skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can use object libraries in FP languages to encapsulate the state and logic but avoid the mutation of the state.

Where is the OO in that approach? The encapsulation?
This is so incredibly tone-deaf and borderline childish, its shocking how badly FTDI as a company is run. It sounds like its run by a handful of pissed off neckbeards who don't know how bad publicity and a class action suit could destroy their company.
Eurrgh. It's been thirty years since SMS was hacked up, and we still can't get rid of the damn thing...

http://gyrovague.com/2014/06/27/how-sms-set-back-the-mobile-...
You might well be a reliable customer and at home for the engineer visit, but not all of the general population is quite so helpful!

The head of BT's R&D group gave a presentation in Cambridge yesterday. Slide 15 of his deck shows real world speeds ranging from 700Mbps-1000Mbps for vectored G.Fast obtained in a live suburban environment: http://cwbackoffice.co.uk/Presentation/PrestigeLecture_21.10...
I live in the heart of San Francisco. Blocks From haight Ashbury even. Fasted DSL speed ATT will offer to my house is 768Kbps. This is utterly appalling. I had faster home internet service than this in Canada in 1996. Comcast is the only other option at $85/month all-in for "50"MB burst service which is really 20-30MB sustained service. Either way 50MB is 5% of the speed of Gigabit and twice the price of Fiber in a google city.

When people speak of grand global projects to better connect grossly under-served communities around the world to the internet, I suggest, you mean like San Francisco and New York?
Ahem... the last vacuum tube product?

http://www.samsung.com/us/2012-vacuum-tube-amplifier/
My statement sometimes pedantry doesn't actually help anything implies that sometimes it does help things. IMO this was one of those occasions.
Just want to chime in. Your pet project is the only password manager I have used longer than a week.

Using dmenu with StumpWM, I show people I have an OS level keychain that I can pop open and search with a keyboard binding. My IT brethren nod with approval.
I just tried it on Yosemite/Safari 8 and it seems to work for me.
Fair point. It should be rephrased to mean, a much smaller gap than is commonly understood to exist.

I paraphrased from the event, and then added the data w/o double checking. Shame on me.
I wish the exoticising of the East would just go away. This mystique associated upon the Chinese language is horribly old-fashioned. It comes up far too often (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7624342)

Of course, we should always encourage ourselves and others to learn foreign languages, even if only to dabble.

Unfortunately, this is just gimmick, and bad gimmick at that. Compare to a completely normalised (and far more impressive!!) display of Chinese-language skill. It's implied that they're mostly housewives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5na5nHZsww#t=5m30s
I've been told by Americans doing business in China that, even if you have pretty good Chinese, you don't have good business Chinese unless you specifically know that you do. So you'll get a translator anyway.

Understanding the culture is important to understanding the product you provide, if it's at all different, so that can be pretty important.
I had a friend who worked for an ISP in Montreal, and he showed me the map of coverage of the island, colour-coded by which exchange served that area.

There were a lot of rectangles and squares, but there were also some weird shapes, strange cutouts, or long stretches. I think there were even some islands of coverage A surrounded by coverage B.

You can be fifteen feet from the CO, but that doesn't mean that's the one they ran your lines from.
The housing problem is real. The suppliers/property owners know there is a lack of supply, so now they're just getting greedy.

Three hours ago this unit was $1600. It was updated to $1800. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/4726648527.html

It doesn't even have a kitchen. It's just a room with a toilet - at nearly $10 per sq. ft.
Pew: Gaming Is Least Welcoming Online Space for Women
"Maybe the magnetron is really not the last vacuum tube product"

Not by far. A more obvious example than the ones the article gives would be tube amplifiers.
True, mentoring is necessarily one-on-one.
Emulators for many of the Soviet calculators here:
http://www.emulator3000.org/c3.htm
What the others are saying. The thing is, your brain is very plastic and will eventually grow new connections to process the novel sonic inputs -- but there will be some time delay involved. Not a lot will happen for a while. But then... a lot will happen. It will all start gelling, and making sense.

