skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Um, I might just be stupid I guess. I saw "if you're not using Omnigraffle 6" and took that to mean "If you're not using omnigraffle at all", so then I expected it to be a folder of assets. So if I open the zip file, there's a single folder with 4 images and a plist. I assume that on a mac the .gstencil would open in Omnigraffle, whereas in windows it just opens as a folder.

Anyhow, just operator error I'm sure.
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Which makes you more productive: The iPhone 5s or Samsung Galaxy S4?
No one knows why....

Obesity is up. As we move away from a labor economy fewer people work on farms and factory, we eat the same number of calories, or more, and do less.

More women are in the work place, and that's stressful... Job related stress shortens lives. Sure in the old nuclear family where mom stayed home and raised the kids that was stressful too, but with nannies and day care we still have people in that role, and now you have more single moms doing work and home on their own.

Ethnic diversity due to an increase in the number of immigrants from developing nations. We have a lot more people from countries that had much shorter life spans than the US. Enough to move the numbers. Like it or not while Asia has people who live the longest the average is much shorter than those from Europe, and Mexico and Central America are much shorter still.
I think what you would do is make it computationally infeasible for them to create a separate network. The network exists independent of your individual secret and may be working towards the release of many soon to be dead men's secrets in a peer to peer fashion.

Sure they could avoid the dead man injecting something, but then they would get hit with the full workload. If you coupled this with an economic incentive like bitcoin mining you could get the miners to allow you to drastically increase the amount of work required and make it keep up with the state of the art in technology.

I couldn't say whether you can string enough primitives together to build something like this but it would be really cool if you could. Maybe I should go file a patent or something :-P
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Please elaborate. :(
It seems like from what people are saying you either have to get the people in charge to change or change the people in charge.
I really don't understand this point of view. Everyone makes their own choices. Just because you see something as unhealthy does not really mean you should shame them. How does someone being fat really affect you? There is no reason to not accept fat people in the first place.
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> working construction?

There are government and industry funded schemes in different countries to encourage more women to go into construction at all levels of the industry.
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So if the FBI decided to sell them all...
Fat shaming actually increases risk of becoming or staying obese. So although obesity is unhealthy, fat shaming is still bad and stupid since it does not help, and actually hurts.

There are better ways to help people become healthy.

>The present research demonstrates that, in addition to poorer mental health outcomes, weight discrimination has implications for obesity. Rather than motivating individuals to lose weight, weight discrimination increases risk for obesity.

Source: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
(Scoped) Implicits are awesome, it turns out that scope is exactly the solution to the problem with generalised monkey-patching :o

Also props to the author for not using the (horrible) term used in early Scala documentation/papers/books of "pimp-my-library"
As an aside, you joke but:

> launching the 5th dog teeth cleaning service in the same tiny geographic area.

A quick search will show you the top hit is geographically dispersed: http://petdentalservices.com/

So as you note: you exaggerate, but only a little.
I think New York should welcome the uber-rich with open arms. NY's history is all about 1%ers, like Vanderbilt and Rockefeller and Bloomberg.

But what is deleterious to the feel of the city, in my view, is the Dubai-ization of the real-estate market. Entire buildings are empty. Apparently the global elite buy and sell New York real-estate like they do oil futures: not to use but as an investment. These folks aren't citizens, like the Billionaires I mentioned above, but transients.

The New York Times had a good article on these empty buildings earlier this year: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/nyregion/paying-top-dollar...

> “I was living on the 16th floor, and I was pretty much the only one there,” said Charlie Attias, a senior vice president at the Corcoran Group who rented an apartment at the Plaza for three years and has handled many transactions in the building. “We had the occasional visitor — I mean, the occasional owner — once in a while. Actually, when we saw somebody, it was a big thing,” he added. “Oh wow, somebody’s in my hallway!”
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Obesity yes, but being merely overweight isn't actually particularly bad for your health.

http://www.iub.edu/~k536/images/patho/bmimortality.jpg

Edit: this also looks relevant
http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/tag/mortality/
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Apparently you are not in northern Europe.
Yep. Big change is needed one way or another because the ground is approaching faster than most teams in the death spiral think.
That map looks remarkably like this one: http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/data/facts.html
> As much as I love JavaScript, there are just some things I don’t want written in JavaScript – my shopping cart, for example.

