skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if they're serving the files from different domains? Browsers can only download a few files from one domain at a time. So if there are four sub-domains setup for the 35 files, this would make the JavaScript load quicker.

Am I right?
Scientist who faked data in his thesis will keep his Ph.D.
The Scala code I write looks very similar to the Clojure code I write. But has the advantage of (optional) static type checks.

What I care about is that a language lets me express easily the concepts that are in my head. Scala does that and because of its type systems makes it even possible to document these concepts in a mechanically verifiable way (only up to a certain extent, of course).
Hm, If the other side is GS and you don't have inside info, you better look for a carrier in some other field.
It 'looks just like Scala'? It is not even a functional programming language. Let alone that it supports implicits, general operator overloading (operator overloading is very limited in Kotlin), existential types, etc.

In fact Kotlin looks mostly like Java with some additions to make everyone's lives easier (closures, extension methods, data classes).
Scala after 2 weeks = 1 star
Scala after 2 months = 3 star
Scala after 6 months = 5 star

Show me a statically typed language on the JVM that trumps Scala -- it doesn't exist.

Show me an ecosystem in that statically JVM based language that trumps that of Scala (Akka, Play, Slick, sqltyped, Squeryl, Spray, Scalatra, Lift, Blue Eyes, Unfiltered, etc., etc.)

Yes, compile times are a hassle (for deployment that is, incremental compilation combined with sub projects are plenty fast, usually around 1-3 seconds, it's a non-issue).

Yes, IDE support is nowhere near that of Java's, but it has improved immensely during the past 2 years. Either IntelliJ or Eclipse + ScalaIDE do the trick, am happy on the latter here.

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses
--Bjarne Stroustrup
Baby taken from mother by UK social services in ‘forced caesarean’
Most people don't camp HN and probably won't know how often a topic has been discussed here.

And, while "one flight delivery"/lame marketing patents would indeed be dumb, I kinda want to see a grid of drones tossing boxes to each other mid-air like acrobats. I think that would be sweet.
Jewellery. Tiffany & Co isn't going anywhere.
>> This is probably the reason for Javascript's popularity, but if you ignore some bad language design, Javascript is a very simple language with a very small number of concepts that you need to understand to start getting work done in it

I hear this a lot. JavaScript is great unless you [insert example why JavaScript isn't great]. You could easily turn that statement around: JavaScript sucks, unless you don't [insert example why JavaScript sucks]. It's an empty statement that could apply to almost any development language no matter how objectively 'good' or 'bad' it is.

I don't know Scala, but judging from the (interesting) article it appears that Scala can be perceived as a bad language because it allows you to write obfuscated, hard to read code that hides many details of what's going on in the program. This can be both a good and a bad quality, depending on the kind of program, and the kind of developer. Personally I like languages that aren't too opinionated or restrictive, so I might like Scala. Compare this to JavaScript, which is a bad language for the simple fact that it's downright dangerous to program in looking at all the idiotic, arbitrary corner cases you have to avoid.

You could have a philosophical discussion about the merits of the design choices in Scala, I don't think you could say the same about JavaScript though, it really is popular only by accident.
Yes, please, test this. Build a caffeine free startup.

No coffee, tea or energy drinks allowed.
Please note that the relationship between typhoons and climate change is unproven. There is some vague idea that higher average temperature provides more energy to storms, but it's at best an idea.

Please note that people aren't indifferent. Without technology and the economy, people in India would starve. I would also suggest that in a less developed economy, people are much more likely to be aware of that.

Industry is not bad, it's what humans alive, in the numbers that we have.
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I realize you're being metaphorical, but "houses burning down" ? Really ?

We'll have to relocate a few cities, or abandon them. Sure, not pleasant, but nobody will be burning.
It's hard to dig the tunnels, but once you do it tends to stay dug without a lot of complicated reinforcement work.
The problem with buying the index is that you also buy the dogs that go bust.

