skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the fair amount of FP stuff in Python in general, and certain parallels with Haskell in particular (not only e.g. comprehensions, but even the significant whitespace), the joke does not look snarky — at least, to me.
Php – Do not rely on set_time_limit too much
I wonder exactly how much access the scientists had to the raw data - TEPCO has lied before.

I would offer the journalist, all-expenses paid including food (and fed by fish caught in the general area), internet, housing, to live within 10km of the plant, for 1 year with his wife and children.

Would he take me up on the offer?

BTW, articles like this seem to show that long-term effects can be expected: http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130429/srep01742/full/srep01...
Title is misleading - it is all Western languages except English, at the least. English works perfectly (I can confirm on my Android phone, and have used it for months), but I do feel the pain for the non-English languages that face this problem.
Even with enough MIMO 802.11n devices it's still practically impossible. They essentially need access to the raw signals to do all their calculations, but this isn't provided by drivers/firmware/devices.

If you're really lucky you have a device with open source firmware [1]. However even that firmware can only interface with the PHY layer by writing to registers to change the configuration of the device. Essentially the modulation of the signals is done in hardware, and you only control MAC aspects of it (things like disabling carrier sense is possible, changing backoff behavior, inter-frame wait timings, etc). But you can't access the real signal, it's a hardware limitation, so this not possible using existing devices.

[1] https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware
You only want your core competencies to be in house. Log backups and payroll are not what differentiate you. They'll still be room for the mixers of the special sauce on the inside given the ease with which IP can disappear in other outsourcing countries.
This assumes that there isn't already a pre-existing relationship with the current contractor and that the quality of work provided by all contractors are the same. It's also saying you can get up to speed with the new contractor/service right away. Not saying it's not possible but there are some switching costs involved.
Oh, and I like the tactic of posting and then editing a little while later to make your post look better. Seen you do that twice now.
"5GHz" really means 4.915GHz-5.825GHz, the frequencies in which 802.11n is allowed to operate. You could split that up into many 10MHz wide "channels" of non-overlapping frequencies.
The process described here -- event sourcing -- is of somewhat limited utility alone; as the article notes it is limited to relatively small data sets (because, as commenters have noticed, you magnify the size of the data and the cost of queries when you do this), but some of the key benefits (such as avoiding issues with locking) mainly come into play with high frequency of updates, and small data size, high-frequency-update applications aren't necessarily all that common.

The article doesn't really address where Event Sourcing is most useful, which is when it is used on the "write" side of a system with CQRS (Command-Query Responsibility Segregation) architecture.

See (among a vast volume that has been written on the combination of these techniques): http://cqrs.wordpress.com/documents/cqrs-and-event-sourcing-...
The Unscheduled Demo Call
Yes, it separates financial liability from personal assets. Another good reason that I forgot to mention.
I have ordered one and I can't wait to do some prototyping with this, occulus rift, and leap motion together.
I believe many repair shops do a CP scan as a matter of course as a way to aid the authorities in catching predators.
Fireplug, useful to 'get credit' for what you read (think check-in via Foursquare. Track topics you've been reading, how you stack up against other readers, discover content recommended by other 'experts'..

<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fireplug/mcdpcejkg... >
It's as B-Com said. The window manager. I used to use Emerald. There was no way you could consistently draw in the titlebar across all the themes available for it.
>My email should be visible

Sorry but can't seem to find that in your profile page
Crunching subway data – a New Yorker’s busiest stations
https://news.ycombinator.com - just to get that one out of the way.
I cannot downvote you (I dunno why, several people I cannot downvote, others I can... someone know the rules regarding that?)

But I am guessing most people that downvoted you, did because you was pedant, not really defending a point.

