skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The old adage "Haskellers doesn't know how it feels to shot themselves in the foot because they are walking around with a bleeding flesh wound in their feet" fits aptly. The problem upper bounds tries to solve just does not exist in other languages because packagers are expected not to break backwards compatibility. I can almost without exception run the same apps I developed for Django 1.0 (csrf protection introduced in 1.2 caused backwards incompatible changes but that was an exception) almost ten years ago with current software versions.

In fact, if any of the packages demanded an upper bound it would suck because I don't want to use a legacy Django web server containing tons of exploits which no one is ever going to fix because it's not maintained anymore.
I'd say the bigger threats to Scala in terms of adoption are potentially Kotlin (and the strong JetBrains tooling that will inevitably come with it), typed Clojure, and Haskell.

Otherwise, Java 8 is not a game changer for the simple fact that the enterprise moves at a snail's pace in terms of adoption. Teams with the flexibility to switch from pre-Java 8 to Java 8 will likely also have the freedom to choose an alternate JVM language, or perhaps even Haskell if they're not tied to the JVM.
Two 43 USD notes and for the remaining change some chocolate ;)
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I'm afraid you're wrong about this. Excel generates and parses "0 as a zero byte. The RFC doesn't discuss how CSV files work in the real world. This is exactly what I was talking about in my comment above.
>Also, the peninsula cities are required by law to sprawl at low density

Why is that? To protect people's vacation homes on the beach?
Spaces are valid in fields, even at the start or end. Furthermore you cannot start quoting in the middle of a field, which is why this doesn't work. For unquoted fields you can put as many spaces as you like after the separator, but they become part of the field, then.
I think this has something to do with Spotify acquiring Echonest; I believe Echonest powered Last.fm's recommendation and radio functionality.
looks like that fastly and cloudfront pricing is not that much different, they apply pretty much the same prices for traffic and requests in each of their zones.

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/
https://www.fastly.com/pricing
5th Avenue in NYC is a lot smaller than San Francisco, though. There are also a great number of apartments within commutable distances of 5th Ave. I have never been to SF, but my knowledge of American culture leads me to believe that there must be a Walmart somewhere in SF.

Where do the people working in that Walmart live?
I have that exact trimmer. It plucks almost as many hairs as it cuts. I keep meaning to write a sardonic review of it but never get around to it.
Mt. Gox creditors want to force Karpeles to testify in the US
I +1 that, the tooling of Scala is comparable to what is available to Python and Ruby developers, given that building a proper IDE for such language is not a simple task, but right now Scala IDE (eclipse-based) and Intellij IDEA's support is more than satisfying to me.
>Taken to its limits, it is not known that information-theoretic death ever occurs. Physical information is not known to be destroyed, except by the controversial black hole information paradox; and as such, resuscitation is not specifically ruled out by the laws of physics, unless information critical to that resuscitation passes beyond the event horizon of a black hole.

what it is saying is that any physical system can be reversed (except when event horizon involved). The guy who wrote it seems to miss understanding of increasing entropy enabled by expanding Universe. Or in other words - good luck gathering back the butter spread on a hot bagel.
Actually, the Founding Fathers were pretty big on anonymous free speech. Remember the Federalist Papers.
An alternative for Android's Play Store. App deployment not only for B2B
They usually release new tablets around I/O.
To know myself,know my heart
Here's a story from 2004 about a school IT tech who installed SETI@home on the school machines. The increased electricity bill caused some consternation and he lost his job.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20041010/2225204.shtml

I imagine that mining crypto currency without permission is due for a high profile court case.
My FIDE rating is slightly above 1900. I think that with 2 bishops I'll beat Magnus Carlsen easily, simply because I could sacrify one bishop for some attack and still be ahead in terms of material. But with only one bishop ahead at the start of the game, I doubt it will be enough.
There is RFC 4180, which is probably the best formal description of the format we have.

