skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tooling yes that is needed and welcome, but for many software engineers, IDEs are the least exciting part of a language ecosystem. Plenty programmers, and that too very capable programmers manage just fine with an editor. Speaking strictly for myself I couldnt care less for an IDE, it is irrelevant for me, especially in the context of a language that is syntactically lot more terse than Java. I would rather have the Scala team focus on more pressing problems, code optimizers, compile times, run times, other backends (LLVM?, GCC?), more airtight abstractions around the JVM. These are damned hard problems and Scala has been making steady progress, so this is the part that I find exciting and promising. Then again many are incapable of programming without an IDE and throwing in an IDE often does not drastically improve the quality of their code either.
Excellent Career Advice From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder Reid Hoffman
It would be even better if you could input what you spend your money on. E.g. if someone buys a lot of alcohol, then the cost of living depends more on the alcohol tax.
Ask HN: Where can my IT-related articles be proofread and fact-checked?
I am going to begin writing articles to share my knowledge and demonstrate the expertise on my portfolio site as a frontend developer. I am not a native English speaker so my word can sound boring and dry, probably too formal in some cases or even just simply ugly. More than that, I would be happy to have someone from my domain who can read my articles, edit them, find erroneous facts or even wrong techniques.

So, in the end I want to turn my thoughts into clear form written in live language without ugly language constructions as well as checked for domain-related misconceptions, wrong assumptions, bad practices.

Are there any services focused on such things or should I find someone on my own like looking through tech writers blogs or by googling?

Please share your thoughts and experience.
Thanks. I'm not sure how I missed that one.
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Experiments with Deadly, Virulent Flu More Concerning Than Anthrax
You might want to give the Eclipse Scala IDE a go. It's pretty easy to get started even if you're unfamiliar with Eclipse (watch the getting started video): http://scala-ide.org/download/current.html

Disclaimer: I'm the tech lead of the Scala IDE for Eclipse project
Spotify allows me to cache what I like for future playback without streaming. It does that by placing me in control.
Q&D
Scala 3 will be a bigger undertaking, likely to have a major amount of breaking of core language contructs and other fundamental changes. Experimentation is already underway: it's called the Dotty compiler [1].

[1]: https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty
Three Keys for Graduating Entrepreneurs
> 8. Leave your comfort zone.

> Of course, there’s also the point where you’re just overwhelmed. That’s the panic zone. That’s where you’ll black out. That’s where all you can do is to try to keep your head outside the water hope somebody will safe you.

Too often I hear the 'leave the comfort zone' argument. But finally opposite side is also mentioned - panic zone.

As of recently leaving comfort zone I was completely lost, damaging my self-confidence. Afterall, I might have walked too far, into panic-zone. Shall take one step back and try again.
So would this allow for example the building of something like unikernel python apps?
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Jillian Michaels – 30 Day Shred (DVD) –
No, no need to apologize. It's one of the strangest assignments I've ever had and there were a few twists to the whole story that would make for a good book.
How to recruit excellent programmers
Learning how to learn is also a valuable (meta)skill. It doesn't mean you have to become a jack of all trades but does allow you the opportunity to reinvent yourself if the need or desire arises.
484 new jobs set for Newry
I'd say it's more 'preference for learning' than just raw intelligence. Like with the whole 10,000 hours thing; if person A spends 5 hours a day studying while person B spends those same 5 hours (watching TV|gaming|socialising with friends and family), then in a couple of years person A will know a hellova lot more stuff than person B, regardless of intelligence.
Will workplace robots cost more jobs than they create?
Finally hover tooltips for bar graphs! A pretty important feature Chart.js was lacking before in my opinion.
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In Brazil it's called "gambiarra", and the same mixed pride/shame feelings also apply.
How do you make a custom, generic data structure without syntax overhead?

