skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it is really interesting how Typesafe is basically acquiring everything good/interesting in the Scala space. It makes for a very different ecosystem than say ruby or clojure or go.

I think this is actually a good approach for making Scala something that larger companies will rely on, while benefitting smaller shops and individual developers.

Now, if only Typesafe would either build or buy a scala compiler that is as fast as go's. If they did, I would be a scala developer like yesterday.
My goal was to setup streaming so I could stream to my ipad or iphone when on my network. Having to drag/drop each file hits the same barrier as "I can just write a shell/ruby/perl/python script to run this through ffmpeg and add it to itunes and kick of a sync instead".

But that means applescript which also means I probably won't bother dealing with it. :)

What I was trying to setup was convert a video to mp4 transcoding and the live streaming server stuff that chunks the file for "streaming" aka, 10 sec section here/there.

My ipad only has 16g so streaming was my primary goal.
At the beginning of 2007, my wife was diagnosed with cancer. At the end of the year, I left my company and was looking for a new job. Good healthcare was critical to me and my family, so it was naturally one of the things that I asked about early on during the interview process. Beyond good insurance, I was also very clear that, while her illness wouldn't impact my performance, there are going to be unique situations where I was going to have to leave or not show up and was that acceptable?

I opted to be really transparent about it because a.) I didn't want it to be a surprise when I texted in the middle of the night that I wasn't able to make it in to the office and b.) I wanted to work for someone that would be supportive when things went sideways. I was lucky and found a great person to work for who became a very good friend.

There are enough people today that either deal with depression personally or know someone that deals with depression on some level or another. If I was hiring you, I'd want to know about it upfront. I've always told my employees that I can deal with bad news, but I hate surprises.

I'd own it and I'd explain how you handle it and how it won't impact your performance and this is why. I'd be pretty impressed with someone coming to me saying BTW, I've got this issue, but let me show you how I handle it and assure you that it won't be an issue if I work for you.
I would guess that obituary_latte is talking about the fact that there's no link to the page you're referring to.
sure! we actually posted a link to the raw CSV before we pushed this in the beginning of the shutdown: https://twitter.com/enigma_io/status/385166410063691776
Great tool that helps me pinpoint the problem with my traffic. Instantly. Thanks for providing the tool.
File.open(ARGV[1], 'w') { |file| file.write(File.read(ARGV[0]).lines.sort.join) }

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8278680/ruby-undefined-me...
Well written, good description and nice demo.

Would love to see more on how this is different to (or better than) Akka.
The programming model is actually close to Akka (with actor systems, supervision, receive method, message passing, etc).

The article states that Akka has no true lightweight threads. The guys behind Akka have put it running with 50M messages/second[1] and perfomance vs erlang seems to be good as well [2][3].

Perhaps a benchmark would be great.

Thanks for sharing.

[1] http://letitcrash.com/post/20397701710/50-million-messages-p...

[2] http://uberblo.gs/2011/12/scala-akka-and-erlang-actor-benchm...

[3] http://musings-of-an-erlang-priest.blogspot.pt/2012/07/i-onl... (discussing millions of messages is a good signal IMHO).
It's bad. One time I mistakenly reversed the source/destination when sending my roommate two months of rent money and I over drafted his account because it took the money without asking his permission.

Once the accounts are linked, either party can pull/push money without the other's approval.
Maybe recognising the furniture in the background would work too ;) I remember there was a website/catalog of IKEA furniture somewhere made using NSFW photos.
Sony Unveils Beastly And Beautiful A7 And A7R Full-Frame Mirrorless Cameras
UK numbers for drama...

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/telecoms/numbering/guidance...
I'm still convinced that triggering such a dead man's switch would be tantamount to destruction of evidence. Courts aren't stupid.
That bothers you? Oh boy, let me tell you about all the patents I am violating when I fire up mplayer in linux...
Look into it a bit deeper. That was an elephant that terrorized a village in Africa. It was sanctioned to be put down, no different than a rabid dog.
> You (I) can't do creative thinking (or any kind of thinking) after one glass of alcoholic beverage.

I believe you might be incorrect. I recently read that a moderate amount of alcohol (~2 beers, which in my mind is a lot...) led test subjects to perform BETTER at tests of creativity. [1]

You or I might not want to work after having alcohol (I'd rather nap), but apparently it can help some people. It's not inconceivable that one might have some beer, and then go back to work for another hour or so.

