skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know what happens to the money involved in an action like this? Does he keep the sales from before the app was pulled?
Compatibility tables for default local fonts
People are probably already scanning it ;)
Agree, personally, I still prefer JQuery. Most of the components in here are implemented in JQ already. JQ has a lot more other components and is cross platforms on all the browsers.
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Not only that, but China doesn't allow an even playing field in any regard what-so-ever in their domestic economy.

Foreign investors still can't own more than the majority share in a Chinese company.

China is anti-West when it comes to supporting their domestic companies. They block out major competitors, such as Google or Facebook, and they make life very difficult for anyone that attempts to compete with their domestic companies.

The crap Alibaba pulled in stealing tens of billions in wealth from Yahoo by spinning off Alipay without proper compensation and forcing Yahoo to sell half its stake in Alibaba is par for the course in China.
It's not just the pay of a few top level officials: the number of employees in the university bureaucracy has exploded over the past few decades. What's interesting is that this growth tracks quite well with the increase in tuition costs.

Forget the president's salary, does a small university really need six separate deans of residential life for undergrads alone, plus a support staff of three for each?
It took basically the entire Manhattan project to create enough U-235 for that single bomb dropped on Hiroshima. There was no more U-235 coming, at least not any on a scale or timeline for the war.

It probably would have been more efficient to dilute the U-235 into reactor grade and use it to manufacture weapons grade Plutonium. However at the time the U.S. only had two bombs (the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and it was probably judged politically expedient to drop two instead of one.
Quote: "You’d have to be a mighty poor Christian (or atheist, etc.) to be converted by a particular argument. You don’t get turned from an optimist to a pessimist, from a conformist to a radical, or from a democrat to a republican overnight, unless your initial views were pretty thoroughly unexamined."

This isn't true for people who actually know how to think. For a thinker, unlike an ideologue, ideas, not viewpoints, hold ultimate power, and a well-crafted idea can handily demolish a viewpoint. Here's an example debate between two thinkers (about postmodernism):

A: "Reality is subjective, there are no shared truths, everything is a matter of opinion. Objectivity is a persistent myth, but a myth nevertheless."

B: "If your thesis were true, if everything was a matter of opinion, if it wasn't possible to get two or more observers to agree on the meaning of an observation, if objectivity were really a myth, then to be logically consistent that outlook would first be applied to the thesis itself, fatally undermining it."

A: "I have to confess I never thought of that. You win."

That's how people who are trained to think, think. All this talk about people "sticking to their guns" and refusing to be swayed by arguments, only reveals the shallowness of contemporary education, because a well-crafted idea has enormous power -- in the hands of someone who knows how to think.
How about environmental disaster, asteroid strikes, nuclear war, and biological warfare. All of those would leave a self sustaining Mars colony unscathed even if they caused extinction on Earth. Also, at least one offworld colony is a prerequisite for the interstellar colonization that could actually protect against the threats described in your quote.
This is the first iOS 8 widget I would have been interested in using - but the opportunity is gone.
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Because general purpose package managers suck at dealing with the concerns of individual programming languages. E.g. installation paths, virtual environments, different compilation methods, etc.

And yet all these nifty package managers can't even seem to get things as simple and long solved as permissions straight. Even autoconf sets permissions better than, say, pip, where I have to remember to check my umask before I "sudo pip install something".
>Are you personally currently environmentally apathetic because you know China is shoving as much burned coal into the air as they can?

Tons of CO2 emitted per capita:

United States 16.4

China 7.1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...

I feel like China can do a lot more.
Thanks for the explanation. I'm not a Haskell programmer so I was basing my observation off of some Haskell hackers blog entries.
by "concurrent users" the site means "concurrent users for writes" because for reads concurrent users is fine in sqlite.
So many people here fail to recognize that this app essentially reproduced some functionality and elements (quick launch contacts from multitasked, springboard replicated) in the OS that could be confusing for users.

This article is another one of those sensationalized "I know best, Apple is wrong!". I don't doubt that Apple makes mistakes, they are run by humans (for now...), but this definitely isn't one.
While I can't say I'm concerned about the University of Chicago (not a direct impact on my life), I am concerned about the overall trend that it represents. The fact that students are willing to pay for it doesn't mean too much (IMO) as the economics and incentives of higher education (2008 downturn, skimpy state budgets, tuition grants, non-dischargeable loan debt, graduate research funding) have driven most schools to a challenging place where students are mostly choosing between institutions that are kind of mercenary, and ones that are blatantly mercenary.

This story comments on the University of Chicago mostly because its one of the extremes. However, the issue is really the trend - The move to run schools like big business.

