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Shouldn’t such cases be detected automatically? It would really help Amazon’s brand of being shroud.
Scala is a lot more than lambdas. For one thing, Groovy also has lambdas. They weren't remotely unique to Scala. The real power of Scala comes from other things, like how you can use the combination of case classes and the builtin data extracting pattern matchers to easily pass complex messages around. That is something special.

Lambdas are dead common. They're in practically every language other than Java, and now finally even Java has them. It's good that Java now gets them too, but if that was enough to kill Scala, then Scala wouldn't have been anything special.
I am really rooting for these folks, after going to a talk on it last year about this time and trying to everything thing I could to pick it apart (they had good answers for all my questions) I felt confident that its going to be a pretty awesome architecture. Assuming that reducing to practice all of their great ideas doesn't reveal some amazing 'gotcha', I'm hoping to get an eval system.

The thing I'm most closely watching are the compiler stuff since this was such a huge issue on Itanium (literally 6x difference in code execution speed just from compiler changes) and putting some structured data (pointer chasing) type applications through their paces which is always a good way to flush out memory/cpu bottlenecks.
Hashimoto's Disease

Before its formal discovery, people were already treating it correctly (with dissecated thyroid from pigs).

In the 70s it was found how to track TSH and T4 hormones in the blood, and in the light of this discovery there was a push to adopt it, and that diagnosis should be based only on that, not in patient symptoms.

Also the manufacture of synthetic T4 started since then.

This resulted in two problems: One, most doctors now use a protocol where you don't treat the person until the blood test show he HAS to (if you read the official guidelines, the ones that doctors use as "confirmed" disease, in the guidelines are instead listed as critical state and you must treat), the second is that for many patients, the problem does not manifest as T4 production, but in the conversion of T4 to something else, and to that people, synthetic T4 obviously don't work.

The personal result to me, was that I struggled 11 years to find a medic willing to treat me and ignore the blood tests, I've been being treated since 1 month and a half ago, and feel MUCH better, and I am sad that I had to go some extremes (including threatening to beat up a medic if she refused to order the exams I thought was needed).

For others, the result is that people created whole associations of thyroid patients, that has as major ethos defend practices of the 1960s, several countries has groups of patients and lawyers specialized in launching lawsuits to force medics to treat them like people were in the past, in hope that this will fix the problem (And whey they DO succeed in the lawsuit and the medic treat them like in the 60s, the disease DO get fixed).

There are lots of information on this site, mind you, despite the at first seemly crazy conspiratorial tone, I must say from personal experience, and from personal experience of all other people I know with the same disease, that this site is absolutely correct, and modern medicine that is wrong: http://www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

I plan in writing a blog post in some months, comparing my coding performance before and after taking the medicine (one of the symptoms of the disease is "foggy mind")
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The Portland Mercury (a free alt-weekly) published a cover on this last year, mostly about how ill-prepared the city is in general for earthquakes. Glad to see this sort of friendly-neighbor approach happening though, as it's going to be more effective right now than waiting for the politics to catch up, and oh so very Portland.

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/the-first-four-minut...
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Cool, I hope this takes off. I joined and posted a project a coworker and I are working on.
Here's a link to the their documentation for the algorithm:
http://libccv.org/doc/doc-convnet/

Had to dig for a few minutes and wanted to help others find it.
Since this week.
What struck me in this post (apart from being extremely cute and hipsterish) is that Airbnb is behind it - and while it's true that Airbnb increases occupancy, it's also caters to short-term stays where people are less likely to get involved with their neighborhood.

I often rent a room on Airbnb for a week or two, and typically don't get involved with the neighborhood at all.

- My neighbors are only my neighbors for a week, so I don't bother getting acquainted.

- In a dense urban area, discovering all the nice bars, coffee shops, restaurants in walking distance takes months, which I don't have. I end up going to the top-rated one on Yelp - which is also the one who needs new patrons the least.

- Since I'm traveling with just a suitcase, I'm very unlikely to require the services of a local bike mechanic, car mechanic, etc.

My hosts could be much more involved in this neighborhood than me, but they're often out of town traveling because Airbnb is paying them while they're away so why hesitate?

So it's not clear to me what Airbnb brings to the table here. Maybe it's because I'm mainly traveling for business and spend my days at work? Someone traveling for leisure could have more time to discover the neighborhood. But a close-knit city isn't built with tourists either.
It's at auction: https://flippa.com/3048517-pr4-site-with-8500-uniques-m-high...
"legacy books" is a great phrase! Did you coin it yourself?
Go to AngelList, put in your parameters and see what the market is actually offering:

https://angel.co/jobs#find/f!%7B%22types%22%3A%5B%22full-tim...
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This reminds me of the endless bug reports we're getting right now about the Octave GUI not being indistinguishable from Matlab. Makes me wish people weren't so inflexible about the tiniest UI differences. It's difficult to please the converts.
Who is this guy? Where can you teach post-doc computer science without ever having taken a course in CS, let alone a degree?

