skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because God knows, Java needs another logging framework. Seriously does ANYONE get any additional value out of the morass of crappy logging systems out there over and above System.out.println? Log4J is PARTICULARLY brain-damaged, with its refrain of "ooh, someone put a log4j.xml in their JAR (one of hundreds), that beats your log4j.properties.". Or SL4Js amazing performance of "1.6 doesn't work with Scala because of ambiguous varargs". Or who can forget the incredible log4j logfile appender with the global lock around the file I/O? Not to mention the interactions between SLF4J and org.whatever-it-is-this-week.Jetty's built-in crappy logging facade.

Really, NEVER has so much effort been spent for SO LITTLE REWARD.
And even after using Kickstarter for promotion, they're milking the story for more promotion (how we used kickstarter, oh, btw, we have this cool product).

And I see they're still using the Kickstarter branded video. Is that hosted by Kickstarter too? Even if they made the video, they should revert to an unbranded (or self-branded) video in what is obviously a promotional article.

I agree with drakaal's comment below [1] that Kickstarter is going to need to protect themselves against such exploitation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7424133
Statement by Bitstamp regarding recent third party audit report
I mean, the stock ticker card is depressing, but that's the fault of my stock picks...
> lots of over-objectizing everything

This. This is what I think of when I think of Java.
I hope you realize how absurd you sound.
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The solution to the double pendulum system is streaming, not animated - Everyone sees the same pendulum position at the same time. Try opening 2 browser tabs to see this.
It doesnt recommends using time and date without time zone, it recommends using the right class for the right job. And sometimes the right class doesnt include a timezone

Suppose you have a webpage asking users for their birth date. What data type do you store that value in? Hint: You aren't going to prompt the user for the time zone they were born in.
Neat. Is there any chance to see it during the Recursion event? I'm planning to visit Berlin :)
Massachusetts issues warning about Bitcoin, reviewing legality of ATM
How to return back home?
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I understood "only" to mean "most representative" as it made the most sense to me in this context (example: "she loved him as only a mother would").

But let's play by your set of rules. What would be something nobody but a coder would wear?

Bonus question. If "clothing is signalling", what does a typical coder's outfit say about their ability to come up with non copy-paste solutions?

Double bonus question. What do you think of black coders, who are even less common than female coders? Do you presume they are at a tech event to play basketball? Would you advise them to come in white face so they could provide the right "signalling"?

Also, let's get the numbers straight. Women comprise about 30% of computing workforce, a far cry from 5% that you made up to justify sexist stereotyping: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing#Statistics_i...).
One possible reason is fragmentation: Apple have a small number of ranges with persistent names, whereas their competitors have a lot of models and constantly invent new names for them. Even if everyone name-dropped their kit with equal frequency, a given Apple model would be mentioned far more frequently than any single model from another manufacturer.
I find the notion of different kinds of workplace privacy an incredibly perceptive observation on Michele's part; I think the glass walls theory would solve a lot of problems by removing environments where bad behavior is enabled due to lack of observation.
A telepresence robot that go to mtgs for me? Shut up and take my money
They thought they could improve on Joda Time while at it. It's java.util.logging all over again (sadly).
Why would fixing that issue cause the price to go up? There was still the same amount of coins created.

Also - they apparently fixed it by making the block reward fixed. http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/03/13/dogecoin-forks-aga...
Can I ask why you own that? It sounds incredibly inconvenient. Are notifications on your wrist really worth all those downsides?
They support "parts" of java7, but not everything.
I'm not sure if this is relevant to you (since it sounds like you're looking for a job, rather than starting a business), but I thought I should mention the Canada's new Startup Visa [0]

[0] http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLIsh/immigrate/business/start-up/ind...
Etymology of `Endianness`
It's enough to make it interesting, but there could be a much more interesting diplomatic scandal depending on which country is targeted. Imagine if it's not Yemen or Iran, but Canada or Switzerland?
Optical illusion: does anyone else see the guy's sleeve move left/right when the page is scrolled up/down?

I am using an iPad4, and scrolling the part of the page with the second video showing the guy's wrist with a checkered cuff. (The video is not playing, just how it shows on page initially).
I'm pretty sure Ellen's selfie tweet cost Samsung more than $11,000.
> I'm scared by the idea that I could one day have a neural implant with closed source code running on some insecure network all because the people of this time were too dumb to realize how software could affect them.

It's a reasonable concern. People have already been injured and killed by software errors, both open and closed, so this is definitely on the table as a reasonable issue.

> Perhaps we should have laws that guarantee some form of open-ness but allow closed source code to exist on some sort of semi-to-fully-anonymous fully-encrypted secondary communications network?

My view is that we should let people sort this out without government involvement. Right now there are open-source companies and closed-source companies, and people get to vote with their feet. If closed-source causes problems or is more expensive or whatever, people can choose the alternative. Same with open-source.