To gauge success by non-student oriented metrics like year-over-year recruitment growth or annual profit. To compete for, and try to hire big shot administrators / executives (cause that $1M (Example) Harvard guy is worth 10x more than some $100k random dude). To vote large administrative / executive pay raises or parachutes (not general faculty) while the main public story is the rapidly rising cost of tuition. To tailor the school towards showing good metrics, rather than educating students and letting metrics flow from that. To focus primarily on research output because its more profitable / efficient than educating a bunch of undergrads.

IMO, its all the problems that we're vaguely aware exist in higher education, but the University of Chicago is just particularly egregious about it and could make Obama look bad if he puts his library in it while talking about how important educating all our students (not just the wealthy ones) is.
10 Fonts for Code
Thus far a lot of what he says seems smart... until I got to this:

"Make variables as GLOBAL as possible. Why not? You can save some space and clarify your requirements. For instance, how many Is, Js and Ks do you need? In most cases a single copy in COMMON would suffice (you have to declare them, remember, and may as well put them in COMMON); you can redefine it locally if you must; and it is of interest that you must."

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding him, or it's a difference in languages
same way in a two party democracy.

you shut up and live it up. or make protests that will be largely ignored, after some police violence, and after posting bail you vote for the 3rd candidate.
I'm actually using a very inclusive sense of 'us' here, meaning any sort of life. I'd prefer intelligent life that I can emphasize with, but I'll take what I can get.

Humanity isn't that special and I'm sure intelligent life would arise again without us, but now that Earth has developed fungi that can digest cellulose Earth is never going to have this much fossil fuel sitting around again. Maybe that doesn't matter and humanity or some other species will colonize space anyways... but maybe it does.
I agree, there needs to be more work done with this before release. At this stage, I have no use for any of these components and would rather build my own or use an alternative UI library.
It think that's a part of it, but I don't think all. As I speculated in a previous comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8207860), I think the Haskell ecosystem may well wind up with more breaking changes at the root of diamonds in the dependency graph than other ecosystems, for a few reasons.

I've been meaning to try and gather some empirical data as to whether this is actually the case.
It reminds me a lot of this awesome, open source, swiping library developed at the MIT Media Lab: https://github.com/Swyp/swyp
I don't know that that's a sign of it working well...
Is Ebola virus intelligent? It has a goal - reproduce - and it's trying to maximize it through any means available to it.I don't think we can say that the virus is intelligent. If it continues to evolve, at some point in time it could potential (highly unlikely but still possible) become intelligent, but will it become self-aware at this point? And if it does will it still want to replicate uncontrollably or will, just like humans, decide the it needs to better manage it's environment?
Who is your type system for?
SQLite is also used in many embedded systems. If you plug in a USB drive to my TV, it creates a SQLite database to keep track of the current position of the video files it plays.
This is a really interesting read, even for someone (like me) who has a relatively rudimentary understanding of Java. I wonder how many developers think this deeply about the way the APIS that they use every day actually work.
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I wouldn't say the app market is thriving. It's been dominated by the same gimmicky IAP games for a long time, is full of hacky junk apps, and noticeably devoid of serious productivity apps. More and more prominent indies are throwing in the towel and taking jobs, which probably means less innovation.

And usage stats show user engagement for new apps at half of what it was a year ago.

Even a cheerleader like Marco Arment has expressed serious doubts about the health of the iOS app ecosystem lately.
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This is the world Richard Stallman predicted, and "we" [1] - developers with the most power and the most to lose - are leading the charge head-first. I am just old enough to remember the Bad Old Apple of the mid-90s, and this nonsense does not surprise at all. Apple has had a good run playing the Unix card; developers buy Macbooks in droves because "it's like a Linux that just works". But just wait a few more years until the Terminal is apptimized away. The waffling non-open-sourcing of Swift should have been the final clue.

[1] the only apple product I own is a 2nd generation iPod in a drawer somewhere. I still hold myself responsible.
Chinese coverage of Hong Kong protests
Long-Ago Twist Yielded Ballmer 8% of Microsoft Stock
The original nuclear bombs used hi voltage detonators, detonators which were incredibly highly sensitive - and they all had to be connected by hand just before the bomb was loaded. If you read the command&conquer book that was linked to above you will see that the risks that were being taken with early designs were just insane and it's incredible that we have not had an accidental detonation during the cold war.
Photoshop used to run on IRIX ...
Or at least add a delay at the end. It's not super hard to figure out what must be going on, but really the only thing you have time to see is the first line.
Congrats, always thought Baremetrics was promoted in an intelligent manner.
Relevant Onion article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/apple-employee-fired-for-th...
> "Immediately, all eight scientists in the room felt a wave of heat accompanied by a blue glow as the plutonium sphere vomited an invisible burst of gamma and neutron radiation into the room. As the lab's Geiger counter clicked hysterically, Louis used his bare hand to push the upper plutonium hemisphere off and onto the floor, which terminated the supercritical reaction moments after it began."

