skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short answer: No.(IMHO). What about D? it may be dominant in some years.

I don't seen vala in real world development, a good community about vala... in fact,I'm not a vala expect, but what are the great vala's features? who is working on to make this a real world language? and improve it? I don't seen a good reason to invest in vala language. Just change to something like D.
Yep, as others have said, Nike Fuelband (I own one, as does my wife), Jawbone, a variety of iOS and Android apps. Tons of new Kickstarter projects, etc.
> it doesn't seem to require tight tolerances for operation

Well, it's true that the top and sides of the tube don't get too close to the capsule, so those parts seem relatively low-tolerance, as you say.

But the load-bearing skis ride on an air bearing of 0.5mm to 1.3mm (see page 20), moving at over 1000km/h. As rossjudson notes, the skis are on mechanical suspension, to smooth out shocks to the riders, but it's not clear (to ignorant me) how much of a bump those skis can glide over. 0.1mm, no problem. What about 1.0mm?

On a related note, Musk seems sanguine about the sag you'd get in any structure supported by pylons (see e.g. page 27). Even with inch-thick steel walls, with pylons an average of 30m apart (100'), you'll see some sag, right? Any engineers want to comment on the deviation in 30m of inch-diameter-wall steel tubing? Let's see, 1200kph, 30m, so you pass a pylon 11 times per second. So in 0.09 seconds, you have to go from the top of one pylon, to the valley between two pylons, and back to the top of the next pylon. I guess that's all absorbed by the mechanical suspension?
Ah, our light rail network is a bit more extensive than you seem to imagine.
So why am I disappointed in MIT? Because the DOJ has never understood computer technology very well. MIT does. It was their job to educate the DOJ, to subordinate passion to reason, and to parse the difficult technological issues to explain the real lack of damage caused by Aaron Schwartz's actions.

I can see where you're coming from here, but unfortunately, from what I've read (particularly what's in the Abelson report, see below), I don't think the DOJ was listening to MIT in this case anyway; the US Attorney's office had its own view of the case and wasn't receptive to alternative views.

And now, in one final insult, they ask the courts for special leave to screen documents in order to hide their involvement with the prosecution.

Are you referring to MIT's request to redact the private personal information of MIT employees who were named in the documents? That doesn't hide anything about MIT's involvement; it just allows employees, who did not set MIT policy to begin with, to get on with their lives without being persecuted.

I'm also curious what "involvement with the prosecution" you think MIT had. Have you read the Abelson report?

http://swartz-report.mit.edu/

It's quite comprehensive in its treatment of what involvement MIT had at each phase of things.
When you were little you did something and was punished for that. It hurted.
As a self-preservation instinct you setup an inner belief that says: "if you'll finish this - you will get hurt. You better stop now".
Your creativity drives your actions. Your old erratic belief triggers the self-sabotaging fear.

You have to face your fear.
Setup small, innocent project and complete it. Feel the fear arising in you while you close to completion. Do it. Just a tiny little project.
Pat yourself on the back.
Then do something like that again. Small. Simple.
Rinse and repeat.
The fear with melt and evaporate, self-destructed by the results of your actions that reinforces your inner power.
Hacker News audience are Mac-OS-X-ers.
This whole episode ends up being positive PR for Patch (even if the employee never gets rehired)...or at least better spin than what the meeting was actually about, which was how Patch is going to shut down a large number of its sites in an unlikely bid to become profitable by the end of the year.

Instead, the narrative is, whoa, Tim Armstrong really is going to be personally invested in Patch, so much so that he's firing people in a blink of an eye. Which doesn't mean that Patch will suddenly be successful, but at least Tim Armstrong's personal investment is tied to the Patch-part of AOL in a way that was before, just lip service.
What freedom?
Finally, Apple’s board wakes up and tells CEO Tim Cook to speed up
Thanks for the good reply.

