skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends on where one comes from.
If one compares Scala to Scheme, sure, Scheme is ridiculously simple compared to Scala.

But if one compares Scala to languages which are actually used in the wild like Java, C#, PHP or C++; Scala's footprint is just incredibly small.

All of the features you mentioned are available in languages like Java or C#, too. The difference is that in most cases the implementation is so poor and incoherent, that the feature is next to useless.

I guess one just "sees" more language features being used in Scala, because almost everything which ships in the language makes some sense, while in Java/C#/PHP/C++ you have tons of utterly useless "features" which don't add any benefit, but still force people to learn them in case somebody else used them.

I have never seen "On a sufficiently big project with one or more extra clever developers most probably every feature will be used" happen in real life.
In my experience one of the strengths of Scala is the way one can use some advanced feature where it makes sense, without having it bleed through the whole code. Compare that with Java's, C#'s "Oh, you used some complicated Generic type over there? Guess what, we will make every user suffer from it throughout your whole code base!"

In a sense, I prefer a language (Scala) which ships with 100 features where 90 of them make sense to a language which ships with 400 features where only 50 make sense, like C# (multiply "feature" count by 10 for C++).

> And I don't need a compiler to catch errors that a unit test would also catch.

Well, using the compiler means that it will also catch errors which you haven't written unit tests for. Tests can't prove the absence of certain categories of errors, compilers can.
No, but nor do I think that people are getting slammed with one-star reviews the day that the first beta goes out.

I can think of a few niche reasons why you would wait until iOS 7 is released before you release a fixed version of your app, but for the vast majority of people, I think they ought to be working on getting a version that runs within a few weeks of seeing a beta OS version that crashes their app.
I'm a long-term LEGO fan. If you are, too, this is unlikely to be a set you want. And if you aren't a long-term LEGO fan, you should probably seek the advice of one or more of us before you buy this, because it's probably not what you want, either.

This is a collection of 1210 pieces, all in white. None of them are particularly uncommon. (Did you know you can order individual parts from LEGO at http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-A-Brick-ByTheme and there's http://www.bricklink.com/ to buy and sell from other fans?)

If you are, for some reason, particularly enamored of building some all-white structures, you still won't want this set -- but you might want two or three of them. The parts selection is such that building anything extensive will require more duplicates than are provided.

Here's a pro LEGO builder talking about the set: http://modelbuildingsecrets.wordpress.com/2013/07/27/barnes-...
the headline should read "over-credulous member of establishment is finally swayed by overwhelming evidence to the contrary, although he has to travel to the ends of the earth to be convinced"
Pi-shaped pie pan
I like that he is willing to open source it. A patent would be the surest way to be sure that it dies.
Looks great but unfortunately doesn't work on WP7.5 (gets stuck 'Loading'). I know this isn't a huge demographic of HN readers (possibly just me) but it would be great if it was possible to fix this!
UX is quite simply put "the elimination of frustration"

Do you know who is responsible for creating a good user experience?EVERYONE ON YOUR TEAM. EVERYONE.

I understand the sentiment that the OP is trying to bring, but this statement is akin to stating something like "everyone is responsible for the commercial success of the business".

The role of a UX designer (or perhaps a UX Lead in this case) is to take on the responsibility of ensuring that frustrations of the customer are eliminating by all means possible. The problem is that not everyone in your organization - no matter how big or small - has the time to be able to empathize with your customers. So it's slightly disingenuous to assume that everyone bear that responsibility. It's the UX Lead/Designer's responsible to engage with the customer and feed that back in a meaningful way to the people responsible for actually cutting the code that renders the experience.
I don't know about Australia, but Netherlands is basically a flat country where its tallest mountain (hill?) is 320 meters above sea level. Therefore, cycling is particularly easy.
This is remarkably practical. Is the next step putting a GPS on the dog's tag?
One of the biggest issues with marijuana in this country is the lack of research behind it. Here in Michigan where over 60% of the people voted for medical marijuana, they just outlawed medibles. Meaning no pot brownies for patients. Which makes no sense when applying medical marijuana.

Caregivers and patients are outraged because they feel like they know more than the judges or politician do, and I have to agree.

On another more general note about marijuana, I think most peoples perception of the drug is that out of a hollywood movie. In my own experience you can use marijuana to lose weight, as opposed to inducing the munchies, but generally people don't know that or expect it.

Medical marijuana is legal in more states than gay marriage and growing in all 50+ Canada and Mexico. I am so tired of the US lagging behind the rest of the world and not listening to the people.

