skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hot Stove roundup: Hanley eyes longer stay in LA
Sounds promising, though a little short on the details of what will actually be in the book.

Looking forward to it.

On a related note, here is a nice course from Stanford about scientific/technical writing: http://online.stanford.edu/course/writing-in-the-sciences
I picked up quite a few things from there. (If you are pressed for time, you can watch the lectures at 1.3x speedup).
I really don't care about Apple's problems. Apple can take care of itself.
I've never upgraded before, just started out fresh. But y env got pretty complicated so I'd like to try an upgrade. What's the experience with the "Fresh upgrade"[1]?

[1]: http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
Dunno. There's just a kind of a bad design smell to a language where one needs, or sorely tempted to use colors to discern the basic syntax.

Aside from the fact that if you're color blind then apparently you're stuck with all the )))))))s.
One of the best stories from the PGP saga is that Zimmerman worked with MIT Press to have the entire PGP source code published, in machine readable print. This allowed him to make the argument that his scary-dangerous-cryptosystem was in fact protected under the First Amendment as free speech.
The author likes mixing hyphens, semi-colons and commas together interchangeably. How unfortunate.
Why would you expect execution to be slower? If you invoke List<T>.Add(T) where T = int you end up running the same machine code that would have been generated if instead you had a method List.Add(int). There is a cost paid to generated that specific method, but it's on the first invocation. I'd expect it to be much faster than boxing, because you can elide a bunch of a allocations and generate tighter code since you have additional typing information at code gen time.

I suppose debugging could go sideways in theory, but it doesn't happen in practice on .NET and I doubt the go team couldn't figure out how to make it work.

It's worth noting that .NET never interprets bytecode, it always converts a method into machine code before execution. Go has already had dynamic code generation as part of it's implementation (I don't know if it's still around in 1.2), so it's hardly like it can't do the same thing .NET is.
Please.. what lawyer you know works 50 hours a week? Unless there's an active trial.
Wealth inequality in America [video]
I knew I was going to draw comments like yours. I didn't say that this service cannot be valuable to people, I just pointed out that you can get really close with simple means. If you're happy with the package that irccloud provides, then by all means go for it. I say this as a person who use many online services, both free and commercial.

The dropbox comparison is a bad one because it takes way more effort to set it up -- without spending a ton of effort you won't get anywhere near what dropbox offers.
Remember that these were installed ~50 years before the transistor was invented. At the time, the hardware was very expensive. It was more economical to have a single centralized rectifier than multiple distributed rectifiers.

Since they were installed, it comes down to maintenance costs vs gutting and installing a brand new system. Maintaining an older system was apparently the choice these building owners made.
Linux worm targeting Routers, Set-top boxes and Security Cameras
It was never irrelevant. The problem has simply scaled up over time.
Not necessarily. If you are making a painting, you don't have the ability to make some sections literally brighter (higher luminescence) because you don't really have control over the lighting conditions, and oil paints only give you so much ability to adjust reflectance. So what you do is subtly adjust things like tone, texture, detail or technique to 'trick' the human perceptual system into thinking the difference is there. These tricks are what imparts that life-like quality into the old master's works.
The discussion on HN from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6823279 .. before it got flagged off of the front page, I'm guessing :-(
If HBO want to encrypt stuff on a system they own, or transmit it encrypted, that's their business. However, a computer system should always serve the owner. And the only way you can do effective DRM; leaving it viewable to me but only under your conditions; is through subverting my computer from my control - otherwise I'll just be able to read the key.

DRM constitutes an attack on the loyal functioning of someone else's machine, in a way that the owner of that machine is not meant to counteract. Which is distinct from just having an encrypted file, which represents no such compromise to the loyalty expected of the computer it happens to be on at any particular time, (indeed encryption sort of assumes that it'll end up on an unfriendly machine in some form or another, else there'd be no point.)
This is incorrect; it is undefined behavior according to the spec: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1rrefp/a_glimps...
> when Google acquires a company the way they handle the non-technical staff can be a bit off-putting.

