skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at http://golangtutorials.blogspot.com/2011/06/interfaces-in-go... and the only new aspect of Go interfaces I see is that they are implicit - they are considered implemented if the type implements functions that interface defines and you don't need to explicitly write "implements Something". This is a handy shortcut, but it doesn't look like a "serious feature". It also looks a bit like polymorphic variants in OCaml.

Of course I might be missing something as I'm not that familiar with Go.
Both of you are correct.

Around 2000 or so, we started to see companies that

1. had Big Data;

2. spread it across data centers spanning different continents;

and 3. needed to display and update it in real-time.

These companies (Facebook being the modern example) basically needed to throw out normalization (i.e. to choose AP over CP) in order to get an acceptable UX for people interacting in different parts of the world. And these companies were prestigious.

But these two facts combined meant that everyone was quick to adopt these "pragmatic solutions to Big Data problems" in order to try to signal some of the prestige involved with having "Big Data problems."

But, since their Data actually wasn't Big enough for the real pragmatic solutions to be more helpful than harmful, the prestige-seekers sought to simplify the "pragmatic solutions" -- keeping all the pain involved with non-relational access, while shucking anything that could potentially operate at scale. Thus were "consumer" non-relational databases (e.g. Mongo) born.
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I support this campaign. It won't work singularly, but it might be another useful bullet point in fermenting dissent against the NSA.

There are two major hurdles to social change success which this campaign does not overcome:

1. There's no political threat being projected, just general, unfocused discontent

2. There's no hook to entice people who don't already care about the issue
Ruby is closer to Blub than Java. I'm not sure why you would even mention them both in the same breathe. You know that for Paul Graham (and anyone else who is informed) Blub essentially means LISP yea?
I'll second Rethink. I'm using it for a couple different projects, and while it's still technically "unstable," I'm very happy with its performance.

Also, it's just fun to work with.
wow, so simple, so elegant. Personally, I value strong Referrals more than math questions, gpa, past work experience, etc. so it's great to have help managing the otherwise extremely opaque process.
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It's like you are me, from a couple years ago.
Bram Cohen had an article about this a few years ago that offers a different perspective: http://bramcohen.com/2011/12/04/never-make-counter-offers
What is your contact information ?
Ask HN: What's your Twitter handle?
Alternately: Who do you follow and why?
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How to use Google Drive to do free remote agile Poker Planning
Also good point about collecting feedback about how users react to the way the recommendations was made. You could have different algorithms generating recommendations for different users depending on this e.g. collaborative filtering for some users, neural network for others, ensemble for the rest etc.
They explicitly allow for bankruptcy, but not other poor credit issues.
Bill from WePay here

The fundamental difference with WePay is that we take the risk of loss, so marketplaces don't lose money to fraud. Balanced holds the marketplace liable for chargebacks.

Since they aren't taking the risk, Balanced does offer a greater flexibility around the user experience. We have produce improvements in the works to accomplish our vision of complete flexibility & no risk of loss. We also don't charge for payouts, which can make a significant pricing difference for marketplaces.
And, until abuse has stopped:

Put your cell phone in flight mode to opt out of the worldwide tracking by the NSA.
If the renter isn't paying the broker, they can spend more on rent.

I am living in my 6th apartment in the NYC area, and my 4th in Manhattan proper, and I still haven't paid a broker. Thousands of dollars is too much to pay people for opening doors.
Have you tried also the text editor?
You make good points about the advantages of standardized, compulsory public education.

However, one thing I would point out is that your country (Germany) is much more culturally homogeneous than the United States. For example, I don't think there is a significant portion of the population who are religious fundamentalists and don't believe the theory of evolution. So it's much easier to come up with a standardized list of basic information that everyone can agree is worth teaching all children, without getting into endless political and legal wrangles like those that occur in the US over what material should be taught in public schools.
"the shift from music sales to music streaming via Spotify and the lower payments that appear to follow is troubling her."

http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/09/zoe-keating-on-spotif...
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I'll buy it. shoot me an email zack@zackshapiro.com
> Are there examples of startups failing because of too much emphasis of execution?

Plenty, and we see it every day, except they don't call it "failure by doing too much". They call it things like "not understanding the target market" or "focusing on features rather than experience" (more generally "not thinking enough")
The Case for Secrecy in Web Experiments
"Both of these libraries should be unnecessary and hopefully obsoleted by browsers someday. Browsers already implement techniques like this to process CSS styles efficiently. It's still unfortunate we have no native implementation of declarative event handlers, even though people have been doing this since 2006."