I myself appreciate the correct info... Although I still think the manner done was pedant.
I'll draw a parallel. It's a crime to kill yourself, so it's also a crime to TRY and kill yourself. Arguably it's so that people who attempt suicide can be institutionalized to get them through a rough patch, but you have the same untenable situation. A crime with no victim.
ComputerWorld's "five years" is like Tom Friedman's "six months" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_Unit)
A Personal History of Compilation Speed, Part 2
Thankfully, the designs that can be used to produce weapons grade material are also the ones that are the least safe. If people opt for the old designs, it will be obvious what their intentions are.
It's a shame, though totally understandable, that we won't see these sorts of games without pay to win mechanisms on mobile. They seem perfectly suited for mobile, but even if you charged monthly I doubt you'd make this sort of money.
I haven't edited the post, I'd appreciate that you don't make false statements.
The suggestion for proper math support in Feedly has 125 votes. You can add your vote: https://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions/sugge...
Tiny Tower doesn't have regular content updates, and TT is relatively simple compared to the *ville games. Plus Zynga is not going to have every one of their employees working directly on a project. They have in-house accountants, marketers, recruiters, etc. I'm guessing Nimblebit goes to other companies for some of those services, and goes without for the others.
Inferior to what, exactly? Christianity?

If the beef is with religion in general, it begs the question of why focus on muslims?

I have friends who are practicing muslims, jews, christians, hindi and buddhist. They're good people.
Ask HN: Want to grab coffee in NY?
I'm here in NY (Midtown East) for the week. Most recently our startup, Chime (chimeapp.com) was acquired by HubSpot. My twitter is @fahdananta.

I'm free in the evenings so send me an email (f[dot]ananta[at]gmail[dot]com) if you want to grab coffee and chat startups.
Feedly "Firefox only"... I'm not sure that list is reliable
Sorry, I'm from NYC - I know what SF and SJ are, what are Pen and PA and N. and E.?
> Sure, it's a low probability event for each of us, but in my opinion those consequences are unacceptable for essentially any probability of occurrence.

This is not rational fear. The non-nuclear energy industry is not perfectly safe. Coal mining results in many deaths both from the dangers of mining and the pollution caused. Oil mining results in some deaths and a fair few major ecological disasters. Solar power and wind power kill people as well (falling from a roof or having a turbine fall on you are both potentially life-ending).

According to this site (http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/03/deaths-per-twh-for-all-ener...), Nuclear is the safest in terms of human death by far. This is just a blog post, so grain of salt, but it illustrates that your "unacceptable for essentially any probability" claim is not rational.
By far the greatest damage of pedophilia is the shame, stigma, and secrecy. Ironically, if pedophilia were treated less harshly, it would do less damage to victims, and possibly easier to discover and prevent.
Thanks for checking it out. We show updates only if there is something new since you last visited so you will not see the widget on every visit. Also, if you don't want to see it anymore, you can unsubscribe in one click.

Also with analytics you can see how your users are reacting. If you guys have any other ideas, we would love to chat more.
Always makes me laugh. Most people can't describe what they want done to a person, let alone a computer.
> there are a significant chance of surviving a car accident, but almost none at all of a plane one.

Also, the charts of fatalities by travel mode that I've seen have already screened out the non-fatalities. If you died in a car accident, no matter how un/likely it was, you're 100% dead.
A simple display of converting from displacement mode to planing mode is being a waterskier. An enormous force trying to pull your arms out of their sockets while neck deep in the water while going like 2 knots, then once you are standing on the skis on the water its not uncomfortable anymore.
They're going to have to pry Klipfolio 5 from my cold, dead, internet-hands. I still find it the most awesome RSS reader - as a bonus, you can program it to do pretty much anything as it is a full-fledged KPI program. v.5 is the last consumer-oriented one they put out, after which it disappeared, but you are still able to find it about. Give it a try if you like a desktop version!
I completely agree with this article. When you notice that your work has no real meaning to the company, it kills your motivation nearly instantly.
I just stay because of the money and put my real efforts into some nice open source projects which actually matter.
[Replying here due to HN's threading limits. This is in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825892]

Anyway, I fail to see a significant difference between Finder and Chrome's appearance: http://i.imgur.com/sgfMXOy.png

If Chrome was full of tabs, the ~20px area to drag the window around is arguably a bit small, but it'd look ridiculous if there was a huge margin above the tabs.
DC as well, although there are dozens of historical accidents in how its borders came to be.

