skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Clojure has to loose if there is a renaissance of the JVM, however it will have less space to exist if Scala becomes what people think when they think "FP on the JVM" (and it's starting to become the case).
Thank you for the enclosure idea! Will implement your idea again if I happen to have a ridiculously huge and cold room like I did last year again.
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Although the site looks snazzy, it's annoying that page-down goes one line too far.

Page-down. Huh? Oh. Line-up. Ah.

Page-down. Huh? Oh. Line-up. Ah.

. . .

Frustrating reading experience that distracts from the message.
There was at least one person which did not only attack and insult him, but went straight from HN to the mailing list to do so.

I don't think this makes HN look good in any way.
It's the implication that the woman is employed by the company to "welcome back" the programmer man, with a further implication that the "welcome" is sexual in nature. She is essentially cast as a prostitute. Specifically, NOT a programmer as well.
The design reminds me of "The Internet"'s desing from "The IT Crowd".
When somebody reads that X is better than what they're using or that X is the "next big thing", they're liable to feel this as a personal attack. It's like their choices were wrong--they should have gone with X instead. This isn't usually how the articles about X are actually meant to be read, but it's how some people see them nonetheless.

Now, these people are feeling slighted (however unfairly). They're not going to drop everything and pick up X. Fair enough: jumping to every shiny new technology would be madness. But chances are they won't even bother learning about X properly. Instead, they want some plausible sounding reason about why X is not all it's cracked up to be, about why they're actually smarter for not using it than vice versa, about why it's all just more hype. They want to stick it to those smug X-using bastards.

So they vote up critical articles that just happen to be written coherently, regardless of how accurate they may actually be. And so we get dross on the front page. Happily, the HN comments tend to paint a much better picture: they simultaneously debunk the original argument while exploring the actual upsides and downsides to X. With these sort of articles, the contents are worth far more than the actual blog posts.

X here is anything from Scala to NoSQL to functional programming. The recent article about what is wrong with FP and OOP is a perfect example of this, which annoyed me in particular. And yet, I think this sort of thing is virtually inevitable if functional programming is to grow and become more popular, so it's more than a worthy sacrifice.
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What happens when the star of your movie dies midway through a $150m production
Frontier as well, I learned recently.
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I was in a heated debate about this few nights ago and a drunken conclusion was that Tesla was right and women are due to dominate pretty soon.

Amongst the terms in the winning argument lines were, in no particular order: trousers, Candy Crush Saga, online marketing, e-commerce, uterus, toys, hipsters, self-modification.

Biker dudes will be a museum exhibit in 50 years.

All arguments fall flat on its face if we're due severe population cut due to war, disease, whatever.
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I'm not seeing the big issue being raised here. I think much of how a child turns out in life depends on their parents.

My wife likes pink, but she's also better at repairing cars, playing video games, repairing smart phones and target shooting than myself. She would be an awesome programmer or system admin, but likes project management and people more than I do. She is the one in her family that bought the gaming consoles starting with the NES.
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You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!
No, because an anecdote does not data make.
Just some promotional blog post for their Domain API.

"We just checked 456.976 domains with our API"

"I hooked up with 10 chicks last month"

In both cases, no one cares.
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I think he's suggesting that the author of the blog post had limited programming language experience.

Even though it may not be fair, JavaScript does seem like a good language to pick for labelling someone that way, along with PHP.
Thank god. There are still people in my office using XP and IE 6/7 that I wonder why they cant do or see certain things.
i am a liberal fan of freedom and equal rights - within reason.

i applaud the sentiment but this is just one of many symptoms of 'women don't like taking risks and don't like stem fields'

whats more i like to think that women are allowed that freedom of choice - so its a double edged sword.

the side effects suck but these scenarios /come from/ freedom and equal opportunities for women. why is nobody looking at cultures which are oppressive to women or have lower quality of life as counter examples? not only do they not have this kind of marketing... but actually more women enter stem fields and do 'male' traditional roles out of necessity or societal pressure.

its a horribly complicated problem. extra sad that i can't make a 'sexist' joke here as a punchline for fear of reprisal...
You may be interested in
https://www.moocdemic.com/
which is a global simulated outbreak, playable on iPhone and android phones.

The games goes together with the online MOOC "Epidemics - the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases" https://www.coursera.org/course/epidemics
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unknown right now, its usually from some kind of abuse.
I never thought I'd say it but it seems that they are getting close to the end of the line feature wise! Not a lot here that is making want to upgrade from 12...
If he's such a genius, ask him how to leave the scrollbar on your blog.
Variance has been well understood in PL theory in basically forever. None of the languages had to borrow it from each other because they could all just get the inspiration from type theory.
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Psst, you're not allowed to say that :-)

I get these ^ all the time these days, including HN. Whenever anyone says something like that, I know I'm on the right track. :)

As far as spinach/chocolate analogy goes, the result they're going after is even worse - it's a spinach-flavoured chocolate, or chocolate-flavoured spinach.

