skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often considered it, but this was over a decade and a half ago, and I don't recall enough details to make a good story out of it.
Buy a $3000 Mac computer so you can write software in a language that doesn't work anywhere else (and for a good reason)? Sure, where do I sign up :D
Amazon to take stake in Yodel from Barclay brothers
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How's this different from the online storage services which encrypt already data on the user computer before sending it out? And Meteor is not even a web services platform... So, nice hype talk but I still have no idea what it's all about (...open Google and...).
Actually I do stand corrected.. cause Amazon DID post a profit, after several quarters of almost no profit or straight-up losses (for the holiday season).

Also this crap about revenue before taxes, interests - etc (your EBITDA) is just that, crap. It's unreliable because a company can decide what is (and what is not) included in the calculation. Of course, this means that a company can change (and many do) this "measure" from reporting period to reporting period. Remember the Dot-Com bust? Companies that had no value, or any chance of value, looked great on paper due to the EBITDA.

EBITDA does not represent a company's cash. More like it's cash flow that it has to service debt (and as I already said, that calculation can be manipulated by the company). It was designed for this purpose in the 80's - the leverage buy-out decade.

// END of rant

EBITDA doesn't measure profit. Or the ability to earn profit. And frankly, it's a cop-out to state to prove a company's value.
There was a testing revolution over a decade ago. Then came Moose (2007ish?). You have syntax extensions now. And so on.

See e.g.

http://search.cpan.org/~mauke/Keyword-Simple-0.02/lib/Keywor...

http://search.cpan.org/~mauke/Function-Parameters-1.0401/lib...

What seems to happen the coming years in Perl 5 (unless the Python language trolls manages to discredit it enough to kill it :-) ) is probably gelling around language [syntax] extensions and Moose going to the Perl core.

But it will still keep backwards compatibility.

(And I write horrible Perl code most days myself, as one line liners. :-) Best damn shell functionality on this planet imho, along with Emacs command line editing.)
What harm would it do, exactly? Is there any objective evidence that the NSA has predicted anything or prevented anything?

As I understand it, they didn't know the Russians were planning to take Crimea, they didn't have actionable information on the Boston Marathon bombers despite explicit warnings from Russia and Germany, they didn't have a clue about the embassy attack in Benghazi.

Yet, they assert that spying massively on all Americans makes us safer. I remain wholly unconvinced and deeply skeptical.
kinda interesting, but I couldn't get the proximity to update. On my screen, I couldn't tell the difference between the start color, and the color I entered, but still showed 0% proximity.
this is not about data, this is about the transacting of physical goods over the internet. I am not sure you understand a) what the OP is suggesting or b) what you are saying.
Not able to figure out what to do. It should be simpler, Kindly put a note or some sort of information about what to do , don't put a link because I think there are more chances that the user will go away rather than playing with it.
thats probably intended. A mash of thorium and strontium maybe..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
I really don't get the amount of hate and derision the European Union is always getting from US commentators. Culturally and geographically, for example Finland and Greece do not have much in common - yet Finland is willing to help them out, despite the "NO BAILOUT" clause explicitly implemented in the construction of the eurozone.

Meanwhile the USA has neighboring countries like Mexico or Cuba with huge problems like drug wars or lack of democratic elections (Cuba only) and which are poorer GDP/capita wise than countries like Poland, which were practically communist colonies of Russia until 1990! Sorry but it seems to me that the European Union is much more beneficial to the European continent than the USA for the American continent.
Air travel is ruled by irrational fears more than by FAA rules. I can absolutely see how a metal case that looks like a pipe bomb on x-ray is going to cause some interesting conversations at the security gates.
Reviews could be to the marketplace as exchanges are to Bitcoin: intentionally not part of the architecture.
Physics is predictable
I didn't mean to compare Amazon to Box. I mentioned Amazon to point out another tech company that is a darling of Wall Street - despite unprofitability (generally).
As Nikola Tesla said:

"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search.. I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor."
Windows XP was an extremely successful product. I have great respect for Microsoft for supporting it for 12 years. That's a great example of "long term support".
With a higher unemployement rate than the US had at the peak of the Great Depression, I'd question your version of "a lot".
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The satellite was also moving (south or north), and the measured redshift/blueshift could be used to determine if the plane was north or south of the satellite.
$TRS shares soar 900% after Dotcom’s Mega flags $210m backdoor listing on NZX
Second this. I left my job 7 months ago intending to start a startup. I stared at the computer screen and just couldn't type. Instead I've just taken the year off to spend time with my kids and homeschool my son for the year while my wife went back to work.
You'll probably want to start around here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Especially if you say, "No, it's fine, it's a Trontium Reactor".
Going to a top uni and the debt that entails is also often needed for entry level jobs at tier1 tech employers as well.
Yes, the guy is very clever at putting down things that he didn't really like. The phrase "damning with faint praise" comes to mind, but upon reflection it doesn't really apply in this case. He's really damning it with criticism badly disguised as praise.