After developing almost exclusively in JavaScript for the better part of the past year (and doing a lot more in the previous 6), I'm convinced that this mentality is going to start fading as more and more developers become more capable and productive with JavaScript.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the language that prevents you from writing sufficiently complex and reliable systems to power something like a shopping cart, or anything else for that matter. The main thing that is missing at this point is experience and maturity in the JavaScript community at large, which is quickly changing as more and more developers start embracing the language.
The author forgot to state in his title that he compares Java to C/C++/Objective-C languages (he does state it in the comments though).

In this context the article is a joke. Java Rock More Than Ever, my ass! The author compares one old technology to the other old technology using a 10 year old list of features.
"...The idea of getting mugged in Manhattan or Queens or Brooklyn seems so alien to me today..."

???

Do you live in the City?

Because I know at least 2 people who have been mugged. In Brooklyn.

[Edit]:These muggings occurred over the course of the last year.
I use evernote premium ($45/year) which is much cheaper and includes a tonne of extra features.

Compare this to the pricing plan of mummify at $15/month pricing or $180/year. for that price I could buy a pair of HD with several terabytes of capacity and copy/paste the whole webpage, code, files and all using httrack.
Causing a problem to spread to more areas so the original area's problem isn't as bad relatively isn't a solution.

That's madness.
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Philly is way better than it use to be, it just hasn't improved nearly as rapidly or dramatically as NYC has. The blight of urban decay is being pushed back, but that push isn't driven so much by the ultra-rich as it is by college kids and yuppies getting a tad more 'adventurous' in where they live. (I think the effect of universities and their students is most noticeably around Temple in north Philly, though I would still refuse to live there.)

The result is that you don't get articles like this one complaining about rich people (since they basically just aren't there, compared to NYC) but renewal is taking much longer as well. No rich people means that a student can afford to live anywhere in that city that they want, but they are more likely to be killed as well.

In other words, Philly is exactly what the author seems to want, but he doesn't really seem to understand what he is asking for.
I've been using boost smart pointers since long before they became part of the C++11 standard. :)

I haven't been using most of the other C++11 features, primarily because they aren't on all the platforms I'm targeting (yet!). But I will. They look very tasty. :)
He lives in India and this rate is pretty low for what we are getting, in my expierence. Can't really go below $20.00 and not just get some kid with a laptop, right?
The apartments right by the train stations are artificially expensive. They're designed to take advantage of the fact that white commuters don't want to risk living in a building with low income minorities. The surrounding housing is half the price, and the area is quite safe.

Nearly all of the Westchester suburbs are extremely walkable. All of the essential stuff is on the train line. The wife and I would load up the baby and take the train to Portchester, where there was a Costco, Marshalls, etc. I did have a car, which I drove maybe once a month (the upscale mall in White Plains was nowhere near public transit).

A 35 minute commute is not bad at all. Lots of rich people all over the country have hour+ commutes from the suburbs. Heck, my commute from New Rochelle was a lot more enjoyable (straight shot into GCT) than my commute from the UWS (transfer at Times Square, ugh). You can't point to 35 minute commutes as a reason to make space for low-income housing in the city proper.
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Did you just outsource your math to India?
Ah, but the difference is that I'm not claiming my statements are open to "objective measurements" :)
Looking through the CLEP tests...

It appears that they mostly cover freshman/sophomore level material. There are certainly not enough to get a full-fledged degree.
Use a password safe (sometimes called a vault)! A password safe is an encrypted database that allows you, and your team, to securely store and share passwords. Basically, it is a free piece of software that is cross platform (win, mac, linux), simply store it on a shared drive, and give your team access, they use a common password to access the safe, which holds the other passwords. Create multiple safes if you need segregation i.e. dev safe, sysadmin safe, network safe, etc. I have created a screencast about this @ http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/7-why-you-should-use-a-pas...

p.s. please, please, please do NOT use a cloud based solution to store your passwords! These are your crown jewels, do not outsource this!
Using capslock will surely make your point come across better, or not.

Complaining that Scala has too many features is like complaining that C++ has too many features, which is a valid complaint.
Can someone correlate this data with red-blue voting distribution at the same level (counties)? Because, by my eye, they are in lock step.
Would electrifying Caltrain make it run faster? I'm not very well-versed in trains.

