skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2600 years, according to wikipedia the Diaspora started with the conquest of the Kingdom of Judah by Babylone (started in 597BCE and ended with the destruction of the first temple in 586BCE), although a numbers of jews were already in exile since the conquest of the Kingdom of Israel in 722BCE by Assyria.
I agree it's not the most confusing thing about Scala. It just doesn't help. It doesn't confuse me now (I remember programming languages were the distinction between function and procedure is important), but it makes little sense and I'm glad this syntax is removed for future generations of Scala devs.

Scala is a relatively new language that already has made too many concessions to backwards compatibility with Java, resulting in a less elegant language than it could have been. I'd rather they broke compatibility a few more times and got rid of their earlier mistakes.

This is not very important, though. I'd rather they focused on other, more important improvements first.
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Sure, just like you might walk, drive, or take public transit somewhere new.
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Charged with setting up a digital team as part of a large bureaucratic organization and need a project management tool for digital projects. Though there might be a YC preferred tool or alum idea out there that'd work. Any idea?
I've often thought I'd like a "hide until next version" or "hide indefinitely" for the app store. There's just so much I'm not interested in - especially in the Japanese app store which is dominated by casual games / social games .. http://www.rainbowapps.com/
Omaha is only $5 cheaper than, New York? And more expensive than San Francisco, Paris, and London? Must be bad data?
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So many questions...

Does total darkness also exclude dim lights like LEDs? So should you avoiding any electronics like clock radio, phone notification LED, ...?

Is having your eyes closed not enough to block out the light?

If it's about light on the skin: does lying under a blanket block it?
I’m pretty sure the “Give it a try first.” in the intro should be a link :-P
Because that would be completely wrong. It's not custom, and it's not injection molding.

What they're doing isn't custom, and they're not claiming it is. It is 3D printing, and they are (correctly) claiming it is.
I too am a Backblaze customer but beware: backups of deleted files are deleted after 30 days.
It IS a pain and I don't know that there is a way to fix that. As I said though you have to decide what your data is worth to you.

I personally use http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ and a semi-complicated system of cron and bash script to backup my files to my local server, some flash drives and s3.
In part 1 you need the sound turned on to solve the puzzle. I don't think I could have ever gotten farther than that on my own. Even at home I keep the sound turned off on my computer unless there is something I specifically want to listen to.
Pretty similar to yours. They seem to be offering incentive for very early startups with spotlighting and ways of improving UX through design/consulting. Not sure how applicable this would be to a startup that knows how to market its target audience, though.
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An OS that is proved to be essentially perfectly secure? For some reason this brings up thoughts of trusted computing, and not in a good way...
Hello hyperliner,

This is your wife. We need to have a serious chat tonight.
@striking: Does this work for you?

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/dnd/basics/

http://html5demos.com/drag

I don't understand why this is an issue, there are tons of great tutorials: https://www.google.com/search?q=HTML5+drag-and-drop

Step 1 to being a web developer, search Google first. More than likely anything you need done has been done 10,000 times and there are at least 100 tutorials.

Don't be afraid to use libraries such as jQuery,which HTML5 drag-and-drop doesn't require, but I see that you mentioned avoiding it in another comment. Libraries many times also have the advantage of increasing browser support transparently, which is generally a good thing.

Worried about loading time with libraries? Use a CDN such as http://cdnjs.com/, most users will have the popular ones already cached in their browser.

Use StackOverflow if you have questions, that's what it's there for. Hacker News is for... news.
Oh my poor miserable Cubs on that list. And I thought they were bad because of underinvestment. The list shows they're bad even relative to that underinvestment!
A pattern which really reached its apex over at Ward's Wiki [0]. It really should be reserved for concepts generally broken. I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere recently an article about "...considered harmful."

Edit: Ah, yes, Eric Meyer [1], complaining about "...considered harmful" seven years prior to the original article. :-)

[0]: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?search=ConsideredHarmful

[1]: http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
Maybe if you're 12. This spring I had to present my ID to get a replacement for a dead key in Philadelphia.
Why not? I find it pretty great in terms of backups (though that's not my purpose for doing it.)

I have copies of my files on my work machine, my laptop, my wife's laptop, my gaming machine, and ofcourse dropbox's servers itself.

I could lose any one of those without losing the bunch thanks to dropbox synching things.

