skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we're talking single data points, The Shawshank Redemption is a good movie, but it's not the best of all time (as rated by IMDB), and I've rarely heard people talk about it in any context. Pretty much all the other members of the top 20 get attention in the public mindspace, frequently referred to outside of conversations on film.
Clang/LLVM are also much easier to work with architecturally, as well as being 20 years newer and offering new ways of using IL; difficult to control for that variable.
j2kun means the stuff that shows up from TFA when using git diff:

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It's worth noting that the reason behind pure functional programming is that ideally lets you reason about your business concerns without needing to worry so much about these things.

The expectation is that pure functional languages gain a lot of benefits from (for instance) referential transparency which allow for optimizations which can not be provided by the compiler in languages which don't provide the same benefits to developers.

It's also true that this is potentially just theoretical. Sure, there's no way to ensure these optimizations exist given your compiler's implementation, but the article actually does mention that this has other issues and it's only for demonstrative purposes.

So, chances are it's a non-issue and if it is an issue then you still have the power to solve the problem later. No need for premature optimization, right?
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For counterpoint, TNS argues this is really nothing new, just a "sky is falling" report trying to stir up panic: http://thenewstack.io/it-director-yoda-unlearn-what-you-have...
Interesting that they say "you shouldn't write SASS software".

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html

also: We don't see any sensible way to address the SaaSS problem with license conditions on particular programs
Great article. Your experiences mirror my own.
> You may disagree with my reasoning

You haven't presented any reasoning to disagree with, even when it was specifically asked for.
> Chrome is proprietary
Use chromium instead.

> the company that employs this guy: http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/84829703425/r

Mozilla employs someone who is (was?) anti-gay marriage.
Chrome adamantly refuses to un-enable responsive useragent stuff. I constantly have to turn off the extra half-window. More evidence that Google has little product sense.
Docker v0.11.0 Authorization header not sent for private repository pull in HEAD
Scientists create the first life form with 'alien' DNA
How Wrong You Are
You're right, as I replied to you elsewhere. I had missed that the author made the "stateful" argument, and I focused on verbosity and things like i and j instead.
Definitely a buying opportunity for out of the money puts last week. Which are now very much in the money puts :)
Let's certainly not forget the awesome PostGIS extension with its spatial types and functions.
Sorry! We hit the front page and had our first stress-test. Things seems smoother now and we're analyzing our weak points.
URME Surveillance: Developing Devices to Protect the Public
Interestingly, when I last went to Ikea, I had the coveted opposite feeling. However, we were shopping for an entire houses worth of furniture, so my use case was a bit different.

Because of the large and sequential layout, we were able to go through, test, and choose all the furniture we where looking for in a single pass.
Given those terms I would tell them to bite the wall. Unless you really really need their service.

Incidentally, this is petty but it drives me bonkers...
The phrase from your post
"I reached out to customer support". I realize this kind of phrase is in common usage in offices throughout the country but we are not "reaching out" we are not "sharing". Those are things we do with our close friends and spouses.

What we are doing in this case is "contacting". It is after all business. Feely speak serves only to cheapen real "reaching out" IMHOP.
Your "what textter's are saying" has an issue.
The `hover` pseudo-selector doesn't apply when on a child element. As a result, that section turns green when hovering over the containing div but not when hovering over the section title, for example.

You'll need JS to accomplish what you're trying to accomplish there. You've already got jQuery on the page so you may as well use the `.hover` method to toggle a `hover` class on the div and replace the pseudo-selector in your CSS with that class.

Something like,

$('#u3397').hover(function () {
$(this).addClass('hover');
}, function () {
$(this).removeClass('hover');
});

Also, minor point but I believe that shouldn't have an apostrophe. That said, grammar has never been my strong-suit so might want to double-check on that.
PostGIS absolutely deserves some attention, as it's one of if not the best GIS DB out there. It felt too big to include in here, but I should at least add some small callout.
>It seems like people often tend to ignore the fact that Tesla makes really solid cars

Most Tesla fans tend to ignore the fact that building a solid car doesn't mean the company should be valued at a bajillion dollars.

Stern's Prof. Damodaran (of online valuation course fame) believes "the value per share estimate... [of] Tesla is between $110 and $115 per share." He might not be right, but at least his model is based on real-world projections and shows the magnitude of optimism/hype behind Tesla's share price.

There's a lot of talk about about Tesla being a startup or a tech company. In reality, they're a car company (albeit one that's doing a few things better/differently), and need to be looked at in that context.
Simple pickup are examples of guys who did it recently.

The darker, and more dollars, can be found at /r/seduction and darker still is /r/TheRedPill/

Every few years there seem to be a fad about these things, HN used to have these pick up artist posts pop up regularly until about 2 years ago. I got the impression that there was a large SV contingent involved in the pickup artist scene which eventually spawned the brogrammer movement, though no-one openly discusses it.

