skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why GeekWire title says "Apple, Google topped news...." Technically, it should be "Google, Apple topped news" as the article clearly says "Google managed to rack up more than 123,769 mentions this year, while Apple came in a close second with 120,451"
Shift+Down is how you pick up items. It's a little finicky though. I think it could stand to be more forgiving on where you're standing to pick them up.
Right. Most people use FB on their phones now, I think, while previously on PCs. And I think people probably don't use it as much as they did, but it's still widely used.
A club management web application... Not a dance club, but more like a sport club.
It can also be used for events and logging revenue, guests, ... and generate some reports (graphs or PDF) arround it.
The good thing will be the checkin process, i thought hard on minimizing the input form... Creating it was less of a hassle :P

First release will be in dutch (had some prospects before i build it), but everything is ready for localisation :)
But if you don't want to hear these people's opinions, why are you friends with them?
>And then allow me to mute chatty users.

You've been able to do this for years. Just click the little down arrow next to one of their posts.
The article you linked on Rec. 2020 says:

> In coverage of the CIE 1931 color space the Rec. 2020 color space covers 75.8%, the digital cinema reference projector color space covers 53.6%, the Adobe RGB color space covers 52.1%, and the Rec. 709 color space covers 35.9%.

So yes, Adobe RGB covers less of the reference color space than Rec. 2020 (4k/UHD), but more than Rec. 709 (HDTV).
Price from Dell USA: $1299. Price from Dell UK: £1270. sigh
Ireland has been independent for 95ish years? It's economy only really became something to be envious of around 20 years ago. 20 years out of 95 isn't a great record.
Has anyone tried to develop node-webkit apps with XDK? I'm using IDEA at the moment with few workarounds, but if this works better I'll make the switch.
We have been building Horizon, a universal iOS app that brings an end to vertical videos, allowing users to always shoot horizontally. It is set to be released in the following days!

http://evilwindowdog.com/horizon
I'm a 37 year old (jeez, typing that suddenly made me feel much, much older) male. I went from being an early, avid, oversharing Facebook user to quitting it 6 months back.

But that's just what it is. Two anecdotal examples which by themselves neither prove nor disprove anything.
That was a misleading sentence in the "Projucer" section, referring to Projucer. Fixed.

Lamdu is open source.
Thanks for sharing the link Masterbranch--it looks like they're catering to both sides of the market place. I'd be really interested to hear more about what you learning during your foray into recruiting--could you email me on richard@sourcing.io?
It's like railroad gauges.
Events
Chat
Photos
When they post something good (eventually)

And basically to keep in touch
I am surprised you cannot get a choice of snap-on bezels, Dell have done this for the backs of notebooks on and off for years.

I doubt there would be a lot of interest in lurid colours. However, 'stealth black', 'piano black', 'paper white' and 'cubicle grey' might increase the USP and appeal to some customers. The white might make sense to those doing desktop publishing, the stealth black might appeal to those doing video in a darkened, distraction free environment, the grey might appeal to Apple users and the shiny black could be the default option.

In corporate and customer facing environments a muted bright colour that happens to be consistent with branding might make sense so logo-free bezels in red, green and blue could sell too.
Fun little game. I have a few suggestions that would make it better, in my opinion.

1. Include a 'save' feature or save automatically when a person steps through a door or transitions from one screen to another.

2. Maybe allow a person to adjust how much left/right movement happens to a degree in the options. The guy seems a little 'floaty' to me, and I had trouble not over-shooting my intended jumps. Of course, a max would be needed pretty close to where he's currently at, and a min would be needed that's still enough to play the game.

3. Allow it to support controllers and/or customize the controls.

4. Make picking up items more forgiving. It's currently a little too picky, in my opinion.
Well, yes, though I'm not using myself as an example, so much as the people I know, and I happen to be the type of person this survey was looking at.
Work environment, or work 'culture', are a net result of the behaviors of the employees.
This is one specific reason I have no Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook. (And I still get tons of recruiter spam calls and emails.)
A few disparate points: The Elm runtime is an implementation of CFRP, where the C stands for concurrent. The primitives already exist for convenience, and can be transformed by pure functions, or new ones can be defined using the FFI.