1: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/244065.php
I looked at this in some depth a few months back and my conclusion was that the commodities which are up are up substantially over reported inflation primarily because of changes in supply and demand. I don't recall the details and do not have time right now to redo the analysis, but since my results match official results I think it's incumbent on you to make an actual case rather than relying on assertion.
You can drink a beer at your desk without being having to talk any louder or having to talk at all.
PyPy STM Status Update: Now with initial JIT integration
Totally agreed. There is an application for access for civic projects: http://dev.enigma.io/
This software is free for non-commerical use: http://koen.me/research/colordescriptors/

You can find other implementation of varying quality if you Google for Bag of Visual Words. For the final classification, I would recommend scikit-learn.
I love reading in physical books. However, they're too bulky to carry several around for a trip, bus ride, etc...

So, I love my Kindle because it lets me carry around a ridiculous library in a small form factor.

Yet, I sometimes need to be in just my business wear, so don't have place for the Kindle, and end up reading in a smartphone.

Much like carrying around a dedicated camera has been superseded by cell phones (even though no-one can deny that dedicated cameras take superior photographs), paper books are superseded by e-book readers, tablets and smartphones, because of the convenience factor.

And, as you say, they have to compete with apps, the Internet, etc...
Even with a ~40K standard dev I'd say that's a well paid lot.
Raspberry Pi Project Ideas: How I Built Call Mom Button
Right, but the software used to do it, and the tools to integrate, are open source, which is the original question above. You can do everything MapBox is doing yourself, on your own, but good luck scaling and making it georedundant at super high volume -- that's MapBox's value add.
We use those as placeholder text on our registration forms.
Facebook ad profit a staggering 1790% more on iPhone than Android
The difference I use Redshift for is how much my eyes hurt at night the second I turn it off and everything shifts bluer. Whether or not it changes my sleeping patterns, I cannot say, but it is more pleasant at least.
Sounds like some of the new features are Windows-only? eg, I can't figure out how to activate darkroom mode on OS X.
AngularJS is a javascript front-end framework, it has little to do with the server, you still need Rails,Django,Spring or whatever to manage your server-side application.
Have the majority of devs upgraded to 10.8? I thought most of us still stays with 10.7 :(.
I own (my username)@gmail.com and I get test emails several times a week.
Don't worry, I'm in a similar boat. I have disliked most beers that I've tried (exceptions: Guinness), and the alcohol that I do enjoy (e.g. scotch) I can really only enjoy about a sip. Or half a sip. Sometimes just the smell.

Bleh. I like that ice cream idea much better.
You can use MapBox's open source software to do everything you'd pay MapBox for on your own. You'll just have your work cut out to autoscale and make it georedundant at high volume, which is MapBox's value add. MapBox isn't selling the software IP, the user, ads, or lock-in.
Thanks, great info.
Reason 3 includes chronic back pain in my case. It is just more comfortable to stand than to sit in the really cramped seating (I'm very tall).
The most interesting things in the Scala space are at http://typelevel.org.
> Right, but a Gewerbeschein helps if you have any other income that's not from freelancing. For example Google AdSense or Amazon Affiliate links etc.

sure, depending on the income. However, having one subjects you to gewerbesteuer which you can otherwise avoid. So you might want to balance the benefits against the costs.

> That is correct, but in most cases highly overrated for people just starting out, especially in IT

It's highly overrated especially if you're a single person enterprise since then, the owner/ceo can be personally liable in a couple of situations. It's a pretty definite must though if you consider having employees.

Depending on what you want from the company you need a GmbH/UG or similar construction. For example it's very hard to find investors for a GbR since a GbR is not a legal persona and cannot own assets. So all the money invested would be basically given to the founders. For various legal reasons it's very hard to invest money into a startup as a GbR, the chief reason is that the GbR is not required to register who is the CEO and can legally speak for the company.

Still, the chief reason people form a UG/GmbH is limited liability :)
Why do you think it was posted here, without comment, just as a simple wikipedia link? The whole point is that it is widely understood as the quintessential idea of the sciences finally overcoming the constraints enforced upon them by the obsolete humanities. The whole emphasis on the modern and technological development paints exactly that picture, tying the science/humanities dichotomy firmly into a progress narrative which necessarily means that the modern (sciences) will have to overcome (and thus leave behind) the old, i.e. the humanities.
This is wrong actually. Sitting is an independent risk factor for death (i.e. independent of physical activity level): http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-07-09/...

The reasoning is that standing activates enzymes and gene expression triggered by activity in your slow-twitch high-fatigue-resistant muscles which run on fatty acids, which has all sorts of benefits for metabolism, body composition, and overall health.
Sorry, I think I misread your post. Thanks for clarification. (Original content removed).
To many, the dream of the Internet was a space to challenge and re-evaluate these structures. Something likened to starting fresh, naive as it may be.

