skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is a very good example of a demo angular app. Hackernews isn't an app, it's a site. It works so well simply because it is such a simple site. If you're going to build it in angular, might I suggest you add some functional benefit to using the tool.
Snapchat is a very young people oriented app 50% of all users are aged 13-17 which almost definitely means that there are significant amounts of illegal pictures being hosted. This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images?

The hackers in this case have compromised a lot of young peoples intimate images which I imagine would make them very liable and open themselves up to legal troubles in that domain too, and I can't help but feel sorry for the people who did send these pictures who had them stored against their knowledge by someone they may have cared about and are now out there for any perv to grab a copy of.
Spectrum valuation and a case for Verizon vs. Sprint
So Putin didn't get one?
I disagree... inlining will remove all evidence that a function call existed. loop unrolling will remove all evidence that a loop existed (potentially).
Those are basic optimisations, comiplers will transform the code out of all recognisability for a decompiler to be worthwhile.
If the scam isn't involving the reviewers but is a smoke & mirrors operation where Rossi is duping real scientists holding their own instruments then it's very noteworthy just because that would be extremely difficult.

If it is a case of respected scientists from respected institutions being corrupt, that is of course also noteworthy.

If it is a case of actually finding a good source of energy then that is noteworthy.

So in my view it's now at the point where the two different scam options are at least as interesting as the non-scam!
Care to elaborate? This whole review only has credibility because of the credible institutuons involved. If the researchers have a history of scientific misconduct then it changes a lot.
People are dicks, they don't care.

You have to find the will and reason to live yourself if you really think life is that grim that you have to end it I have only one thing to say to you make sure you are 100% certain about that and there's no other way out of your situation before you do it this is one of the few things that cannot be undone.

There's almost certainly better options you can try before doing this.
The most exciting part of this for me is not the immediate features that are being released, but rather the hardware being put in place that can open up a bunch of neat possibilities via software upgrades.

>I think another big problem for Tesla (and yes, going off track here) is the fact that not everyone can afford a $70k+ car. Tesla needs to get a sub-$40k car if they want to actually sustain this model. I just don't see how they can by selling a niche car to a niche market.

They're working on that, it's called the "Model 3". But it's still a while away for them to reach the economies of scale for them to be able to produce it.
> For Amazon, what's keeping them huge is ...

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
I read an article once that said that when suicide was illegal in the UK, the rate was a lot lower.

I'm not sure if that was true or not, but as a thought experiment: if making suicide illegal lowered it's occurrance, would you support that?
Fairness. When would we ever want anything that is efficiently unfair?

Two companies doing the same thing brings the benefits of competition, which forces down prices, promotes innovation, and actually increases efficiency as they have to be better than their rival. In addition, no reason why both of them cannot be large enough to benefit from economies of scale (think Samsung vs Apple for smartphones).
The solution is some variation of Richard Stallman's proposal for banks that are 'Too Big To Fail.'

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-...

Economies of scale are good but I think we're entering a world where the negatives are growing too rapidly. If the economy consisted of more small companies, there would be more competition, more employment, and more innovation. And, per Stallman, it can all be rigged with the tax code.
And these are mostly males.

Life for males really improves after 30. Girls starting to hit on you a lot more, better jobs, more money, less stress.
> The s/w is not expecting this, and so interprets 7.6E-3 seconds as 7.6 seconds

This sounds extremely sloppy, especially for satellite control software. Anything not fitting exactly the expected format should lead to an error so the operator can immediately correct it, not be silently ignored.
Ah ok, then I fully agree with you.
or NSA? sarcasm
I would expect the demographic to shift soon, due the momentum that assisted dying is getting.
It's the old "if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail". Since I'm a filesystem engineer, everything looks like a file :)

Seriously though: the file is a powerful and familiar abstraction. The primary motivation for pigshell was to provide a common minimum abstraction across different web APIs which would enable basic data movement and backup.

That said, pigshell commands actually pass objects across the pipeline; files are a kind of object. For instance,

cat http://pigshell.com/sample/life-expectancy.html | table2js -e "tr" foo country data | head | printf

extracts data from an html table, converts them to plain Javascript objects and prints their json representation.
The bench. That's what it's called at some companies. I've seen it at maybe seven companies. Not every place I've been at, but a good portion. Agencies, or studios where project work is common. You do a project, and then move onto another one. However, sometimes there isn't a project starting at the exact time, or the project managers think a person needs a break.
'Love hormone' controls sexual behaviour in mice
There's a tragedy of the commons at work here. Amazon is playing in a new global marketplace, and the unquestioned assumption is that the lower prices that result for consumers are an overall good for society.