A question though, from someone who's inexperienced but very cynical about affiliate marketing – it that sort of option/complexity; to offer very low commissions for return visitors but large commissions for first-timers, actually available through the sort of "affiliate networks" you'd find by searching online?
I was actually surprised that both it worked (well!) and it didn't crash for me - FF22 on Kubuntu using a ~7 year old system.
My bet is that people in the middle who don't get any benefit from it will prove just as obsrtuctive as they are towards any other large scale infrastructure project.
for thousands of years, support for the needy was provided
by local religious institutions and local efforts.

For thousands of years, inadequate support was provided. People used to die in the streets. Furthermore, such support has historically not been provided to unpopular minorities, unless you consider slavery "support".

Here come the neo-liberals. Anything even remotely related
to religion needs to be eradicated

Show me a single poll of which the results show that more than 2% of participants want "anything even remotely related to religion" to be "eradicated".

Now we tax the shit out of anything that moves

Okay, now I think you're just trolling.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Historical_Mariginal_Tax_R...
By all means, use the plain old DOM interface! That's kinda the point i'm driving at with this library. We don't really need jQuery anymore (at least not all of it). Small components like HTML.js can still be handy when you want a little sugar to save some typing though. :)
The best new way to convert numbers since the measuring cup.
Ask HN: Switching Jobs
I recently received a job offer for UI work with Javascript, which I absolutely love to do. They are offering me a boatload more than what I am currently paid (almost more than half). Right now, my current job involves a lot of C#, Powershell and Bash scripting which I don't exactly love. The conflict is, at my current job, we are heavily invested in TDD and Continuous Integration. We virtualize all our testing environments, and have a CI server running continuously giving us feedback. This is part of the job that I love; we are shipping almost every week (which is impressive for the type of product we produce). On the other hand, at the new job, no one uses TDD, no one's invested in Continuous Delivery, and they use Subversion for source control. They have a team of about 20 people, all who are 'Senior UI developers' yet no one uses TDD. But they are offering a lot of money, and most likely I'd end up as a junior position, so I doubt I could take the evangelical role. I am searching for advice.
I think that's a reasonable assumption.

My impression of Nike+ is that they could be great products, but Nike seems to lack the interest/agility necessary to iterate and move them forward. It's almost as if they are doing it just for fun.

The Aria scale is an awesome concept (can't wait to get one), and I'm sure there is more where that came from. I'm just wondering why they didn't pursue alternative investment.

As always, there's probably a significant portion of this round that was used to pay off earlier investors/founders.
The estimated ridership of even the Hyperloop is high enough that it would crush the Bay Bridge even if a majority used BART. Not to mention add an hour to the transit to people going to San Jose.

Oakland was chosen to make this thing look cheaper, not because it makes sense from a civil planning perspective.
I guess I can't really feel sympathy for anyone involved if the government's default operating mode was 'naked corruption' and then suddenly efforts were made to clean it up. If the upper branches of the government are just known by insiders to be wholly criminal, and the only thing keeping it from collapsing under the weight of its own criminality is collusion, then so be it. Let the whole thing come crashing down, let both sides get the knives out on each other, and let the public witness this and hopefully learn that they must scrutinize their elected officials far more carefully.

Also, I don't care what standards Presidents were held to. Presidents are human beings, which are all equal before the law. He was just as criminal as anyone else who engages in conspiracy to obstruct justice. If other Presidents successfully evaded prosecution for their crimes, that's too bad. However, it's no excuse to let another one slide.
AMD releases APPML source code, creates clMath library
You're quite close, but not in the way you think ;)
K42 Research OS from IBM
Life is a bubble too. Who gives?
Have you genuinely used that technique, where I am price match promises say internet pricing doesn't count. Indeed sometimes their own websites have lower prices.
I always wondered how many IT departments and filters actually bother to do this...
how can you spot a lyin' male

in a crowd of females?