My own CSV parsers (I have written a few by now) usually parse that as if the space before (or after) the quote wasn't there. It's nonetheless something to avoid when writing CSV files (Postel's law, etc.).
I could see it being used for protein folding, but I don't think cryptocurrency mining is an application. By running your app, I'm consuming extra electricity for which I would have to pay. How would you compensate me for that?
Trying to get someone fired because you disagree with their political stance is both intolerant and bigoted. It is political oppression.
why be a programmer when you can make the same at a dead end job?

But all I ever read around here on gushing webpages are smugsters talking about how they can't believe they get paid for doing it and how they're doing what they love. :)
I get how this could be useful for things, like checking the inside of a steak.

But my only concern is that I've cooked my whole life without worrying about temperature. I have now learned how something "cooked" looks, and how long it should take. So if I were to get a temperature reading I'd have no knowledge of what the correct result should be.

I guess what I'm saying is that it seems like I'd need to retrain my whole cooking experience, which doesn't seem like it would be worth it.
Because they don't pay the energy costs on other people's phones.
They could just integrate http://codecha.org/. "Codecha: Prove you're human through your code."
I read a hell of a lot, and I really enjoy walking around charity shops to buy "random" paperbacks (about 50p each, or 15 for £5)

I didn't want a kindle for the longest time, because the process of browsing and choosing books was part of the fun, along with the smell and feel of paper.

That said I've bought one, and acquired a lot of material, and I've grown to like it an awful lot more than I ever expected I would.

Currently I'm planning a holiday to Helsinki, and I know that I'll be taking it with me because it is so very small, and contains a whole bunch of material. But I'll hate myself a little for it.
I'd say it lasted just long enough. 1933-45 was enough time for a generation of schoolchildren to have grown up knowing nothing else.

Also, you must remember that living in the Weimar Republic was pure hardship for many people. So there's a large part of the populace for whom "the movement" was the first time they had been on track for a better future. (Sounds horrible from our perspective, but remember that we have the benefit of hindsight.)
Ask HN: Any Hearthstone fans want to help/contribute?
Hi HN!

My name is Jimmy and I've been building a site called Hearthstone Players www.hearthstoneplayers.com (started last May).

We've got decent content and it's been buzzing along, picked up decent traffic now that the game's out and making enough to cover my student loan payments and server costs.

I'd like to bring it to the next level, improving SEO and maybe a database. (For SEO, aiming for #1 result 'hearthstone deck list'. Right now I'm about 4-6, competing against a reddit thread and Curse Gaming Network's Hearthpwn).

If anyone's interested in working together or contributing (or wants to know more), give me a shout at jimmy at hearthstoneplayers.com

Cheers!
How does one become a better product designer?
The aoropress is great, but I do find the price of the paper pretty annoying.

I've now switched to one of the many metal-filters, which makes me happier.
Flowplayer Drive — Video hosting and publishing
Didn't this idea start with SETI@home in the 90's ?
I wonder how viable doing this openly would be as a free-to-play business model? Being upfront with the user: "we're not going to show you any ads and you won't have to pay anything for extra content, but we'll be using a tiny proportion of your CPU time to mine cryptocurrency to pay for the development costs of this app."
I worked in M&A in the valley for years. A 6 year old app with tiny revenue. You'd be lucky to get 1x the net. Unless you have some sort of IP that's patented or patentable, what would an buyer be purchasing that would justify such a multiple? Your user list is worthless, unless they are purchasers. I recommend you automate whatever you can an keep it or hire some hungry Cal student to keep it up relevant and get a job and put the cash into another app or into the market.
"Production environment" is a very relative and subjective notion. We used Scala on the server-side for basically real-time bidding, with the servers receiving several thousands of requests per second per server instance, with a total of about 30,000 reqs per sec of real traffic coming in, to which we had to reply in a maximum of 100ms which included the network roundtrip. Without Scala, without the ease with which I could juggle with concurrency issues and asynchronous processing of streams, I couldn't have pulled it off. So in other words, Java is unfit for a production environment from my perspective.