Spinachocolate!
Offtopic, of course, but I'll post here anyway...

I've been meaning to post a bug report about this - I can't get conditional breakpoints to work with Grails debugging. Regular breakpoints, fine, but conditionals... I get an error that "'this' is not available" when it hits the breakpoint.

Searched around - can't find any other reports of this, but it's been a problem since at least IntelliJ 12, and in the 13 beta that I tried - I don't have 11 around any more, but I could swear it used to work.

EDIT: added bug report: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-117458 although it looks like it was reported and marked as 'fixed' in http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-100647. Still doesn't seem to work though.
Round up change for Code.org (Giving Tuesday)
http://www.brace.io offers this but also has a separate staging environment which is very useful!
Language processing is indeed often lateralized (symbolic interpretation left, intonation right, in (most) right-handed people[0]), and other specific tasks are also lateralized, but I don't think you can generalize it like she does.

I do have a background in neuroscience (I did research on headache physiology a few years ago), but I'm not too familiar with functional imaging.

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[0] Handedness is a strange thing. The gene that governs it has two alleles. One is dominant, and causes right-handedness. The recissive one, doesn't necessarily cause left-handedness. Handedness is people with two recessive genes is random, roughly 50/50 (a bit less for each, since it can also make one ambidextrous).

The clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation of the main cowlick is also governed by the same gene, in the same fashion, AFAIK, independently (the dominant gene makes the cowlick turn clockwise).
I think the fuel and oil are gravity fed, or aren't under enough pressure to work upside-down.

I love watching the cars as they come out of a slow corner, they look like they are prancing on their toes, then as they speed up they 'suck' down to the ground... really cool
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Show just enough underexposed articles to gather evidence (votes) without polluting the front page too much

The problem with this is that people are biased. Their negative reaction to spam is far greater than their positive reaction to a hidden gem.
ok, ok. for no good reason then. These things happen because she gets targeted for her work. She's not a troll baiter at all, but still gets carry on like this from time to time.
So her account was renamed because it violated some else's trademark. How does this equate to getting "targeted for her great work in trying to balance gender equality in tech"?
Actually I distribute power from the battery to other subsystems, so it's rather far from the ECU.
Who Shares My Password
Find out if your email address is part of the password leak at Adobe in October 2012.

Not only that, have a look to see how secure you password was or is.

Enter your email address and see how many other people shared that password.

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Although its a bit off topic, the "standard american hearty breakfast" simply didn't exist more than a century ago.

Highly processed breakfast cereals are also relatively recent.

Corn syrup soda apparently becoming primary/sole source of hydration rather than a special treat.

All humans must consume vast quantities of dairy products is fairly recent.

Could just say "diet in general".

How about "Natural is good for you". Or greenwashing sells.
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Sadly F# is taking C++'s place on Visual Studio's list of not so loved languages.

Although many financial systems are picking it up, and a wealthy community is building around it in the .NET world, Microsoft development tools team still seems not sure how to steer it.
Thank you for sharing the diamond story. It really was one of the first national marking campaigns. De Beers paid celebrities to wear diamond engagement rings and talk about their diamond engagement rings, and now everyone "has" to have a diamond engagement ring.

Men wearing a wedding ring, another marking campaign invented in the 1940's.
The mind-reader IDE, as we used to call it. It's sometimes scary when you create a new variable in a class and it gives you the perfect suggestion (based on what you did elsewhere in the code).
What you mean that male "hackers" dont jump on fashions? OO new language of the day the "xxxx must die" meme etc.
Only in places like HN, in the enterprise world we are not short of .NET projects.
What happens when someone hacks this during rush hour?
It wasn't a surprise that most cancellation happen during the first three months. I just didn't expect the number to be so huge.
" due to the small amount of turbocharged vehicles available new"??? Pretty much 99% of diesel cars available now in Europe have turbochargers, I don't remember when was the last time I saw a car without one. And most newly announced cars for 2014(for example - new Nissan Qashqai) got rid of their naturally aspirated petrol engines in favour of smaller but turbocharged petrol engines.

Maybe in the US the situation is different,but in EU the non-turbocharged engines are a dying breed,and have been for at least a decade now.
or just resell the drone
This is a good reply, but I have to point out that the Continuum Hypothesis is certainly not equivalent to the Axiom of Choice. In fact, it's independent of the Zermelo Frankel axioms together with Choice. While broader mathematics community has pretty much now accepted Choice (it's too damn useful not to), no such consensus has arisen over the Continuum Hypothesis. However, unlike AC, I doubt many people outside set theory their have a strong opinion on CH.
Dedicated Docker registry as a Service
Seeing the Toll, Schools Revise Zero Tolerance
U.S. students lag around average on international science, math and reading test
I have a sign-up thing that collects emails in case I ever launch it http://recordbox.com/ As I said, has some speed issues.
If it's "not really that hard" why not just do it yourself?