The answer to this was NOT apple.htm

lol
Also, it's unclear if that's per capita or just the total number of fraudulent acts by IP origin.
Zypsee, an Uber Competitor, Raises $1.4M
It was added to the site to help quickly reunite owners with their lost belongings, but now things have to change because one guy thinks exposing someone's full name is a privacy concern.
Student accidentally shot by teacher at Ohio gun safety class
And because the factory workers are obviously the ones in charge of the "shapes and colors" of the phone!

As the BBC article notes, production was probably in China. The "inspection" at the NK factory was probably more for internal PR than for any practical reason.
Another proof of how emotional markets are (or rather people behind the markets).
Yes but I didn't need it to wash dishes.
The Great Seal Bug Story - Russian Eavesdropping - Leon Theremin
Come on, man, you're just being a pedant here. If I say "spending time with family and friends is the most important thing in my life," that doesn't mean I've quit my job and stopped sleeping so I can hang out 24/7. It just means that this one thing trumps all others if there's a conflict.

Which is exactly what the author's saying. "Nothing on any screen is more important than the time I spend with my kid." When he's spending time with his kid, all other things are secondary. When he's not, other things are okay.
Love that WebGL is getting attention. Native browser support is gorgeous and becoming more available as people continue to upgrade. We at Social Tables (socialtables.com) been using it with three.js to do real-time rendering of floor plans and events!
Anybody actually tried to imagine himself using it? It's rather claustrophobic experience, suited more to the astronauts than normal people: you can only be in some quite horizontal position, you can't even go to the toilet while you're in the capsule, the luggage capacity seems to be quite limited... It doesn't appear as something everybody would be ready to use?

If it could be bigger and more comfortable it seems it would be more usable and with more chance not to fail. Then it would have sense to also be more expensive to make it and maintain it.
It seems the internet shares this opinion. My feeling was that `px` was a general solution, but I may have misunderstood the true meaning of em. I'd imagined code such as:

em = 16
title = Text.height (2*em) (toText "Title")
pic = image 400 (4*em) "yogi.jpg"

I can also imagine the definition of em depending on the user's settings or fonts. In any case, we'll definitely open this up for discussion on the lists again if people start running into problems :)
> ...or to try brute forcing the password offline, which has a reasonable probability of working. Either way, it is not any different than the situation with Hushmail, and I would put both squarely in the "snake oil" category.

You have an awfully high standard of what you define as "snake oil" cryptography. If a brute force effort to derive the secret key constitutes snake oil, I have bad news for you regarding the state of crypto.
It's basically a sequence of riddles. Not a technical challenge.
It's in PNG, not south of it:
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q...

Ah, duh. And I'm giving hints before I myself realized the answer.
It's not the "domain" that gets funding.
Ditto to jnfr.

The information was added to site was no different than the information added to Coachella or EDC's lost and found site. It was in the spirit to help people reclaim their lost items. However, it appears one person's opinion is now forcing the volunteers who are managing the lost and found to add additional layers of security at the expense of time and effort.
if it measured pulse or blood pressure periodically

I'm with you on this suggestion. Though, I would really get excited if a device like this could somehow gather metrics from the blood stream without needing direct access. Pie in the sky, I know.

If pedometers get people to exercise more, I wonder how a real-time cholesterol monitor would change peoples' eating behavior?
What really bothers me about Armstrong's behavior is that in the recording, he's talking about how he doesn't mind people giving the information to the press. "I don't care if people leak information. . .I want to clear up the fact that leaking information or anything around Patch isn't going to bother me." That's a direct quote from him on that call. Today, he's claiming that the confidentiality of these meetings is paramount and that Abel was fired for violating that confidentiality.

