skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that it's not a good way to learn English. It's a good way for an English speaker to learn classical Greek, Latin and Hebrew.

What are some old but non-religious texts which have received careful translations into many languages? Plutarchs Lives, Aesops Fables, folk tales ...?
This looks a lot like Marathon [1] though without some of the resource abstractions that Mesos [2] provides underneath.

1. https://mesosphere.github.io/marathon/
2. https://mesos.apache.org/
Nonsense. The view that (to paraphrase) "poverty is attributable to laziness" is ridiculous on its own merits; Your claim that an ad hominem is necessary to show how wrong it is is even more ridiculous.
Poettering and crew seems to have such a hardon for dbus that they want to get their own variant into the Linux kernel (kdbus).

Hell, i have recently seen a fedora bug regarding the use of su -. Where Poettering argued that people should not use su because it broke dbus.

Instead he seemed to advocate that people ssh into 127.0.0.1 to do their thing with a different account.
The first words of the EFF article are "The New York Times". This article, as the title suggests, goes more into the "dangers of unchecked surveillance" in a digital age.
This actually happens in some unfortunate places:
"Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 fee."
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39516346/ns/us_news-life/t/no-pay-...
The fact that you can't run it outside of AWS?
The unredacted version is really interesting historically, but I don't think it reveals much more about the lengths the FBI went to. I believe it was already well-known and believed that King was being sexually blackmailed specifically. The redacted portions all seem to deal with that exact nature of the blackmailing.

The redaction reveals more about what the FBI wouldn't do: how at least one person was reluctant to release public documentation proving that's what the FBI did.
There's some of us out there who don't like Groovy's ecosystem or Python's syntax. Groovy changes its direction every few years -- first it was a scripting language, then a MOP for Grails, then a DSL for Gradle et al, then statically-compiled to compete with Java, and soon a toy language for Android. Python's indent-based syntax puts a lot of people off. Javascript, while not great, doesn't have the killers that other languages and echosystems have.
Yeah, I would agree with that. Scala is, at most, probably 2-3% responsible for the problems we're having with this project (due to inexperience with it). The vast majority of the blame rests on our contractors and on our management's lax oversight of them.
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When was the letter written? What marked the significance of '34 days later'?
It wasn't just J. Edgar Hoover, it was everybody under him that cooperated with him on things like this.
> A talented C# dev will need to know co/contravariance as well as implicits considering they also exist in C#.

True for co/contravariance. For implicits, that depends on which implicits you are talking about.

Scala has:

* implicit conversion operators (these have existed in C# for some time, under the same name)

* implicit parameters (C# doesn't have an analog to these that I can think of)

* implicit classes (C# has an analog in classes providing extension methods, though the classes themselves are distinguished by a keywords as they are in Scala; in Scala, these are essentially syntactic sugar for creating a normal class and an implicit conversion from the extended class.)
I would use any tool I can compile myself and run on my local computer.
HFT on fucking pink sheets? LULZ.

What about the HFT risk from getting goods for free on CL and reselling them back to CL?
So, after knowing this, how hard is to believe that it was indeed the FBI who killed him ?
I have no idea how people come up with ideas like this, but i'm glad they do.

Now i'm imagining some kind of blacklight triathlon event featuring laserquest, golf, and breakdancing.
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tentatively raises hand - jokes aside, I have, an I know that the produc I was working on involved supporting a custom build target - we maintained te XML files by hand.
I read it, but wasn't aware of the difference. Thanks for the link and explanation in another comment.
Here's the letter: http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/11/16/magazine/16Lede2/m...
Like I said, if it really was how it worked someone would find a way to automate it. :P

I suppose I could have been more verbose. I tend to use acronyms sometimes and not think through that it could be read differently than I intended.
IIRC they gave these out at the first Java One. You could program it with what kind of coffee you liked, and hold it up to the coffee machines there. At the time I worked at a company that also had a JavaStation (basically a SPARC that only ran Java).

We all thought the JVM was about to revolutionize client software development and break Microsoft (once everything ran on the JVM, MS wouldn't have an app ecosystem that tied us to them). Meanwhile, the browser was staring us right in the face, and it was server-side where the JVM blew up.
I think you should focus on learning how to program and avoid any sort of "web development" learning path. Choose any programming language and start doing the problems here: https://projecteuler.net/
This doesn't need to be confirmed: LiveScript was renamed JavaScript back in 1995 so it would be percepted as hot.

On a more universal level, it shows just how ridiculous most buzzwords are. As we laugh today about JavaScript and the Java Ring, we will laugh tomorrow about today's ubiquity of the "cloud."
If you're going to lawyer up, I'd delete this post. No need to invite counterclaims of defamation (not that they'd necessarily succeed, but no sense in poking the bear).

