skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
point about origination granted, though for some folks NoSql has become a bit of a hammer itself http://use-the-index-luke.com/blog/2013-04/whats-left-of-nos... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6712703 . Of course, all hammers are bad, SQL or NoSQL - use the right tool for the job.
Thank you for the service announcement. I will continue to go about my day expecting the second to not be 1 off.

Edit: No need to get so worked up over a joke people.
I think you can browse Craigslist and find at least one ad like this every week in every major American city.

I chalk up developer pricing to inexperience and not malice, but sometimes I am not so sure.
Generally speaking things that Tom Scott is involved in are either experiments or satire (and quite often both): http://www.tomscott.com/projects/ ... He's also a very entertaining speaker. If you're near a conference he's at, go along. It'll be worthwhile.
The price is $24.80

https://twitter.com/WRTnode/status/483611574796447744

In the <title> it's about $20 so I'm guessing $25 includes a VAT tax or something:
<title>PREORDER WRTnode for $19.99 now | WRTnode</title>
Doesn't this have audio?
I suggest you buy already the domain getYoEmojilyApp.com
...huh? Having piece-of-code A call piece-of-code B which in turn calls some other piece of code as determined by A is useful. Whether you call this idea a "block" or a "lambda" or a "function pointer" or a "first-class function" is an implementation detail.
I can't think of anything worse.
Odo is not a member of Starfleet, he's (now) employed by the Bajoran government - Deep Space Nine is (now) a Bajoran installation, with the Federation administrating it until the Bajoran government basically gets its shit together after the occupation.
There's a huge racial aspect in anti-mass-transit politics in many American cities that's missing in SLC. Transit is fundamentally urban, and in a lot of the country 'urban' is code for black.
Who owns your personal data?
Rats, all the good usernames are already taken.
> In the long run we manage to terraform the planet, maybe. Now what? We get a new retirement centre on Mars?

We might get new resources. There are many wars happening that are all about resources. Also, we might get space, which could reduce tensions on earth.

> I'm not so sure I'm willing to believe we would be "improving" Mars in the long run.

What could we possibly do to Mars, that in practical terms could make it worse? It's uninhabitable already. If it matters so much to you, then I ask you if the same applies to some planet a billion light years away from us.

> As long as we don't have any reasonable solution for leaving the solar system we're basically stuck with a bunch of rock within reach, let's not ruin everything just so that we can build Disneyland Universe on Mars. That would seem a very selfish thing to do. Think of the Dodos.

Or we could also work with what we can reach. I mean it's obviously bad, that Dodos are extinct now, but was life better a thousand years ago, when we were unable to reach and work with oil and gas, even though Dodos still existed?
> Git in visual studio does not work well. I'm using the built-in stuff in VS2013. ... I find myself resorting to msysgit a lot

You can use the git cli if you like, you can use TortoiseGit or GitExtensions. They all interoperate really well. That's the strong point of a popular open-source system. I never saw the reason why the source control system has to be integrated into the IDE before it's usable. They all operate on files and file systems, not on compilers. Why is it hard to do the commit in a different window to the coding?

> want to make an HTTP request? Have it done in a worker thread, because your HTTP library is blocking.

I'm having great results with .Net 4.5 and "var response = await httpClient.GetAsync(url)" The HttpClient and async/await came out in August last year. Is that kind of code what you mean when you say "Have it done in a worker thread, because your HTTP library is blocking" or are you using a prior version?
Precisely what I was thinking, I wonder what's all the discussion about, the MOM will be inserted into a highly elliptical orbit around Mars, with a planned periapsis of 365 km (227 mi) and apoapsis of 80,000 km (50,000 mi) [1]. It will not even come close Mars's atmosphere. Wouldn't that take contamination out of the question completely?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Orbiter_Mission
Well, I haven't tried Intellij, but in my experience the best coding environment is:
1. Visual Studio
2. gEdit

Visual Studio has incredibly good fuzzy code completion and gEdit has a total lack of features to be confused by and good font rendering. I just look at all the menus and buttons in Eclipse and I can't stand it. All this stuff can't possibly be necessary.

Since VS is not available for neither Scala nor Linux I'm left with gEdit.
Wasn't Orkut invite-only at the start? I wonder how much that affected growth.
Quark has to pay for the space he occupies - he rents it from Deep Space Nine, which presumably at this point means the Federation. Those Federation credits he gets paid in can be used to pay for his rent, and other Starfleet/Federation equipment.

His profit comes from the other customers who pay in other currencies, including but not limited to, latinum.
What exactly is the point you are trying to make?
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Which in itself isn't disproof either, technically. If I didn't want people to find me I would do that too.
There were two parts I said. Protecting the community or make it more desirable, the latter is what the painting/RV issue would fall under. For some people the Stepford Wive's type of place is very desirable, for people like us probably not...HN doesnt seem like the cookie cutter crowd.