People have been disappointed with the seeming death of this dream, and very recent revelations have exposed just how much that dream failed to be achieved. And very vocal, as one would expect from a league of very frustrated dreamers.
WTF? This isn't about the U.S. at all. It's about making money in the UK, Germany, etc. and yet, somehow, most of that money making it to B.V.I. with minimal (<1%) tax burden.
The main capability provided by Quasar is the fiber, or the lightweight thread. It is the same as a normal Java thread in the sense that it can block – on IO, on a DB call, or on a synchronization mechanism. This makes the programming experience very natural. The actor and the channel abstractions build upon fibers.

Akka doesn't have lightweight threads at all. You implement a message-handling method, but it must not block on, say, a DB call, lest it block the entire thread it runs in. An Akka actor simply must not issue a DB call: it's as simple as that.

With Quasar things are different: you pull messages rather than implement a callback; you can block: on IO, DB, lock or anything else. The programming then is not only simpler, but also more powerful. For example, Quasar supports selective receive - just like Erlang.
Ah, yeah not being able to use itunes would explain things better. Also I should also note that I only really run osx, so itunes for myself is mostly a "does what it says on the tin" situation. I know windows users have other experiences. As for renting of stuff, honestly with my appletv renting movies is really my favorite way to enjoy movies. I rarely ever watch a movie twice so it works nicely. I don't think you can rent music though, least i've never seen any music under the rental situation.

As for the streaming I was trying to setup the "live http streaming" stuff that apple sometimes uses for keynote streams. Basically a m3u playlist that updates with a bunch of chunked mp4 files. But after an hour of no real progress I decided to abandon the idea.

If the documents app can use sftp thats way better. I have a huge aversion towards ftp in general and would rather not have it running on my fileserver. Webdav would be useful as well.

As for rust, its really cool and I'm tempted to go whole hog on using it instead of go for some of my rewrites. The trait system is really fun and honestly the whole community is refreshingly fun. Which could just be related to its size and newness but either way its a fun design.
> "Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?"

I'm not convinced that either of these is really important for a general education. I think educators fixate on romantic ideals of what is important to know while ignoring the subject matter that is relevant to ordinary life.

Where I grew up, the required high school curriculum includes a lot about ancient civilizations, creative writing, chemistry and physics, and algebra. It didn't teach how to write a persuasive proposal in a business context, string together a logically-sound argument, or form inferences from empirical data, and taught very little about contemporary politics or recent American or world history. It didn't teach how to mediate an interpersonal conflict at work, delegate a task, or effectively communicate an idea in a presentation.

I lament that I spent so much time "learning" in school and have so little to show for it. I know about different kinds of cloud formations, which extinct native American cultures lived where, the difference between the soil composition in different parts of the country, spectral lines in different gasses, etc. This is trivia.

I see the argument made by Snow as simply lamenting that there is under-emphasis on one particular set of romanticized unnecessary knowledge and over-emphasis on a different set. Most of physics, chemistry, etc, are neither directly relevant to your typical person nor readily digestible as being illustrative of more general principles that are relevant. A core educational curriculum would be better served teaching more fundamental concepts directly: scientific method, statistical methods, data analysis, etc.
Oh, I intended to say "gray color for text" (which makes it less readable) and got confused, sorry :)

I liked your post a lot, anyway.
I kept the title unchanged but it's very bad math. What they actually mean is that for each dollar spent in ads, you get 90 cents back on Android vs 2.62 dollars on iPhone. That's still significant though.
See my reply to jaimefjorge
Maybe in Belgium or in other countries with a "beer culture" like Germany, not hard to believe but not widespread anyway.

Just to add another data point, when i worked for an US multinational in Italy i clearly remember there was a rule against introducing alcoholics in the workplace, each place has its rules.

My point was just that in Europe drinking on the workplace isn't common or usually allowed and, at least from where i come from, i don't feel people in general are complaining about the lack of alcohol in the office. Finding beer and wine in the canteen, just for lunch, is instead quite common.
"[Whole brain emulations] are frequently regarded as being potentially highly untrustworthy and dangerous, constituting an existential risk."

Really? Are they? An ~8000 word article based on this one sentence, with weasel words and no real rationale. Also, you seem to be confounding the computing power required to emulate a brain ("straightforward engineering") with the new imaging techniques that would need to be developed to scan and "upload."
That's definitely the way to go. If you try to "remember" an answer you read or even previously completed while in an interview there's a good chance you won't instantly recall the answer and often the problem is slightly adjusted from your first encounter. It makes it difficult to see the problem with new eyes http://lesswrong.com/lw/k7/original_seeing/

There are some serious benefits to bringing up your prior exposure to a question in a positive light. When sending out problems interviewees are likely to encounter again I include the group's "déjà vu guide" http://codingforinterviews.com/seen-question-before
Generally speaking, you'd use Angular with a backend framework.

