skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How are they more broken compared to e.g. Java and C#? (Assuming you don't have a problem with these.)

I would think having automatic cleanup via destructors would make C++ more pleasant to use in this aspect as you don't need to wrap all resource handling code in using and try-finally blocks.
As far as I'm aware, the intent is to develop any non-standard Firefox OS API into a web standard API. Any API that starts out as non-standard on FxOS, starts that way so that it can be shaped to serve practical uses before it gets standardized.
Launch target is March 16, 2014
What Happens After Mercury is Spilled on a School Bus
My uncle lost his job recently as a factory worker and is retraining at the age of 50 to be an nurse aide. He wishes he'd trained as nurse but 30 years ago it was near impossible. Not every man wants to be a brain surgeon.

And teachers? That has to be the MOST important group where we should absolutely have equal representation.
The government contractors will want a security clearance for that level salary though, particularly the ability to get a top secret clearance or SCI.
One problem is that diamonds are surprisingly brittle. If you tap a diamond along a cleavage point, it will break. Diamond cutters take advantage of this; you can break a diamond with a wooden dowel if you hit it in the right place. I'd be really unhappy if my tooth just split in half because I bit down on something slightly wrong. Of course, regular teeth do that too...
I wouldn't. Human rights delineate rights by species rather than moral capabilities. I am willing to recognize, respect, and defend the rights of anything also willing to do the same for me. This proceeds logically to the point where I can rationally say that pulling the power cord out of an AI's computer is more analogous to an abortion than to a murder.

After sufficient analysis, I reached the conclusion that arbitrary capriciousness is worse than deliberate cruelty. It is worse to allow someone else to die as a consequence of your actions without ever considering what his life is worth than it is to murder him after deciding that his death is worth more to you. That seems a little out of step with traditional morality, but then again, that is what created the world in which we live now.
So your issue wasn't with potential FEC overreach as you argued above, your issue is that you agree with the Citizen's United decision in whole, and are all about the floodgates being opened. We'll just have to disagree on that.
Elixir, aka "Ruby on Erlang" ;)

http://elixir-lang.org/
Ugh. This video wasn't made for your male gaze. I can't believe you are sexualizing a video featuring a woman because its whimsical (well I can believe it, you sound like a tremendous asshole).
> The developer is Gregory Maxwell, aka nullc.

This guy seems to be everywhere! He's a prolific Wikipedia contributor (administrator + many thousands of edits), and was also the guy behind the dump of a ton of pre-1923 JSTOR documents to the Pirate Bay, which in part helped pressure JSTOR to un-paywall its old/PD articles (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/07/swartz-supporter-...).
Ask HN: Mobile Phone App Store Statistics
Stats here - http://www.statisticbrain.com/mobile-phone-app-store-statistics/

Does anyone know how authentic this data is?

They list various sources, but doesn't really have any citations.
This will be yet another ambitious mission for SpaceX. One of the things that strikes me about this stuff is that NASA would test some new feature, then test it two more times to be sure that it working wasn't a fluke, and then go for the next feature. SpaceX has been testing multiple new features on every flight, which has led to some really rapid advancement in their capability. If this thing successfully does its "pretend" landing on the water I am sure they will push for the next one to land back at the pad.
> sexualized

I am so not seeing this.
Steve Jobs getting his own postage stamp in 2015
If you want to buy coins to use I'd go with Coinbase at least to get started. If you want to day trade Kraken looks really promising if they are supported in your jurisdiction. Bitstamp has a decent track record though their local give me pause. Coinsetter is also pretty well put together if all you want to do is pair trade but you can't do true exchange on there.

I've tried coinmkt but I don't like it. Their fees aren't great their deposit and withdrawal methods are limited and there are fees on deposits and withdrawals at least there were when I gave it a try.
What market segment are they trying to hit? Having done POS data analytics at a top 3 retailer, I know how sensitive they are about their sales data.