Sure it doesn't help in the case of deletion but its great for the more common case of "my machine suddenly won't boot".
Since they're not sure if they found a security related error or not, I would rather make a disclosure to Bitcoin dev team fist before going public with it.
Steam gives you some free advertising, but not much. You may also be featured, if you are lucky.
7KR69W7MTA3F. Thanks. Very smooth animation.
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I like keeping backups on a hard disk in the office. For a guy who grew up in the 90's there's something comforting about being able to physically look at one of your backup methods!
After reading that I think you are probably right!
You're right. What I meant to say is that their launch schedule for the next two years has a lot more regularity. Whether it actually plays out the way it's posted is a different story.
Just curious why more people don't learn about and invest in home NAS's? Something like Synology would be pretty good at storing 8000 important photos. It is still a single point of failure, but its one I control.
They have a series of earlier posts on the blog too

https://blog.dropletpay.com/droplet-infrastructure-dockerisa...

https://blog.dropletpay.com/droplet-infrastructure-cloud-con...

https://blog.dropletpay.com/droplet-infrastructure-using-vag...
Don't think of Perl 5 and Perl 6 as being like the Python 2 vs Python 3 situation. Perhaps a better comparison would be that of C vs C++: the latter is inspired by the former, but not everyone who uses the former has any interest (or needs to have any interest) in the latter.

Perl 6 is worth paying attention to, but not as "something which will make Perl 5 obsolete". Don't let the status of the various P6 distributions stop you from using P5 to make cool stuff today. :)
I agree with most of your comment. Thanks for writing it down!

First, the agreement:

Yep, structs are a VM thing. We are very excited about Project Valhalla (http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/valhalla/ etc).

Refactoring in a dependently typed language is hard. There's room for improvement. Scala-refactoring is a great example of community contribution.

Scala style checking is on our roadmap for 2.12. I'm procrastinating reviewing the first PR for the tool (abide) right now.

Finally, I would like to clarify we are doing everything we can think of to encourage the community to help shape the design and implementation of Scala. We publish roadmaps, review (and even rework) community PRs, do most of our team comms publicly (we are a distributed team), solicit proposals for language changes (e.g., http://docs.scala-lang.org/sips/pending/42.type.html). We spun out library modules that are now being maintained by the community. I spent last year simplifying the core build, so that we can move to a standard sbt build this year, which should also make it easier to contribute. As a first step towards updating the [spec](http://scala-lang.org/files/archive/spec/2.11/), we converted it to [markdown](https://github.com/scala/scala/tree/2.11.x/spec).

That said, I think it's only natural that the Scala committers on Typesafe's payroll are more inclined to work on customer support issues / internal Typesafe support. We always try to strike a fair balance to give back to the community.

Please let me know how we can do better, here or via contact info in my about.
How much of Google's cloud stack are you required to use to apply for this program? If they require you to use GAE for your backend for example, I think it's going to be a dealbreaker for a lot of startups.
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You can't apply engineer logic here, which seems like what you're trying to do. It's a sales and customer service business. By spending extra time with you his short term dollars per minute needle might be less than it could be (though this is debatable; he might just legitimately have the spare time, since you said it's a slow market), but his long term dollars per minute needle with do better because of the high level of service he's giving you.

To use a tech analogy, this is like suggesting that Zappos customer service ought to be replace by a knowledge base and automatic responders, since spending all that time and money to have human representatives to make customers happy is inefficient and irrational when it could be done cheaper.
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State and Nation are not the same.
Every CI build in its own Docker container
100 hundreds is a lot printing ;)
As many others mentioned already "sync is not backup".
If you really want true backup then on a Mac I will suggest to have a setup like:
1- local backup for quick recovery with Time Machine
2- remote backup with a true backup solution like CrashPlan (or similar)

I personally have such setup with a local one with my Time Machine, and having CrashPlan running all the time, it did save me a couple times when after many weeks I deleted a wrong file or folder... Got everything back without problem.

If you don't have a Time Capsule, then you can always consider an alternative with just a smaller subset of what you want to archive by using a JetDrive by Transcend.
I recently got a 128GB JetDrive and it is my local destination for my MBP for TimeMachine... Yes 128GB is not enough but knowing that CrashPlan is constantly running make me comfortable enough with that setup.
> "you should backup"

What about in 10, 20 years? Photo libraries will keep inflating. Local storage will not. As of now I backup from a SSD Mac. What happens when I don't have a computer anymore?

Interestingly, people don't value "bits" or information. We value moments and emotions and work and art. There's no successful current consumer business model for people to store and backup photos (Backblaze is mainly prosumer).

And so aren't social networks the real backups by now? The redundancy of publishing on multiple services means some photos will stick and the rest will fade, somehow like former printed pictures I guess. Publish it or lose it?
It would be cool to have a Gallery link on the homepage, or something similar
Healthcare in the US hasn't been free-market for a long time. Ironically, it's probably most like the thing free markets were "designed" to fix than anything else - things called "royal patents".