There are any number of cases where government involvement turned out to be counterproductive, and I think this might be one of them. Remember that government can't just bust in and start issuing orders, they have to be invited by the voters. And sometimes, if things go wrong, they get voted out again.

Freedom of speech -- clearly a government issue. Open-source versus closed-source software -- sorry, how this is a government issue doesn't immediately occur to me.
It's unlikely that it is his real name because (1) the name does not appear outside of Bitcoin in any mailing list or forum and (2) bitcoin.org was purchased with anonymity in mind
After having read the HN headline I had an impression of someone hiring someone else to carry a bucket of water around during dates...
Its really, really not that bad.

I used to get mad about unwanted e-mails too. I used to keep a separate e-mail to sign up for websites because of all the crap they sent me.

Turns out, its actually really fucking easy to get around this. I just went through my recent unread e-mails and hit the unsubscribe button. At most it takes 5 seconds per list.

Now I use my real e-mail for my real sites and I only get e-mails that I want.

This "Stare at a wall for 2 minutes for every person who you had the balls to send an e-mail to" reeks of the kind of whiny first-world entitlement that I'm beginning to associate with the color orange.
Either way, it completely divides our team and that is not right.
Watch the Android Wear video, it uses Google's voice input to transcribe messages.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
> Also, is this the first mass-market device with a round screen?

Haha, that takes "responsive" to a whole new level.
I love this comment, but it's not the whole story. Mark Zuckerberg made his billions because he built his own company. Musicians do not necessarily need to do this (although it helps them avoid getting screwed), why does Ozzy Osbourne make bank working for other people? Because his value is readily identifiable. You can see his ticket and album sales and TV ratings right in front of you. Everyone can watch his act and evaluate it.

The problem for programmers are that their talent is extremely difficult to evaluate. The best programmers will build a system that avoided so many problems which management will never even have a clue could have happened. Meanwhile, a "rock star" might come in and bang out a prototype that looks so slick and is complete in such a short time that management thinks he is god's gift to programming even if under the hood the code is unintelligible and unmaintainable; when phase two modifications are a disaster, the blame could fall to the new programmer who is objectively much better but is saddled with a terrible technical debt that no one knew about.

It's a classic market for lemons. So management is constantly worried that they have lemons. Giving space for creativity would be much more of a possibility if it was easier to identify the programmers who deserved it.
They added support for try-with-resources in KitKat, maybe they will continue to add support for new Java features in newer versions?
the spooks are merely taking a liking to how politicians operate their political campaigns. Nothing secret is beyond a court order or, a friend in the right place.
Because more of the mined coins are now going to believers in the currency, rather than mercenary miners immediately selling it for Bitcoin.
Wow. He's delusional to no end.
Less Buddhist-specific: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/meditation-does-it-...
Good points, but as for restricted controls, Google is trying to emphasise voice control and context-aware notifications.
I have wondered about this with the whole damn thing, on those days when I am wearing my extra thick tinfoil hat.

Think about it from the Dr Strangelove cold war perspective that a doomsday device would only be an effective deterrent if everyone knew about it.

Perhaps they have put all the cables in, but really do not have the resources to back up or process 99% of it.

This is not that much of a problem for them if they leak a load of powerpoint slides claiming that they do, as the result is an instant global version of Benway's panopticon, with people behaving as though they are surveilled, even when they are not.

Perhaps Snowden never stopped working for the NSA.

Then I remember that tinfoil hats were invented by the government to help focus radio waves onto the brain http://web.archive.org/web/20100708230258/http://people.csai... and I decide to go and watch cartoons.

On reflection, there is probably such a thing as reading too much Robert Anton Wilson.
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That post reminds me of a farm field: so many straw men.
I appreciate you perfecting it with accusing me of being illogical after constructing all of them. Your post does not deserve a detailed reply.
Well, for starters, it's round, which is a big thing (round LCDs are hard to pull off). Secondly, it runs Android Wear, not whatever custom baked thing was running on the MotoActv watch. Thirdly, it does completely different things. The MotoActv watch was a fitness watch. It's meant to track your runs, etc. This is a smartwatch. It's meant to connect to your phone and give you relevant information. Completely different use cases.
What do you mean? It _is_ an airship. Just a big one.
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I just notice that Apple often finds themselves in court, suing someone (usually a company) for trying to steal one of their (corporate) secrets. And Google is often in court, defending themselves against someone (or a group) suing them for trying to steal their (personal) secrets.

It might all be more balanced in reality, it's just an impression from online articles.
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I agree, it is a proof that content >> presentation, but there's no doubt a better interface and graphics wouldn't benefit DF greatly -- it currently has a huge cost barrier before the fun part, which most people just aren't willing to try and break.
What is best practice when it comes to Java GUIs?