I think they believe jQuery will rapidly become the past so no reason to merge it.
That's why I suggested wireframing. You don't need to learn to code in order to design a site for someone else to code.
The original discussion was around people with limited technical ability, and I called this out at picking someone off the street.

My car is missing the timing belt. It doesn't work. It can be made to work by putting a new belt in it, but I wouldn't tell someone that my car works. The best I would describe it as is a "yes, but it will take some work".

For all intents and purposes, it might as well not work.
Is that what you picked up from that comment? The OP was not suggesting teaching A) in an attempt to supplant B), he was saying that the existence of certain ideas is an 'existential threat' to a 'free society', i.e., thought-crime. To me, the existence of a free society comes along with a lot of baggage, including people who will not believe you no matter how logical you and your arguments are. They get to be citizens too.
A while ago I met an older friend for lunch. I used to work with him years ago in my first job (failed startup). He was out on his own again building out an innovative idea he had in Smalltalk, (which is what he knew). I was talking to him about FP and type theory about all the debates that were going on about it. He just said that its a waste of time listening to most of the people on these kinds of sites because you can tell straight away that most of them don't build anything. Of course that's not quite true, but there was enough truth in it for me to feel like it was a friendly kick in the ass.
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[ insert obligatory thatthatis's recursive-reference-escape coining reference here ]
I have a feeling this is in at least some part because Mitchell Hashimoto (who is one half of IRCRelay and the guy behind Vagrant and Packer) is focusing all his energy on his new ventures.
Yep, that article described the one I'm talking about. It's behind glass in a museum showroom now (about a mile from where I'm sitting at the moment), but it's in very good shape. I wouldn't be surprised if it still works.
I don't underestimate it at all. The state does not have control of the airwaves, with SK and CN and the rest of Asia right there.

What's being discussed is cellular/wireless data networks from outside NK penetrating in. It is currently happening. Linking up to smuggled data devices which have prices on a race to 0.
Why "at least"? The couldn't before because public would be sensitive. Now with checkpoints everywhere, NSA spying, cavity searches, homeless people beaten down to death by cops getting away with it, DOJ declining to investigate bank scandals, IRS, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, they do not need logos with pink teddy bears and stills of a happy family holding hands with smiling children on the beach. The majority of public IS already got used to this tyranny. Coming forward with less PR is a next, obvious and logical step. After that: huge military boot on your face!
Agreed, we have a lot of respect for the guys & gals at Stripe. Patrick, John & I were in the same YC batch and we know them well. I think we have different visions - in my words (not theirs), Stripe is looking to build a general-purpose payment API for developers. WePay is trying to build a payment company to serve platforms only.

We believe we can service platforms better by focusing on that usecase. For example, we built Veda, our risk engine the specializes in underwriting the risk of individuals and small businesses using social media. Because of this, we can pay out marketplace sellers faster, collect less data from them (making signup easier), and not hold the marketplace accountable for fraud loss.

I think that platforms are such an interesting segment of ecommerce that they deserve special attention.
Surprising: 182 Days since last known Java 0-day exploit
How Hard Was It to Design a Mecha in Pacific Rim?
It's just like the La-li-lu-le-lo[1].

By the 21st century, the Patriots had achieved immense political power, effectively controlling America as a totalitarian regime. The organization would select who would serve as the President of the United States and would stage Presidential elections in order to please the American public, as well as tricking them into believing that as voters they had control over the government, that the nation was still being led according to the Constitution, and also utilized cut-outs when contacting the President with instructions.

[1] http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/The_Patriots
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Do you disagree that secrets during war are necessary?
The best political threat we can create is converting minds. We need more writing and better articles to ground the flags flown on Facebook and Twitter. We need to appeal to people's reason and principles. Otherwise why bother?

If I could write well, I'd start a dialog around the concept that "We shouldn't have needed Snowden". The fact that we don't have transparency into our own government, that it took someone to break the law to give us the transparency we most certainly should have had into the NSA's activities (The national security arguments don't cut it and we need to explain that well), is a clear sign that our democracy is broken, that "government by and for the people" is dying.
Fake Traffic Means Real Paydays: The scams companies use to pad their numbers
Gave it a try! Very nice and relaxing to write on :)
> What I'd really like to know is what process does the President-elect endure that turns him into an alien lizard from hell?

I'm going to go with it's the /r/politics and HN echo chamber.

