skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you are wondering I emailed about 30 people and 8 reviewed our application. Most did cursory reviews and offered some changes and a few paragraphs of advice while others really got into helping us - it was quite the gift.
Kind of like a tire on ice, huh?
Samsung's electronics division does almost $200 billion/year. Foxconn does $120 billion. Hitachi is also about $120 billion. HP is about $110 billion. Amazon is $75 billion. Intel is $50 billion. Need I go on?
This was, by far the best cost/benefit watch that I found latelly:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004VR9HP2/ref=oh_details_o...

Also, Swatch have some very nice ones, with a VERY good price.
We've using 8 in production for some time, as we slowly migrate things to it. We didn't want to start new projects without using Java 8 language features as it's such a dramatic change.

It has been feature frozen for a long time and even the pre-release builds have had a lot more testing and stabilisation than other software that people don't think twice about using.

There is of course a risk adopting new technology early, it depends what kind of things you are building/running.
> There's an enormous difference between prohibiting individual use of a dangerous drug, and allowing somebody to manufacture and sell a dangerous drug for profit.

No there isn't, if it's acceptable to consume, it's acceptable to sell; you can't allow one without the other and claim any sort of logic behind it, it's simply stupid.

> Profiting off of human suffering

And once again confusing use with abuse. Drug users are not suffering.
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I've been using JDK8 for a while, but no Nashorn on Android keeps me on Rhino. Which is unfortunate. Rhino's a pain.
Whoah! What insurance company is that?!
Crimean accelerator packing its bags as region moves to embrace Russian ideals
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OP may be referring to the trend toward larger watches for men. I blame Panerai.
Yes, but it's possible they can be switched off (I don't know). But even if they can't, the oxygen supply is only enough for an emergency descent. Again, I don't know the exact numbers, but the time until the oxygen is depleted is surely measured in minutes, not hours.
It's also sometimes said that Asher Elderman was the inspiration, from his takeover of Datapoint:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint#Edelman_takeover
iPhone 1, the one without appstore and 3G destroyed everything? :) I would say a phone like e90 or P1i let you do much more than the iPhone allowed you to, it was barely smart in any way.

I don't understand why people like to rewrite history. At the behinning the fight wasn't at all decided.
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I was going to reply with exactly the same thing, and I'd add slf4j.
Lots of things in the library have multiple ways of doing things. Eg File, NIO.
Generally if you use the new class you're in for a nicer time.

I agree about the regex literals. JavaScript does it right.
I guess I work in a different universe where people behave themselves better.

If anyone talking to anybody in private front of a group of people is a potentially salacious event, the level of paranoia and tension in that place is out of control. At one point, all of my direct reports were women -- if they felt anxious to have a private conversation with me in my office or stairwell, that's a huge problem, and I couldn't have been effective at my job.
That is only for Android (Kindle) apps afaik
Yes, that's obviously what I said.
> And it sacrifices type safety

Groovy is optionally typed, you can have as much safety as you wish.

> and performance to do so

If you use static types, you can use @CompileStatic to get most of the performance back.
I looked at the pix, I looked at the junk on my desk and compared my deskware and wrist vs the pix, and assuming I have a male model physique, that watch is a bit bigger than a sigg water bottle but a cm or so smaller than my large coffee (tea) cup. Its huge.

So... yeah, strap a couple pound weight to your arm, and until you bulk up, there's going to be some sagging by the end of the day.
Given the philosophy leo outlines, I'd guess he's going for something slimmer. This is 3k vs react's 29k. I am curious to know how it's achieving the same thing in so much less code, or rather, what react can do that mithril can't.
Ironically, procedurally generated levels was a big thing in the early 90s. Castle of the Winds, Rogue, Nethack, and more were 100% dynamically generated.

Truly dynamic agents existed in Rollercoaster Tycoon, where every single person that walked into your theme park would have Nausia ratings, money, and make individual decisions at every point in the game. G-force was measured on every ride, and would effect different people in different ways. The amount of vomit in front of rides would disgust people in differing amounts. Etc. etc.

True AIs, agent theory and dynamic games were the norm in the mid-to-late 90s. But this approach to gaming isn't what people want. The truth of the matter, is that what makes money are these pre-scripted game-movies that sorta-kinda look photorealistic.

In fact, true-AIs have been implemented in games by probably every game development team. When AIs fear for their own life and run away from players (instead of standing and fighting), players tend to get bored. When AIs become so good at the game that they crush the player, players become frustrated and quit.

