skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Say what you will about Dogecoin the technology, the Dogecoin community is really something to behold.
Functional Programming in Scala.

It's not a book about scala, it just so happens to use scala as the language to teach you how to program functionally. I've read other books that purport to do the same, they end up showing a light sprinkling of functional concepts. This book goes much deeper, and is ultimately much more rewarding.
Coincidently on the local news website.

> Findlay University did not release the name of the company that made the mistake but is working with the business' insurance company to pay for it to be fixed.

Findlay apparently doesn't value transparency as much as Emory.

> The university says grass was killed on as many as 54 of the campus' 72 acres.
For me, part of the difference is whether the interoperability is complete or fuzzy: I don't feel like you can be "only sort of interoperable", and that seems to be the big difference between the human/machine and machine/machine examples (it isn't that the interoperability is a different kind of interoperability, it is that it is a different level of precision in the kind of interoperability). A developer of will notice important differences in Java vs. Android.

To explain some more with my photograph comment: the photograph might have taken time and context and thought on behalf of an entire population of viewers to come to some "meaning"; maybe this is more obvious if we take a storyline from a popular television show: before the show people didn't care about the topic of the show, but after the investment, quality, and success of the show now people really like that topics and in particular the story progression that went along with it.

People are familiar with that story: to really allow those people to feel good about the new story, maybe it has to be similar to the old one? If you go down this path for a while, you start reading about idea/expression differences as they apply to literary and visual works: high-level plots and themes are not protected, but specific details and timelines are. The idea of organizing code into packages and classes is not, but the specific choice of what classes to put in what packages and what they are named are.

FWIW, I personally feel like a lot of the benefit of trying to be "interoperable" with someone's perception of how to program is sufficient to be at that higher "idea" level: when I use C# or Objective-C (which in many ways feel similar to Java and in the case of C# was pretty much designed as a direct replacement for Java) I am highly familiar with them despite not feeling like they are the same: I gain a lot of the benefit of C# and Java having similar ideas, despite the fact that they clearly have different expressions.

Now, that said? I continue to appreciate the idea that this is all a stupid distinction: but if you erase this distinction I am not certain where you still draw the line for claiming copyright on anything. Given the idea "investment in expression should be protected" (an admittedly-oversimplified version of "copyright"), I don't think you still have "investment by consumers in content should be inherently reusable by other creators". I could be wrong, however, and would love to hear more ideas.
What gives you that idea?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7758203 is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7758193
How would China having "so much to gain" lead to Snowden knowing more than he leaked? Maybe your opinion is unpopular because it contains very little logic.
There are actually a bunch up there:

http://oscar.dcarr.org
Please could you explain why? Trackerless bittorrent is just as decentralized, and seems more scalable.
Cloning something like Chromium or Linux is already a multi-gigabyte affair without needing everyone to download everything ever committed to the system... and what happens when code needs to be taken down for copyright reasons?

I like more-decentralized Git, but I don't think this is necessarily the way to do it. The main problems today include plumbing around decentralized issue tracking and wikis, good Git web interfaces, etc.. Better P2P might make forking easier without centralization (Gittorrent?), but most serious projects probably won't find it difficult to obtain a VPS; data integrity and distributed authority, things the blockchain provides, are not really necessary at all.
Doing Bayesian Data Analysis

Interesting topics: MCMC, Gibbs Sampling

F# for C# Developers

This book seems to leave lot out in order to simplify but good starting book nonetheless

TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, Second Edition

I wanted to know what really "connection" means. This book has answer.

An Introduction to R

I guess everyone dealing with data should know R, right?

Here's my Amazon list with quite a few very interesting books collected over time: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/RXLC4WK1ZOJR
Issues with time travel
I wish he were alive and working today. The fact that Alzheimer's prevented him from seeing the increasingly amazing results of his life's work is one of history's small but powerful tragedies.
Since this was written in 1997 and C, C++, and Java have all evolved considerably since then (And Ada?) I'd be interested to see an updated version of this.

