skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first job included a significant amount of ColdFusion and CFScript. Having worked professionally in probably 10 languages since then, and speaking from personal experience, I feel comfortable in saying that ColdFusion is a terrible platform and deserves all scorn that can be heaped upon it.
I don't see the problem - just look at the site.

It has a nice graphic that takes up two thirds of the page while giving no significant information.

What could possibly be wrong with that? That's what most modern landing pages are doing, after all.
CGI Federal. Please read the articles.
I am a big Amazon.com customer, and I'd be very happy to see this widespread. I am tired of Paypal trying to use my bank account as the primary payment mechanism, and having to switch it most of the time. I would love to have more of my purchasing consolidated in a single place. Amazon also has a fantastic return/refund policy - would be interested to see how well that ports over to the payment mechanism.
Lenovo shows new Android laptop in user manual [pdf]
Dh-virtualenv: Debian packaging for Python virtualenvs
> In C++ it is quite common for most objects to be allocated on the stack.

Most objects? You have 64GB of RAM! You want to tell me that you can take advantage of all that RAM with thread stacks? You're unlikely to even use 4GB of stack.

If you don't, then you're talking about a small application.
Price is why, for a 2 year wildcard certificate:

GoDaddy is $180 per year

Comodo is $428 per year

DigiCert is $535 per year
If something goes wrong, the rest of the dataset will be missing anyway. I don't think it matters much if 25000 points are missing or 25100.
During the shutdown, congress still gets paid.
Here's another retry abstraction that in some ways is more general (decide whether to keep trying some other way, or sleep a bit before the next try, etc.): https://github.com/darius/sketchbook/blob/master/misc/retryi...

A couple things look wrong in the OP's last snippet: shouldn't

ignore_small = ignore(ImageTooSmall)

be

ignore_small = lambda call: ignore(call, ImageTooSmall)

and similarly for the definition of http_retry?
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Did you see the outrage when they suggested requiring an internet connection? With the PS4 as a viable competitor they don't have the leverage to pull stuff like that.
So you're saying that static/strong typing == program future proofing? I guess what I'm trying to say is that even if your application or program is written in a statically typed language doesn't mean that someone can't screw something up when adding on new materials down the road, and having test suite backing you up is always a necessity.

Say you wanted to write a web application in Go, and you wanted to change your login system... Now it may be just me, but having a test suite to determine where you'd have breakages would DEFINITELY be handy in overhauling your login. Doesn't matter that it's statically typed.
Are there any languages which fit all these criteria? I'm guessing commercial CL implementations might, but I've not tried them.
Since these are all preferences, let's discuss those in the context of Actionscript.

Why the hate for Actionscript? I get that the AS VM is crap by JVM standards, but, having coded several large projects in actionscript, I think the _language_ is actually nice, when compared to its ECMAScript cousin, Javascript.

AS has classes, inheritance, getters, setters. It's event-driven, with sockets. You can access XML as el.child1.@property. Working with the Flash stage is easy: addChild(), removeChild(). You can embed resources and movies in SWF files. You can load shared libraries.

What am I missing? Is it just about the AS VM? Is it the hatred for Flash?
SEC Launches Market Structure Data and Analysis Website
Even the full name of "ATM" doesn't limit itself to withdrawals, just as Tellers have never been limited to withdrawals.

Much the way that international ATMS allow you to "buy" the local currency for whatever currency may be in your account.
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For me it's a perfect answer to the question "Why there are so many programming languages ? ".
Because it is:

https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov

https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/

Now, why they haven't open sourced the marketplace application, that's a valid question.
> Brand loyalty goes out the window with new consoles -

But they could have easily ensured it by supporting / emulating previous generation games.

I really don't understand why they haven't done it.
I agree with you. Working with Symfony2 has dramatically changed how I work with PHP for the better. I know one of the major complaints people have with PHP is that developers often write poor code but it really doesn't have to be that way.
How much should it cost to build? This isn't just something a few freelancers can hack together over a weekend.

A lot of people are complaining about the cost, even at the $60M-$100M, but I haven't seen anyone explain what costs would be reasonable for something at this scale and with the security + privacy requirements it likely entails.
I'd also like to see that.
Database Soup: First thing you do is take a backup
Sorry everybody! We hit our Heroku database limit unexpectedly. We're hesitant to upgrade while our initial launch traffic hits so are maintaining the site manually. Sites hosted on Forge are elsewhere and performing just fine.
Its flaws clearly aren't unspeakable because if they were so many people wouldn't keep droning on about them.
StrongLoop | Recipes for LoopBack Models, part 2 / 5: Schema Definitions
Here's a bicycle shop analogy by Tim ferris about how to get started: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/02/07/how-to-memor...
I second that. It did the unthinkable to me--it made me happy to program in COBOL.
I would rather be on a flight, where I know that the pilots dies with me, should they fail in their appointed task of controlling the aircraft strapped to their bodies.

