skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not disagreeing that they are against user made content per se, but there are plenty of examples where they've embraced user content, ever since http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Paint

and even to the more recent Wario-Ware games where you can make your own mini-games.
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Amen for breaking backwards compatibility. Needs to happen soon so the CRUFT can be cut out of JEE.
I think the issue is now more one of language philosophy than language implementation now.

In my mind languages tend to have an optimal code size where they work well, and what works at <1000 lines often does poorly at even 10k lines.
Really hope this goes trough
Well but all these initiatives are not so much about encouraging all people, but mostly women it appears.
True. And Natural Selection never discovered how to extract energy by breaking apart the atom---that took an act of intelligence. Still, I suspect there may exist limits to how small a fundamental computational unit can be:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/11/021126203508.ht...
Hard work is good, smart work is better (and always has been).
You could do that, or you could get an FPGA that runs faster at a lower price per unit and probably holds more circuitry.
I think Oracle is working on adding value types. Hopefully for java 9, more likely java 10.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/169

https://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/value_types_and_struct_...

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2014-March...
Jobs did turn divisions against one another, as when considering whether to build the iPhone with iPod OS or OS X.

Jobs also permitted silos; for example under Jobs, iOS and OS X were largely separate teams. Cook seems to have taken a major step toward dissolving those silos by dismissing Scott Forestall and consolidating all design under Ive and all software under Federighi.

Based on the recent iOS and OS X previews, it looks like Apple divisions are working very well with one another right now.
The socializing would have to happen within parents' residences. Let's face it: parents aren't going to approve of everything that young people want to do. There are bars and clubs, but what do you do when you come back home? And besides, not everybody would want to relegate their entire social life to clubs.
You can hack together an "array of structs" object using unsafe, but the amount of code involved when using Java is unreasonable. It was manageable in Scala, but this is no reason to introduce Scala to a non-Scala codebase.
Well, the Yo case is really eye-opening.

It seems 1Mi dollars is pocket change to some people.

1Mi dollars is a lot of money in the real world.
For that to make sense you'd really have to believe that the US will need fewer, not more, STEM jobs in the future. The vast majority of educated STEM workers and engineers are completely removed from venture-funded Silicon Valley startups and any potential 'tech bubble.'
Are the Mii's not considered user made content? In the upcoming Super Smash Bros', you can customize your own Mii to be a fighter and it looks like there's a whole community of Mii customizers [1] who make celebrities and the like.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=mii+celebrities&tbm=isch
There should be an exception for search and rescue operations.
What is a #Hackathon #Ombudsman?
You basically had this with the Smalltalk refactoring Browser, where each search popped up displayed in a browser window. Then you could easily AND such searches together by executing a script in the browser window. Slightly more sophisticated combinations were possible with just a few lines of scripting.

On top of that, everything above applied to syntax-driven rewrites and refactorings.
Show HN: A visualization of UNHCR speeches for World Refugee Day
If you like this sort of thing, you might enjoy reading "The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature"
It explains this and other neat tricks of nature.
https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-a-custom-domain-...
You can buy Rain-X and the like at auto parts stores.
> And a macroeconomic collapse—which may happen—would certainly correct valuations in a hurry

I wonder what the collapse will look like and what will cause it.
It's much simpler than that. It actually makes writing a compiler easier as you have higher level abstractions to work compared to generating machine code. There are many languages that compile to C which should prove to you that it can be done. I don't see why targeting C++ would be any different and I'm sure there are languages already out there that do.
Honestly, this is super cool.
Congrats.. so how much fail to actually deliver.
The app looks beautiful.

Question - in terms of the iOS web, what's the Ruby vs Objective-C breakdown?

Are you using the same Rails back-end from the web app with the iOS app. Would love to speak with you, shoot me an email - username @ gmail.com
One solution is for the browser to provide a "anonymized" bitmap picture, e.g. setting the links to default colors. I don't know how feasible that is. It would require a new rendering of the page, at least.
Hm, seems to only work on some levels.
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I'm pretty sure rdtsc is/was broken on Intel core 2 duos, especially those with power saving feature (like laptops).
What If Drug Patents Were Written Like Software Patents?
Funny, there was a bell-labs project with same name. It seems to be dead[0], but when we travel
the time a few years back, we get a wonderful project homepage[1].

[0] http://www1.bell-labs.com/project/wwexptools/cgrep/

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080513225010/http://www1.bell-...
Surely "obeying all of the rules, just not necessarily in the right order"?
tl;dr: Other environments are insecure out of the box, and require applications specifically opt-in to security. Java requires you opt-out of the security.