But there are plenty of indications that's not true, and that minimally higher prices spread across millions of customers that in turn support millions more local jobs may be better for society overall.

Arguing that a job is "not needed anymore" in this case is like arguing "keeping your own field that is not needed anymore" is stupid just because there's some new common grazing ground opened up.
Helicopter had "hold to increase elevation" rather than "tap to fly up"... and was a MUCH better game for it.
If you're so worried about Amazon monopoly, then get them to stop using DRM. Without DRM, we can take our (e)books anywhere.
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014
> In my initial CSS implementation in 1995 I used the “SkyBlue” constraint solver to resolve conflicting style sheet statements. (By the way, “SkyBlue” and “Cassowary” were both developed at the University of Washington.) Having a constraint solver allows you to express relationships between arbitrary elements and have conflicts resolved automagically. However, things can get complex when elements disappear and new ones arrive, like they do through DOM operations. Circular dependencies must also be handled gracefully. Therefore, the idea of allowing CSS to express layout constraints between any elements were dropped at an early stage.

That was the biggest mistake, IMO. John Nagle's comments here [1] express that point really well:

> With Dreamweaver 3 and tables, it wasn’t necessary to look at HTML to lay out a page. With Dreamweaver 8 and CSS, the page designer must understand CSS, HTML, and probably Javascript. That’s was a big step backwards. The CSS system is just too programmer-oriented. And I’m a programmer. (Programmer as in MSCS from Stanford, the Nagle algorithm in TCP, inventor of ragdoll technology, real-time robot vehicle control, not programmer as in “writes some Perl”. And my first web site went up in 1995.) It’s not that CSS is hard; it’s that CSS is bad.

> The worst problem with DIV-based layout is that the layout system is too weak. There’s no form of “grid” layout. There’s no way to relate a DIV to anything but its predecessor, its parent, or an absolute position. The system is just too dumb. That’s why people have to stand on their head just to get three columns to work. Tables actually are a better designed layout system. Table layouts allow table cells which span multiple rows and columns. If all tables could do were simple grids of cells, the CSS approach might make sense, but tables are more general than that.

[1] http://www.raizlabs.com/graiz/2006/09/25/ten-reasons-why-css...
Obama didn't announce himself as "a committed socialist", and the 'conservative media' that would denounce Obama as a socialist and the 'conservative media' that would consider socialism negative are two (but not mutually exclusive) things.

Most of the worlds' conservative media would react poorly to socialism due to the stigmas its' history has created, whereas American 'conservative media' would be more interested in painting its' leader in some specific way.

Neither has anything to do with socialism being implacably good or bad, or the article at hand.

What's your point?
If that's what consumers decide they want, then I don't think its wrong to say that is their purpose.

It's kinda sad to see them go, but that's OK. We no longer see as many of the beautiful locomotives as we used to, even though they where excellently engineered with tremendous history. But that's OK, since they've been replaced by other means of transportation/shipping.

Things change, sometimes that sucks. We all move on and try to make a more awesome world in other ways.
That worked fine before the modern global economy. Now? It's the death-knell for industry in your country. Without a global government agreement you simply can't bust up megacorps like you used to- they're effectively above the law.
There aren't many things on that list that we wouldn't be better off without. Is that really what you meant? You're in favour of big oil companies, hedge funds and the military-industrial complex?

The latter is particularly surprising, unless you think 50% of America's budget going on weaponry to fight threats that don't exist is a productive use of capital
Some background: the author (John Hempton) is a smallish long-short hedgefund investor. His main expertise is accountancy and analysing companies' cashflows - he occasionally contracts experts to advise him on tech or local issues.

I found this article interesting as it shows the value/importance of technology & physics as seen from 'the other side' (i.e. from the point of view of investors).
Why does Google hide a bunch of search results in Europe if they are above the law?

It seems to me that your statement is in error.
I don't like how this guys reporting it like a big game, it's really messed up.
No problem. I didn't get round to it unfortunately, although I probably should. I'm sure it would have encouraged a few people.