Would you recommend Java for building cross-platform desktop apps with near native UI performance?

The IntelliJ IDE looks great but most Java desktop apps I've come across just look and feel weird. Not sure why there is such a big difference.
JVM is fast these days, indeed. I was playing with Solr lately and was shocked with its speed... Also saw a comparison of HTTP servers lately and the fastest one was written in Java, I think.
If everyone was like Icahn, we'd already be through a few revolutions. He likes to engineer market events just ask Apple. Like this article said, he does this to the detriment of everyone around and destroys value. Marc creates value and companies and Icahn from what I have seen previous and here, likes to create money for himself out of destroying that value. When the world says don't, he says Icahn.
Um, Hyppocratic Oath? All of them, of course.

But you should strongly encourage the parents to get them vaccinated...
Can I ask how long you've been working on it before releasing? Your github only shows it was pushed two days ago.
Android doesn't use Java 8, I believe it's mostly still on Java 6.
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What? Did I miss some context here? Was this meant as sarcasm or were you serious?

If you don't want to do it fine but calling it insane seems a little overboard. People have hobbies. They do them outside of work. Some one might work on websites at work but have a hobby of making 3d graphics programs at home, or arduino projects, or games, or whatever.

Sure if you don't personally find it fun then don't do it but I guess I read into your message you couldn't see how people could do side projects at home. How are those any different than any other hobbies?

My grandfather was chief of maintenance at some factory meaning he worked with tools all day long fixing machines. He'd then come home and use more tools to make things. It doesn't seem that out of the ordinary.
yes, that's the magic of it! You can run code dynamically from other languages.
"Programming, like writing, painting, and music, is chiefly a creative endeavor not a technical one. "

Yeah, like writers, painters and musicians aren't also crazy...
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Nest has a round screen, and it came out over 2 years ago.
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The Mobile Safari 'minimal-ui' property has landed... and it's awesome!
Nashorn is going to get faster with time. It is not a browser engine so don't try to compare it directly with V8 etc.
I said "exaggerating" because there are very few jobs where people can work in a small conference room and can chat for two hours straight while working, and not have that affect their work quality.

I did not mean to imply that all she did was watch TV. I'm saying that your example wasn't enough be meaningful to others not in your circumstances.

Billions of people around the world somehow manage to work in multi-lingual, multi-cultural environments, so requiring a mono-lingual work environment can't intrinsically and always be the best solution.

Based in what you've said, you don't even want your co-workers to spend 5% of their time speaking a non-English language, for concern they will be talking shit about you during that time.

If you've never worked in a place with few other English speakers, then I can see how that would especially bother you. I mostly ignore the Spanish, German or Arabic I hear, but then again I also grew up in a multilingual neighborhood of the US.

The key part when you talk to HR is the "working in a vacuum" aspect, and not specifically the language. Otherwise it's much easier to say that you're the one who's culturally intolerant.
Well said.

I agree the language comes after the object, not the other way around. And speaking the same language is important.

I'm actually an architect and it does seem a bit routine for me to hammer out design specs nowadays.
The framework is completely free and MIT-licensed, so I suspect that a literal interpretation of your comment is absolutely correct.
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I think you're being far too pessimistic.

First, build the infrastructure to support amazing things. (Asm.JS, WebGL, WebRTC)

Second, encourage people to spend real money developing for it, however they want to. (Unity 5)

Third, the open source competitors come around. (???)
Dogecoin is only semi-inflationary by accident, so it's not exactly an example of sound economic thinking. There are several altcoins that are aiming to be explicitly inflationary but this also eliminates the incentive for early adopters to hype them to the moon.

Proof of stake has been proposed as an efficient alternative to mining but it's not clear whether it will work.
You're way off. The minimum recommended/default transaction fee is .0001 btc. This can change in the future, it is all about what the miners choose to accept, transaction fees are not fixed.

For fun I sent a transaction of about .3 btc with a fee of .0.00005 btc. It was confirmed in about a day - or so I thought, because on blockchain.info it says +9 minutes so I don't know if that is the confirmation time or not.

The transaction in question - https://blockchain.info/tx/7e2bfff207e5fb6a02890024e790c921e...
A better light weight alternate is Netbeans 8 that also just got released and has full Java 8 support in addition to many many other features: https://netbeans.org/community/releases/80/
Amen Brother Amen!
I would say that C#'s language evolution is too closely tied with the terrible frameworks as well as legacy they have to support.
Differential equations basically are environmental science. I happen to work more in econometrics now, but things like population/ecology, environmental/pollution/waste engineering, and environmental chemistry research are chock full of papers and projects driven by differential equations.
Most of my friends aren't tech people, and most of them own iPhones because they like the way they look and feel. One of them just swapped to a Nokia because she liked the colour. Phones are jewellery for a lot of people, they're all roughly functionally equivalent anyway. Why not smartwatches?
The data is an impression collection, I make no doubt about that. The years attached to the video are just inaccurate. That seems like sloppy work after all the great work was done.