Obviously a degree is not a necessary condition for success and it's always bothered me that people like Michael Faraday had to battle academic and class prejudice before changing the world.

However I don't think it's unreasonable to see a bio of past projects/companies/research papers.

"Despite having taught Computer Science at the graduate and post-doctorate levels, he has no degrees and has never taken a course in Computer Science"
Sure, but it doesn't do nearly as much. Especially when creating graphics from scratch
For fuck sake, is it possible to have a HN comments page without complaints about the design of TFA? Speak to the author if you have a problem with their site! Don't mumble about it from a distance!
I think it'll collapse under the weight of its type system. The rest of Scala is great.
Yep I am pondering over it and making a dashboard right now, and can't believe myself for doing so, despite I have despised widgets. This is so nicely crafted and appealing to nerds.

phew! it's here finally. https://www.thedash.com/dashboard/TTmZcUR0cO
Well, that's not a meaningful distinction, because if I tell a javascript web app to turn something on and off every 1ms, the javascript web app will do everything in it's power to do it also. It just doesn't have much power to do it. The real distinction is that a RT system is designed through and through to have a lot of power to do it.
Since the Twitter block was working just so well.
Approved: £188m 'jackpot' in tax relief for UK videogames industry
In addition to planes and boats, "islands" of garbage also exist and they range from the size of small cars to that of small cities.
Maybe someday the gIMP will be even close to Photoshop. Heck, maybe it is for some people's needs. But, I'm not even an artist and the gIMP doesn't come close to meeting my needs.

"No decent OpenType typography, no layer styles, no smart objects, no dice." (from the comments on the OP)

If all I need to do is crop or scale an image than sure, I might get by with gIMP though in that case I'd arguably get by better with something simpler than gIMP.

But, I actually use vector layers with layer styles ALL THE TIME. I actually use text layers with layer styles ALL THE TIME. I actually use non destructive adjustment layers ALL THE TIME.

Photoshop layer styles are like CSS. You can declare your styles and then edit vectors or text and the styles apply dynamically.

AFAIK gIMP has no equivalents. Those are not minor features. They're what set Photoshop apart.
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"Earlier, what appeared to be a leaked audio recording of Turkish officials discussing Syria appeared on YouTube."

A bit light on the details there, auntie beeb. This is some pretty damning evidence.

Translation here: http://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/21ib4d/leake...
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This is not Unit Test, this is Integration Test... apart from that :) all good
The app actually monitors the battery temperature (exposed on all Android phones) and throttles down when it exceeds a certain threshold.

The charging circuitry on some phones (not all) actually disengages the battery from the charging circuit path once 100% AC power is reached. In other words your phone's CPU runs off of AC power (and not via the battery) once 100% charge is reached.

Why you would sign up is where it gets interesting - the app works via a similar incentivization scheme as how bitcoin miners work - the more you run the app (mine) the likelier you stumble upon a valid proof of work, and you get rewarded by virtual currency.
You would lose a longer match. (You're the second player posting here who seems to drastically underestimate the effect of the ELO difference. That said, 900 ELO difference is so far out on the Bell curve that I wouldn't want to take bets on this one.)
Actually I didn't say they wanted to attack, the Turkish government wants "Syria to attack" in order to justify a potential war.
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I think they delete data all the time. But I think there are just a small number of situations where it happens.

For example, someone on HN probably deletes a comment every few seconds. The site is therefore deleting data constantly. But all that only counts as one single situation.

Is there any other situation where an HN non-admin ever deletes data?
My family lore says that a Russian ancestor's name was mangled in immigration, and while he hadn't expected it he was pleased at having a different name. Doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to think that if he was pleased to get a new name he might have been willing to take the credit for changing it himself, but I've seen no documents either way.
A hacker news for hacker news-like sites (and, maybe, forum design in general... or whatever)

I would suggest "hnforx.com" but someone got to it...
Not surprised that he doesn't want to step into the jurisdiction of federal marshalls. And the excuse that it would be an 'unacceptable misuse of resources' from the opposing counsel is pretty thin. People teleconference all the time and there are plenty of certified court reporters in either Japan or Taiwan who could facilitate a deposition.
Probably not something you should care about, but this site doesn't load at all in Konqueror.
But other similar products like geckoboard etc seem to be doing well.