Believe it or not, few people are willing to put up with realistic and dynamic challenges. There are no game guides, no assistance, no "help menu" when a game is created dynamically. It is hard to share experiences with friends, because everyone is sort-of playing a different game.
1.5.12 is the latest devel branch and 1.4.7 is the latest release branch (released in response to this CVE and excepted from the vuln range). The patch works for any of the intervening versions.

As far as I'm aware, all the major distros backport nginx stable release
Or maybe "mac"
Or something really classy:

http://www.eterna.ch/de/1948/1948-date
I really hope so. They should work with a partner like Steam or Google Checkout to make it easy to do IAPs in the browser.
The US doesn't have an official local language. Some states do. For example, Hawaiian is an official language of Hawaii.

Also, several states are de facto bilingual.

And then there's South Africa, with 11 official languages.

So I don't think your views are really all that generally applicable.
You really don't have an option if you're on a macbook - the keyboard rests a good sixish inches behind the front of the machine.
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Dogecoin is interesting. On one hand, it's all an elaborate joke and everyone involved knows it. On the other hand, it's got a higher transaction volume than its 'serious' cousin Bitcoin, and people occasionally use it to transfer significant amounts of money (e.g. here, and the Jamaican Bobsled Team).

The biggest problem a currency has to overcome is the network effect. It's damned hard to bootstrap a currency, to get people to start -- and continue -- to use it instead of some other currency. With conventional currencies, that's typically done by governments requiring taxes to be paid in it. This has the effect of basically guaranteeing that everyone also receives their income in it as well and makes it difficult for another currency to sneak in. Taxes basically anchor the national economy onto the national currency.

With crypto-currencies, that's not an option since there's no government to levy taxes. But Bitcoin did something similar through vices: the Silk Road and Satoshi Dice got people using Bitcoin and money into the economy because they wanted to use it for drug trafficking and gambling. Because both of those sites only accepted Bitcoin, and they're either illegal or highly restricted in the normal economy, they acted as an anchor to convince people to adopt Bitcoin and move money into and out of its economy. Once bootstrapped, it's now being used for other, more legitimate, purposes.

Dogecoin is bootstrapping itself in a different way, through indiscriminate tipping and charity. It's using this kind of frivolous spending as a way of getting its transaction volume up and bootstrapping exchanges between Dogecoin and Bitcoin and USD. I could see it moving up to micro-transactions of some kind -- something small, perhaps still a joke of some kind, but for transactions (i.e, receiving something in return) rather than donation. Who knows, maybe one day we all woke up, and without realizing it Dogecoin has gone from a joke, to a joke people use for real stuff around the edges, to a real currency with a joke around the edges?
Interesting option indeed, it even has an AIR version.
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Good catches. One point,

"because they can be used to describe how quantities change over (continuous) time"

I would argue that time series problems are common throughout data science. Uber's prediction of arrival time, Kaggle flight time prediction, etc.
That has the weirdest mobile detection code I have seen. Is is bad code, or is this the best that can be done:

window.mobilecheck = function() {
var check = false;
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return check; }
var isMobile = mobilecheck();

Scroll right to see the code...
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I agree with mostly everything you said. The point I was making re:exxon is that you would merely have to convince rational actors of your side (which I agree is not easy if the company isn't floundering). If you get one major player on board, then it will be easier to get the next etc.
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Haha, I know what you mean. :)
The reason Apple laptops are so popular is hardly that they are a status symbol and more the fact that they're so damn comfortable to use. I agree about other Apple products, however.
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Could you elaborate on this? I thought that JSR-310 and Jodatime were supposed to be nearly identical. Why would they introduce such a regression?
The difference between "X Testcases" and "Y Free Writes" per month is a bit confusing, but I think I understand what you mean.

My main concern would be that managing test failures (is it a real bug,
or is the test just fragile to minor app changes) would be just as much
work as having the tests in-house. Probably more work, since I can't
just look at the code. Your reporting/logs would have to be excellent
and very detailed.
The 'mainline' branch of nginx which supports spdy/3 is not considered unstable and can be used in production.

