skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean hack in a derogatory way, I think its a fairly elegant solution in many ways just that to my knowledge it doesn't really change the static/dynamic type and is just a simple compiler transformation.

I should have mentioned that I know even less about scala then c#. I/m not quite sure how implicits are implemented/optimized but I'm pretty sure you can have inheritence/overiding traits as implicits.
Don't forget the other major problem that civilization solved really well: infant mortality. (Unless you take the Malthusian perspective and see it as a boon to population management.)
It's described in the article as well:

"Finally, after several days on the island, the party stumbled across an elderly couple who were too old to run away, and several small children. Portman brought the two adults and four of the children back to Port Blair. But the man and the woman soon started to get sick and then died, probably from exposure to Western diseases like smallpox, measles, and influenza, to which they would have had little or no resistance. So Portman returned the four children to North Sentinel Island and released them with gifts for the rest of the tribe. The children disappeared into the jungle and were never seen again. "
http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_23676390?source=comme...
Microsoft willingly developed backdoors into their systems for the NSA. They were actively developing ways to help the NSA.

Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook, etc. have lost trust because of this whole spying thing. To say that these companies were somehow "victims" is troubling to me. As far as I can tell the Constitution of the U.S.A is the law. Anything introduced to purposely subvert the constitution is illegal and should be challenged.

With companies like Google who have a lot of weight (money) to just hand over anything private to the NSA without actually calling them on it, is disturbing. These NSA programs have been going on for a very long time; collecting everyone's (american AND their allies) private communications. I'm sorry, but victim? No way. Instead of keeping to the "cloud" mentality there could have been more work on protecting users with proper encryption techniques. No body has done this. Yes, Yahoo may have lost in secret, but they also didn't fight the NSA's spying by creating technologies or build upon current technologies to protect their users.

I trusted Google to keep my gmail/youtube/etc. information private for me and those whom I talk to. Advertisements bothered me, yes, so I stopped communicating about confidential things to do with business, etc. I have been a Google user since a week after gmail was introduced.

I have deleted all my connections to Google thanks to these revelations.

In order for Google, Facebook or Microsoft to gain my trust again, there needs to be innovation in the encryption world where I can seamlessly encrypt ON THE CLIENT and decrypt ON THE CLIENT machine with out storing anything to do with the private keys on the cloud or trust Google with the private keys. Would this ever happen? Probably not. Google is an Ad company. Privacy isn't exactly their biggest strong point. Same goes for the others.
No luck with that link for my US location. Oddly enough, "VLC for iOS" shows up in App Store search results... but then gives the "item you've requested is not currently available in the U.S. store" error when clicked.
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Tools to monitor website performance?
Hi,

I'm curious what the current state-of-art for website performance monitoring is?

Most of the tools I've seen are either Pingdom-style applications, which simply tell you if a website if up or down, or they're like YSlow-style, which run a bunch of tests to see if you're following best practices.

But is there something like say, Chrome's SpeedTracer that you could run as a service, and monitor your website's performance over time? Or before/after each commit?

What would you guys recommend to track the performance of your own website over time, or gather deep-level metrics?

Could you use something like PhantomJS to achieve this?

Are there any existing open-source projects that already do this?

Cheers ,
Victor
Wow what a horrible way to advertise your products. Disguise your advertisements into some substanceless article seemingly useful.
Sorry, i was speaking for the UK at least. Should have mentioned that
Actually, delivering a package is nothing more then someone who walks in the truck and using a QR-Code (smartphone) as authentication.

Or just let them put a NFC sticker on their smartphone to automate it more..

(Explanation is simple, execution is something else though)

PS. The only problem i really see, is making deliveries in snow (can't detect the road).
Funny how the term fell out favor with techies over a decade ago, yet the general public and the press in particular seem to love it. (At least they're no longer calling it the "information superhighway".)
Ask HN: How do you manage your Twitter timeline?
I was just curious how people managed the tweets in their timeline. I struggle at them, and written below is why:

Assumptions:

1. You follow around 100 people.

2. 50% of them tweet 5 times a day.

3. 20% of them tweet once.

4. 10% of them tweet once in a week.

5. 10% of them tweet 10 times a day.

This is a rough estimate for the people I follow.

If you calculate there is a total of 250 + 20 + 100 = 370 tweets per day.

Ignoring 50% of tweets as junk.

You have aproxly 200 tweets.

How I use twitter?

I like going to twitter.com and reading all the tweets.

But skimming 200 tweets is again a pain, so much of trouble. Besides few of the tweets might call for action. There would be some links that you would want to read later, there would be some friends who would be going out for coffee, and you might want to join them, etc. etc.

