skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, understood about the HTML formatting. That's something that HN shoved into my writing. Not sure why.
You can actually do functional programming in Go. Lack of generics just means you have to think harder.

In fact, a friend of mine did a Go library to write functional-style code: https://github.com/tcard/functional
The TechCrunch Writer and Contributor Model
Shouldn't it be 'Wish I were here'?
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LOL the problem with Keynes is during eras when he's not discredited people do whatever they want including the exact opposite of his ideas yet call it Keynesianism, and during the other eras (like now) when he's completely discredited that trashes his credibility about topics unrelated to his more famous ideas, like your tax idea. So quoting Keynes is pretty much a lose-lose situation regardless of era.

A large part of his failure is assuming his so called "dominant financial speculators" and the government overall or at least the financial regulators would not simply merge, which they've done. Therefore even if his tax was a good idea instead of an inherently dumb one, rather than being implemented correctly it would just be another crony capitalism weapon probably wielded exclusively as a club to pound down the "wrong" people, it would hardly be used to control the dominant financial speculators because they're the guys who purchased the elected officials to begin with!
He didn't ask for nothing. He asked for zero salary along with the highest profit sharing percentage in the industry. He works as a prop trader and hedge fund manager, so his value delivered is totally quantifiable. In othe words, he offered to take on more risk in exchange for a higher percentage return in a business where it's hard for your employer to be dishonest about exactly how much value you delivered.
Often my Google search leads me to a Wikipedia page, is there a browser extension that takes you to the Wiki page if it exists but otherwise dumps you to Google results? If not someone should write one because it would be convenient.
will unity (player at least) someday work on linux?
I soooo wish there was a firefly kickstarter!!!
Some interesting context/speculation from my submission on this yesterday [1].

"The Twitter data stream has been available to high frequency traders since at least 2009. That's when a company called StreamBase began to incorporate Twitter in the firm's "complex event processing" service, which is basically a platform that aggregates data from a vast array of sources for hedge funds and investment banks." [2]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5598632

2: http://www.businessinsider.com/trading-robots-are-reading-tw...
Funniest thing I've ever read. The author ironically has a base font size of 11px set on the body tag if you inspect the CSS... His point has been completely invalidated, lets move on, there's nothing to see here.
I'm sure they tried. But Flash was a dead letter on iOS once Apple decided on the App Store.
That special feeling of "Powered by"
Paypal President: We're thinking about adding Bitcoin (2:50) [video]
I think the point is that the someone should verify the information before reacting on it. Of course you can argue about where in the chain of verification to stop at and how many sources to verify, but I believe that's the basic point. One tweet probably shouldn't be considered the truth for events like the one reported.
The Retirement Gamble
Actually a small class of attackers - script kiddies with a commonly available file explorer tool and physical access to your phone.
Personally I would love to see Jericho picked up again!
This. Why is no one talking about this massive elephant in the room? Mailbox wants you to trust it (and its employees) with (reversibly-encrypted? I haven't used the app but I don't know how it could provide all its features without this) access to and storage of your Gmail account and all your emails?! I barely trust Google with that.

This article just helps compound the idea that that trust might be a little misplaced....
"flying car" is just the modern version of "faster horse"
Personally I find its dependency resolution to be one of the highlights of Go, and furthermore since circular dependencies are disallowed then that eases maintaining much larger and more complex codebases.
I just don't see it. I'm much older than you and have had no problems.

You mention too many jobs. What is your duration at such? If your history shows a consistent pattern of moving on every 18mo or so, it will raise flags about your commitment level. It has nothing to do with age at that point for many people I know when they look at resumes. Of course, the other end of that is many years at the same org can raise questions if it shows a lack if advancement.
well never mind then, if you won't even plug the phrase into Google to get a laugh, I can't help you!
Find it hard to believe he would have trouble financing that elsewhere or out of his own pocket.
The discussion about fees is extremely important and the following is a sample:

Those are the fees that they charge.

Fees, expenses, portfolio turnover inside of the fund, sales loads, advisory fees, operating expenses — take them all out, and the net return divided up by investors is what’s left. So costs are a crucial part of the equation.

And a lot of people say, “So what?” Well, think about this. We’re lucky enough to get a 7 percent return on the market. That means it should not surprise anybody that investors as a group divide up 7 percent. Suppose it costs two percent — maybe a little bit high but in the ballpark — to gain that return. Then investors who grossed 7 percent will net 5 percent.