> one of the biggest is IntelliJ's capability as Java IDE

That's a pretty shallow reason if you ask me, because the speed of writing code is not the point and IntelliJ IDEA 13 is also very, very good for Scala development.

> I just dislike Scala's monstrosity. I have high hopes for Kotlin

Well, there's your problem. You thought that Scala is something that it isn't, like a "better Java". If you approached it like that, without delving in its FP capabilities that Java 8, Kotlin, Ceylon, Groovy cannot match (or whatever "better Java" is the fad du jour), then of course it was a bad experience.

Next time you'll have some time to burn, start here: http://www.manning.com/bjarnason/
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Yeah I reverted from an Android to a Nokia 301. A week of batter life in my usage, although the specs claim a month or something silly like that.

But these days it probably doesn't matter what phone I use, as I leave the thing at home as often as I take it with me. Now I'm no longer on-call, via SMS, I just don't need the distraction.
You mean "Former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe"? ;)
The morse code is just 'beep boop beep boop'.
This hasn't been true since IBM keyboards became popular. For example, on older keyboards shift+number would simply toggle a bit, so shift+2 would be a double quote, etc., but this hasn't been common for decades now. Unfortunately.
It was done secretly in the recent past, and apparently while it lasted (weeks, i think?) it brought in something like $6k. It helps that most gamers have fairly powerful graphics cards.

If you mapped bitcoins mined to microtransaction currency (for in-game rewards) most players would love it.
I've seen some statistics (not sure about their validity) stating that around 10% of the population are gay/bisexual, so if this were the case then having 7% more males than females wouldn't necessarily be a problem.
I think you'd find this site useful: http://contactually.com

Side note: I had this same idea years ago and launched a prototype but never got enough traction. Then Contactually came along and took the market by storm. Just goes to show you that it's all about the execution and not only the idea, so kudos to them.
The network is chemical, not electrical, so why would a freeze/thaw change anything? (unless it actually did have some chemical reaction, which hopefully wont happen).
I have seen fist hand someone who had drowned, no pulse, being brought back with CPR. It happened to be ice cold glacial melt kayaking in the Alps that they had drowned in. Not 4 hours, but a significant amount of time without a pulse and breathing. Apparently he was OK afterwards.
First time I've seen this TLD, and I kind of like it for this purpose.
I just stick an isDeleted column on my tables. It does mean I have to remember to do a `where !isDeleted` on all my main queries, but apart from that the cost of undoing is incredibly cheap.
The question is: who on earth cares about the demographics of a conference? You go there to get information, so why should you care about who the people sitting in the hall are, especially given the fact that you won't see them ever again?
Social Media Analytics – It's A Never Ending Marathon [Infographic]
> Actually, you are countering his personal experience with your own.

Kind of the point. Just because one developer finds KDE or Gnome or x better doesn't make it a universal fact.

Many of us find Gnome suits us just fine.

> He could be like a lot of developers, lots and lots of documentation pages pointing to API info whilst they code :-)

Most documentation pages are searchable and well organized. No need to keep hundreds of open pages.
Ask YC (YC S14) Applicants: What is the size of your team?
I'm considering applying as a single founder, and I was wondering whether there are any other applicants that are applying as solo-founders?

Also, do you know of people that have successfully applied as single founders (does this requirement change if the founder is filling out the non-profit application)?
For a F2P app, the cost of doing this is basically 0 and the revenue will continue to increase as long as the app keeps getting popular. Doesn't matter if the revenue is small, it's still more revenue from your F2P app.
The set of integers is the first infinity in ZF. Maybe you could reason a bit about integers without building a model of them, but you wouldn't have a set theory and you wouldn't have access to algebra.
Unix = LF Mac = CR DOS = CRLF

Please add to that list also

HTTP = CRLF

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html

However, I still have to see I single webserver that does not accept LF alone instead of CRLF.
I'm a Spanish living in UK and I love using UK keyboards for the same reason: the layout is way better for programming!
> simply compute all of this information directly rather than inefficiently via the API platform and firehose

I'm not sure to understand what you mean here. By directly, I guess you mean by crawling the web ? You're right about the fact that it would give access to more data, but, as Klout measure is people-centric, a social graph API is a more straightforward data source. Associating web pages to unique identity of persons is a challenge of its own.

