skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Criminals by and large just want money, governments want power. That makes them a far more serious threat.

It's really, really easy to say this living in a place where the rule of law is reasonably robust. There are many parts of the world where this isn't the case.
Silicon Valley is an awful name for a state. That's why we all object :)
The whole VR thing has been around for a while and every now and then a jump in screens and sensors make it better and smaller and lighter as well as cheaper. That aside Oculus from what I can tell have nothing beyond that, a development kit for a device they made, and from what I know and probably wrong, that is it. Ok they have some talented people, but what is stopping Microsoft reproducing what Oculus already have to get a headset that does the next flavour of 3D.

But the only consumer VR affair was maybe a Sega affair and who knows, maybe they have some patents waiting to bite. But it is one of those techs that has been around for a while just waiting to go mainstream. Same was teh case with touchscreens, had them in the 80's even, just better on many levels now. As is the tech for VR headsets.

So should Microsoft of brought Oculus, No as they already have experience in that whole area and or the talent to make a something happen if a market is deemed there. Facebook on the other hand, are not as well rounded in the software and hardware as Microsoft and with that easier to borg in the skills needed and if you can get that as a package bundle, all the better.
I think what surprises me most about this situation is that even though the supposed offending apps, Songs in particular has been downloaded and installed between one and five million times but only possibly generated the author a few thousand Dogecoin. Seems like a big risk for a few dollars, wouldn't advertisements be more profitable option?
With carefully staged incompetence, you can commit fail-safe theft (where if you are discovered, you can claim it was all an accident/a product of your incompetence/a misunderstanding).

I've covered one way that this can work here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7302672 If I were going to even attempt a theft as large as this (if in fact it was an attempted theft), I would make the scheme being fail-safe the highest priority. The scheme being fail-safe should be a higher priority than even the scheme working.
What's there to say? This is yet another piece of evidence that Mt. Gox was grossly incompetent. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to prove whether or not there was any criminal fraud involved. If there was, and it could be proven, then at least justice could be served. If there wasn't any fraud, and that could be proven, then at least it could be shown that Karpeles was just a bad businessman, not a fraudster, and his name could be cleared. This limbo leaves so many questions unanswered that it's hard to know if we're ever going to find out what truly happened.

Mt. Gox recently claimed they found 200,000 BTC that they'd lost track of. If their claim can be taken at face value, then I think it's plausible they may have panicked back when their losses first became clear to them in February, leading them to blame it on malleability even though they didn't really have a clue where their money went or why. They probably felt they had to tell people something, and saying "we lost track of >750,000 BTC for unknown reasons" may have been less desirable than blaming their problems on something tangible, like transaction malleability. Unfortunately for them, it turns out that they were wrong about that.

So here we are. All that's been demonstrated is that consumers currently have very little protection in this space, and that patio11 and others were right to warn people to be very careful with bitcoin.
Interactive Map: Impact of WWII Firebombing of Japan, on U.S. Soil
...but throwing around accusations of guilt of a criminal offence because of a photo is fine?
Incompetence can be criminal. I was speaking towards intent. It's doubtful there was intent to defraud. This doesn't mean that those involved shouldn't suffer the consequences of their actions.

*Minor edit
No it doesn't.

For one, Apache isn't even what I'd recommend to use for serving Drupal - at my last job we were serving 50M reqs/monthly via nginx and it worked very well.

Drupal implements the front controller pattern...it has nothing to do with URL rewriting.

It is true that if you want "pretty" URLs on Apache you need to use rewrites, but I think it is a cheap shot to characterize using a core feature as it was intended as a "hack".
Dremel
My first choice would be Antigua. Second choice St. Lucia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua

Kind people, english speaking, decent internet (not super high speed but quite manageable)
Immobilier de montagne : l’excès de logements neufs pourrait être « néfaste »
Présenté récemment, un rapport révèle qu’un excès de logements neufs dans l’immobilier touristique en montagne pourrait être néfaste pour le marché.
Logements neufs : les permis de construire accusent un nouveau repli
Enregistrant un repli de 22 % à la fin de février, le nombre de permis de construire accordé est de 91 398. Cette baisse affecte tous les types de logements
Copenhagen kills 4 lions : WTF
I know it's not tech or hacking or startup related, and I apologise in advance, but it's disgusting, and people should know.
"Civilisation" just took 1000 steps backwards.
The question on Microsoft is really what type of games... Is it $50 a game, or free games with lots of social upgrades?

Either company could also do things like putting you ringside at a football game.
Very cool. Been looking at adding chat discovery into a BLE (iBeacon) app I've working on. Any idea how it discovers other devices and establishes a connection?
I know it's not tech or hacking or startup related, and I apologise in advance, but it's disgusting, and people should know.
"Civilisation" just took 1000 steps backwards.
I think the article is worth reading albeit the baityness of the title, the OP's conclusion is by the way:

> So, I don't think Java 8 will Kill Scala by any means.