The other issues with Caltrain that I have include: The last Northbound train on Sundays being at 9pm and the last Northbound train on other days being around 11pm. Also, the fact that there are regions of time when they go every hour. Unfortunately, I doubt electrifying the train will really affect either of those.
That article explains duck typing badly. In duck typing, you actually test if it quacks like a duck. His example doesn't, and just blindly assumes it can quack.
I honestly don't understand what you mean. Where did I supposedly argue against fairness and equality?
I really think that New York City needs to institute _massive_ tax penalties for people who don't reside in their apartments as a primary residence. I know that our property taxes are already high, but just about everywhere else has
big incentives for residing in your property.

There's a lot of apartments in manhattan that are only lived in ~4 weeks a year and aren't rented out otherwise. I wouldn't be opposed to a higher tax rate for those properties. They're effectively jacking up other people's rents and making them have to commute from farther away.
If you feel a particular value needs an explicit type you can always include the type in the declaration. Or your development environment should be able to tell you what type it is.

I do think scala needs an IDE to be used effectively, at least if you're making heavy use of implicits and inferred types (and, as a sibling mentions, indirect imports). But I think that's ultimately a good thing: it uses the power available to us nowadays to allow a more compact representation of code than would be acceptable in a plain text file (which is good for readability - AIUI evidence is that code readability takes a big hit as soon as a function spans more than one screen). Rather than throwing away the convenience of text like the '80s "visual programming" efforts, it's more of a "progressive enhancement".
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No, but used to be. There we have the same obesity problems, though still on a smaller scale.
I think Ecuador still has extradition treaties with the US, the cases with Snowden and Assange are asylum cases which are regarded a little differently.

It does however look like you have a pretty big list to work with:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_United_...
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Link times are super slow, visual studo couldn't handle debugging a file with over 64k lines. But it's wasn't a big deal, since I'd develop with the normal library and distribute with the amalgated library. Juce seems to have gone away from the amalgated system for the entire library, and instead each module (core GUI etc) use a similar system. Not quite as slick anymore.
> I think New York should welcome the uber-rich with open arms.

> But what is deleterious to the feel of the city, in my view, is the Dubai-ization of the real estate market.

OK, but that's being done by rich people buying properties as investments.
As a beta customer I can tell you this (and the inability to custom style anything) is my biggest pet peeve. I can see like 12 lines of text above the fold on my 24" monitor.
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Thanks for all the sudden attention, HN readers - my website's just about surviving the onslaught! Hope some of you discover JUCE from reading this!

I'd just like to say that if anyone tries the demo app and finds it a bit tired and old-fashioned, that's because it is! We're in the middle of writing a new demo at the moment that'll show off a lot more of the library's cool features in a slick way, but it won't be ready for a couple of weeks. (Ideally I'd have waited until that was ready before getting HN'ed, but am still grateful for the hits!)
When the problem is caused by a shortage of supply (prestigious NYC housing) compared to the crazy-high demand? Then yes, more supply is a solution.
What if all are using Virtual currency??
I was just wondering if this actually exists what i'm about to say. Imagine you go to an app that lets you pay people and businesses for free (no extra charges. not even for international payments. No need of cards/contacting banks to transfer money). And all the transfers happen in zero seconds digitally. Just add $100 to the app via adding your credit card and it'll give you equivalent digital money. This digital money can be used to pay any person, also websites/app that accepts this digital currency, in stores, and also this app maintained your entire payments summary.

Venmo, lemon, clinkle exists but you can't pay at starbucks, ccd, target, hipmunk, airbnb, flipkart using them. If somewhere u can, there are extra charges.

I wonder we could spend money digitally everywhere the way we can send an instant message. Without any fees, cards, bank accounts etc. Also no need of payment gateway for businesses and this app can even do that for them.
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I haven't been back there recently enough to know if MN is 24 hours but I recall travel being limited to certain times and this is especially true on the LIRR. Especially late at night, the train is filled with annoying rowdy drunks. That's more than enough reason for me not to want to live out there. It's like being deprived of all of the social benefits of living in/around NYC.

I mean, I totally get what you're saying, but I didn't find much benefit to living out there. I don't have a family though.
> Second, no one has 20 years of relevant experience.

I worked at my first Internet startup in 1993.

Sadly, the web archive only tracks it back to '97... http://web.archive.org/web/19970429192003/http://www.link.ca...

I started in ops, installing things like web and email servers. My first application was doing email parsing.