Marijuana is safer than alcohol, and its time we treated it that way -quote from pulled commercial that was going to play of Nascar event..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H8Cz9woC2A

Edit--
Additionally, here in Michigan we have real doctors that refuse to sign marijuana recommendation forms for fear of their contracts with hospitals and insurance agencies. Meanwhile we have doctors from states close and far recommending patients come to medical states to get marijuana. This leads to dingy doctors signing medical forms for patients they have little interaction with, which makes the law seem abused.
I guess I should also keep an eye on UX gigs then. I'm a programmer and tended to ignore UX positions because I figured it might be a whole separate discipline. But I can do javascript just fine. (I'm not much good at graphical design, though.)
No, it can't. Most of that money was raised in the first five days when the hype stared. The contribution rate actually slowed down and nothing short of a miracle will change that.

http://s.4pda.to/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ubuntu-edge.png
Gaunt in 128 bytes of JavaScript:

function(a,b){return a[b="replace"](/./g,a=function(a){return a[1]?String.fromCharCode(parseInt(a,2)):+(a==" ")})[b](/.{7}/g,a)}

I first saw this neat trick in Billy Hoffman's presentation on circumventing automated JavaScript analysis (scroll down to crazy idea #1):

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-08/Hoffman/Hoff...
Musk has unquestionably changed the space transportation industry. It remains to be seen whether he's "revolutionized" the automotive industry.

With self driving cars on the horizon, it certainly feels like a revolution is looming, but Tesla doesn't seem to me to be nearly as singular of a force of change as SpaceX is to it's respective industry.
Honest question: How many drug companies' bottom lines would be affected if marijuana was legalized right now?

Reminds me of the quote: If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem.
Honestly, here's the thing for me - I agree with your comment in theory, but in practice, I'm not so sure. This forum was never meant for politics, and I think it's a real bummer that a potentially large faction of the readership here will forever have a tarnished view of the discussion here due to the strong political bent of the last few weeks. But in practice, I really don't know where else to go to see smart people discuss this topic. I know lots of places to find lots of people loudly agreeing with each other on one side of the debate or another, and I know some places where people debate it with the I'm-more-stubborn-and-louder-than-you methodology. Certainly the discussion here has been guilty of both of those sins at times, but I've yet to find a forum with more adversarial but civil discussion than this one.

Suggestions?
Ask HN: What happens when you hit 1000 karma?
More specifically, is there a break down somewhere of the features that unlock as you hit different karma levels on HN?
I disagree that only VM implementors should think about these things. It suggests a degree of overspecialization that I think is good to avoid. Even if one is not a VM implementor, it's always good to have a good grasp on critical evaluation of results. That's something I tried to promote with my article: to encourage people to think more deeply about benchmarks than simply noting the final number and proceeding.

I considered disabling the math cache in SpiderMonkey and using those scores, but it seemed inappropriate. I don't know to what extent the tuning and other optimizations are otherwise targeted to SunSpider. The math cache is obvious, but there may be many non-obvious tunings. Let's face it, JS engine devs have been trying to improve scores for a long time now. To what degree have tuning of GC, of when-to-jit, of what-to-jit, of when-to-inline, of what-to-inline, of the numerous thresholds.. been targeted at SunSpider?

I didn't feel comfortable just removing the math cache and simply stating "well now we've leveled the playing field so native JS is not at an advantage".

Also, you're entirely correct about OdinMonkey vs asm.js. It's too easy to use "asm.js" as a shorthand for particular implementations. It's something people tend to do (e.g. "java" to mean "the Sun JVM"), but I should definitely try to avoid that.
Could you clarify your position with regards to a "new era of openness"? Is it that the U.S. should be "open" with military intelligence?
Sigh... and without the US involvement, we in West Europe would at best have learned Russian in school just like they had to in the enslaved East Europe.

Not even the Nazis were uniquely evil.

(For instance, I have been in Romania a bit and have heard/read the stories about how they were broken, after the WW. They had it easier even under the Nazis a few years earlier.)

But you knew all that.

Edit: My point was that if the Soviets really had won the war themselves, as mikeash wrote, we in West Europe would have lost -- more or less as badly as if the Nazis had won.
I do think this approach has some issues by the efining of "good" as "highly-cited" which favours famous institutions, an those papers in contested an controversial areas which come from a dominant network.

It seems to me that a less simplistic an more fruitful analysis than this hegemonic exercise might be to make some network visualisations alongsie these, an by capturing and including other attributes of the institutions and subfields themselves.

Still, I like that they are trying to visualise these data.
File Transfer http://xkcd.com/949/
Hmm, does that matter if the company itself is in the U.S?
Bitcoin Startup ArtaBit Working On Cheaper Alternative To Western Union
Exactly, few people are trying to solve these problem, It is interesting to see the progress.
I guess Russia doesn't feel like they are breaking the law when they are beating and murdering journalists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_R...
I've always wanted my own server, but then I discovered Amazon's AWS. It's much much cheaper, and you can scale pretty easily.
Montreal electronics accelerator holds $10M 1st close
I may be suffering from dumb user syndrome, but is there a way to log in to reply to comments?
Creds: Author.

