skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite a good summary. I use OCaml at Red Hat for a lot of virtualization tools. I had reason to use Python for some code quite recently, and it reminded me of how much better ML-derived languages are.

The things I found awful about Python compared to OCaml:

- Lots of bugs which are never noticed, even at run time, eg. along error paths. 'pylint' helps here, but it doesn't catch all the bugs, and IMHO if you need a lint tool to fix your language you're doing it wrong in the first place.

- Really hard to refactor code. In OCaml the compiler helps refactoring -- you just break something and hit 'make -k' until you've fixed all the places that need fixing. In Python you have to visually grep all the code, which doesn't scale and is bug-prone.

- I miss nested variable declarations.

- Poor support for data types. Python in theory has lots, but in practice everyone's using dictionaries and objects, which are unsafe and introduce bugs by design.

- Slow. Really slow.

There were a few good aspects of Python, but I ended up with a lot of buggy code, and I know there are many more bugs in there which I haven't yet found, which just wouldn't be the case with a statically typed, type-inferenced ML-derived language.
Good point! I though I've checked ruby-lang last 10 days...
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Music isn't obviously not the focus of any Twitch stream, but nevertheless, people are breaking copyright laws by playing copyrighted music on their streams. And if Twitch becomes a part of YouTube, they might have to crack down on copyrighted music on streams, due to pressure from the copyright holders.
HN is a YC marketing tool, it pays for itself quite easily.
Publishing's seen many business models over the years. Information is hard, for a number of reasons, and advertising has been utilized for mass-media for much of the past century (longer in print).

There's a lot wrong with ads: http://redd.it/24107v

I should add to that list "weaponized clickbait". Advertising directly promotes noxious content anti-patterns: http://redd.it/23twec

One alternative is syndication via a broadband / media tax: http://redd.it/1uotb3

Phil Hunt (Pirate Party UK) has a similar proposal: http://redd.it/1vknhc
My one regret with cutting the cord was that I gave up my precious Red Wings. NHL.com has a yearly subscription to watch the games online, but paying for that meant that I would have paid just as much for cutting the cord, as I did for having cable.
then again finding a job with a software engineering related PhD (in UK or US) is not that hard at all, is it?
But how does it apply? A website is hardly a "public space".

This quote makes no sense in the virtual world where everyone can build his own planet without ads if he wants to. Space is not limited here.
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YouTube is a Juggernaut. But Twitch is not, and most of its audience is very young and focused on technology, manly video games. They will move fast. Create the next Twitch now. Wait for YouTube to force content restrictions on the old Twitch. Profit.
That would be awesome, but I don't have high hopes - Google probably wants to have ability to modify protocol as they wish for new features. It seems they practically have no will to build a translation layer :/
Do you have a link to this program?

I think the piece this prof wrote targets classical PhD programs and does not take into account industry-sponsored PhD programs like the one you mention.
Just watched Hicks. I think the problem with ads is the process is corrupted rather than that it exists at all. You have a great business with great service but no one knows about it, it makes things better to let people know. The trouble is the ad space goes to those who pay most who tend to be those who overcharge for crappy stuff. Not sure what the solution to that is.
Nothing will happen to either QM or continental drift. New scientific theories don't suddenly invalidate the otherwise working old ones, they only add more details and refine the modelling of reality.
"...if every web browser starts using less memory, everyone is worse off."

I think you're over applying the concept. That can't possibly be true.
In game theory terms the other mugs pay. Works for me.
I think it was the preparation time, not the cooking time. You can prepare a vegetable soup from raw vegetables in less than 15 minutes. With some training you can do that in 5 minutes. You'll need an extra 30 minutes simmering though but no more work after preparation unless you want it mixed. You really can't overcook a vegetable soup. You can even keep it a couple of days in the pan without it getting sour.
It's a hassle free meal.

But you are right, the truth lies between 15 minutes and an hour.
Exactly, see Pandora for a current example of this "just profitable to be in business" model.
Blog as honestly as possible about things that matter to your audience.

If you don't know what those things are yet you don't have a niche.

And maybe you don't actually want a 'niche' in the traditional sense — see http://unicornfree.com/2011/niches-are-for-suckers
> You'll get all the safety of a dynamic language, with the flexibility of a typed language.

That sounds a pretty good description of Go, so I'm wondering what his point is in the first place.
Thanks for letting me know. The title sounds pretty spammy now that I think about it. I'm still experimenting with various ways to reach an adventure audience but I've tried guest posts, SEO, adventure forums and cross promotion are all the usual suspects. I'm not after big growth, just some ideas for reaching the right people at the right time.

I imagine there are some interesting case-studies from people who frequent HN.
Telling the user "you're doing it wrong" (especially for a very common use case/mode) is the wrong answer.