Your observation isn't new, most Elm games' signal graphs have the same shape - a bunch of input signals merged into one, the 'main' loop as a step state, and the drawing code.'

In particular, which kinds of Signal combinators do you feel are lacking?

http://docs.elm-lang.org/library/Signal.elm
I'd like to add another to the list:

X) Point out massive, widespread architectural flaws, then kick off your boots till someone else fixes them. When asked to do something you don't like, point to that as a blocker.

While useful to know the weaknesses of a system, the otherwise incredibly useful skill of being able to see such flaws can definitely be squandered if not used judiciously.
I guess shadowing produces warnings instead of errors is because sometimes it can be a good thing: you can use it to create the illusion of mutability. In GHC's source I've seen a couple of longer functions (say ~50 lines) that re-use names in let/bind "statements" to get around going from x to x'''; the "x" simply kept shadowing its previous value.
Its not 'dead' or 'not dead', its that they now use other sites and services too, resulting in less time with facebook exclusively. A few years ago its was almost 100% FB. Now its just one of many services they use.

Also think there might be a historic thing going on where FB was designed for large screen PCs, other services are more targeted at mobile, and FB has had to catch up with that, but lost out to some others along the way, as it were. I think BB still feels heavy, the other services feel light.

I just think many people now use FB for what it was originally for. But, its now a little off putting becuase its clogged up with other features that other sites just do better.
Our current thought is that single-parameter functions do not need an argument name.

We might change a lot of our decisions later as we tune it for working with more realistic code.
> The key word is transparency.

> Transparency to these people is like sunlight to a vampire. They will do anything to avoid it.

I think it's the opposite. People like that - I think michaelochurch calls them psychopaths - like, in my experience, be transparent (or at least, appear to be transparent, but in any case they will openly promote transparency). They will always have something to say. "I did this and that to make the system better and to share better information between us." They will be able to talk at length about what they are doing and how it will make everybody's life better.
Yep, because choosing a country with strong socialist leanings that has legalised marijuana and a number of other similar liberal measures as 'country of the year' - whatever that means - makes sense if a publication can be entirely defined in terms of where one commenter feels they fit on the political spectrum.

Declaring them opposed to Scottish independence for being a conservative publication in a post regarding their seeming love for a left wing country doesn't cognitively mesh well.
Personal Tragedy, Tricorders and the Idea of Mapping One’s Body
It's pretty funny that enough people believe DOGE has value that the market cap is 11,768.50 BTC (8.3 million USD).

http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/coins/show/doge

Then again, the number of people that bought Icanhaz merchandise eg crap was nontrivial.
Dang, all those asterisks that don't actually refer to footnotes are really confusing. I wonder if they are supposed to be trademark symbols...
Diophantus and his Arithmetica : A text and its history [pdf]
So almost nothing compared to the current 8.3 million USD market cap of DOGE overall. This is a nonstory^2.
>male

Are you a dog or something? Because the proper word for describing a male of the human species is "man". You're not a male, you're a MAN.
The other thing that bugs me about a count like this as a metric, is it doesn't speak at all to the complexity of the keywords. For example, think of how complex the extends keyword is in Java/C#. Just that one keyword represents usually one of the hardest things to learn about Java. Or the defmacro special form in Clojure. Macros are a huge area of confusion when learning a language. The count metric makes very little sense in explaining the difficultly to learn a language.
They probably tried to make a common point: do not give the solution. For a given specific issue, the most you should give is pointers.

For the function that solves your problem saves the day but knowing how to find any when needed solves a lifetime of problems. Pointers help to put you on the right track so you're not discouraged.
Brebis 0.9, the fully automated backup checker, released
Any chance of adding some other method of payment?
I don't have a PayPal account (and would rather not use it), but have all my credit card info already loaded up in for instance Google Wallet and "amazonpayments".

