skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Greeks and Romans to my limited knowledge weren't very good at continuous maths. That whole domain of math seems fairly recent, at least in the western world. Calculus itself wasn't invented until Isaac Newton or a little before.
If the U.S. claims this power I can't see how it can then turn around and say anything about China (or any state) hacking into American servers.

This is spectacularly poorly thought out.
If those major distributions have adopted it they may have had some reasons to do so, isn't it?

So you basically don't trust the maintainers of major distribution, yet you rely on them to provide certificated support (which I guess is the reason why you require approval).

This is a problem in your organization and has really nothing to do with Lennart.

I share the opinion that some people in the kernel team should reconsider the way they express themseves, but if you judge based on who has not been insulted on LKML you'd be left with very few people. Linus himself recently said that he has no strong opinion on systemd and in fact uses it.

I won't discuss your accusation that his software is "the polar opposite model of the operating system he's building it for", it's just your idea of said OS and probably doesn't match what the majority of the developers of said OS think.

We probably read very differently what Lennart said, but I'm quite sure e didn't say "'fuck you' to everyone who develops open source software".
> case class has 22

Works fine for me:

scala> case class Foo(a1: Int, a2: Int, a3: Int, a4: Int,
a5: Int, a6: Int, a7: Int, a8: Int,
a9: Int, a10: Int, a11: Int, a12: Int,
a13: Int, a14: Int, a15: Int, a16: Int,
a17: Int, a18: Int, a19: Int, a20: Int,
a21: Int, a22: Int, a23: Int, a24: Int)
defined class Foo

> 22 airity limit

Tons of other languages have limitations like this too. I wonder why people are obsessed with it only when comparing Scala.

C#: 16 for Func/Action http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/dd402862%28v=vs.110%...

Java: 2 (BiFunction<T,U,R>) http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/function/..., 255 for methods

Plus, it's on the roadmap to get fixed, unlike in most other languages.

> 7 minutes and 33 seconds

You setup is definitely broken.
Well, OK, "beloved leader" might be hyperbolic, but portraying Samsung's management style as "Emperor Management" is hardly new. Googling for "이건희 황제 경영" (Lee Kun-hee Emperor Management) gives >1M hits.

Think of it like Steve Jobs-style super-asshole management, and then imagine that Jobs does everything (legal or illegal) to cook the books so that his son (with questionable track record) can inherit the company without paying tax. And imagine reporters who raise the issue in "respectable" news organizations get fired. (One of the leading news organization is led by his brother-in-law.)

* From the latest development, it seems he's not quite brain-dead yet. Sorry about spreading misinformation.
Another aspect of the CDC communication was the deliberate obtuse response that the CDC head had to suggestions of travel restrictions.

"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden warned Saturday that imposing a travel ban to the countries known to be dealing with an Ebola outbreak could make the problem worse, as it would cut off the affected areas from receiving necessary medical aid."

But, of course, nobody anywhere has suggested a ban on travel into the affected countries. And he well knows that.

EDIT: Here is a change.org petition that I created today which I think addresses the issue of aid workers and medical transfer patients, etc.:

https://www.change.org/p/barack-obama-and-u-s-senate-and-u-s...
Inspiration is weird like that. Very occasionally, it impedes my ability to sleep. In these cases, I'll try to sleep for about 45 min, then get up and start hacking. Time flows extremely quickly at night when I'm in this state, despite the fact that the clock is always visible on-screen.

When I finally look over, it's 4am, my hands aching from not moving out of typing position for at least 4 hours, and I can usually settle into 4 hours or so of sleep. The resulting sleep is usually very deep and relaxing.

If that's the price of being courted by a muse, I'm fine with it.
Another round? When was the first round. The banks have been caught with they hands in the cookie jar at least half a dozen times in the last ten years and nothing at all has been done about it (either from the US or UK side).
This "indefensible omission" is solved by using LuaFileSystem. Not having it in the core language is not such a problem. Another example is sleep(), which is not portable. You can find a sleep function in libraries like LuaSocket and luaposix.