Agreed on the UI - it is simple and beautiful
My main objection to it is that since the OP is almost certainly going to accept their own answer before other people can post, there may be other, better answers that arrive late and don't get as much attention.
This doesn't surprise me at all.

Even if the effect described in the article is not conscious ("let me pay this person less, since he's a foreigner[0]"), I have no trouble seeing how it could happen (unconsciously), based on my own personal experiences.

My first name is very difficult for Americans to pronounce because (A) it is not phonetic; and (B) even a phonetic spelling would include sounds not common in English.

My last name is actually an Anglicisation of the original family name, so it's entirely phonetic. Even still people have trouble saying it. That one confuses me to this day.

The impact on my life of having a tough-to-pronounce name is usually subtle, but it's noticeable in minor ways. I can imagine that these would add up in the long run (perhaps not for every individual, but in the aggregate).

[0] That said, let's not discount the impact of being able to identify a person's race by his/her name (the original Freakonomics book goes into this a lot). I have a friend who has a very obviously Chinese name, and he started putting "US Citizen" at the top of his resume, because so many people thought that he needed visa sponsorship, even though he was born in the US.

Another friend of mine is white, but his surname also happens to be very common for Koreans. He's had a few funny interactions where he walked into an interview and the person was momentarily surprised to see a blonde, white man instead of an Asian interviewee.
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Yeh, I built Firework Flare (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/firework-flare/id513766705?m...), an iPad game, in 2011-12.

It was my first venture into iOS development, and I used it as a learning tool. The idea was one I had for awhile: to blend two cool games.

It gets about 1-10 downloads a day. I never did any marketing. I was quite naive in my thinking; it's almost as if I had to make that mistake to fully grasp it though.
No, it's not equivalent to that at all. Why would you think such a thing?
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French customs arrested me for saying the word "Bitcoin"
Have some faith and submit it as its own story.

[edit: is this it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7399336 ]
"Please note, the types of things homeopathy is prescribed for are self limiting. Your body will heal over time without intervention, so yes! You will feel an improvement! The remedy you took has nothing to do with it though."

Not exactly. The medicine course brought the illness down to a level where i could really not make out if I still have the problem or not. The problem again surfaced to a very lesser extent after 3 years of finishing the course. What I am talking about is Sinusitis and there is no treatment of it in allopathy apart from operation and the allopathic doctors themselves say that after operation it will again return in 1-2 years.

Why I said that I do not believe the tests that are done by US agencies because most of the tests that are done by US agencies come out to be heavily influenced by the private sector companies who have their business interest in those studies incase the result come out that go against what they claim after few years when skeletons tumble out.
I do not reside in US so my opinions are based on what I read in major newspapers.

So you can downvote me to any extent but I have experienced the results on myself and have seen the difference and hence highly doubt those studies. And when I say the doctor really matters that is because you can go for the same illness to many doctors and the medicines that some will give you will show less/no effect at all. So the experience level and understanding of different chemicals and their bonding really does matter.
3 years is a bare minimum. They would need to staff up hardware design, verification, performance modelers, compiler writers, OS and software teams, and license all the necessary EDA software (simulators, waveform viewers, etc).

My guess would be a minimum $20 million to get it to a solid FPGA prototype in 3 years. Then if that were successful they could spent another $25 million and get it into silicon at a good process (20nm or below).
Sure - if you can reliably identify the exact required versions of all of your transitive dependencies. That's infeasible for nontrivial applications. (And even that's only if the set of exact versions you find manage to not have conflicting requirements with each other.)

The reason Gemfile.lock works is because it lets you achieve that the same way you create working code - figure out what works in dev, using a combination of skill and trial and error, then lock it down in version control and deploy exactly that to CI/prod/other devs.

People have written shell scripts to scan your sandbox for installed package versions and update your cabal file to require those versions, but it's an inherently approximate process - e.g. if you upgraded a transitive dependency but still have the previous version in the sandbox, the shell script has to guess which one you want, because there's no explicit relationship between your code and a particular version.

There's a more fundamental problem with that approach - it ignores the difference between "my app semantically requires package X at version y" and "I have tested my app with package X at version y". The cabal file expresses the former - which is why it doesn't include transitive dependencies, and why it's more idiomatic to specify broad version ranges than exact version constraints. "cabal freeze", if it existed, would express the latter. Reliable engineering requires both.
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@hocaoglv Sorry I misunderstood this part. This tape really annoyed me.
2 bishops is a massive advantage in chess, but I still don't think a 1900 player could beat Magnus. Maybe a 2200 player?
I don't have a citation at hand, but there has been discussion of this on the computer go mailing list.