Yeah, I created the title at like midnight last night; obviously it's not meant in the literal sense.

I think you're right; a mission is a good person accelerator, and if that person happens to be a would-be entrepreneur it makes them a better entrepreneur.

There wasn't really much of a focus on short-term numbers in my mission, mostly because when we reported numbers it would usually start "0, 0, 0, 0"
We will never know.

I guess because Python is not statically typed. Most of the efforts they have been supporting (golang, dartlang...) are evidence of they prefer to have Static type-checking around.
What are you really suggesting here ?
While the number of games in the Google Play store with controller support isn't extensive, the ones that work, do so very well. I'm playing GTA 3 on it right now and it runs beautifully. Emulators run very well and are key for me as well but don't discount native Android titles either.
The scary thing about the elitist view is that there isn't any real check to say, "Let's just share our information, and the power that goes with it, with the masses." This Praetorian view is very dangerous, and it does take someone like Snowden to shake things up.
Thanks for linking to those. The tour page, sadly, is pretty out of date... the screenshots they show don't reflect reality! Things look a lot nicer now I think.

See also the video from the campaign page, which describes things better than the actual site: http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html

Unfortunately the site is in bad need of updating; there's so much going on in the codebase right now that it's been hard to prioritize. Luckily we now have an intern who is going to be taking on that work!

And yes, independent instances will be able to talk to each other soon. We have an Outreach Program for Women participant actively working on federation via the Pump API! https://github.com/e14n/pump.io/blob/master/API.md

That's not all that's going on alone, but you can get some sense of what else is happening by checking out: http://mediagoblin.org/news/summer-of-awesome.html
And those are big goals.

But creating a method for getting from one side of the country to the other in less than an hour (or even twice that long) is probably more ambitious.
IBM researchers get closer to brain-like computing
Researchers at IBM built a simulator for a brain-like computing network and developed a programming language and applications to execute on it.
When do you plan to reach 1.0 with your checklist items? What is a short summary on how federation will work? Do you plan theme-ing support?
It doesn't look downplayed to me; it's a complete sentence in the White House's press release on the summit. A pretty big deal diplomatically (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/07/statem...):

Russia’s disappointing decision to grant Edward Snowden temporary asylum was also a factor that we considered in assessing the current state of our bilateral relationship.
* Arc http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/

* JungleDisk https://www.jungledisk.com/

Arc supports encrypted backup to Amazon S3 and/or Glacier, works with occasionally connected external hard disks perfectly. I use this to backup RAW photos from Aperture stored on an external USB hard disk (at least 50GB worth).
http://qpython.com/ has been around for a while.
I would question whether Australian cities are not that big. Sydney covers an area comparable to Greater London. I've lived in Perth, Sydney and now London and I've progressively cycled less through each of those moves. Perth is a cycling paradise with an integrated cycle path network, Sydney ok depending on where you're commuting, and London is a nightmare even with the token 'cycle superhighways'. For me it all comes down to what is the least frustrating way to get to and from work.
Java has a granular, stable and simple byte code, Python does not. Java is amenable to static analysis, mainline Python isn't. Dynamic typing means more runtime, burns more battery.

Java also allowed them to leverage a mature and highly optimized frontend. Back in 2008, Psyco/PyPy was there... but fairly wet. Until recently(?) the primary JIT back-end for PyPy was, in fact, still the JVM.
Pretty cool visual representation. I wish I had it when I was learning about this magic black box called regression. :-)
INFOGRAPHIC - AWS Cloud 1 Year Later  What Happened?
Infographic showing hard data on improvements over AWS including:
* EC2 vs Reserved Instance Usage
* Costs
* Security
* Utilization
* Availability
The problem with this approach is that there are often subtle bugs hiding in the ugly code. I've broken production code when refactoring (once - I blame the stupid Java getters/setters convention), but I've also fixed e.g. DST bugs before they happened.
The reason companies don't loudly proclaim this kind of thing seems pretty simple to me. Companies must simultaneously communicate with many different parties: employees, customers, investors, the board, governments, etc. An effective message for one constituency is often horribly inappropriate for another – layoffs are a great example of this.

So when companies do decide that cutting costs is more important than keeping employees, they message that in one way to employees, and in another way to analysts and investors. Employees and the general public who sympathizes with them might call that duplicitous and slimy, but it's a response to the balancing act the companies have to perform.
It seems clearly safer in some respects, and I agree with you on the policy implications, but I think the apples-oranges safety comparison that gets made between MJ and (alcohol, tobacco) is misleading and a little dangerous. MJ is not purely benign. There's some evidence that it reacts very badly with a small subset of the population. That's obviously true of alcohol too, and if you want to argue that it's "as safe as alcohol" I'll concede the point (while retaining my nerdy irkedness over the imprecision of the statement).
Population density: sure.