Mind, I've reached the conclusion that tabs are also the wrong answer, though I haven't sorted out quite what the right one is. Tab Outliner for Chrome (discussed on the following link) helps, but it's still not what I'm looking for, too manual. http://redd.it/256lxu
> Doing so does require cooking and a bit of planning.

That's the niche. Soylent solves that problem.
Yeah, I came across `natpmpc` when I discovered the Airport Express at the office does not support uPNP. Our new Asus N66U supports NAT-PMP so I thought maybe it was more common these days.
Yeah, because why would we ever need the compiler to help us identifying operations which make it harder to reason about our programs!
Thanks for the link. Good read.
That's false a dietitian has several requirements and while less than a doctor it's on par with a RN. Initial collage level education + test + continuing education credits. http://www.eatright.org/Public/content.aspx?id=6442472286

http://education-portal.com/rn_requirements.html
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I believe that it is a good start. On an average you're getting 50+ teams a week and 200 users. These numbers suggest that the collaborative tool you're talking about is intuitive easy to learn and most importantly addressing a common need for all the team-members. As a marketer I would recommend you to also track the engagement ratio of your application and install to registration rate. This will let you identify the users specific to an industry and will allow you to customize and design your marketing campaigns and strategies around a specific customer base
Ask HN: How do you track your metrics?
I am currently exploring solutions to track metrics for my startup. KissMetrics and Mixpanel are doing good jobs, but they are quite expansive and not very customizable for an early-stage startup. I am looking more for a tool that aggregates the data and syncs metrics from various sources.
So the picture of the one woman laughing is not having a conversation with anyone, but actually having a psychotic episode?
They had big customers and their technology was web-analytics.
14 years ago, when Google grew, they had some good point to make.

"Google did it AND we got the biggest websites of our country as customer!"

But all the engineers where much more expensive than what the customers paid.
How? Reaching contracts with all major copyright owners in order to stream your out-of-garage hobby?

Buying music (I assume that is what you meant), will not let streamers use it, thus there is no meaningful solution as of yet.
Note that the author of this article also wrote "Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!"[1], which is a wonderful resource for someone who wants to learn Erlang.

1: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content
People complained that cookies were being used by advertisers to track them.

The EU decided to take action by mandating that companies make it visible when this was happening, in the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications[1].

Since it's technically impossible to allow the benefits of cookies without opening privacy holes, I don't really know what else privacy campaigners were hoping to achieve.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Privacy_and_Electr...
In short, it is very unlikely the reasons for abandoning federation, or dropping XMPP altogether with Google Voice, are technical in nature.
Nice to see this going on.

I think compilers should be bootstraped, after the basic language is in place.
It seems to just be a biofeedback device. It tells you when you are experiencing the right brain wave pattern so that you're consciously aware of it, but you have to do the work of meditating to alter the state.
"I have done some original research outside of academia (mostly in the form of source code, some semi-published)"

I'm not sure what you're saying here. Source isn't something that gets published, source code is at best a demonstration of the concept you publish about. Either you have some papers published (that means, peer-reviewed from a real journal, not uploaded to xyz 'open access' journal) or you don't.

To 'work the system', you need to get real papers published, several, for a number of years, and work with people in positions that can get you into a university. That way you can sidestep the several years postdoc route. Or become an adjunct.

As an adjunct professor you are 'affiliated' with a university, giving you access to some resources (usually) and a name/email address to put on your papers. So yes you need a source of income besides that.

" Since I am in software I don't really need facilities...."

Yes you do, maybe not in the sense that you need hardware, but you need an environment to reflect your ideas on, and to give you social proof that you're not a quack working from his basement. Yes it's theoretically possible to get published without an academic affiliation, and it sometimes happens, but you'll never be taken serious to the same extent your competition is.
Persona uses third-party cookies, so this is expected with this add-on. If you whitelist persona.org (e.g., just visit persona.org and set self-destruct to "never"), then Persona works fine.
Soylent's rise in popularity reminds me a bit of Lifelock. The CEO comes out and makes very ambitious claims. In Lifelock's case, that was the whole, "here's my SSN." [0] For Soylent, it's the CEO living off just that for months on end [1]. These types of sales pitches continue for months until the claims prove false and then the product marketing is changed. Maybe Soylent is different, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

[0] http://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/
[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/could...
Microsoft did this all the time to protect it's Office, and it worked. I do not think this is meaningless, not very efficient, but gigants can sacrifice efficiency if it helps save their primary revenue.
You might want to take a look at what Wikis do in terms of CC licensing.
oh, for what it's worth, I apologize a bit to you. I know I'm likely coming off as a jerk, but I assure you it's unintended. You're just out for a bike ride.
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The salient part is "public space". Websites aren't public space.
Nothing at all; this was a decision made by the Hangouts team. The XMPP change has to do with the NIH syndrome a lot of Google engineers suffer from, combined with the incompetence of the Hangouts PM, Kate Cushing.

