skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is pure politics, and is built on a straw-man argument. I know of no credible source, or even of a popular source, that suggests that Twitter is a bellwether of economic recovery. I flagged it, and so should you.
A small number of Python guys are trying to use more annotations for a sort of closer-to-staticly-typed Python. It's certainly not universal, or even a majority of developers.
I think one of the biggest learning hurdles when coming from Java is getting used to using the functional collection types. I remember when C# first introduced linq-to-objects my reactions went from disgust, to fear, to total and utter acceptance and "how did I get anything done without this!"
Why I switched to rdio from Spotify
These are stunning images, what I find fascinating is the similarity between these images and ones found in nature. For example http://blog.hvidtfeldts.net/media/mbulb3.jpg looks to me a lot like a virus to me. For a long time fractals have been used to create computer generated landscapes that look real but this takes that technique to a new level.
sure - but that's not the original question. Maybe the OP is just curious to understand some in production use cases (and the approach to their implementation) - and isn't that interested to know the edge cases where it doesn't work.
You mean that floating popup on iPad? It's annoying!
That's just like, your opinion, man

I think C++ is the best procedural, 'high level', statically typed language out there. I also happen to think it's the best portable 'low level' language out there. What would your recommendation be to go alongside C?
How many top tier games are written in Haskell or OCaml? If you did I bet you'd be less productive than one using C++.

All languages make tradeoffs. You need to understand your domain and the tradeoffs associated with them.
Piracy is cheaper than marketing.

A smart player will consider the volume under the sales curve, setting a price point that will lead to the greatest revenue at the least cost, instead of focusing on maximizing each sale.

I made good money publishing shareware. Maybe 1% of my users registered their copies. Mostly government contractors, who were required to. And free tech supp led to conversions about 1/2 the time.

At my scale, there's no way I could have profitably bought ads, maintained a copy protection scheme, etc. (Having since done it both ways, I know.)

Many, many artists identify exposure as the major hurdle to financial success. The same applies for indie games, phone apps, authors, etc.
> It's not about sha256 being broken or not, but about the way it is being used for mining (being used incorrectly != broken hashing algo). Even though I agree, if it was being used improperly we would have noticed by now - I could have chosen a better example.

It's being used absolutely correctly for mining. Proof of work needs to be extremely easy to validate. You want the fastest hash possible, not the slowest.
Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can be
proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks
fast, and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say in the
night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears for
instance the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened
to the wall.
— Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks
Too much faith in the Guardian around these parts at the moment.
We are using Map/Reduce to analyze raw XML as well as event activity streams, for example analyzing a collection of events and meta data to understand how discreet events relate to each other as well as patterns leading to certain outcomes. I am primarily using Ruby+Wukong via the Hadoop-Streaming interface as well as Hive to analyze output and for more normalized data problems.

The company is a large Fortune 500 P&C insurer and has a small (30 node) Cloudera 4 based cluster in heavy use by different R&D, analytic and technology groups within the company. Those other groups use a variety of toolsets in the environment, I know of Python, R, Java, Pig, Hive, Ruby in use as well as more traditional tools on the periphery in the BI and R&D spaces such as Microstrategy, Ab Initio, SAS, etc.
Have you looked at Boost.Proto? You can in principle manipulate syntax trees in any way you like, but you'll have to spice things up a little to fit with operator overloading.
The funniest joke
A pretty funny joke that will surely make you smile and have fun!
Dear posters that post things like this: Did you delete your account? No? You Suck. Just delete your FB account. You'll feel better.
money * low information voters * paranoid messages = tea party

Also, around 80% of people are in private insurance plans through a plan at work. Some fraction of these people are happy with their HMO or PPO. These are the middle class and upper middle class or rich. They are also politically resistant.

The support for national health care or even single payer would come from the uninsured and people who have lower-end insurance (high deductible plans) and are forced into a kind of expensive PPO (insurance that makes you pay most of the costs of doctor visits).

Hilary Clinton's single payer plan was demolished by the insurance industry. So this time around, they kept insurance companies in the reforms. That negated some of the resistance from the well-insured.
I am honestly a little tired of one more language that is statically typed and compiles in js. It really has to bring something huge for me to consider it, even from name like JetBrains.
Data aggregation to calculate analytics.
A regression explaining only 84%? Isn't that pretty low?
Thank you for your comment and thank you for coming to America. My mother also grew up under the disastrous USSR. These leftist apologists would rather slit their own throats, and certainly others, than stand up to true evil. Where is Der Spiegel on the hundreds of thousands of deaths in Syria? Or the complete terrorism of fundamentalist Islam?