What kind of actionable insight are they able to generate?
What Is Your Startup's "One Sentence"?
I would distance myself from people who are that misogynist.
There's an android client in the works:
https://github.com/Astonex/Antox
You know what I was referring to.
The value of values – pre-IPO BloomReach celebrates five years
Here's the three answers you will get when try looking deeply for it:

1) Quick prototyping old-school: Ruby with Rails or Python with Django

2) Asynchronous Single Page App: Node.js using either something like Meteor (fullstack) or combining something like Express(backend) with Angular/Ember

3) You already have big clients, you need 'scaling' immediately: Java or Scala with one of their frameworks.
Google unveils Project Tango
The hash-tree scheme described here would work equally well for non-Bitcoin currencies, if I'm understanding it correctly. The only thing missing is the ability to prove ownership of the actual funds backing that tree. So what you're really complaining about is that there are no banks that offer digitally-signed attestation of account balances.
You'd need to have all your teeth replaced, or the diamond ones would tear up the natural ones.

I'm okay with that, mind you. THE BRIGHTEST SMILE
Korean?
I think this is mostly right. Erlang is, roughly, in the Lisp, Forth, Smalltalk bin, not the C, Ruby, Go bin. Its advocates are going to be going on about how "Erlang got that right in 199something" for years, even when things like Go have got most of what it has.

I wrote about Erlang 7 years ago, and a lot of that still holds true, IMO:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2007/09/22/erlang/

That said, I lately helped start a pretty big project in Erlang and have been using it a lot lately. It has improved, and it's a fun language to use in a lot of ways.
This is fantastic! I am planning on showing this to my undergraduate students, because 1) it will help them be more professional in the long run, and 2) I am incredibly sick of trying to read their handwriting and inconsistent documents.

I am wondering, what would be the best way to have students create accounts and have their accounts be populated with templates for all of the homework assignments?

I am really excited by this announcement. I hope that it leads to even more success!
One use case: you are working away on a server via SSH at some café and suddenly the a internet dies on you. Oh crap, you had a ``make install`` running and now it will be half-baked because a dead SSH connection will HUP the process you were using.

With tmux, no HUP happens on the server side so the process keeps running. Once your internet connection comes back online you ssh back into the machine and ``tmux attach`` to the previous session. And voilà, it is like nothing happened. All of your output from before is still there too.
Full reserve banks are possible. You just have to maturity match everything, meaning every loan of term t has a matching deposit with a maturity of t. Deposits in demand accounts could not be lended.

I have no idea whether this is a good idea or if it would work as a business.
Might want to pick a real name so people can find the company...
I fall under the "tried it & stopped" category.

I stumbled upon Erlang in 2011, and did the full "Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!" tutorial and about 1/2 of the Erlang Programming book (and exercises). Where I ended up is that I had no real-world use cases that would benefit from Erlang, so I just kind of atrophied with it. It seems to me like Erlang is really really good at building programs that can be modeled with message passing (like chat), but a lot of problems are difficult to map to that paradigm (or perhaps my mind just has trouble envisioning how to do it yet). The closest I got was starting to use it to write a distributed Web crawler, but I ended up using scrapy (a Python framework) because the string manipulation was annoying with Erlang, and scrapy already had a lot of features that I would have had to re-implement on my own. But as I'm starting to try and manage crawler distribution with Celery and RabbitMQ, I find myself starting to think more and more about how Erlang would probably do this bit in particular better, so I might return to it.

The language that I've since discovered I really want for most tasks is Haskell. I've been programming Ruby full-time for the last few years, and I've grown really jaded with it. I get sick of having to write so many unit tests around everything in what I see as a poor fix for its loosy-goosyness. I'm still pretty early on in learning Haskell, but I find the approach towards correctness first to be exactly what I want, and while so far some of the material is pretty challenging I can see it will be very rewarding as well.
Knowing the Raft[0][1] protocol, I felt this post was disingenuous going on for its entire length, and only mentioning Raft basically as a footnote, w/ no other references.

I think Raft deserves a bit more prominence and credit here, Antirez.

[0] (pdf) https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/11370504/raft.pdf
[1] I kept reading thinking to myself repeatedly "This is just Raft".
I can never forget the discussion I had with Jim during Rubyconf India last year. He was so devoted to coding… I envied him. Very friendly and energetic. Very sad to hear the news.
> The video was extremely flirtatious.