Now, when the market’s going up, as it did in the ’80s and ’90s, at 17 percent a year, 2 percent doesn’t seem like much. But it’s an awful lot. And if you compound a 7 percent and the 5 percent return over, say, 50 years, let’s call that an investment lifetime — well, in fact the investment lifetime is longer than that — something like 70 percent of the market return goes to the purveyors of the services, Wall Street if you will, and 30 percent goes to the fund owners.

So it’s greatly underrated, in part because we’re all so short-term-focused. We don’t think about investing for a lifetime. [1]

Again, as an example, over the lifetime of your investment, a 2% fee will consume about 70% of it. (And most companies do not offer no- or very-low-fee funds in their retirement offerings.)

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/business-economy-fin...
I think perhaps there is an increasing tendency to design one UI for every platform (touch screen tablets, desktops etc.) and to favour consistency across platforms rather than proper integration within each platform. So if right-click is difficult to emulate on a touch screen, then often the desktop version of a program available for touch-screen devices won't make good use of right-click either.

It is perhaps part of a larger trend to try and solve UI problems for tablets and phones, then push the solutions back to the desktop, despite the fact the desktop didn't suffer from the problem they attempted to solve.
We have two differing definitions of functional programming. I would argue that your code represents functional style in an imperative language.

If function pointers are sufficient to qualify a language as a functional, then that would include C/C++.

In contrast, Rust has support for the standard functional language primitives.[0][1][2]

[0]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/core/vec.html#function-map

[1]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/core/vec.html#function-foldl

[2]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/core/vec.html#function-filte...
Instead of private (darknet) bittorrenting I'd rather have a solution for all those files with few seeders who are half dead, in the cloud. It's easy to torrent the latest episode. Everyone is in on that. But what about the long tail? We need a different scheme there.

My idea would be to lump together all the files in a huge torrent. That would inevitably attract many peers, so the problem would be solved if users did selective downloading, as the whole would be too large for any one of them.

The system would need to use some disk space and bandwidth from each peer to host some shards of the whole. Not all the data in the mega-torrent would be downloaded, just some sensible section of it, like, say, 5GB. Between 1000 users, we could have 1TB of files. With a million, we could have a huge library. This way we could have enough seeds for any part of the whole. Of course, it would need a way to add new stuff on the fly and balance the replicas.

tl;dr - I'd rather have a solution for rare torrents. I'm worried for all the content that is not "hot enough". We could amass a huge library of rare stuff, in time.
I think it's great that you can get a cheap phone with good functionality.

What I don't think is great is tying your phone to WhatsApp. It's great that it runs WhatsApp, but what happens when something new and better comes along? All of a sudden your phone doesn't look so hot and the button is a constant reminder that it's physically tied to an old app.

I would be much more interested in a simple cheap phone that provided an accessible button that allowed you to customize what it loaded. That way you could link it to WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, or whatever app you use the most.
The key to longevity in engineering is:
1) develop an expertise;
2) develop management skills.

I know lots of guys working as engineers in their 50's. People hire them, because they have an expertise. Not a niche just by virtue of being old (like COBOL) but a problem domain they know inside and out. Nobody is tossing out their 45 year old engineer that works on carrier grade network software in favor of a fresh graduate.
Yes, but I suppose it's that way on purpose. Bugs me too, though.
I thought that every time the title was mentioned in the body copy.
Your anecdotal evidence counters research data, and hn votes it to the top. How cute.
Me too. Also, If the phone company makes it to where I can't use my 2400 baud modem anymore I am canceling my account.
Let it go, Indy. Firefly lay down for good to rest in serenity.
The two best programmers I've met were over 50.

In my personal experience (I'm 36) I get better with every line of code I write. I'm a far better programmer now than I was 10 years ago.
Of course it isn't. But I can't imagine why the AP would want anyone to send tweets on their behalf from a mobile phone.

Maybe there isn't a single solution that meets the needs of every user.
Not available in UK because of geographical restrictions.

Except it obviously is available, albeit not legally, in the UK. It's on torrent sites, it's on Usenet, I could use a proxy, etc.

I'm sure there are reasons to prevent someone outside the US from watching this free pilot. But I won't pretend that I care what those reasons are.
For me it is mainly a C successor that catches up with what the Pascal family of languages has been offering since the mid-80's, in terms of compilation speed, modules, concurrency and safety.
Ask HN: Building an app to make real-world conversations searchable. Want it?
We’re working on Retrospect (http://goretro.co), an app that sits in the background and intelligently records location and audio from your day-to-day interaction with the world. It lets you access your real-world conversations just like you might search your email. Look for things like “conversations with Sarah at Starbucks” or “Baseball games I’ve gone to with my Dad”, then play back the recorded moment.

