skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a great fan of Haskell.

But the tooling and libraries of the JVM is a significant real-world practical benefit. Scala can get away with a lot of nasties for that. (In fairness Scala is very well designed, nastiness is normally all to do with Java compatibility)

Plus it allows Java programmers to start writing code almost immediately.
I think the price has come down because the number of buyers is now much bigger.

Half Life 1, which was a huge blockbuster in 1998 took a year to sell 1/4 the number of coppies BioShock Infinite sold in 5 months.

I'm just impressed that premier games have kept prices so high, as the price of most data products becomes so low. 'Social' games are comodity, but blockbusters are not.
Historically, the largest debtors are governments followed by corporations, the rich, the middle class, and then the poor. You may be thinking of net worth as the poor and middle class are more likely to have negative net worth due to debt than the upper classes. However, this makes inflation even worse for the lower classes as the assets owned by the upper classes which offset their debt are rising in price due to inflation, further benefiting them. As well, the upper classes have greater access to investments that allow them to protect their wealth from inflation unlike the lower classes. In addition, the lower classes tend to have less bargaining power with which to keep their real wages from falling in an inflationary environment.

Inflation most definitely favors the upper classes relative to, if not at the expense of the lower classes.
NewHive is making the web weird again
That's what "the Swiss [...] seem to have forgotten what benefits their close cooperation with the EU brings" refers to (in combination with the recent Swiss vote to limit immigration from the EU)
Choose OpenBSD for your Unix needs. OpenBSD -- the world's simplest and most secure Unix-like OS. Creator of the world's most used SSH implementation OpenSSH, the world's most elegant firewall PF, and the world's most elegant mail server OpenSMTPD. OpenBSD -- the cleanest kernel, the cleanest userland and the cleanest configuration syntax.
Given that he wrote this in that book:

"The greater the need to improvise the more democratic the cooperation [within companies] tends to become. Inventors have always understood this, start-up capitalists frequently figure it out, and computer engineers have recently rediscovered the principle … Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon Valley in the 1980s, forming little democratic circles of twenty to forty people with their laptops in each other’s garages."

I wouldn't trust any part of anything in the book.
In all fairness, venture investing is incredibly risky. One should not be doing it unless they are investing no more than 5-10% of their net worth. Someone who is making < 200K a year, would end up investing much more than that and it's probably not a good idea
So you can make tweets and get links to job boards.... maybe I can just skip this and use the job boards directly...
Thanks! Yea we don't think that employees should be used as a 'line of credit' for their employers. If you purchase something on your company's behalf, you should be reimbursed for that expense as quickly as possible.
Can you put a number (or range) on what is generous for the first engineering hire? 2%? 3%? 5%?
I am also a Mint user, and I have run into this (and similar) bugs.
It wouldn't surprise me. BioShock Infinite was hailed as literally the best game ever by the gaming press, but the storyline contains strong indicators that Levine has squeezed all the juice out of the BioShock concept.
This is the most insightful thing I've read about the engineer crunch in a while. The market needs to realize that good engineers have lots of options and that 0.1% is just not a meaningful amount. I'd like to see 5-8% for key engineering hires, even as companies approach Series A.

Does the founder really want to get greedy and keep that extra few percent when so much depends upon solid engineering execution? Also, don't forget that 4 year vesting with a 1 year cliff is standard, so it's not as if the worth of a meaningful equity offer isn't fully obvious before the shares are "spent" on a key hire (also, before vesting, the risk is totally borne by the employee).

I think the ideal situation for engineers would be to earn a solid equity offer and then have a secondary market to use to trade some of it (once it's vested) for fractional ISOs of other promising startups.
Yeah, it seems the facts are the most important part. I mean the data should be openly available, right? and that lowering the barrier to use by programmers and data scientists should improve the quality of how people interact with and experience the olympics. We're hoping it will help devs build super interesting visualizations and/or apps (that otherwise weren't possible).
The Rise of the Creative Class (2002)
Bitcoin ATMs to land in the US
http://www.medtechnologynews.com/
You mean it's currently freeing up space in SF? Because the status quo is where your commute is shorter in proportion to how close to Mountain View you are. The hypothetical was where they'd move to SF, where proximity that city would determine commute distance.
Couchbase is based on CouchDB, which I have used. I've commented on it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6690607
> They were not hair-brained ideas established by anonymous individuals engaged in private debate outside of the forums of democracy

maybe not when they were founded, but thats definitely what the banking system has become in the year 2014...
UK tabloid? Check!
Anti-EU sentiment? Check!
Vague accusations? Check!
UK conservative MEP's heroicly fighting wind mills? Check!