The President's approval ratings are at all time lows right now and it has nothing to do with the NSA (which the majority of the USA is just fine with right now btw), it is due to the rollout of the ACA. I'm sure once things related to the ACA smooth over and keep improving between now and his end of term his ratings will slowly be climbing back up, barring anything major going on in the world.

Just because every other post in /r/politics is about how terrible everyone that works for the government is, and every NSA post (way too often here now unfortunately) on HN is evil, does not mean the majority of the USA thinks that way. Actually it is quite the opposite.
plus it supports Markdown ;)
I'm sure the NSA is loving this.
Maybe. That was the style of the day, and Atwood's blog can easily be read sequentially (such that the self-references aren't necessarily self-promotion so much as they are helpful reminders of previous concepts).

At least, I spent a summer in 2008 reading through his blog.
Nevermind things that are solved on other application platforms, we now have frameworks that solve things that are solved in the browser. Moving boldly beyond reimplementing page loads with custom Javascript, Youtube now reimplements page load progress bar with custom Javascript.
Why does that make the study meaningless? I don't think I've ever read a study that says "homeschooling only works if you're white" or "public schools are only for the poor". Are we supposed to believe that the effectiveness of education is dependent on skin color?
BSD stopped 20 years ago, if you are worried about losing it you are a little late. This weird misconception that because openbsd is begging for money that other projects with the letters "BSD" in them are in some sort of danger is bizarre. Inventing a problem that doesn't exist, then suggesting doing something that wouldn't solve it as a solution is simply insane.
If OP is questioning to consider a counter-offer, what's wrong with [questioning] considering a counter-counter-offer?

Your example is not relevant - you can treat yourself as a commodity even with a single offer. Actually, even without any offer at all.
Graham, RentHackr is working on the pricing transparency problem: http://www.renthackr.com/.

Would love to hear more about your other ideas and tell you about the data and insights product I'm working on for property managers and others in the rental real estate space. Email is in my profile.
Amazing how time flies. That picture of the cast is from half a century ago.
I'm not sure the founding fathers could have predicted what laid in store for the country or the world.

We have reached the point, I believe, where it is impossible to expect the majority of the population to be knowledgeable in all the various facets of running one of the most powerful countries in the world. Economics. Cultures. Science. These are all words which could be separated into thousands of sub-topics. You're expecting somebody to be "informed" about stem-cells, the likely implications of raising the interest rate by 0.1%, the differences between computer "memory" and "storage", and the differences of bowing to or shaking the hand of another world leader. Plus somehow keeping a full-time job and raising a family.

This is where media is supposed to step up, do the research, and present the facts to the populace. I believe that a few people figured out long ago that if you can control the media, you control the country. It's a big ship and it steers rather slow, but I still think it is true.

Hell, we still live in a world where laws are created based on books written thousands of years ago, where people doubt global warming because "man cannot possibly change what God created" and/or because the bible doesn't mention it.

The problem is the same as it's always been: Us. Asshats worm their way into the system and through fear, money, charisma, or subterfuge they subvert whatever they can modify to suit their own desires. If anything what we need is a system that can prevent this somehow, which is what the founding fathers were attempting to create. The entire western culture (likely others as well), needs to change, and I don't see that happening without something major (think The Day the Earth Stood Still type shit here) happening.
Thank you for the nice feedbacks :)
>But its primary use will be international expansion

EMEA? APAC?
I guess both, and it'd be nice in Europe.
So no sound, no storage, no access to peripherals (e.g. webcam, geolocation, accelerometer)... ?
A character coding has an equal distribution of each code point. Each code point is represented once.

"For a set of symbols with a uniform probability distribution and a number of members which is a power of two, Huffman coding is equivalent to simple binary block encoding, e.g., ASCII coding."

Huffman encoding something written in Japanese is useful. It is not useful for creating a Japanese character set.

Get it?

If you don't buy it, then try it on pen and paper. Imagine a hypothetical 10-character alphabet, and try to devise an encoding that will let you fit it into a two-bit word, without going multi-word. Use prefix codes or whatever you want.

It's not going to happen. You also aren't going to get 10k characters into an 8-bit/word single-word character set.
I think the idea would be that there would not be native font rendering or OS-provided services. All that would move up a layer.

Yes, that would give a lot of flexibility. Usability would suffer, though. It would be like the old (1) times of X Windows, where there were zillions (read: > 1) ways to handle a clipboard, multiple conventions for the format of the data on the clipboard, where one application could find your TrueType fonts, while another couldn't, etc.