What this works out to in reality, divested of all the religious narrative, is that free markets are better than what were called "royal patents". This goes directly back to Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" and SFAIK, nobody's really improved on it.

"Wealth of Nations" was an expansion on economics from his "Theory of Moral Sentiments".

I would submit that a reasonable comparison between the U.K. and the U.S. is vanishingly close to impossible. Especially with the NHS; that was formed after the War when the country was in pretty poor shape. People had trouble getting 1500 calories a day. In the US around the same time, we ensconced employer based insurance. That was fine so long as large, monolithic corporations ruled.

The people you are probably decrying the most are those who hold that the Efficient Markets Hypothesis ( see, it's not even a theory yet ) always holds no matter what. We dunno. Modulo the EMH, free markets generally perform better. The only debate is whether or not health care is a public good. SFAIK, that is unsettled, too.
This is not quite true; the Nagasaki bomb missed its target by almost two miles because of cloud cover, and as a result only half the number of people were killed compared to Hiroshima. Even with an atomic bomb you had to be /relatively/ precise. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYphE841lfY)
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Nya, the light will have to travel through two LCD layers, if I've understood it correctly. You'd need a very powerful backlight.
This split is about how the realtor splits their commission with their employer and/or the umbrella company which provides marketing, access to MLS etc., right?
No, it IS a novel question, and it has yet to be answered. You talk as though Israel is a done deal, when the ongoing situation suggests anything but.

Why do you need to do political astro-turfing for Israel on a totally unrelated thread?
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$120,000 / 2080 = $57.70 per hour

$120,000 / 2600 = $46.15 per hour, which is about the same as you would pay someone making $95,000 a year.
Hard to believe, but apparently the discs did survive quite a bit of abuse, http://www.zdnet.com/torture-testing-the-1000-year-dvd-70000...

http://www.fileformat.info has good news feed & references on digital preservation.
Yep, one of the reasons Hiroshima and Nagasaki were selected as targets was because they were one of the few major Japanese cities that /hadn't/ been firebombed in the preceding weeks. People forget that the deadliest 24 hours in the Second World War was not either of the atomic bombings (which killed c. 120,000 people), but the firebombing of Tokyo, which burned down 12 square miles of a city which had average population density of 100,000 people per square mile.
I wonder if the fine folks of Kiribati will go about slaughtering civilians as well.
I'm let down by the decision to use an obsolete GPU.
Rainbow tables do NOT store every possible combination.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table
"I think this bug should be considered completely separately from how unwise it is to use a cloud service as the sole storage of important files."

It is unwise to use anything as the sole storage of important files. Personally, I think cloud backup is safer then one backing up files to a DVD or tape backup but I just won't keep personal files on any cloud service.

Never just have one point of failure!
> Not only was it all very "un-Pythonic", it didn't use classes

I thought that we were supposed to stop using classes in python.

http://pyvideo.org/video/880/stop-writing-classes
I think that quantum physicists do get an (imperfect) intuition for it, but they can't communicate it to laypeople because the inferential distance is too high.

I also think that it takes awhile for societies to internalize these things, and to find what works pedagogically, so it's hard to say how intuitive it will end up being. For example, starting teaching with quantum computer science might be really beneficial because qubits bypass some of the difficulties (differential equations, waves vs particles, tunneling) while keeping most of the weird (superposition, entanglement, measurement, interference, counterfactuals).
"Because “considered harmful” essays are, by their nature, so incendiary, they are counter-productive both in terms of encouraging open and intelligent debate..."

Excellent point. What is it about us techies that we have to always be right, and demonstrate it in the most indignant way, damn the consequences?
I was not talking about their 3D printed products... I was talking about their other products.... Fisherprice toys for example... Why don't they tell you how they where molded?
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I'd be very interested in seeing some Crossfilter-based filtering store code. I've been working on a business application that needs to do quite a bit of filtering and hierarchical rollups, and I'd really like to start using Crossfilter for it so we can chuck the much more limited tool I whipped up when we started the project and get that speed boost you mention.

We're also starting to see a lot of the many-to-many relationships in actions you mentioned, which convinces me we need to work towards more of a Flux architecture (it wasn't out yet when we started this lo those many months ago).
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I think the additional value add they're promoting is simply exposure. It's one of the few things that every startup wishes they had more off. I would anticipate signups to be fairly high just for the off chance of increasing eyeballs.

I do know that Google's marketing team has a budget they can utilize for successful partners/resellers to increase exposure. The reasoning behind the budget is that if Google partners succeed, Google ultimately making more money.
Who's using Docker?
Anyone know what the eligibility criteria for this is? is this open to people from all over the world or restricted to a particular demographic?
You must have a hard time using forks
The Air Force was also seriously against permissive action locks. When forced to add them, the generals made the launch codes the same on every warhead, all zeros.