Fragmentation, however, is a problem. The Lua authors have often refused to "bless" (term used by the community when discussing this) libraries. Roberto Ierusalimschy even said during a Q&A he'd rather "bless" a group of people to do it instead of him.

The problem is, as several people said in this thread, that it is very hard to write a library that fits every use case. Even something almost "standard" like LuaSocket is not used by everybody.

Some people in the community (including me) are trying to reduce the fragmentation. The authors of the two main ways to manage "packages" (LuaRocks and LuaDist) are working together, etc. But I think we will never manage to standardize on One True Library for everything.
> Every single Bitcoin news thread here at Hacker News is hijacked by some for of another of negativity.

Pointing out the reality that investors have likely valued Bitcoin-related startups at a not insignificant percentage of the total value of Bitcoin in circulation, and that the combined valuations given to Bitcoin startups could conceivably exceed the total value of Bitcoin in circulation if Bitcoin's slide continues, is not in and of itself negative.

Obviously, you perceived it as negative because you logically considered the implications of this observation.

> Blockchain.info is a remarkably well designed and implemented site...

I did not comment on the Blockchain website design. I assume you're referring to my comment ("From a technical perspective, the current Bitcoin chart[4] doesn't look good..."). "Technical perspective" refers to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_analysis.
I think it's just another case of language losing its meaning in certain contexts. In the case of front end web development it seems to mean 'flat with large well spaced fonts'. When terms are abused like this they quickly become terms of abuse. Give it another year and it will be an insult to call something beautiful because by that stage it will be clear that beautiful = early 2010s obsessively flat and minimal web design that everyone finds boring and pretentious now.

(As you can probably tell, I do not like this style at all)
Witness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEm-wjPkegE
I REALLY hope this is real.....
What do you mean by "land as a company"?
Alcohol keeps me from having restful sleep, both mentally and physically. I find I don't dream much, and I'm usually extremely warm from metabolizing the alcohol.
Suppose, for a moment, that our hero is seeing this situation for the first time and doesn't know what the alternatives are.

Tests that don't cover the best option can't possibly identify the best option. So if you want to do a really good test, going somewhere to ask, "What else should I try?" is hardly an asinine course of action. On the contrary, if our hero is new to this stuff, or is new to the platform in question, or anything like that, then asking others for advice should probably qualify as due diligence.
No. Modern sites usually depend on browser native dom methods and a Javascript utility belt, like underscore. Or some other combination of new stuff like angular or backbone whatever. But the "include Jquery in boilerplate" thing is not nearly as common anymore best I can tell.
L1 visas are terrible. You cannot change employers on an L1 Visa.
Are "coffee shops" any good? How can anybody answer that? They're fine if they're quiet and it isn't you that's being the d-bag.

If you bill for something that isn't work that's fraud, although a five minute call is a lot different from a full-on phone screen.

Go somewhere quiet, don't bill for it. Common sense.
https://www.synalysis.net is a program specifically for reversing binary files.
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Expressjs update: fixed issues, Jade to Markdown and what's next
I can only offer $3.7 billion for this startup.
Can we reach an agreement?
Tech Giants Are Splitting Up Because They Do Too Much at Once
It was on the front page, but I (and probably others) flagged it because it looked untrustworthy. And indeed it appears to be pretty far off on the numbers.

That said, what makes it on HN is largely a function of luck.
Thriving with Remote Peer Programming
Publish the interface and committing to keep them stable is exactly what the systemd team did.

Of course internal interface are not stable and sparsely documented, but they are just that, internal.

Reimplementors should only bother about the public interfaces.

Note that udev does not use systemd internal interfaces and happily runs on non-systemd systems.

Journald can be disabled if you don't want it, or you want to run it on non-systemd?
The Myfamily.com Service Shutdown
Santa Barbara, California.
ShipHawk - 20+ person startup disrupting the shipping industry
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1. We're a rocket ship and still only at 20 people. Just raised $5 Million and we're growing pretty rapidly. Great opportunity to have a lot of impact and learn other aspects of the business along with dev.