Yes, I know that he says that he is negative and his praise comes across badly (he gives an example of him damning his blogging software). I suggest, if he is being sincere, that the problem is his attitude. If he isn't being sincere, then I'd say that he's not as clever as he thinks he is, or he just never had any passion for Java and so he actually hates it as he never mastered it.

In terms of boilerplate code, I'd love to see his exact examples. With annotations, I've found that plenty of Java code is actually not verbose at all. If he churned out thousands of classes when actually he could have reduced the number of classes to 50, then that's an example of poor management and poor workmanship, certainly not a problem with the language.

Here's the real issue: the article conflates a corporate environment that likes to measure productivity in klocs (or from the number of classes you create) with the tool that is being used. He even admits that he could have actually produced better code, just that nobody cared to correct him when he produced crap quality code.

However, when it comes down to it, the real phrase that comes to mind is:

YHBT. YHL. HAND.

The guy is trolling you all.

(Different languages have different failure modes. With Perl, the project might fail because you designed and implemented a pile of shit, but there is a clever workaround for any problem, so you might be able to keep it going long enough to hand it off to someone else, and then when it fails it will be their fault, not yours. With Haskell someone probably should have been fired in the first month for choosing to do it in Haskell.)

The languages he praises so highly are now put down. Correction: in each case, he's dissing the programmers who wrote the crappy code and caused the project to fail, and he's damning the terrible management that didn't have good enough leadership and oversight to prevent the project failure.
The LEDs seem a bit excessive, and for $299... well. Good luck though, hope it goes well!
This feels like a diversionary tactic to me, a way to lull the general public while allowing the real bulk data collection to continue unhindered.

The only truly meaningful action the President can take would be to suspend all operations of the NSA for an indefinite time and furlough the staff, while a thorough review is conducted and a public debate is held as to how much intrusion should be tolerated.
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Qplay and the battle for our living room.
But you love Java for its exceptions.
Second homeopathy isn't dangerous

People who believe in it choose it over medicine that might actually work. If you've got a cold (and you're not in precarious health), no harm done.

Otherwise, here's a list (including deaths) that actual medicine could have done something about ; http://whatstheharm.net/homeopathy.html
Given the solutions that people have posted on here which have demonstrable problems, I think it's a pretty good question as an opener. And as someone said already, it gives you a lot of scope for drilling down into the nitty-gritty.
Yes.. but its just a lot of heavy lithium batteries stuffed in a metal casing.. with a power draining LED to boot? Also, like nakedrobot2 say elsewhere, why only USB?
But when it comes to the differences between all those Linux distributions,

That's a fair point. However, most often, I am more interested in accommodating the 99.8% of the population that uses Windows, OS X, or one of the major Linux distributions, than the tiny group that runs Sabayon and is able to get things compiled themselves if necessary.
No in industrys the big players tend to set the going rate for pay increases. HR use surveys of wages to set compensation quanta and if all the big players he suppressed wages this will effect the surveys and hence every one's compensation.
> The problem is that Scheme and C were both trying to solve the 'decent high-level language' problem, but since C came out first, fewer people cared about Scheme when it eventually came out. In the mean time they'd moved on to tackling the 'null pointer dereference in C problem', the 'buffer overflow in C' problem, the 'unterminated strings in C' problem, and so on. Even though Scheme doesn't have these problems, it also doesn't solve them "in C", so it was too difficult to switch to.

C is quite odd in that the programmer is expected to pay dearly for their mistakes, rather than be protected from them. BTW it wouldn't be as much fun if they were protected.

Regarding Scheme, it has withstood the test of nearly forty years very well.
The hipster rage is string in this thread.
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Good for color lover. I input the correct combination but timer is not stopping.
All I can hear in my head was "Stand Back!! I am doing science" :P ref xkcd
>People used to have maps

At one point, earlier, people didn't even have paper maps, so why stop there?

You're conflating helplessness with convenience. Yes, people used to do things the hard way. Now we get to do them the easy way.
That's odd with today's technology we should be able to record hours of voice on to an a usb stick.

Granted that is a lot more fragile then a plane black box but still. There should be a way to record a lot more then 120 minutes.
The fact the website's team page is essentially devoid of information is worrying. I'm not a hardware guy so I have no idea about this sort of thing, but how hard is battery design? Is it wise to trust $thousands worth of Macbook/camera/etc to a battery designed by a group of anonymous people behind a Kickstarter campaign? If any of the people involved is an experienced and qualified electrical engineer, they really need to be shouting about it.
I have tried exact color codes using Inspect element, but still there is nothing...
Who Needs a Boss?
A super useful one is for styling an element that's next to a checked checkbox.