Hills: that's not really true if you have a bicycle with a gearing system. You can get a cheap new one with 7 speeds for about the same as a smart phone. That's enough to get past most hills with some but not a lot effort, especially if it's tuned to out-of-shape persons (which modern bikes seem to be). You can always get off and walk the steepest slopes.
Nice. 2 hr old account, 2 hr old comment. A troll comment? Yeah, I think we know what's up.
> Our goal here isn’t to discourage people from rooting their devices – it’s yours, after all – but to give us a course of action if folks start to abuse the hardware through software modifications.

Such an enlightened perspective on consumer hardware is extremely refreshing. If only more companies take this stance, then we might be able to move beyond the prisonware hardware model.

It's interesting to see Nvidia come out with this, and hopefully future Shield gaming devices don't descend into Microsoft-style "media consumption console" cannibalization. Frankly I think the Xbox One will be a flop because Microsoft is positioning it beyond their "gaming console" strategy. Maybe Microsoft should have released a USD$90 "Kinect Media Player" instead of ruining the Xbox franchise.
Actually, we Dutch were late with building large thoroughfare roads through our cities. That's part of what allowed us to do this.
Yeah. A breath of fresh air, as they say.
If you mean first-class as in look like an app like came with the phone, then there's no way around using a toolkit that has a familiar theme and behavior. The story is no different than a Linux desktop.
Chromecast Streaming Vs. Apple AirPlay Vs. Google TV
Or, "it's not enough that he agrees with me, agrees publicly with me, and apologized for disagreeing with me; the manner in which he arrived at his agreement with me is offensive, so let's make that a topic of conversation."
Google isn't helping me right now, but IIRC didn't Lego use to manufacture bricks for actual architects to prototype with. They were smaller than regular bricks.
I think this decision was made by Android Inc. before Google purchased them.
Well, the veggie garden is supposed to be revolutionary
Great work! Could you give some tech details about which framework/tools have you used?
I am exaggerating.

Let say that every teen that rides a bike has a cheap ~€300 knock-off :)
The problem with drug and tobacco companies is that marijuana is a garden weed. Anyone can grow it (if it becomes legal). Or rather, no large investment to start a weed farm.

Tobacco and drug manufacturing plants require a significant larger investment. So the lobby for anti-marijuana is strong and controlled by rich people.
Genderize.io determines the gender of a first name
I don't believe FCC approval alone is the big bottleneck. You need to test its radio emissions in defined conditions, and that requires some expensive test gear (base station simulator ~= $100k), but realistically you need one of those anyway to debug the device you're developing.

A more serious problem is trying to get all the relevant firmware and radio software stack without tripping over IP that is (a) patented and (b) will only be licensed to you under NDA. Qualcomm are particularly bad at this. So you need to choose a suitable SoC with favourable IP licensing.

Writing your own "baseband" is a substantial piece of work; some people have embarked on it at http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/

Canonical's approach is sound here and their costs are realistic. Getting it done for free by people working in their spare time is very unlikely to happen.
Android already has C. The only difference is that the public C API is relatively minimal, so to do anything useful you need to go through Java.
That probably helps, but most of Europe has relatively high gas prices, and yet the popularity of biking as a method of daily transport varies widely between countries.
Any contract with small print sould be invalid. That's what should happen.

But that's not what seems to happen at Russia. And having different rules for each party is hipocrisy.
Nice idea, but I'd rename after something that isn't evil - subconscious suggestions of maliciousness might inadvertently repel some users. I'd suggest finding a design person who can lighten it up, pretty it up, and clean it up - the design has possibilities, but it's way too dark. Finally, many of the sample photos have really, really cold color temps (that cupcake photo's color temp is way too cold - it looks like a corpse is holding it). I'd suggest editing them to be have a warmer color temp., or finding other media that are more compelling. The initial experience of a cold, dark, kind of confusing goblin dungeon doesn't call up a great feel.
Are you sure it will save money in the long run? I feel like most of the conversation along these lines that goes on is pretty shallow, performance to dollars in a vacuum.

I'd say flip it around, think about what you're trying to achieve and do the math on all the options to solve it. Pre-framing it as a dedicated rental versus a self-managed purchased is unnecessarily narrow.
Drug companies would be affected positively by MJ legalization. Look at how drugs are developed and marketed, at how drug companies compete with generics over marginal improvements in outcomes (or, sometimes, no improvement at all), and look at the conditions from which drug companies derive most of their profits. It's hard to see much of a threat from cannabis.

For that matter, look at Abbott Labs, one of the largest pharma companies in the world; a huge portion of their revenues come from consumable products that aren't the product of a drug research pipeline (for instance, Abbott owns the Ensure meal replacement product).

Stipulating full MJ legalization, cannabis and its active ingredients will simply become a new vector for productization by existing major health care companies.
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