Also if an index is heavy in say banks as the FTSE 100 was when the recession hit you get hit harder.

You should see shares as an Investment not as trade its the difference between an investor and a speculator go read Grahams (Warren Buffets mentor) Intelligent Investor
"We love the startup office culture but we hate running out of coffee in the office. "

No, no, no, no, no.

This is going to kill you (I don't mean the startup, I mean the people with this kind of attitude). If you can't find time to go out for a coffee, or if you simply don't want to leave the office even for a coffee (how long is that, 10 mins?), then you're in a trouble.

I've seen people who get free food at their desks in the office. It's plain sad.
The Peacock Problem
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6823668
For all practical purposes, you're never comparing just the core language, but the language+libraries for common tasks (no matter if it ships 'batteries included' or not)+the whole ecosystem and community of library developers.

If it's hard to do X in your language, but easy in other languages - then that's a weakness for your language, despite that 90% of X's will be outside of the language core.

And even 'optional extras' in your language can be weaknesses instead of features - if they are often used by library makers for less readable/maintainable code than the other options.
Google groups comes to mind. It's not uncommon to have to wait several seconds before you can read the text, and then it all collapses and you need to fish for the right post.
It seems to me that if this is to seriously take off, it would require a distribution center in every major city, at the very least.

If anyone can pull it off, I think Amazon can.

I wrote a term paper on them for my last class in school, based on the then - predicted entry into grocery delivery.

I feel like Amazon is one of the few large companies that has been innovative and has the possibility to be seriously disruptive to the economy.

Some of what was talked about... same-day delivery of groceries. They'd likely have their own fleet. What does this mean for the existing big name grocers? Same-day delivery of regular merchandise. What would this mean for UPS and/or FedEx?

If I were a Mom & Pop shop, and I knew Amazon was coming to town, that would make me lose sleep at night at least as much as Walmart, if not more.
It's not often, these days, that a news article makes my blood boil - that is, provokes a genuine physiological anger response. This is one of those.
Maybe this is realpolitik, but how about assuming everybody is only driven by base politics.

Or how about anybody who isn't rich enough to have at least savings sufficient for 6 months without any income (which is probably 98% of the planet) is only ever driven by short-term politics.
I have a T221 (not too expensive if you buy it on Yahoo Japan auctions via a suitable proxy). I was only able to get it up to 25Hz due to having only two DVI ports on my laptop docking station. I tried every thing known to mankind to get four DVI or two dual DVI and convert those to the special ports of the T221. No dice.

As it runs at 1920x2400@25 Hz you can't really watch a movie on the screen because in the middle of the screen where the two halves meet you have a weird effect of any movie due to, I guess, low frame rate and not completely sync'd outputs. I guess you could confine it to one half of the monitor but gosh, are you going to watch your movies in 11" ?

If the monitor will allow for 3840x2400@30Hz on DisplayPort 1.1 (which most people have -- 1.2 is rare, Intel got it in Haswell, and I think nVidia got to 1.2 maybe late 2011) that may be enough for coding and watching movies. Forget games. Time will tell. I will try when the monitor has a three figures price tag.

Also, 4K displays achieving 60Hz over DisplayPort 1.2 are http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.php/reviews/hardware/vgaca... using the same tiling dual display (at least currently), with each tile being 1920x2160@60Hz and producing weird effects as thearticle shows.

Also, it will be fun and games when, unlike with DVI where figuring out whether you had SL or DL was relatively easy you will now need to figure out whether you have DisplayLink 1.1 or 2.0 with zero difference on the connector.
Every time I see that name (Nimrod) I think it is about http://www.messagelab.monash.edu.au/Nimrod

Why can't people find original names for software? :(
Reminds me a little of the typical investor curve:

http://www.financialjesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/inv...
Well unless you for some reason think we shouldn't have competition in our economy you didn't come up with 1 good one.
IQ is just the measure of how well you do on an IQ test.
I agree - a classic case of hyper media attention boiling over into other, existing politics. God only knows what would have happened if he had rejected a commit involving the word 'religion'
Like many others here, I don't put much stock in IQ values. It's a trainable skill, and it depends a lot on what kind of test you do. IQ tests have also been proven to be strongly culture-related.

