skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Andrew didn't ask, but I thought I'd just add my 2 cents:

I've been at Acquia for a few years and it's a fun place to be.
Running a system on such a large scale is one of the coolest things I've done in my career so far and there is something new and interesting happening every day.

Something that is appealing (at least to me), is that the team is running a very "professional" process.
All of the commits are code reviewed and have passing tests, the colleagues are all great and impressively capable engineers. Everybody is excited about adding things like code metrics, good refactorings and helpful tooling (travis ci, ...). Even though it's a somewhat "streamlined" process, there is still enough time to fix those annoying little things (Upgrading the Ruby version we use, restructure our puppet manifests for logical consistency, ...).

It's a great place to learn and work in a team that actually lives the whole DevOps idea.

Andrew (syrneus) is an Engineer and understands the problems that business requirements can have with the current way we're doing things.

Ok, enough now before the marketing department tries to get me to write a blog post ;)
No, not at all. It is true that units are erased at runtime, but the compile time behavior is quite sophisticated, going well beyond anything that's possible in C# or OCaml. (Your link is quite interesting, but 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).

By being built into the language, units of measure in F# work naturally with type inference (and definitions can be measure-generic), so:

let weirdOperation (x:float<_>) (y:float<_>) = x * x + y * y * y

will be inferred to have type

x:float<'u ^ 3> -> y:float<'u ^ 2> -> float<'u ^ 6>
Ask HN: Should I use Polymer for my next project?
Should I Use Polymer from Google for next project?

What are advantages and disadvantages for using Polymer?(www.polymer-project.org)
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LOL.

Until one day it all goes wrong, or management change and don't care about service so much.

And that also acts as a barrier for new entrants into the market, stifling competition. When you have to just trust that a new market entrant won't run off with your cash, why would you ever risk it?

There's a hell of a lot that consumer protections and existing payment instruments give us.
The corporation is responsible for that fine, not the individuals responsible for running the corporation.

If you were a skilled member of the finance industry, do you think you'd have any trouble at all finding a job elsewhere if your current company suddenly fell on hard times? Would it even be necessary, given the type of "severance package" likely to be awarded?
I just finished Alan Dean Foster's "Taken" Trilogy and really enjoyed it. It's probably "not as bad" as Dan Brown (opinion only, possibly), but it's what most here would just classify as escapist trash.

Also Scott Meyer released a sequel to his "Off to be the Wizard" book (Spell or Highwater) and I finished reading it soon after the Taken trilogy. It's a great series too.

I bought the "Everything is Bullshit" book and I'm on a plane tomorrow, so I'll probably finish it during the flight.
Ah, but that's dealing with individuals and not the corporation.

But I also don't understand the lack of criminal convictions. The article mentions damning internal documents that show individuals within the bank knowingly breaking the rules. Why aren't these people being charged? They shouldn't be protected simply because they were working for a large corporation.
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Do you have a source on that, doesn't pass the sniff test for me. I thought it was because they have a presence in the US.
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Yeah, you even pretty much can get away with money-laundering for drug cartels too, see:

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

But note that dealing with Iran, Sudan and some other countries forbiden by the US State Department is legal in many european countries.
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I know of several UK court cases that went on for decades over tiny difference of opinion or wordings on a pension scheme documents.

In one the use of a single word instead of another was the key point.
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Bikeshed time! I feel that the bool adds complexity to the logic. I would rather just use an actual comment to indicate what the condition is for:

int padded_size(int size)
{
int remainder = size % 2048;

// do we even need padding?
if (remainder == 0) {
return size;
}
return size + (2048 - remainder);
}
It doesn't include storage
Id doesn't include SSD storage
It doesn't include provisioned IOPS for SSD Storage (well, ridiculously low)
It doesn't include bandwidth
IT doesn't include support.
Looks simply beautiful. Excellent design.

One thing that grabs my eyes always are side bars.
For some reason i feel left side bar for right handed person it not convenient and vice versa.

But, i see all apps designed with left side bars. Wondering why left side only while many users to my experience are right handed ?
5 Simple Tweaks to make your Rails App Faster
If a bank is operating in a country, then it seems obvious that that country's courts would have jurisdiction over it.
But an entity that is doing business in the US doesn't need to obey US law outside of the US. US-owned hotels in the UK are allowed to cut the tags off mattresses, even if their US branches are not.
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> Single instance. To spin up an instance, you need another computer.

I think you can do this with cloudformation, having it respond to the size of a work queue, however:

> Maybe someone just doesn't have time, yet, to learn/configure/maintain spinning up an instance for limited times.

This is why I can't answer the question above for certain, I got about that far in documentation and went off to find a simpler solution (for me, tutum: https://www.tutum.co/ )
Oauth is terrible desktop/mobile UX, and it doesn't provide any real security. A genuinely malicious application can spin up a webview under its control -- or do almost anything else it likes with your account.

As long as passwords are stored in the system's secure keychain, using passwords is not just OK -- it's the right desktop/mobile UX.

The only time OAuth makes sense is on the web, where by the very nature of the web's design, user's passwords would be provided to unrelated 3rd party servers outside the user's control.

Please STOP inflicting OAuth on non-web platform's users.
The lower graph here shows the depth of the market. Right now, for $800k USD, you can move the price from $656/BTC to $665/BTC. So you might get a $67,700 discount on your $5,000,000 order.