Source: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,221377,221390#msg-221390
How do you prove you haven't gone out of your way if you start seeing that person after finding out that your germ cells were carrying the patented material?
Hi Eric, we are currently serving San Francisco but we're planning to roll out to the South Bay soon. If you email me at david at zesty dot com, I can put you on our list of pilot companies down there.
I find it hilarious that someone actually took the time to point out this incredibly inane detail.
>I'm pretty sure the screen is fake

It says that the screen is simulated at 0:23.
"Those who buy and use its products are primarily concerned with advertising the fact that they use Apple products - conspicuous consumption."

Yeah, you're going to need at least some form of evidence for that claim.

Needless to say, I disagree that that's the reason I use a Mac.
I think that it wouldn't be a problem with a plastic laptop, so specifying that it was a MBP makes sense. "Aluminum laptop" might have sufficed, as well, but that sounds a little weird.
"A watch that expensive is purely status-indicating jewelry."

For those of a certain extreme old age, say, over 30, one problem is not wearing a watch has been a display of wealth for some decades now. The signal is, "I don't wear a watch anymore, I pay an expensive cellphone contract instead". Last time I wore a watch was during the Clinton presidency.

For elders like me, wearing a watch would indicate I'm too poor to have a phone.
How does every racist joke start?

(Pause)

looks over both shoulders
I don't disagree with you. :)
Does ReadyBoost improve performance for slower PCs? By how much?
No. Asking people to speak English only is racist.

Edit: here are some links from Wales:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13080586
Is it just me, or it is a bit hypocritical for Mozilla to be talking about the wonders of the Open Web and then embracing two very proprietary developer platforms to promote Asm.js

There is no contradiction here, on the contrary (heh!). Mozilla doesn't believe an Open Web precludes proprietary applications. In fact they've strongly argued that the web should be properly standardized so that it's possible for anyone, including commercial parties, to make clients for it, and that just opening up source code (ala WebKit, PNaCl, etc) does not do this hence is a bad way to achieve an open web.

The point has also already been made that this makes it possible for Unity games to run on open platforms without requiring closed source blobs.

they would be helping open source game engines

Uh, emscripten and asm.js have been enhanced to properly port many open source engines and game libraries long before this one was announced. I'm going to guess Unity was possible because they provided engineering resources to port their own engine.
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I am fairly certain that one of the factors is whether or not you are signed into a Google account.
How about Tissot? (I'm by no means really understand about swiss watches, just curious)
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I think that's a really good point to make with wearable computing in general.

And assuming power/computing requirements are able to satisfy the technical demands in 5-10 years, I can imagine small breakouts in eye-wear, wristwatches, and if I look a bit farther (10-20 years), I can imagine it breaking out to the clothing market.

But I'd have to say I'm more intrigued into how traditionally ephemeral everyday situations will be cataloged and increasingly available for everyone else to see, where the battles will arise, where the new opportunities will lie, and what social systems will be shaken up.
Sadly that is not true. The right-wing party, that will most likely win the upcoming elections, will never approve an amendment to change this through parliament. The judge that reverted the supreme court decision if fully aware of this and it was a political decision on his side.
I agree C# from pure language point of view had a better road map and unlike Java which was sort of kind of run by committee did not need colossal consensus from disparate groups for new language features.

JVM vs CLR its a different story - I am hearing Microsoft in negotiation with Xamarin to buy/invest, that may make Mono get feature/implementation parity with CLR. Till then JVM is the only thing close to platform agnostic environment in town.
Filing in the holes is nice, but without actually making it a design choice java embodies TMTOWTDI more than perl ever did.

For many common tasks there are 5 or 6 different standard library calls that seem to do the same thing, but 4 of them are to be avoided at all cost, but there's no depreciation tag and the official javadocs don't contain any pointers to the newer classes.
This was very well deserved. Leslie has been one of my heroes ever since I came across his work while trying to write a functional lock manager for NFS. It was clear and very approachable.
> Would you want to be operated on by a doctor with the pay and social status of an average programmer?

I don't care about the social status of my medical providers, I care about their competence.