In real-world code, the need for generic data structures is shockingly uncommon. It really is. This requirement exaggeration comes about by people acting as language tourists, building amorphous code of uncertain purpose, where things like "I'm going to sum up a bunch of unknown objects" seems like a serious need.

For most people who find Go to be a compelling language, it excels for practical, real-world needs.
I am not sure why the end user has to take the laptop to the mac store, we use lenovo and they send an engineer to us to check any issues.
You have misunderstood me. My point was sexuality is never a choice. Acting on impulse is a choice; suffering from impulse is not.

I suggest you go back and re-read what I have written before you embarrass yourself further.

I never brought race into the equation. In order for suicide to be considered the norm it would have be the de facto standard for living organisms. Roughly, 50.1% of all living creatures. I can cite 7 examples that back up my claim -
Movement Respiration Sensitivity Growth Reproduction Excretion Nutrition

Common sense also tells us that suicide cannot be normal behaviour otherwise all biological organisms would eventually degrade to 0 lifeforms.

If my words are hurtful it is because time and time again we see posters on HN tossing out absolutely junk statements that they think are well-informed. When pressed they resort to an argumentative form of

Present [ALL] evidence [EVER] or I reject reasoned opinions.

Normally the follow us is something along the lines of

*Your [SOURCE/RESEARCH/DATA] is flawed because of [UTTERLY INTANGIBLE REASON].

There comes a time when, as a person and a member of society you have to accept that we are not living in a simulation but that the evidence in front of you is actually satisfactory.

Suicide is not normal. It was ludicrous and silly for you to toss out a random objection to my statement.
We have a saying called "Jerry rigged" in the South that we use. I think it is very similar to jugaad and can be thought of has using what you have available to hack something into a working state again (or something new made from different parts).
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Whichever corner contains buildings owned by people willing to sell to developers.
In his autobiography 'Wings of Fire', A.P.J.Abdul Kalam, himself an ISRO rocket scientist & program director who later became a highly popular President of India (he draws crowds to this day, several years after office), quotes Gen. Patton: "A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week." That could well summarize the ISRO style.

Kalam also highlights the leadership-by-open-discussion style of Vikram Sarabhai and Satish Dhawan who successively headed ISRO in its formative years. If that sounds commonplace, bear in mind this was in a civilian government organization of the 1960's. People like Sarabhai (a Cambridge Tripos and inheritor of a family business empire) and Dhawan (a double PhD in math and aerospace from Caltech) could have played the part and been overbearing - but they deliberately chose to build a "startup culture" where people were encouraged to speak up.
Why We Switched From Stripe To Balanced (and almost chose BancBox)
Natural-Language-Processing-in-Investigative-Journalism
https://www.overviewproject.org/

"Read and analyze thousands of documents super quickly. Full text search, topic modeling, coding and tagging, visualizations and more. All in an easy-to use, visual workflow."
My new book "Application Architecture for Developers" comes out today
Any theorem in statistics really. Also, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem.
The Scala 2.x series is for source compatible releases. The goal is that you can just recompile your Scala 2.11 code on Scala 2.12. (As was the case for the upgrade from 2.10 to 2.11 -- modulo some changes necessary for important bug fixes.)

We're reserving the bigger version bump for when source compatibility is not fully maintained. We take backwards compatibility very seriously, so the jump will be as small as we can make it (balanced with the need to keep evolving and improving the language). We'll share our thoughts on Scala's longer-term roadmap once they've crystallized (soon!).
Learning Vim in 2014: The Basics
Lets still hold our breath, the Mangalyaan hasnt made it to Mars. NASA and a contractor made some fatal conversion mistakes and overshot Mars. I doubt they will have the same problems but it still needs to reach orbit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
I just gave it a try. It's nice and easy to use, but I need to draw a legend which it surprisingly doesn't seem to support, so I won't use it. Otherwise it'd have been a good match for my simple purposes (non-scaled, non-animated, non-interactive).

