skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In java 1.8 there is a Map.getOrDefault(key, defaultValue) method which can be used to distinguish between null and not-found.
The biggest question for me remains unanswered, having been bitten pretty hard by an eBay scammer who claimed the camera I shipped "wasn't as advertised". How will they verify that an exchange has taken place, and how will they solve disputes?
I mean posts aren't numbered and the id of the post(s) that are being replied to aren't visible in the post itself.

4chan's "cryptic number" system is pretty much perfect. You click on the number and it expands inline to the comment itself. All the posts that replied to a given post are also added to the header of that post and clicking on those numbers inline-expands the comments. The best part is you can reply to several comments at once with just one comment - the thread isn't a tree, it's a directed acyclic graph. If three people give you roughly the same reply you can reply to all three posts at once. I find this a very good feature for discussions, where very often there are several micro-threads going on on a single sub-topic inside a thread, it allows to keep everything neatly organised and you can reference people to other posts easily just by number. It used to be more cubersome before the current built-in javascript extension, when posts didn't expand and you couldn't see replies to a post tacked as references on the post itself, but today it's really really good.

I urge you to try a more tame board, say /g/ (technology), and see for yourself how things work now. It's usually best around after 6-7 PM USA time (any coast), when the people who don't live to shitpost get home from work.

Edit: to be pedantically correct (the even better kind of correct), you can make a post that quotes a future post and with really good statistical modelling and some luck, you can arrange to post in the same thread with that exact number, forming a full cycle - a post that quotes a future post that quotes the first post. This was much easier early on. I think the highest achievement was one person who managed to pull it off across several different boards while roleplaying a time-traveler.
Internalized racism and sexism.
Hey - David from Fullstack Academy. Our students this semester decided to build something awesome around learning to code and March Madness and codersbracket.com is the result.

It's March Madness brackets but instead of picking teams, people can write code that will automatically generate their bracket for them. Our students have raised some money and are donating it all to code-learning organizations (CodeNow, Code.org, GirlsWhoCode).
I feel like this headline is terribly irresponsible. People with mental health issues suffer from a stigma associated with them, as well as denial of their suffering.

Going out with both guns blazing to say their condition does not exist - not that it's a symptom of a larger problem, or that it's a gross oversimplification of a number of unrelated diseases, but instead the crude headline "doesn't exist" - that only makes the situation worse.

There are many people out there who need stimulant medication to function properly in their lives for very good reasons. Yes, their attention deficit may be a symptom of a complex problem, but the fact is that it exists.

Unless you have a better idea how to treat it, I don't see what this kind of article accomplishes beyond making it harder for anyone to take the condition seriously.
the guy is clearly living in the past. 2008 ain't sexy anymore...
You dont know Asian culture then. Standing up to an Authority FigureIts is almost unheard of in Asia.
People get yelled at and lied to on a daily basis in Asia by everyone above their station and they take it up the ass like a little yellow troopers. Mianzi is more important than truth.
Can I access through a web browser? And from my Linux desktop?
> "It’s time to rethink our understanding of this condition, offer more thorough diagnostic work, and help people get the right treatment for attention deficit and hyperactivity."

What condition? Doesn't the title say this condition doesn't exist? This article is just trying to sell his book.

Besides the fact that qEEG has shown differences in activity in adults that identify with having ADHD.
Why the Singularity Could Be Great For Humans
Mangosteen is delicious, I'll give them that.
The USA bombed Yugoslavia to distract the world from Bill Clinton fooling around with an intern. Putin plays to win and if he doesn't get caught, what's a couple hundred airline passengers to him?
> you can hire and fire at your leisure

That's very US centric advice, in many countries you absolutely cannot fire someone "at your leisure".
Counter-argument: maybe by completely banning LINQ you're prematurely optimizing? If you can describe some query or aggregation with LINQ, it may not always be super-fast, but it's also less error-prone than hand-writing equivalent, faster code. It seems like it'd be better to allow the usage of LINQ, at least for the purposes of rapid prototyping and implementing behavioral/unit tests; once you're happy the system works as expected, you can hit it with a performance/memory profiler to identify specific parts of the code which need to be optimized.

Also, check out LinqOptimizer -- it analyzes your LINQ queries and can optimize them for better performance (and it's free!): https://github.com/nessos/LinqOptimizer
This is typically termed the "greater-fool theory".
You can access it via Office Online... go to onenote.com
His biggest issue is he didn't have a CD reader? A basic USB DVD reader is cheap and sometimes quite handy. To say you lost your documents implies a lack of effort. If they were THAT important, you would get them.