Wild speculation ofc...
A113 Hidden in Pixar Movies
Sure, I don't disagree with those (and Fortran, Obj-C, up to Rust someday).

Just wanted to highlight that most desktop programs people use by the millions are in fact written in C/C++ (statistically) -- and it's not all about GC, web programming and services.
Yikes that's scary: http://www.sgcarmart.com/news/writeup.php?AID=70
I also love the New Yorker and read it weekly, but am wondering why it's here.
Show HN: Spott is the best way to see and share what’s happening around you.
At first i thought it sounds a little high, but then i started thinking about my average communication protocol(IRC). I send a lot more than 50 messages a day over IRC, but i may not be average.
Killin' app! Thanks for the encouragement. I'm interested to see how you created chox.
I gave some thought to the right tool for the job of searching DNA.

DNA files don't change very often, which makes building an index worthwhile. Apparently, sequencing isn't perfect and neither are cells, so you'd want fuzzy matching. But repeats in DNA are also common, so that means fuzzy regex matching. There is already a fuzzy regex library[1], but I have no idea how fast it is. If the application requires performance above everything, an n-gram index sounds like the right tool for the job.

After writing the paragraph above, I searched for "DNA n-gram search." The original n-gram paper from 2006 used DNA sequences in their test corpus.[2] I don't know much about DNA or the applications built around it, so I'm glad I managed to recommend a tool that was designed for the job.

1. https://github.com/laurikari/tre/ (used by agrep)

2. Fast nGram-Based String Search Over Data Encoded Using Algebraic Signatures http://cedric.cnam.fr/~rigaux/papers/LMRS07.pdf
About 1.5 years into the project (part-time). v1.2.2 just released.
Consider how this would have played out if they didn't shut down the links and then someone hacked an "important" document? It would have been way worse overall.

Not notifying the customers was not a good move however.
Most people inclined to mass concern about "moral standards" are hypocritical: anything introduced in their generation that the previous generation didn't understand was just fine, but anything introduced in a subsequent generation that they don't understand isn't. Or, more bluntly: their moral standards are fine, it's everyone else that's wrong, both older and younger.
This is interesting, how does it compare to using nginx(or another proxy) in front of multiple socket.io instances on the same machine?
StackOverflow data dump. Thought I'd peek inside...
Ask HN: Is HN drifting away?
Okay, I registered up for hacker news only in last month, and have been surfing daily.. I have read about hacker news, and its purpose, how it stands out, and how it doesn't split from its core motto (which built an heavy expectation)..
2º ETAPA TERRAS ALTAS MTB CUP
The thing is that the internet speeds even in the dense areas are disproportionately slower.
Is This How We'll Cure Cancer?
What did Yahoo! originally pay for Upcoming? I'd guess it was significant. The reason I ask is why the Kickstarter campaign?
Guess I missed it. Interestingly it seems to be impossible to do this optimisation yourself in C or C++ and get either Clang or GCC to generate the same machine code (on x86-64).
Interesting concept, too bad you overide scrolling. I wanted to check out your website but it was too annoying on mobile. Can your target customer not afford browsers that scroll?
Brain API : The most anticipated API ever
Well, it will be like anything else - the first hit is free, then you have to pay. Netflix wouldn't have been killed in its infancy; it would have been killed as it became a toddler and started to walk and to run.

So your startup will be going like gangbusters for the first couple of months, then you'll get a letter noting that your "abnormal usage patterns" require "an agreement" or else you "will be subject to rate-limiting".

And the fee will be set as close your estimated profits as the ISP can come...
I am quite surprised it does not sound like white noise.

Anyway, I played the output of that script through some filters, and this sounds nice:

play -c 2 weierstrass.wav gain -12 loudness chorus 0.5 0.9 50 0.4 0.25 2 -t 60 0.32 0.4 2.3 -t 40 0.3 0.3 1.3 -s reverb gain 12
I remember Upcoming.org from 2003, back then it was a problem needing a solution but within a few years it was already pointless like plancast or the variety of other event listings and invitation systems.

There are events your friends want you to show up. Whether that message is sent via Facebook, email, text, paper, or face to face is irrelevant. If you are wanted there, you will be there.

There are events you want friends of friends to show up. Facebook facilities this quite well, and if you don't have a Facebook account to do so but they still want you there, well, you'll likely be there.

Then there are events you want strangers to show up. Facebook serves this quite well. If the events require a ticket, Eventbrite's got that covered. If it's a business event then your Gcal or Outlook has it covered.

In this landscape, where does upcoming.org, where does an anti-Facebook solution stand? And is it enough to cover payroll?