A conversation about the (vague) subject area might interesting. The article most certainly isn't...
The problem specific to finance is many of these folks had to get bailed out in 2008. If they didn't, their wealth would have gone to 0. (So would many of ours as collateral damage, which is why the bailout did happen.) Just 1 year later they paid themselves enormously offensive amounts of cash. This is why people find the humor so painful. Don't laugh at the sucker who had to bail you out.

The one relevant point, which you kind of get to, is that this was meant to be private conversation amongst friends.
Taxing that is going to be fun.
I'd expect Take Two are looking for something that generates a billion in revenue from 10+ million sales, like their flagship title GTA or Activision's Call of Duty. Bioshock Infinite was a disappointment to most players despite good reviews, and the sales were unimpressive. Most likely the discussion was whether to shut the studio down or leave it open with a skeleton crew to see if they can come up with something more promising. You really cannot reboot a studio when you have 200 people due to the too many cooks problem.
Sony also just recently had it featured as a free download for Playstation Plus members.

/Sidenote
On the PS3, it wasn't worth the bandwidth it took to download. The shoddy textures they used for the console version made it look half a step removed from a late gen PS 2 game. The gameplay and the recycled story didn't help either. It felt like they just took extra character models and levels from the previous BioShock games development, reskinned them and sold it to us it back to us with a plot that consisted of cross out the names of characters and places and writing in new ones.

I hope they do better in the future, but playing that game has dispositioned me to thinking it may not be a bad time to shut down and start over: they need some new ideas.
Basically, apps will be restricted to their own bit of the SD card, they can still use it, just not put things in there all willy-nilly. That sounds great to me.
http://fcic-static.law.stanford.edu/cdn_media/fcic-reports/f...

"The prime example is the Federal Reserve’s pivotal failure to stem the flow of toxic mortgages, which it could have done by setting prudent mortgage-lending standards. The Federal Reserve was the one entity empowered to do so and it did not."

Ah, but the crisis would have happened in the absence of the Federal reserve. In fact, one could easily argue that the Fed was lobbied heavily, HEAVILY to do less by external forces and those forces succeeded. You cannot come to the conclusion that a lack of a Fed would have made markets more stable.
What protects an equity-holder employee from being viciously or prematurely fired prior to the exit or cash out event?
I use (and enjoy) Mint, but have to agree wholeheartedly with this post. In some ways, it's close to something which I could recommend to non-technical friends and family. But not yet. I hope that future releases will focus more on things like working seamlessly with the hardware, and less on enhancements to the window manager.
Good to see some love for Scala after all the recent rants. Unfortunately, I think it's going to be short lived. Most shops where Scala would be an option will soon have a production release of JDK8 available to them, at which point Scala's tradeoffs really only become acceptable to those who already have significant investment in the language or who think category theory is a reasonable companion to an industrial language.
Lighting is typically the bigger issue, but you're right: Microsoft has the resources to do security cameras "right". :)
Great tool.

This wasn't clear from the README, but this will work with files across directories (which is both useful and confusing)

massren /*foo.rb

Will rename matching files in different directories, but there is no indication of what directories those are in the editor.

<snark>Also, how could you build something so useful without generics!?</snark>
Basecamp is Now Free for Teachers.
The fact that some entries aren't visible in the OS cache has nothing to do with Firefox having its own DNS cache though, it would happen with any browser. And clearing the browser cache has nothing to do with the OS cache either.

So I'm not sure why we're even talking about the DNS cache Firefox uses internally.

blueskin_'s response implies that because Firefox uses its own DNS cache and clearing the browser cache will clear those entries too that either a) opening a page in firefox will not put the corresponding hostname in the OS DNS cache or that b) clearing the browser cache will flush the entries from the OS cache as well. (His reply wouldn't make sense in any other way in this context.)

I'm not trying to prove anyone wrong, but the comment as it was implied you're safe if you use Firefox and clear your DNS cache, when in fact you're not.
Actually you can, if you choose to, work out with a metropolitan area to put fiber between any two points, working with states to get it between states is more work and really needs a small staff to keep track of all the action items (you'll meet a lot of politicians). There are some dusty workable rules laid over from the AT&T breakup in the US that require some access rights.

The last time I priced it out (I was depressed about my choices) it was about $125K to get a fiber between my house and the nearest peering point (PAIX, which is slightly closer than MAE-West). That was about $10K per mile. Once you get there you need to find an IP transit provider to hook up with. Lots more choices than 'cable' or 'dsl' though :-)
Postmates Closes New Financing Round and Passes 10,000 Deliveries a Week
That's definitely poor engineering, the exact kind of thing we were told not to do when I took engineering classes.
OK, let's say he shells out $50 CDN for an OpenBSD 5.4 CD from the OpenBSD website. Will installing that solve this guy's specific problems? He didn't mention SSH, firewalls, or elegant mail servers, so I thought I'd ask.
I'm going to assume that the designers have considered this, and that even though it's over-the-horizon the projectiles will still have significant momentum when they hit.
"Finally, most founders are not willing to spend the time it takes to source engineering candidates and convince them to come interview. You can't outsource this to a recruiter until the company is fairly well-established--you have to do it yourself."