One idea would be to unfollow people, few of them might get offended and then your relations might ruin or something like that.

Another would be to create a fake profile and then follow only the ones you want to and are interested in.

Third would be to have some desktop plugin that would notify with the tweets, but that would be a distraction if you are working and are in the middle of something.

Fourth way is via lists, I do not like going to twitter.com/<my_user_name>/lists/xyz // the url does not look good.

So here is the question:

1. How do people on HN manage their timeline? (Like there are things like Zero Inbox http://inboxzero.com/ rule for managing email)

Is there something for tweets as well, or collectively can we brainstorm over here and come up with something?

2. What other functionalities do you wish tweeter had, like categorizing a tweet in your timeline, saving it for further action etc. etc.
It's more or less the norm since most French companies are crap for tech workers, when you find a good one you can be paid a good salary.
Good point. Wouldn't this actually be an impeachable offense for Obama?
For what it's worth, you can run MacVim in a terminal emulator with

$ mvim -v filename
But then, some of the plants in the jungle seem to be amazing. I read some books about expeditions to find them for western medicine. One talked about a black paste you put on a tooth and it will simply fall out, no pain and no problem. A plant that makes women infertile for 7 years (they give it to their teenagers, apparently). Also, great plants against many sorts of other problems like abscesses.

Sadly, the results simply got ignored. The woman in the book was sent by a US pharmy company and brought back many plants and samples which she had won from the tribes in hard work (they don't just tell anyone). They probably still have them in a freezer somewhere.

An experienced person I talked to said that it probably was too much trouble and costs to clear it for drugs since there often are side effects, often psychological. He took one or two of the jungle things and said it was intense. Still, it's a great loss for our civilisation that it played out like this so far.

So, we'd have much to give, but also much to gain. Our diseases could be cured too.
>...on a campus of 3,000, only eight people actually asked for a meeting with me to discuss the reasons I banned the book

I think this is really the most interesting part of the story- people are willing to complain but not take reasonable actions to remedy the situation. I think this is a symptom of a deeper problem in our society.
Obama crossed the impeachable threshold quite some time ago. I keep waiting for the Tea Partiers to call for impeachment based on all the horrible things his administration is actually doing, rather than the imaginary things they dreamed up.
It's a user-configurable setting on the device. So if you have it disabled, you will get a fallback to the old dialogue.
A lot of the material on coursera isn't that easily available for free. The courses usually take a new and integrated aproach that you would see in a university course, created and presented by an expert instructor. I don't care for their prestige, but probably coursera is using the instutional prestige as a selection criterion, and it works, mostly.

I also think Udacity is more in between Khan Academy and Coursera, in that Udacity tries to find new ways of online instruction.
Maybe hacker news has taken it down.. the site doesn't get past loading data.
Linux works great on my Asus gaming laptop. It gets the same battery life as Windows: about an hour.
They way things are nowadays, I just don't know the answer to that anymore...

Wasn't Obama a Constitutional Lawyer? You'd think he'd know better.
Cyberforces: Cheap.

Appropriate Judicial Oversight: Too freakin' expensive! Let's just change the law so we don't need it.
Site was ycombinatored. Down now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLErPqqCC54

They look pretty freaked out to me. Their gazes are out of this world, very intense.
There is this:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/settings-for-...

I did however try this, but it failed with the account I tried.
Well, there's New Relic (disclaimer: I'm a New Relic employee). It's not open source, but it's pretty solid & our agent guys pride themselves on an easy install process.

Alternatively, some folks prefer to roll their own solutions using things like Graphite and/or statsd.
drivebyacct2: Your account is still dead.
Ads in Gmail displayed as normal emails?
Keeping Your Social Media Followers Engaged
I can't imagine it would be a business by itself, just a service that a company that already had domain tools could offer at a low price.

I don't imagine it like being a landlord -- the only judgement to be made would be "is this domain in-use" after X amount of time, and if so at that point they would buy it at the pre-arranged price.

If it's not, I'd get it back (and could use it for my own project idea, or let someone else try).

The driving idea is just that I want to use these domains, for a project sometime in the future, but I recognize that someone else's project starting today should trump that (and I don't want to charge them a lot for it).

Given that I don't want to milk them for a high price, if I just sell, then someone who only plans to resell will buy instead. Then the domain will be unavailable to me, and also off the table for people with project ideas who don't have lots of cash.
Nope. Apple's App store encryption is compatible with both GPLv2 and GPLv3. (A lot of people think the anti-Tivoization provisions in GPLv3 are not compatible with the App store. These people have not read GPLv3 carefully. The anti-Tivoization provisions are much narrower than they think).