Counter-examples are St. Louis and (I think) Minneapolis.

What about in other climates/non-western cities? Does north/south apply in Sydney? Beijing?
Solar and wind might be the alternative for powering your TV and AC. They will not power the advanced scientific and engineering projects of the future. For instance the Large Hadron Collider uses twice as much electricity in a year as the entire city of Geneva. It's possible to conceive of a physics experiment that uses orders of magnitude more. What if we discover that "warp drive" is possible, but takes enormous amounts of energy? Wouldn't you want to try to do it?

If we want a Star Trek future--spaceships, advanced materials, anti-gravity, incredible new technologies, etc.--we are going to need to iteratively develop denser and more powerful energy sources. These will also have denser and more powerful failure modes. So our engineering also needs to get iteratively better.
Poll: how do you encrypt your files in the cloud?
Most people i know use some sort of file-sync/cloud solution like dropbox, google-drive or skydrive.

So, iam curious hn. How do you encrypt your precious data in the cloud?
EncFS
BoxCryptor
Cloudfogger
Viivo
GnuPG
password protected zip/rar/dmg...
none of the listed here (please specify in comments)
i don't encrypt my files
i don't use cloud-storage
Do you have anything specific in mind that you find missing? We just launched and we are hungry for feedback to improve.

Also, we have a JS API that lets you customize quite a bit - https://whatsnew.io/docs. Thanks!
Indeed. I have meant "the only thing that has changed in the article are the buzzwords"; the industry is of course very different from what it was in 2000.
Thanks for this very lucid comment. Even people who've been working with linear algebra for years have trouble wrapping their heads around the fact that rotations in 3D have eigenvalues and eigenvectors that aren't real.
Funny how the future is rarely what people predict. I still love those GM movie reels from 1955 about the flying cars of 1990. The future was planetary exploration, rocket ships and flying cars. Easy access to information wasn't even on the radar.
Ditto London
Why Flat Design Doesn't Work
A Case for the Founder who Gets It
Just a quick note, you have Feedly as "Chrome, iOS, Android", but it also has at least a Firefox plugin.
Which highlights the problem with fear - when you look down the list of leading causes of death, you basically have a million terrible diseases (cancer, heart disease, alzheimer's etc.)... but once you get out of the "disease" territory, the big killer? Cars.

Probably the most avoidable, most pointless way to die... but we think nothing of driving everywhere, of putting our kids in cars (children don't get much in the way of heart disease or alzheimers, so automotive accidents are pretty close to the top for them).

So yeah, I have trouble respecting the public's perception of danger.
Not suprising for the nouveau riche. My buddies and I have witness acts like this so often, we nick-named it the "tude", as in attitude.

From the asshole that parks his Hummer sideways in 2 handicap spots to stupid brats that trash resturants and laugh at the staff, it's really stupid behavior. The "old money" knows better than this and mostly stays off the radar of the rest of the public.
Clash of Clans on iOS is doing well..
supercell is making 1 mil a day off of microtransactions?

former_zyngite:

So much more than 1m a day from what I understand. Yes.
Clash of Clans is doing well. That's the understatement
of the year.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1fpbv1/i_was_one_of_th...
For under $1,000 you can easily build a significant home automation system.

http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2315509011
YaST is being rewritten in Ruby; Geeko gets a nosejob
here's are some words good people from webrtc had to say:
http://pastebin.com/vGrmH1LG
can they make it obey osx keyboard shortcut overrides like for Select Next/Previous Tab and Zoom?
When Uninstalling a PC Game Erases the Entire Hard Drive
Extremist Muslims are bad. Terrorists are bad. I do not support terrorism, Islamic or otherwise.