Angular and other front-end frameworks are great for responding to user interactions extremely quickly, because often you don't have to go back to the server. And in addition when it does need to interact with the server, it is often faster to respond because it doesn't need to fetch anything but JSON data.

But that data needs to come from somewhere. And that's where Rails/Django/Play/Symphony/whatever are used.
Tom Sachs: Working to Code
The owner of foo@bar.com has written a little blurb about the crap he gets at http://bar.com/
This is great, you summed up every idea I had while reading this in a way that was far more articulate than I could have.

I only have one thing to add: If there is an economic and even, possibly, a societal benefit to specialization, and The Two Cultures idea complains about the rift between the humanities and the sciences, then has someone properly updated the material to show how much more specialized society is becoming?

The Wiki article talks about a possible third culture, but it seems to me you could become fairly deeply specialized in business/economics without ever needing a classical humanities education or a classical math/science education.
core.logic can be done cleanly in Java, no problem. For example, here is an FP library in pure Java. Nice clean code. Easy to use. https://code.google.com/p/totallylazy/
wow a librarian at a GS14 level:

[name removed]
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
LIBRARIAN
Maryland
Prince George's County
BELTSVILLE
GS 14
119238

I know the GS schedule is based on how long you work as opposed to how well you work, but i didn't think that non-STEM or non-Management roles made above GS11 or 12.
Great UI, love it. Didn't realize how many cushy jobs the government has...damn. Now I know why my parents kept telling me to look in the public sector first and foremost.
Google Glass Connects with JavaScript using WearScript
You have to remember that most actual employees are white-collar types. Almost anything commoditizable or blue-collar gets sent to contractors.

Also, let's not forget the cost of living in DC.
It's not something I face every day or all the time, but by comparison to regular every day life, around tech people and at tech events, it's more pronounced. And it may be a US thing, although I've got a German friend that constantly extols the virtue of fine German beers.

I'm fine with "to each his own", except... I'm not sure having kegs or company-provided beers in the office is an equal-footing sort of thing. Company-supplied alcohol is a tacit endorsement of that, and seems to foster a strange atmosphere at some companies.
You think that maybe they should pay taxes somewhere else, though? It's not the US that's being shafted - everywhere else is, including Ireland.
Not a very cushy job this month...
You could probably make some amazing visualizations of this data.

In Sweden, all the tax records are public information. You can literally look up how much your neighbor makes in a year. So each year after tax season, the tabloids all print up huge lists of "the richest people in YOUR neighborhood!". I've always been disappointed that with all this data, they've never gone beyond that and visualized the data geographically.
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the next step is probably adding an automated call mom button where it automatically connects to individuals. I think this would be awesome for conference calls etc...

Is this possible with Plivo/SMS' apis?
3 years later, what has the iHub done?
Less is more: Simplify your products
From http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the
following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:

10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
If I was to stay long term at my company, I'd probably encourage the transition to work while standing, but this is not the case, and I also don't see much interest in the subject here. Therefore, I take consolation in that after work, I go home and work on my own projects while standing, for about 3-4 hrs, so I think I'm safe...according to the article. I concur with other comments about the need for just having an active lifestyle, which should definitely compensate for working at a place like mine, where sitting at a chair in front of your monitor is expected.
It doesn't have to spawn a subprocess. Some shells (like those in Busybox and Toybox) reduce common POSIX userland tools to a function call.
That creates a new string (the one returned) :)
Sad to see such a useful question left without an answer. Did you find the answer elsewhere?
> This is NOT correct. As a GmbH, you have to do double accounting (doppelte Buchführung), whereas as Einzelunternehmer, you can go with a simple Einnahmen-Ausgaben-Rechnung, which is easier and also cheaper if you let a Steuerberater do it.

This is not correct. The default case is Einnahmen-Überschuss-Rechnung, but if you surpass either 400k/year (or in some cases 600k per year) for two years, you're subject to double accounting even as Einzelunternehmer or GbR. The tax administration can even compel you to double accounting in other cases (like high earnings in a couple of month). I know, since our GbR was subject to double accounting. Sadly.
I posted the article. I don't feel that it makes sense to say that one side of the dichotomy is superior to the other. The main point is that the dichotomy is false.
It's not "this or that". AngularJS is a complementary framework for client side instead of server side.

That said, AngularJS can offload a lot of server side work. Mainly rendering views and the overall presentation layer. You can basically ditch your server side templating system and make your Rails, Django, PHP or node.js a simple REST API endpoint (with some additional auth system based on cookies or smth).
The Scala space is somewhat divided, I'd say.