> Klout were never going to gain the level of access the needed to the graphs on the various networks they utilized

Given their scale, access to twitter graph data should not have been a problem (they have enough users not to be bothered by the API's rate limits). Other social networks are much more trickier indeed.

Full disclosure: I'm co-founding an social media analytics tool providing more granular view of the interest graphs, using twitter as a data source.
Unless 10% of females are also gay/bisexual, then it all cancels out. Also, gender disparities could affect the gay/bisexual communities just as much as the straight community.
If any Gnome developers are reading this - please disregard the bullshit (of course constructive criticism isn't bullshit) - you guys are doing an awesome job, and I wouldn't trade Gnome for any desktop environment out there. Period. Yes, including OSX. I think this will finally have me upgrade my 'buntu.
I have a feeling that the "grand-scale effect" you speak of is overrated. Any sufficiently big organization will be fragmented into groups that hardly talk to each other. At that point, if you want code that's usable by several groups, you must publish it as if it were Open Source (and have it compete with actual Open Source code). That is so much effort that most simply won't do it. It may not be even worth the trouble since the different groups are probably working on different software anyway.

While it makes sense to follow some unified standard as a team, it makes much less sense across teams. With few exceptions, there is no "grand scale".
The blog itself basically says that the answer to the question is a rather obvious No.
Why are you telling HN this and not handling it yourself? I love to hear about how the Ops and Eng guys can run the company better but can't seem to find a date. A good sales guy is worth 100 ops/eng. I'm not even a sales guy... My advice: grow an pair. You're either in or you're out. If you're in, be in. Support your guy and knock out the work your team needs. If you're out, have a heart to heart talk with the CEO and walk. Sitting on the fence only makes your ass bleed...
The wikipedia link is strong support for the idea that stop signs are universally red. Every pictured sign, from Argentina to Zimbabwe, is at the very least framed in red, and most are considerably redder than that. The text notes "The white legend/red field appearance is usually the same [from country to country]".

The imgur link shows an unexplained green sign. Any thoughts as to why it's green?
Absolutely, in addition to independent artists and bands found on Bandcamp & Co. it's also very easy to buy DRM-free lossless music by signed and more popular artists. Boomkat, Qobuz, HDTracks, you name it. These days I really can't complain about quality music buying and streaming options.

With movies and TV on the other hand, you're right as well. It's a mess - even more so as a non-american. Even independent creators are doing it wrong: Tried buying the movie/documentary Teenage the other day - no download/buy option, instead screening in a handful of US cities. Good luck getting my money with that approach.

However there are also good examples like Computer Chess or Sleepwalk With Me, which let you buy a DRM-free download.
Not sure if this is what you're referring to, but this was done last year in secret by ESEA, a US gaming league (primarily Counter-Strike) [1].

They claim the value was almost USD$4,000 over about two weeks, although we don't really know how many users were affected and for how long. This doesn't seem like an extraordinary amount, though, especially if we're talking about using mobile phones instead of high-end gaming PCs.

[1] http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/05/01/esea-accidentally-release-...
Scala support in IntelliJ is superb. I maintain legacy Java code and newer Scala code in IntelliJ and the Scala plugin is excellent.
I currently have several hundred tabs open in more than a dozen Firefox windows.

This is not a typical use case. I do periodically see people leaving comments which claim that they usually have the entire World Wide Web open simultaneously, but not often enough for it to be a use case worth optimizing for.
Fame From a Game: 5 Game Developers Dealing With Overnight Success
It would be neat to have some kind of public display that shows two scrolling lists. One is a real time list of births in the US. The other, a real time list of US deaths.

