skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IRS denies 501(c)(3) status to open-source software organization Yorba
Personally, I don't see Julia replacing R for a while. As you note, the R community has much of what it needs already. When I initially switched from R to Julia, it was because R wasn't really usable for the kind of work I do. It's since become clear to me that I work on problems that don't come up for most R users: problems involving large sparse matrices, including large-scale optimization and MCMC. If you don't deal with those kinds of things, R is a good choice.
Dune is great, but don't stop there. Read the rest of the series (I don't care for any of his Son's books though, so not going to recommend those, but there are those that like em).
So what happened when credit cards went toe-to-toe with bitcoin? Bitcoin got its ass handed to it. http://pando.com/2013/08/27/an-expensive-lesson-against-sell... Ebay had to ban bitcoin sales because sellers were getting ripped off so often by credit card owners.
They claim it was 2k out of 4M.

Goguen said while Microsoft claimed that there were more than 18,000 malicious hostnames involved, no-ip.com could only find a little more than 2,000 from that list that were still active as of Monday morning.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/07/microsoft-darkens-4mm-sit...
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What sort of mistakes did Zuckerberg make?
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Related is Dijkstra's "on the fact that the ocean has two sides": https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/E...
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It looks mostly like they've taken on-board the criticisms from the OpenBSD developers and have decided to get their house in order.

It will be interesting to see whether this turns out to be just words or if they'll stick it through. If the actually implement what they're planning the future for OpenSSL will be a lot better.
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While this looks like a cool project, since I have already started using (and like) Yesod, I am probably better off using Yesod's REST support (http://www.yesodweb.com/book/restful-content)
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Doing interesting things with a firehose of kafka events is also something we also do a lot of.

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"I think that using a custom build step is "cheating" to some degree in that you can add arbitrary features by adding language-external post build processing"

I guess, but: source code is still standard C#, it gives you pre-runtime static verification. As far as I understand Roslyn will support this kind of extensibility in a straightforward way. It is still better than unit testing same stuff in my opinion (except for specifying units in comments).

"By being built into the language" - do you mean F# code that uses units of measure wouldn't compile to OCAML (I am talking about simple compilability rather than proper support)?
Frankly, I'd be happy if bitcoin facilitated these "criminal" transactions to a much greater degree. I'm absolutely no fan of Iran or Cuba or any of the other sanctioned countries, but I think the idea that economic sanctions do more harm than good.

If BTC (or some analogous currency) does become a standard value store on the international market, I'll be interested to see if governments continue pursuing the impossible goal of imposing economic sanctions like this or if they change tactics. My guess is they'll continue pursuing the impossible goal.
Team Fortress Classic is similar. The levels were built for gameplay, not realism. A large modding community surrounded the game also.
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I know sleep is crucial for long term memories, but I also thought a lack of sleep affects all forms of recollection?
It's not like they were selling digital copies of something, that they lost all of it. It all depends upon how much is their margin? Maybe they go home every night after selling all their stock. How long did they have to wait to sell that $50 worth of stock that you didn't buy? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? Were those 10 minutes worth $1.50 they saved on fees?
Sadly, you're wrong with your conspiracy theory.

It's sad because it's not that they don't look closely. They do, but they condone - publicly.

HSBC "spent years committing serious crimes, involving money laundering for terrorists", and there's been no penal prosecution, with the public (let me repeat: public) justification that prosecuting it penally would lead to a too big loss for the economy.

There has been some discussion previously. Links here:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/12/hsbc-pr...

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/outrageo...

update: added links
I have a 2 year old 15 inch MacBook Pro (non-retina).

I have 16gm of RAM and recently upgraded to a 1TB SSD.

I removed the superdrive and added a 750gb hd. (had to, the superdrive port only supports up to SATA II!)

It flies. I dont miss not having a retina display, yet :-)

I also have an 11 inch MacBook Air, 4gb RAM, 128gb SSD that I use to take places so I dont have to lug the 15 inch around. I can still code etc just takes a bit longer.
This name clashes with Google Summer of Code, in my opinion. Perhaps you could come up with an alternative?
Experience Design: A Framework for Integrating Brand, Experience, and Value by the founders of Method, an Experience Design firm in NYC, SF...

pretty great so far
As the saying goes, "Kids playing house."
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I just started reading
* Shambala - The Sacred Path of the Warrior
* The PayPal Wars
* Founders at Work
Dissemination I suppose. 4chan may be a cesspool of sorts, but that cesspool happens to be the fertilizer for a large part of the internet. 4chan is where memes are made.
I've been following your comments on HN for a while now -- I originally noticed that almost all of them are facepalm-worthy -- and you sound like a really angry, bitter person who hates women. So, let me ask out of genuine curiosity: do you get a kick out of continuously posting nonsense? Some sort of adrenaline rush maybe?
I have used RubyMine when i was developing apps with Rubymotion. It was a little bit rough around the edges back then (oct 2013) but the code completion was already quite useful.

It looks like they even support debugging from within the ide now.
How so? The whole scam was predicated on abusing the chargeback feature of credit cards. This just proves that credit cards are terrible at cash-like transactions (buying cash/gold/bitcoins/gambling).
No one gives a shit about mensa. It will just make you look like a jerk. Definitely leave it off unless you want people who receive your resume to yell "hey check this guy out" and pass your resume around the office for laughs.
Personally I'm happy to have that 2-3% act as insurance on all transactions. Even trusted sellers screw up, fairly frequently.
I used it for a project about a year ago (https://github.com/STRML/securesha.re-client/tree/master/pol...). I found that it was difficult to keep the service up and working; while older browsers still seem to load it quite well, Chrome continues to natively implement parts of the (changing) spec.