But for what it's worth, when I was young, I scored 136 in a test from some booklet that I didn't finish, and much later I scored 139 on the test from "The National IQ Test" on Dutch TV (which had 140 or 142 as a maximum score). I've never really done a "proper" IQ test, or if I have, my parents didn't share the results.

I guess it's safe to say I'm fairly smart, but I don't think I'm noticeably smarter than my friends or family. Maybe they also score in the 130-140 range.
I'd be very happy with an 8-bit colour 2560x1600 24" monitor. It would be more affordable and way easier for graphics cards to run, why is no-one making one of these!?
In the summer of 2011 I spent my life savings on Bitcoins. Took me about two years of following the ins and outs of the community before taking the plunge.

Shortly thereafter I lost my job and had to do a fire sale of everything to keep pushing and living in a city that is now more expensive than New York City.

Back then, to me, bitcoins were worthless.

I couldn't pay rent, my landlord laughed.

I couldn't buy food, no one even heard of it.

It was still too nerdy, showing people a long chain of non-sensical numbers and letters didn't elicit confidence that I am a sane enough person to not pay for goods and services with dollar bills.

So I decided to sell all of my bitcoins.

The exchange I bought the coins from went bankrupt but the operators were decent enough to at least cut a check for me. A year later.

But I could have been a millionaire. Could have been somebody!

Then again, when I think about it, really think about it I missed out on:

- first dot com boom

- first round of war profiteering

- housing market boom

- second internet boom

- second round of war profiteering

- the forex boom

- the gold boom

- AAPL

- GOOG

To quote the greatest warrior-poet of our generation, Kanye West: Now everything I'm not, made me everything I am.
How many people are going to google: "why is facebook so fast" ?
Are English teachers in many European countries native speakers?

I have only very limited experience, but from my experience in Bavaria (education is a state responsibility in Germany, that’s why I’m constantly only talking about Bavaria) I can say that none of the foreign-language teachers I’m aware of (of any available foreign language, English, French, Spanish, Czech) were native speakers. They were all Germans.
The problem is no one, especially not the Justice or Police System, want to show all the flaws that they have when it's so easy to cover for themselves currently.
Greek here, totally had this (and was delicious). We didn't toast the bread either.
Birds would be a valid concern in the event that they crash into the drone... Drones falling from the sky is due to a pidgin damaging it's rotor would suck. Imagine being hit by a drone and a pidgin :/
Thanks I was not aware they used .co
DRAM Manufacturer Failing To Meet Demand – Prices Might Go Up
So, what you're saying is... be ready to pounce on the third wave of war profiteering? ;)
Http://www.thenewage.co.za/mobi/Detail.aspx?NewsID=112232&CatID=9
Cinnamon butter is another godly invention.
Ukrainians' to US petition hits 128K signatures in 3d
Short history:

After ukrainian president Mr. Yanukovich suspends talks on EU trade pact thousands pro-EU demonstrators came to the main square.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/ukraine-suspends-preparations-eu-trade-pact

People posted a petition on the white house website asking to impose personal sanctions
on the President of Ukraine and members of Cabinet of ministers.

Ukraine police's violent crackdown at pro-EU protest

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/nov/30/ukraine-police-violent-crackdown-pro-eu-protest-video

In three days there were more than 100K signatures.

Lets see the Congress reacts.
I would dearly love to agree (see my other comments if you don't believe me).

But Bryan Cantrill's, and Joyent's behaviour seems very cynical, manipulative, and childish. He used deliberately inflammatory language, and would have, at the very least, been aware of the fact that it might not be so black and white. He will have known that he started a witch-hunt and did nothing, as far as I can tell, to try and quell it.