I mainly went in naively until I interned at an app development agency. They introduced me to the common design patterns and iOS-ways of doing things and started me along the right path.
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Amen. Most of Amazon's nearly 100k large workforce are warehouse workers, running around all day like rats in a maze with no real break, no opportunity to connect to other humans, no autonomy and no final product to be proud of. If that isn't a recipe for misery, I don't know what is.

"We have much studied and much perfected the great civilised invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. Truly speaking it is not the labour that is divided; but the men: – Divided into mere segments of men – broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin.

"Only in right understanding on the part of all classes of what kinds of labor are good for men, raising them & making them happy, and by a determined sacrifice of such convenience, or beauty, or cheapness as is to be got only by the degradation of the workman; and by equally determined demand for the products and results of healthy and ennobling labour can this evil be met." -John Ruskin
Text is the universal interface. You can do things with it. You can strip it, cut it, transform it, send it to other places. Humans can read it, programs can read it, your printer can output it. It can be sent to web APIs, it can be stored anywhere. It's compressible, can be colored and can be copy-pasted and is infinitely extendable. Thousands of protocols run over it.

The command line works with text. The command line remains the best interface I've ever used. It's user friendly, composable and available everywhere. It's easy to automate and easy to extend.

I wish the "command line with pictures" idea would just go away already. It adds nothing for the general public. I can already view pictures on remote machines with X forwarding.

Command line with pictures never made it, because there are ten competing standards. With text, everybody just agreed on ASCII and now Unicode/UTF8. Text has hundreds of ugly clutches on top of it (Extended ASCII, ANSI, Escape codes, etc, etc). It still works. It's still simple. It has its problems, but nowhere near as many problems as GUIs.

Those who don't understand Unix are doomed to reimplement it... poorly.
I believe when it was illegal here in the UK, coroners would look for ways to record the death in more favourable ways (mostly for the family). So an overdose would be recorded as death by misadventure and not suicide.
I'm not in favor or against any of the things I mentioned. I was just trying to make a point about emergent properties of complicated systems like global economies and nation states.
Maybe we should add LIDAR to humans too.
Microsoft CEO apologizes for “inarticulate” comments on gender pay gap
Galaxy Alpha review: A Samsung phone with chrome
Thanks for your response. I appreciate all the work going into the Scala ecosystem.

> Why do you say you don't know where Scala is going?

Apologies for that wording. A more elaborate wording would be: I don't know where Scala as a whole (the community + language) will be heading and that is in huge part because of I not having the resources to follow the developments. I sometimes lurk in the internal discussions list and catch up with conversations, some of which tend to be controversial, but I am glad they happen in the open. (Top of mind: CPS plugin related discussions)

I still use Scala whenever I can, but when it comes to performance (cpu limited), I fall back to Java. (I am aware of the compiler plugins of yore and the macros of now that help speed things, and the tree shakers, but they are third-party / require different workflows, and hence I don't feel inclined to use them for certain projects).

It is mostly in this space that I am exploring alternatives. Kotlin and Ceylon seem to be more streamlined (conceptually, and hopefully at run-time), but as I haven't actually used them, I am not sure what deficiencies to expect.

Edit: Removed a sidenote. Would have been a distraction.
A Faster Way to Make Quantum Computing Chips
I couldn't read the full Times article, this one is similar I assume. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/11151909/Cur...
I disagree. They literally give me everything I want, at a reasonable price. If you have some alternatives that fit that bill, I would be willing to consider them.
I think CSS has become the thing it was supposed to prevent. A modern web page is impossible to render as anything other than a web page; you can't separate the styling from the content, and if anything the complexity of CSS makes doing so harder than in the days of font tags and tables. Users were supposed to be able to override the styles of their pages, but have you ever tried to do that lately? (e.g. I wish I could make all the fixed-width pages on the web full-width).

When CSS is being generated by programs, you might as well have those programs generate inline styles - what would we lose? And we would gain in simplicity.
Google also avoid to pay almost all the taxes it should in EU without anyone capable to stop them. The same thing is done by the others megacorps
It's a developer preview, not a consumer preview. If you aren't running it on a second phone that contains nothing important, you are operating with a large amount of risk.
Using React components just as HTML elements
From the article:

>> Programmers and project managers, for example, are often high in demand within the studio, and if they're sent to interproject, they could wind up leaving after just a few weeks.
...
But other employees said they spent months and months in interproject, unsuccessfully looking for new gigs within the company, before they were finally let go.