And he gives valid and compelling reasons why.
Quite interesting so many of the top countries are Muslim (Bangladesh, Pakistan, big chunks of Nigeria and India).

I wonder what will happen in the near future when the Muslim population inevitably dominates over the other groups.
Having read through all the comments, I think the only real benefit to using the control characters is in the original intent. That is a flat file that represents a file system, with file separators (FS), group separators (GS), like a table, record separators (RS), and unit separators (US), to identify the fields in the record, storing only printable ASCII values.

This isn't intended to be a data exchange format, it is a serial data storage format. In this way, there may be some valid usages, but modern file systems do not need this sort of representation and it has no real benefit over *SV formats for most use cases. I suppose It could still be used for limited exchange, but since it can't be used storing binary, much less Unicode (except for perhaps UTF-8), other formats are less ambiguous and more capable.
> I mean, the title is kind of link-baity.

Agreed, Why Java 8 is actually good for Scala (or even Java Folks, Welcome to Planet Lambda!) would have made a better (though less link-baity) title
For moving and copying files from one directory to another, it's arguable that Gnome's select files, right-click and select "Move To", or "Copy To" from the context menu and select the destination from the resulting dialog is as efficient as the split-pane way.
Intuitively, I would expect it to restore both the department and employee, or throw it into a "Bob and Sally: Please fix this conflict" kind of box.
It isn't that Java 8 will kill Scala, it is that Scala has demonstrated the utility of lambdas to the point where they can safely be incorporated back into Java. So Scala has "won", but in my opinion likely Scala will now fade away.

Java is necessarily very conservative with adopting language features, because it is very careful to maintain backwards compatibility. Java is a bit like Debian stable - out of date compared to Debian testing or even other distros - but solid as a rock. For features to make it into Java, they really need to be proved first in other languages or in external libraries.

This isn't the first time Odersky has advanced Java either - he worked on Pizza, which showed how to add Generics to Java. Scala demonstrates how to add functional features to Java. Generics were a huge advance, and I think lambdas will be as consequential.

So if Scala does die, it will be as a sacrificial lamb, rather than as a casualty of an unseen war.
I understand the initial shock as a long-time user of gnome as my primary desktop. (since gnome 1) I was like you but now have to admit, since 3.8, I am very happy with all the changes. I prefer its look and feel over everything else these days.
Check out the concept of information-theoretic death:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death

Regarding brain death, I think you may be mixing up cause and effect. When the brain's activity ceases due to catastrophic structural damage, that's pretty much the end. But if the brain is simply "paused" without deterioration, I don't see why consciousness couldn't return once blood flow is restored.

(Personally, I'm interested to see if anyone reports any kind of dream-like experience while undergoing the procedure. I know, I know, it's impossible. Still fun to imagine our scientific understanding of the mind being turned upside down.)
Hey, I've just tried it, that's great. As you said, UI is very clunky but I managed to explore and listen to new songs based on songs I already liked thanks to the playlist of other users.
Play pacman win Bitcoin
This is the coolest arcade ever, get on the leaderboard win bitcoin when others fail to beat your score. There's a fierce battle in the pacman game. https://gamerholic.com
Excuse my wild imagination, but is it a good app to pick up girls/guys in your library or whatever?
We hope so too! Thanks for the support!
I like to think of lambdas as the hook that shows Java developers how Scala can help their code but its other features are what make them stay.

As the article says, "type inference, traits, vals, implicits, case classes, value classes, static objects, pattern matching, type variance, macros, immutable datatypes, lazy vals, existential types, higher-kinded types, type classes".

(Pattern matching is amazing, I don't know how I lived without it)
We're currently spending about $20k/month on EC2 and are about to migrate a bunch of our colos over. Between what we are spending and what we're budgeting to spend with our new architecture, we're looking at a couple devs/year savings (Victoria, BC)
Just realized that I read the initial post as, "Firefox OR Android".

Verified it's working on Firefox for Android now. (Nexus 5)
Abacus is a pretty solid product, but the market seems a bit small...
I think it's more likely that it would be peddled to both but McDonald's has deeper pockets, so the effect would be the same.
Not unless you think changing the device's name to "Microsoft Windows Rift Pro Edition 2015, Powered By Azure" would be a plus.
RetroGeek: The NES, reimagined in Aluminium, 30 years after it’s inception
If you cook at all: Infrared thermometer.

How hot is that pan? Is my oven thermometer accurate? I'm proofing yeast, is this water too warm? How cold is my freezer? Is my smoker ready? Is that caramel done?