No-one is a monster, but some people are either playing games or have spectacularly poor judgment. Not the kind of company you want to work with either way.

Joyent has severely blotted its copy-book. For that reason if I'm ever in a position to make purchasing decisions I will exclude Joyent.
> What's the air speed of a quad/octocopter-style drone?

Well, is it an american or european swall, er, drone?
To be honest I rather prefer a non-retina screen. I've got a chance to play with an rMBP and my wife has a Retina iPad mini.

The line details on UIs are too thin so contrast disappears and the text verticals are too thin so it hinders readability for me. iOS 7 admittedly doesn't help that but it's not for me.

Oh and according to my optician I have better than average sight.
Selfies Can Be Used as Passwords With New App FaceCrypt
For another version, mix some cinnamon in with the sugar.
Please provide evidence for 'threatening message'.
Given his upbringing, I would say he never had the potential in the first place. From how he talks about his time at NASA, it seems like he was used as an equation-solving tool 10 years.

“At that time, I led my life like a machine ― I woke up, solved the daily assigned equation, ate, slept, and so forth. I really didn’t know what I was doing, and I was lonely and had no friends,”

His choices now are the result of how NASA as an institution treated him.

Having the highest IQ is great for problem solving. But why should he empathize with the problems of the world when no one did the same for him?
It might be worth looking in to reducing your hours at work instead of quitting outright. If you're good, chances are they'll be willing to work with you to keep you around.

Along the same line of thought, a 6-month sabbatical would fit the bill as well. Again, from your employer's standpoint, losing a good developer (and having to roll the dice replacing him) is a disaster. The promise that you might come back when you're done could be enough for them to give you the green light.

Good luck!
It managed to copy almost every single Scala feature and is not even functional? Impressive.
With your suggestion only the largest companies would be able to apply for patents. For Apple, Google or MS a couple of million dollars means nothing for a patent. But it infeasible for a startup or smaller research groups.
Not quite as annoying as having hundreds of raging angry people name-calling and character-assassinating you over a mistake.
I had my first trip to SF last week. I knew ahead of time there was a problem of large numbers of homeless, and some of the underlying reasons for it. Even though, I was completely unprepared for the sheer scale of the issue - it was way beyond anything I'd ever imagined. It felt like everywhere I looked there was at least 1, and often, if I looked again closer there were 2-3. Walking around some areas of Market Street felt intimidating as there was a virtual "gauntlet" of homeless to walk through.

It didn't really take away from my trip, but it was certainly an eye-opener. The links in this thread will be good further reading in preparation for my next visit!
Well maybe 3 , but you can Play the games on pc if you have one and in 5 years you will have 3 different versions of xbox out that is much much better than the first one.
Interesting, I'm from Sydney and we are seeing a large increase in Scala developers becoming available. Several large companies have been hiring them by the truck load and the local Scala meetup regularly gets 50-80+ people.

I too suffered a bit from DSL hell, especially some of the more extreme examples like the library "dispatch" where you need a "element lookup table" to figure out which squiggly line to use. But once you have a stable set of dependencies the initial DSL influx subsides and you start to work with a fairly manageable subset of them on a day to day basis.
"Linux in 30 lines of Angular.js"
FTFY
For the following reasons:

Documentation is unsurpassed, it's very fast, it's pretty light weight, supported for a decade, stable ABI, completely hassle free, good OOB configuration, good 3rd party package support, available everywhere.
How to Enter a $100B Industry
After 10 AM it is.

Following various events in highschool, I ended up with a fucked-up sleep schedule. I'm generally fine with 6-7 hours of sleep, but unless they're from 3 AM to 10 AM, I'm useless. Even this is more or less socially and workplace-unacceptable, so during weekdays I wake up at 08:30 or so. I end up very tired on Friday evening and have to make up for the lost valuable sleep during the weekend, but I can function. Factoring in breakfast and stuff, plus the 30-minute walk to work (I insist on doing the walking -- I could save 10-15 minutes using public transportation but I actually want to walk), I usually start coding around 10:30.