The issue is that seconds before the firing, he had explicitly given the opposite direction to everyone listening - that leaks were fine by him. Now he's attempting to play the other side. He claims that he learned a lesson, but from the memo, it's clear that he hasn't. Or maybe he's learned the wrong lesson: that's it's ok to be mercurial and to act on whims, just make sure that you backstop your actions better so that it doesn't make you seem so crazy. "I acted too quickly" . . .if I had told him to stop, waited a week, and then fired him for some made-up reason, no one would be the wiser to my crazy behavior.
I think the narrative is actually "Tim Armstrong is such an asshole that he has to officially apologize". He's not invested in Patch; it's sinking AOL's profits and he wants to kill it as quickly as possible.
Link to the PDF mentioned: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1_9698uglerxB9nAglvaHkEgU-iZN...
There's a huge gap between complying with a legitimate warrant (read: narrow, reasonable, justifiable) and a general warrant.
afaics this only reinforces the use case for just using the underlying native client lib. istm the only portable cloud usage for libcloud is its original use case, read only access for cloudkick monitoring. In some cases its the only decent py lang binding to a given cloud provider and its been great to watch libcloud grow over the years as an apache project that providers target. But the reality check is as an app developer you can get over 90% public cloud marketshare with 3 cloud providers (ec2, openstack, vmwware), and maybe toss in a virt provider masquerading as cloud (ala linode, dotcloud) to get to 95. Given that your extending a from scratch client in libcloud and your abstracting it in an app code base, for most of those you could just go with a native cloud provider and get more functionality. ie. take saltstack's saltcloud as an example of a heavy user of libcloud, they had to create a utility library, and still ended up with 1k lines per cloud of specific code just for something as simple as launching an instance (no volume management, no security group management) just launching an instance. that line count would have dropped and they would have access to more features if they would have just used native cloud libs, if they were willing to grow the per cloud dep. anyways, thats the tradeoff of an lcd library afaics.
Technically, the single tweet did not send the shares soaring. A significant investment from successful active investor Icahn did. The tweet just revealed the investment to public.

Take Elon Musk's tweet that Tesla was being profitable for the first time as an example. The tweet lead to soaring stock price but the cause was excellent execution by Tesla team, not the tweet itself.
> the company that will win in the end is the one that can ... develop an ecosystem around the product that leads to customer lock-in.

but where should the lines of that ecosystem (for all kinds of custom consumer hardware, from thermostats to pedometers to ...) be drawn? fitbit is definitely making room at the lower end for apps <https://www.fitbit.com/apps>, but it appears <dev.fitbit.com> they want data to go directly from their hardware to their servers before anyone else's code can touch it.

as a developer, of course, it would be nice to get as close to the hardware as possible. i mean, there's no point in releasing the firmware for hardware like this or that nest thermostat since you probably can't even reprogram the things once they're off the line, but could it make (business) sense to have 3rd-party software talk directly to some of these smart appliances, wearable devices, and the like?

there was an interesting comment on the post about amazon buying the washington post, the gist of which was that business strategy is sometimes more about betting on some particular future and preparing for it rather than trying to build an entire future unilaterally. for amazon, the example was ubiquitous tablets; for google ubiquitous internet .... both of which are looking like pretty safe bets. but not everyone can buy into the table where they're gambling on this whole "internet-thing" panning out or not, so let's say you were going to wager on wearable fitness devices taking off. (final flog of the metaphor) where would you place ㅛyour chips?
Actually, they are addressing the issues and am told will be re-posting the site shortly. By the way, I (as the author of the original post) am a huge proponent of hackathons and think your Lost and Found site is a brilliant hack. I just think the use of it could have been thought through a little more.

My apologies if my bringing it to the attention of the festival organizers caused you any grief - this was certainly not my intention (I had not known this was even a hack!)
Well, the trip is only half an hour. Do people have better comforts on a metro or bus commute?
Yeah, zip is w*h. I meant to replace it once everything was working but forgot. It's simple to write a "TransposedMatrix" wrapper that only adds constant overhead:

class TransposedMatrix(object):
def __init__(self, matrix, index = None):
self.matrix = matrix
self.index = index

def __getitem__(self, index):
if self.index is None:
return TransposedMatrix(self.matrix, index)
return self.matrix[index][self.index]

def __len__(self):
if self.index is None:
return len(self.matrix[0])
return len(self.matrix)

and I've updated the gist to do that. Thanks for pointing it out.