I'm no fan of what we in the US are doing now. It needs to stop and be reigned in or everything we stand for will be for not.
Global Warming and Hurricanes
There don't seem to be any obvious points leverage with which to apply pressure on Diane Feinstein. Her age, wealth and long term membership in Senate make her much less vulnerable to standard political tactics.

It seems that we need to manipulate the situation so that Diane Feinstein feels that is in her interests to support a more robust set of NSA reforms. I don't feel like I have a complete understand how Senator Feinstein perceives her interests.
That comment was based on your "into Postgres wouldn't be impossible" phrase.

No fair enough of its the only way you can get things to work. I still see lots of people jumping on the "big data" bandwagon with very moderate sized data.
How do we reconcile Google Only Hires Geniuses with their executional incompetence across multiple (dozens of?) products?

Is it a pride of ego fallacy? They think they are the best and they can do no wrong, so they just keep doing things without thinking results through?

Too many logical programmers trying to have input on end users/UI/UX decisions where visuals and emotions are more important?

Too many 24 year old bro managers running around trying to make a name for themselves by manipulating people in flashy ways instead of quietly making the world a better place?
I can only recommend getting in contact with Atlassian wrt. your problems. I've contacted them twice about errors on their pages and I've gotten great service both times.

I regularly send out emails when something is amiss, and getting a proper response AND getting the problem fixed is rare. Sadly.
Yes I'm working on a script that could also hook up any linux server. Initially this is what I started with but it's a bit slow at the moment (takes ~6 mins).

The process of setting up the packages from atmosphere is a bit tricky. The goal is to not have to give in the ssh keys to github & set it up on the site once.

I realize people might not like to sign in with their private repositories enabled even though by default we only ask for the public ones. So the idea is the script lets private Github or Bitbucket repos work without letting our site access it with this script.

Hopefully I finish up soon!
Well, virtual reality makes a come back, why wouldn't AI?
If Google is really using that algorithm, then I'm afraid I'm polluting their data. When I am looking for something on Google, I ctrl+click on all the relevant-looking links so they open in new tabs. Since I haven't even read any of the results yet, it is inaccurate to assume that the last link I ctrl+clicked was the most relevant.
Probably the most promising language on the JVM in my opinion, one that stands a reasonable chance to see wider adoption than the faltering and overly complex Scala.

Kotlin feels like an incremental improvement over Java that I can wrap my head around and it comes with stellar IDE support right out of the box.

I hope they release a 1.0 soon so we can see if it gains traction, but it will be challenging, because Java certainly seems invincible right now, and probably for years to come thanks to the imminent Java 8.
Beware not to get confused between explanation and justification. Whenever a social issue is worth struggling for, that's precisely because of the mismatch between how things are and how they ought to be, it's essential to have a fair assessment of things as they are.

Those who suffer from mental confusion between how things are and how they ought to be, tend at best to be ineffective, and often to discredit the cause they wish to defend. As you hinted, some variants of feminism are confronted with such issues.

Another kind of confusion to avoid is between "natural" and "legitimate". "Natural" means "spontaneous", it's almost the exact opposite of "civilized". Describing something as natural is certainly not justifying it. Some forms of populisms abuse the natural/legitimate confusion to manipulate masses, but that's no reasoning, let alone sound reasoning.
According to The Fountainhead, yes!
I think this is a thing that everyone goes through in their career at some (or various) points: you take an inventory of what does and doesn't work about the roles you've held, and try to turn them into a qualifying questionnaire for future roles.

That's fine as far as it goes, but one of the things you'll learn as you progress is that superficial process issues are actually not at the core of effectiveness; talent, vision, and ability to execute are. You want to be careful that your questionnaires don't blind you to opportunities to work in radically different cultures/processes that will succeed for reasons you don't yet understand.
Thanks for catching this. I really rushed the homepage. I'm pushing up an update now that should correct it.
Precisely my point. This is localized catastrophe. For us, it has less effect than car accident happening to our neighbor.

Because the people who died were poor, this accident adds net positive emotional entertainment value to the life of typical consumer.
I'll try: a system is intelligent if it is able to respond to low-energy deposits (information) with high-energy reactions (e.g., movement) in order to seek non-local sources of negentropy to dissipate.

But then again I'm more interested in the intelligence that differentiates a slime mold from a hurricane than the intelligence that differentiates a human from a chimpanzee.

For example: hurricanes are self-organized, constituted by a structured flow of energy and matter rather than specific pieces of matter. But a hurricane is a slave to the local potential. It will dissipate all the negentropy in its wake, and in doing so maintain its structure. But once there is no more energy differential to dissipate, the hurricane will itself dissipate as it is not able to break free of the local potential and use information to seek out non-local negentropy sources. The question for research is what is necessary to make that jump from self-organization to intelligence, given that operationalization.
Yes, it would. -vf are video filters, ie. they affect the output video stream.