BTW, "options.pointDot = false" doesn't seem to have any effect. "options.pointDotRadius = 0" worked for me.
An article about federation economics I referenced in another post where it defined fed credits as megawatt hours of electricity handed this problem by explaining that the very low hanging fruit of house thermostats and ballistics table calculation is highly automatable compared to hiring a person and paying them credits, BUT drawing the megawatt hours to run "the doctor" even in trek land, is so expensive energetically that its cheaper generally to just hire a flesh and blood doctor.

Also diverged the discussion a bit into there is no reason to assume the ideal form of all intelligence is the same, so silicon based "AI" computers might be very good at helping control a warp drive, yet useless as human conversation partners. Surely the replicator has some advanced computation abilities, but theres no reason to think its any good at composing poetry, at all. And given that assumption it piled on more assumption that "turing tar pit like" (my short analogy, not the essay) at attempt to simulate a human on top of a real non-human AI would be tremendously expensive, stacking high tech emulation on top of high tech emulation, such that Voyagers EMH was probably a terribly high cost (yet, sometimes useful...) appliance, so ships never used the Dr unless there was no choice.

How this fits in with the mobile emitter makes no sense. Maybe the mobile emitter is the odd man out and should be de-cannonized. If running the Dr costs as much as running the warp drive at a modest speed, the mobile emitter makes no sense as a concept.

TLDR is there is no obvious inherent scientific reason why a humanoid-like AI should scale technologically to be cheaper than flesh and blood. "cheap AI" may very well be one of those classic math / logic / CS problems people bang their heads against walls for centuries, knowing it should be possible in theory or at least no known theory blocks the way, yet it never actually can be proven or implemented.
The "modular" section of the page appears to show a legend.
26 Innovative Ideas By School Students From India
When computers became commonplace there was a string senses almost of panic that people were losing jobs to computers.
They're comparing apples and iPhones.
Would be nice to take into consideration Sales Tax, Income Tax and Property Taxes. In the states it can be fairly misleading if you ignore these factors as some states have no personal income tax as an example and others have crazy sales tax and personal income tax combined with property tax. All these drain a persons resources when they move from one locale to another.

Not sure how to capture "soft" stuff like health care and/or vacation etc. I recently was surprised to learn the in New York an employer doesn't have to pay out unused vacation where as in other states they have to by law. This sort of stuff can certainly catch someone off guard when leaving a job to relocate.

Otherwise it's a very cool concept...
"Take a mental journey for a moment with me: what if, one day, technology reaches the point that a small number of humans — say, 10 million — can produce all of the food, shelter and energy that the race needs. This doesn’t seem like insanely wishful thinking, given current trends. There’s no rational reason why the advances in robotics, factories, energy and agriculture couldn’t continue unabated for long periods of time. Of course I’m not saying they will, but rather, they could."

If those $10 million people are capitalists, the price of the goods they create will rise until the rest of us become their slaves.
Collaborative business model tool
Rapidmodeler by OrangeHills can be used to develop Business Models collaboratively.
If you were following Rust at all you would know that they are aggressively rejecting requests for new features in order to produce a stable release, and have five full-time developers working on clearing release blockers.
Can this be repurposed as an independent price index/measure of inflation? That is, independent of the World Bank/governments and government-funded economic bodies, which could be useful
I Was On Page One of Hacker News–Here's What I Learned
Interest rates are too low, the stock market is overvalued, and the financial system is untrustworthy. There's nowhere to put money and get a decent return on it with no prospect of completely getting wiped out other than real estate.

Also, if you can buy in or near a "fortress" area like Manhattan or San Francisco, and you'll never need the cash, you can just wait for the next bubble if prices/rents collapse.

edit: reading more of this, I'd say the dumb money is going towards extravagant luxury, though. Those $30M apartments could fall to $3M and never rise again. I'm talking more single-family housing, and those buyers have actually slowed down considerably lately because prices have gotten too high.

edit2: I've been drawn in - this is a very good article. The tl;dr is that world scum is using NYC luxury real estate to launder money and avoid taxes. What I thought was "dumb money" is dictators, oligarchs, etc., who aren't looking for profit, just trying to get their ill-gotten gains out of their home countries.
The changes as seen from the outside will be much more conservative than that. We're not ready to comment on specifics yet, but the main focus is to remove warts (deprecating them in 2.12/2.13 first where possible), make the type system and (thus) type inference more regular, and make safari^W scalac snappier.