I suspect there's a lot of overlap between the types of people who see free time as a productive opportunity and the people who are valuable enough to get snapped back up quickly and vice versa.
Interesting, since table based layout gave such ugly html sources. CSS might be incomplete, and too programmer oriented, but it has some value (it abstracts halfway).
Wirify – turn any web page into a wireframe
The Age of Envy.
Actually, it looks like you, too, may be incorrect, in that they're working to crack down on just that:

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ba95cff0-4fcd-11e4-a0a4-00144...

Also, in the United States, Amazon has generally not fared well when it came to avoiding collecting local taxes when local authorities decided to put their feet down:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_tax
Evolution of human culture can either be recognized as a consciously directed emergent property or it can be consciously ignored and instead directed by the unification of unspoken (but existent) belief systems of the majority. Cultural evolution isn't magic. There are properties that can be recognized for what they are and what role they play in the development of culture.

I think it is disingenuous to point out the size of institution versus the capability of the mind to analyze and distill what goes on. The law is supposed to be blind. That means to me, the law should be sound on its own ground, without being dependent on rhetorical arguments that paint possibly sneaky incentives over as abstract 'biological cultural sociological imperatives'.

I think for the nature of this argument, understanding the broad picture is complicated and takes time, caution, and care, neither of which can be established through armchair analysis. Implementation is different than theory.
Is it a good idea to accept a £2M debt-based investment?
I am a co-founder of a tech startup which launched earlier this year, we have a live website and iOS app and are in the process of seeking investment to take the project to the next stage and start to generate serious revenue.

Our current valuation is £1million. However, we have been offered £2million by an investment group. This would not be offered as traditional equity. Instead they are requiring both equity and debt. They want 25.1% equity and 6% of the debt paid back per month (£10,000). Debt payback would begin 2 years after we sign the contract.

I am unfamiliar with debt investment, is is common idea? Does this sound like a good idea for us? I would hope that after 2 years we were generating enough profit that we could pay £10,000 back per month without breaking a sweat. The £2million would really give us the ability to break into our market and move forward quickly. Are debt investments good for young startups? Are there any problems which may occur with this style of investment?

EDIT: The creditor does not want veto power or voting shares, and the debt is signed to the company not to any individual founders. There are some alternative investors, but not at this amount, instead they are at the 150-300k amount. We have no revenues at present, and our cash zero date is around the corner. In 2 years, when we have to pay back the loan, we should be gaining about 46k per month profit.
Idea of the service is that one can create a ad-hoc urls and invite friends to chat. No need to register.
Totally agree, what we often see nowadays is still interesting, but mostly a "rich text comment" style. The two main factors for this are that such preprocessors are easier to write than weave/tangle systems, and that many people feel that in a modern idiom this isn't needed anyway. Shorter functions, no need for pre-declared variables, function hoisting, less global state...

Not that this is totally wrong, working around the limitations of Pascal/C is one reason for the way Knuth's literate programming style was developed. The way I see it, the more simpler style is pretty good for a well-documented program that needs to be maintained, less so for a narrative that is a bit less focused, documenting the way something was initially written ("Let's add another field to our wibble_wobble structure to make wonk-gibbling work properly").
A system wide easily accessible undo may solve this.
I was interested by the title but since there's no information in the actual website, I'm weary of giving my email address- What is this actually about?
Fresh Free Fonts October 2014
Can someone provide practical examples of how Amazon would possibly abuse their monopoly without breaching existing law, influencing the government, or opening up the market for a smaller, more agile competitor?

It is strange picking on Amazon, as the barrier for entry into the online shopping industry is relatively low, and their monopoly is far less stable and enduring than what Microsoft and Google achieved.
Senseless
Just realized I don't actually have to give my email address- Nice site
Regardless of whether you like the technology or not, it's used in virtually every modern computing platform. I'd feel pretty damn good about creating something like that.
Tons of resources about BSD
You can get apps that do it by using cell IDs (Smarter Wifi manager is one that I'm trailing but its terrible). It means not having to have GPS switched on for Geofencing.
You can use Smarter Wifi Manager but its average at best. It uses Cell IDs to ascertain approximate location.
I cheated it from Russia. UKIP is not my political fav.