The tests are definitely quick & dirty; I'm aware there can be more than one correct answer.
It's harder to imagine riding a horse for hours ..
Hopefully eventually its a la carte. I'd pay $2/mo for AMC. I dont need the ESPN. The problem though is there sister channels. IFC is good but I could leave the rest.
Sorry, this is no apology when he says "Abel had been told previously not to record a confidential meeting, and he repeated that behavior on Friday, which drove my actions."
Funny story about that:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfina...

> Hi Guys, We got a big position in 3m libor for the next 3 days. Can we please keep the libor fixing at 5.39 for the next few days. It would really help.

(I actually think there are high-level criminals among terrorists, mafiosi, Wall St., and even computer programmers. But of course the existence of such high-level criminals isn't an excuse for a government to abandon the rule of law and violate its constitution...)
"After his announcement last Thursday, a second company, Silent Circle, based in Maryland, said it would close its secure e-mail service. That company said it had not been served with a government order of any kind. In a pre-emptive bid to protect its customers’ data, Silent Circle said it had obliterated everything in its server."

Uh, what? This could almost be the story satirized by this passage from 1911:

"A certain German art expert, who had obtained from the municipality of Bergamo permission to inspect the famous masterpiece, declared it to be a spurious Pincini... The editor of an Italian art journal refuted the contentions of the German expert and undertook to prove that his private life did not conform to any modern standard of decency. The whole of Italy and Germany were drawn into the dispute, and the rest of Europe was soon involved in the quarrel. There were stormy scenes in the Spanish Parliament, and the University of Copenhagen bestowed a gold medal on the German expert (afterwards sending a commission to examine his proofs on the spot), while two Polish schoolboys in Paris committed suicide to show what THEY thought of the matter."

-- Saki, "The Background" (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/saki/clovis/chapter6.html)
Right. Swooning over a vacuous tweet by some investor. Almost like an instant pyramid scheme. And what's with uppercase "APPLE"? Did he mean AAPL?
It depends on the store. I've had Fry's match a Newegg price before.
Dishonest? Dude, you're talking to a Quaker. Here is my wish.
Will Geek Feminists Please Relax!?

I am perplexed by the negativity of the ‘geek feminist’ movement, and concerned about the inevitable backlash that could set women back in the STEM community. At a pivotal time in the evolution of corporate culture, when exciting creative cultures are forming, geek feminists are making demands on what they define as good and bad behavior, creating controversy and yes, hysteria, over any male behavior that is ‘offensive.’ (My personal apology to Mr. Hank)see rational explanation @ http://www.businessinsider.com/adria-richards-dongle-and-for...

These tactics only create tension and mistrust, making assimilation into the STEM community more difficult for women. It would be tragic if women were seen as monolithic, and further excluded from a community that provides so many benefits for women.

For example Sarah Allen, founder of Blazing Cloud says being a programmer has been a great career for her as a mom. "I don't think you can be a woman in our society and not experience sexism, so, sure, but that's not the point," she says.

Rana Florida, CEO at the Creative Class tells her team members “I don’t care when you work, how you work, or where you work,” Her new book Upgrade describes cutting edge corporate culture, with flexibility and responsibility

Meanwhile, Tony Hsieh of Zappos is transforming the derelict remains of Downtown Las Vegas into a “community where businesses can thrive.” ...where everyone feels like they can hang out all the time and where there’s not a huge distinction between working and playing.”

If the geek feminists think these cultures will welcome a demanding group of women, I suggest they think again. They are doing a disservice to all women, and men, and everyone else on the planet.
I've honestly been surprised by how long the market's dislocation has been on this one. It's not common for a large cap stock that is highly covered by analysts and watched by investors. But the market's fears about Apple are my gain, and has become nearly 75% of my portfolio after tanking for the past ~9 months.

Value investors all saw the opportunity in AAPL, but it's nice to have a media celebrity investor like Icahn act as the catalyst to reach fair value quicker.