Edit: spaced the link https://bitcoinity.org/markets
Because there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Sure, the bank/CC company will take responsibility for fraudulent charges. In return, they:

1. Randomly cancel your cards and mail you new ones to limit their risk. (No explanation other than 'security')

2. Refuse to let you use your cards to deposit on gambling sites (which are legal in Canada). They also charge extra fees for 'cash-like' transactions on things like forex sites.

3. Reject large purchases that are 'out of the ordinary' making you look like a jackass. This one happened to my dad while he was booking flights.

4. Skim 2-3% or more of each transaction.

5. Maintain onerous requirements for merchants. Square has helped a lot with this in the first world but in the rest of the world they don't even bother taking electronic payments because it's such a hassle to get approved, lease the machines, maintain a security deposit, etc.

Sometimes it makes more sense to just take the risk of getting scammed than deal with all of the above.
>> I guess dishonest people can't imagine a scenario where merchants behave that way to, I don't know, retain customers instead of being forced to because their payments are being held hostage.

There are literally thousands of years of history to look at that will show you how naive and ridiculous this view is. Try doing a quick web search on "Caveat Emptor".

And for more recent examples, well try reading anything much about the last few years of bitcoin.
Julia looks amazing BUT as an R user:

1) RStudio is just such an amazing tool with rmarkdown and pandoc. I run my statistics in a document and can output to html, pdf or Word. I can't tell you how important the ability to print out to Word is in my corporate setting.

2) The libraries and tools are vast (Seems like Linux tons of options but really one or two are perfect for the individual use)

3) 99% of what I do takes less then 2 seconds with R

Personally if I have a need for large datasets I will look to Julia if I can't get a solution with R and data.tables.
Scaling the HS Hackers Facebook Group
> But an entity that is doing business in the US doesn't need to obey US law outside of the US.

That's not at all true. It doesn't have to obey US laws that only apply within the US outside of the US (but neither does anyone else.) But lots of US laws are not limited in territorial applicability to the US. In fact, there are US criminal laws that only apply outside of the US.
(it's not like this happened a few weeks ago and wasn't already all over HN)..
Do we not see similar trends in every aspect of computer science and software development?
"On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" (1936)

http://draperg.cis.byuh.edu/archive/winter2014/cs320/Turing_...

"Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (1950)

http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf

"Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by
Machine" (1960)

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/McCarthy60.pdf

"Reflections on Trusting Trust" (1984)

https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
Law is a terrible career these days.

Sure, and private-sector tech is worse.

Nothing's really "good" for our generation. We got fucked over by the Boomers and have to live with it.

About 20-25% of T14 law students (and virtually none from lower-tier law schools) make it to BigLaw positions paying $160K/year. The rest become small-town attorneys, public defenders, assistants in the DA's office, or go to work for boutique law firms. These positions pay about $40-75K/year, barely more than a public schoolteacher, and yet they have law school loans to pay off.

It's much more than 20-25%. More like 75%. You have to get shit grades not to have BigLaw as an option. You're right that from a non-T14, the job market is pretty appalling these days.

Even if you do get a BigLaw position, it involves being some partner's bitch for 7-10 years until (if) you make partner yourself.

As opposed to being a boss's or investor's bitch? Your odds are way better at becoming a partner than getting an equivalent payout from an exit in the Valley.
I just don't see computers being able to be better drivers then humans. Especially when dealing with something a programmer hasn't thought of or situations which are hard to predict.

I would definitely would prefer my taxi driver to be a person than a computer. (and honestly the trip would take twice as long in the city with a computer driver)
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For those searching for Rx examples, I found these:

https://github.com/fdecampredon/react-rxjs-todomvc (TodoMVC implementation built on top of React + RxJS)

https://github.com/eliseumds/react-autocomplete (React + RxJS Autocomplete)
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Why darcs users care about consistency
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I'm interested in small and start-up companies.
I have 15+ years experience doing front-end/back-end web development and analytics for various small and medium-sized companies.. some of which have become very large companies. I prefer small teams with less managerial cruft.
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where I was tasked with designing and implementing key features for improving the engagement of users.

I'm looking for a position working on software that people love to use. My preference is for small teams but I don't mind otherwise. I am capable of picking things up fast and am keen to learn new technologies.
do you care about < IE10?
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CoffeeScript Classes as AngularJS modules with ng-classify
Perhaps one should read my full post, as I answer this question in my "Further" second paragraph

I think you are just grasping to find any justification for what MS and the courts have done here... There are none.
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Mongo and Node. Must be good.
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Ask HN:  Should I list Mensa on my resume?
I'm a non-active member of Mensa. I passed the test when I was in high school (almost 20 years ago) and the extent of my involvement ended was paying my dues and receiving the newsletter for a while. My membership has lapsed, but I could reactivate it at any time.

Should I list it on a resume? It's all the way at the bottom among some other 'extracurricular' activities. Is it pretentious or impressive or neither or both?

(Edit: Mensa is the international high-IQ society. Membership means I'm in the top 2% of IQ, for whatever small thing that is worth)
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Yes, and I've seen it used at other businesses. Positive pressure systems are also used for clean rooms.
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Willing to relocate: no.

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See profile for resume/github/blog. I'm a generalist and like working at all levels of the stack, both on boring crudwork and exciting problems.
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Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not at this time

Technologies: Android, Web(.net c#, Rails, Javascript, html, css, ...,different template engines), DB(SQL, postgre, mongo)

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