Command and control is very hard: being able to always and immediately launch a nuclear attack but never subject to an unauthorized launch presents a variety of challenges. PALs help with the latter but not the former. Maybe because the Brits have fewer warheads (and therefore the ability to exercise more control) or needed to respond faster (being closer to the USSR and other nuclear powers), they made a strategic choice to skip PALs. Eric Schlosser's book Command and Control is worth a read if you are interested in the history of the US nuclear arsenal.
> On the other hand, keeping copies of the user's data after you say you've deleted it doesn't sound too ethical to me. I don't expect immediate purging, but I also don't expect potentially sensitive files to linger for months after they were supposed to be deleted.

This is a fair concern, but I think the issue of recovering files is much more important than the issue of retention of deleted files to the huge majority of the Dropbox user base. I imagine most privacy-conscious users would use an online sync service that offers encryption by default, etc.
I don't know, I really don't agree. I've never had a sysadmin job but I never found any problems with any of these things. All it takes is basic *nix knowledge.

I do work in infosec though, so as for your pop quiz:

1. Disable root login and enable public key auth only (PasswordAuthentication no, PermitRootLogin no).

2. Run mysql_secure_installation

All of these things are easy to learn with a little Googling. "How do I secure X?" "How do I install/configure X?" Way, way easier to learn than learning how to program or start a business, at least.

It is not worth $300 or more per month just to outsource some sys admin tasks.

Not to mention I doubt Heroku is paying very close attention to your log files for you; it's probably easier for you to do that yourself on your own VPS (where you'll also have access to more logs in the first place). If you have a vulnerability in your application then no hosting/platform provider is going to notice it and fix it for you 9 times out of 10.
I should imagine they would if Fiji started launching rockets at them and had a stated aim of wiping them out.
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> Local storage will not.

External backup drives continue to increase in size at a falling cost per GB.

It is cheaper and lower latency to store/retrieve a large amount of data locally than remotely, unless you believe that the current glut of "near-free cloud storage" will continue indefinitely. Market cycles suggest otherwise.

> Publish it or lose it

Why do social networks store your photos "for free"?
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I wouldn't call it astro-turfing. For a long time, Israel was a race/people without a homeland. You could maybe say the Palestinians are in that state now as well.
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That one looks closer to reality because the molecular movement is realistic for the (extremely short) time scale. However the system is simplified almost beyond recognition.

The movie I posted suggests a nice roomy cytoplasm while in reality it is an extremely crowded soup of insanely fast vibrating molecules. Some (many?) proteins do not even have a solid structure or attain it only when they bind something. It also suggests molecules are attracted towards each other when in fact then rely almost completely on things like concentration and Brownian motion for the interaction dynamics.

The movie does give a nice overview of processes but it is important to realize it is not the way it looks (as far as you can speak of "looking" at the molecular scale where photons interact with matter not in a way we "see" it normally, I mean, a protein is not a set of spheres, a carbon ring can absorb a photon or not, it can not bounce it back to reveal to your eye what it looks like.)
So we are dealing with models here. Models of a reality we can not really imagine. Like Quantum Mechanics.
Additionally the only model with a discrete GPU now base cost $2500
Jesus, and people in this industry STILL fight the idea that it's an incredibly gross and sexist environment. This is what we can achieve with some of the greatest technologies that humanity has created, really!?
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Correct, but both SpaceX and Arianespace have rideshares on their large launch vehicles. The Electron is competing with those rideshare opportunities. The current market rate for getting a 1U cubesat to LEO is about $100,000. They will also be competing with NanoRacks.
I would never consider using Dropbox (or any other cloud storage) as my sole backup system for critical files unless I was willing to pay for the "Packrat", i.e. infinite history, feature.
The bug in question:

> From all this information it seems that Dropbox client first deletes files locally before it informs the server about the new selective sync settings. Consequently, if the client crashes or is killed before the server is contacted, the files remain deleted without any trace. After the client restarts again, it only sees there are some files missing and syncs this new state with the server.

It concerns me that the top several comments are some variation of "you shouldn't trust the cloud with your data." How did software services become so totally insulated from the expectations we have of every other service that holds on to our valuable property?
I like how the link you submitted appears to have come from a "please please please let me know when this app launches" mailing list. That's not a good look.
We're pretty much guaranteed to have a nuclear accident at this point.

If ditching the grades is the answer to cheating, I say ditch nuclear weapons to solve nuclear problems.