HTTPS is built on top of PKI, which involves a list of trusted root authorities who verify that the certificate for blahblah.com is actually for blahblah.com. A self-signed certificate won't have that, and any application that doesn't validate that the certificate is signed by a trusted authority and not expired, etc. has no security.

If an application doesn't validate it's certificate, anybody sitting between you and the HTTPS server can step in between you and your traffic, give you a phony certificate, and then proxy all your "secure" traffic to the HTTPS server. And, of course, "sitting between you and the HTTPS server" means not only the NSA with their low-latency network specifically built to conduct these types of attacks, it also means the guy in the corner at Starbucks too (because WiFi is a radio).

Java only actually started checking if certificates were valid very recently (IIRC it was J7, r51). Prior to that, Java was just as lax as every other toolkit---probably specifically to address complaints like Bray's: "testing HTTPS is tough".
I quit smoking after reading Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr. http://www.amazon.com/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/06154...

The main idea behind book is that smoking is easy to quit. It is not addictive like alcohol, or other drugs, where withdrawal symptoms are intense. Quitting smoking is a big business like weight loss and there is a reason why they make it sound like a tough thing to do on your own.

As for relaxing, I haven't found a perfect replacement for cigarettes yet. I listen to music or read in my patio in the evening. Play video games. I also tried healthy stuff like running, working out, hot bath, or meditation. But nothing is perfect or I guess I am still not fully recovered from smoking.
i am all for this ban.

but how are they going to enforce this? drones will increasingly be able to flown from miles away.

are they going to shoot them down?
I was wondering the same thing. Why would anyone ever need to do something like this? What kind of project would this come useful?
If one did find searches of Pope Francis before his appointment, reasonable explanations would include:

1) A random guess.
2) Unintentional data storage (I.e., the search was made after the appointment but was stored incorrectly as happening in the past.)
3) Deliberate doctoring of data. I.e., a hoax.

And probably a few other cases I'm not thinking of, all of which would be more reasonable than 'It's a man from the future.'
OK, but the same logic can invalidate almost any software patent. Apple's "data detectors" patent, for example, claims the concept of detecting data in a document (an abstract idea, it seems to me) plus a generic description of the steps someone would have to take to implement this on a computer. A data compression patent would cover some mathematical principle (replace frequently-repeated sequences with a shorter representation) with some details about what steps you need to do to implement the idea. I think the court's reasoning could be plausibly read as invalidating all software patents.
as long as people in those two camps are rewarded differently then this makes sense
That's unixese for -c -p, for one. -C <classpath> or --classpath=<classpath> would be more typical.
That doesn't jibe at all with how "average Americans" have been arming themselves with rifles of military utility at historically unprecedented rates (some details on request, drilling down to that level would be a lot of work; it started post-9/11, I believe because the government made it clear we were on our own).

Concealed carry is also very big, although a lot of that seems to be driven by an aging population, plus I think the media's perfervid portrayal of crime while actual rates are going down in most places.
Nice one. Next step is porting $YourFavoriteWebkitBrowser to Firefox OS :)
And yet players still perform much better the year their contract is up. Motivation plays a role. If we want to look at the larger economic climate that's fine, but it's tautologically true that we can't solve unemployment if people refuse to work.
This (or some other tool like it) is a great skill to have if you deal with concurrent datastructures. I used it to deal with a lock-free multithreaded ringbuffer at a previous job and it made my life much easier. The Spin Book is a good read.
Kevin and Julia Hartz are the two main founders at Eventbrite, currently valued at $700m and looking towards an IPO. There's an article where Julia explains how they make it work here: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-marry-your-cofounder-a... .
It depends on what ratio you seek and what growth you think you will get. For example if you aim for a 50% gender split but only get 10% growth.
> an investment in their vision, not something to be micro-managed by shareholders

My point was exactly about vision. Founders vision often change from what was pitched when you join.

Let them have a say or let them out at a fair market price.
There already is, if you read the article.

"The National Park Service may use unmanned aircraft for administrative purposes such as search and rescue, fire operations and scientific study. These uses must also be approved by the associate director for Visitor and Resource Protection."
Doing this in the browser might be a little silly, or at least I can't immediately think of a good use, but I think using this in a node.js program as an easy way to template something out and render an image/pdf locally could be useful.
The CAFC is the sole court in the USA that hears patent appeals. [0] All patent appeals go to the CAFC.

The CAFC has limited jurisdiction. It mostly hears patent cases, but also hears federal employee claims and some foreign trade cases. All judges on the court are equal but they have different backgrounds. Judges Dyk and Prost write the most rational and evenhanded decisions on the court and have little background in patents and technology policy. Prost was a labor lawyer and Dyk worked on First Amendment cases before being appointed. The worst judges worked for big science organizations in government and industry, but they write as if they were completely ignorant of science in order to grind down innovators in favor of government granted privileges.