True enough.

Depending on the acquisition and the acquiring company, non-technical staff might not even get an interview -- they're just sent on their way with some thank you money, sometimes.

The standard year is the "don't say bad things about us" move done by companies that are sensitive to that kind of negative PR.

But really, finding a place for staff members that you would not have hired involves a lot of energy which can almost certainly be put to better use elsewhere in the business.
Software projects have an inherent bias towards unpredictability
I find both "he" and "she" jarring. When there's no reason to use gender, it shouldn't be used.

It makes me think the author either 1.) does not have a strong enough command of the english language to use "they", or 2.) is trying to accomplish something by picking a gender explicitly.
Citation needed.

He doesn't need a citation. He feels it's true, or at least ought to be true. Therefore it is. Plus the same "fact" been "cited" in various forms, also without substantiation, in FP papers since time immemorial. Therefore it must be true. Can't you feel it?
How to write an Incident Report / Postmortem
CloudCV - Large-Scale Distributed Computer Vision As A Cloud Service
Not that I'm disagreeing with your main point, but the listing on that Apple page is in alphabetical order, so I'm not sure anything can be inferred from that...
I'm building Quill, a web app that provides interactive grammar lessons. We are an open source/open content nonprofit organization, and we are working with a team of a half dozen volunteers. We are currently developing collaborative writing exercises, and if you're interested in building interactive education please reach out to me at peter at quill dot org.

http://www.quill.org
What are some of the biggest problems with a guaranteed annual income?
Firefox OS aims to be open, targeting the whole world including developing countries. (Where there's still growth)

Jolla is Nordic people trying desperately to maintain a mobile industry. (Targeting existing consumers, who are well catered for)

I know which I'm developing for.
As in: the citation is a "reference" to two other assertions in the same slide set, themselves simply stated with no backing evidence.
How good is $20K seed capital?
Kalei Styleguide - Generates Bootstrap-like documentation for your CSS
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I recently had a interested party connect with me via LinkedIn specifically because I has just left the company and he wanted to know why. Our professions didn't overlap too much but he was very interested in what I was doing now and what I had to say about the company. Struck me as a very smart tactic.
Ok, so do any other compilers handle it differently?
Very true - I was a bit thrown off by the use of real name (Bert) in the explanation of the revert.
Sad to say, based on my experience teaching weekend classes, it's difficult to introduce authorization or sessions in a book that's designed for beginners to read in a weekend. "Learn Ruby on Rails" is intended to prepare newcomers for more advanced books. Michael Hartl's book covers authorization so it is a good follow-on.
If not even nabla9 can understand what you were really asking, it shouldn't come as a surprise that an NLP program couldn't ;)
Alpaca - Easy Forms for jQuery
Except the papercraft thing is meant to be an extra challenge, whereas functional programming has some practical advantages. Limiting to the bare minimum of just folding, not allowing things that would make it easier like glue or cutting, doing it without practical purpose but just to make impressive creations? I think the direct programming equivalent would be esoteric programming languages like brainfuck.
>Well managed unions maintain a strike fund so that their members can survive the economic hardship of a strike.

Recent grocery store workers voted to strike and the pay was going to be $100/week for picketing 15-20 hours a week. Great.
100 trillion connections(2010)
Crash Course on Man Pages
Most lawyers not employed by the government work more than 60 hours a week on a normal basis. When there is an active trial or court hearing to prepare for, that number usually jumps to 80 hours a week or more. For BigLaw lawyers (i.e., the largest law firms), 80 hours a week is considered a vacation; most of them work at least 12 hours a day every day, including weekends!

The unreasonable workloads and time expectations are one of the reasons that lawyers as a profession are so depressed...and why law school enrollment plummeted so far once the legal market crashed and salaries fell.
Because it's being done does not make it reasonable. There is no world in which $1000/hr is a reasonable fee for any human being to do any work.
"Linux Mint 16 features MATE 1.6, MDM 1.4, a Linux kernel 3.11 and an Ubuntu 13.10 package base."

