skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The official docs do to.

To get the "ugly" signature you have to look at the actual source, or example the method definition in the official docs.

They go out of their way to make sure to present an easy-to-understand version for actual users.

Which is why every actual Scala developer rolls their eyes at someone bringing up CBF. You have to go out of your way to try to be confused about it. And if that digging stops at finding the method signature, well, probably serves you right for being confused. ;-)

Is CBF amazing? Probably not. Is it some sort of confusing eternal battle for most Scala developers? Absolutely not.

I mean just look at the official docs, find out where he got these weird examples from, and then tell me this is a well reasoned argument.
Compared to setting up a jabber server and getting clients for it, and rooms etc. an irc server is simple. :-)
I'm deleting the article tonight but I wanted to make sure people got the whole story and I didn't mention the company at all.

I'll definitely look into getting an internship gig and probably spend all of tonight and tomorrow applying for the software gigs that I think I'll be a good fit in. Still debating suing.
That's pretty close to the truth - people bolting after the seasonal rush is over is the best case scenario - they still want the people do they end up hiring for the period to stay on through the entire period.
Why not? I just can't see why every language needs to gather cruft rather than evolve elegantly. Imho major versions of compilers should aim to NOT remain backwards compatible, so they can remove or change things in the syntax while they add things.
Speaking of Canada, in her situation, I'd think about trying to get refugee status in Canada. If her cancer comes back from lack of treatment she's just doomed her kids to becoming orphans. Its not like she'd be leaving a vibrant economy behind, if there's basically nowhere to work. There must be jobs somewhere, and if not in the USA anymore, gotta be somewhere...

Where I live, everyone is underemployed, so I know without looking that she's a coastie. If coasties want to see their future, look around "the greater Chicago area". Everyone is like a former tool and die mechanic working as an oil changer, or a math degree holder working in a call center, or a biz grad working food service, or a former K12 teacher working as a waitress. If overqualified people were not hired, pretty much no one would be hired. Its pretty nuts.
What about American cyber attacks on countries around the world ?
Thanks Krish. <3
Making something complex easy is an excellent way to start a business. Convenience is a huge driver and dropbox managed to keep it simple (at considerable cost in blood, sweat and tears no doubt). Hiding complexity is hard, doing it well is harder still.
Oh I get it.

I just have a problem with it. It's not rational:-)
See also https://blog.squareup.com/townsquare/posts/now-available-for...
The cloud back-end is open source so you can do that:

http://www.github.com/spark/spark-server
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See my comment above. We have solved most of the problems for crowdsourced news-based pages and biographies at Newslines. We cut out almost all Wikipedia's problems by focusing on newsworthiness as the standard of inclusion; letting users create posts based on news events, not long-form articles; and using a standard post approval process.
Bathtub curve
On Google Cloud Platform, there is a new service called Google Container Engine (currently in alpha). It uses Kubernetes to manage Docker containers, running on Google Compute Engine. You could also run Kubernetes on EC2 if you wanted to.
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Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about. I suggest first learning the language before spreading FUD about it.

Separation of pure and unpure components greatly simplifies the reasoning about the problem domain. Traditional imperative programs are often full of subtle bugs because calling a procedure can have arbitrary effect on your system. For example calling function with the same arguments can return different values based on arbitrary hard-to-track reasons (such as your OS's scheduler). It's just too much details to keep in your head.

But in Haskell pure functions are guaranteed to have same result with same input. It enables the programmer to create logically isolated blocks without messy interdependencies.

It's especially helpful for concurrent programming by freeing you from all the non-deterministic spaghetti.

Haskell has a steep learning curve, but it'll make you a better programmer in the long run.
> And Second Life is owned by a single, proprietary interest.

Linden Lab's/Phillip Rosedale's stated goal was world economy creation. Second Life is to be thought of as a web protocol that is undergoing standardization, and is stated to become fully open-source when that standard is finalized.

>And that's great, but that's not the Web.

Well, 'There', the predecessor to Second Life which created most of the control scheme concepts and user content creation schemas that were employed in Second Life was actually a technology demonstration between a collaboration of Forterra Systems and the US Army for private training simulation and remote work.

If a system which was co-created by a defense group eventually becoming standardized for public use isn't 'the Web', I don't know what is.
So here's an interesting tidbit: 64% of residential solar installation costs are "soft costs"[1]. Hardware has become so cheap, that inefficiencies in project development are now the biggest chunk of project costs.