What you think you are writing and what you are actually writing appear to be two different things. You should work on that.
SAP Acquires Hybris
The design for Lego's headquarters in Billund, Denmark
I'm not as heavy an RSS user as I was, but I use newsbeuter. Minimal, light, fast.

http://www.newsbeuter.org/
Ah I see. I originally had it as "Web" but then it only showed me Chrome (because I'm using Chrome). Changed back to Web since they have addons for FF and Safari too. Sorry IE :-p users
Show HN: Geotagged tweets live on Google Maps
Life on Earth shockingly comes from out of this world
Early Earth was not very hospitable when it came to jump starting life. In fact, new research shows that life on Earth may have come from out of this world. Lawrence Livermore scientist Nir Goldman and University of Ontario Institute of Technology colleague Isaac Tamblyn (a former LLNL postdoc) found that icy comets that crashed into Earth millions of years ago could have produced life building organic compounds, including the building blocks of proteins and nucleobases pairs of DNA and RNA.
No fancy node.js or whatever (for now) because it is my first somewhat more complex work with JS, but it does what it is supposed to do.
The title only refers to CoC.
This hardly even saves any LOC over the original two versions, and requires the reader to understand these new annotations. This is what happens when programmers get obsessed with some arbitrary notion of "elegance": they fiddle with the fundamental semantics of a language to save a couple lines of code and end up with an unreadable mess of cute tricks piled on cute tricks.

If only Python supported multi-line lambdas...
You can also draw parallels with Go's approach to interfaces, and Go is not the pioneer in using this approach. Or you can draw parallels with extension classes in C# or Scala.

This is a sort of pretty common stuff, imho. Not some crown jewel Python has snatched from a unique language that was the only one to implement it.

I use Python since ~1999, and had a chance to observe how the language has imported a number of approaches from other languages, usually to a great benefit of its users. This is one more step. Note how it does not introduce a single bit of new syntax or backward incompatibility, btw.
Installing FreeIPA With Replication
IRC integration with your GitHub projects
Redesign away, as long as pentadactyl keeps working.
Used liferea for years. Using it now. Will continue using it.

Tangentially, it saddens me to see people forgetting about simple native desktop apps - no getting shut down; no ads; no obnoxious social bullshit; just simple tools that succeed based on being useful rather than getting their users hooked and spamming their contacts for attention...
> Actually, fossil fuel power plants release more radioactive waste than nuclear ones.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#Comparing_radioac....

That surprised me, but I didn't mean to say that fossil fuel power plants are a great alternative.

> Progress has created a lot of problems, but we can't really slow down in any significant way. Our only hope is to use our momentum to find solutions.

I'm not saying we should go back to not having energy at all. But it seems like there's quite a bit of potential for saving energy without seriously lowering anyone's quality of life.

For instance, does 50% of the population have to commute in a big car every day? That doesn't sound like progress to me.

The US's per capita energy consumption is more than twice that of the UK [1], is there really no way to save some of that?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_con...
My favorite bit of this history is that the first Lisp interpreter was written in Lisp.
They are tracking all our movements via Wi-Fi
Growing up in a Christian household (in Canada) it was common knowledge that Mary must have been really young. Not just my family, but family friends, talking about how people long ago had a shorter childhood. It was even mentioned in church. I've never run into a single person that was upset about it.
You can't make this argument in a vacuum. You need to compare it to the alternatives - most energy today is generated by burning fossil fuels, which might be the way to a global environmental apocalypse. An old mine containing dangerous chemicals seems pretty mild compared to depopulating Mexico.

Now obviously 100% clean means like wind and solar are preferred, but are those really viable at a global level?
I don't find the story hard to believe at all. There have been several prominent cases very closely resembling this story reported in the US, so I'm not surprised that these things can happen in the culturally similar UK. Some of the stories also involved repair technicians working on a laptop; some involved workers at photo shops, back when people still took their film in for development. Some of the people being prosecuted had taken pictures of clothed children in public, but the police judged that the photographs were dirty. I realize this comment would be more useful with links, but I don't have the time right now.
Thanks for the reply Tezro. I think it's really unfortunate that leadership doesn't recognize how money might drive retention but that impact drives engagement.