As far as proprietary in general, MS Office has done a pretty good job other than their Office 2003 XML stuff which had to be broken when they lost the patent ruling to i4i. Anyone looking at document longevity now can easily use their XML formats.
my guess is that it relied on a Windows API thats not available on mac. stuff like that might show up again at some point. i did love the audio recording function.
Evangelizing was basically the only path for Bitcoin-the-currency to become valuable, so that's a bit of an odd complaint ;-)
The absurdity of this kind of thought is just profound. Thinking like this may be useful as a means of encouraging hope when all hope is lost, but Bitcoin is nowhere near there yet. Most of all this kind of talk smacks of deep desperation - "why won't people love me?"

I understand fully why one might feel so desperate. Bitcoin may have the potential to be truly revolutionary. Bitcoin solves the problem of orchestrating an international currency in a manner that limits the implementation details to the design, not banking/payment industry/political types who historically - for one reason or another - end up building in significant rigidities to the system.

It doesn't take a PhD in Economics to see the potential benefits of eradicating PayPal and consumer banks (although it may take one to see the potential pitfalls). More than this though, Bitcoin opens the door to truly free capital flow. It is possible to work in the Western world for a month or two and move, say, far East, and live like a king on the savings for a year or more. Why can't we just buy the stuff over there cheaply and consume it at home? One major reason is the rigidities in capital flow - it is hard, risky business in the current system. As a large company in a Bitcoin world you don't have to worry about a great class of risks of international trade, dumping money into the Cambodian economy is no longer a question of FX risk and "can I get it back out?"

This is a great step forward on the way to homogenising international capital stores i.e. ceteris paribus, rich people buy where things are cheapest, like in Cambodia, thereby flowing capital to, and driving up prices in, Cambodia. Cambodians get richer and the West gets poorer. Bitcoin has the vague potential to be the great equalizer.

We have seen some evidence of this at work in the EU with the Euro, if you look past the troubling dynamics of transition. Imagine how very different the US would be if every state had a different currency and payment processing rules, the diversity in income would be profound.

An educated economist will see a great many problems with this utopian vision, but will likely agree the aim is noble and that the basis - Bitcoin - is the closest thing we have so far to a workable solution.

Bitcoin may be as revolutionary as the fanboys want it to be, even if they don't understand why. My personal thought is that Bitcoin will soon be seen as the thing that started it all, but the solution won't be Bitcoin itself. There are too many problems - no matter how many times you read that a fixed supply currency is the greatest thing since sliced bread, it really isn't. It's also woefully easy to steal and the mining/verification mechanism is far too resource intensive and encouraging of looney speculation making its value at any point in time completely impossible to reason about.

If you love BTC today, don't spout bullshit strings of meaningless words in some grandiose display of being ahead of the times. Make it stronger and better because if you don't history will judge this whole thing very severely in 10 years time, when it really is just a way of buying drugs and hitmen.
If I'm understanding the linked article correctly, she wasn't claiming holacracy guts management, she was claiming that it introduces a power vacuum. And from what I can tell in that pretty picture you provide, she's probably actually right.

E.g. who sets the "strategic direction" for the company? Who guides the unending governance meetings to decide who the managers will be that day? Who decides which spouses get to work on company property without pay, and which employees are allowed to date other employees?

The way those things get resolved will show you who's really in charge.
This is quite incredible. Maybe have a read through the various arguments you're having on this entire topic and see who's being defensive. If you really cared about performance you wouldn't use C#, you'd use C or C++. Anything where you could absolutely control every aspect of memory allocation, memory access, bounds checking, IO, etc.

I'm out of this thread, it's not adding to the discussion.
The "files" are really a folder/bundle with richtext and image files inside it. Why doesn't OP just extract the actual data from inside the bundle by right click > package contents
The Freescope Project - Open Source Radio Astronomy
But that's not what Holacracy pushes for. The organization is supposed to have people with power to decide certain stuff and be accountable for it. It's just not supposed to have a single hierarchy that ends in the CEO and which concentrates all power, but a bunch of "circles" that have role-specific powers.

http://holacracy.org/constitution

It seems that everyone is blaming the process without following it. Not that I claim that following it would have good results - I have no idea if it's a good system or not.
Ruggedized Android Tablets and Handhelds for SMBs
IOS 7 has weak random number generator.
If you say "we don't have office politics at our company" the reality is that you do have office politics and it's completely unrestrained due to the blind eye turned on it by "management".

If you notice that the cars you build tend to rust, and that water causes rust, you might say, "well, we're going to build cars that don't encounter water," and you'd be rightly laughed out of town. Office politics doesn't happen (or not) because the founders wrote it into their business plan. Office politics happens because offices are occupied by humans.
Ask HN: Does Spritz or Squirt.io cause hypnosis?
Has anyone noticed themselves going into a hypnotic state (or a state of trance) when using Spritz or Squirt for more than, say, 15 minutes?