I have to admit I'd probably have made an impulse purchase if there hadn't been that small hurdle (and, for me, moral dilemma).

( For reference see https://www.humblebundle.com/ )

The game looks nice though ! It's exactly the kind of "quirky" indie game I love :)
The site is beautiful but, unless I am missing something, I can only see a preview of the wallpaper from the browser. I have to have a mac or iphone.
God.. every year I read some story about "Facebook is dead because" blah, blah, blah.

Look you want to kill FB then create something. And please not another FB clone; we need something different. And better.

It's like, when I lived in SFO, I could't throw a dead cat without hitting someone who wrote the "next greatest social network", and yet FB is still here.
"Igor" as Dr. Frankenstein's assistant achieved prominence through Bela Lugosi's portrayal of the character "Ygor" in the film "The Ghost of Frankenstein". (No character named "Igor" appears in Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus".)

"Igors" are a community of folks within the fictional "Discworld" universe created by author Terry Pratchet. Dr. Frankenstein's assistant is merely a lab assistant. Igors on Discworld are folks who remake themselves by way of transplants, as described in the article.
And because of that, the Emacs community lost yet another potentially helpful member[0]. This here is an example of how toxic communities are formed. Once you reach a critical mass of abusive members, the community can only grow more toxic over time.

[0] I'm going to go ahead and assume that you aren't a smug, self-absorbed sociopath.
http://www.legitreviews.com/dell-announces-new-32-inch-24-in...

Dell announced the one discussed here ($1399) and a 32" version ($3499). A 28" consumer model for under $1000 is to be available in early 2014. All "Ultra HD", which is 3840 x 2160.
Hmmm a few years ago a friend who worked there told me they experimented with having two tabs: one with their machine learning algorithm, and one that was like Twitter and just had 'everything, by everyone, in chronological order.' Do you know what happened? <i> Duration per user on the site went down </i> by a statistically significant margin.

One of the things they do well is micro-optimize many different features and use machine learning & data analytics to provide the "best" features, whatever that may be. What they DO suffer from sometimes is lack of prioritization of the correct features (like messaging, removal of certain features, pages products, etc.)
I was asking all the right questions -- is this possible, what hooks should I consider, what should I take into account to make sure that the stuff I add doesn't stamp all over other stuff. I'm a programmer with thirty years experience and twenty years with Emacs; I know this stuff.

Basically, they shut me down. The thing I was asking was contrary to the whole philosophy of Emacs. I had, they assured me, no right to ask it. I was an idiot for having the problem that I was seeking to solve. And nobody, they told me, had ever had the problem ever in all of history.

Were they right? Well, no, not even slightly. They were horribly, evilly wrong. But even if they had been right, their response was wrong. Their argument was "if you have this problem that can be fixed by a change to Emacs, change yourself". This, in the most extensible editor on the planet. It was like being told that my car's tendency to pull sharply to the left when passing another car was normal and expected and I should take care not to pass other cars.
Nice simple demo Sridatta!

Nobody likes the tilde-arrow lift syntax! The last line could be rewritten as follows. Does anybody think it's better or worse? I tend to prefer it, though many don't like it.

main = lift2 display Window.dimensions <| lift renderState gameState

main = display <~ Window.dimensions ~ (renderState <~ gameState)

Signals exhibit the characteristics of an applicative functor, after all, so pure functions of any arity can be lifted without needing to think if you're using lift2, lift3, etc.
>> And how would "preferred form for making modifications" be defined?
> In the same way that you define source code, or what modifications means.

That is obvious, why are you telling me this?

> However, I think any programer would have a hard time arguing that the preferred form for modifications on binary file is not the source code.