I read a quote somewhere that read like 'passion leads to energy, energy leads to productivity and productivity leads to results.'

What kind of situation were you in/what kind of fruitless work did you find yourself doing?
Now you are talking about surprise evidence not disclosed during pretrial discovery, which is a wholly different issue from a right to remain sient.
What are you talking about? Your first sentence seems to be gibberish and your example of a crime actually details a sentence.

It's a minority crime - everyone speeds, drinks underage, steals office stationary. The vast majority of people don't find children sexually attractive.
Basecamp Breeze closing 1st August
Thae addons page says that pentadactyl does not work on FF 21. What is the deal with that?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pentadactyl/
Breeze got closed down: http://f.cl.ly/items/3i0L021e3M252a022a0p/Screen%20Shot%2020...

A one off price for a SaaS product feels a bit like the software version of a ponzi scheme.
Apple poised for hiring spree in Silicon Valley
nah, catholic priests love nude kids.
It also assumes the contractors refuse to use lucidcharts, which when faced with the possibility of losing business, seems unlikely to me.
I hope it works out for them, but I've had a similar experience.
>> Bill Gates could probably easily get away with stuff like this too.

The difference is that Gates doesn't do stupid things like this because Gates knows that he is a public figure. He hires people who know what they're doing and invests his time and energy in PR. Parker, Zuckerberg, and others seem to think that they can enjoy the benefits of being public figures when they want to and then turn it off when they don't. It doesn't work that way.

Also, why doesn't Parker have anybody around him to tell him that building a fake ruined castle in Big Sur is not going to look good in the press? If I was him and I read this article, I'd be figuring out who had my best interests at heart and who was just hanging on for the money.
Well, it kind of did: when was the last time you saw Cobol? But that's just a complicated way of saying "invisibility != nonexistence" ;)
Even worse - the risk is not water breaking in, since that's already happening. The risk is total collapse and contamination of the ground water: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asse_II_mine

So now the plan is to retrieve all the waste and store it - this time better at an estimated cost of at least 4 - 6 billion Euro.

The general problem I have with nuclear power is that it's all fine and dandy as long as everything goes as planned. If not, then everything goes boom in a big way. And where humans and profits are involved, plans tend not to involve all failure modes: The explosions in fukushima could have been avoided using catalytic recombinators which are for example mandatory in germany [1].

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaktorsicherheit#T.C3.B6pfer-K... (sorry, german)
I see mostly good things instead of drawbacks about NewsBlur on this list...
Didn't know it existed... that said.. this is how you discontinue a product. Say sorry, send the client their data, recommend alternatives. Well done.

Far better than past attempts by Yahoo, Google, Aqui-hires who shutter a product and leave it to clients to figure out how to get their data out.
I want to say a few things:

* I also heard that "IT Doesn't Matter" - that article by Nicholas G. Carr from the early 2000's.

* yes there is an overarching trend towards the consumerization of IT, but also IT operations is bleeding into development via devops. Therefore did IT disappear or just evolve or migrate?

* basically the article says the business side of the house has more power nowadays and in the future as apps/processes get more cloudified. Or antoher way to put it, the business end gets more autonomous with what tools they use.
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* you will still have IT people. Just they will be doing different things. possibly less skilled? So as we all know, they need to evolve or be crushed as we face a global race to the bottom for wages.
I do not disagree with the article. I've been living in Silicon Valley for 15+ years now. When I first came, my office mate told me "You know you're in Silicon Valley, when you stop asking "How much will it cost" and start asking "How long will it take". I've seen lots of examples of things like this behavior, from people taking the car pools lanes to save time, to Steve Jobs parking in handicap spots. Whether or not it's smarter to beg for forgiveness vs ask for permission is another issue, but I've seen this behavior often around here.
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