When Polymer detects native capability for a given feature, it turns its polyfills off. But if the spec has changed, you are no longer supporting the spec as it was when you wrote your code; and inevitably, your application will crash.

I think Polymer has a lot of potential - I definitely enjoyed using it (check out the `app/elements/raw-xhr` and `webworker` elements for some fun; invisible DOM elements that process data!). But if I were to do another application like this, I think I'd just do it with React. It's less of a moving target and has a lot of the same benefits (and more), with the exception of CSS sandboxing.
Are you saying that sovereign nations don't have the right to decide who they're willing to trade with? Because that's in essence what you're saying when you say economic sanctions should end.
Funny babe
As wrong as this may sound. I read and have mostly Chinese co-workers to ask, correct me, etc. My local community college also offers classes that I am going to take in the fall.
Note that many Coinbase/Bitpay/whatever transactions will be off-chain - much like PayPal, you can have an account balance that is just transferred in Coinbase's ledger but doesn't actually appear to be transferred on the block chain.
It's probably fine if you throw it in that category. Although it's kinda meaningless for most people, it could help with networking if you ever run into another member.
I'd love to see that happen, but I imagine if you read the Terms and Conditions they've got some clause in there that allows them to do this. I wonder if there's anything in there about the duration of the freeze, how long they have until they return the money to its original owners, and whether they have to pay any interest on the money when it's frozen.

I don't really know much about this sort of thing, but I'm guessing that Paypal must be insanely low cost compared to their competitors or something, because I can't imagine anyone deliberately choosing Paypal unless it were really cheap to do so.
It is kind of ironic that people who are using a currency dependent on the security of crypto operations created an API that commits a fundamental mistake: trusting the data you receive.
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Ask HN: What do you use to share your knowledge with others?
I share alot of my knowledge with others, but it's centred around certain subjects. So for example I have a number of friends with which I share information regards health, and then I have people that I share start-up information with. So I need to organise the content in terms of list. That said, I also need to be able to add in my own content that I construct as well.

And it needs to be mobile friendly.

Kippt seemed like the perfect solution. I loved the ability to be able to create my own entries within the list and to set different lists up and the bookmarklet was great.But they have no mobile app, their customer support seems to be non-existent, and the app has bugs that haven't been fixed in a long time. Further, the only privacy settings are public and private. I need more granular control than that, say permalinks or similar.

I already use pocket which is great for reading later, but not quite so good at helping me to organise and share the knowledge. Tags alone aren't enough. I need lists.

I've also tried Diigo -- UI is awful. I can't get my head around it.
DotDotMe. Also looked promising, but seems to fail on whatever I try to import and there's no ability for me to create my own content entries. Only things I find on the web.

Any suggestions?
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I love working with automatization tools, specially with puppet. I love Nagios. I have a lot of experience with webservers.
Read the order, it's floating around on the other thread. The justification is laughable at best, purjury at worst.
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Huh, that's not how it works. Sellers will sell to the highest bidder, regardless of where you're from. So buyers from richer markets win more auctions, displacing locals in a market where there is less wealth.
That sounds fun, can you give some examples?
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Well 13 of them just lost their (well-paying) jobs so maybe not
Maybe I did something wrong with the setup but the disks (type gp2) are really slow compared with linode and digitalocean:

ubuntu@aws:~$ dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=test conv=fdatasync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 23.1199 s, 46.4 MB/s
ubuntu@aws:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/disk/by-label/cloudimg-rootfs

/dev/disk/by-label/cloudimg-rootfs:
Timing cached reads: 23292 MB in 1.99 seconds = 11704.62 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 232 MB in 3.02 seconds = 76.70 MB/sec
I am also against slavery but I've never been a slave. Does that strike you as odd too?

You can form an opinion on something with available facts. First hand experience can help one form or inform their opinion, but lack of that doesn't discount anything.

If you want to play that card then the majority of people's opinions on most common discussion topics is invalid (e.g. sexism, homophobia, racism, etc). If you're a white male then just don't talk about this stuff because, according to your logic, without first hand experience their opinion is invalid.
See also Paypal blocking anything vaguely connected to Cuba.

I live in England. Let's say I want to go to see something about the Buena Vista Social Club, and that it is held in London. (London, England).

I am not allowed to use PayPal to pay, because Cuba.

People have tried and failed to buy dresses that are called "cuba".
The website I have linked to was actually referenced in the book (if you had just only taken the time to read it ...). SO I thought, it was actually something the author of the post should consider when working on the dataset from the book.

Still I find it weird to be downvoted for a suggestion. :/

[edit] removed non relevant comment.
> - they interact poorly with requirejs and amd in general.

> - the tooling in general is currently rubbish; no way to easily combine sass + jade + coffee into a web component (eg. with gulp, no the dart bindings don't count as tooling). no way to have external resource files.

If you use Dart and its Polymer libraries, these two things should not be a problem. Why does that not count? He didn't say he wants to use Sass, Jade or CoffeeScript.

IMO, Dart is becoming much more interesting to me as it seems it is the best way to work with Polymer.