A lot of those inefficiencies can be solved with software, and the impact of software on the industry will be massive. Right now, you're starting to see solar reach grid parity (i.e. unsubsidized cost <= utility rate) in several states. By increasing inefficiency and lowering soft costs with software, solar will be able to reach grid parity in most if not all states. The same is starting to happen internationally, too.

Other new energy sectors are taking off, too, and there's so much room for software improvement in them, too.

Disclosure: I wrote the posted article.

[1]: http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2013/5306.html
That's an editorial, so it's the view of one guy who works at the NYT, and not an all-that-well backed up view, to boot.

And I think fine lines are important lines.
Color me ignorant, but I really have no idea what cheap private income protection you're referring to.
lives are being ruined? hardly.

They now have competition. This happens in almost every industry. You either need to learn how to compete, or you will quickly be out of business.
Your other option is to keep the keys on the instances themselves (if you want keys in your Amazon infrastructure). In other words, this is no worse from the NSA/NSL perspective, but better from a security perspective.
Hello everyone! I am a co-founder of ArrayFire. Since this is a startup-oriented board, I thought readers of this thread might be interested in how we arrived at this decision to open source from a business perspective, http://notonlyluck.com/2014/07/31/the-decision-to-open-sourc...

For technical questions, @pavanky is on here :-)
VerSum: Verifiable Computations Over Large Public Logs [pdf]
I run a mediawiki based information site, and I disagree the following statement:

>The software causes almost every problem that people complain about

The real problem is:

>As a result of the open nature of wiki editing, Wikipedia has built up an increasingly restrictive, massive, rule set of how to reject information

Wikipedia is not longer a place setup so people contribute information, it's a place set up to reject the addition of information (as you point out).

It's been a goal of my wiki to be the precise opposite, and it's been very interesting to see people go from "I hate wikis b/c of Wikipedia's stupid rules" to "huh, my edit was accepted" to "wow, this is extremely useful and collaborative".

I believe a wiki is not inherently bad, it's all the rejection rules they've built on top that are the problem.
Note that I didn't say "everything would be ok" I said "let go of the frustration at things I cannot change." One of my personal challenges is that if I am not careful I can get hung up replaying a sequence of events in my head trying to find a path where the outcome would be different. That is useful a couple of times, but it becomes destructive if it goes on too long. It takes thinking resources away from getting things done.

Imagine that you have a really competent friend that you trust completely, you relate to them all of the events leading up to the "problem" (or issue or what ever) and tell them to figure out if there was anything else you could have done and get back to you. They say, "I'm on it boss, will let you know." And now you can stop worrying about it and do the next thing on your list.

Now you can argue there is no God and I cannot disprove your argument, but I can relate that this tool or scheme lets me get on with my life, and on more than one occasion I have later received insight (perhaps from my subconscious, I make no claim of origin) on the problem. I find it helpful in my life, and in dealing with things I cannot change but may avoid in the future.
Is that 200 WPM counting expanded words or the raw steno notation?
From the same Wikipedia page:

"Some court reporters use scopists to translate and edit their work. A scopist is a person who is trained in the phonetic writing system, English punctuation, and usually in legal formatting."

I.e. there is a post-processing pass whereby phonetic gibberish is translated into legible English with good spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Is the WPM calculation done on the raw input to the scopist, who expands it to proper English, or is it calculated over their output?

See, in ordinary English-language typing tests, you type full sentences. Mistakes in spelling and punctuation subtract from your WPM score.
It would help to have a more specific definition. What is transhumanism, exactly? Humans already augmented their intelligence, their bodies, and their abilities with technology, and have done so for thousands of years.
Here's a fun anecdote a friend of mine told me. He's a researcher in an obscure field so he's a primary source, well published etc. He corrected something on a WP page that he happens to be an expert in, it was reverted. There was a war over notability. He didn't count as a source since he was primary. So he had one of his grad students put it in and cite some research on his academic webpage. After a couple automatic reverts it finally stayed because it was now coming from a secondary source.

So basically, if you publish a blog with some information about a topic, then have "your friend" make the change and cite your blog, it's good. But try to do it yourself and it's no good.
Your privilege is showing.

Specifically, you are on a high enough income that you aren't worrying about food, much less mortgage repayments, job stability, whether you can afford fuel for the car this week, or whether you need to just rinse clothes in water to save the money you would have spent on detergent for more important things like food, rent, or bus tickets.