We’re launching sign-ups for our free beta starting today if you’d like to try it out.

What do you think? Would you use something like this?
As was said on the Kickstarter page, he could.

But then again he would potentially lose final cut, character choice, location choice etc.
> You should be extremely careful not to override the native keyboard shortcuts of the browser.

Yes. Please heed this Facebook, Twitter and all the other sites that hijack '/' to do a search. That already means "Find in page" in Firefox.
Flying cars will never be accepted in our societies until they completely eliminate the reliance on the user. If they are fully automated from point A to point B, all the time, then I could see us having flying cars eventually. But it could take another few decades at least.
> Lack of generics just means you have to think harder.

Or use other languages that are more developer friendly.
F.E.A.R.'s AI was supposed to work this way, I do believe.

http://web.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/gdc2006_orkin_jeff_fear.pdf
With the way he kept on saying "Adam and me" I'm not sure if he's trying to be relatable or if he just speaks that way.
I don't know for you but i am totally moving to MW

I see no better alternative https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=...
Whedon had said he doesn't have time for at least 3 more years: http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/joss-whedon-on-kickstarter...
Tips for editing a manuscript efficiently
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A very large amount of this is "Moving to a statically typed language".

1. "Different assignment operator is used depending on whether you are inside & outside of function ie. = vs :="

= is an assignment, := is a declaration and assignment at the same time. It's true that you can't := outside a function (which I think is silly), but the comparison should be between these two:

var foo string = "Hello"
foo := "Hello"

2. "Else (or else if) has to be formatted properly, where the else is on the same line as the curly bracket from the if clause. Weird."

Whereas, coming from Python where indentation matters. Weird :-) Both are style conventions enforced by the language.
Apple’s $145 Billion in Cash Fails to Win AAA Debt Rating
The Twitter Game, Google’s Bin and Other Force Multipliers
Ui testing on android got you down? try a shot of espresso #gtac2013
How big is God's database?

God says...

offering for ever.

3:15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the
house of the LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.

3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he
answered, Here am I.

3:17 And he said, What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee?
I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if
thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.

3:18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he
said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.

3:19 And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of
his words fall to the ground.

3:20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was
established to be a prophet of the LORD.

----

Long hauling?

God says...

C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

flax given to cover her nakedness.

2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers,
and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new
moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.

2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath
said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will
make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

2:13 And I will visi
This theory should be strongly coupled to a culture. In many countries this will just never work.
It's interesting to see how celebrity doesn't necessarily lead to huge wins on KS. Veronica Mars raised almost $3MM on day 1. Melissa Joan Hart launched a Kickstarter over a week ago and was met with a very weak response, $$30K over two weeks.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/318676760/darcis-walk-of...

Zach Braff has more indie cred, but lacks the cult following Veronica Mars had. If Braff stalls at around $1MM and MJH's maxes out at $50K, I wonder if that will be the last we see of celebrities for a while? It must be a pretty huge blow to the ego seeing that your celebrity isn't quite as bankable as you hoped.
Apps at negative price points. Meaning they pay you to download/use.
Huh, weird.
I think he meant journalists are the ones checking and distinguishing between real and distinguishing/false information.
No. It's an uncertain Bayesian world. You evaluate on the probabilities. Given a 20% chance that tweet is true, then what is the S&P worth now? Less. So you act. You don't sit around waiting to find out...
Twitter's Act of suspending Hackers Accounts looks like CISPA
Go: channel chaining pattern
Return business class flights in Australia to Los Angeles can be at least $15K.
Show HN: Healthy Break Pro (iOS app)
Clickable link: http://apps.cerait.com/healthybreakpro/
Switching from Python to GO is a big boost in speed and a big sacrifice in terms of third party code.
Healthy Break Pro app is designed to motivate you and remind you when time is to take a short break and do appropriate exercises. Instructions and pictures are provided for each exercise.
Twitter has a direct impact on the markets. Here is how I know:

There are news services that are dedicated to delivering important information that could affect markets as quickly as possible. I heard the news from one of these services directly before the market seriously dropped. The important question is why the markets reacted the way they did. There seems to be a sentiment that these sorts of moves are catastrophic and avoidable, but the reality is that these are movements reacting to real information from the environment that will affect the future state of economics. When bad news develops, more efficient markets drop faster in anticipation for this current or future event. This means that the information, or the bad event, has been diffused among the population.