For about six years I wrestled with this, along with my very supportive physician. Eventually I gave up; two or three times I managed to get into a more or less early rising routine (waking up around 6 AM), but not only did it make me miserable, it also didn't last long. One all-nighter (and I had plenty of those during in university) or one lazy weekend day that didn't make me so tired at 23:00 that I could have fallen asleep on an airplane engine was enough to fuck up my sleep schedule again.
The ARM family is the problem in that case. There's so much variation among the different versions that drivers are an issue. There is a version of the Oberon language, Astrobe, that runs on the a few of the smaller chips, created by CFB Software, but it's not a full operating system. http://www.astrobe.com/default.htm
Infographic about the hosters of the 100k most visited web sites
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I never doubted that we dont have enough of airspace, my question was can these lightweight machines make proper use of all that open space? how high can they fly? Because i am assuming these are relatively low-altitude aircrafts.
Oh come on, that's not fair :) Laravel is a godsend compared to what I had to work with before. However I think I am using it wrong, I dump almost everything into controllers and views and use models for relationships only. Those controllers got fat, real fat.
all the things you are saying are just arguments for making gold a good medium of exchange, which it is no longer used for. not one of your arguments suggests that it is a good storage of value, which it used to be because of its scarcity.
if indians stop paying doweries in gold and arabs stop finding its shininess alluring, the value will plummet. there is nothing intrinsic in gold that makes it valuable

Warren Buffett put it well. "Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace," he said. "Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head. Source:http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870403270...
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RWO tidbits: Benign effects
I think many are putting too much stake in Bitcoin being a currency and not enough in the economy that goes behind the currency; the two are not independent at all.

With USD, you can save/lend it easily (the US government is a very strong debtor of last resort) and likewise borrow through it, oil is traded in it, and so on. Monetary policy is more about ensuring some adequate level of inflation (to push for consumption or effectively invested) + popping any asset bubbles that appear (b/c people are imperfect).

With bitcoin, you get none of that, and given the libertarian bent of the users, nothing centralized will likely arise. So the question is: are individuals good at managing an economy for the collective good? Or will they just look out for their own needs and will it implode in a classic prisoner's dilemma?
My cat killed my small RC helicopter, by carefully observing and then jumping at it, and when it was down she kept hitting it until parts came off and I took it away - but for a moment there I was worried that she had hurt herself on the blades. I can't imagine Prime Air won't have some kind of shielding in place.
But most sites are NOT "properly built" the devs just cut and paste vast librarys (some times more than once) into every site!

Trust me on this I spent my last 3 years doing analysis on a large number of sites for one of the worlds major publishers.
Spine is a fun social app for telling five-sentence stories
Spine is an App for writing and sharing stories in just five sentences. You can publish and categorize your short tale or search for your favorite genre such as comedy, horror, drama, or romance for some light reading. Will this be the next Twitter? Probably not, but Spine is a fun App that gets you thinking about the modernization of the written word.
Yes, that was a mistake on my part. I meant to just talk about pixel density and somehow wrote in resolution.
no every js element is a separate download and these js files are typically 35kb not 35 lines.
Updated my DO droplets now. No problems reported other than I was an idiot and forgot to "chkconfig dovecot on" on my IMAP server. Doh!

Doing laptop this evening.
Show HN: I am sick and tired of all this crypto coin crap.
So I made this: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/185221

Feel free to use/adapt/modify as you please.
I wonder why it's not done like the "undo send" feature (I'm aware that it just delays the sending, so that it could be "undone"): "it seems that you wanted to send this e-mail with attachments; do you want to go back and add them?"
"mostly" compatible way. You occasionally get shot so test them on another box first.