I've been using the bookmarklet from http://squirt.io/ since it appeared here on HN. Before today I had just been using it for relatively short blog posts and slightly longer news articles, but today I started out on a quest to read the whole New King James Version of the Bible in about 15 days at 950 WPM. (To filter out any distraction from outside my home office, I did this with some lyric-less trance music playing through my headphones.)

Well, about 24 chapters in I was noticed I was un-ignorably hungry, (I skipped breakfast this morning,) so I paused the bookmarklet and set out to grab some lunch at Chipotle, which is about a 10 minute drive from our house. I can't adequately describe the feeling or experience, (I tried, but it ended up being long and crazy-sounding enough that I felt a bit self-conscious about it,) but having been hypnotized years ago I can definitely associated the overall experience with that of being hypnotized. (For folks who code, I'd describe it as being in the zone twice over. :-))

Has anyone else experienced the same thing after using Spritz or Squirt for longer reading sessions?
You're assuming that it's an efficient market. But irrational ideas can make a market inefficient. This presumably gets sorted out in the long run, but that takes time.

In software, one source of irrational ideas has been the management models that were developed for industrial and manufacturing organizations. Since building software is a design process, not a manufacturing one, these models don't apply. The industry is slowly figuring that out, but that has left plenty of room for an inefficient market in the meantime—middle managers being perceived as more valuable than programmers and all the rest.
> That cannot be fixed. Bitcoin requires thousands of times (or more) more computational power to do a single transaction than any centralized currency system I can think of.

Bitcoin's goal is not to allow financial transactions, it's goal is to allow financial transactions without having to trust a third party.

This is impossible in a centralized system, this is why Bitcoin is the most efficient system of making secure digital transactions without relying on a trusted third party.
http://www.theonion.com/video/time-announces-new-version-of-...
I thought this was all local stuff. At the top of my FOBO screen it says "FOBO SF." so my assumption is they just handle the payments and you deal with picking up your stuff. Am I wrong?
Just some feedback.
I like new shiny things so thought I would check it out. I think you need to take a look at asana (http://asana.com/) and decide if you're just trying to do the same thing they are doing. Because they are doing it REALLY well.
- I think the aesthetics are great, but for me personally there is just too much whitespace.
- The time for a jot to save is just too long.
- The fact the page refreshes on new jots is very distracting and in today's world of Angular/Ember/Backbone you shouldn't be refreshing pages.

Will definitely have another look should you do some updates, but really you have a lot of work to do to bring the app up to par with asana. Because I think that's your direct and already established competition.
> Whether or not you want the Fourth Amendment to apply outside

Now you have changed the subject. The original assertion was that it was "easier" for the NSA to collect bulk data outside of the USA. If the 4th amendment was the only factor then it might be so. My point was that the 4th is not the only factor.

For another example of this, how seriously would someone like Lavabit take a US court order to hand over keys and shut up if they were based in Reykjavík?
Terrible title. Especially since there are actually people who believe that the title is true in the literal sense. The fact that we can further subdivide something based on etiology or any other criteria doesn't mean that it does not exist.
The languages themselves are fine. The frameworks around them on mono are always half incomplete or not the latest version. Although I have noticed its getting better lately.

For example its easier to get started with F# with MVC on the Xamarin IDE then it is in VS. Hope it takes off.
Article authors often have no input on the how their piece is titled, so I would not be so quick to judge the journalist.
How do you begin to open a discussion on these topics with people who not only lack the necessary education to talk about them accurately, but already have a disdain for words like "feminism" and "privilege"?
Securitized mortgages were priced "accurately" to the extent that there was strong, almost inexhaustible, demand for assets with the right rating from paid ratings agencies. This had unpleasant consequences for many of us.

Markets will never magically produce the socially beneficial outcome. They efficiently allocate resources along lines imposed by incentives on market actors, and the resulting supply and demand. If the demand is insane, so are the market-allocated outcomes.

I didn't make the argument that our current structure is "the best" or that the status quo is perfect. Only that sufficient supply/demand for managers exists vis a vis engineering staff to drive management wages up.

In short: it's clear that managers are more highly-valued.
My suggested title/tldr: ADHD is a symptom, not a disease.

It's an interesting article, but that title is going to derail conversation.
this would be great, but I just tested it and it doesn't work with smart objects :(

if I didn't need the other adobe tools, I would just stick with Sketch, but they have me hung up in other areas.
Because a lot of the people talking about the Freescale engineers are themselves one kind of engineer or another, and THEY are important, so ergo the Freescale employees have to be important.