Contact an attorney and follow his/her advice.
Hello. Do you have any questions about the process? I used emacs (MSBuild files are just ordinary XML) but some of the people I was working with used - I think - Notepad++.

(The entire process in question ran outside Visual Studio - it was a hellish mix of PowerShell, batch files, MSBuild, C++ tools and C# tools. Somebody had even implemented a getopt-type affair, using the batch commands, so the batch files all responded to /? and everything. May I never see its like again.)
GP didn't mention specifically which features were misguided, making a response require a disproportionate amount of effort compared to what he's put in. And he's talking complete nonsense about "category theory," which is just ridiculous so it's not like he's close to worthy of some effort-post.
A continuous feed that reported the problems and frustrations of people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
This effect would be attenuated by the fact that you could pay the equity to employees directly. You are of course correct that for those employees who would rather get a high stable income instead of equity, you would likely need a third-party that was interested in equity alone. But remember that the calculus for stability vs equity would be changed for the employee pool too, so it may simply become the norm to work for equity in a startup.
saw this earlier which relates to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY
Sweet, a link to a pay-walled academic publication. "Economic-Elite Domination" indeed.
Late disclosure: I am a founder of Luminal, the makers of Fugue. Happy to answer any questions!
Eventually we'll know what's in his file:

The FBI spied on Martin Luther King Jr. in an unsuccessful effort to prove he had ties to Communist organizations. In 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy granted an FBI request to surreptitiously record King and his associates by tapping their phones and placing hidden microphones in their homes, hotel rooms and offices. A 1977 court order sealed transcripts of the surveillance tapes for 50 years.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/40th-anniversary/nine-historic...

...some people think he made extensive use of prostitutes, but I expect the FBI would have pulled an "Eliot Spitzer" on him had that been the case. Still, there's something there or they wouldn't be covering it up to protect his saintly image.
Probably a bit higher, but not 100% sure. I'd reveal the source of my info but I should probably not do that in a public forum.
I guess they’ve hit stage three of make it work, make it correct, make it fast.
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Yeah, I was once considering building an OTCBB trader that would trade all the pennystock promo bullshit and see which (if any) lists actually worked and just trade the spam. The amount of degenerate gamblers in that industry is insane.

Almost built a claim jumping / claim expiry bot for mineral titles. Claim expires tomorrow? Grab it at 9 AM? Claims made today? Stake the blocks around them.

I think anyone with half a brain would clean up on OTCBB with a little automation.
Playing Rugby? What else would they be doing?
Another thing to bear in mind was that a large part of the civil rights movement was blacks trying to exercise rights which they theoretically had a legal right to exercise in the 1950s and 1960s - vote in federal elections, travel in integrated interstate buses and use the bus terminal facilities during transfers, attend all-white public schools which the Brown decision had forbid in 1954 etc. So this was the government using its intelligence powers to secretly persecute people who were trying to non-violently exercise the rights they technically had under the law.

Who know what political uses the information stored in the Utah Data Center will be used for in the future?
This was the coolest thing about JavaOne that year, I was particularly excited about the strong encryption that was included on the ring ... oh wait. As it turned out the encryption bits were embroiled with the state department etc etc. To compensate I created an Enigma machine simulator[1] on mine :-)

I did eventually get my hands on a "fully enabled" ring, which I've still got. As I recall the best it could do was 1024 bit RSA though.

[1] http://www.javaworld.com/article/2076726/learn-java/my-enigm...
It continually amazes me that Americans can perpetuate the myth that their government is a democratic, moral force in the world given everything they have done, and are still doing...
slide show on this:
http://de.slideshare.net/2sadanand/oligarchy-rules-democracy...
Is there any indication that the modern FBI et al would use a strategy like this?

OMG STOP THE PRESSES I figured out the men's rights thing!
Just wanted to also add that Imp has gerber files for many of their reference designs and dev boards here:

https://electricimp.com/docs/hardware/resources/reference-de...
Agreed. College educated people tend to never think much about the overwhelming amount of tacit knowledge needed for less prestigious and apparently simple jobs.

Still, I can feel the pain of the author, having gone through several months of unemployment at the beginning of my marriage. You did everything the elders told you to do, and still you end up getting the short stick and thrown to the sidewalk. I was able to pivot my career and bounce back, in part due to being still youngish... in part thanks to the support of my family. But I can clearly see what a shipwreck that would have been 20 years later, minus a spouse and plus a couple of teenager kids.
This is assuming there was an employment relationship. Were you under an employment agreement or was this an independent contractor arrangement?
It's likely that people still alive are also recorded on the tapes. Whatever else it does, the court order also protects their privacy.
Is there a general consensus to why Embedded Java and other Java techs like Java Card never took off?
Look more closely. MS may be opening the client side, but that is a honey trap to get people to use their server side stuff. And that is as proprietary as always.

