skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're seeing significantly worse performance with F#, then that's pretty unusual (most people see very similar perf characteristics, with some things slightly faster in F# and some in C#). You might want to fire an email to fsbugs@microsoft.com explaining your scenario - the F# team is quite responsive.

The RyuJIT project shows that .NET JIT performance is still on the radar, though I haven't seen any indication that SIMD is on the roadmap.

To your final point, it's clearly true that C# is familiar to a wider variety of developers than F# is. However, I've been impressed by the uptake of some F# libraries, like FAKE. F# reads so mush like pseudocode in some cases that it's easy for people to buy in even if they're not especially familiar with the language.
Just put the car into 1st gear and keep cranking the key and it'll lurch forwards even if the engine won't start.

It's not exactly healthy for the starter motor but can be useful in emergencies for getting the car over to the shoulder or out from the middle of a junction.

I'm not sure how it'll work with automatic gearboxes (a small minority of cars here in the UK) but no reason why it shouldn't work on any car with a manual gearbox and key ignition.
Google moves Moto's modular phone mojo forward
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And I'm sure he made zero connections too...
Seems like a bit of a reach?
[Show HN]A new way to share small files
Send an email message with attachments to web@snipek.com . Then you'll set up a web page like this: http://snipek.com/web/4cfaa942-d04b-41a9-9f0b-2023c4a3674f

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Might be worth validating that idea
While you are responding to a poorly-defended stereotype/generalization, I actually think your anecdote is worse: the userbase of this website is, on the whole, going to be almost entirely "rich"; even if 99% of Adblock users are "poor", if you thereby polled Adblock users here you would not be able to discover this phenomenon due to the pre-selection.
What do you mean by bastardizing? I'm not sure when I'd ever use Array.keys, but it seems like it could be potentially useful -- and more importantly, totally in the spirit of JavaScript.
About the only reason he would need to "know where all the free WiFi spots in the city are" is if he is homeless or living in a weekly motel that has no wifi. If that is the case, then he has no business trying to be an entrepreneur right now. A recent scientific study on successful people (I don't have the link handy) concluded that "success boils down to serially avoiding catastrophic failure while routinely absorbing manageable damage."

So, he has either A) fallen on extremely hard times, in which case he should go take a job, even if only for a few months while he builds up enough money for Wifi at home and at least a month-to-month apartment or B) is being overdramatic. In this case, I'm guessing it's B. That's bad, because it discourages entrepreneurship when people mistake difficulty in starting any business for poor planning or a flair for the dramatic on the part of a specific individual.
Scott Adams champions "fail till you succeed" quite a bit. He's had a string of interesting failures too (listed out at the bottom): http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230462610...
The unicode people have addressed this with the Unicode Collation Algorithm - http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/ - which obviously can't be perfect, but it can be reasonable.

The ICU project - http://site.icu-project.org/ - has open source implementations of the collation algorithm including appropriate information for different locales. ie you shows those Danish names to a Danish user in their expected sort order, while also showing them to an American in their expected sort order.

i18n and l10n is hard. But it is also largely solved fairly well, and there is no excuse to avoid it all together or not use the ICU code.
This is badly needed. Mapping is one of those areas where I still have to rely on Google, even though I really try to exit their services. The internet needs more of its core services being based on open services and open data.

Last time I tried OSM, I had a very bad experience, but looking at Locus (as recommended elsewhere in this thread) things are definitely looking better.
They must prepare a lot of briefings if it takes 2 days. Even UN is moving faster.
The Chinese Linux on an ARM USB stick devices are now a lot more powerful for the same price as the Pi. Only reason to go for the Pi is the large community and manufacturer support. I think the makers envisioned school kids all being given their own Pis to take home and hack on like they did with the BBC computers their rich parents bought for them in the 80s, but in practice the Pi seems to be mostly used as a curiousity in the classroom and doesn't do anything they couldn't do with their existing PCs.
I guess my original point is that they're trying to look for the mechanism of the inflammation because they assume that by solving the inflammation that the depression will be solved, whereas it could be that the inflammation is a protective reaction against depression the same way that it is a in large part a protective reaction against other forms of illness.
You don't need the app to use the service (cc: cash@square.com or request@square.com). We have no idea how many people are using the service.

Remember that for every single person that uses it, they gain another user on top of that. Even more potentially with request@. I consider that a fantastic marketing tool since it must effectively cost them very little to run the service.
It looks like the author used BSD grep on OSX (despite linking to FSF) which explains the dogshit performance of grep. If you use a mac install grep from Homebrew with the `--default-names` option.
Particularly since the batteries the Gigafactory will produce are not fit for use in consumer gear, at least not without heavy modification. Tesla uses them in temperature and load controlled battery packs, so they have stripped away all of the protective circuits that nomally protect LiIon cells from overload and even removed the outer metal casing thats supposed to stop them from shorting out.
Read the links in the post and the website. Here's one of them that directly answers your question:

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko
"I have a wonderful secretary who looks at the incoming mail and separates out anything that she knows I've been looking forward to seeing urgently."

Ding ding ding.
There are a lot of streaming devices that currently exist but none have made the experience seamless or simply enough for anyone to use.

We see it as a similar market to MP3 players around 2001, prior to the iPod. Nearly anyone can figure out how to use an iPod, can't say the same for Chromecast.

We also want to allow users to stream any app without having to wait for developers update their app with an SDK.

It would be more accurate to say Chromecast is a small subset of Sugarcube.

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"This is an important lesson to learn: Mistakes can happen any time a piece of code is modified."