>The only things I'd want a HOA to do is deal with noise violations, illegal parking, and maybe issues from a property which directly impact people living either side (e.g. smells, health issues -- like trash piling up, noise, etc).

In my experience this is what kind of issues the HOA dealt with when I lived in a town home and a condo community (2 separate places). For example, where my parents live they have much more restrictions but now that the community is over a decade old they are relaxing some restrictions.

There are ways around this, buy your own property and build a house on it then join the closest tennis/pool membership you can find, most older neighborhoods allow outside residents to join.

To each his own my friend. HOAs are allowed to do this because the residents support it and often times encourage the practices. If this is a major problem dont move into an HOA neighborhood plain and simple. I dont live in one right now and my grass is very high :-). If someone has a problem with that they can see my middle finger.
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50% cutoff. As long as a property is half occupied, the tax is zero.
By proving he is somebody else?

Not saying he would, just saying it would work.
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Also posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7965196
We should just have separate terms for Discrete vs Continuous flavors instead of fighting over the one true "FRP"
Your Unicode tables must be out-of-date. Emoji's been in Unicode for a while now.
Streaming lectures about iOS, Wed  6 PM UTC+2
Ask HN: Contracting without an agency
Background: In the US, an independent contractor/consultant can not work directly for a company like an employee. This was in response to some companies (Microsoft) classifying employees as contractors to avoid paying benefits, etc.
However, a job shop/outsourcing agency can rent you to a company on a long term basis. One agency that I worked for payed me $65/hr and charged the client $130/hr.

I've contracted and had my own clients but the IRS rules* limit my flexibility. I.e. going to a clients site and getting guidance and then working offsite is fine but if I want the ability to work on site day after day without getting my clients or myself in trouble with the IRS I can't as an independent contractor.

What are my options for performing the agency role and capturing that value myself? Can I somehow be my own agency?

* IRS "20 Questions" a a guideline for determining if you are an independent contractor or not.
Lee Campbell's book/site is a good place to start - http://introtorx.com/
Seems like a pretty ill conceived article. Might as well have written about how American car companies like GM are able to produce much less expensive cars than the Italians like Ferrari. Both cars have engines, tires, etc... but WOW, can the Americans do it for so much less...
These things matter a lot for time libraries.
Isn't standard commercial hardware tat you can install opernwrt enough?
There is a separate line to Arvada, I believe it's the Gold line. That's still on track.
Perhaps Opam equivalent? I've been using Opam for two years in OCaml, and it just works (tm).
What school was that?
How did you tell that it was a profile for you, and not for an actual 25-year-old woman from American Samoa who shared your name?
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Neither did anyone else. Forcing people into creating g+ accounts via youtube etc. hardly counts as "took off"...
Some additional overview of different reactive approaches:

http://www.slideshare.net/deanwampler/reactive-design-langua...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L3cYhfSUZs

* responsive (somewhat hand-wavy - basically, don't block on IO)

* scalable (hard to be scalable - many different approaches)

* resilient (hard to be resilient - erlang is king here)

* event-driven (it's hard to not be event-driven these days)
This title is neither descriptive nor neutral. The title in the page itself seems to be: "PSLV-C23 [Successfully] Launches French Earth Observation Satellite[- SPOT 7] and four other co-passenger satellites[ from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota]"

I've put in brackets the parts of the title that I think can be omitted without loss of context. If changing the headline, I imagine adding something like, "Indian Space Organization's PSLV...." to the beginning of that headline is best.
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I am all for the mutually exclusive programs of poverty and technological advancement (in this case sending vehicle to Mars orbit) but the other part getting rid of the poverty and other things (corruption, bad governance,Individual's discipline, and safety, are pretty much going down the drain). I don't why these scientist can't find solution Bangalore's garbage drop issue, traffic issue and real estate woes and so on. I think India is driving on wrong direction with not governance on education system which i feel is the singe source of all the issues.
> Go was created by the forefathers of C and Unix. They left out all of those features on purpose.

The null pointer was created by Tony Hoare. He later thought that that was a mistake.

Yet here we are again, in the new millenium. Coming up with new languages with null/nil pointers in them.
> Always remarkable that such critiques always focus on the utterly trivial, while absolutely ignoring things like concurrency or composing complex systems.

But generics are a fundamental tool to solve concurrency or composition. How do you propose to compose complex systems when you can't abstract on the type?
How can you add new concurrency constructs that work safely for every type without generics?
A history of the world's oldest currency: Pepper
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Naps save me every time. Just when my work starts flagging and quality starts dropping, a 20min nap makes me feel almost as fresh as I am coming into the office in the morning.