Just remember that a web site is more than a place where you put your product. It's a salesman and a showcase for your product. I'm not sure why you would want to throw up a crappy $20 theme and do it yourself if you have no experience.

The site is much more than a theme too.
With XP finally at the end of life, this is a great opportunity for many companies or institutions to switch to Linux.
It "violated" a trademark which was applied for long after the twitter account had been successful. If that suspension is ok anybody can get any (non trademarked) account name killed just by applying for a trademark.
For me, it was annoying in a general sense (can't pin-point it). I was going to article and out of it 3 times.

trying to read it / gah, can't / but there's interesting comments on hn about it / trying to read it / dammit! / it's being upvoted almost to #1 / ok, ok. i'll go through exruciating pain of reading it / it wasn't worth a read anyway
I found Prezi's source code
especially looking at sinful pictures might lead to naughty things and eventually shudder to music and dancing.
It's time to take action. For far too long women in IT have suffered from poor eyesight and terrible life choices.

I vote we get rid of your desk.
Hi, the backend developer position sounds very interesting, by any change do you accept h1b?
Walmart essentially engages in the capitalist equivalent of both of those. Third World labor exploitation and near-extortion of their upstream suppliers. I cannot think of a more ruthless tyrant than Walmart.
> We steal our stories from everywhere. Marketers, it turns out, are just really good at giving us stories we want to steal.

What's interesting about this is that marketers are now stealing stories from consumers and selling them right back, either by monitoring our behavior (both on- and off-line) or direct solicitation. "Tweet your favorite Dunkin' Donuts memory with #DunkinMemories!" There are even promotions that encourage consumers to write and produce their own commercials for a product -- there was one a while back where the winning ad was shown during the Super Bowl.
Wow, I have never heard anyone talk about actors that way, but have often thought it myself. What makes you say this?
Given that he has stolen $30M, getting $1000/day would really suck for him. At some point he will get greedy and desperate and make a mistake, and hopefully they catch him.
You're very kind in your characterization, I'm willing to spend my karma on a less euphemistic statement: leave it to Americans to get up in arms about perceived 'sexism' in an ad like this, especially keeping in mind the date on it. LOL at some of the comments below - 'misogyny'? Really?
At the office our jaws regularly drop at JetBrains' attention to detail, too. PHP development would be nightmare without their tools. If you're ever reading this, thank you guys very much.
You are right. My point was that there not many petrol or gasoline powered turbocharged autos. Diesels powered autos are commonly turbocharged. In the USA, diesel autos are not common. Thus, turbos are mostly seen in high-performance vehicles (like the 911, WRX, etc.).
Have you considered,that technologies developed for F1 by lets say....Mercedes, can later be used in their regular cars and therefore improve efficiency of not just a single F1 car,but millions of cars on the road?

With the promotion of turbochargers in F1, a stupid amount of research is going to go into them - and they are used in pretty much every diesel car on the road now, so if the technology can be improved further, then it's all for the best.

I've read the article and I don't think it mentions making F1 greener - it's not what it's about.
For those interested, here are some other posts about the acquisition:

- http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/03/intels-mashery-acqu...

- http://pando.com/2013/12/03/new-yorks-hackathon-superhero-se...

- http://masherydev.tumblr.com/post/68875086630/hacker-league-...

- http://www.mashery.com/blog/expanding-our-commitment-develop...
You haven't answered my questions.

> for no good reason then.

Are you not aware of a reason (but maybe she knows something you don't), or is she not aware of a reason, or are you aware of a reason and it's not a good one?

(I'm not asking because I expect there to be a good reason. But e.g. if twitter has told @girlgeeks what's going on, and you just aren't privy to those communications, then that's very different to the situation where twitter hasn't told @girlgeeks what's going on.)

> These things happen because she gets targeted for her work.

Cite? The information in this thread so far is that this has happened once before for unrelated reasons.
>There are considerably more people having pre-marital sex, too.

No there isn't.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16287113/

More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past.

“This is reality-check research,” said the study’s author, Lawrence Finer. “Premarital sex is normal behavior for the vast majority of Americans, and has been for decades.”