It's like in other disasters where lots of people get killed but the news focuses on the two Americans standing nearby.
My life depends on Notational Velocity. It's the fastest note taking system I've ever used. The killer feature is the ability to go from search to edit instantly. It's so good, that I'd consider buying a Mac only because of it. I recommend NValt, a more updated fork.
The book has the same title.
Exaggeration perhaps, but hardly desperation. The thing is Google and many of the Android device manufacturers really do thow shoddy goods out the door. not always, not every product, not every time, but embarrassingly often. Anyone remember the first generation Google TV boxes with unusable UIs in which vital controls would be completely hidden by other UI elements, rendering the whole thing essentially unusable? Even in the official unveiling demo they hit problems like that. Or the big push for Flash on Android in which, during the launch presentation, ever single attempt to run Flash lead to a crash and system lockup? Good times. Then there was the early nexus 7, with crippled flash memory drivers that led to chronic system performance degradation that they didn't fix for a whole year.

Of course eventually some issues like this get fixed. The first few products may be duds, but the 3rd or 4th iteration might be quite good, and the fifth might be fantastic. Of course that's where these companies want to get to. But meanwhile how many thousands of customers bought the first few versions? Who's standing up for them?

Sure Apple can bring out duds too, products that fail to take off, or have serious limitations. Some of the early Macbook Airs couldn't play full-screen video properly, but at least they could play video. When was the last time Apple brought out a product that was truly unfit for purpose?
Additionally, there's nothing inherent about open source that avoids this sort of problem. An open source project could decide on exactly the same sort of upgrade path, where they support current-minus-one versions and that's it.

In theory, open source is better because the old code is still out there and you can get it up and running to upgrade your data. In practice, it can be pretty tough to get open source code that hasn't been maintained in years to build and run properly on a current OS install.
> I would argue, though, that there's no value in this war of attrition. We have enough resources to give everyone a good life and autonomy over their work, and it's only getting better. Why do we set up these health-destroying tournaments of fools in the first place?

Didn't the tournament of fools get us to the place where we can feed everyone?

> If we need to pick leaders, it will happen naturally. If we don't, then why not have a looser arrangement where everyone has some autonomy?

I am reminded of the tyranny of structureless.

> some are very good people, if neurologically indistinguishable from murderers, because morality won't show up on an MRI

This is implying a large amount of certainty about neuroscience knowledge that we simply do not have.

> We have this fucked-up culture of "powering through" that malaise. When it's a hard biological issue (i.e. an infection or cancer or mental illness) it refuses to play by our rules. It's not going to go away by "downshifting" at work or when we get that reward for being the last one standing. It's imminently dangerous. But, in our culture of "power through it and get the prize", most people don't get the help they need until it's too late.

I can agree here: our culture does a terrible job of helping people become emotionally adjusted individuals. I do really hate the phrase "hard biological issue" when used to describe mental illness though. It seems so defeatist, like telling someone they will never be a pro athlete or something. Even if it is true, my reaction will be the same: to continue trying.
> Coder's Bracket is the product of an internal open-source project at Fullstack Academy.

so, is there source available?

Regardless, very cool concept and execution.
That's the title of the guy's book.
Yes, it has all stopped.
First glimpse of big bang ripples from universe's birth
Amusingly, with Hangouts down, Skype video chats have become unusable. Time to move to Jitsi[1]?

[1] https://jitsi.org/
Unless you're running in a container: fabiokung.com/2014/03/13/memory-inside-linux-containers/
not a public API, right? Is there any other site which uses bop.fm ?
Agreed - However, I'm still weary of the internal OneNote Format - I haven't poked around, but last time I checked, it was a big binary undocumented blob basically - so the lack of a proper structured export is somewhat worrisome.

The UI looks great though - if only office for mac proper could follow with the same quality, it would be great.
>If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn’t have done it.

Doesn't the obligation to the shareholders and investors to make as much return on the investment trump any values the founders may have?

In other words, doesn't the business have to be showing that it's doing the right thing to their investors? Where the right thing means getting NINETEEN Billion dollars.

Edits: Another way of wording my question would be: Could they really have actually said "no" to them, and gotten away with it?
These aren't pet theories but an excellent starting point for a discussion.

I would have expected a community of smart individuals to sincerely examine these accusations, even if they are not the whole story behind this current scandal, because we could only benefit from such a discussion.

That this article has been flagged by several people only demonstrates a great level of immaturity and that we, as an industry, more than deserve scorn. We can certainly not claim to be open minded and thoughtful after this.
How to fix Bitcoin
But that's always been the case. They don't understand the root cause or have a definitive test for the symptoms (except recent qEEG tests).
Well, that explains a lot! I'm embarrassed I never got past that.
You are right, it is not true of all proprietary software. There is no problem with software upgrades, not even with frequent software upgrades. Problem is when the software requires regular document upgrades. This requirement can not be met in real life, if you produce few documents a month.
I prefer nano, as it reminds me to keep the files short.