Similarly, if an aircraft suddenly falls from the sky and lands on my head, my death would be a slightly happier affair for my family, so long as they know the person charged with it's stewardship was also killed (or at least injured) by the accident.

Even though a robot, or hybrid system of remote and autonomous flight control might prove to be statistically more reliable, I find it preferable when the burden of having lives hang in the balance is shared equally among all participants, even when the human in control might be feeling drunk and slightly suicidal on some grey Monday morning, perhaps after a recently emerging from a messy, dehumanizing divorce.

Am I alone in feeling oddly reassured by this grim social contract?
Saurik eviscerated this announcement in yesterday's post about Login & Pay: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6516948
Which is more likely? That energy companies are using their obscene profits to get bad science out there in an attempt to protect their further acquisition of obscene profits, or that academia is using its limited operating budget in a conspiracy with the majority of the scientific community to do... something?
Emphasis in history should be on those events that made a large impact.

Would you emphasize the Dada movement over World War I? Would you focus more on the discovery of nuclear fission, rather than World War II? (For that matter, could you?)
> The problem with this comparison is that choice of size of the wealthiest share of population (top 110, top 400)

I found it fitting because it's pretty close to the same percentage of total population in either case (1 in a million)

> Why won't we all just refer to good old Gini coefficient and call it a day.

Although you can use Gini for wealth, the "usual" Gini coefficient is income.
Splice Is GitHub For Musicians
I have native IPv6 on FTTC.
How is the free tier service if i want to host a single launch page for my startup which will take email IDs in a form and send email via the PEAR library ?
How to Fix the American Skills Gap
Mmm...that's very interesting. Surely Amazon can't do this too much before eventually attracting the anti-monopoly lobby, or am I being naive?
I've been exploring the idea of using a multirotor 'drone' to improve the situational awareness of the command and operations officers on the scene of events like house fires.

Listen to the radio traffic from a typical residential house fire, and you'll find a non-trivial amount of the traffic is simply people trying to explain what they're seeing from their vantage point (e.g. changing smoke/fire conditions on the rear of the structure, imminent collapse of a portion of the roof, etc).

A multirotor with a gimbeled camera orbiting a few dozen meters above the scene could dramatically improve the chief officer's visibility of the event, increasing safety, and allowing for better tactical decisions.

This article lays out some of the largest issues I've run into.
Those thrushes don't land to just nap for 9 seconds and then take off. They sleep for 9 seconds during a longer rest period, because they have to stay alert. They can't fly during the day because of airborne predators.
Considering you have to be physically present to use this, I think this is almost a non-issue, considering the huge majority of users will be carrying the currency of wherever the machine is located.
Have you considered taking the work from the individuals and getting referrals & recommendations?
> American/Western instant noodles

If you're referring to Maruchan, it's actually a subsidiary of a Japanese company. Instant noodles were invented in post-WW2 Japan by a Taiwanese immigrant.
The Power of Pull for Startups
How's this different/better than S3?
think of this as microsoft and sony taking a hit for every console they sell. It's anti-competitive because other console manufacturers can't do that.

in the end, you end up with a result like in politics. Whoever has more money wins the whole market.

The market pretty much exchanged short term benefits (cheaper console, better phone plans) for worse longer term problems (lame games because you have no choice, more expensive phone plans because you have no choice)
Just a nit: those aren't self-signed certificates; those are certificates signed by an internal CA. A self-signed certificate is a standalone entity.
The glaring omission I see in the article is any mention of BMORG's photography policy, which is much stricter than US law. Some of the FPV ROVs may be up there just to fly around…but it seems as if most of them exist for photography's sake.

http://www.burningman.com/press/photo_guide.html

http://www.burningman.com/press/pressRandR.html#pressRR
Many people, from Thomas Aquinas to Martin Luther King, would disagree with that principle.

Further, I disagree with the notion that a violent response to a non-violent act is justified simply because you can't think of a non-violent way to get people to do what you want.
I'd say they're two dialects of a single language, or (in natural language terms) separate languages with a high degree of mutual intelligibility. They share syntax, a lot of vocabulary, and have similar idioms.
> We can't forecast the weather two weeks out yet we claim to be able to do it 30 years out?