Most others at work feel awkward about taking naps - even with me evangelising naps :o)
After the Aereo decision: The future of Internet TV
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-98-percent-of-us-com...

It is the onion, and is flippant, but as a general belief it touches upon a basic truth -- everyone would love if everyone else used public transit, leaving the roads available for our use.
There might actually be a performance cost due to increased code size (by way of increased amount of icache misses).
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But probably not at such short notice.
There may be some confusion about jugaad. Some may think it is equivalent of "jerry rigged " or doo-hickey or a kludge.

I would argue that jugaad is not a solution that is not driven by the problem at hand or the pressing need; rather it is driven by an attitude or a way of thinking, that is reinforced by the harsh reality of day-to-day living in India. I once worked for an electronic typewriter company In India which hacked and improved upon cannon's electronic typewriter s/w to support all of India's scripts (27 of them ). My team did not have capability to design stepper motor controls from bottom up like what canon had achieved. We never aspired to build a new electronic typewriter. We looked at the Cannon typewriter and asked why can't this support Telugu and Tamil etc. etc. Once we figured out the why , we worked to overcome it. Canon ended up licensing this hack to support other scripts worldwide.

Please note that I am saying rocket design is same as hacking stepper motor control s/w . However the driving attitude is quite similar.
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> JavaScript, for example...

What an odd appeal to authority...
To be honest, I feel a lot of people are missing the point of Go, and I think none of the points made are important. The single most important thing about Go is it's simplicity:

For me it is a language that feels like a hybrid between a scripting language and a 'real' programming language. Simple syntax with some powerful, easy to use features, impressive library support for being only a few years old, but compiles (static) to native code.

That fills a gap that Haskell and Rust don't, These more advanced languages sacrifice simplicity for an attempt to be perfect. Go makes the clear statement of being simple above everything else.

Give an average python/ruby/<insert scripting language here> coder the link to "A 30-minute Introduction to Rust" ( http://doc.rust-lang.org/intro.html ), and he/she will give you a strange look and not understand half of what is being said there. In the end they'll conclude it's not something for them. Give it to a C++ coder and he'll say 'oh nice, but I can do that in C++, use Boost<whatever>, because C++ is superior to all!' - and that coder there is their target audience. A decent C++ coder will have invested too much time to learn another language to solve problems he already learned to solve for himself in C++ a long time ago. Rust might be better and would make his life easier in a lot of cases, but still the majority won't make the switch.

Give the same <insert scripting language here> coder the Go documentation, and he'll be off in no time, writing better code than he used to do, producing a single binary which will not be an absolute nightmare to deploy. And that's what every coder of scripting languages has always dreamed of - being able to make programs in a simple straight-forward way, with as little dependencies as possible, without needing a <language X> runtime. On top of that, Go makes cross-compilation dead-easy.

There are a LOT more <insert scripting language here> coders out-there than there are C++ programmers. Giving them Go makes running the stuff they write more efficient confronts them with Git/source control (you would be surprised how many don't know about SCM)
This is one of those pieces that is simultaneously very correct and very wrong. Technically, it's mostly correct, but the fact is Ruby has blocks, lambdas, and the ability to pass around a method attached to an object instance. That gets you a superset of functionality really. It's just all syntactic sugar.

As a lisper I could easily point my finger at ruby blocks and point out they're more complicated than just always using a function, but the fact is, in practice, it just doesn't matter. Ruby blocks cover 95% of the cases you hit in a pretty way, and when they don't you can still use lambdas!

Now macros, those are a better solution to what blocks, but it's a 95% solution, so I've stopped caring.
Interesting that they are using hs-src-exts, can the job not be done by Template Haskell?
10 python features you can't use because you refuse to upgrade to py3 [pdf]
So your argument is basically "don't do it, because what I believe in is more probable than what you believe in" even though there's no way to calculate those probabilities.
I've only recently started investigating Chicago as a place to startup anything, but I'm not looking in the sectors where you are looking. I don't have any frustrations to vent; I like the midwest.

I like to believe the midwest is actually a better place to do a startup than NYC or SF primarily because the cost to bootstrap is much lower here. What about just building your prototype in the midwest and taking it to the coast for funding? I don't feel like capital is really confined to specific regions anymore, and Chicago is only a 3-hour flight from NYC.
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Doesn't seem short at all: "Paris, 16 January 2014 [...] NO leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2014."
These papers actually look readable. I'll give them some time, thanks for posting!
Same here, although it seems quite personal in terms of benefits and ability to execute.
Maybe in your country, but not in mine.
The "80/20 Rule" is the Pareto principle.
This will result in people attempting to outcompete his site using functionally the same business model and UX but superior SEO. c.f. StackOverflow clones.
Facebook is Facebook's primary product; they're unlikely to close it down and reallocate engineers to other products until they've tried very hard to make it a success.
Same here. Unable to take any obscure 1 character names
When was the point when we started to collapse as an intelligent civilisation?
Or Rhest. (But even then it makes it hard to actually talk about in person.)