Because snobbishness aside--I don't own a TV because TV atrophies your brain when I can create art because I'm artist--this... really isn't a problem anymore.
You're right on the grammar. Thanks for the input, and for reading through the whole page! Thanks for the .hover tip as well ;)
Be aware that xargs does not deal nicely with race conditions: (Parallel grep) http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/man.html#differences_be...
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others take a stand against FCC
>they'll most likely come crawling to Tesla.

What specific technologies or patents do they own that will cause other companies to "crawl" to them? Sure, they're leading the way right now, but competition is heating up. Almost every major player in the market has developed or is developing EV technologies.

Are we that enamoured with the aura of Elon Musk that we really believe the major automobile manufacturers, with their hundreds of billions of dollars and reams of engineering experience, won't be able to match or surpass what Tesla is doing? That's a bold bet. The automobile world is an incredibly competitive space. Look how much competition is in every single market segment.
Map of a DDOS Attack
I bet Apple didn't give them permission, they never want their logo to be used for marketing purposes for any reason. There are no takeaway Apple-branded gadgets for instance (while I have tons of tshirt/pens/gadgets with logos/products of any technological company in existence), and many shopping malls in which Apple has a store can't show an Apple logo on the big ads panels outside.
The problem with that is this....

Sure, there is social interaction on projects, sure there are group efforts in any substantial programming project, but, at it's base, coding is a solitary and lonely endeavor not suitable for even all of those smart enough to do it.

There is a reason for the nerd stereotype. Programming is a discipline of years, not a social event of a few evenings. Trying to make it something it isn't probably isn't going to work.
Plenty of DCF models predict a Tesla share price which is higher than today's closing price. The problem is that they necessarily must rely to a heavy degree on assumptions about the future. Given that any realistic DCF model of Tesla needs to be probabilistic to some degree (measure different scenarios against each other) and that a company's true market value is still the unknown present-value adjusted sum of all its future earnings, we are still going to see massive disagreement about Tesla's correct valuation in the years ahead. Contemptuous comments about bajillion-dollar valuations and hype don't provide any value to this discussion.

If you're arguing from authority, it's also worth pointing out that Damodaran was uncertain about his valuation in the comment thread after his latest valuation of Tesla.
A car that can often cost over 100k USD.
> or apply for Canada PR

Just curious, can someone apply for permanent residency in Canada without being there in the first place? If that's how it works I'll definitely consider that option.

> unless they have a made a productive use of time by doing stuff such as freelancing

H-4s cannot freelance. My wife is on H-4 and we felt quite disgruntled when our immigration attorney told us that. Basically, she can only do volunteer work. She cannot have income from any kind of work.
They are already priced for their earnings in 2020. Buy them for their earning in 2050.
So you need an MPTCP-aware endpoint at the other end of the connection? I was imagining something that could be implemented unilaterally by a savvy home/office user just to ease the disruptions of switching between wired and wifi connections inside a NAT.
Injuries by numbers – NYPD Motor Vehicle Collisions Map
I've been using for two months as my main editor.

It works, hasn't crashed.

Still keeping emacs around for org-mode.
I think its based on ecommerce limitations and AdWords logic/tracking. Obviously Udemy cannot rely on pure 'organic' growth (instructors bringing students), so, Udemy would spend $x to get a user into the platform. If that user ends up in your class, Udemy paid for that student, not you, so it wouldn't make sense to reward you at the same level.

Furthermore, I do understand the 'winner takes all' mentality of source tracking for retailers and affiliates. Only very, very sophisticated systems can track multi-source/multi touch and even less can do multi attribution on the fly. (e.g. you brought an Udemy student but he/she decided to use your code on someone else's class, then what? who gets what?....ad absurdum) Something in your head such as, 'why don't we all share revenue equally' is really hard to do in practice once you have to pay for growth. Someone pays for a student, or you bring your own, once at Udemy, many scenarios can happen.

I do agree that a more graceful way to do this would be to give that preference for a given period of time (e.g. your student, the one you brought in December gets you 90%, but after your class, that student is taking other classes, so someone else should/may get that higher credit.

Ultimately, you are right in that more 'competition' to bring new users seems to be the objective of the arrangement, but at least it rewards the right behavior. You want to reward the best teachers (for acquisition and retention purposes) so while it seems 'unfair' compared top the old system, the old system doesn't scale once Udemy starts paying for traffic.

I know, sucks, but this one decision seems less motivated by greed than by the struggle of marketing spend attribution and growth
The language is currently without raw pointers, suitable for an object system like Python/Ruby/JS.
Probably because an answer either way will antagonize a large group of people.

So, wait for a while and then take a long time saying nothing. That seems to be standard practice with these petitions.
I did some stuff with a professor in undergrad where I was a code monkey for his harmonic analysis research, and to be more useful(since I hadn't had much analysis) I went to the lectures of his HA course and this was one of the few things I retained.