With the AP situation, the news of such an extreme terrorist act would surely cause unbalance throughout Western economies; disrupting peace, supply chains, and many companies. This would have a direct impact on equities like the DOW. Within two minutes of the fake tweet, it was reported as being fake and the markets rebounded. In fact, I would guess that the majority of people hurt by this volatility spike were market making or algorithmic traders. They either were directly linked to twitter text feeds, selling on the way down and buying at the top of the retracement; or dump positions put on earlier in the morning. Of course, if the event happened, these traders would have been the winners.

The problem with this current situation is that the high-speed news delivery services spread this fake tweet without any verification (except trust that the AP feed is trust-worthy), and people with direct access to these services were most likely individuals with access to trading accounts, allowing them to drop a variety of assets, most notable the DOW or S&P.
Extremely High Salary
Say for an example, you are an absolute beast at Ruby on Rails (and negotiation). How high should your salary be?

Also, what are some of the most highest paid technical skills? Is it still low level stuff like machine language and C++?

Thanks HN, I appreciate it.
OED, OAAD, Webster's all say either form is considered correct. Language is a living thing. "Was" was correct before "were" was proscribed by the Latinizers. Now they're deemed equally correct.
It's not just celebrity. Melissa Joan Hart's project just doesn't seem like it has much thought to it. "Oh they can do it for Veronica Mars, so let me do it too." The project video wasn't great. Plus the premise isn't known at all -- not saying a movie about "Clarissa Explains It All" would be successful, but it would have been more successful.

Someone at my work jumped out of her seat when I mentioned the Veronica Mars project to her. Zach Braff might not have the cult following, but at least he has the Reddit community and Scrubs/Garden State fans to at least get him to reach his goal. Many of the perks for the Veronica Mars project were filled quickly, which slowed down the funding after the big spike, so we'll see what happens with Zach Braff's movie.
It's kind of silly. Fake news reports move markets...it happens [1]. This wasn't a crash...it was a 1% drop with an almost immediate recovery. There are definitely problems related to liquidity providers exiting the market too fast and not being subject to enough regulations, but twitter is a great news distribution platform.

Also, why do we want flying cars? Is it just because they're cool or because we want a faster commute and less traffic. Maybe we can get those effects from ground based robotic cars. I think that might not be that far off.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/business/worldbusiness/08i...
Netflix paid $3M for each new episode of AD. I doubt Kickstarter would have changed anything.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/03/netflix/
Oh for sure, I simply meant you get to focus your efforts on learning/networking/etc full-time for a week which is rare for most of us working folks.
Is that the kind of template you are talking about ?
http://www.goodprint.co.uk/landing/business_card_f?ref=k&...

the idea might be valuable (simplifies people's work), but you probably want to avoid eating the huge market of business cards. There are dozens of them.
Plus, you may want to validate your idea first. I'd be cautious about the fact that customers are ready to have the same template than others when they call a designer. :S.

Other than that, I find the idea seducing
AS3 is awesome and is what javascript should have been.

The flash IDE is great for vector graphics , animation ,and game assets.

AIR is great , but there is a lot of untaped potential , and Adobe doesnt seem to be interested in making that product grow.

Adobe could run it's player on a js vm, but does Adobe want to now ?

Adobe is relaunching a new version of Director , that would make it a unity competitor.(i'm one a beta tester of the next director).
You should customize the bootstrap variable that controls the navbar collapsing width.

There's no need for a collapsing navbar if it has just one item that easily fits on all widths.
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My brother and I created a version of Monopoly called "Mad" Monopoly, where all of the cash (minus about $2000) was divided evenly between the players at the start, all properties could be developed as soon as they were purchased (no need to own the set), and you could build up to 4 hotels on any property (including utilities).

All rents were calculated by extrapolating the original rents, and you could engage in loans at arbitrary interest rates with other players.

I'm amazed how much this crazy game resembles the current world economy, and I'm convinced that the current economical power-brokers have the same attitude to real money as my brother and I had to Monopoly money when we were 10 or 11.
I remember reading about the issue in a book called "This New Ocean"
apparently by the time Apollo was on the go NASA had to ask the military to position the ships off to the side of the splashdown zone - the guidance improved so dramatically they were afraid of hitting the carrier directly
Crypto Cloud Skewers Itself With Defamation Claim
Secure deployment of PostgreSQL functions
in chrome at least, start typing "wiki" in the url bar (if it's a common site you go to), hit tab, and then your search term, it'll search and bring you to the wikipedia site. This works for most searchable sites you've recently visited, Amazon, youtube, ebay, etc.