2. Santa Barbara weather. No traffic. Shirts and shorts all day everyday. Beautiful weather, minutes from the beach and the hills.

3. The culture. Most engaging fun atmosphere I've been a part of.

If you like the startup culture and you code, we're interested. Particularly if you know AngularJS and/or Ruby on Rails.

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> there are more than the Han chinese (ethnic culture), and even within that there is are quite varied cultures within the Han. Most people's "chinese generalisations" are generalising about upper-middle class Chinese from the Big 3 cities + Hong Kong. Because they are the majority that migrate.

There's not a huge, ginormous difference between the Han sub-cultures. I know because I'm descended from both a less populous Han subgroup as well as a larger one, and so are my friends and family by marriage. Usually when Chinese people speak of the 'differences', they are just referring to popular stereotypes.

As for the other non-Han ethnic groups, they make up less than 9% of the population. Most of them also don't really consider themselves as Chinese or part of Chinese culture at large (since they aren't really integrated with it - nor are they treated as Chinese) like the Uyghur's which are closer to Turkish people, and the Tibetans and Koreans. In China's defense, this isn't much different from what happens in Japan.
If you do like jinja, it's Flask's 'native' template engine.
Screentime for All 65 Game of Thrones Characters (Interactive Chart)
Just ignore him, he's a troll.

The worst thing about Scala seems to be that the community always have to deal with a single nutjob on Jihad, first Harrop, then Colebourne, then Beust, now that guy.
The person on your team who’s about to quit isn’t the one you think
That sounds dangerously close to "not invented here syndrome."
It's not clear how much Yahoo is investing at that valuation, but I hope that the stated reason of re-creating an Alibaba type investment is not the primary driver. Despite the success of Alibaba, a single data point is not a trend (even a spectacular one like Alibaba), and I'm not sure that Yahoo's core competency is/should be picking winners.
Most comments critique the widget, but I'd like to talk about the demo website. It's really well done, I wish more products (especially free and open source) were on top of their game when it comes to presentation, samples and configuration. Good job!
Uncertainty: Technology's Secret Weapon
Given the recent abundance of jQuery alternatives, that's a big assumption to make. It's always disappointing when I find some code I want to use and it has a bunch of dependencies that make it not an option.
That's not really the No True Scottsman falacy, though. A NTSF would be something like:

A: Java is too verbose.

B: Java isn't really a OOP language.

This is more like:

A: Java is too verbose.

B: Sure, but that's a statement about Java, not a statement about OOP.

If you list a bunch of criticisms of OOP languages, that doesn't mean that those criticisms automatically become criticisms of OOP as a concept, merely those of the languages themselves. Especially when you can find OOP languages that don't match that criticism. Java is verbose, yes. But it doesn't mean OOP languages are verbose (what the article author would like to claim), and it doesn't mean that Java isn't an OOP language (what the author believes other people use to deflect the criticism). It means that Java is verbose.
This reminds me of a friend I have. This guy pretty much skipped most of the first 3 years of his degree to lift and get huge, bodybuilding style. From a sub-120 lbs scrawny brainiac, he transformed into a ridiculously jacked 230 lbs monster, eating something like 8000 calories a day. And when he cut out carbs from his diet, he would cut down to 200 or so and be absolutely ripped.

Then he stopped: got serious about school, graduated and got a job, etc. Stopped cold-turkey. It was pretty funny, I met up with him a few years after he stopped and he was a normal (though funny to me)-looking dude at 140 lbs. Eventually, for old times sake, I convinced him to lift with me twice a week.

And my god, the progress he made off this was ridiculous. He started drinking milk again and eating to be full, not a crazy amount, but enough to sustain the lifting. The result? He shot back up to a relatively jacked 180 lbs in only 2 months. And he was able to maintain that so easily, even dropping back to working out once/week!