What motivates people to name projects after simple, common words?

Strikes me as a conceptual land-grab.
Thanks. I thought so too.
The key takeaway is this:

> The research is overwhelming that the vast majority of us require seven to eight hours of sleep to feel fully rested, and only a small percentage require less than seven.

I'm sometimes envious of people I meet that can function well with little sleep, but I resign myself to the fact that I wasn't dealt that particular card. You can't compete with those folks by simply trying to ape their habits.
> Instead of deploying proper HTTPS, you're thinking that opportunistic encryption is good enough for you, that it is a valid replacement for HTTPS.

But I will never deploy HTTPS:// regardless -- no backwards compatibility with http-only clients, not even much compatibility with HTTPS-enabled clients with no SNI support (e.g. Android 2.3 or Windows XP), the tie-in of the new address scheme, huge opportunity costs for non-commercial multi-dozen-site owners (certificates for wildcard domains like "*.example.net" cost several times more than the domain names themselves; plus the multi-domain certificates for both both "example.net" and "example.com" simultaneously (to avoid having to deal with SNI) cost even more, and those 50$+/domain for multi-domain certs don't even seem to have wildcard support, either).

So, even though I will never deploy HTTPS://, you think opportunistic encryption is still a waste of time for me? IETF now begs to differ! And I'm very glad they finally do!
"users to change the language specification" ? How does that make sense?
Lifting in Scala is not at all verbose; I'm talking about casting, calling a method that the type system doesn't know is present.
Where do you nap? Does your office provide a suitable place?
Americans as vulnerable to surveillance as foreigners, despite 4th Amendment
It’s the roads themselves that cause traffic. The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more.

So contrary to popular belief, invention is actually the mother of necessity. The question now is how best to take a systems approach to promoting alternative forms of transportation.
well, I DO use ESC when leaving Visual mode... but otherwise, 'jk' all the way.
Facebook created a personal bubble/universe centered around you.

That seems like a compelling game plan in general.
Guido himself has said no multiline lambdas is an explicit design choice, and it's not really a technical issue:

"But the complexity of any proposed solution for this puzzle is immense, to me: it requires the parser (or more precisely, the lexer) to be able to switch back and forth between indent-sensitive and indent-insensitive modes, keeping a stack of previous modes and indentation level. Technically that can all be solved (there's already a stack of indentation levels that could be generalized). But none of that takes away my gut feeling that it is all an elaborate Rube Goldberg contraption."

source: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358

EDIT: This was from an earlier proposal in 2006.
I was a ruby developer, who then had to do a lot of C and am writing CL/Clojure for fun.

Then I went back to a ruby project, and realised - the language I used to adore kinda sucks, because it's _so_ un-functional.
Weird title, seeing as how the article states that bigger roads do not make traffic worse, it stays the same:

>> New roads will create new drivers, resulting in the intensity of traffic staying the same
Not at all. All successful end user platforms contain provisions for the easy installation of commercially sold software, including at the point of purchase. Tying yourself to OpenWRT prevents this.

This is the real reason the GPL has a sort of built in success limit for end user deployments, and why so much of the code in Android is Apache or BSD licensed.
Proving he/she is who they say they are is difficult and could be countered. Satoshi is not a regular person, but that really doesn't matter in this argument. Why would being 'non regular' make a difference here?

The rest of your statement is an ad hominem argument. You state it is stupid to look for him because finding him would result in his death. That's a blaming statement of epic proportions, and is probably a result of your own emotions around Satoshi and Bitcoin, not a reality of this world. We don't know what we'd do if we found him.
I'd been using http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm but I'll have to find something else if it's out of date.

I have a Windows Phone 8 beta, and the built-in keyboard now suggests related emoji as you're typing. It's not as obtrusive as it might sound, and I think it's fun even though I never use them.
> Most of us have forgotten what it really feels like to be awake.

Reminded me of this relevant TED Talk:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jessa_gamble_how_to_sleep
Oh. That's.. strange, but good to know. Thanks.
On the one hand Yo, Emojli are a little silly.

On the other hand, they are exploring different aspects of one of the biggest achievements ever: instant mobile communication!

There is a place for SMS despite Email and phone calls. There's space for messaging apps even though we already had SMS.

It seems there are other aspects of communication that are not yet served by software. Formal or intimate, one-way or two-way, private or (semi-)public, serious business - emotional - fun. Two party or with different groups. Just text, or something that allows for individualism and creativity.

If your start-up gets one of those things right it could be huge, no problem!
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There was more or less a whole EconTalk episode about this recently; one interesting point from it was the (bad) concept of STROADs:

http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2013/3/4/the-stroad.html#...