The key is to (1) watch/read/listen to stuff you truly love, and (2) make a sustained practice of it.
I like the irony of using a conventional email message to request beta access to the next generation of email too.
I always assumed money-laundering was what they were trying to protect against.

At first I figured if it was possible to buy a gift card with a gift card they wouldn't be able to track that very easily / as easily. But then, what about cash. So it does seem like kind of a moot point to me, maybe someone in Finance can explain the reasoning better?
This is the worst response possible.
Show HN: I made a tool that compares your GA stats to the industry standard
To promote my startup, I made a free tool that compares your Google Analytics stats to the industry standard's stats that have been pulled from a whole bunch of sources. Let me know what you guys think!

http://www.voodooalerts.com/is-my-site-broken
You can see a surprisingly small bone conduction transducer behind his right ear at 5:13. I assume he's just repeating what he's being told.

No, I'm kidding, but this is impressive.
We're getting hooked up at home with FTTP this month with Gigaclear. Up to 1000Mbps symmetric up and down.
I find the proposal that Bitcoin may want to setup central authorities (that can be federated) to support 2-way sidechains more. A lot of the Bitcoin luminaries now seem to be coming around to the idea that regulation is OK and that trusting authorities (instead of just math) isn't the end of the world.

But that raises again the question of why one would use a value-transfer system designed to be wasteful of electrical power (with the amount of waste going up as Bitcoin price goes up) instead of a distributed network that handle secure value storage/transfer as efficiently as possible. E.g. patio11 has described such a system (Stellar, https://www.stellar.org/) and while I don't know enough about Stellar to speak intelligently about it, even without Stellar there's good ol' fiat-based networked systems. Visa alone can handle 47,000+ tranx/sec vs. Bitcoin's 7.

It seems to me that Bitcoin's unique strengths have been reduced to international remittance use case, and even that appears subsumed by Stellar (and if Stellar doesn't pan out, by existing money remittance services who can easily drop their cost below the equivalent cost to transact in Bitcoin, unless Bitcoin suffers an extreme price drop).

The only other area I see is that Bitcoin will become simply a digital commodity (a virtual gold or silver), but if this happens the price speculation would destroy the usefulness of Bitcoin as a unit of account and as a means of efficiently exchanging value.
Same here. It seems that GMail wants now to "friendfeed" my mailbox.

I don't know what that whole "overwhelmed by email" issue is all about. If you are getting 100+ emails a day and believe these are all relevant for you, you either work as some sort of a customers service rep or there is something wrong with your life/priorities.
Seattle has 3X the land mass of San Francisco, but yeah, they also do build a lot more housing.
* we don't collect and burn all the infringing phones, we just make someone cut a check. *

Destruction of trademark-infringing goods and copied media is quite common, though.

In the UK, deliberately sabotaging hardware with drivers could be counted as a violation of the Computer Misuse Act, but there are hardly ever any prosecutions under that law.
You mean "pass", not LastPass.
I don't really agree, I've used their web stuff with kendo ui and WPF stuff, they do lack a good documentation, and had things breaking with a minor release or half done things they shouldn't have released, but they have lot of solid controls that save weeks or months of work.
I think this article is focused on consumer products? Last time I checked, large scale items such as radar were still using vacuum tubes. I know there were huge breakthroughs in solid-state radar back in the 1990s, but I don't think that technology has seen a wide commercial roll-out.
I overlooked this detail and assumed based on your pot title that you were looking for potential programmer hires to use your product. My opinion still stands; farming is a relatively rare occupation in the software industry, marketing or otherwise.