The compiler internals and language concepts are being simplified substantially (we've learned a lot of interesting lessons in compiler engineering in the last decade, some of which require bigger changes).
Seriously - I remember once stating that I was skilled in Java (would never use the word 'expert', though).

The technical interviewers must have taken it as a challenge to them, as they spent 30 minutes quizzing me on all of the different executables that made up the JDK and all of the different arguments to them.
Steve Huffman talks about this in his Udacity course on web development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeDzx4SUME

(The whole unit 7 talks a lot about how they built Reddit.)
I would be more excited to use Scala if the compile times didn't suck so much. Even on a tiny project, it just feels like it takes too long to do anything.

I guess I'm too used to Ruby and PHP where I save and things happen right away. My test suite runs in less than a second. Stuff like that.

Instead, everything takes 5-10 sec and that just breaks my flow constantly. I used Golang and while I don't love the language I love the compiler a lot. It's really fast and nice and feels like a dynamic language.

Anyhow, Scala compiler has been slow forever and probably will be slow forever. Oh well.
https://www.overviewproject.org/
Read and analyze thousands of documents super quickly. Full text search, topic modeling, coding and tagging, visualizations and more. All in an easy-to use, visual workflow.
It appears that "Jerry rigged" comes from the nautical term "jury rigged" which itself comes from the the French jour for "a day":

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

I found this out when wondering if "jerry rigged" shared anything with "jerry can" which came from British troops admiring the quality of the liquid containers the Wehrmacht had in WW2 "jerry == German":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerrycan
How does Facebook decide what to show in my news feed?
Nice one Bemmu.

I don't want to give you extra work but have you thought of also having something that condenses Japanese TV / Ads / Graphics which could be a newsletter? Desin

Also diversifying and applying all this to Nordic / Pacific / S. American countries?
I've had far better luck with Google keyboard than with Swiftkey, despite having been a paid user of the latter for years. Google's correction methods are simple and quick. SwiftKey feels clunky. And, even with connecting SwiftKey to my Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, etc to learn, Google keyboard is still more accurate.
Micheal Lewis explains dark pools and HFT's quite well in his new book Flash Boys [1].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt/dp/03932...
How do you get sales with a demo? Just curious.
It depends on how you quantify cost. There isn't any performance cost, yes (which is what 'zero-cost abstractions' usually means in C++), but there is a) an increase in code size, and b) an increase in complexity/difficulty of understanding of implementation (and to some extent use). These may be good tradeoffs to make (in many of the areas where C++ is used they make sense), but I think 'zero-cost' is a disingenuous way to put it.
I feel like this might be it. With the Fire TV when you select to watch something it starts instantly, no matter if it is a show that you watched the previous episode or a random movie you picked out on the spot. I think it's caching everything that is visible from the homescreen, at least.
Women who don't give away their services for free are known as "witches." (The term has undergone a consonantal shift since the Middle Ages and now starts with a "b")
Not for free, liquidity providers are paying to trade in IEX (and paying the same rate as the takers).
> Nothing should ever be just a means to an end

What if your passion is not something that pays money? You need money to live, why can't a job just be a means to an end?
The problem with the market is its not so smoothly distributed. You can barely, almost, sometimes buy commodities at a worldwide price in most places, but certainly cannot earn the same everywhere. The median for Africa is about $2K not $10K so making the huge assumption that poverty stricken economies only involve food, thats still ten or so pounds of rice per day, which is pretty marginal as a sole long term food source for an entire household.