I wasn't talking about binary files, of course I am referring to the source code.
"You can't exactly have people taking
phone calls..."

you know what's absurd? That people still believe that it would be impossible for Google to set up some support lines. They make over 10billion dollars per year in pure profit for heavens sake, and have the belief of the public market investors behind them. It should be clear now that the feigned impracticality of the support lines is simply a ruse to maximize profits.
Well, not self-absorbed.
It's called "serious science" but its articles don't even cite sources for their claims. So it's actually less serious than wikipedia. Why should anyone use this over wikipedia?
A cynic's TL;DR:

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.
And if you really hate the man, get RMS to design him a fishing rod.
I got this in `/usr/local/share/doc/ranger/examples/vim_file_chooser.vim`.

" Compatible with ranger 1.4.2 through 1.6.*
"
" Add ranger as a file chooser in vim
"
" If you add this function and the key binding to the .vimrc, ranger can be
" started using the keybinding ",r". Once you select a file by pressing
" enter, ranger will quit again and vim will open the selected file.

fun! RangerChooser()
exec "silent !ranger --choosefile=/tmp/chosenfile " . expand("%:p:h")
if filereadable('/tmp/chosenfile')
exec 'edit ' . system('cat /tmp/chosenfile')
call system('rm /tmp/chosenfile')
endif
redraw!
endfun
map ,r :call RangerChooser()<CR>
If you have a point, out with it, if not, why did you post that?
Project crystallizer in the form of nested tree todo with drag-n-drop and other bells and whistles.

Its goal is to help you when you project grows and you can't contain it in your head anymore. The ordinary todos didn't worked for me when the projects became brain suckers if you know what I mean.

(edit: added description)
No, I mean why do you socialise with them at all? Why do you want to go to an event with, chat to, share photos with or keep in touch with someone whose views you aren't interested in?

Saying FB is stupid because it shows you this crap is like choosing to go round their house and saying real life is stupid because you have to listen to their crap.
It's too late to matter. But good for him that they're only half crooked.
> Hmm, I am probably missing something

You seem to have never read Pratchett, and should definitely fix that.

Pratchett often takes existing tropes, settings, historical and fictional characters, etc… and breaks, rearranges and/or reinvents them to make things more interesting and/or funnier.

In this case, he took Shelley's Igor (and hunchbacked assistants of a thousand films of the line) and made him into a clan, all called Igor. They're a clan of assistants, surgeons, bio-engineers and self-improvers, they're patched up because "what goeth around cometh around"[0], and with Igor it's parts. They'll exchange limbs, they'll replace eyes, etc… others and theirs both. They lithp for tradition and people's expectation (some of them regularly forget to lisp, or just can't seem to get the trick right) and have highly apparent stitches as something akin to clan markings (they've got dexterity enough for those not to be needed on patients).

The traditional funerals and wake of an Igor consist in other Igor swinging by and leaving with loot bags, with parts of the deceased inside (they'll generally make their parts's destinations known beforehand).

[0] the clan's full motto is "What goeth around, cometh around... or thtopth.": they will help anyone anytime at no charge, but if they have helped and provided a new spleen or replacement eyes they will come by and "rummage around" for healthy organs when the person dies. If they are turned around they will not make a fuss, but no Igor will come by the village ever again.
Isn't this a family Christmas card, rather than a postcard? Isn't a postcard something you send back from a vacation?
But this will bring the resolution down, right?
Unfortunately there are a lot of communities like that, particularly the older ones.
> attracts the sort of users I don't want to associate with: people who are smug, self-absorbed and utterly without empathy.

I think you have just described the normal IRC experience for any software project in existence. IRC just tend to breed cliques and inside jokes, and the most common form of reply I have ever gotten while looking for help is "check the source code". Never mind that its a few thousands line of low level C, magic numbers and possible some assembler instructions.
Universal application is, of course, an obvious strawman fallacy.
> Over the years I've learnt quite a few languages, and what strikes me is that they're all so very alike.