[0] This link is worth reading: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-a-rogue-appea...
I think we must add, also as a generation problem, that our romantic partnerships are much more unstable, since we have more freedom than previous generations..

The romantic partnership of older generations were much more reliable.. and now to get to the point.. this also means economic backup and partnership..

I think only look to the economical side of things wont map the reality properly.. there also a lot of distinct social mechanics in course..

You cant explain such a complicated matter only by looking to the economical side of it..
Ask HN: Any digital mail start up still alive?
I have desperately wanted to throw money at a digital mail service ever since reading about Outbox. All my google-fu has turned up nothing but dead companies.

Can anyone recommend a company which is still active?
Oh, allow me to explain.

> A) You believe you are smarter than 60% of people with degrees and are accurately capable of predicting supply/demand.

You don't have to be exactly 3 SD out to be smarter than 60% of a group of people, so I likely am. On top of that, these are people who've never had a real job and are choosing a major at age 18 or so.

But that's not the point. The point is many of these people just assumed the job would be there when they graduated without doing any research at all. They didn't even look.

There's two really terrible common pieces of advice parents give to their children: 1) "Just be yourself" when dating and 2) "When choosing a major do what you love".

> B) You believe an external factor is at fault.

Well, yes, an external factor is partially at fault. That external factor is the higher education establishment, which is corrupt as hell. They lobby the government for ever increasing amounts of loans for students and then award themselves $400k salaries. Don't let anyone tell you there's such a thing as a nonprofit institution.

The idea that 60% of people couldn't find work in their field of study isn't surprising to me at all.
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I developed speed from text MUDs. I'm the type of person who dislikes customizing my setup and prefer to play straight; as a result, I had to consume, digest, and react to pretty large quantities of barely-differentiated text in tenths of a second.

It was good immersion practice.
1 - why can't I import a directory full of jars? eg
--classpath ./lib/jars/*
or better yet, recursively descend
--classpath ./lib/jars/**

I usually do this as (in zsh):

-cp "$(print -l ./lib/jars/**/*.jar | tr '\n' :)"
It's interesting to see a post discussing how free VCs are in their investments as I'm sending out job applications because we couldn't make it past the Series A crunch despite big-name customers and ex-FB/Googlers on the founding team.

Make no mistake, VC firms may be increasing the capital they're investing in the markets but by no means does that translate into "everyone gets a free ride".
Wow, its like Dark Souls meets Mario. Very cool though.
I was with him until: "The idea behind patents is to create a financial incentive to promote innovation: patents ensure that the inventor of a new idea can get compensated for it, rather than seeing her idea immediately ripped off by copycats."

The purpose of patents had nothing to do with compensation. It was already presumed that an inventor could sell an invention. The real purpose was to promote disclosure of how to make things. In other words to reveal what would otherwise be kept a trade secret. This fits well with the notion of "non-obvious to a person practiced in the art", which would preclude Amazons one-click. The idea was: Tell us how it's made in exchange for a monopoly for some number of years. Spreading knowledge is how you promote innovation.
Superomniphobic materials using this property are being made:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja310517s

But this is a great article! I love getting into the nitty gritty of why nature is so worth replicating.
Ad 2: Things evolve. If you stopped somwhere in the mid 90, you won't notice. But in Java 8 you can do null checking easily using Optional. Your example would be:
String address = a.map(A::b).map(B::c).map(C::d).orElse("UNKNOWN");
I see that it's a vox.com article. I'm betting it's a Timothy B Lee article.

* checks *

Yep, Timothy B Lee. He's the Rush Limbaugh of Hacker News, telling us exactly what we want to hear, and the incredibly bad things that are possible, where "possible" means "doesn't defy the laws of physics."
One clarification: "Just by moving data around, by carefully storing it in one place, we can get huge performance speed up."

should really be:

Just by moving data around, by carefully storing it in one place, and by not doing anything else that messes up caching or consumes CPU cycles we can get huge performance speed up.

A microbenchmark like this will always show results that are unattainable in practice; the work in real code is likely to take considerably more time than the fetch.
The problem with saying the software is math is that EVERYTHING is math.

Every single bit of physics is math at it's core. If you come up with a new physical theory you will be ignored unless you also include the math for it.
Firefox has had the element() CSS function for a while, but they're the only ones.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/element

I've written GUI builders that really could have used this for icons of views. Instead I had to render on the server. It'd be nice if it got more broadly adopted.
How right you are. Why, I should be allowed to drive however I want on "public" roads, because they're for the public. What a fantastic world that would be.
Of course the Supreme Court doesn't understand software. Or real estate. Or coal mining. Or any of the things they are asked to make rulings on. How would they? They're lawyers who have spent their whole lives studying the law, and they can only get a cursory understanding of any of the infinite issues they might issue a ruling regarding.