It's one thing to make sure a potential cofound understands your pain point and market, it's another thing to ask the candidate to be part of the market.
TerrAvion (YC W14) Is Hiring a Flight Operations Technician in Chile
I can't believe there is a team of 80 people at facebook to help people act nicer.
Looks like you got your wish

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8494947

http://blog.lastpass.com/2014/10/open-sourced-lastpass-comma...
Here is their response: https://twitter.com/mikelectricstuf/status/52491736815449292...
The guy just seriously raised the bar for qualification as a "scrappy founder"! This will be widely replayed in China, he will be 2x the rock star that he already is. Maybe he can Jack Ma can do English/Chinese practice together online?
Searching for Product Name in Elasticsearch
he's probably a pretty busy guy...
Gigaclear Deliver 1000Mbps Symmetric FTTP in Kent, United Kingdom
Best Tech Company? (Google + Apple) * Elon Musk
This should be rather interesting when FB loses market share from competitors around the world. Once threaten given bailout money, own by the government and well you know the rest. Example, automotive industry and banks : ) - Have a nice day everyone.
Absolutely true. The middle of the 20th century was the aberration, not today. Nevertheless, I think the point still stands: people from the (aberrant) era of stability are unaccustomed to instability.

Since memories only stretch back so far, and appear to be limited to generations, it's fair to say that Todd's generational (proximate) perspective was his "normal," and the "normal" for most people growing up over the last 50-odd years. This can still be true, even if that period was abnormal within the broader sweep of human history.

Furthermore, I'd argue that today's instability is something quite different from the historical mean. We're not simply regressing to the natural state of economics. We're moving out of an aberrant era of atypically shared prosperity, but at the same time, we're being rocked by the result of a decades-long experiment in supply-side economics that has confounded and further destabilized our position. What we were in then was not normal. What we're in now is not entirely normal, either. But your broader point is very true: there have always been wolves outside the gates. That we paid no attention to them for 50-something years is unusual.
I think the counterargument (elsewhere in this thread) is pretty persuasive -- that this defense won't help much if you intentionally set out to damage counterfeit chips.

Think about it this way. Suppose the driver works like this:

```
if(counterfeit()){
// do something harmful to the identified device
}
```

If you have a counterfeit chip, and you run the driver, and the driver breaks your chip, then you are in fact using the "official driver" for its "intended purpose." Its intended purpose is to break your chip, and it works just fine. It just lied to you about its intended purpose in order to persuade you to install it.

Of course if the code does something that is safe and useful to do on the legit chip, and just happens to break the counterfeit chip, that's very different. I don't claim to know which thing is happening in this case.
Just to clarify: I wasn't saying you'd called him entitled. I'd just felt the need to expand upon that point, because the words "entitle" or "entitled" appear about 12 times on this comments page already, and are bound to appear even more. I sort of picked that section of your comment as a segue into discussing the entitlement topic. Sincere apologies to you if I gave you the impression that I was accusing you of labeling the guy entitled.
I actually do ask that. Pretty regularly. It was pretty shitty that I had to move to another country 2000 miles away just to find employment, when anywhere with internet is more than capable of employing me. And back home I had 250 down/50 up for $75/mo, so clearly that's not the blocker
It is more like: If I show somebody Inbox I would be perceived as those happy, cool.. because this person has seen that ad[1].

(does email is cool, and happy?)

[1] http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/
china will rule US in 50 years.
Google apps better than Apple apps?
Hello there,

I am what we could call an apple addict.
I have a mac mini with two monitors, a macbook pro, an iphone that I sync on iCloud and my parents too.
I use a lot of app, Calendar, Contacts, Plans, ... because they work without internet and each devices can sync with iCloud at any moment. For instance I share my calendar with my parents and it's really convenient.
But let's talk about Mail.

I have many mailbox working with IMAP :
university, personal, pseudo, gmail, trash, icloud

But except for my iCloud mailbox, this app is annoying :
- I keep receiving spam even if I mark them.
- When I use different flags on my computer, only one flag exists on iPhone.
- I can't sync any mails on my iPhone sent by my computer.
- I am obliged to delete one spam at a time, because when I delete a few amount of spams it doesn't work (they come back omg).

What about you ?

As my iphone doesn't work with iOS8 and Yoshemit is up, I'm thinking to move to a more efficient system and cheaper ...
So do you think using Ubuntu + Android + Google Apps would be better ?
A front-end developer working with HTML, CSS and Javascript will never EVER need to know how to write an algorithm.