:checked + label { background-color: green; }

http://jsbin.com/witaziwu/1/edit?html,css,output Small demo if you want to mess around with it.
I don't get the fanciness.

Thorium reactors are a dead-end, as European research found out. They had stopped all work years ago. There were major accidents with this type of reactors and one even happened at the same time as the Chernobyl disaster: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernkraftwerk_THTR-300#St.C3.B6...

For some reasons some countries don't want to learn from history.

Edit: English language links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor#Thorium_high...
Recline, don’t ‘Lean In’ (Why I hate Sheryl Sandberg)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/02/25/recline-dont-lean-in-why-i-hate-sheryl-sandberg/
The best thing the author ever wrote was the proof the avocado has an extra-terrestrial origin: http://www.plover.com/misc/avocado
I think they will have to reconsider retiring support, they will probably see that not many users crowd for Win 8, by that time it would had been too late. Many businesses along with XP may use some other services from Microsoft.
In theory at least, wage should reflect responsibility and liability within the company. If you go over those of the CEO, you see why they make so much more money. They should be held accountable for the wealth of the entire company.

As far as lawyers are concerned, their wages just reflect the fact that they (should) have been trained as A-list negotiators, and it is common practice for lawyers to have a fee based on a percentage of the deal they negotiated.

There is a corollary for programmers for the above: start-ups. Though not trained negotiators, skill and work ethic can get you far enough. And it is common practice to receive a percentage of the reward.

The grass always looks greener on the other side.
you may have answered your own question.
This is a cool idea, but can someone explain why this requires the following Twitter permissions?

- Update your profile.

- Post Tweets for you.

- Access your direct messages.

In general I'm at loss why so many apps require so many permissions. They must lose a ton of customers from this. Anyone care to explain? Is it just a spam app meant to create a botnet or what?
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A Coursera course started yesterday about web app architecture. Its six weeks long and uses Rails. It could be a good introduction into how web apps work.

https://www.coursera.org/course/webapplications
> on the assumption that anything that actually generates an exception would actually be the kind of thing you'd not want to recover from

In that case it does exactly the wrong thing, by declaring checked exceptions in the method signature, which client code will be forced to deal with.

If you don't even understand how checked exceptions are supposed to work then no wonder you are hurting yourself on the language.
How would turning the pinger off for a month help? It just means that the search operation stops for a whole month while they wait for the pings to resume. I don't understand how your proposed idea would benefit a rescue operation.
A CEO of a big company like Apple or Microsoft delivers way more than 100x value of entry level eployees. A 10% improvement at the CEO position would be hugely valuable.
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The kerning in that video looks as if the creators dragged and dropped the letters on there one by one.
Seems interesting, have signed for Beta invite.
Nope suppressing the high end changes the entire distribution - this is basic Technician Level Statistics.

Its imposing a positive skew to the salary distribution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skewness
Does that mean that existing updates won't work anymore? Or just there will be no more patches?
In an efficient market, those two are equivalent.

EDIT:
Let's consider that "supply and demand" has artificially increased the price of programmers above their value. It's now a losing proposition for a company to continue to employ a programmer as the company is losing money, so the demand goes down and with it the price.

Conversely let's consider that the price of a programmer is artificially lower than his value. Any new company can come along and pay a bit more (but still less than actual value, for now!) and attract the best programming talent. Other companies must keep up in order to keep the talent, so the price returns to the actual value to the company.
The should include a camera in the device as well - just to record reactions when people take it out of their bag at airport security checks.

The only way I can see they could have made it look more threatening would be to write "Atomic Bomb" in large letters down the side and have a large LED display counting down to zero in 15 seconds or so.

Edit: The perfect add-on for your reactor: http://www.instructables.com/id/Crazy-Countdown-Timer/
Turns out that a lot of lawyers start off making 30K a year.
Its kind of stupid really.

In my past maintenance programming jobs, I would say it took 6 months to get up to speed. I would put less than two months of that down to new languages. Most of it is getting to know the code that is already written (and usually poorly documented) and some of it is gaining domain knowledge.
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Screwdrivers, silverware, coffeemakers... (can you tell I'm looking around the room?)

Whenever there are no individual participants large enough or enough participants colluding to cause regulatory capture.

The US isn't interested in healthy markets anymore.
Why doesn't Apple just ship with standard GNU utils?

They are the de facto standard. Having the need to compile all these basic stuff for any scripting to be portable is a nightmare.
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I always find it amusing when links provided by "nay sayers" present contrary evidence or no evidence at all.