From http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-18-tarsnap-critical-... regarding the Tarsnap bug.

Solution: write more unit tests.
> But this sort of thing already happens all the time. You don't have the right flash player, or the right silverlight player, or the right version of Java.

That's exactly the point. Imagine dozens of them.
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Another thing they have in common is trying to reason about security of SSL certificate chains and other high abstraction concepts in terms of C pointers and function return values.
Yeah. Same here. I'm not buying a car with built-in systems based on iOS. Never going to happen.

It doesn't have to be Android to please me, but at least something reasonably open, which lets me work with open data, and regular formats.

Having to submit your entire digital existence to one company and the locked down gadgets they make is a big nono. A big enough nono to make me back out of a car-deal.
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He sort of made me cringe when he cited Steve Sailer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sailer#Views_and_criticis...

When I read things like this:

"Luttwak is considered to be brutally honest, whereas Kissinger is recognized as a successful and charming but mendacious manipulator. Both are brilliant, and both are flawed in their own ways, but, in my view, Luttwak’s writing is more often reliable as giving you actually correct information (though selectively, with a slant towards his broader agenda of policy influence), whereas Kissinger is better at obtaining access and favor. They are kind of a real life Jewish immigrants versions of the ‘Once an Eagle‘ duo where Kissinger is Massengale and Luttwak is Damon."

I'm done with the article. Telling me pre-digested conclusions is not entirely honest. There is a lot of fudging going on there which he hides under a veneer of references.

The article really treats the reader like a complete novice to the area of grand strategy, foreign policy, and history.
Glad to hear it. The main problem I noticed the last time I used F# is that it generates more function calls, along with more heap references (vs stack-allocated structs) for things like boxed values, generators, etc to do simple tasks compared with C#. Is it the case that you can optimize all this out using parts of the language I don't know about?
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Is it OK to edit for style on an open source project?
Canada has an army and a navy, yet it doesn't call its official languages Canadian and Canadien.
I'd like to think Angular 2 will be well received, even if we are probably checking off more than a few of these boxes (not that AngularJS 1.x doesn't, though)
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I'm also Android / MBPro, but he's right. I use Google Play, not iTunes, because Play works on both my laptop and phone, while iTunes would only work on my laptop. Same with gmail over .Mac/MobileMe/WhateverItIsNow.
Did you read the article you posted?

Over the weekend, when Yanukovych's situation as President was still unclear, Arutz Sheva's Russian-language sources reported that the Ukrainian police forces - who are loyal to Yanukovych - have been making open threats against the Jewish community, and promoting anti-Semitic propaganda.
Well, it is not exactly x.com. I have put x.com for the sake of example.
The commentary does fit the recent Apple 'goto fail' bug. I think this post may've originally included it. Perhaps the wrong commentary got deleted.
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Ask HN: Is a distributed computing cryptocurrency possible?
Essentially, applying the philosophy of REcaptcha to cryptocurrency.

SETI@coin, FOLDING@coin, etc..

Is this a viable way to mine a cryptocurrency? Has this been implemented before? Are computation results verifiable?

In a similar way, could companies could issue the crypto equivalent of private notes/bonds by buying what is essentially (ethical) botnet use from users and issuing a currency for computation results?

My guess is that issues would include decentralization (lack thereof) and verification of results.
Your post is a wall of text, making the content nearly unreadable.
> I know I'm being a little cynical here, but you should be working on your startup, not attending parties. If you're going to sacrifice to do something, go all in.

This is ridiculous. Devoting every waking moment to your job is a quick road to burnout and permanent failure. You need personal time to relax and blow off steam, whether that's going to parties or quietly reading in your living room.
Are you guys by any chance seeking design help? Have been using DDG for a while now and would enjoy working on some of the visuals with you.
The post reads melodramatic to me too. So you were a VC? So what.

However, as a recent parent living in a small flat who enjoys collaborating, I can note that there are many reasons not to work at home, no matter how fly my wifi.
Tablets with 512GB of flash in the next 2-3 years is definitely possible; I could see a small niche market for a "world atlas" Android/iOS app that stored OSM data and indexes compressed, and read portions the compressed files into memory for the relevant map data.
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RemObjects C#
It seems like a poorly-chosen name. I like the idea of being able to get an indexes iterator, but I'd probably have named it `indexes()` rather than `keys()`, as the latter tends to be much more strongly associated with dictionaries.
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Just because the tech is complex doesn't mean the customer proposition or feature set should be.
> I apologize in advance if it takes a while for us to get back to you -- we interview everyone personally and are still ramping up the process.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7077493

You tend to ignore people, you're the same as a recruitment agency. I personally think these threads should be restricted to direct hires, not your skimming-the-top fodder.
I think he means that although he has a home and internet connection, he prefers to work from coffee shops, and for that reason, knows all the places that offer free wifi across the city.

Now, what this has to do with the article, or why he decides to work at a coffee shop, instead of a home office, I don't know.

This entire article makes no sense to me. So he left his job, and is now going to begin on a startup? That's worthy of news? No information on his startup, his plan, his goals, etc.

'I also know exactly how long my bank account will be greater than $0, unless I get funding.'

So, is he 1 week, or 1 decade from going broke? Why is he so obsessed with getting funding in the first place, and why does he say 'being a pre-funded entrepreneur SUCKS in a lot of ways'? I make a living off my recent startup, I have zero interest in funding, and enjoy my life.

Also, please stop using the term pre-funded entrepreneur. It sounds derogatory, and funding isn't a measure of success, or the end goal for everyone.