Also, I remember hearing/reading somewhere, possible in a class I took on compilers, that the Ada language was so complex that it very likely would never have completed development if it were not backed by the government.
I also heartily recommend The Information. Such a great book, such a terrible title.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Blissett_%28nom_de_plume...
I don't understand your question. I never said anything about Snowden knowing more.
what happens if you have actual contributions, do they pollute the banner?
Very, very cool. But I've got a small glitch. Mine shifts a day too early: https://github.com/replaid

Perhaps a time zone issue? Created this at 10pm Eastern time.
People have been livestreaming marathon voting sessions on http://votedogecar.com, apparently one kid voted 84,000 times.
I'm wondering why they didn't say 135 packages instead of dividing them so strangely.
Were the components radiation-hardened, or did they just wing it?
How do you feel about auto repair?
Only five countries actually want to ban killer robots
Why not come up with some in-file indexing system (i.e. define a Keywords or Topic section using a unique text pattern) and then configure ctags so that it can scan a given file for that information.

You could then just run ctags from inside Vim to give you a full index.
I asked my friend attending Emory right now, and he didn't even realize anything was going on. He says that the Emory IT department has a notorious distinction on campus as being regularly terrible, mostly with an unreliable internet connection.

However, it looks like they handled this accident the best they could! Perhaps this accident would not have happened at a more reliable IT department.
The doubt of innovation
Seeing Word Lens in action for the first time is the sort of thing that only happens a few times in your life. I didn't really "get" how important smartphones in general and the iPhone in particular were going to be until I saw Word Lens.

Word Lens has its flaws, but it's like looking into a crystal ball that shows you the Star Trek future we were all promised as kids but have been mostly denied so far. Congratulations, this acquisition really was well-deserved.
What is StartupToolShop? and, Our Promise to You
Conway Berners-Lee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMUSE
(Sorry, didn't see the dupe.)
It is unclear in that article where the Saudi Arabian government paid a fair market value in 1980 for ownership of the rest of the company?
I remember AO-40 when I was first getting into ham radio around the millennium. They experienced quite a slew of problems with that one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AO-40
Projections for the global population in 2050
That code can't be taken down for "copyright reasons" is a feature in my eyes, not a flaw. The best way to stand up to censorship and legal threats is to really not be able to comply, just like the best defense against torture is not to know (and much more so if your would-be agressors have a way of being sure you really don't know, and technology can do that against censorship.)
Is College Really Harder to Get Into Than It Used To Be?
This is why NASA spends millions, not tens of thousands, of dollars to send things to space.
It really is rocket science. Putting stuff into space is always hard.
Really remarkable feat considering the popularity of incumbent drivers like Danica Patrick et al.

Well done Dogecoin community!
I actually wonder how Go and Rust would fare, Rust very well I suspect...
C-b M-2 to rotate the panes into a horizontal split.

C-b M-1 to rotate the panes back into a vertical split.
A game that makes teens feel less alone, preventing suicides
It needs an incentive model, like for every GB of space you provide you get a GB of space from peers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhs_in_World_Wars
So I guess most people have a blank activity grid and need something to fill it?
People have also been (assumedly) using Shodan and default admin passwords to put "Vote for Josh" on exposed HP printers. http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Printers-LaserJet-Experts-Onlin...
I think it was welded shut precisely because they didn't want people doing that.
There are proof of storage techniques. I already listed some references in the paper I am working on (https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain/blob/master/gitchain.te...)
But do it carefully. Has probiotics ever harmed anyone for example?
The FDA is not elected, or even indirectly elected. They are career bureaucrats with career tenure who cannot be fired. How would you even know that they are doing a good job? Last I looked, Americans have terrible health care relative to other countries; the FDA has no responsibilit for that?
This was written by people who are much closer to your viewpoints on economic freedom than mine. They are very mild and conservative in their estimations of cost in lives. I suggest you read it:

http://fdareview.org/harm.shtml

The delay and large reduction in the total number of new drugs has had terrible consequences. It is difficult to estimate how many lives the post-1962 FDA controls have cost, but the number is likely to be substantial; Gieringer (1985) estimates the loss of life from delay alone to be in the hundreds of thousands (not to mention millions of patients who endured unnecessary morbidity). When we look back to the pre-1962 period, do we find anything like this tragedy? The historical record—decades of a relatively free market up to 1962—shows that voluntary institutions, the tort system, and the pre-1962 FDA succeeded in keeping unsafe drugs to a low level. The Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy, in which 107 people died, was the worst of those decades. Every life lost is important, but the grisly comparison is necessary. The number of victims of Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy and of all other drug tragedies prior to 1962 is very small compared to the death toll of the post-1962 FDA.
To be honest, I doubt drugs make sense for all diseases. Autism may not have one single cure for example.
PC, Internet, Graph, next?
Because if they are "heavily" spying on the U.S., they already knew all what Snowden had, and more.