This is very important. It needs to percolate into their immediate reports too. I've seen high tech companies lose great candidates because the first line managers were too busy to interview them right away. If the right talent is available, you have to maket he time.
I enjoyed reading this article, but does anyone who doesn't already understand what they're saying understand after reading something like:

"Play's reactive core and asynchronous libraries (e.g. WS) integrate seamlessly with other powerful concurrency primitives in the ecosystem such as Akka’s actors. Combining for-comprehensions with composable futures makes asynchronous concurrency look like straightforward synchronous code."

I get the gist, but I had to go and search for what for-comprehensions were. According to [0], they're a syntactic sugar over map. Then, if I search for composable futures (I know those words separately, but can only guess about them used together) I seem to only get results for Akka 2.0. The first result I click on is for a 167 page book for $23 USD. Maybe that is my fault, as the first result is actually to Akka documentation, but when I click there there is no mention of the word composable. The next two links are to slides of a presentation by the author of the first link I mentioned, and then to a video of the presentation. The fourth is to an early access of the same book, the next a blogspam to the video presentation. I gave up here.

For an article that is arguing for scala in comparison to PHP, Python, and Go, I didn't walk away with anything more than "sounds nice, but is it really?"

Code example would've helped.

[0] http://tataryn.net/2011/10/whats-in-a-scala-for-comprehensio...

Edit: Calling it "an article that is arguing for scala in comparison to PHP, Python, and Go" is a misrepresentation. It's really just about why they like scala, but they do do plenty of hand-wavy comparisons with other languages.

Edit 2: Okay, I see the Akka documentation does have a section "Composing Futures" that I missed.
My thoughts exactly. In the excitement of being caught gatecrashing a pretty exclusive party, I get the feeling the author rushed to write what must have felt like an exclusive, bring-the-system-down exposé. Instead, we got a mildly diverting piece that confirms our suspicions about how the rich and powerful behave behind closed doors, and the author blew a career-making opportunity for inside access.

It's a shame, because there's definitely a story to be told about these people involving the 2008 crisis and the enormous drain on the public purse that the bailout caused. That story is surely more juicy than 'the rich think the rest of us are suckers for rescuing them.'
Well, good luck to you. I think you'll find out that the IOC disagree with you, and that the Olympics is far more of a money-grab than an international coming together of the world.
Tesla catches fire in Toronto garage
Double Irish tax loophole for tech companies
So if I read that right, if the company I'm working for wants to use this system then I have to give Abacus direct access to my bank account. Why wouldn't it integrate with the company's existing system? I hope that's just a bad writeup on techcrunch's part. Or I hope nobody I work for ever requires me to use this.
I'm starting to be a bit disillusioned with this whole "we can't find great people" spiel that a lot of startups put up.

I have friends who are extremely good engineers (i.e., a mix of: contributors to major open source projects used by a lot of SV startups, have given talks at large conferences, published papers at ACM conferences, great portfolio of side/student projects, have worked at great companies previously, frequently write high quality tech articles on their blog, have high reputations on sites like Stack Overflow, etc.) and who have been rejected at interviews from those same companies who say that they can't find talent. (it also certainly doesn't help that the standard answer is "we're sorry, we feel like there isn't a match right now" rather than something constructive. "No match" can mean anything on the spectrum that starts at "you're a terrible engineer and we don't want you" and ends at "one of our interviewers felt threatened by you because you're more knowledgeable so he veto'd you").

Seriously, if you're really desperate for engineering talent, I can give you contact info for a dozen or so of friends who are ready to work for you RIGHT NOW (provided your startup isn't an awful place with awful people, of course) and probably another dozen or two who would work for you given enough convincing.

I'm honestly starting to believe that it isn't hard to hire, but that there's some psychological effect at play that leads companies to make it harder on themselves out of misplaced pride or sense of elitism.

Unless everyone wants to hire Guido Van Rossum or Donald Knuth, but then a) statistically speaking, you're just setting yourself up for failure and b) you need to realize that those kind of people wouldn't want to do the glorified web dev/sys admin'ing that a lot of SV jobs are.
> I think the most important detail is that he slammed on the brakes and the car continued to accelerate. Cars with a computer controlled accelerator should be able to stop accelerating if the brake pedal is pushed.

Actually this points to his story being incorrect. If he slammed on the brakes and the car continued to accelerate than he probably slammed on the gas by accident instead. Testing shows that if you slam on the brakes while the engine is pegged at full throttle, you'll still come to a screeching halt. The brake system vastly overpowers the engine even in high powered cars. In a Camry V6 it actually takes just 16 feet further to stop from 70mph with the throttle wide open at 190ft vs. 174ft.