Disclaimer: I work for Google.
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People used to care about privacy. The EU wants to protect people's privacy. Passing EU law takes a considerable length of time. By the ti e the law passed it had been made weird by bureaucrats and obsolete by time. Now there are many worse privacy invasions and most people don't care so much about privacy.
It's not just insects. Mosquitofish (especially in sufficient numbers) are voracious eaters, and will eat other fish, insects, frogs, etc.

Yes, they're effective at containing mosquitos, but broader ecological disruptions can occur through other activities, including out-competing (or in cases eating) other aquatic life.
"A plane has been in space for 500 days, and no one knows why" (except the people who sent it there...)
Why would that be enough on its own? If that alone is sufficient, he should choose C over both OCaml and Haskell.
That is not what is happening in the post. Only the filtering/element-hiding capabilities of both are being compared.
My understanding is that the Air Force's Space budget is bigger than NASA's. Making news like this [1] make a lot more sense.

1 - http://www.stripes.com/news/air-force/air-force-spending-60-...
Google reportedly acquiring live games video site Twitch for $1bn
I see you hold strong opinions (I am very critical of Soylent myself), but it might be wise to re-visit the evidence for some of your strongly-held assertions --otherwise you might end up misinforming others, and yourself.

For instance, what you say about 'NEVER supplement[ing] with iron' is quite wrong. Iron deficiency anemia is quite common, especially for young women; and it is routinely treated by iron supplementation [1], even over-the-counter: if anything, iron's bioavailability in adults is very low, and it is difficult to exceed safe levels (although it's the opposite for children) [2].

Also Vitamin D2 is not useless at all. Even though some recent studies have shown some limited evidence that D3 is stronger and longer-acting; decades of clinical practice have shown the safety and efficacy of high-dose D2 in treating severe vitamin D deficiency [3]. It's disingenuous to say otherwise.

And... what you say about Vitamin K1 vs K2 is also far from well-established. Putting aside the fact that actual clinical vitamin K deficiency is extremely rare in the first place, K1 is the most commonly used form for a reason: even though there has been some recent work indicating possible differences in bioavailability and function on the part of K2; current knowledge is still very limited, and there is not enough evidence to displace K1 as the main formulation approved for dietary supplements [1,2].

I could go on and on with other inaccuracies in what you said, but you get the idea.

Also be careful with overdoing that liver with onions habit. Even though animal river is very rich in iron and copper (which likely explains part of how you feel after eating it); it also happens to contain high amounts of vitamin A in retinoid (retinol) form, which as you correctly point out should be taken in moderation due to their much higher bioavailability vis a vis carotenoids, thus increasing its potential toxicity [7].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_supplement

[2] http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/lifestyle-guid...

[3] http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/589256_4

[4] http://www.ilsi.org/Europe/Documents/Menaquinones%20and%20hu...

[5] http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/scdocs/doc/nda_op_ej822_vit_k2_...

[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver_(food)

[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_A#Equivalencies_of_reti...
I always understood that human numbers in less developed areas actually increase because other forces (disease, poverty, mosquitoes?) try to keep them in check.
Scientist here who managed to get out of the science trap:

Prof Katz is totally right. I started a great career as string theorist, postoc at several elite universities, international lectures and talks, wrote a book, appeared on TV etc etc ... and then didn't get a professorship (at least not on a reasonable time scale). Tried scientific management for a while, but that was too depressing. So, in my late thirties (!) I went into automotive industry, working on self-driving cars, having a fantastic and cool job with a salary I could only dream of a few years ago.

I wouldn't have wanted to miss large parts of my scientific career. But I really regret my excursion into scientific management. I should have switched careers five years earlier.

My advise to young scientists: define some aims and a time scale, and if you don't meet them (i.e. get a tenured job), say good-bye. There is nothing to regret. Don't believe those professors, friends of yours, who promise you a position next year or in two or in three ...
App developer wins case against "Candy Crush" Has Candy in their name
Candy Crush Saga owners try to bully everyone with Candy in their App's name. Finally someone stood up and win against them. More details will be added later
http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/25wxw0/we_beat_candy_crush_so_our_mobile_app_has_candy/
Knowing the full history of the "program" and everyhing the lead to The Big Leak really puts it in perspective and grounds the entire NSA domestic spying apparatus in reality. At least for me. I'm fairly young and was in school 03 to 07 but I wish I paid more attention back then.
Seems like a rather pointless dream. What would be the benefit? A slower OS with GC pauses?
I'm interested - what are each of your to-dos? Are they like, articles to read or are they actually specific pieces of work, say like, a wordpress page to edit?
Seriously, UK, if you hate EU so much, just get out of it already. You're only trying to make things worse and help US spy on everyone else in Europe anyway. Then you'd be free to become the 51st state from US, as you've always wanted.
Patrick (patio11) has a great blog and covers all sorts of interesting
topics, including marketing/targeting:

http://www.kalzumeus.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11

Also, there's plenty of previous HN discussions on niche targeting:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=niche#!/story/forever/0/niche