(1) some people will feel I'm being polite here. Maybe I am, but that is something for another discussion, and I know too little about modern X applications to contribute there.
IRS announces new tool to download past returns online.
2014: The year we all go 4K
"both" referring to selector-set and jquery patch. Its wishful thinking that browsers could expose a similar api as selector set that they already use for matching css rules.
Facebook to release PHP static analyser for compile-time type safety
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Well done! As a data scientist, I can say that your curriculum is spot on.

And I also think you're taking the right approach building/hacking/doing rather than going to an institution. This stuff is so new that I find myself spending 5-10% of my time just trying to stay up on the latest tech.

One thing I would add though, data science is really 3 things usually: business knowledge, hacking and lastly stats/machine learning. The stats piece is shockingly easy as more and more modules/packages/libraries make it possible to create/train a model in 2 lines of code. (Applying the right model to your data set is difficult.)

The other shocking thing is that really, 80% of my time is probably spent hacking, and most of that is just spent on getting data.
I didn't felt attacked. I appreciate feedback ;-)
And you are right. The choice of a language is just a choice.
Dependency definition in native code is always a security vulnerability, because by resolving the dependencies you execute unknown code, specially if the packages are not signed.
I could for example publish a python package on PyPI with a setup.py which contains code to delete files on your hard disk. At the moment my setup.py gets executed on your machine you will lose some files. Something like that can not happen with JSON, XML or YML.
I think the point is: you should measure success by the things you've gotten done. Thinking has no value if it doesn't lead you to do anything. If stopping and thinking leads to a better product (and I think it usually does), then it's worth doing.
Last time i submitted something from the php internals mailing list, it couldn't cope with HN traffic, so here's a preemptive mirror:

One last comment in favor of the HHVM syntax:

We're written (and will very soon be releasing, I promise) a static
analysis tool which looks at your entire code base and determines
types for every local variable in use and tells you (without having to
run the program) where you have type issues. This means two things:

1) No need to do runtime checks (Which impact performance)
2) No need to get to 100% code-coverage to guarantee type safety.

And the type-checker can run in the background re-evaluating the files
as they're updated for instant notification.

If PHP were to follow HHVM's syntax, we'd get the type-checker as a
freebie. (If and when we took on return and scalar type hints as
well)

-Sara
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Values like efficiency and elegance are mediated and determined by the community and the subjective individual. They're neither unambiguous nor universally agreed upon. Even on the very simple, immediate level - is elegance more like readability or concision? Is efficiency a matter of performance or maintainability? Now expand your view to encompass all the problems and questions that come up in the course of your job—the majority of them, as noted above, having more to do with other people than writing better code.

Being better at your job isn't simply a matter of advancing along the numberline of skill and smarts. And unfortunately, many of those who think it clearly is, or can be, are assholes who are lousy at working with others.
> It also looks a bit like polymorphic variants in OCaml.

Or like object types in OCaml. They also use structural typing.
Let me ask you, with 10k commonly used characters doesn't that lead to shorter texts? Kind of like how higher base numbers can encode larger numbers with fewer digits, in that case the longer encoding of UTF-8 could be made up for by using fewer characters. Or am I wrong about this assumption?

As an example, suppose that there are one character that denotes the word 'house', if that single character is encoded using five bytes it takes the same amount of space as the english encoding.
I realize that it's difficult to deliver bad news to customers. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
You know, coffee and chat and conferences and whatnot are to the startup world as meetings and hierarchy and process are to big companies. They're both excuses not to get anything done.
Why should everyone else pay the 20K to subsidize ancient hardware support? If there really is a subset of people who really really depend on this, then they should be forking up the cash to pay for something that could be had for free elsewhere if support was restricted to 95% of the platforms in use by the vast majority of people.

If there is an argument that maintaining this will somehow improve security overall and not just on ancient hardware then I would love to see it. But if the Devs working on it could care less of what the rest of us think, then maybe those Devs should pay their electricity bills to support their toy platforms because I could care less about what they think too ...
> It comes with 5V 1A USB power supply and case, so price wise it's still better than the DPTechnics module

I think the value of this DPT module is that it has all the GPIO brought out conveniently to the outside pins
I emailed all of them I could. Unfortunately, Sensenbrenner, Thompson, and Amash refuse to accept email from outside their districts.
Yes, because I didn't take the OP as saying that those were though-crimes. The way I took it was more that because those ideas are a hindrance and harmful to moving a society forwards.

I believe that people should be free to have those thoughts, but I also think they're detrimental to moving society forwards, which is how I read the OP's comment, it just uses a more absolute phrasing.
Except, Sharp Zaurus is ARM.