The problem was with the TOS that a user must agree to in order to be allowed to use the store. The TOS places limits on the user that are incompatible with GPL.
Online courses don't discourage collaborative learning. In some cases, they encourage it even.

On the other hand, if all your peers in your offline world don't care for your courses at all, then solo studying is better than nothing...
Wow.
Here is the account of one of the helicopter pilots(Captain Robert Fore) who rescued the Primrose crew...http://www.eternalidol.com/?p=8593
Notes on "Do Things That Don't Scale"
What do you mean when you say "with a bit more limitations in the US"?
How does the new XCode power usage stuff compare to things like powertop?
You need minimal effort to get these right. Powertop suggested configuration gets my X61t to 6h battery life, whereas windows gets slightly more (about 30min). Heat is not an issue, but fan control is. The correction is just installing thinkfan, for a much quieter laptop.

Really, at least with thinkpads, the just works excuse is just that: an excuse.

Looking forward to my X1 Carbon, already in the mail :-)
None of those plants sound real. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Seen before and taken shots at before. They'd likely do the same to any metallic bird.
I get your point, and I think we can all agree that our standards of living are WAY better than theirs, but by OUR standards. Yes, our life expectancy is better, we have better teeth, we are healthier, we get to use all the shiny stuff that comes with our civilization. But those are our standards, not theirs. So there's no 'winner' here.

Look at native Americans. They were also 'savages', and we didn't do very well imposing our superior western civilization upon them. That kind of thinking is old-fashioned and harmful. We can't just assume that our culture, civilization is somehow 'better'. Of course, I wouldn't like living the way they do, but given the ferocity of their defense against others, this goes the same for them.
Before you make a knee-jerk decision about this, read the (very short) bill here: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb...

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There seems to be a number of other provisions in this bill that the original article glossed over, specifically surrounding disclose of the number of warrants used. Why law enforcement is so squeamish about releasing numbers is mystifying. Is there some legitimate reason to not be forthcoming?
The H is closing down
Continuous deployment with github, heroku and codeship.io
There are examples to the contrary though. I just finished "Introduction to Systems Biology" from coursera, and the quizzes and exams where tough. They really required you to have understood the topic and googling didn't help me a lot.
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I've had the same issue, but after trying a few times it finally downloaded the app
It would be nice if they moved development to Github. Easier to take a first glance and contribute to the code.
Isn't it just as unethical to withhold modern learning from these tribes as it would be to infect them with our modern diseases?
Unfortunately it's a pretty average app by todays standards. There are a number of great video players that have been in solid development since VLC was pulled.
>> 1. you can't make information always for pay - why? - because it costs nothing to copy it and it's cheap to store terabytes of it.

If you changed the word information to data, I'd agree with you. We cannot hope to build an economy on top of charging money for the following: "I am going to the pub with Dave tonight". That data string, once released is never coming back. But, assuming we are not yet living in a panopticon, you don't know which pub nor which Dave. If you really want that information my authoritative interpretation will cost you. This seemingly minor nitpick helps us towards designing a solution to Jaron's problem.
>it is not about "later" and specific Aaron's mental state. >It is about very specific pattern of "holier than thou" >types making up and leading the approving crowd throwing >rotten tomatoes and kicking a witch being drawn toward the >prepared stake, an "enemy of the people" being shot or >sent to Gulag, a school teacher being sent to reeducation >camp, a blacklisted for "unamerican activities" actor >being denied a job, and yes, a young prodigy whose life >being crushed and flushed down the drain for a Prometheus >like action.

Have you even read what Edward said in that comment? No such things were insinuated. He just voices his opinion on the way Edward was raising money. It's not that radical to think Aaron's action were a bit reckless!

>Surprise! they cite the same comment.
Yes.. that article was written after Aaron had already passed, and nowhere says anything about wether the comment leaded a community response. It is just an example of a community response.
>Sounds like that of a tormented man?
Everyone has his demons, I think if people stop blaming him for stuff he didn't do in threads that are completely unrelated, he would feel a bit better after making a nice contribution to our community like that top voted comment.

Oh and I still think you should apologize.
1. I am a Twitter junkie, and have been since '08. It's rare that you'll find a time when I don't have Twitter open in a tab; I'm checking 24/7.