For the kind of frontend work you're used to doing: perhaps they won't.

For the kind of frontend work Google does -- you know, things like Gmail, Google Maps -- they most definitely will.

That's why Google asks those questions.
I think you're missing the point.

The number of Westerners who become conversational in Chinese is astoundingly low compared to vice-versa. It's known to be quite difficult. Being able to publicly answer questions at a Q&A without falling back to English once is a feat that takes years of learning and practice. It is amazing to me that Mark has been able to find the time and dedication for this while simultaneously running one of the most successful tech companies ever.

This isn't on hacker news because the East is exotic or Chinese language is mysterious.
When MySQL joins become disjointed
Other parts of the country don't need an Ellis Act type framework. Most places, you can evict tenants when their lease is up.
This is great. Only question is, how can they justify charging $12/yr for mobile/Premium access when anyone can write a full featured iOS/Android app using this code as a template? All the right endpoints are there, 2FA support, local encryption code etc.

I know that their API was reverse engineered a million times already, but this just seems like they are explicitly enabling copycat apps.
Hmm, my numbers looked a lot better than expected.

Flaws:

My site makes no money and doesn't attempt to. Why do I have to put in transaction amounts?

Many of the images are not loading. High load to blame?

Under Important Insights > Page Speed the circle graph thing is really jacked up (Firefox 33.0, Windows 7).

Important Insights > Bounce Rate. In the graphic it claims that the industry average is 75%. In the text it claims 49%. That's a big difference.

Browser Variety. In text it claims 1 browser version, then it lists several under that. Seems odd.
Yikes this hits close to home for me.

I am employee #1 for a rapidly growing startup, been here nearly two years. It's my first developer position, I'm definitely underpaid (until our A-round apparently), but I have .5%. I feel like pretty soon it'll be apparent whether this is going to ~really~ take off (I honestly feel it will).

Any advice on what steps I should take to prevent getting shafted?
I went to college with this guy who was on a scholarship to study tube design. (This would have been 1981 or 1982.) I said, "What are you studying that for? Semiconductors are going to make tubes obsolete." He said, "You have 6000 amps you're trying to control. Try that in a transistor." I mean, yes, there are schemes that try to use multiple high-current transistors in parallel, but... 6000 amps is a lot of current for semiconductors, even today.
They're also very common in linear RF amplifies.
I believe i read once that facebook has highly correlated people's engagement when interactions are more or less positive. So it might make sense to have a team work on creating mechanisms that improve the interactions so they trend more positively. Though i'm sure its sold as facebook "just trying to make a difference"
Can you debug JS easily?
Is it worth the time to play around with JS?
Is JS even a programming language?
Can you get earn more respect (moola) by learning JS?

The answer is NO! JS is a dead end. JS is the shit of the shit. Sooner or later people will realize that JS is just an abomination, something that shouldn't even exist in this world.
I think I did okay understanding how the other poster was using the word, they were talking about a government assembly making laws, not about law making in general (why would anybody bother saying "law making communism" vs "communism"?).
Just added another check; now pippi finds "assert_equal nil, x" and suggests replacing it with "assert_nil x".
My guess is most people go with the first search result for weather + zip code which is usually weather.com.
There's no endorsement of direct democracy in my post.
There's code for it at least. Can't verify if it works right now due to problems building on FreeBSD.
Could you give an example of how to be proactive as such? I agree that being prepared is good, but I don't personally know enough about old-age care / geriatrics / Social Security to really be in favor of or against any particular policy changes.
My employer does. Plenty of large companies with an existing Z footprint do.
Someone beat me to it too

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/33486

LOL
This story really buries the lede. You can get 250W of radiated RF power out of a transistor! That is pretty neat. Back in college I got to hear how the magnetron would not ever be feasible in a solid state device, the free electron path length was too short. Another impossible thing, now available from Digikey. Also a bit scary as it makes some previously impractical weapons more so (like the MASER).