No it wasn't. It is whimsical and youthful, which fits with the theme of making a book for children. Attributing that personality type with flirtation is disturbing and misogynistic.

> It had the same sexualized energy of a Disney movie about Tank Girl starring Bjork with the sound track by Blonde Redhead.

Projecting much?

> It was way to over the top.

I find your sexist crap over the top.
Cheers for the links.
> Do you really decide whether you'd learn a language by looking at its website?

I certainly could see myself doing that. It's usually indicative of the leadership and community that's associated with the language. In Erlang's case I understand that it's pretty niche in the big scheme of things, and that might be the reason. In terms of languages if the information presented isn't on the level of Java, PHP, Ruby, Python and others it comes off as sub-par. That may not be the reality but it's the perception IMO.
Systemd's Network Support Frustrating Some Users
> Now you're looking at the potential for a military incursion, dramatically escalated security at transportation hubs and public events, and/or a bunch of other responses that you might find a whole lot more distasteful than the intelligence agency of a democratic government keeping tabs on phone calls in an unstable country.

You're assuming those things are inevitable. The argument seems to be that we are bound to act irrationally so let's just give in to it and do something harmful and ineffective. The right answer is to keep our heads in all cases.

Let's suppose you're right and the predominant cost of terrorist attacks is our overreaction to them. Isn't it then obvious that the solution is to prohibit the overreaction? Amend the constitution. Make it much more difficult for the government to engage the military in a foreign excursion. Prohibit all of this TSA security theater entirely. Take away from Congress the ability to self-inflict damage -- that's the actual problem so that's what the solution has to fix.
Did you research this, or are you relying on casual observation? There's going to be heavy selection bias here if you're in the software industry but not involved in traditionally female-dominated professions.

Anyway, if the shoe were on the other foot, as a male feminist I would be in favor of getting more men coding.
Not really. You need to hire a coder, mostly.
Is this Whatsapp's future? Stay tuned.
Stockor was my favorite He-Man toy. He had pallet jacks for hands! I think his sold-separately vehicle was a shipping container.
I absolutely agree with you. Obviously, no one should ever feel like they aren't welcome in a field because of their gender. I just don't see the point of making giant, obsessive efforts to push a group of people into a field and then patting ourselves on the back when our plan works, and we don't feel so guilty anymore.
Schneier calls bulk spying worse than useless. What he says is (emphasis mine):

"This is where the NSA overreaches: collecting data on innocent Americans either incidentally or deliberately, and data on foreign citizens indiscriminately. It doesn't make us any safer, and it is liable to be abused."

We know that politicians like to keep dirt on their opponents to protect their fiefdoms, and we have seen the phenomenon of sudden, unexplained resignations. We also know that government oversight of the secret agencies is lax. Some say effective oversight is not possible.

I admit to bias here - Germans of a certain generation are intimately familiar with the abuses of the Stasi.
Cool project! It'd be nice if the build system was converted to GYP, so that it integrated well with libuv.
Down for me:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140107014545/http://poisson.phc...
How is that a misogynist view though? Men aren't allowed to see women as attractive in the USA?
Full Reserve banks don't make loans?

Fractional Reserve banks enable you to have your money and be loaned out at the same time(thereby stretching the money supply like an elastic rubber band).

Full Reserve banks ONLY loan out money which was specifically deposited to them for the purposes of being able to be loaned out.
Sadly it can't seem to handle the traffic as much as Slate
>The Gox situation is unfortunate but I think it stems from the weaknesses and corruptability of centralized systems (in this case the Mt Gox Bitcoin Exchange) rather than flaws within Bitcoin.

Mt. Gox has been a poorly run company as long as it has existed; it didn't help that its custom bitcoin wallet implementation didn't take transaction malleability into account, even though it's been known about since 2011: https://bitcoinfoundation.org/blog/?p=418

Remember that Mt. Gox has about 20% (down from 80% back in the day) of Bitcoin's trade volume; the other major exchanges properly addressed malleability and didn't have the same problems.
HTML5 Conf - reason:

- cost is extremely fair < $99 for 2 days if got in on early bird.