How many gov employees + contractors have top security clearances in the US? That's how.
I think this book is a little too basic for anyone who's already studied any OOP. I'm no expert, but what I learnt from this could've been condensed into a blog post. I think it'd make a great introduction (a word that should be included in the title) to OOP though.
With Flextime, Bosses Prefer Early Birds to Night Owls
Absolutely, but people make mistakes.

It's also somewhat unavoidable when you're dealing IO, unless you stick to .pipeTo(self)
The question might be: do low gluten diets do any harm?

Since the beginning of the year, I have cut my gluten consumption by over 90%, and I have been feeling great. For at least fifteen years, I have been keeping track of how I feel the day after eating different foods. I was going to reduce gluten for about a month as an experiment but I just felt good and kept my modified diet.

Another benefit: my wife and I are great cooks, and making gluten free food that tastes great was a fun little challenge, until we acquired new skills.

So, any evidence that going gluten free causes harm?
And with crypto currencies, the community is far more important than the technology (past a minimum bar that Bitcoin has set). Dogecoins are intrinsically valuable so long as people enjoy sending/trading with them, and there's a real possibility of it becoming a widely used internet tipping currency.

I made a prediction here on Jan 14, 2014 that Dogecoin's market cap would grow faster than that of Bitcoin this year (or shrink slower). I wasn't comfortable saying it in public at the time, but it's actually going pretty well (much to my surprise):

Dogecoin - $7.9m -> $35m for ~4.4x growth

Bitcoin - $10.4b -> $5.7b for ~0.54 growth

Relatively, Dogecoin has outperformed Bitcoin (in terms of market cap) by ~8.08x. Of course, since Dogecoin inflates more quickly, this isn't representative of the result of purchasing coins and waiting (IMO a good thing).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7050037
Now imagine you're in 2140, reading that 1980s football player's autobiography: almost every page would contain something you never realized about the past. An etiquette book from 1832, for example, is far more valuable to us now than it was in 1852.
Kinda sucks when someone experienced enough to know bullshit calls bullshit.
Aerospace grade radiation hardened computers start in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per CPU and with a cost equal to or greater (usually the latter) than the launch cost, they just aren't worth it for CubeSats that aren't carrying critical payloads (piggy back launches are $200-500k depending on institution affiliation).

A little shielding is enough to protect the CPU from permanent damage for a while and error correction circuits using 3-7 or more CPUs running in parallel is way cheaper, even including engineering costs, than a single CPU.

Even with the troubles, one hell of a success for $70,000.
It's competition that is driving cell phone development, not a profusion of many thousands of government-granted monopolies over aspects of each phone.
Tesla game needs help 
looking for help funding my project. or advice on how to generate interest.
Both screen and tmux support a feature you'll really love. Upon hitting ctrl+a/b [, both enter a "copy mode". This allows you to both scroll through the history, and to copy text from a specific pane.
This is a weird feature called a "secondary screen", which means that the terminal secretly has a second buffer to draw ncurses programs on. The OP probably had this disabled in screen, so it didn't work in their terminal.
I remember reading about this and his work at Bell in The Idea Factory http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factory It's awesome and strange in the same time.

He was basically fooling around "instead of work", creating such amazing things, while all the more people fooling around "instead of work" I see these days are at max creating high scores for Candy Crush...

Lot to learn. :)
Access to healthcare is firmly in the bailiwick of Congress. Hell, the rest of the First World has similar authorities that determine what drug gets to market, their criteria are similar, and their healthcare metrics aren't nearly as awful as the United States.

And for the "career bureaucrats", if you want a modicum of stability you need them, you can't have elections or change the rules every other year - what you need is institutional memory and predictability.
This is very strange, could you describe he problem more? Also, does the contents of an ncurses app (vim, less, emacs) stay after you close the program?
Can multiple processes access the same database? Or is the model similar to sqlite?
Keepnote.
Working with both IB and 10g, the latency numbers provided by the azure IB setup are in-line with what a 10g kernel-bypass Ethernet setup can do. Ib's main performance advantage comes from the userspace message processing as opposed to any inherent advantage of IB itself as opposed to ethernet.

Kernel bypass Ethernet also doesn't require recompilation or rewriting the networking stack. Plain ol' socket programs in any language can get a boost by enabling kernel bypass.

