skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think its necessarily poorly named, given that it is published on the CodeEval blog and in the first line of the article, in bold, they name the source of their data. Its not a great title for an HN submission though as that context is missing.
Why Canada is where smart VC money is going in 2014
"The secret to reconciliation is remembrance!" -- plaque at the train station in Darmstadt, Germany ( http://i.imgur.com/D2mbGAe.jpg )
Facebook paper is out
OpenID was far, far worse from a usability perspective.
Where is this "use" part of which you speak?

Aggressive JIT languages are historically slow at startup. The typical tradeoff (similar to the server/client Java VM flags) is to amortize the optimizations over the length of the application if startup time is a factor.

If you start Julia (or Mathematica, Excel, or whatever) up every time you need to 'graphically explore data', you're doing it wrong. Unless you fubar your environment (not that I ever do this on a regular basis), there isn't a great reason to restart your exploratory environment.
I think Microsoft should really work on this law.

They can easily have an INSANE game store that comes with all windows 8 machines. They also have an advantage in porting old windows games to newer operating systems. Without development costs for game design, they just have to port, and will be able to profit massively. They can easily make it difficult to get a game working that is not from the Microsoft Classic Game Store.

But, at the same time, this would still be GREAT for consumers, because games would be cheap. They could just have a set of old Mario games or Final Fantasy games even for FREE if you create a store account and add your credit card information.

Companies with consoles or distribution (like Amazon) would have a great advantage. Amazon could even provide every game for free if you sign up for Amazon Prime.

I cannot wait for Mario on Xbox. haha. That's going to be weird but seriously awesome.
No, and that is what I would usually do since I understand how these things work. (IE does come in handy at times.) The point that I am trying to make is that normal users who don't know these tricks can run into this barrier.
Can both not exist? I don't see how there could be overlap or confusion from potential customers.
Portable Computing Language (pocl) v0.9 released
Even importing gold from other parts of our own solar system is a long way from financial viability.
500 Startups Recruits Sean Percival to Mentor Bitcoin Businesses
They're following a 80/20 (or maybe 50/50) rule of thumb. If they can serve you easily they do. Otherwise, they can live without your purchase. They didn't have that much stock anyway. That makes sense in one way, but it feels disrespectful in other ways. If you live in Ireland (where Google's non US headquarters is and where the damn phones ship from), they give you an error message.

It's just one example though. In my opinion it's an example of below average competence. Equivalent to a bank website going down because of a traffic surge and taking 16 hours to come back. There are certain things that mature companies draw a line under. They don't just say 'we're not good at that.'
DEA teaches agents to recreate evidence chains to hide methods
What's new on CPAN – a curated look at January's uploads
To be fair, that's kind of what ownership is about. Being first the stick your flag in some common thing and claim it as your own. Like "Salesforce" is a common term, but go ahead and try to make a company/product named that. In the Apple App Store realm, there's really one app named Paper and they probably spend a few bucks (/s) trying to make it a well known name.
That sounds more like a case of a bad framework (and bad language) than an argument against frameworks in general. Even if you only ever use a language's standard library, different projects will use different parts of it, so there's always going to be some new things to learn when switching projects.

Use an environment that matches what you want to learn, and one that promotes good development practices. But given how much modern programming is framework-based, that likely means using a framework.
TFA doesn't actually say where Lisp fits. I rather wish some contender for The Next Mobile OS would make a "Lisp Android" - An ART-like Lisp runtime with a zygote-like fast start for processes and copy-on-write to crunch down memory use from multiple instances of the runtime.

That's where I think Lisp would really fit. But it would take a lot of unconventional thinking about Lisp implementation and APIs.
As a historical example, mainline LISP prior to CL was dynamically scoped, something corrected in Scheme and adopted by CL a decade later, which, from my Maclisp and Lisp Machine Lisp background at the time was perhaps its biggest breaking change (very possibly not from the viewpoint of an Interlisp person).
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Change data with migrations like a boss
There are many pitfalls when you have to write some Rails code in migrations when a project in the production. This post describes disadvantages if famous solutions and benefits of the migration_data gem which has recently released.
>This decade :)