- famo.us intro - mind blown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxBxsLl9ViE

- react.js - very nice talk by Pete Hunt - video not recorded, but here's his past talks on it https://www.google.com/search?q=pete+hunt+react+video

- continuous delivery - learned how to give a great speech, aside from the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXk3aUoZ7AQ

May's session just opened for tickets, although I'm probably going to pass it this time. Will probably attend Fall's session though.

strangeloop is the other one I would like to attend one day, but will need to save up money for it since it's slightly more expensive and requires a flight for me.

CHI and TEI is another ones I like to attend, but really need to save lots of money for.
Block the Comcast/Time Warner Merger – Whitehouse.gov Petition
They don't. They want apps that are ported to Firefox os from phonegap apps.
The Why and How of Ansible and Docker
Start with a problem people actually have. I dont think this solves too many problems... How different is this really? Incorporating an image into what you show?
'One sentence' is way better than an elevator pitch with today's short attention span. My one sentence at the moment is: my company, artisurn.com, helps people embrace what is inevitable with grace and lets them pick a memorial urn or keepsake that 'talks' to them.
Small tip for the ones working on their own and/or freelancers. Join a co-working space/community! I did a few months ago and the difference is very noticeable. If you're in a large-ish metro area, chances are there are some around you.

Having lunch with other people, being able to ask around for help or feedback, taking part in events are all small things that end up making a big difference.
> Maybe Bray isn't up on the latest from Vancouver or something.

He bought in >15 years ago so he's not too concerned about real estate purchase prices. (Plus those "80% of income" metrics are not very useful anyway, certainly not for comparing moving from city to city while keeping the same job - doubly so if you've bought in when prices were a third of what they're now.)
That's the hype, but if you ask the people who built it, it's actually more about fault tolerance than scaling. And indeed, I'm using it for a semi-embedded system where stability is important, something that Go and Node.js, for instance, didn't seem quite ready for when we evaluated them a year ago. Erlang is pretty rock solid and is something that we'll be happy to have running without worries.
> Commanding a market price has some qualities that suck. One of them is that you have to deposit assets in a market to keep an order book to discover a price.

You don't _have_ to trust a counterparty with your money for price discovery. Take Counterparty for example: a P2P derivatives and stock market using Bitcoin as the transport layer [ǂ]. It enables trustless betting on anything from asset prices, to weather events, to Superbowl results [ɵ]. Two companies have already issued publicly tradeable shares [ɸ].

Data feeds are a public, competitive market:

Order: give 55.0 XCP for 0.5 BTC in 11 blocks, with a provided fee of 0.0001 BTC and a required fee of 0.005 BTC (bcf02fb66565d984a136fc55e1085f5cc782e8630dcfdbe9bbddb3312beb8f2c) [valid]

Broadcast: ‘Block Hash (0000000000000…cdbe902b4698e) Even/Odd’ = 2.0 from 15cdAQmmBrz1BEVtipaQ1dVHtTwmfcxzw5 at 2014-02-20T20:00:03-08:00 with a fee of 0.1% (7bd292f02c41740150b2ed2e7cf739566c900092e892e4a3a5d7dd142c00df8b) [valid]

Broadcast: ‘CoinDesk BPI USD’ = 555.26 from 1CeQHd59TFKWQzsWYDXc9NDX2ooMSRpiqi at 2014-02-20T22:00:03-08:00 with a fee of 0.1% (65c7162d69664008e4e0fe3be9122fb02c3e98901cd975d6d179e85a945fd916) [valid]

[ǂ]: https://counterparty.co

[ɵ]: http://blockscan.com/tx.aspx?q=3155

[ɸ]: http://blockscan.com/assetInfo.aspx?q=MPTSTOCK

[ɸ]: http://blockscan.com/assetInfo.aspx?q=SFMSTOCK
‘House of Cards’ threatens to leave if Maryland comes up short on tax credits
Yes, you're right, perhaps I oversimplified too much. That is the main hurdle Waters and Sahai have overcome.