Moreover, as pointed out in another post, this is from a piece of software called CENTENNIA Historical Atlas: http://www.clockwk.com/ Which I would be getting right now, if it had a Linux version.

The reason I complain about the years and the maps not matching is that they are doing a disservice to the people who have collected all this data.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRGKhnn-SWw << Looking at this video, I get a sense of how impressive the data collecting is. Awesome I say. Much more interesting than the timelapse video.
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I’ll say it once. Multi. Line. Flex. Box.
JavaFX is now a default platform (supported by Oracle) for developing desktop apps. It replaced the clumsy Swing and is showing a lot of promise. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/javaf...
The idea that all companies need to have a $1b+ exit seems like an idea that exists in San Francisco and not in the real world.
good thing you didn't really bet. /lol
I can't presume to understand Carl Icahn (as you admitted as well) but IMHO, this is untrue and can lead fellow HNers into an echo chamber.

First, Wall Street's role in capital markets towers over Silicon Valley. Venture Capital Assets Under Management is approximately $200 billion. Blackrock, the world's largest fund, has $4.3 trillion AUM.

Second, while I believe pmarca acted entirely in good faith and is legally in the clear, there is enough "there" to begin fighting a proxy war. For example, the (tech) market was more forgiving when Dan Loeb fought Yahoo because it got the outcome we wanted (Marissa joining, Yahoo focusing).

Let's not conflate what is arguably an ill-advised but legally legitimate proxy war with a misdirected turf war between finance and tech. As a point of reference, I'm a tech co-founder (who poorly codes) and a former investment banker.
Maybe prepend them with "an-" or something?

Yes, this is actually the recommended practice from the documentation. Built-in Angular directives are typically prefixed with `ng-`, and they suggest that other projects/developers use their own prefixes to avoid conflict.
I know. In the tech field my macbook is embarrassingly generic.

It feels weird to know that it cost more than many people's cars, but if you work in the privileged person startup bubble it's a weak shibboleth, not a luxury item that draws attention.
But then those coins are sold on an exchange for bitcoins, then the exchange sells them back to believers. They end up in believer's hands anyways.
The cost of mining (mainly electricity) will trend towards zero. In the future mining will run on solar power.

The larger cost is the ecological toll underlying the production of the hardware.
This sort of reaction is surprising to me. Java has been a useable, performant language for some time now. The tooling is excellent, the JVM is astonishingly good, and it will run circles around Python, no less Perl. I don't think many of the arguments against Java are based on how it works once you've written it, but rather to the horrendous verbosity, class-explosion-as-a-design-pattern, painfulness to read (not debug with an IDE, which is easy, but to actually read Java code), and so on. I'm not a Java developer by trade, but I'm surprised that other people are surprised by Java being high-performing, and the JVM being a good platform. I mean, Clojure Scala and Groovy all run on the JVM, and we talk about them all the time!
The "perfectly valid" assumption is also definitely invalid, even within the U.S. A few counterexamples in NYC: "Broadway," "The Bowery," "Avenue of the Americas." Boston has "The Fenway." Many rural addresses are in the style of "300 State Route 20."
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C'mon, this is not about knowing some algorithm by heart. He clearly describes the specifications and gives a test case. With that information you should be able to "troubleshoot/design/architect/solve" a solution to his problem even if you've never seen it before.

This is a fizzbuzz, someone posted a quite sparse C++ solution in 75 LOC above. C++ ! That would be half in python, less than one laptop screens height.
s/could/does
No, it's not like this. Smartphone has distance sensor, but I am not really convinced that the distance sensor would work in this case too.
No disrespect to Sam in any way -- he truly seems like a brilliant guy with a chorus of influential people behind him -- but I've been on a successful-person wikipedia binge as of late, and it's become very, very clear that a person's upbringing almost determines whether or not they're going to be successfull, which saddens me. I grew up to some very close-minded parents who severely limited my growth, forced me to fulfill their every wish, I couldn't get into a top school, and yet I've always held onto a bit of hope that maybe one day I'll be as great or as brilliant or intelligent as Sam et al. But that hope is quickly vanishing the more and more I read about these individuals' backgrounds. Successful parents (who were likely encouraging, supportive, and open-minded), great schools, achievements at early ages, etc, all seem to be a common thread, and trying to kickstart things again past your formative years seems futile. I don't mean to rant or derail the topic, and apologies if I do.
They in this case happens to be the original author of Joda Time.
Very cool, I'm looking into this. Thanks!