From the link:
The nuclear power plant THTR-300 ( thorium high-temperature reactor) was a helium-cooled high-temperature reactor of the type pebble bed reactor in North Rhine-Westphalia Hamm with an electrical output of 300 megawatts . Despite its designation as a thorium reactor , it was essentially a normal on uranium fission ( 235 U) based reactor: While there was his nuclear fuel to 90 per cent of thorium, but this was holds less than 30 percent of its energy. Because of its high cost and because of his unsatisfactory, short operation he is widely regarded as the greatest technical debacle in post-war Germany.

The reactor was in fact a URANIUM REACTOR!

I still need to see relevant proof that Thorium technology failed for any other reason than good sales and marketing from the Uranium camp.
I think the relationship is desirable, which is why some people will pay a higher price to have a relationship with a vendor, with the understanding that if s transaction goes wrong, the vendor won't balk at fixing the problem. There might also be an expectation that one party or other will extend credit for a few days.

In contrast, there are touch-and-go relationships all the time, like at convenience stores. You can't have the exchange without being present for the entire transaction, because neither party trusts the other.
Excellent analogy! I knew there had to be one!

Next: 'Fatal Bus Error'. Car analogy please!
See also: http://ajaxpatterns.org/Host-Proof_Hosting
He is one of the few people in the world who consistently make money off of forex trading, and the scale of his bets are huge. Saying he is just a rich person who got lucky completely underestimates how smart and powerful he is.
Linux, which is free, has been supported for longer, and is still being supported. MS should either open source XP and/or provide support for a further 3 years or so, which would be about 10 years of support after last official sales.
TI99? You pussy. I'm 40 and when I was 10 used to help my Dad build homebrew z80 machines. My first programming was writing a small OS in z80 asm. Helped him build an awesome z280(that was a rare chip) transputer.
A terminal text editor in Go with a JavaScript API
Two things from the website :
>We created Trontium to drive humanity forward
Ok I cant discuss the reasons why you created trontium and driving humanity forward is indeed a great goal but wow this is just a (rather cool) battery.

Plus I think the keyboard (a yamaha psr E403 I think) featured in the pictures is not usb powered.

Other than that I'm impressed by the 8 charges you can make with the dewalt drill. Great to build something far from power outlets.
Every seller who sells their product is able to review a buyer. It costs them.

Every buyer who buys something from a seller can review them. It's part of the cost of the goods.

Escrow - same deal.

Edits - this does seem too simple. Is it just naive? Perhaps it doesn't exclude circular transactions and gaming it.
As a market anarchist, I think it's important to point out that the concept of 'reputation' plays a significant role in many justifications of how a market may function without regulation or any other form of state oversight.

Making a market completely anonymous significantly limits the role reputation can play, which leads me to wonder whether some of the standard arguments for the effectiveness of markets don't apply in this case.
Please show me a couple of Linux distros which have/had been officially supported for more than 12 years. As far as I know there isn't any.
I just couldn't get comfortable with grunt, with gulp I had no issues.
I'm a member of the author's forum:

http://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/

He gives away sample chapters of the book, or if you like listening, the first chapter is also in audio format.
The EU's fears are looking forward, not looking back.

There is no non-naive way to look forward without first looking back.

Unlike the disclaimer of most financial investments, past performance is indicative of future results.
I heard that Jolla isn't compatible with US broadband, and it turned out not to be as open as I need. They've promised that their next phones will move more in that direction, though.

One of my hopes is that Jolla will come through, and my other is that Maemo might be successfully rebased onto mainline Debian rather than crazy, un-upgradable Debian.
Basically he was a more dastardly Steve Jobs.
I also think you have a misunderstanding. Adam Smith is clearly explaining the reason for the more liberal wages from the perspective of the one who is to commence the study, and his likelihood of succeeding. Smith is pointing to the fact that liberal professions are inherently more difficult to master, and often provide a value that is more rare (and therefore worth more money).

You cannot turn this quote into a formula, because it's a description of how wages ought to be, and the reasons therefore. And it is completely irrelevant to discussion, as I'm sure if Smith were alive today, he would count the art of programming among the liberal professions. There is more to making a useful application than to be able to think mechanically. Because programmers create and shoemakers copy.
Note that Power Delivery here is not just using Marketing Caps, it's an actual thing. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#USB_Power_Delivery. It's very new, based on USB 3.0, so it is probably a valid claim.

I wonder if this will sprout a power supply accessory, i.e. a device that speaks to a USB PD source and lets you locally set the output voltage to whatever you need. That way you could use the PD source to charge "legacy" products that don't support PD.
I believe businesses can purchase continued support from MS.
Oh don't worry officer, it's just a trontium reactor.