And the brake system is not drive-by-wire like the throttle is, so it's not susceptible to faulty ECU problems.
Would be nice of you to credit the artists whose work you rehosted, minimaxir.
U.S. citizen sues Ethiopia for allegedly using computer spyware against him
To add to that, I believe the goal there was depositing the 'dig' rattata that they kept escaping the dungeon with, finally fed up enough to take the risk.

And then the process of smashing random buttons at the PC restored the precious helix fossil.

And the players decided to accept this wonderful result and not tempt fate, and left to continue on their journey.

Still with the rattata.
I've had (and discussed) issues like this all the time. Generally, things work. But every time I try using Linux as a desktop OS, there's some things that push me back to Windows, because it's just so much more cohesive (and that's not saying much).

Yes, these problems exist on every platform. But with Windows, there's a vested interest by the company to make sure everyone can use it and things don't break. If things to break, there's a vested interest in making sure it's both easy and most importantly possible for an end-user or even a low level field support technician to fix it.

I've never had Windows fail to load the window manager. On Linux it's all too often that an update will make my first input to a newly booted system be "startx", or sometimes even dpkg --reconfigure xorg. It's not a fundamental issue with Linux, which make it more irritating. It's possible to make it work better than Windows, but there's so much fracturing and in-fighting about what the fix is that it just hasn't happened yet. A million eyes on the code might in theory make sure bugs go away, but it seems that the better route so far is a million dollars and one person overseeing development. Look at the huge leap in desktop Linux that Ubuntu gave us, and also look at how much flak they got for doing so.
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Spend > $250k/month on adwords and you can be friends with Google.
the author needs to chime in a few years later when he fully understands how big science actually works:

- most work is done by untrained and inexperienced graduate students, good luck understanding/reproducing the process

- most faculty are little more than grant submitting machines trying to land a grant at all costs regardless of what actually interests them

- most research reviews processes are incredibly biased with countless people doing terrible jobs (the reviled "reviewer number 3") a single negative can sink a grant/paper acceptance

- most institutions are grossly monolithic and the rules and regulations are such that incompetent individuals can never be removed from any given position.

- most institutions are run as medieval lordships, with many smaller decision makers like deans, head of departments that have incredible influence on someone's career. It is great when the dictator is benevolent and unbearable if not.

Note how instead of paying a good salary the University choses to give out handouts (lower childcare fees, lower rentals) - because those in turn are paid via taxpayer grants. It hides the fact that they pay so little the people would qualify for foodstamps.
Well, so what? Simon Marlow, Haskell's lead compiler developer in recent years, quit, leaving arguably a much larger gap than @paulp leaving Tyepsafe since SPJ is wrapped up in leading some English education initiative.

Anyway, shit happens, gaps are filled. Languages, once established, are larger than any one developer, no matter how brilliant the individual may be.

It's worth noting that @paulp is as active as ever in Scala, working on his new collections library and contributing to Scala now from the outside -- he may have left Typesafe but has not in anyway left Scala. As he says, he has a "sickness" for language perfection, and fortunately for we Scala users, Scala is the target of his illness ;-)
You're not kidding! The site is amazingly fast.
I hope they're right. I hate expense reports. It would be even better to autosort the credit card data. "You use the card, and just tell us what's not a business expense. We'll figure out where it goes."
The world's weirdest whale
On the other hand, high speed chases are expensive, risky, and very dangerous to everyone (not just the suspect, and not just the cops).
True, it's been so long since I Java'd at all, that I simply don't remember the idiomatic ways to do things. And those ways have probably changed quite a bit in the intervening years.

Still it seems conceptually weird that the idea of a DateFormat object can be a thing, when it's just a String with the magic Format language.

Parsing or formatting (the verbs) seem more like actions to be taken on a Date itself. It seems much tidyier to me to just keep all that contextually in the Date class.
To me this is crazy - it's the most obvious choice to be generous with equity, with so little downside and such immense upside. Who cares how much of the company you own if it's worth nothing? And surely there's nothing more risky to an early-stage startup than unhappiness; if the founders and early employees have disagreements, or harbour any resentment that will cascade out of control.

Generosity begets generosity; treat your team better than they expect and the rewards will come naturally.
Ansible Wishlist or: How I Unabashedly Wish For Things I Haven't Created Myself
Wait till someone hacked it.
Without agreeing or disagreeing, I believe OP is simply making the point that with fame and wealth comes a bit of responsibility.
I stand corrected. For 5 years, France attempted to instill a puppet government over the otherwise loosely aligned Swiss cantons. The attempt failed 211 years ago.