The study, examining how sexual behavior before marriage has changed over time, was based on interviews conducted with more than 38,000 people — about 33,000 of them women — in 1982, 1988, 1995 and 2002 for the federal National Survey of Family Growth. According to Finer’s analysis, 99 percent of the respondents had had sex by age 44, and 95 percent had done so before marriage.
I feel the same way, sometimes I upvote controversial articles because I'm interested in the discussion it sparks.
30s of research gives me this http://www.google.co.uk/patents?id=0eBEAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=%2...

It's a patent application from 1928 which speaks about engagement rings with a bezel for a stone.

I'm going out on a limb and saying that diamonds would be one choice for the stone prior to 1928. They certainly are only one amongst many choices in the present day too. Do USA-ians only have diamond engagement rings?

The cited Priceonomics article contains a logical flaw. It says demand was created in the De Beers campaign but then goes on to describe how great demand was purposefully under-supplied by Rhodes in order to prop up the price. Similarly it says roughly 'you like diamonds because a marketer told you to' but also then says that diamonds prior to establishing large mines were the preserve of Kings and Queens ... why then did they like them; they are just people too. The answer of course is that they're durable and look pretty and aren't [or weren't] commonly available. It's a great article, but they like you I fear have just pushed it that tiny little bit further seems supported.

Some other citations from a couple of minutes searching:

- this patent suggests that large settings on narrow bands were the fashion in 1927, http://www.google.co.uk/patents?id=LtZEAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=%2...

- Beck vs Cohen, 16 March 1933 concerns the specifics of engagement rings being part of an obligation to marry; suggesting they were a customary part of betrothals at that time.

- from 1868, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tL1YAAAAcAAJ&dq=%22engage..., suggests at pp18-19 that when betrothal fell out of fashion in the middle ages engagement rings were retained.

TL;DR - the suggestion in your post is that engagement rings were very uncommon [my word, AlexandrB's was "occassional"] in USA prior to a De Beers campaign. This seems to be an exaggeration. Perhaps De Beers instead achieved the end of making diamonds the fashionable stone to choose for the already customary engagement ring.
If the 30% isn't considered bonus (which is quite a big bonus) then it doesn't make sense to me.

If I wanted to jeopardize 30% of my salary and take risks, I would start my own company.

Running a company involve taking risks that are generally only shared among the investors.

For this reason, I'm sure we're either missing details or the 70% is equal to around 90% of the industry salary which would be more acceptable, 10% off the base salary in exchange of 30% bonus, which would get you to 120%.
The team is definitely reading this and thank you for your kind works.
Yep. The products have been cool, the codebase monstrous. Painful legacy stuff mainly.

"Architecture, what architecture?"

But then, contracts for it were in the $millions range, so it was an experience!
How is it implied that she is not a programmer? I didn't see that at all. Also I didn't see that she is employed to "welcome men" in the ad. That is just feminist glasses making you see things like that. She could just be working there and be happy to get another capable colleague.
Are .com(s) really worth their value anymore? With so much success with companies using alternative domain extensions, I see the value of a .com dropping sharply in the near future.
I like this, "the mind-reader IDE"
for varying definitions of "regular users" and "works"
I disagree that anyone could build a Twitter clone. (At least something that could possibly handle anything near the scale of Twitter.) Aside from that, App.net has a reasonably large community.
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Who isn't?

This Drone thing(for me they are RC helis, but let's not argue about that.) is looking more and more like a PR stunt than anything else.
First, "feminism" is too broad of a concept to apply in this context. The subset of "feminism" you're probably talking about, a counter-culture push back against gendered socialization, never got much traction to begin with and is certainly not more prevalent today than it was say in the 1960's and 1970's. The mainstream of modern feminism embraces gendered socialization, and indeed there is a major contingent of modern "feminists" that are quite reactionary (extolling the virtues of stay at home motherhood). Moreover, birthing and medical trends have also gone backwards. For example, formula feeding, which unshackles mothers and allows fathers to assume the primary role in feeding infants, has been on the decline since the 1970's. In 1972, only 22% of women breastfed in the U.S., by 1995 it was back over 60%. We're still limping towards gender equality, but "feminism" as it used to exist is quite dead.

Second, it's ridiculous to think that "half a century of counter-culture" would do anything to impact a sociological phenomenon that has roots in human society dating back hundreds if not thousands of years. Girls are given dolls to play with because the historical role of women has been primary caregivers to children. That was true a thousand years ago, and it's less true but still very true today. In the 2000's, almost 25% of families with children under 15 had stay at home moms, and out of the families where both spouses worked, the mother was the primary caregiver in 70%+ of cases. This sociological fact is reflected in the market. Household products are still marketed to women, and unsurprisingly, so are dolls marketed to girls.
Luckily this is called "Safe Stop", or I'd be very concerned about this not working as intended.
Indeed a good way do do economic terrorism forget infiltrating power plants with stuxnet or its descendants - just shut down traffic on key roads in major cities.