It is the same old play book as they used for Exchange and IIS.
here you go
http://www.scribd.com/doc/219111370/Testing-Theories-of-Amer...
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Even if the 2013's are 2014's, it took 5 and a half months from reporting to fixing. That seems fairly terrible on PayPal's part.
That's actually the best hope for America, the expectation that we should do good, do the best we can.
Seriously?

I'll start off with what should be the obvious - Dolphin runs Gamecube and Wii games.
Not only does it run said games, but it runs them INCREDIBLY well. Much better than it did a year ago, and arguably better than the consoles run the games itself.

Hell, running some games at 4x resolution will get better performance than the consoles would at their default resolution. That's insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UouyVg70kRM

That's 1080p and 60fps. Yes, there are some dropped frames but that's a given seeing how he's recording. It's still WAY higher than the Wii generally runs games - I don't even think the Wii plays games in 720p even (stretching the image doesn't really count here).

Anyways, this is a great example of how having a project like this being open sourced can help development. Dolphin is a great emulator and you can't deny that.

Also worth a quick read: http://www.pcgamer.com/how-gamecubewii-emulator-dolphin-got-...
This is overblown/unsurprising.

The students are being given a tool that allows them to solve the problem differently (allocating their mental resources in another way) and then their new approach gets SABOTAGED by the experimenters yanking the tool away while they were still in the middle of using it.

P.S.: What next, "access to loans harm people's ability to budget [when the money is stolen by ninjas right before they were planning to spend it]"?
The word to search for is COINTELPRO. Tim Weiner's Enemies: A History of the FBI goes into some detail about it, and its notes probably provide pointers to the relevant documents.
I said "decline" rather than "death"; this isn't Highlander, there can be more than one platform. It's not as profitable and certainly not as trendy, but it's not vanishing yet.
I can not answer the other questions, so I'll let John handle that part. I can answer this:

> If you're earning all the money with consulting and support, how do you allocate ressources to the further development of the library? Do your software engineers enjoy working on your company's product the same as working on client projects?

This is a question we have debated a lot internally. The shortest answer is that our experience building the product bring in the customers. The customer requirements can drive further development of the product.

Choosing the appropriate open source license (BSD-3 clause in this case), helps us reuse a lot of our code in a wide variety of situations.
FYI emcrazyone, it appears that you have been shadow-banned. I don't have any specific recommendations for your question, but I thought you should know.
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Well we were once at a point where we had fast+working, as we added correct we lost speed. Now some of the devs are just re-adding that speed and others are making it even more correct :)
Great news, but something else drew my attention: the related stories. I got, among others:

"Microsoft Announces Windows 2000 Certification For Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers"

"Microsoft and Samsung Reveal Windows Powered Pocket PC For GSM/GPRS Networks"

"Microsoft Office 97 Family of Applications Honored With Industry Awards"

"Microsoft Invests in General Magic"

"Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Beta Download Demand Overwhelming"

Ignoring the time machine aspects, I wonder what made their algorithm come up with these stories. They mention "Microsoft" and "Net", but that is about it.
What exactly are they doing today that you don't agree with?
Snopes has a good explainer largely debunking one of the nastier pieces of misinformation circulating about MLK, which touches on FBI surveillance of him:

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/mlking.asp
Why? Serious question.

OpenStack's model seems to be "clone what Amazon does, 18 months later then hand over to vendors who don't have the scale to match Amazon's prices"

It's kind of nice in theory for internal clouds.

But I'm increasingly seeing tooling targeting Docker instead of OpenStack at the service level for doing the same kinds of things OpenStack is supposed to offer (ie, the service utilities Docker to offer automatic deployment/availability/loadbalancing instead of doing it using the OpenStack APIs).

At the cloud vendor layer, the differences between vendors can be abstracted using libraries, which removes an alleged attraction of OpenStack.

Given that, I see a few vendors challenging Amazon by building unique selling points (Google has some innovative things as does Microsoft, and Digital Ocean pushes the price/performance thing).

I see Docker taking away a lot of the "cross cloud deployment" attraction that OpenStack had, and doing it better.