If they are cheap enough (and I suspect they are) they might make a good bird abatement device as well.
I really appreciate your service. Having it in the command line will save me a ton of time
Haskellers like to pick and choose their abstractions. That's why we have MVar and TVar (STM) and IVar and locks/semaphores and unbounded channels and bounded channels and software transactional channels and green threads and Async and OS threads…

You're going to see what Erlang did atomized, implemented piecemeal, and reconstructed. Cloud Haskell burnt too much goodwill in pursuit of a mostly pointless feature.

That's how we ended up with slave-thread…the beginnings of supervisor trees.

Haskellers would rather pick and choose. It's worked well so far.
Shadow Divers is an excellent book about finding sunken U-Boats in the Atlantic as well. Highly recommend.

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Divers-Adventure-Americans-Ever...
I speak Chinese and it is a ridiculously hard language.

For a more eloquent response (not mine), see this:

http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
It's easy. Just start your company in 2007, work yourself to the bone for over half a decade while most of the industry ignores you, build an enduring consumer brand against all odds and expectations, find an engine for profit, get acquired!
Say your chips are being used on MRI machines, cars, planes, glucose meters, ATM machines and a whole host of other mission critical systems.

First, that's a red herring because most of those machines aren't running Windows, let alone with automatic updates.

Second, you're essentially advocating vigilantism by corporations. If FTDI was actually concerned about the lives of people due to faulty chips - and I find this supposition laughable, but let's go with it - they could have (1) warned the users, (2) disable the driver and/or (3) contact the appropriate official institutions.

A supposition that someone, somewhere might die does not justify unlawful destruction of property, and if proven that FTDI intended to brick those chips, I hope they get sued hard.
One of the issues here is that many of these DSL breakthroughs are under ideal conditions. One of the things slowing down DSL is the poor quality of the wiring in many older homes (read: most homes).
Well, that's who Inbox is targeted to with the given video, at least.
Ya, there's this thing called prior art. Apple can't patent someone else's idea just because that person chose not to.
They are getting pummeled on Twitter now, as well.

My guess is an 8am meeting in Glasgow (about 8.5 hours from now), followed by an apology and an updated driver announcement at 10am.
Interesting, that's on the USMC reading list:

http://militaryprofessionalreadinglists.com/search?keywords=...
Not to mention that FTDI's chips are not exactly known for their bug-free nature. If I had a dollar for every time I ran into a bug in their RS485 implementation, I would be a friggin' millionaire.
I’ve made a movie site, but it sucks, and I don’t know why
There are parts of the world where people don't use email like we do. Here we tend to keep few email addresses and we typically don't mind signing up using a primary email address. In other places, they trust no one regarding email so they use throwaway email addresses. This makes it hard when someone comes back to the services as they don't know which email they signed up with.

If you a like Twitter and trying to cross-reference people's email/phone from others address book to get people to follow each other, the throwaway email accounts are worthless compared to more stable phone numbers.
Psychopaths don't "struggle" with psychopathy -- they either a) lack the introspection to realize that they're psychopaths, or b) just don't care. That's part and parcel of being a psychopath.

I'll grant the OP "pyschopathic traits", but the rest of his/her post seems to try to support full-blown "psychopathy" rather than just "psychopathic traits". The post might be suggestive of extreme narcissim and/or attention-seeking behavior, but a real diagnosis of psychopathy would require a lot of other traits as well -- and would require an extensive (verifiable) history. See Hare's checklist.
There's presumably a pretty strong lock-in effect where I might trust Lastpass, but I wouldn't trust some random app author with literally all my passwords no matter what assurances the app download page provides.
So I assume you're offering licenses royalty free to anyone who wants one?
I think those values are optimistic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.fast#Performance says that the speeds reported are actually shared between uplink and downlink. Furthermore this was in laboratory conditions. Most people have copper lines that are at least 20 years old.

One way to get around customers not being home is to make Fibre rollout opt-out. Then only wire Fibre to the outside wall of every customers house. At a time that suits them they can organise a tech to come out and complete the connection.