I realized something. Muscle memory isn't just real, but it may be a great optimization over one's life. Sure, my friend was a bit crazy for 2-3 years, ate 8k calories and slept half the day. But now he can put in an incredibly small amount of work and maintain a really enviable physique. I bet if one does the math of hours put into the gym, not to mention time spent eating to recover, even though he paid heavily for it for a few years, over the course of the next few decades he'll be getting more (physique) for less.

Gives me some ideas I probably shouldn't be having for graduate school ;)
Has Yahoo invested in Tinder? Can't find mention of it anywhere.
On the other hand, this one looks quite big bang for me. From a major version to the next 50%.

Also, natural selection tends to have periods of fast adaptation and periods of plateau quasi-equilibrium.

I like Tai-chi and all, but I'm still a skeptic :)
True, but Apple has advertised "PC-Free" as a selling point of iOS devices since they rebranded iCloud in 2011. Theoretically the device should function perfectly fine as your sole computing device. I suppose their solution to this problem though would to have a larger storage option.
Zoomable map (english) of the Catacombs of Paris [flash]
Babbage and Lovelace were earlier. But as buro9 says, the greeks have them beat, as always.
My memory of the Reston chapters in Hot Zone is a little fuzzy, but I believe the virus spread not only from cage to cage, but from room to room throughout the facility. Of course there could have been some human vector, but it could have also been airborne in the ventilation system.
There are a very small number of places in the world that safely handle these types of pathogens. Most of them are military or off limits to the public.
So...what does it say? Where is a high-res image of the revealed text?
If you equate "slow" with "wasting time" you have very clearly missed the point.

"Move fast and break things" works only when the value of, and audience for, your work is highly uncertain. If you have any confidence whatsoever in the value or audience of what you're building, slow is usually better.

Going fast in the wrong direction is only a good use of time and resources when you quickly recognize the mistake and turn around. In my experience, most people who prioritize speed above all else are hellbent on a specific destination and won't change course until it's too late.
Linked demo would be nice :P
Snapchat must be huge in the teen/young adult demographic to justify this valuation as I don't see many adults using this app anymore. Although this is a fairly localized/anecdotal opinion of the app, perhaps in other regions, Snapchat is big among many demographic categories.
Not entirely sure, but having a hierarchy of http contentencoding types, and http error/success types

Yes the Scala server shown was an interesting example, though I'm not sure if it would be impossible to do in other languages or just harder.

Also having a type for sanitized strings versus unsanitized strings.

The golang stdlib does do this, it's quite handy as a reminder.
That reflects popular sentiment, but it's not correct:

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/06/23/a-list-of-the-bigg...
Here’s Why Founders Should Care about Happiness
Grace Hopper on inefficiency, etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpsKnWZrJ8
The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62DqsD2s5V8

It's an Old School message that still resonates by the late Dean of Personal Development.
I still haven't found a really good use case for blocking UI - what are some?
Providing they are of equal skill, that's true. The article suggests it's not because of cost, that just leads me to ask why they would do it.
Rust means never having to close a socket
Oh good, a discussion on typed vs untyped. I expect this will be a solid exchange of ideas, with each side trying to learn something from the other side.
Check for registrars that offer two-factor authentication. I use this security feature with Namecheap.
I disagree. Look, in another article here on the front page, these blue LEDs are directly involved in an increase of knowledge:

"...the charter, which is then illuminated with LED lights ranging from the ultraviolet at a wavelength of 365 nm, through the visible region, and right up to a wavelength of 1050 nm in the infrared region."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8421623
ScriptRock: Config Monitoring for DevOps
That's awesome, I'll be sure to check back
There was a thread on /r/haskell with 116 comments. In particular there were alternative Unicode character sets that made the rendering clearer.