The last few times I've been to a clinic, I've been seen by nurse practitioners instead of MDs. They've been very capable, and noticeably less expensive than an MD visit. Lots of the rules around medical practice are nothing more than the AMA acting as a guild system to artificially restrict supply and inflate salaries.
I've always wondered, given all the issues presented in this article and the expertise required to solve them does $50-$60 dollars properly pay the teams working on these games? Not even just engineers, there are artists and even actors capturing motion of characters and authors writing up scripts it doesn't seem like $60 would cover everyone involved in creating a video game.
Maybe we should go back to scrolls. In the future, users will simply feed their Draft scroll into their printer, like how punch-tapes were fed into the mainframes of old.
Knight's Tour
Simple Knihtt`s Tour Game. Just play.
I choose Apple because I want good hardware with a *nix operating system. End of story. Show me an alternative, and you'll pique my interest. In the meantime, you should keep your ridiculous comments about conspicuous consumption to yourself.
We were deforming the world in Populous in 1989 ... and people drowned.
An extremely popular man was fired two days earlier (for either sexual harassment or an affair or both). Tensions in the department were crazy high that week. It was not a normal situation. That was a factor in my decision to not speak with him at that time.
Before you panic: "The problem affects nginx 1.3.15 - 1.5.11, compiled with the
ngx_http_spdy_module module (which is not compiled by default) and
without --with-debug configure option, if the "spdy" option of the
"listen" directive is used in a configuration file."
It doesn't work like an analog stick, though, it works like a d-pad. It just maps to up, up-left, left, down-left, etc of the d-pad, like in any other DS game played on the 3DS.
As with most newspaper articles that have government officials providing material input, what isn't said is usually more important that what is. (That's true in any context, not just NSA -- read stories about your local Mayor and road projects with a critical eye too)

The article states nothing at all about retention.
Maybe he doesn't like the noise it makes...
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> Many of the best developers I know have a creative desire and just writing code for 10 hours a day doesn't satiate it.

To paraphrase, many of the best X (X being developers, managers, accountants, salesmen etc.) have a creative desire and just doing their job for 10 hours a day doesn't satiate it. That's why they indulge in create activities in their free time.
I'm wondering if they've been considered. Other names that come to mind:

Linus Torvalds

Richard Stallman

Guido van Rossum

Simon Peyton Jones

Andy Tanenbaum

John Resig

Tim Berners-Lee

Satoshi Nakamoto
You're too smart for your own good. Prepare for extermination.
Cloudera raises $160 million to fuel growth in big data
On the surface, I agree - but in my case, it's a behavior specific to that particular device.

I wear/wore a watch while typing on my chromebook, my Dell laptop, my Lenovo laptop, my old white macbook, and various external keyboards, but when I type on my macbook pro, the watch comes off almost immediately.

The watch clasp grating on the wide aluminum bezel quickly drives me to remove the watch.
I tend to think of it as imaginary property.
Is that the only factor that matters (whether it was premeditated)? The ultimate effect is still that KS doesn't get a cut.
Java 8 made our in-house ASR engine %5-10 faster. Free performance is always welcome.
I'm seeing parallels between Unity and Flash (circa 2000). In a few years, we'll have the "Unity is dead, use <insert some other shiny technology> arguments popping up all over HN
> a first name I've never seen before

You mean you just see if the first name is not already represented in BCC's user database? Under what conditions are your users required to give you their first name? For the trial or just for the purchase?
> It really doesn't take much, even a few hundred people running low-power ASICs will do just fine.

That won't work - it will enable easy fraud since anyone with a moderate amount of computing power can fake the block chain.

You need a lot of computing power - but without large rewards people won't be willing to do it.

I don't expect any crypto currency to survive unchanged past the no-more-coins date. Instead I expect the date to be extended to forever.
Not saying whether it's a good method or not, but it's the standard detection script from http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/
Either you're a troll or you're delusional. Which is it?

>Apple is more a fashion company than a tech company.

Not even remotely accurate for possible definitions of either of those terms.

>Those who buy and use its products are primarily concerned with advertising the fact that they use Apple products - conspicuous consumption.

Oh really? You don't think it has anything to do with their excellent track record of hardware design, software design, reliability and usability?

>It's no different from how Gucci or Prada owners make sure to prominently display the brand of their handbag when they are in public.

Yes, because Dell and HP laptops are completely devoid of physical branding...

>It's a simple form of signaling your identity, that you belong to a particular group.

Or it's because Apple products let productive people be productive.
Everything is priority 1.
Maybe worth a look for you: https://github.com/orfjackal/retrolambda
Yes, https://blog.blockchain.com/2014/03/17/current-service-outag...
WaPo: NSA records every phone call in one unnamed country
Actually the problem is quite a bit simpler. You only have to simulate the observable universe, not the part that is outside our light cone, which is probably most of it. And the observable part makes it simpler still. You dont need to simulate planets more than a few hundred light years away, because they are not observable. It gives you time to upgrade your hardware before the next round of astronomical satellites goes up.