The initial claim was that mov reg,0 was slower to execute.
Gut reaction review if anyone is interested - I moved FB off my home screen and moved Paper onto it. It's just Facebook with a better design and none of the features I never use. It has notifications, posting, stories, etc. It's great.
I understand the basic laws of physics, and I understand the premise of internal combustion. Sure, there are a lot of details that I'm missing, but I get the basic idea. Similarly, I may not be able to design a modern processor from scratch, and I don't have the time to build my own robust Web framework, but I know at least the basic idea of every layer. That's enough to make me comfortable using a framework. I don't have to be intimately familiar with every line of code, at least to begin with, I just need to understand how it works in broad strokes.
Variety is the spice of life!
I tend to remember it as such: your code calls from libraries, but frameworks call your code.
How many people here know BrowserID/Mozilla Persona was based on the http://swiftlogin.com project? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGQYHOzLMUk
Paper is the best Facebook app ever
AT&T system would restrict content access, charge fees
They seem to be generally popular in the midwest. I've attended or worked my company's booth at conferences in other areas and almost never hear .NET stuff. Then I went to CodeMash in Sandusky, OH and probably 70% of the people I talked to were either actively doing .NET things or worked in a shop that was primarily doing .NET things.
If you think the world is that black and white then you're wrong.

How can you be so sure that the world, properly understood, is all shades of grey? That you are so certain of nothing but that the world is grey - is that not itself a "black and white" perspective?
Sweet! This means you could have a complete navigation system without a dataplan.
Why Hollywood Will Never Look the Same Again: LEDs Hit the Streets of LA and NY
Bookmarklets to quickly check and uncheck checkboxes
You might want to read this, then: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/
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Familiarity with modern front-end web development is essential, including but not limited to HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, LESS, JQuery, Underscore, Handlebars, Backbone. Experience working in the medical industry (DICOM, HL7, PACS, etc.) would be a bonus, but is not required.

The ideal candidate would be able to work independently with minimal supervision, and be enthusiastic about keeping up-to-date with the latest web technologies.

The team is distributed with team members working remotely in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Boston, and New York.
Position Responsibilities

- Plan, evaluate, implement, test and document new features and bug fixes for the DICOM Grid web application.

- Work with other development team members to integrate with backend services.

- Work with DevOps to deploy code into our production and UAT environments.

- Work with customers and professional services to gather requirements.

- Conform to company standard operating procedures.

What qualifies you to join?

- A combination of a college degree in CS, Math, Physics, or related, relevant work experience, and/or a strong open source portfolio.

- General interest in the healthcare field.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

- High enthusiasm and desire to work on an entrepreneurial team.

- Roll-up-the sleeves attitude is a must.

- Meticulous attention to detail with strong organization skills

- Heavy emphasis will be placed on problem solving skills, personal initiative and good people management/relationship skills. Sense of humor is mandatory.

Logistics

- This is virtual position, you must be able to work from home effectively

- Base salary and stock options depend on experience; health insurance, paid holidays and vacation are part of the package.

Send your resume along with links to your StackOverflow, GitHub profiles, etc. to pfreeman+hn@dicomgrid.com. For bonus points, include a solution to the following short task, including code in JavaScript or the frontend language of your choice: given a JSON object conforming to the schema { value: ..., collapsed: (true|false), children: [...] }, where children is an array of objects conforming to the same schema, and a function render taking values to DOM elements, layout the information for read-only display, with the ability to expand/collapse individual nodes. The aim of the exercise is to demonstrate familiarity with Javascript, so a very basic UI is all that is needed.
The website looks nice. I'm curious, is there any editorial process for the contributions, to verify accuracy (understanding the full verification is impossible)?
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Try http://open.mapquest.com/
It's using OSM data and I'm using the search function the way you describe it.
Nice, I stand corrected (and definitely would have lost that bed!) That's a considerably larger population of C# users than I would have expected from the startup-centric HN userbase.
The problem with that is confusing users. When you have a "login with firefox" option you will get "but I don't use firefox anymore, I switched to chrome".
Persona works across browsers, so "log in with Firefox" is worse IMO.
FYI: It appears to not be available for download in the United States.
There are... just not in the US. They're actually a mixed bag so it's not necessarily a tragedy that the US doesn't use them:

Based on the operational studies, only the red time countdown device has a positive influence on safety and delay but increases the travel time and decreases the capacity. The pedestrian countdown signal, however, has little improvements for both travel directions.[1]

[1] http://www.ce.siue.edu/faculty/hzhou/publication/What%20do%2...
Annotated Ray Kurzweil predictions on how the world will change
News is news because it is a rare or uncommon event. I'd be very wary of extrapolating "there are news articles about this event" to "it happens all the time".

I would much prefer a link that provided me actual data in order to believe that this is an event that occurs all the time (such as the number deaths of pedestrians on sidewalks per capita).

For example, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration put out a 2008 report (I chose 2008 as it was the top result on Google) listing the average pedestrian fatality rate per 100,000 people by state [1]. It seems to range from ~1 to ~3.