So based on Ubuntu 13.10 which means EOL in July 2014.

I'm looking at the LTS release of this distribution (based on Ubuntu 14.04) as a possible replacement for CentOS 6.4 with wider package choices.
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Passionate people enjoy what they do and are better at it than non-passionate people. Seems obvious.
I don't like this kind of stuff because it just creates huge amounts of interpersonal drama, hurt feelings and divisiveness over identity politics and minutiae.

Especially if someone's commit is only about that and it only corrects one persons comments over something they feel is a casual happenstance.

A social test I would put for this, would you feel absolutely comfortable about making a commit just about this one thing at work as a non-senior developer? Would you do this in person too? Probably not, because you know it's a socially antagonistic thing to do.
Ask HN: iOS Developers - Wish List
Are iOS Developers able to see how many people have added their app to a wish list (new feature in iOS 7)?
Not all races involve being happy to see others in trouble.
And will be again, by 2019:

http://www.empireonline.com/images/uploaded/blade-runner-opening-scene.jpg
Unschoolery
Re-twist: Pauper guy's landlord is the real estate company the other guy runs.

Triple-twist: Property manager woman working for real estate guy is shared love interest, leaves other guy for pauper guy.

Quadruple-twist: They all wind up friends, throwing in city life and moving to the countryside.

Quintuple-twist: The woman winds up working for a country hospital. In closing, she is presented with an opportunity to switch two look-alike babies that have just been delivered...
it's an abuse of power to be flippant?
This is very helpful looking forward to it.
Yep: https://github.com/wilg/headlines
Firefly Video
The problem with that, of course, is that someone's DNA or fingerprint isn't a secret. There's no reason why I couldn't take your fingerprint, embed it into a signature and claim to be you.

And this is part of why authentication and identity are very difficult things to do right, mostly because very few people have thought about what it is they're verifying.

If I publish a public key and say it belongs to me, 'Bob Smith', the only practical use that has is that you can verify that a future message signed by 'Bob Smith' was signed by someone with access to the same private key as the guy who originally published the public key. Any assumption about who 'Bob Smith' actually is, and who that corresponds to in the real world (what other identities do they assert), and also that 'Bob Smith' is a single entity, are simply assumptions.

It's impossible to pin a human down to a single, guaranteed verifiable, non impersonatable and non revocable identity. 'Documents issued by men with guns' isn't foolproof, but we use it as a trust anchor mostly because everyone else does, and we don't have much alternative.
Agreed. Optimizing the code without first fixing the asymptotic performance of the algorithm detracts significantly from the article. I've solved this problem before in Project Euler, in both Haskell and C++, and for my purposes as a beginning Haskell programmer, figuring out how to construct an asymptotically efficient algorithm for a Dynamic Programming problem in Haskell is what is interesting here.
"Hello! I'm Fish!"

"Hi. I'm Jesus!"

"Wow, Jesus? Nice to meet you, can I have your public key?"

I don't trust any of you :)
Talk about undue hierarchy. I stick to my view that Western democracy's primary value is that it slows change.
Haha, very cool, great job! Plenty of creative application opportunities!
It's just generally a cluttery, unfocused website. I attempted to make a replacement but the network effects of Goodreads make it really difficult to compete, and this was just a side project
A power-supply with 70-80% efficiency (at, say, around 50% of the power-rating) would be a very, very crappy one. On the other hand, a DC/DC with 98% would be a very good one. So your comparison is not really fair. See e.g. the book mentioned below.

The same book quotes overall inefficiencies from power line to the CPU from as low as 48% for the crappy-PSU + UPS + converters to up to 92% for the Google AC/DC+integrated PSU design.