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2hpzpu/announcing_n...
GitHub Gives Free Access to Developer Tools (Stripe, UnrealEngine, DigitalOcean)
In the year 2014, obnoxious popups are described as "beautiful" and "awesome".
It's too bad whenever these articles come up that Tornado (http://www.tornadoweb.org) seldom gets a mention. It's minimalist and stays out of your way; pair it up with SqlAlchemy and you've got a complete solution. And you don't have to fool around with wsgi.
"Prosecutors have explained publicly that banks would earn credit for exposing their misbehaving employees or face charges for protecting them."

Hopefully they offer extra credit for exposing C-Suite level involvement.

Also, where was this deal when the Fed was investigating toxic asset fraud?
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Everything is wrong with AngularJS. It's a horrible framework that should be banished to the hell from which it came. It makes absolutely everything more complicated and obscure that necessary. I can't stand it.
Play Zomblast
"don't bill for it"

You're assuming OP is a consultant or freelancer. For most salaried workers, there's no such thing as billable hours, only a set salary per year.
> The Jewish gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin emigrated from Berlin to the US when Hitler came to power in 1933. Three years later, he would publish the founding equation of social psychology: B = f (P, E), meaning that behaviour is a function of a person in their environment

... what? The point of equation is to be able to manipulate and compute symbols and quantities. How is this equation remotely useful? How do I compute f? Can I decompose P or E in other terms? What are the properties of the sets to which they belong? etc

This "equation" has no value whatsoever- is this a thing really taught to psychology students?

It's so silly when soft sciences try to gain an air of legitimacy by using bogus math notation. I guess you can cargo cult math as well...
Stories like this amuse me because I see it happen so much. New company forms, gets insane adoption rates, rapidly grows their number of employees, the fad ends, no longer need employees, big layoffs. 'Beware the local maxima'
As if the parent comment wasn't as well. I was just pointing out that it's a two-way street.

Suppose we continue with the status quo and jobs begin miraculously materializing: there's a very good chance that they will be lower paying than what we have now, and it will still be difficult to make a living. To some extent it's a lose-lose situation unless we can come up with a third option like a universal basic income.

Edit: My, aren't we feeling pedantic today? I have a great idea: let's argue semantics rather than content!
One rain does not make a crop. — Creole
Doubtful. Also ftfa: The charges will most likely focus on traders and their bosses rather than chief executives.

This seems akin to the drug enforcement policy of targeting the users. Which has been shown to be completely useless.
I'm by no means an Angular fan (similar to the author I use Closure Tools and React where I can), and while I agree with some of Daniel's points, there are some untruths in that document:

"8. Google does not use Angular in production for their flag apps like Gmail or Gplus."

Angular is newer than Closure, so this is to be expected. Google does however use Angular for certain newer web properties, e.g. the Google Developer Console (App Engine, Compute Engine etc.).

"9. Vendor lock. And because Google does not use Angular in production, they can kill Angular anytime. You know that Google is still kind of agile company, not having a problem to kill any project despite it’s used by milions people."

As mentioned in point 8 above, Google does use Angular, both in production and internally. Furthermore Angular is open source  and has a thriving community -  Google can’t "kill" it in the way it could end-of-life Google Reader. Rather, there is also a precedent for the opposite - GWT. Google turned ownership of GWT over to a steering committee and is still heavily invested and a a major contributor.
Any app that allows users to create content that is not stored in persistent storage: this will be lost if they close the window without saving in some manner. An example: an HTML5 audio recorder or photo editor.
The thing that really annoys me about it is that the word 'beautiful' has meaning to me. That meaning is such that it only applies in very few places. By taking that word and associating it with something as mundane as a bloody message box (in this example - there are plenty of others); It feels like a con. The credit the word 'beautiful' has built up is being used to try to raise the calibre of something completely ordinary. It makes the word and the thing it is describing both seem cheap. There's a lot to be said for calling a spade a spade.
I thought Match.com owns Tinder now?
"Given that the SR Server was hosting a blatantly criminal website, it would have been reasonable for the FBI to 'hack' into it in order to search it, as any such 'hack' would simply have constituted a search of foreign property known to contain criminal evidence, for which a warrant was not necessary"

Quoted from one of the G-Men in the article.