I got a cheap $15 one and I use it nearly every day.
It's a political way to keep the Chinese firms out of the U.S. market.
No, I'm thinking of frequencies higher than 1 day.
As a Scala and Java developer, I am not even slightly tempted to replace Scala as my main language for my next project with Java 8. If I'm forced to write Java, it might better be Java 8, but if I have a choice, there are so many things (as the OP correctly states) that make Scala compelling for me beyond Lambdas that just adding that feature to Java doesn't really mean anything to me. Ruby has Lambdas, so does Python and JavaScript, Dart and I'm sure any other modern language. I like Scala because of so many other things other than lambdas that a single comment is not enough.

But to name a few (some were referenced by the OP)

Everything is an expression, For comprehensions (especially with multiple futures, resolving the callback triangle of death in a beautiful syntax IMHO), Implicit conversions, Case classes, Pattern Matching, Tuples, The fact that everything has equals and hashcode already correctly implemented (so I can put a tuple, or even an Array as a key in a map), string interpolation, multiline string, default parameters, named parameters, built in dependency injection, most complex yet most powerful type system in any language I know of, type inference (not as good as Haskell, but better than the non existent in Java). The fact I always get the right type returned from a set of "monadic" actions thanks to infamous things like CanBuildFrom (which are pure genius). Let's not forget pass by name arguments and the ability to construct a DSL. Extractors (via pattern matching). And many more.

I think Scala is here to stay, at least for Scala developers, I am 100% sure you will not find a single Scala developer that will say: "Java 8 got lambdas? great, goodbye scala forever!". Only reason I can think of is compile time and binary compatibility. If we ignore those two, all I can say is that this just proves how Scala is in the right direction (since Java 8 lambdas and default interface methods and steams are so clearly influenced)

I do wish however that Scala will improve Java 8 interoperability, e.g. support functional interfaces the same way. and add new implicit conversions to Java 8 collections as well as take advantage to improvements in the JVM.

I will replace Scala as soon as I find a language that gives me what Scala does and does it better. So far I didn't find such a language (examined Haskell, Clojure, Go, Kotlin, Ceylon, Dart, TypeScript, Rust, Julia, D and Nimrod, Ruby Python, JavaScript and C#, some of them were very promising but since I need a JVM language, and preferably a statically typed one, it narrowed down the choices pretty quickly)

Java 8 is by far not even close, sorry. Great improvement, I'm very happy for Java developers that will get "permission" to use it (might be easier to adopt than Scala in an enterprise) but this is not a reason for a Scala shop to consider moving back to Java.
"Money isn’t my priority, I just want to change the industry."
>I suspect if I had spent the same amount of time just working I would have gained just as much.

You would have gained just as much, except for the PhD certification.

I don't think you would need a PhD to do science. Journals never ask for your CV in a submission.

However you need it to get a job in science, because your employer does not know if you actually can do science. That's why you need certifications.
Why use story points instead of hours for estimating?
Agreed: there's definitely still more features in Scala. But Java has taken "Scala - the good parts"; or at least, what they consider the good parts. That'll be enough for many people, and my guess is it will suck the air out of Scala's room.

I do consider some of those other features important, and wish we could have them in Java, but they aren't as well-proven yet. (For me, it is easy immutable classes; I like pattern matching but can cope without it.)
That is the plan :)

Im in LA right now and will check other places.
Another example of Dyson's ability to find mathematical connections: the link between the zeros of the Riemann zeta function and random matrices.

http://www.ias.edu/about/publications/ias-letter/articles/20...
Former Salesforce exec raises $11.2 mln for software startup
Ask HN: Possible to legally form a startup as a digital nomad?
I'm a developer, US citizen, out of college, and out of the country. With no desire to work for the man, and a strong desire to travel the world, my wife and I are living abroad. She's teaching, I'm doing freelance design and development work, while also spending a significant amount of time on a startup.

We have no plans to return the the US in the foreseeable future. We have no address in the US. We will also be moving from our current location (Vietnam) to another shortly. So my question is:

Is it impossible to legally register this startup?

As far as I know, I need to register my business name, register as an LLC, register with the tax board...but much of this has to be done in person.

My last US address was in California. Contacting the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development was no help.

Is it impossible?
Klout also realized it would never have the granular level of access to the interest graphs on the networks it was - pardon the expression - leaching off of.

I remember a senior Twitter staff member pointing out that if Klout really proved a market, they could simply compute all of this information directly rather than inefficiently via the API platform and firehose - with better results from access to more data, and the ability to sell directly to advertisers who they already had relationships with through their sales team.