According to the CDC, there are 799.5 deaths per 100,000 population in the United States (2010 data) [2]. This means my chance of dying as a pedestrian, compared to other potential means of me dying are around 0.3%.

A few studies have found that between 80% and 90% of pedestrian fatalities are a result of the pedestrian being at fault (this comes from the Center for Problem Oriented Policing [3], which cites two sources for this information [4] [5]). This means, again as a percentage chance of all other forms of death, dying while standing on the sidewalk is somewhere in the ballpark of 0.06%.

[1] http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/810968.PDF (page 18, figure 2-4).

[2] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm

[3] http://www.popcenter.org/problems/pedestrian_injuries/

[4] Lee and Abdel-Aty (2005)

[5] Teanby, Gorman, and Boot (1993)
This just in: people are influenced by prominent celebrities and like to fit in.
Wait, I'm confused. Did anything happen here except for restating the law (OK, "revelation") a few times?
I tried installing something ostensibly legitimate from download.com. The "download.com installer" masked the opt-in of 3 separate craps with EULA acceptance prompts. If I was just slightly less paranoid about this stuff, I would have clicked through all of them.

And to be clear, they were not checkboxes, or "custom install" options. They were straight-up walls of text in tiny textareas, with only "accept" and "decline" buttons.

My instinct was to decline them, and they just kept coming. After I dismissed the final crap, the installer then downloaded the real installer for the app I was trying to install.
twice a week
> No offense, but I think it would be wise to familiarize yourself with the basics of a subject before forming high-confidence blanket opinions about it like that.

High-confidence blanket statement? I was asking a question. The opinion in question was poorly worded-- I understand that inflation means money either loses value or must be reinvested in the economy. I just don't think that inflation prevents a wealth incumbency (which I inappropriately referred to as "hoarding").

> (The same applies to your other comment about why anyone would think an inflationary economic policy would be desirable at all.)

I was referring to how the protocols have an identical economic policy (majority rules), not to inflation vs. deflation as economic policy (which I stated explicitly).

I was mainly curious about whether or not inflation vs. deflation matters in terms of preventing a rich-get-richer society. My admittedly poorly worded question seems to have given many HNers an opportunity to feel good about letting me know they understand a classical economic concept.
Also on the billing page "You are currently on the tophat plan" (no space)
Legal perspective: GMaps' ToS forbid you from doing any form of crawling in order to get bulk geodata. Even stuff you've entered yourself.
Yes, Lisp systems have been doing exactly this for decades.
Here is one of the reasons why I personally believe in and feel we really need persona: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7133965
As I was getting out of college I posted a resume online. Before I had any leads from that, I ended up getting a job through a networking event.

Two years later, I get an email from a headhunter who found my original resume. It led to my current job, which I enjoy a whole lot more. One thing to keep in mind is that the salary negotiation goes through the headhunter, and it certainly seems like they get additional money the lower of a salary you accept. So never accept the first offer.
There are several that I've used in the past, Sapphire Canada which is now Randstad Canada, and IQ Partners.. there is actually a fair number that exist and/or operate in Toronto. Although they all seem sleezy to me besides the two I've worked with above.
Good news. Let's hope something actually comes of this.

If we had money to hire people, I'd be more than happy to sign onto a pledge like this, but we don't anticipate doing any hiring soon.
1. What a terrible icon. 2. Really well designed app. I think it might replace the main Facebook app for me.
Author here. With actordb you get:

- no single point of failure (redis and likely the rdbms as well)

- no need to maintain two very different systems

- scalable. As in plug in a new cluster and it will proportionally increase capacity.

We are working on more detailed use case examples. As well as a pretty big bugfix release due out tomorrow or the day after.
Thrift stores haven't really ever gone out of fashion, its actually growing in popularity due to stored like Urban Outfitters whose business model for the last 15 years or more has been to purchase thrift and second hand stuff and resell it at outrageous markups along side designer stuff.
I'm replying to my own comment because the other commenters have made such good points and I'm responding to several at once.

I wish that in my rather long career that I had a chance to work on a big project using Lisp. How else can one really make judgements about the suitability of a programming language. Simple programs and personal projects don't give one a feeling for the value of many important and perhaps subtle language features that have significance at a scale where we all all strive to improve our tools. So I can't speak with the authority of the other commenters, and I relish the comments of those that have had industrial level experience with Lisp (see hga’s comments).