Personally I think the cool thing about these(and also fractals, which display this as iterations go to infinity) is that they have infinite lengths in a finite(though obviously infinitely subdividable) span.
So a divide-and-conquer algorithm on collections is more elegant functionally than imperatively? Also: water found wet.

Even that is only true if you consider the concise and readable nature of the Haskell code to be the most important factor in the elegance of the algorithm.

To me, the elegance of true quicksort is that its in-place nature is memory efficient, and consequently also cache-friendly on modern hardware, resulting in excellent real world performance.

If you consider the underlying nature of the algorithm to be more important to its elegance than superficial presentation details, then the typical 3-line functional implementation is clumsy by comparison, and equating the two is at best an appeal to having a sufficiently smart compiler.

In reality, of course, both the aesthetics and the underlying behaviour matter, so I'm not sure it's particularly helpful to promote any language as being superior on either basis without also considering or at least acknowledging the other.
And this kids is how you make a economic bubble.

$36M in the hole? Forget about that, they will be making (potentially) infinite millions in undisclosed amount of time, just you wait!

And I say this as a fan of their work. I though Musk was a millionaire, why isn't he bankrolling this with his own money?
Have you heard the phrase "Don't try to catch a falling knife"?
To my recollection, it was pretty similar, but with a lot fewer general news stories and a lot more stories about specific YC companies.
Net profit is not always more important than gross revenue (see Amazon) particularly for high growth companies. Growing companies should be re-investing their profits in continued expansion.
I loved watching the Republican and Democrat National Conventions while tuned into Twitter. Maybe I'll use spoilr next time around.
Smartshirt and pants with a new SDK to develop wearable interactive apps
Does anyone know the significance of 102 years?
Anyone know why Vancouver was the first expansion point of Ikea outside into North America?
sounds useful. how did that work? were you auditing? did you enroll as a student? what was the cost?
that is do to Fed comments, has nothing to do with long term
Great stuff!
Copy as cURL is very cool.
When have you ever seen Apple as a reference customer? This was probably some unfortunate Apple employee using their corp email account for the receipt to be sent to. It could have even been a retail employee, which isn't as much as an endorsement as an engineer working on UIKit for example.
"the fact they made a loss is irrelevant"

i don't mean to nitpick but i'm pretty sure "irrelevant" is not the word you are looking for. even if it was projected with complete accuracy, it is very relevant.
Nevermind, found the answer:

"Fifteen years ago, Alibaba's 18 founders were determined to set up a global Internet company originated by Chinese people, with hopes it would become one of the world's top 10 Internet companies, a company which will exist for 102 years," he said—a lifespan which would mean it lives across three different centuries.
The Kickstarter campaign appears to be a way for Andy to determine that there is still enough demand for what Upcoming provided for it to be worth building for him.
Probably best not to upload your private key to Github!

https://github.com/hal9000xp/euclid/blob/master/core/server....
It reminds me of Soundcloud, where comments pop in at the moment where they're inserted.
6 years without a job and let's not forget - with zero US work experience. Good luck getting taken seriously when you're applying for anything more than a low level job at that point.
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AFAIK obtaining an EAD is quite straightforward.
See for yourself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

Often the content on the main page is quite different.
Brtfs is great, it runs very fast, others takes 0.3 secs to start a container in my SSD, while brtfs takes only 0.1
Heartbleed Status: Upgrading to Heartbreak
I know not logging in is the basic premise of your website, but I'd also like to be able to read more than just the one post I found written by that author. Rather than search his tweets, and facebook posts, and any emails he's ever sent me for a mailp.in link.

Is there a way you can have sub-domains such as [username].mailp.in/[post address]

Perhaps the username is a hash of the email address to keep the privacy of the user. Not a deal-breaker but it'd be nice.
I have a playlist of music I enjoy listening to when coding and/or working on the computer - http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Programming+Music/60387099 . I just set it on shuffle and leave it going in the background.
Khan meets WordPress meets App Store
Hi, I'm in charge of our invitation-only beta program for Javascript developers at Versal (https://versal.com). We're currently inviting developers slowly so we can be available for 1-on-1 support and collect feedback leading up to our public beta in July. Each invitee is expected to build (and publish for everyone to use on the Versal platform) a small interactive learning object in Javascript on top of our frontend APIs (we call these things gadgets).

To join please email me (mike@versal.com) with some ideas about what you might build and why. We give a strong preference to people who are passionate about education and have big ideas about how to make the future of online education compelling.
They had 6 stores in Canada before they opened their first store in the USA? I wonder what made Canada such an attractive market for them (or what made the USA unattractive). They got into the USA in 1985, when the USA currency hit its post 1973 (floating) exchange rate peak. I wonder if the high exchange rate was a plus or minus from IKEAs point of view?