As for the cross-over between hikers and hackers, I've seen the OpenBSD developers self-described as "A hiking club with a hacking problem." Nearly all of their main hackathons involve a hike of some sort.

http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html
Sure, because everybody wants a 2-10MB additional download of mangled transpiled Javascript code for their app.
Okay, so how can we get the ABP people to do likewise?

I'd love to see a reaction from them explaining either why they can't do it, why it wouldn't help, or when they're planning on doing it...
You're being downvoted because you're bringing irrelevant fanboyism into the thread.

If you think a project aimed at (in relation to the current space industries) mass-produced cost-effective commercial launch vehicles is a threat to small-production-run projects aimed at defense missions, I think you have some horizon-broadening to do.

SpaceX is, for the most part, just taking well-trod ground and trying to make it more efficient. Classified defense stuff, on the other hand, tends to break a lot of new ground and do exotic things the civilian market hasn't even considered enough to debate whether they're possible.

It'd be kind of like someone working on a cheaper, more efficient jet airliner, and you coming in and saying "see, this is a threat to stuff like the SR-71 because it's so much cheaper than all the bloated contractors!"
Life expectancy by health spending per capita [graph]
Source: http://gallery.mailchimp.com/de3259be81e52e95191ab7806/files/HAG2013.pdf, page 25
Ah, good point.

And come to think of it, I'm working on a basic blog and I'm using javascript (react.js, specifically) to make the client-side experiences smoother... I had completely forgotten about that.

Thanks for the insight.
Why don't you propose a solution?
Sure, but sarcasm requires a specific target, and from your phrasing it was their (perceived by you) misuse of the term lethal.

Being sarcastic is not a free pass.
By setting an example of how element-hiding blocklists should be implemented
720p is HD though.
Source (OECD study): http://gallery.mailchimp.com/de3259be81e52e95191ab7806/files... page 25
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That doesn't make a lot of sense though. There are already lots of places where that stuff is falling back to "Sorry, can't do this".

Ignoring hardware limitations (running hangout on a phone without a front facing camera maybe?) you already have the 'user runs a browser that needs a plugin to fullfil the request, but plugin is missing' case. Which is reported as a failure to both users (with a somewhat helpful message).

Using anything hangout-y over xmpp can fail for all I care. That's not the problem. The problem is that they broke the parts that _map well_. You cannot text me if you're using hangout (unless you're on gmail.com and use the 'gtalk' chat widget). I cannot see your presence.

There's a difference between 'not building a translation layer' (for oh-so-awesome new features) and deliberately breaking things that work since, like, forever.

I agree with the sibling: It's deliberate and just another Google 'Move to out platform and never get out' move.

(Other examples: »"Upgrade" your browser to Chrome.« »Install a "modern" browser to get automatic translation of websites.« - ignoring all the 'Join G+' nonsense)
Great review.

I should have pointed out that we are talking about healthy subjects here. People with anemia should take iron supplements. I am with you here. Same for people with severe vit D. deficiency. In this case, any form of vit. D will benefit them.

Thanks for the advice about the liver. I only take it once a week and a very limited amount (maybe 70-80 grams). In this case, my main course if basmatic rice with the liver for some fantastic flavoring.

Yeap, I love eating real food.
> Websites aren't public space.

The internet is.
The niche is for hipster-nerds who want to have something "cool" that defines their personality. It's kind of like kids who work so hard to look like they haven't brushed their hair: "I just don't care what society thinks about me." It's no different than "I just don' care what food tastes like. whips carefully combed bangs out of face Pshah, I just totally don't have time to make food, you know? Like, I'm totally building this rad web app, you know, for the modern generation. You just don't get it, man, food is like, totally mainstream."
Just because contracts are difficult to get doesn't mean you have free rein to do whatever you want. There are plenty of meaningful solutions to this "problem". Don't play music at all. Play music you are allowed to play (be it paid or just music that allows streamers to use it). It may not be what people want to hear, but obviously the music is of value to shanelja's audience as they requesting songs.
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I think `abc` would be overkill for this. My understanding is that you might use that to add behavior to a bunch of classes that aren't related hiearchically. But for type safety, all you need to do is check for the single magic method.