I'd say that IB had the first mover advantage and is now entrenched in HPC, but if it's just HPC, then it remains to be seen if the HPC market is big enough to support IB on its own.
Postgres-XC becomes Postgres-XL, gets parallel distributed query capabilities
Google does what's best for Google. Google doesn't do what's best for its users.

Unlike every other for-profit business in the world?

(I didn't downvote, BTW)
Snowden was never taken into custody in Hong Kong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Hong_Kong

Anyway, everyone already knows what they need to know: if you're acting against the "interests" of the Five Eyes countries (primarily the US or the UK), don't trust any computers in or from those countries, unless you can reliably examine everything.
Has no one learned from the Fantastic Four's rocket trip?
Just turns out to be a huge drag when secrets get accidentally committed to the swarm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedug

It's a large drum suspended from a rack and played with a padded mallet, used in gamelan music (see photo).
I'm sorry if my argument was unclear, but I was attempting to say my best guess is that fair use in this case is untenable regardless of the interoperability argument, and thus also in cases where interoperability was more strongly attempted. Of course, there would be many individual factors involved in any other court case, and it's not like a jury in the Android case could set a precedent one way or another (although an appeal could), but even so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_records#Art...
Without any doubt one of my favorites ever. Few books had so much impact on me
Awesome, but why a genetic algorithm? I wonder if it could be formulated as a tractable optimization problem instead.
The pharmaceutical industry was doing extremely well until the 1990s - that's 35 years of success despite the FDA. Now what it is that caused the pharma crisis that started in 2003 I do not know.

Is it the fact that the easy fruits have all been picked, there is nothing left to be discovered because everything at market already does a good job at a much better price point than any new drug? Or is it the fact that Pharma doesn't produce on a timescale that Wall Street likes, or both? Hell, Facebook is valued like Pfizer, but Facebook gives faster returns on capital.

Your argument is completely at odds with observable facts.
Heh. Spoken like someone that doesn't really feel anything.
My site, https://www.justwritedammit.com lets you save automatically to browser local storage, Google Drive, or Dropbox. If you have writing in Google Drive already, you can import it as chapters. You can also manually export and import files to and from the desktop. It has word count and a timer showing you how long you've been writing. There is a word and phrase frequency analyzer to help you figure out if you're over using certain idioms. And if you've been using it for a while and have a lot of writing, you can export it all to an EPUB package for eReader devices.

EDIT: and it works on smartphones, too, which I've personally been using to get some writing done on my galaxy note 2 while on the go or at the coffee shop/bar.
start in the hundreds of thousands of dollars per CPU

Not really, depending on the performance you want:

http://www.intersil.com/en/products/space-and-harsh-environm...

It's a little over $100, which isn't all that much when you consider that this is a CPU that has been used successfully in space before by NASA.

(I remember a short while ago on an electronics forum there was a discussion about either this or a similar project - can't remember - where someone bet that they were certainly going to fail because they weren't using rad-hard parts. This data point certainly supports that.)
FCC: Report on cable industry prices
You're right, that's not as bad. But it's still better, IMO, to link to the original site.
Education from the future for millennials
I know there were an other XKCD about kola borahola:
https://xkcd.com/1330/
After all the red tape, prescription Drugs still Kill Over 100,000 People Each Year which is vastly higher than your estimate.

Sure, looser regulations might save some lives but so does not using a seat belt. The only sane way to do such comparisons is by looking at both lives saved and lost. And if your looking at the Cost/befit of something you can't use a baseline of other countries without including their costs as well.

Edit: To be clear it's a huge but subtle point. If the FDA saves 10k more lives than X, and costs a total of 20k lives you have no idea if it's better than nothing without knowing X.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicle

The only US company to still make gum using chicle is http://www.gleegum.com/, most now use a cheaper synthetic rubber substitute.
You have read Andy Weir's "The Martian"? (http://www.amazon.com/The-Martian-Novel-Andy-Weir-ebook/dp/B...)
Wouldn't you just store your values as an array?

The point of redis is having external, shared memory.
Wow, what are the chances?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
http://vedis.symisc.net/licensing.html

Redistributions in any form must be accompanied by information on
how to obtain complete source code for the Vedis engine and any
accompanying software that uses the Vedis engine software.

...

The commercial license permits closed-source distribution of an
application to third parties. If you do not want to release the
source code for your application, you may purchase a license from
Symisc Systems.

Ho hum.

Great project though, looks cool.