Oddly, today (literally), I'm writing code to do email parsing.

> I've seen some atrocious code from people switching from older workhorse languages to more modern ones, it's not pretty

I've seen atrocious code too. Young, old, legacy, greenfield ... none of these things have anything to do with code quality.
Work for Microsoft or Oracle and you'll find them?
NodeJS is async by default and RAD. Does it really scale at the corporate level ? depends on what is your product. If you are better off with the JVM or .net , there is no reason to use it. But in my opinion , it definetly has its place in startups.
Being a desirable place to live isn't a "problem" it is a feature.

Being the only desirable place to live might be problematic to some people who want to live in that desirable place cheaply, but the solution to that is not to tear down the desirable place to the same level as other cities, "Harrison Bergeron" style.
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Ask HN: What's your experience with white labeled products and service?
I'm trying to understand the value of white labeling from both the customer and business sides.

On the customer side, what was the advantage for using a white labeled solution? Which ones have you used?

On the business side, what did you notice about offering a white labeled solution? (Conversion, pricing, offering type, stickiness)
You are just taking one data point and assuming it proves something other than Yammer had problems with Scala. Check this list of companies using Scala:
http://www.scala-lang.org/old/node/1658.html

Some examples: Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare. All of them pretty big and in the same space of Yammer; they seem quite happy and don't plan to move away from Scala.

And here you can find a clarification from Yammer about that issue:
http://eng.yammer.com/scala-at-yammer/

TL;DR: They liked Scala but it has rough edges, every programming language has rough edges (yes, including Java). They found Scala was not the best option for some particular situations and Java was a better fit. End of story.

That's fine and completely reasonable, I think nobody said Scala is the Holy Grail in programming languages. As for your preference, you seem to be looking for a "nicer than Java, but OOP all the way" (don't know about Julia, haven't used it), which is OK as a preference but many of us find it a kludge to work with. I found something like Scala (multi-paradigm, I mean) helps me a lot in reasoning about code. As I said, you use the paradigm that makes more sense.

For complexity and ugliness, you have my previous answer. About compile time, you have a sophisticated type system and type inference which come at a cost, but it's not such a big deal when you run it with fsc (which stands for fast scala compiler).
Bah. Programming should be fun; there's a reason the biggest scala web framework is called "play". pimp-my-library is a memorable way to express an important concept. Documentation shouldn't have to be po-faced all the time.
Hi HN! This is a project I've been working on for the past few days to collect and visualize data about who exactly has been affected by the Federal shutdown, and how. The source and underlying data (which I collected by hand from OMB contingency plans) can be found in my Github:

https://github.com/dandelany/shutdown2013
"I think what you would do is make it computationally infeasible for them to create a separate network."

If the goal of the network is to release my secret when I fail to participate then there must be a way for the network to operate without my participation. What stops the parties from ignoring the messages I send, thus recovering my secret by simply pretending I died?
Something involving certain forms of resource extraction.

I was working on a theory of grain related herbicides pesticides but I know for a fact coal mining via mtn top removal makes quite an ecological mess.

Another not entirely far fetched idea I'm working on is livestock contamination of drinking water resulting in high constant antibiotic levels leading to more resistant infections in general. Looking at where I know there are poultry plants and dairy farms its not looking good.

Its entirely possible coal tailing contamination of water kills em in Appalachia, factory livestock contamination of drinking water gets em in some rural areas, and pesticide / herbicide contamination of drinking water gets em in some areas. In that case we should in theory be able to track increased death rate by river water flow directions. For whatever reason "some contaminants" are apparently not in the Colorado river basin, but the Mississippi isn't looking good.
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> You don't always get what you pay for.

No, you don't. It's like that bottle of two-buck chuck from TJ's that can be better than the $20 bottle of Napa's finest…

Cost is not a complete indicator of quality unless you're willing to look at it probabilistically. Low cost means you're more likely to get mediocre talent.

Ultimately though, even a good programmer can only do so much without a good client/driver. Some of the folks hiring the best out of India and still getting bad results need to look at their process and see if it's adapted to the outsourced model. It could be the process is poor or the onshore team members are poorly adapted to the offshoring model.

Outsourcing itself isn't easy. It takes skill to be able to make projects work, even with great resources.
Everything is fast when you only have one post. :-)
And if everything you do for class can be graded by an automated tester, it's not going to be a very good MS.