So what does OpenStack offer end users? (I understand it's attractions to vendors, and maybe the internal cloud use case).
they still do this. Occupy was absolutely insane on this level, and we were small fish comparatively.
Didn't that more or less happen? Your phone runs Java (well, maybe not, but most people's do). The SIM card in your phone runs Java. Set-top boxes and TVs run Java. I know a guy who programs washing machines in Java. The servers serving up the pages you read on your phone run Java (or at least the JVM). Most of the current big data software runs on the JVM. About the only applications which aren't Java are desktop apps, and those are kind of a hangover from the, er, 90s.
Luckily, no one trotted out that argument. Even if they had trotted it out, making wimpy appeals to the claimant's "privilege" has no bearing on whether the statement "poor people would be just fine if they weren't lazy/ignorant/poor/etc" is true or not. Such claims can be exploded in the same way as any other false claim. By addressing the argument and exposing it as untrue.
Full of himself, b.s. trader can't even make a blog title correctly. No wonder he lost thousands of dollars by accident, then couldn't even finish the last 3/4 of his story. Not to mention leaving out the most interesting part.
'The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed'... etc.
watching video the fella has a nice shirt
multiple competing event loops for instance

Fortunately Windows has implemented message-passing event loops for you for a couple of decades. And they're pleasant to work with as long as you don't mind everything being a WPARAM/LPARAM.
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Android's NDK supports much more than just Java
Wow the redacted parts read like modern day news article comment sections. I wonder, was it meant to look like it was sent from a crazy person, but to include specific facts to scare MLK, or is this aligned with the typical kinds of personality attacks done by people at the time?
Although the 'Nokia Ringtone' was attributed correctly to Tarrega in a footnote, its title was never mentioned. The piece is called 'Gran Vals'.
I'm unsure what I am seeing here. I thought the Samsung gear was Samsungs' competitor to the Oculus Rift?
When/if you ever become a hiring manager, it'll get clear to you quite quickly.
So, essentially, the Net Neutrality issue is quasi-demonstrably being resolved in favor of cable companies because they participate in government corruption to a greater degree than software companies, without regard to the opinions of the public, subject experts (EFF, academics) and the president. How is this a thing in a modern developed nation?

This is pretty much some France Ancien Regime kinda stuff, where rich people could basically buy public offices from the crown and with them the right to operate them; only this is worse, because the money probably ends up in private pockets rather than any sort of national treasury or royal fund...
True but the vast majority of Android developers don't need to use NDK. Additionally the native part can run as x86 code. It doesn't need to be emulated.
I've worked with two shopping search engines, and interestingly, scraping sites was one of the things they did to build up their inventory as well. The big difference being, they simply organized the products into a searchable format, then sent traffic to the ecommerce site and let them handle the checkout . What you're doing is arguably more complex.

(They also prioritized the feeds that were sent to them directly by retailers above the scraped items feeds - thus prioritizing paid listings, similar to the Google SERPs - so a different business model entirely.)

That being said, a very cool concept - and agreed that, given the relatively-small number of ecommerce platforms out there, scraping then erving them up seems pretty scalable. Interested to see how it goes.
Any system as large and complicated as this one will have failures. Our job is to learn from the past and try to prevent it from happening again in the future.
"Microsoft and Samsung Reveal Windows Powered Pocket PC For GSM/GPRS Networks"

.. in 2003, four years before the iPhone launch. I wonder how that one got messed up? Carrier brokenware? Inadequate hardware?
What Dr. King did or did not do isn't the point: the point is that the FBI abused its power (in a drastic fashion) in an attempt to suppress and damage King's political speech.
I was going to make an "academic"-type counter-argument that not even terrorism fears approach the anti-communist hysteria that probably drove this incident, thus it won't happen again... but then there's the NYPD mosque spying case. It's not the same active blackmailing situation. But I think we can say the fact that it happened at all in "our enlightened day and age" is sufficient evidence that, if there were a few person(s) to discredit in order to tear down movements that the government didn't like or feared, they wouldn't mind trampling civil liberties to get it done.

Are there recent, well-documented cases of government blackmailing like this?
Is a relational workload that requires four-nines-plus availability like Amazon is touting really something an organization would be willing to run in the cloud? Especially since that category includes a lot of personally identifiable data that legally can't be trusted to a third party. Wonder what kind of use cases they're aiming for.
If you've visited Crimea, what country do you list on your customs form?
Im curious, can you really get by without MS, Google and Apple? No LLVM based products for you? No Webkit? No CUPS? No V8? If you do use some of these projects, where's the difference from an Open Sourced .NET?
Bear in mind Microsoft will happily sell you Linux VMs running in Azure.
I've already seen a high level post about how Dropbox does cross-platform development [1], but I think they don't go in details about the kind of issues one might face going with that approach.

[1] http://oleb.net/blog/2014/05/how-dropbox-uses-cplusplus-cros...
The American government is not a single entity, it is comprised of many people both good and bad.
Seriously...I find the implication that all retail work is just being a warm body is pretty damn insulting, and I've never even worked retail.