2. I just think the DM feature could be improved. It's too hidden in the current UI on desktop and mobile.

What I've found over time is that, somewhat unsurprisingly, following people I know always results in more interest and engagement when I'm scanning.
Look at Thinkpads. Build quality is excellent, and better than Apple's. The hardware is well supported in Linux, and the lots of hackers use them, so help is always a Google search away. They are mostly fugly though (industrial design, built like a tank, looks like one)
I like the sentiment. Battle testing your generalised solution is always a good idea. It's also a good idea to know when you don't need a generalised solution.
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The behavior of students won't change quickly, maybe not at all. The outside expectations might have to be lowered. Maybe a diagnostic exam should be offered.
What hyphenated site is he referring to?
RSS readers seem the app-de-jour :)
Anybody know what formats have hardware accelerated playback?
He's trying to see a positive aspect. He isn't quoted with everything he said.
In order to get support they compromised and agreed to pay for essentially anti-environmental ads for a couple of key conservative senators. And that was not right. You should fight on the merits of the cause, not play some Machiavellian game where you agree to support things that are bad in order to get some things that are good passed.

Says a lot about integrity of our beloved Internet giants. Among the key supporters of FWD.us initiative, apart from Facebook, are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. And also, HN's own PG :)
You can always hide usb pens and memory cards somewhere, but it might be a dangerous thing to do if one gets caught.
We were discussing computers for HN coders, though, not for the majority of the computer using population.
I have a problem with the word reusable. A reusable software should be a component in a larger solution. Not a complete solution itself.

If I accept that Stack Overflow or Discourse are reusable, because you can run them on different urls with different graphics, topic, moderators and users, then every application, for example Photoshop, is reusable in the same way, because multiple people use it to perform multiple tasks with images.

What you do with Discourse is good engineering, but there is nothing special about it. Every serious CMS, like WordPress or Drupal must inevitably be usable more than once.
That sounds like an "additional restriction" to me if you have to pay Apple.
I started coding in a Timex 2068, back in 1986, I keep getting surprised with one needs to explain nowadays to youth generations, given the amount of available information about computing in general.
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OPlayer has smoother playback for me. I just tried VLC and the first video I tried it said the hardware was to slow to play it. I'm using a 4G iPod Touch. So I converted some some videos with Handbreak using the iPod Touch preset. I tried about ten converted videos and none of them played smoothly. OPlayer handles all of them.
I'm pretty late to leaving a comment, so it won't get a lot of exposure.

Let's just leave these people the fuck alone.

What threat are they under? Curious assholes like us. There are probably less than 1000 people on that island, all descended from people tens of thousands of years ago. There are more people than that that visit an Apple store on a Tuesday before 2pm.

Leave them alone.

We don't need to assuage our 10 second collective attention span by ruining their lives, destroying their history, and effectively ending a lineage thousands of years old.

These people probably have their own ideas about the weird shit washing up on their beaches and the crazy stuff in the sky that drops outsiders and food from time to time. Leave them to it. It doesn't matter what they think, no matter how curious you think you are.

Leave them alone.

For the physics-minded, think of them as a sample of humanity in Schrödinger's box. It's not a cat, but people. Except in this experiment, any direct observation will absolutely kill the people. Any exposure to disease, customs, or technology without their explicit choice will kill them. Maybe they don't physically die, but their lineage will end.
Experts Exchange (http://www.experts-exchange.com/) probably.
In a lexically scoped language I would assume that the scoping follows the lexical representation of the code. The given example goes against this assumption. The variable i is not even defined before it is refered to in the inner function.

The level of scope (global, block, ...) interact with the type of scoping in many ways, so I would not say that they are orthogonal. This example would behave very differently under dynamic and lexical scoping.

function foo() {
var i = 1;
function bar() {
var a = i;
var i = 2;
return a + i;
}
return bar;
}
foo()() // => ?
Yes, but it's still a kludge

Yes, some programs can have more memory in 32-bit (example: Photoshop) but, as it says there, you have to keep swapping them

So, people, move to 64-bit already, unless you absolutely cannot
Can I suggest they rename this - Operation Stable Door.
'If he dies there, what should be engraved on his tombstone? Musk frowns a moment, then grins. "Holy shit, I'm on Mars, can you believe it?"'

Of the people alive today, I suspect Elon is probably one of the few who will be widely remembered a thousand years from now.

Perhaps most of all by the inhabitants of Mars.

NB I freely admit it having a romantic fascination with the colonization of Mars after reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy and Robert Zubrin's The Case for Mars:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_for_Mars
I knew there had to be a Control Group somewhere...
> a few billion others try to live on subsistence farming

There has never been as few famines as in today's world. I'm not sure what you are referring to. And expect for a few countries, life expectancy around the world as well as life standards are increasing progressively. As posted several times on HN, the future is about abundance, not poverty. Even people in Africa nowadays have mobile phones everywhere. Take your blinkers off.
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It is now, I downloaded it about 90 minutes ago.
My thoughts exactly - a book about creating launch pages for products not yet built?