Klout were never going to gain the level of access the needed to the graphs on the various networks they utilized in order to realize their longer-term goals. Which, btw, ultimately highlights yet another fallacy of the platform economy.
My guess is real blood gels at the lower temperature. I'd be willing to bet they tried that on the pigs, and found saline worked better.
Web Components that won't tie you down
I must admit I am not doing power management of any sorts. For brightness, I use xbacklight and it works pretty well.
This seems to be in line with Project Tango of Google. https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/
An ebook reader. Both the cheapest version of the Kobo and the Kindle cost around USD60-70.

I've gone from reading ~10 books per year to reading ~80 books per year, just because I always carry that thing with me since it's so small and light.

I also save a ton of money since printed books are so expensive in Australia, and out-of-copyright books are free.

The formatting of technical non-fiction books for e-readers has come a long way, too.
Silicon Valley may not be ageist; just pop culture reporting
Yes, the article is accurate. No, it tells us nothing new about thought and consciousness.

They're trying to make it accessible, but are just confusing matters. This is no different than resuscitating an otherwise 'dead' person with CPR, just extending the period they can be resuscitated.

If your heart stops or you lose too much blood, oxygen stops making it to cells, including the brain. After long enough, cells die (irreveribly/structurally). If you induce hypothermia, the processes that lead to cell death are slowed down so doctors have longer to fix the problem that led to hypoxia.

"Brain dead" refers to the condition of the brain after massive cell death. Brain cells are most vulnerable to lack of oxygen. That's why so many people's brains die before blood flow/oxygen can be restored, but the rest of their bodies are left in a functional state.
The brain is truly dead when you progress too far in cell death. For example, when you die from drowning, you are dead because oxygen starvation caused too much cell death (and you can survive drowning even if you had some cell death, so long as it was limited).

There have been recent developments in the medical field that suggest that seemingly-dead avalanche victims, whose body temperatures have dropped to freezing or below and whose body functions have all but ceased, can be revived if you warm them... slowly. (Warming them too quickly causes some sort of shock)
This could be an interesting model to do out in the open. Rather than covertly mine cryptocurrency, say that the app is free if you contribute hashes to a pool, or you can buy the premium version that doesn't.

Almost like the "slow" version vs the "fast" version of an app.
That's a problem. It's easiest if the exit is an IPO, since that's announced in advance.

I've seen this strategy used on a fairly large company about to be acquired by a public company, when there were already rumors going around before the acquisition. It caused the management there an enormous amount of stress, and they settled for a significant amount of money, even when they believed a court would rule in their favor.

You're an awful person if you use this, so better make sure the company you use it on is even worse.
right. more importantly, a testing ID allows them to you know, test their tracking mechanisms.
That's not really feasible in a real world environment where database connections are frequently re-used and user requests are very short lived.

Database transaction are like try/except blocks - designed to clean up unexpected situations instantly, not as a state mechanism.
NoScript is a fantastic browser add-on. I had no pop-ups.
I'd guess the exact legality varies state to state. Practically speaking you just need an address. Most registration procedures can be done remotely, but one big potential annoyance is getting things notarized as this is often quite expensive at US embassies.
None whatsoever.

edit: The stumbling block for cryonics the massive trauma to cells at a molecular level from freezing. If I have to bet, that never gets solved and cryonics is a pipe dream. So, I didn't mean to be so blithe, but this offers no new information that's relevant to the viability of cryonics.

edit: I'm aware of vitrification. Vitrify and revive a human, then. It's a safe bet that it's not a perfect process at the scale of a whole human body.
Constant need for news updates has ushered in 'a news addiction age'
I wonder if Java's syntax and use of lambdas will be near how nice it is in C#. They're extremely useful and convenient in c# especially with all the automatic casting around them. Adding to an Event with a simple myEvent += (int x) => {doThing(x);}
I would suggest that it's not quite so linear anymore with the rise of ProcessWire. I'd compare ProcessWire to WordPress for ease of use and Drupal in terms of flexibility and scalability – I didn't think it was possible, but it is.
I'm lost. Now you're defining "hate" as an exercise in irrelevant factoid regurgitation? And juxtaposing that against a priority to excel? At this point I think you're just playing a semantics game.

My questions went unanswered also.
There actually are glyphs assigned to these characters, at least in the original IBM PC ASCII character set:

Ascii table for IBM PC charset (CP437) - Ascii-Codes

http://www.ascii-codes.com/

They correspond to these Unicode characters

28 FS ∟ 221f right angle
29 GS ↔ 2194 left right arrow
30 RS ▲ 25b2 black up pointing triangle
31 US ▼ 25bc black down pointing triangle

They may not be particularly intuitive symbols for this purpose though.

see also:
IBM Globalization - Graphic character identifiers:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcgid/gcgid.htm...
(then search for a code point, eg U00025bc)

Unicode code converter [ishida >> utilities]:
http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
See also Operational Transform[1]. There be dragons, though.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation
Brazil caves to Google: New bill drops local data storage requirement
Core member? Great work you guys are doing there