We can't forecast the position of a molecule of gas in a balloon more than a tiny fraction of a second out, but that doesn't mean you can't predict that the temperature of that gas will increase when you compress the balloon.
End to end encryption, focus on security. Install is done by piping a script you wget to bash.
Rabbis Accused in Kidnapping Plot to Force Men to Grant Divorces
"You'll still get the HUGE bump in development times (due to the inherent expressiveness of the languages)"

Not sure if that is true. Maybe for small typical web-projects or server-side scenarios that benefit from thin scripting layer (like at Google). If it is true though, then Haskell and OCAML/F# would be even better because you get expressiveness without loosing the obvious advantages of strong static type systems.
The Upside of Limited Means
An argument against fundraising too early.
No, we're saying that due to extensive prior experience we expect the new government healthcare system will be more inefficient and more disappointing than the existing (mostly private) healthcare system - and that's taking into account that the latter is huge, expansive, riddled with inefficiencies, and is a disappointing product.

Just because option A sucks doesn't mean we should prefer option B which we justifiably expect will be (and is rapidly proving to be) much worse.

Oh, BTW: my nontrivial experience with the existing (mostly private) healthcare system is that it works very well, thank you very much, now please keep your hands & laws off it.
The future of work communication is nigh, and it is full of texts
For the project, possibly. Not for an individual source file. That's bananas.
"If adding a build step is an extra hassle, this might be the wrong profession."

That's a very railsy answer. The strength of the web is that you don't need to run a build at all. I think that's the fundamental dislike of Coffeescript. I've worked on so many html frontends where a build process wasn't necessary to accomplish our job, and if someone tried to introduce one for the sake of coffescript it would simply be an annoyance.
You can tell this is a bullshit poll by how many people like C. Don't get me wrong, it's a great language, but there's no way there are that many people programming in C. It has as many likes as JavaScript. Rather, people just voted C because it's a favorite language and it usually has positive press around Hacker News. So people vote what's popular and hip, despite probably having never stepped out of their web development languages (PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, etc.) bubble.
First, you can have strongly typed languages that aren't object oriented. Instead of using maps/dics, you could use records.

The thing I don't like about ORMs as they are typically handled is that you map objects to tables up front, and those are the things you can query for.

Using something like Linq, you can more easily treat your database as relational, and still return strongly typed objects. These objects can be the thing you wanted to return from the query, which is not necessarily mapped directly to the entities in the database.

I like this approach more, since you still get one of the main advantages of a relational database: you can get the data in the shape you want, not in the shape it's stored.
From the headline, I assumed this would be about drone strike pilots demanding flight pay.
That was one 'tiny' merchant's view of the situation. I suspect that Amazon will be a lot more 'engaged' with larger merchants if it suits their purposes. I wouldn't write off Amazon strategy based on one first person account.
According to the law, HHS can't garnish your wages etc. As far as I know, it's silent on the IRS doing that ... which of course is the organization tasked with collecting those fines.

Little else to add, except that we might remember how the drafters of the 16th Amendment, which authorized the Federal income tax, decided not to cap it at 10%, fearing that would be a ceiling soon reached.
Problem with today´s CRM system is that they are based around information about the customers. Data around customers don´t lead to more sales, actives does. Most CRM system is focused on what HAS happend not what was is GOING to happen.

I believe the reason for this is that we started out with papers, just like email started with mail, an inbox and an outbox. Email today is much smarter with conversation history but for a long time and stil today we have in and outboxes. Todays CRM is just a enlargement of the paper based system but with the disadvantage that you have to do the entire structure on how information is stored once you want to change the workflow. That leads to much longer iterations and changing is hard.

If you work in sales ask your self this:
* Does my CRM system answer what I am going to do? Not just your self written todo list, I mean some intelligence like what is the most optimal action for you to do in any given moment.
* How long does it take to change your CRM system to adopt it to your organisation
* Do you still have fields for fax number in your CRM?
* How is knowledge transferred from your top performing sales people to others. Does your CRM system help with that.

CRM system should give more then it takes. It should answer thous questions.
Looks like Zak's put a lot of effort into this one. Check out the "Hardware Ecosystem Overview" infographic in particular :-)

http://blog.upverter.com/static/images/hardware_ecosystem.jp...

[ disclosure: I'm an Upvertor ]
The scuttlebutt is that Sony was planning on mirroring many of Microsoft's announced policies, but backtracked after the reaction of consumers. Could be bogus though.
I can only speak for myself, but I marked languages I liked that I've used enough to say like/dislike. The only one I disliked was ruby, which is something I've done enough in to know one way or the other. Overall I ended up with a bunch of likes and only one dislike.
Another one:

We had a government employee who was responsible for building our mess of a Java project (it was done by hand). It was error prone due to some self-referential build requirements, and the deployment of projects had to be done in a specific order. Generally a deploy took a couple tries.

While I was there I skunkworks-implemented Jenkins CI (nee Hudson at the time) to deflect constantly getting blamed for broken builds and down time when they occurred. The side effect of CI was that I had automated away this government employee's entire job and reason for being paid. One day that employee was out but we still needed to deploy, so in my naive excitement was like I've got it guys, watch this, pointed the deploy target at our live acceptance testing server, clicked the build button and ta-da, gov. employee wasn't needed and nothing was screwed up. Even better, it was completely deployed in a few minutes instead of several hours.