I used to think this as well, then I learned some Prolog. For those who aren't familiar with it, Prolog is a logic programming language (as opposed to imperative and functional languages). Instead of telling Prolog how to solve a problem, you give it a set of facts and tell it what you want to know. Prolog takes care of the rest, without writing any conditionals, loops, etc. At least in theory; in my (small amount of) experience most non-trivial Prolog programs usually involve some imperative style code. Still, it's wildly different and a lot of fun.

There's also lambda calculus, which is crazy, and wonderful, and absurdly difficult, and one of the most joyous experiences I've ever had. It's a language with nothing but functions applied to other functions. Even numbers are functions in lambda calculus, which has some fascinating implications. I wouldn't want to build anything non-trivial in LC, but I've learned a lot about programming as a result of studying it.

Discovering how to create singly linked lists in LC using nothing but partially applied functions was a profound and emotional experience. I remember how hard I laughed when I noticed that LC's false function is the same as the Church-encoded numeral for zero. These are things most other developers don't think are funny because they have no idea what I'm talking about. I think a few of my co-workers suspect I should be institutionalized when I start talking about lambda calculus.

Of course, there's also Haskell. A lot of lambda calculus is applicable to Haskell, which makes sense as Haskell descends from the ML family of languages, which in turn come from lambda calculus. Haskell doesn't look or feel like most other languages, and it makes some decisions that seem really strange at first glance. Lazy evaluation, all functions are curried, no mutable state, all functions are pure, there are no variables, no exception handling... the language sounds almost unusable. Then you learn about monads and you realize that it's trivial to add support for something that looks and feels like mutable state, except it's a system of your own design. Imagine what would happen if you could change the way variable assignment works in your language of choice. For instance, software transactional memory was originally implemented in Haskell as a monad. They didn't have to modify the language to add support. I can't think of many other languages where that's the case, and it's a thing of beauty.

That's a long and rambling way to say that lots of languages are really similar, but there are some wonderful languages that are extremely different. I highly recommend experimenting with them, but be aware that your friends and co-workers are unlikely to have any idea what you're talking about. And on the off chance that they do understand, please let me know where you work. I want to work with you people.
Top 100 Most Popular Scala Libraries – Based on 10,000 GitHub Projects
DNS issue, should slowly be getting back up.
According to Cringely http://www.cringely.com/2013/12/20/thoughts-grinch-stole-tar... Target are replacing all their POS terminals, so maybe they were compromised.
Is it really that big of a difference?
Id much rather click a button once than have to recorrect the computer five times to get my desired result.
The Document Foundation Elects New Directors
Use Filter to make a corner of football court
Just curious;
I've read that energy takes quite a bit of non-salt water to produce. Energy can be used to create clean water by desalinization, but I believe I read that this still creates less clean water than the clean water needed to produce that energy (though this can be done in a very different area. Would anyone here happen to be familiar with the basic numbers here?
itch.io does support Amazon Payments / Stripe but that's only available to US sellers, and we're based in France unfortunately :(

I'll take a look and see what our options are. Thanks for the kind words!

edit: Stripe does support France, but in closed beta — just signed up, we'll see when/if we get in the beta!
Oh, German words!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMT395UvWI
And even if there were land locked countries, natural trade will supply water. When people talk about water wars they envision people dying of thirst, when the reality is that water will go from being fifty cents a thousand litres (!) to a buck fifty a thousand litres and farmers will need to work around it.
I built a delightful currency converter for iOS - let me know what you think
I don't see how that article talks about the FB killer. It merely states that it has observed UK teenagers moving away from Facebook and cites various reasons, one of them being parents encouraging the use of FB.

Maybe a FB killer is an app made for parents that persuades them to encourage their kids to use FB?
Social logins: Google more accepted than Facebook
I guess cauz it provides knowledge directly from scientists
Information Consumerism: The Price of Hypocrisy
Delinquents would steal it from the first time i go out with them though :p
Uruguayan here and proud of my little country.

We do have our fair share of issues like any other country on the world, but overall we are doing pretty good and life here is good.