EDIT: Misread your question, but yeah, I think you can make -vf ass read the ASS file from the (MKV, I assume?) file itself.
Forks/threads on (e.g.) 12 core CPUs works up to a point. But that point probably does solve many problems without further complication :-)
Aha. Thank you for the context.
It's so much comforting to know that the unwashed masses can look up to people such as you or the "experts" to protect them (with compassion) from themselves or from those who seek to manipulate or take advantage of them, such simpletons that they are. Makes it a better world.
This technique is not called "Inline unit tests", it's called contract programming.

I can't imagine writing such code without proper support from IDE like automatic folding and/or special colors.

There is also problem of asynchronous code, events etc. Something that can't be covered with such simple contracts.
And .NET framework tend to overuse subclassing/overriding pattern where delegation is more appropriate. That frequently leads users also overuse subclassing/overriding.
Will u mind sharing some more info on this real time analytics using d3 as i am also planning to do something like tht..
Litecoin is at a respectable $3, that's not too shabby?
Don't wildfires have the ability to break free of a local potential? All it takes is a small spark, carried on the wind.

Likewise for seeds, fish eggs (carried in the gut of birds), etc.
Affluence & education: Do you live in a “Super Zip”?
I don't really want to dive into this conversation in any real depth, but I do want to point out that Google+, with old features or new, has never violated the ACLs that users set. If you set something to private, it remains private forever.

To do otherwise would be corporate suicide.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on G+.
point well made, though, there may be U.S. tax reasons that would influence the timing of sales (e.g. offsets in their portfolio)
Try this:
echo testing | tee -a >(gzip >test.gz)
We (and I'm guessing many hosts) could probably work best with just an API call that passed in the git URL with SHA, e.g. git://github.com/SachaG/Telescope#0bed5aa60999dbdf9be7c1c9f0e71c94f527269c
I definitely agree. I don't think Bitcoin is perfect, but the alternatives don't actually fix any of its shortcomings. Instead they tweak small technical details that make little difference in the quality of the currency. Whether Bicoin succeeds long term is going to have very little to do with whether the hashing algorithm is SHA-256 or scrypt (a major change in Litecoin).
South Korea Delayed Stock Market Open for College Test
Change Management for Brokers - It Ain't Going To Be Easy
Rules startups founders can learn from Olympians
Interesting to see this at a Mises-related blog. I'm not deeply into Austrian economics, but I was under the impression that Austrians didn't think much of either Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency alternatives. Aren't all cryptocurrencies at fundamental odds with Ludwig von Mises's "regression theorem" [1], which posits that legitimate currencies can only originate "naturally" as an outgrowth of real commodity trade, and cannot be artificially constructed as currencies?

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=xFsaVHBXlNkC&pg=PA61&dq=%22...
That wouldn't help either. If something as explicit as the Seventh Amendment's "twenty dollars" requirement can be argued away, anything can.

http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm
'Turkified': Why I Can Never Be a Proper German
I was going to use Google Code for hosting my projects, but, after this fiasco, I think I'll just use Github instead.

Hey, at least I'll get to use a DVCS. :P

In all honesty, though, while this won't hurt Google right now, it's going to come back and bite them in the rear end soon enough. If they keep making these kinds of changes, what's next? Having to sign in to Google+ to use Android? A Google+ feed on the Chrome OS deskop? Requirements for Google+ account with "Developer Privileges" to download Go?

Again, this doesn't matter much now, but it's going to hurt them later. It happens to the best of everyone: Microsoft. Apple. Google.
When the problem is essentially damming a 100-mile wide river, yea, it's pretty much the only solution. Again, the damage here was the tsunami-scale storm surge, not so much the wind.
They're anonymous named pipes. Do this in a shell to see the name:

echo <(true)
Show HN: Hardware Prototype - Designed and Built in the Last 24 Hours
Sure. And so it would in Pyret. It is just some sugar to make it more clear that this code belongs to a particular function. It can also be much more improved and coupled to the 'owner' function, but that's just a simple example of how to make a macro that emulates in part Pyret's inline tests.
damn it man, you have started polluting HN too. Wasn't reddit enough for your hate mongering?
I think the author is overestimating the weight of bitcoin's network. It would only take a really major player to back any of the altcoins to kill bitcoin
The point of the cartoon is not that admin passwords for driver installs are bad but to point out how the current state of computer security fails to protect all the other aspects of computer use.
facebook? i have never been on facebook, but i happened to access my g+ 'home' page today (from another computer) and it was full... i usually don't go there it did not feel like 'home' at all...
FAQ doesn't seem to be complete either. Last answer is "instructions for that here."
I am pretty tired of statically typed direct-to-JS languages which are wildly unsound. I use TypeScript at work, and I grant it's hugely safer than JavaScript and has saved us from dozens of defects even in the two weeks since I introduced it, but its type system is pretty broken.