The birth and death rates are low enough that most of the time both lists would be changing slow enough that you could easily keep up reading them, but high enough that you could see movement and see that the birth list is growing faster.

The death list would probably be the most interesting, as it would be less steady. You'd occasionally see blocks of deaths all in the same location as accidents and disasters happen.
Sergey Brins Stanford University Profile.
Maybe using OCAML as a base for F# was a smart move. It seems C# and F# will be more different than Java and Scala. Yet F# is not different enough to justify the move in many cases.
Losing Interest
They want your business for the long term, not just to turn a quick buck.
That is cancellation then, not undo.
Well, I always see it this way: With Amazon you never pay for the actual hardware, because that would be a rip-off. You pay for the service of not having to "throw out old machines", you pay for being able to start a machine with one click, you pay for the services around (S3, Dynamo, ELB, Route 53 etc.) and ultimately, you pay for not having to care about 80% of infrastructure problems.
Men who respect the government. A government that for a "Higher Cause" acts by interpreting through confidential orders who a criminal is.
Oddly, I've been using the same keyboard since about the same time. Would have to agree that it's a nice keyboard for the price.
It is sad nobody mentions book The Humane Interface by Jeff Raskin.

Raskin would say, that this is not a question of red or green. It is a question of habit. If user deletes enough items, you will train him to press "Yes" button and not to think about the question. It will be his habit. Uninterruptible sequence.

Anybody deleted his important files just because he is "trained" to press sequence F8 - Enter in his favourite file manager?

Raskin recommends to provide undo. User content is sacred and should not be lost. You can also try to randomize the dialog. User will stop the sequence and think what he is doing. But if user performs the delete operation often, he will be greatly annoyed.

Read it. It is a great book with many valuable gems. http://amzn.com/0201379376
Bletchley Park code-breaker Jerry Roberts dies, aged 93
Probably the most notable answer to your second question of successful single founder applications is Drew Houston with Dropbox.
Who exactly is claiming neuronal activity forms the basis of self-hood? Sure, this might mean long-term memory doesn't need continuous neuronal activity to maintain, but I don't know anyone that thought so in the first place.
Look up OneTab, it improved my quality of browsing the web x100+
I accidentally setup EC2's in another Region (and effectively "forgot" about them. Woke up with a 1.2k invoice + $250 more in charges for March.

Amazon voided all charges without question.
Their level of customer support is off the charts. But AWS would never be my first pick to start up something. Your costs will be way way lower when going dedicated. Obviously you should be able to scale, but I think startups generally overestimate their success when it comes to that, and wasting a lot of money for things they have no use for yet.

You could have your AWS deployment strategies ready for when the need would arise..
The First 15 Seconds
No it's pretty solid, from the ground up stance. Those who values independence and control over their life are much happier with this setup rather than going too quickly to barely catch up or even fall.
I think there is nothing wrong with your observation as long as you remain kind to people around you. Meanwhile you can be figuring up way how make your ideas happen.
I wonder how did he calculate the days he still has to live.
Feynman and Computation
neat, thanks for sharing
This is beautiful. Totally love it.
Seems silly to pick an dev environment when you haven't built a proof of concept. Build that in the something to can rapid prototype and then refine the process. Software construction is about refining the application into something useful... Code purists will tell you some BS about this framework or that one, but all the crap that is out there today will be gone in 3 years and something else will be en vogue. Get the app up, test the crap out of it and then see if anyone wants to use it... if so, tear it apart and rebuild it... eBay was built on isapi.dll calls and that was a POS and it ran like that for 15 years... Build, test, refine... That's what a coder does. Build
A customisable compression utility dedicated to short inputs (C/Rust)
Careful.. The New Jersey DA is trying to go after an MIT student for simply exploring the freemium mining concept at a hackathon. He got MIT and the EFF to back him, but there are probably others looking to make an example out of someone.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/12/new-jersey-slaps-mit-bitco...