They do this by not using a counter, but randomly-selected nonces that feed a keyless stream generator (like AES-CTR with a fixed known key), and use a mechanism (puncturing) to 'blacklist' previously-used nonces so that they reveal nothing about previous keystreams used. Without being able to ask for encryptions of arbitrary messages using a previous nonce, the attacker has little options.

Granted, this is annoying because you have to 'recompile' the obfuscated encryptor for each new nonce, but that is of no concern in the model being used.
I've used Gobble a few times between traveling (hate to go grocery shopping then be out of town) and I've had legitimately excellent meals. I was really pleased with the simplicity and the ability to schedule or unschedule based on my travels/plans.
CRS-3, by the way, will make good use of Dragon's unique down-mass capability. It will carry up and return three sample return freezers, and swap in a replacement for a malfunctioning space suit (bringing the bad one back for examination.) The bad suit (or EMU) is not the one that famously leaked back in July, interestingly enough, but the station's fourth suit that's been out of commission for a while.
+1 for Bunnies blog.
Supposedly KakaoTalk has 90% market penetration in S Korea.
I'm working on a project to boost awareness & strengthen resources around mental health in the startup community.

Check out the basics at

blueperiod.org

Reach out to rob@blueperiod.org if you'd like to help out
Bullshit. Nerds might grudgingly admire LinkedIn for their clever use of dark patterns. Your average business person gets suckered into the dark pattern and then wonders how they've accidentally pissed off their ex, sales prospect's CEO or rival's legal counsel by trying to "connect" with them. And they're not really any more impressed by growth generated through more-or-less inadvertent signups than they were by Enron's accounting practices.

It's not like ad-targeting, which normal people generally don't care about too much unless the retargeting gets really creepy.
Any alternatives out there?
That's perfectly reasonable. I think you might be overestimating our ability to target HUMINT and other focused intelligence methods in a way that would cause a smaller sum of collateral harm to the innocent than less intrusive mass surveillance for the same amount of intelligence value. Bang-for-the-human-rights-buck, as it were. But you've identified the key tradeoff, and I don't feel like I know enough to argue further exactly where our policy should come down on it.

[A]nyone saying "you need to be freaking out about terrorism" is the enemy.

I am unaware of anyone in a serious position to affect public opinion or policy who is saying this. Which is good, because I don't think it's helpful in a democracy to brand anyone who's participating non-violently as an "enemy".
Their reputability is irrelevant to their effectiveness as counterexamples to your claim.
Right, I'm in. There was an open transom. It's dark though and there's nobody about, what do I do now?
This is why I pushed for python in my CS101 class, but the department stuck to java since that was what was demanded by internship employers.
Feynman on Papp perpetual motion engine
I think you missed a real opportunity to name your app "Do You Lift Even".
Stay where you are, and save as hell. Go to a tech company and it's not guaranteed to be glorious as Whatsapp.
So, you're saying that aside from genitalia, men and women are exactly the same and, in a vacuum, the distribution of genders in any given profession should be perfectly equal? You really believe that?
So, can we cash in on that retroactively?
> You do realize that modern finance depends on this notion?

Modern finance also causes some very serious societal problems, in my opinion.
It turns out that MtGox used all the deposits to buy Magic cards. They now have the world's most excellent cube. We all should have seen this coming.
Is there a way (outside of founder stubbornness) to reverse this norm? It's a pity that this has become the trend.
JPMorgan Chase Closing Accounts of Coinbase [YC S12] Customers
Hopefully you are right, but the sister commenter actually believes it. People get confused.
rayiner responded to "people have a right to not be indiscriminately surveilled by every country that they don't live in" with "[citation needed]", which would seem to indicate that this should not simply be a moral position one would individually hold but should be backed up by some source. This would imply either the existence of appropriate sources or the non-existence of human rights (or at least human rights we have so far discovered). Demanding that we find sources he deems acceptable, without any insight into what he deems acceptable, may be good rhetoric but is not productive conversation, and I reject your characterization of my prompt for more clarity as the unproductive act in the discussion.

Edited to add:

You really think arguing about arbitrary other clauses of the UDHR would be less of a rabbit hole than trying to pin down what the participants in the discussion mean when they say people do or don't have rights?