It's unreasonable to ask them to understand software as well as a software engineer.
I wonder if you can put a spring thing that allows you to jump over the pole. This is kinda amazing, you can even update the graphics. I'm guessing 30 dollars and a download
Do you have a source for the increase of "rifles of military utility?"

Either way, it lines up perfectly with what I just said. Those buying these rifles are a vocal minority. Most Americans see them as a problem and want stricter gun laws, or safety switches on guns. They fail to realize that this group's plight parallels with the plights of the groups they do stand behind.
Thanks for admitting that you "don't understand." I'll try a bit more, but you completely failed to refute or even adequately respond to anything I said so I'm not inclined.

How can you not understand that my freedom implies your freedom? How can I be free to live my life if society allows bad people to harm me? The world is not an abstract concept. Your attempt at speaking in riddles may convince you that you're right but it has no bearing on reality.

Calling freedom "childish" does not diminish it. Kings have been telling their subjects for millennia that they're not responsible enough to rule themselves. The fact that you feel this way is not surprising. It's a pessimistic and wrong viewpoint that is hard for many to even see let alone change their thinking on.

Your intellectually dishonest attempt at comparing an actual "simple flower" and a manufactured weapon (not "metal" as you pretend) is entirely specious. Deciding what should be regulated by society is not trivial, the question is how you make your decisions. Do you make your decisions based on maximizing personal freedom or someone's perception of what's beneficial for "society"?

...and this is where I realize this is probably an argument between a Constitutionalist American and a Chinese communist. We will probably have to agree to disagree.
Sure, deleting is fast, but I meant that typing something back isn't. Speaking makes it faster and easier to start over with multiple sentences until one works. Maybe it's just laziness -- when typing, I am more hesitant to redo entire paragraphs. When typing, I also feel more caught up in the details and words inside my sentences. (Though that may not be a bad thing!)
Surprisingly, much of it appears to be accurate. Tannins can cause irritation, though more notably of the bladder (interstitial cystitis) than the stomach, and brewing finer coffee at lower temperature does indeed result in a lower tannin content. Ingesting coffee beans does in fact cause some indigestion via increased production of stomach acid, as well, and in addition to all of this caffeine works by the following two neural mechanisms:

* it blocks the adenosine receptor type 1, whose primary function is to decrease blood pressure and heart rate in preparation for sleeping

* it blocks the glycine receptor, whose primary purpose is to slow muscle contraction (strychnine also blocks this receptor, albeit far more strongly...)

So the claims about the effects of coffee are, well, surprisingly accurate, though finding most of this information was hard and I wish I had peer-reviewed sources:

http://www.ic-network.com/patient-resources/diet/diet-introd...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2014/02/11/espresso_why_is_...

http://www.livestrong.com/article/476658-the-effects-of-eati...

Google Scholar seems to be getting slowly less useful; repeated searches for information on brewing methods turned up mostly information about roasting methods.
> The real purpose was to promote disclosure of how to make things.

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

By the 16th century, the English Crown would habitually grant letters patent for monopolies to favoured persons (or people who were prepared to pay for them).[13] This power was used to raise money for the Crown, and was widely abused, as the Crown granted patents in respect of all sorts of common goods (salt, for example). Consequently, the Court began to limit the circumstances in which they could be granted. After public outcry, James I of England was forced to revoke all existing monopolies and declare that they were only to be used for "projects of new invention". This was incorporated into the Statute of Monopolies in which Parliament restricted the Crown's power explicitly so that the King could only issue letters patent to the inventors or introducers of original inventions for a fixed number of years. It also voided all existing monopolies and dispensations with [some] exception[s]....

There has also been some historical research that suggests that the "Statute of Monopolies" was a political compromise[1]. There wasn't really a lot of thought about maximizing innovation or incentives, or whatever. However, I fully agree that the popular understanding of the patent system has more to do with incentives for innovation and disclosure. But any engineer will tell you there's far more optimal ways to explain technical devices and inventions than legalese and claims.

On a related note, the USSR had a patent system. With patents. Who would have thought? This stuff is super ingrained.

[1] http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/Generally%20inconvenient:%20...
He also talks about himself in the third person. "So that money was put in the market by somebody who is not Clayton Christensen. So what does that tell you about the theory of disruption, or about Clayton Christensen?" I've always viewed that as a sign of bluster.