E.g. "The Datacenter as a Computer An Introduction to the Design of Warehouse-Scale Machines, Second Edition, Luiz André, Barroso Jimmy, Clidaras Urs Hölzle" page 52 (PDF page 70) figure 4.2 quotes AC/DC supplies with 79% at worst, but the other two numbers quoted are 89% and 92%. That's more reasonable.

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00516ED2V01Y2...
When algorithms grow accustomed to your face
That doesn't bother me at all. Other than your medical information, I'm pretty sure the government already knows all that information. And I'm not really sure how them knowing my HIV status leave me at a disadvantage.
Yes, when your job is to be a neutral arbiter of a very narrow legal compliance issue.

It is not his job to be prejudiced about the company as a whole, to conduct arbitrary investigations, or to punish the company by interfering with the work of its executive team.
I think you mean tens of millions in bitcoins. There are not now (nor will there ever be), more than 2.1 tens of millions of bitcoins.
You're the only person who talks about interrupting strangers, as the author of the article has only suggested interrupting friends, and only close ones at that.
Wow, that's one scenario I didn't even consider: the government making it illegal to use encryption. Blows my mind that you could some day be considered a criminal for using PGP.
Isn't that gpg?
You're not paying for the work, you're paying for the expertise regarding knowing what work needs to be done. Moreover, you're paying one of the best lawyers in the country the market rate for his time and effort, which he could just as easily earn working to oppose monitoring efforts.

You've probably heard this story before:

One day, Pablo Picasso was sketching in the park when a bold woman approached him.

“It’s you — Picasso, the great artist! Oh, you must sketch my portrait! I insist.”

So Picasso agreed to sketch her. After studying her for a moment, he used a single pencil stroke to create her portrait. He handed the women his work of art.

“It’s perfect!” she gushed. “You managed to capture my essence with one stroke, in one moment. Thank you! How much do I owe you?”

“Five thousand dollars,” the artist replied.

“B-b-but, what?” the woman sputtered. “How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!”

To which Picasso responded, “Madame, it took me my entire life.”
Encryption is a tool, like a knife. The use of it is what makes an action useful or not: to cut a steak, or to stab an innocent person.
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Oh, so you can centrally plan all of our wages and prices? I suggest you look back and see how well this concept has historically worked out.

EDIT: Allow me to illustrate the absurdity of your comment: I want to pay Mark Cuban $500/hr to do consulting for me. Why is he billing me at $25,000/hr, if he even responds? This is garbage. No human should be paid that much.
The comparison is deeply flawed. Psychoanalysis is not good at explaining what has already happened. It only seems good if you don't know that those "explanations" have no actual basis in reality. Psychoanalysis is mostly based on completely made up "facts", not just on badly interpreted facts. This is a big difference if we're talking about philosophy of science (which we are if we're discussing Popper's views on what is science). By the way, Marxism can make testable statements about the world ("prediction" is a too strong requirement for this domain of reality, it's too complex; fluid mechanics can't make any predictions about turbulent flows, but that doesn't mean it's not science).

This is why my stomach turns when Popper is mentioned. The idea of falsifiability and testable statements being the essence of science is the best known guiding principle in scientific methodology. Having articulated this wonderful idea, he just couldn't help but muddy the water and misuse it to peddle his political and social views.

EDIT: I forgot to give an example of a falsifiable prediction in Marxism: the outcome of the "dictatorship of the proletariat" and the transitional socialist state leading to communism. It was actually falsified successfully by Soviet Union et al.
By your reasoning it would be fair for the entire executive team to spend a day a week being questioned.
> His relevance to anything ebook related is less than zero.

By Ive's own admission, this is false.
His entire argument is: "Because it's being done does not make it reasonable. There is no world in which $1000/hr is a reasonable fee for any human being to do any work."