Thats the problem with "homo economicus" the market is very small and will not offer certain things, the Belgian lawyer in the example simply won't be offered a part time job by the market, no matter if the demand exists or not.

If you don't really have a market, market speak and market analysis don't lead to useful places.
(incremental) compilation needs to be fast enough. A too-slow build cycle can really kill productivity, both in trying out new ideas for code and in debugging. The build times of the rust compiler are pretty close to the limit of what I'll tolerate, and I would really love to have compilation speeds similar to go.
Gun Ownership as an expression of the Second Amendment culture in the US is different from hunting culture as you expect. There's an overlap of course, but there are distinct differences between people who primarily own guns as an end in itself and those who primarily own guns as a means of hunting. The NRA has developed political clout by appealing to both groups of gun owners.
New Nano-Sensor Can Sniff Out Explosives From 16 Feet Away
I don't think very many people said that about the false Satoshi. They just said he would be harassed heavily and his life would be made much more difficult.

I think it's very unlikely anyone would threaten to murder or kidnap Satoshi.
> Beyond that, it provides literally nothing that you can't install for free on any Android device. I could make you an equally "secure" or "private" device for $300 and an hour's time.

Yeah, this was my takeaway from the article. They even link to the Google Play store entries for the software that comes packaged on the phone. Missed opportunity, I think.
The mtns in CO are certainly closer to Denver than 2 hrs, but most people are going deeper into the mtns (e.g. Summit county/Vail/etc.). You can get up to 8500ft in 25min from Denver if you want. IMO, the further one gets from Denver, the nicer it is (I live about 8hrs from Denver in the mtns of CO, and have lived in the state for 20 yrs.).
Why sell bandwidth you don't have? That's dishonest advertising.
It's more about drawing a very clear line between "Us" and "Them."

Unfortunately, some people find that appealing. Time will tell which is the proper philosophy.
2015 EU VAT changes to electronic B2C services
Ask HN: Transferring responsibilities at work
I recently gave my employer notice that I will be leaving to start a new job. My responsibilities need to be picked up by other people in the office and I am looking for ideas on how to approach a successful mind dump.

My natural instinct is to write a word document/create a pdf. I am curious if anyone is aware of a site/service/program to help me organize my thoughts.

I would like to hear about your experiences taking over someone elses responsibilities. What did the person before you do well and what did they do (or not do) that made your job more difficult?
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Wow. What garbage.

The premise of this book seems to be, "We need to stop people with different values from becoming developers (regardless of how skilled they are at actually writing code)." Really? This seems like a tech equivalent, "the immigrants are ruining this county" rant.
What's funny is, most of HN and most of the Bitcoin subreddit posters were saying that it seemed like the article was legit in the first 2-4 days of its release. And yet as I was reading the article, the day it came out, I seriously thought their correlations sounded way off and that they had the wrong guy.

I made a bunch of HN and reddit posts and even threads saying the Newsweek piece was very probably wrong, and was told to stop being a conspiracy nut. I even went into the official Bitcoin IRC to debate it with people, and found only 1 person agreeing with me and about 10 people against me.

It's scary to think that terrible journalism can be published and believed so easily.
I don't think the rust compiler has been particularly extensively optimised at this point. There's no blindingly obvious hotspots (last I profiled the biggest single time sink was hashmap lookups in type checking), but there's not been any real effort in reducing compile time yet, as far as I know.
Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.2.1
or perhaps you don't realise how privileged you are in that even $1 million is attainable.
All the details at http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/tax...

But that's way too long, especially for "Explanatory notes".
Facebook and informed consent
This looks very useful, but price, RAM and flash sizes are not readily apparent. Am I missing something?
Sorry, I meant to say a couple hundred nanos.
He is wrong. Even if you include learning how to code in Python.
The http://internet.org project is doing just that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxX6r-xDgG4
I wonder if they fixed the broken-since-introduction Android Always-on VPN support?