You should post it. I suspect you misunderstood. Additional computing power doesn't help some problematic situations, but the overall strength still goes up nicely.

There are also some problems with parallel scaling not actually improving raw performance, but this is equivalent to the speed not actually going up.
Cool. Computer go has come a long way since the days I still played regularly. Back then I could still defeat the strongest go computer. There's clearly no chance of that ever happening again.
Although I have to accept that the premise is generally true, it is also a little concerning. Friends, close friends, seem like they're "supposed" to be a bond like family: someone you're always there for in good times and bad.

Instead, philosophies like the one espoused in this article transform that deep friendship into a friendship of "utility". It kind of reminds me of the political marriages sometimes considered typical of the upper classes in various historical societies: when "love" may not even be a factor in a marriage.

I have a friend that has said similar things to this article. It makes me wonder: are we friends because we've been through a lot and share that bond, or is he my friend because I present a certain "utility" to his success? If the latter, does that in turn mean our friendship is discarded as soon as I fail to present that utility?
GTR was then blocked by the EU Commission as it announced a formal investigation into the proposal in April 2013, citing concerns including video games not being culturally equal to film, and thus not deserving of the same or similar tax breaks...

It's interesting to see games getting this kind cultural recognition from the EU. I wonder when we'll see game coverage in the 'culture' section of newspapers, instead of relegated to the back of the 'tech' section?
Folding@Home, and the BOINC network over at Berkeley have done a great job at this already. http://boinc.berkeley.edu

There's still an immense opportunity to tap unused cycles if you give people another reason to donate their device time. Unfortunately, altruistic purposes don't always appeal to the masses :-)
I didn't choose that example by accident ;).

If I didn't know better, "salicylic acid" sounds like one of those chemicals that scientists keep putting in our food as part of their ongoing efforts to KILL ALL OF US, while "willow bark" sounds oh-so-natural and wholesome and makes me think of green meadows and chirping birds. So despite the fact that we know aspirin is a lot more effective than willow bark, I'd still feel a lot more comfortable eating willow bark. If I didn't know better.

Basically, evidence-based medicine faces a big marketing problem, thanks to the "evidence" part.
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Sometimes the simplest things are the best. Good job!
Yum seems a little faster than apt-get/aptitude to me. Do you have the yum cache enabled? Yum normally downloads its package lists for every command, but you can make it cache the package list like apt-get does.
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This is the thing that worries me the most about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies--because I want them to succeed--there are myriad laws surrounding money transfers, especially electronically. There are tax implications, as well. There are also huge trade agreements internationally--and even intranationally--that come into play, as well. Banks and credit card companies currently handle most of the legality of these things, but with cryptocurrencies, there are no banks--these are essentially cash transactions.

I expect more and more folks will start to "discover" the real legal implications of some of these types of applications. I'm sure we'll see some story or what have you, and we'll all cry foul, even though the laws have been in place for many years and we mostly (albeit somewhat unknowingly) abide by them.

I also expect that folks will "discover" why we have central banks for currencies, and why Alexander Hamilton was a Smart Guy.

While cryptocurrencies are new, the problems they'll face aren't--in fact, we've solved these problems mostly in developed countries. They still exist pretty readily in developing countries, though. What happens when we start selling securities based around cryptocurrencies, such as derivatives? If you think the SEC will allow Americans to buy, sell, and even discuss securities openly, you are out of your mind.

What about money laundering? When/if you ever work for a bank or an investment firm in the US, you'll take some training around money laundering (there are even tests at the end). The SEC (allegedly) holds these firms responsible for spotting, reporting, and stopping money laundering schemes. What happens when money laundering happens over an exchange? How will that be handled?

Sorry for the long-windedness...your anecdote just got me thinking.
And more specifically (concerning regional resilience): how much of the existing housing stock is built to standards which will survive a likely quake?

San Francisco's last slate-cleaning came in 1906, though parts of the city were constructed far more recently. The 1989 earthquake (nearly 100 km distant and comparatively mild (6.9, as opposed to an 8 or 9 mag such as the 1906 quake) still caused significant structural damage throughout San Francisco, though major damage was limited to a few neighborhoods and specific buildings -- more major damage was concentrated largely to the south, closer to the epicenter.

Most of Tokyo was destroyed during WWII, and has been rebuilt since. Japan also experiences frequent powerful earthquakes (several M8+ quakes are noted by the USGS: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/world/historical_coun...), effectively requiring more robust building standards. Though my understanding is that there's a great deal of collaboration between Japanese and Californian engineers on this work.