So, no, he has no evidence.
C switch makes a decision tree
Lightly? I'd say one of the most important features were removed - implicits and most of the typesystem magic. Kotlin feels just like Java with lambdas, better null checking. slightly improved generics and some minor syntactic refinements. Most of its "features" will be obsoleted by Java 8.
I may be misinterpreting your comment, but you aren't suggesting we should give every available vaccine at the same time to a newborn, or are you? That practice isn't condoned by the CDC and thinking that might be worse (due to safety of the recipient) isn't a concession to anyone. The CDC isn't advocating for that, because they surely would have some safety concerns.

There are a number of vaccines to give, and if there were no concerns about safety they could all be given at birth. However, there obviously are concerns by manufacturers and the CDC (and of course elsewhere) so the CDC created a schedule. People that question the schedule often question the Hep first, based on the incredibly small chance an infant would come into contact with the virus.

Part of the reasoning behind the schedule being the way it is relates to doctor visits. The CDC wants children vaccinated, so accelerating the schedule and giving multiple vaccinations at once isn't due to fear of exposure at certain ages as much as the logic of "while you're here, let's take care of these vaccines as well." Kind of like the reasoning behind topping off your fluids during a car's scheduled maintenance. No need to bring the car in when you are more likely to run dry on fluids, we'll just fill you up while you're here.

Part of the CDC's concern is making sure kids are vaccinated, so the more vaccinations at once mentality makes sense to increase the likelihood of vaccination. Parents would surely be less likely to visit a doctor 15 times in a year than say 2-3 or less.

The link below shows the number of vaccines recommended in the first 6 years. Bundling them and accelerating the schedule helps guarantee higher vaccination rates, but can complicate matters when safety of vaccines is harder to test and compare in a multitude of combinations.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/downloads/parent-ver-sch...
At one point he refers to someone claiming 300W off of a 2 meter antenna. It seems too good to be true; that'd be free cheap power no one would pass up. It also sounds like something you'd be accidentally picking up all over the place with anything conductive whether you wanted it or not. Has anyone tried this? I find his demo of a tiny, barely moving engine and a 100ft wire much more realistic.
HAHAHAHA. Laugh rather than cry, right? This is simple economics: there's a certain population of people, a certain amount of basic wealth and resources. If an individual figures out how to get a good job and not temp or warehouse work, all they've done is figure out how to be the one who gets that other job. Yes, the overall system can be flexible, but it is IMPOSSIBLE for every warehouse worker to all get good jobs at once. This is a social problem, not an individual problem.
If someone questioned why I should be paid market rate for my expertise, I'd probably have a flippant attitude as well. Especially if they should know better, like Apple should.
> the person who says 'yes' is more likely to not be fired than the person who says no

Within reason, I completely disagree with this. The best engineers and PMs are the ones who effectively manage expectations.
Does this bump up LMDE also? Is there any connection between the release cycles?
At that time, rectifiers often consisted of a AC motor driving a DC generator. Which probably could have been moved to customers, but was avoided for maintenance and reliability reasons (more easy to service one big generator/motor pair than a few hunderes scattered aound the city, making noise in residential homes, ...)

Nowadays it would be trivial, a complete motor control for variable-speed 3-phase motors, that could technically of course also drive DC, costs a few hundred dollars/euros.

But probably not possible for certification reasons, as soon as you mess around with an old system you have to upgrade it to correspond to contemporary safety standards.
Quite true.

Still, the same holds for Google as well - sometimes you need to avoid relevant keywords because of the junk they'll bring in, other times you need to add seemingly tangential keywords, and yet other times you need to resort to google's syntax -- quotation marks, +/- and site: prefixes. (alack, poor +, we hardly knew ye)

Stumbling upon the right combination can take quite a bit of work until you've built up experience with both the search engine and the subject material's keywords.
I just ran this after compiling it with clang-500.2.79 based on LLVM 3.3svn, and the output was 140. Maybe GCC is to blame?
Probably just another product/market fit testing landing page. The product won't be created unless N number of subscribers sign up for the updates :)
An active social life is not an indicator of passion for work. Are the best artists the ones who spend the most time in bars?