, scala is a poor language to do so, as you can not focus on that subject and have to learn a ton of extra stuff as well.
God also apparently intervened against their webserver, perhaps by creating ten thousand bored hackers 15-50 years ago, who hit it from Hacker News today.
Out of 89 packages (half of the 179), 9 went missing? That's 10%.

That is insane for the US Postal Service to be allowed that, but it follows my personal experience with them. I don't think I've ever had them lose a letter in my life, but when it comes to packages I don't know how they lose so many. I shudder when I get a USPS tracking email from an online seller because I know there's fair chance I will never see the damn thing.
I agree that a larger sample would be welcomed. In particular, spreading the experiment out over many days would help eliminate a "oh all these packages are the same, they probably go here" mistake. Whilst sending them all out on the same day eliminates some sources of bias, it may have made the experiment more susceptible to other errors.
Oh. And here I was thinking that people thought for themselves. Turns out you know what they're all thinking. Cool. I'm wrong and you're right. No one could ever use a spring-loaded knife for anything but knife fights like in west-wide story.
I made a similar thing for my French company: Javascripte - Un langage pour les vrais JavaScripteurs. https://github.com/mrspeaker/javascripte/blob/master/index.h...
It's JavaScript in French (made with Sweet.js macros). All programs are required to commence with "Bonjour Ordinateur".
> At Google, our Python style guide dictates 80 characters with 2 character indenting

The style guide you linked to says indents are 4 spaces. I sense the question of indent size hasn't been solved at Google yet :-)
I find 2 to be too little, except for XML and HTML which are naturally indented many levels and there's no way to refactor into new functions or methods.

[Edit: added quote]
I wanted to wish everyone the best of luck, and I figured
most people here would appreciate the reminder, but
unfortunately I got a "posting too fast" message when trying
to use a temp/throw-away account to avoid karma gaming.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tmp_w13

Anyhow, I'm going to make popcorn and start relentlessly
reloading techcrunch.
Excel spreadsheets turned into video game
Keeping Your Startup Team Sane
I recommend taking a look at Microsoft's own hosting services (Azure). You can get either shared website hosting or VPSs running Windows or Linux.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenar...
Quite so. In the real world, things don't always have to make sense for them to happen. That counts for both good as well as bad luck.

Counting on luck, of course, is not a reliable business plan. Whether these folks deserved all the money they got or not is really a moot point - your best shot at success remains to put yourself in a position where you deserve it. You may still not achieve it, or you may grossly overachieve it, but still the best way to go overall.