However, I have read books on Lisp, dozens of them. I've worked in the group that implemented a commercial Lisp at Texas Instruments. I've owned a copy of the InterLisp reference manual. I've programmed in Lisp before Common Lisp existed. I used Lisp in a classes taught by Patrick Winston and used Lisp and lambda calculus to understand CLU's semantics while working on my undergrad thesis with Barbra Liskov. I took the class before SICP was a book; I’ve still got the mimeographed notes. I not a Lisp expert, but I'm not even close to the troll end of the scale either. Of course I'm familiar with Blub and Phil Grahamm’s other essays, everyone could benefit from reading these. He explains one of Lisp’s great benefits: it makes you a better programmer. I know it has done this for me; I was wrong to suggest that Lisp hasn’t triumphed (see dman’s comments).

Once upon a time I tried to introduce Lisp as an important part of our system architecture in my company, but the other engineers objected ("too many parentheses"!!). To avoid outright mutiny I developed an alternative design that didn't need a Lisp interpreter. Perhaps I should have not given in. (see mrrottenkolber’s comments).

Not being an expert on Lisp, I’ve tried to figure out how much energy to put into further developing my skills there. Should I direct companies that I run or consult for to use it? Or should I tell them to use something else? This is the dilemma that I face, and this is why these discussions interest me. As jules notes, many of Lisp’s contributions to programming languages have now made their way into the most popular languages today.
I didn't say that it was surprising, I said that it was silly. Why be so worried about fitting in, especially in such superficial and arbitrary ways?
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Gah. We still need to switch from OpenID to OAuth for our GMail bridge; OpenID doesn't allow us to tell Google what address we're trying to authenticate. Sorry!
Clojure is more like scheme in that it only has a one scope environment. Common Lisp (and Lisp) are defined by having 2 scope in the environment. One scope for the functions and one scope for variables, if I remember correctly. An easy way to learn your way around lisp is to read and work through Graham's essay "Roots of Lisp": http://paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html
I don't think normal users have multiple Google accounts, though.
The US is the only place it is available (or so it was reported a few days ago).
So you don't like that fact. But it is still a fact - don't shoot the messenger :)
1-indexing has it's drawbacks (ranges) but it also has benefits. From the projects I've done in Julia my impression was that the net effect of 1-indexing was positive.
Copyright theft on Twitter: this has got to stop
Nice site. I like how the colour changes as you register. Did you consider digitalocean? Seems like it might be 1/3 the cost with better performance?
(Non-anarchic) Libertarianism goes beyond asserting that certain individual rights are inalienable. It embraces the idea of limited government, which is really quite an insidious and anti democratic concept when you think about it. What classical libertarians believe is that government must exist for certain limited functions, but that democratic forces shouldn't be able to expand the scope of those functions. In other words, people should be bound by government, but not be able to exercise self determination in shaping that government, but rather must be bound by a government designed by philosopher kings, who divine from sacred scripture which functions of government are legitimate and not. The right to property? Makes the cut. Okay for the government to hire jack boot thugs to enforce property rights. The right to live free of discrimination and economic coercion? Doesn't make the cut. Not a legitimate function of government.
Tell that to the makers of Candy Crush.
"I always use Paper on my ipad for all my pictures, you should check it out"

Which app would you download from the appstore ?
It's only irrelevant for the past, not the future. So, even a PFS service is compromised once the private key is compromised and the MITM is established.
I get contacted a couple of times a week, pretty much only via LinkedIn. It is not often enough to be annoying. In fact, a lot of the times it is good. I find out about jobs I wouldn't otherwise know about.

As a matter of fact, I am about to change jobs because of a recruiter that contacted my on LinkedIn. So in my case, it's been really good :-)

I've written more on being contacted by recruiteres on LinkedIn here: http://henrikwarne.com/2013/08/21/linkedin-good-or-bad/
A few times a week. I just ignore most of them, but the ones who strike me as very professional and worthwhile usually at least get a short note saying "Not looking right now, but I'll keep you in mind for the future".
I wouln't say "just". It solves an important problem, the fact that the site you are logging in could have a javascript keylogger to read the password you are going to enter.
"Hardware Stores in Alexandria VA"

* Google Maps: everything you'd ever want, and correct.

* Open Street Map: a Home Depot in Riverside County, CA, and a Lowes which apparently resides inside the exact same building.

It is not time for me to make OpenStreetMap my only street map.
Honestly, I think we'll see more downloads of Paper (53) because of confused people looking to download Paper (FB). I see this is as a huge PR win for 53 and both will end up co-existing and succeeding (probably).

There are TWO billion-dollar storage companies with Box in the name. Now that's confusing.
If the only differentiator between this and the competition is the length of the content you're in for some serious trouble.

It looks like a Medium knock off and I don't see the appeal. It's not like Medium keeps you from writing a short post.