A DSL written in a dependently-typed language (such as Idris) would suffice for both the kind of safety and the level of expressivity I require. (Unfortunately, the various JS backends for Haskell, Idris, Agda, etc. are not usable for my purpose, since I need the output to be readable and debuggable).

Anything less than what I have proposed in the previous paragraph is pretty uninteresting to me. It's unfortunate that people are working so hard on Kotlin, when it cannot contribute anything new or interesting, by its very nature.
It certainly doesn't work when it's entirely fake.

The Fed is trying to skip the cause, and acquire the result. It's one of the dumbest economic concepts ever devised.

Trickle-down is a goofy name for capital investment. Meaning, rich people have capital, they allocate it where they can earn a return. Nothing can ever actually alter this premise, it will exist even in the most Communist of nations; so calling anything trickle-down is absurd, it's all trickle-down, even when it's the Communist Party in the USSR that is the rich and doing the trickling down. In a healthy economy, job creation goes hand-in-hand with that capital investment, it's no more complex than that.

Normally a booming stock market is the result of widespread economic growth - that is, in the absence of the Fed generating huge imbalances in the economy that spur an artificial stock market boom.

This (the Fed trying to acquire the result without the cause) is the same exact reason we're seeing non-existent job creation. The Reagan recovery saw massive, full-time job months, such as 1.1 million produced in Sept 1983. Bill Clinton also saw very impressive full-time job gains. So far this non-recovery is lucky if it produces 200k jobs, and if 10% of them are full time jobs, with only 50% in hospitality and retail (low paying consumption driven jobs instead of production).
I'm probably in the minority here, but I'm all for this change, largely because of the crappy anonymous comments you see out there on YouTube, which was the point of this transition in the first place.

However, forcing Google+ onto people does have me wary as well. I don't mind using Google+, but it seems like Google's way to slowly worm their way into people using its social component. I admittedly am not sure why it affects me, but something about that does rub me the wrong way (although not enough to ditch using Google services). It's not quite insidious, but it does feel like it gives off the vibe that we are the product, even more than usual.
The Boston Globe has a great series of photographs of the aftermath:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/11/typhoon_haiyan.html
Strongly disagree.

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/6926/in-defense-of-alternative-cr...
Your Pee Could Power Future Robots
I agree. My knowledge of the subject is little but the parent author of this thread came off as hyperbolic. I don't understand human biology well, so I left open the possibility that I may have an incorrect opinion, as it uneducated. My opinion is MSG is safe and delicious.
It sounds like people are only interested in discussing this case insofar as it advances their own agenda.
GitHub is better anyway :P
I always loved instant messaging and hated those social networks that you have to 'build yourself' there, like facebook nowadays or the old myspace.

I wanna hook up with ppl 'right now' and sustain only what really matters for me; I don't wanna 'look this is my weekend', 'love u grandma', 'dude likes that company', 'that rockband is awesome!'. Fuck.

In this sense I think twitter is genius. Feels like instant messaging and still people get to know you in a 'lighter' way than facebook, without that ego avalanche.
I absolutely agree. I can see my future projects being written either entirely in Kotlin or in a combination of Kotlin and Clojure.

Kotlin is a very practical, well thought-out language, that was designed with the right approach re language features: if in doubt, leave it out. The result is simple, modern and powerful, with – and this one is extremely important – top notch Java integration. It is extremely easy to integrate Java and Kotlin in the same project, and easy enough to go back to Java if Kotlin doesn't catch on. Kotlin is very easy for Java developers to learn, and easy to read and understand if they haven't learned it. It feels very unobtrusive when introduced into a Java project.
It has the few things that I believe will make my life a lot easier.

1) compiles to jvm and javascript
2) handles null better than java/javascript
3) good tooling

I don't know of many other languages that hit this mark.
(Poster) we moved from mysql+innodb/myisam to hadoop because of performance problems. We did test and evaluate hadoop, and then jumped. Then tokudb comes along (technically we moved back to mariadb) and puts performance advantage firmly back on mysql's side. I imagine impala and presto and any other column based, non-map-reduce engines would give tokudb a fairer fight though.
Given the simplicity of my macro, I didn't call this 'contract programming' on purpose. For real JavaScript Contract Programming, check out contracts.js (from the same author of sweet.js).
Perhaps, but Tea Partying one's primaries gets you people like Akin.
There's a long way to go before building permanent structures on the Moon is a possibility (meteoroid detection/destruction, understanding seismic activity, etc.), but its far side would be a great place for building data centers.