Nit pick: What you have described is the incorrect version in the movie "Fat Man and Little Boy". It was a knee-jerk reaction that stopped the supercritical reaction, and it was the beryllium outer sphere which was dropped, not the plutonium core.

Slotin was holding the top half of the beryllium sphere with his thumb which he immediately lifted up due to the intense heat.
While hiding your roller suitcase behind a lamppost.
In what way are any of these examples more readable than "proper" generics? A copy pasted solution with 3 different specializations is three times the code! The replace-"T"-solution is hardly any better in terms of readability than a modern (D/C#/Rust/Java) generic Collection<T> would be?
A Better Way of Incorporating JavaScript Ecosystem into Rails
On Fear of Failure
My understanding is that Mars at this time has much less sedimentation than Earth has. It may have had more in the past, but was there ever the volume of organic material that Earth has had in e.g. the Gulf of Mexico or the Tethys Sea?
> What both communities need is a up arrow (agree), down arrow (disagree), and a flag button (troll/spam/unconstructive).

I disagree. What communities need -- if they value contributions of substance rather than agreement -- is community members willing to upvote opinions that are substantively presented and add to the discussion even they disagree with them. Adding more user choices won't stop people from using the one intended to suppress inappropriate comments on comments they disagree with if they, in fact, want to suppress disagreement.

Fortunately for HN, I think HN has a sufficient number of those type of members -- most of the complaints I've seen about things being downvoted because of unpopularity (often including, in the same discussion, things on both sides of the issue) have been presented in a way which presents alternative explanations for downvotes than to the popularity of the opinion, and most of the substantive comments, whether voicing the dominant opinion or not, that I've seen that get downvoted subsequently get upvoted. (Certainly, I know that I've frequently upvoted comments that I disagree with.)

But as long as people have a tool that lets them suppress opinions they disagree with, you aren't going to prevent people who would be inclined to use it from doing so by presenting other alternatives.

> You can try to stop people using flag as "super-downvote" by making it so that after you flag a post you cannot either agree OR disagree with it, and additionally you cannot reply to it (effectively making you choose, to either "disagree" or flag, and since "disagree" is public and flag is private you're more encouraged to "disagree" than flag).

I think this rests on a false assumption -- private use of flag doesn't reduce the incentive to use it, it just reduces accountability. And, anyway, with your proposed hiding algorithm (hide if flag > agree+disagree), it would be stupid to use the UI option to "disagree" after you flagged anyway, since that would negate the effect of your flagging on its only purpose -- suppressing the opinion you disagree with, rather than publishing your disagreement.
> it's very hard to put values with different types (where the set of types is not known in advance) into a list with SML

Probably because that's a terrible thing to do.

If you want to keep a collection of things of different types, you should wrap them in a container type using ADTs.
"which can increase build time."

Yeah, that's the biggest hit to my productivity, when working on a moderate sized Yesod project. Otherwise, the experience has been great.
It's pretty easy to see the effects of this if we compare the number of successful people from rich countries to the number of successful people from the other several billion people in the world. Where one is born and in which family is hugely (if not primarily) important.

I'm from the US, and I've seen quite a few highly intelligent and hard-working (but poor) people end up as heroin dealers or working odd jobs, with no steady employment. Conversely, I've seen relatively mediocre people, born to wealthy families, succeed wildly. And, I'm sure I'm not the only one who's seen this.

It's something to think about in a world where around 2400 billionaires (~0.000033% of the population) own ~7% of the world's wealth.
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There are tons of ways to innovate with smartphones, but the technology to do so is either too young, too niche or hasn't made it beyond the drawing board.

To pick three innovative features that have made it into real smartphones, you can look at the Samsung Galaxy Beam pico projector, Jolla's 'The Other Half', and the YotaPhone E-Ink backscreen. Some would argue that these are gimmicks, but isn't all innovation a little gimmicky before it reaches mass market adoption (I'd argue camera phones were in this category originally, and they certainly aren't gimmicks anymore).

Jolla's The Other Half is especially interesting, as it allows for people to personalise the functionality of their phone (along with the look). Whether it takes off or not remains to be seen.
Recently spoke with my boss, and for a few months I am going to be on a part work from home and part work from work, it was really nice they were willing to work this out, still don't know how I'll feel come january, but this gives me a little more time to make that decision.
I'd say it is true for most success in this complex market.

It's not a matter of whether success is attributed to the individual or to the situation; it's both.

A wire is connected to the electricity, which powers the bulb. The bulb cannot light without the electricity, and it cannot light without the wire. Is the success of the bulb attributable to the wire, or the outlet?
Do you have a citation or not?
> The ability to go west was well understood and already successful by other Europeans by then, namely the various Norse colonizations.