What do you think the result was?

The CI server VM got turned off.
I don't know if you're alone, but you're certainly 180 degrees opposite of how I feel...

That's not really the point of the article though. The article is (mostly) talking about small (a few kg) battery operated machines that even in the hands of a seriously irresponsible operator are unlikely to cause any mass carnage.
I hate Microsoft, but I love both C# and F# as languages. Unfortunately, I refuse to use them because Microsoft.

Mono is a great attempt at making the use of the languages acceptable to me, but unfortunately it is still a second class citizen. It works okay, I guess, but .NET was created from the ground up as Windows infrastructure.

The same could be said for Clojure on the JVM...it works great if you are using pure Clojure, but the moment you try to use Java libraries, all of a sudden everything becomes messy and loses its idiomatic nature and all the elegance that goes with it (like, for example, the pervasiveness of mutating methods in Java but the almost religious avoidance of mutability in Clojure).
Variance is messed up, lack of higher kinded types, type inference is pretty awful, no implicit conversion, too much boilerplate for a small method call. sometimes I just want to write:

public static String getFirstThree(String s) = s.SubString(3);

etc. But, the fact that it has LINQ, good lambda support, and some type inference make it a very good language over all.
Apples and pears? Google does not own one of the world's largest online retail outlets, whereas Amazon already has its own hugely loyal customer base. Different?
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> Good to hear. US carriers do a terrible job of dealing with anything international. It's as though they're honestly surprised that anybody would ever want to leave the USA or make a phone call to anybody in another country.

Your case is a little different but in general it's a huge stream of free revenue for the carriers. Very few people pick their plan based on international roaming. People don't roam internationally very often. Those that do are likely on a business plan and much less sensitive to price. No one has any idea what it costs so they can use very opaque pricing schemes.

As the article says, AT&T and VZW are making 90% margin on their international business which you'd think would make it ripe for competition. But since almost no one purchases their plans based on the international roaming fees there hasn't been much going on.
It's quite amazing and sad to see the deniers come out in droves in these comments. The political forces against climate science have done such a good job at spreading disinformation, it really is impressive.

I wonder if this is what it was like in the mid-1900s when the science for the dangers of tobacco was starting to really solidify and the tobacco companies were running full-bore to discredit it.
Here is the demo we showed at PAX Prime back in August:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4aa9dhKdo
Sure, and I think customers care. This customer clearly cared.

But suppose some customers don't currently care about you doing something manipulative or exploitative to them. Is that a sign you should keep going?

I say no. That not everybody has yet wised up to your exploitation isn't a sign that you're safe. The fundamental basis of commerce is a positive-sum creation of value for both parties. Whenever a company drifts away from that, they're skating on thin ice, and they will eventually fall in.
Except it wasn't even vaguely "mostly private", I touch on that in some detail elsewhere in this sub-thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6528332
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Who cares, it's interesting. It's cool to just to gauge the general sentiment of the languages on HN.
"pushing the forefront of software development" - you mean desperately trying to work around legacy issues in a increasingly standardised environment?
Might it be that they need to keep things secret with greater effort than ever before because it's harder than ever to keep things secret?

Furthermore, Obama is a very image-conscious guy, so it's difficult to determine if he's sacrificing transparency in some regards for public image reasons or something else.
$10/month for 10GB seems really expensive. For example, $5/month for a Digital Ocean VPS includes 1TB transfer. Now, maybe Forge is much faster or more robust, but is it really worth 200x as much per GB?
What is the appropriate cost for a health insurance marketplace that needs to support 33 states, with the security and privacy requirements such a federal system entails, and with the need to support millions of customers as soon as it opens?

Can you provide a more reasonable, informed cost estimate?
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But..but.. he's all hopey-changey! How can this be? /sarcasm
I'm still waiting for xeriscape landscaping to take off outside the American Southwest. Hopefully it won't be as a necessity when we run out of water, period.

Xeriscaping and xerogardening refer to landscaping and gardening in ways that reduce or eliminate the need for supplemental water from irrigation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping
That is not, strictly speaking, an observation but a supposition. An observation is something that you see in reality, and this experiment has not been tried in reality as far as I know (if you've observed such an experiment, I and I'm sure many others would be curious to read the detailed results).
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Art galleries should be apothecaries for our deeper selves
I think more people click dislike ActionScript because they dislike Flash rather than that they actually used ActionScript and did not like it.

(For the unfamiliar: ActionScript and JavaScript are both implementations of the same language specification. Disclaimer: I have no idea in which ways both languages divert from the specification.)