And our ability to go to Mars isn't imaginary either (even if we haven't sent people).

Also, I've never seen literature claiming the Norse expeditions were very well known. (Not saying that doesn't exists, just that I haven't seen them.)
> SpaceX doesn't even have the ability to go. Comparing Columbus's low hanging fruit to Mars colonization is pretty unconvincing, especially on the economic front where colonization of the Americas was deeply profitable almost instantly, while Mars would be a welfare state.

It wasn't know that America would be profitable. Granted it was thought spice trade would be.

The point of the quote is that Europeans chose to take on an expensive exploratory endeavour (with the hope of a profit) even though they had issues at home.
I'd be surprised if most jeans for women have back pockets that could comfortably fit an iPhone 6. They're generally design additions rather than serious pockets.
This will be abused for hosting questionable things in no time, if it's not already.
>bad for the platform

It's nothing Apple Damage Control can't handle.
`perl -v` even goes so far as to say "This is perl 5, version 20, subversion 0". The addition of "v5.20.0" immediately after doesn't sync up very well with that though.
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That sounds correct.
Netflix will show ‘Crouching Tiger’ sequel same day as theaters
I think the filtering stuff should be hidden by default, it looks like you have to pick a country plus I don't know what an exit vs guard is.

Also bitcoins only is really exclusionary.
Are they? These aren't the multi-megaton nuclear behemoths that people associate with nukes post-cold war. Those bombs are three orders of magnitude more powerful than the one shown in the picture. This bomb is probably comparable to a warehouse full of conventional weapons, which the shirtless youngster was probably manhandling in his everyday work.

And unlike a conventional weapon, it's pretty hard for a nuke of this design to accidentally explode.
> Will this work with non-SaaS businesses?

> At this point, not really. Right now Baremetrics is focused primarily on providing analytics and metrics for SaaS businesses with recurring billing.

This seems odd to me. I don't see why any business which has recurring billing wouldn't benefit from Baremetrics.
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As someone who has been using Rails for a long time, being able to leverage some of the JS frameworks within that universe is huge. I know DHH has a different approach, but this article helps show how to go off the reservation.
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Gengen: A generator for typed source code from generic source code in Go
As others have mentioned, it really depends on your use case. I use my phone as my primary camera, and my iPhone 6 is miles better than my iPhone 5. Although if you're not going to be taking advantage of any of the new features, then you're definitely not going to feel like a $700 phone is worth it. Then again, there's no point in even considering an upgrade to any device if your current phone is perfectly suitable.
I agree and I think Go has wholeheartedly adopted Java's philosophy stated[1] in 1997 by James Gosling -- "Java is a blue-collar language" -- and expounded in JavaOne 2005 in the following slide:

* Reading is more important than writing
- code should be a joy to read
- the language should not hide what is happening
- code should do what it seems to do
* Simplicity matters
- a clear semantic model greatly boosts readability
- every "good" feature adds more "bad" weight
- sometimes it is best to leave things out

Obviously languages evolve with time. They need to change when their usage changes (for example, when they're used to build bigger and bigger programs) as well as when fashions shift, but when they do, they must do so carefully and conservatively. As a general rule, Java only adds new features not when they make something nicer, but only when they solve something that's really painful.

I think this approach works especially well in large projects designed to last for years, made by large heterogenous groups of developers who might come and go over the lifetime of the project.

One language that is somehow confounding in this respect is Clojure. It is minimalistic, but at the same time it's clever, so I'm not sure whether it belongs more in the minimalistic language category or the clever language category.

[1]: http://dfjug.org/thefeelofjava.pdf
We found Tokyo a city of paper, and left it a city of concrete? Maybe that's more ethical somehow?
There are studies that claim attractiveness is also correlated with intelligence. (And others claim that it is not).

It is one of this science "just-so-stories", but the idea being that other attributes being equal more intelligence would allow you to more successfully mate with attractive people.
It strikes me as pure evil that the very first use of nuclear energy was to drop a massive bomb over a bunch of fellow humans.

Surely the force of nuclear weapons could have been demonstrated without actually dropping it on a concentration of living, healthy people.
Why "her"?
Is this because you are sexist and trying to degrade Apple, because you consider Apple to be a god, or are you pushing for better women's rights by using feminine pronouns by default?

I really am curious.
It wouldn't have detonated. The worst that would have happened... is exactly what did happen. Lots of radiation release and the death of one nuclear scientist that should have been more careful (he died of radiation sickness a few days later).
Countries by population:

China 1,367,030,000
United States 318,827,000

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

They do a lot more, you just saw a piece of the information.