There are also pele out there who won't miss another $100k in taxes. Their worries are along the lines of "how can I make all my money work for me without swamping any single market?"

Taxation and social welfare is just the modern version of "feed your slaves." You should be happy to provide universal health care and subsistence income in order to ensure your future workforce is healthy, educated and stress-free. We treat our racing horses better than this.
Mark Karpeles programmed the website xkcd1446.org:

https://github.com/MagicalTux/xkcd1446
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is similar to the Electric Imp in that you have to connect via their cloud service (you can not just make requests directly to any web endpoint). While this might be cheap, and great for prototyping, I dont want to build on top of something that locks me into your cloud service. They get you to buy a cheap piece (pricepoint) of hardware, but then you have to pay them to connect.

I'd rather use an RaspberryPi or Arduino Yun. While more expensive up front, they allow you to connect to any service you would like.
This is pretty interesting. I think hackathons have a similar impact.
Well, the idea is that something has to be notable to have its own entry, not to be in the encyclopedia at all. If the page on something is only one paragraph, maybe that one paragraph should be on a different page. If you have it in both places, now you have duplication, and duplication leads to errors.
I've found developing OpsWorks recipes directly on the instance to be the best remedy for the slow feedback cycle.

Your cookbook is located /opt/aws/opsworks/current/site-cookbooks. If you run a command from the web console, you can repeat the command with a tailed log output using "opsworks-agent-cli run_command".
> See... I'm neither. I'm a single developer working on mostly closed source projects.

From the actual site for VS Community [0]:

> Q: Who can use Visual Studio Community?
A: Here’s how individual developers can use Visual Studio Community:
Any individual developer can use Visual Studio Community to create their own free or paid apps.

Sounds to me like you do fit in that category for this edition of VS. That being said, .NET development definitely does still seem very VS centric, but things seem to be changing. The experience of using sublime text + omnisharp[1] doesn't look too bad.

[0]: http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-com...
[1]: http://www.omnisharp.net/
I know this opens a whole distracting side debate, but I incude Microsoft's campaign of sueing Android OEMs using [what I consider to be] a secret list of dodgy patents to be a continuation of their past evil behavior. I know there are a bunch of ways that can be debated and it's not my intention to start that debate, I just want to make the point that this view that it's all in the past that you are airing is something a significant number of people would dispute.
> Once again the light of reason continues to chase away humanity's ancestral boogiemen.

Boogiemen like the belief that humans are more than collections of atoms and random emergent behaviors? Because if those are your boogiemen, there's no particular reason to rejoice in reason, or anything else for that matter - it's all ashes in the end, and nobody will be left to care, whether we colonize Andromeda or blow ourselves up this afternoon.

Science is a collection of methods for determining facts. I find it odd when people describe it in religious-sounding terms and simultaneously scoff at religion.

But perhaps I misunderstood you?
1. Minimize fees
a. This means staying far away from advisors. Either do it yourself somewhere like Vanguard or let something like betterment.com do it for you.
2. Minimize taxes
a. Max out your 401K, make sure you're using your IRA to full advantage
3. Diversify
a. Own a domestic and international index and that's it. Don't focus on market sectors.
4. Set it and forget it — namely don't let your emotions make you do stupid things
5. Rebalance every year or so
6. Consider tax loss harvesting each year
7. Perhaps add two types of funds which have a low correlation to stocks - REITS and precious metals. Each should be under 5% of your portfolio, though.

It's all quite easy, actually. For pretty much all you need to know in condensed form read Allan Roth's "How a Second Grader Beats Wallstreet" or Bill Bernstein's "If You Can."
All those "Best on IE" and "Best viewed on Netscape" image buttons from back in the day... I thought I had forgotten about them, but you had to drag them up from the depths... ;)
For ELB TLS termination, AWS already stores your TLS key securely in IAM, probably using some of the same underlying technologies. What sort of integration do you want between KMS and ELB?
I'm sorry, I don't see jacquesm being all that civil. It started off well enough, but they have been spreading FUD ever since. The links they're posting about how "evil" Microsoft has been this year have been argued against, but jacquesm never bothered acknowledging that. They just continued repeating "Microsoft is evil", which is exactly what has me so pissed.

If you don't try to follow Microsoft news, you might not see how frustrating it is. Everywhere on the Internet (save for Paul Thurrott's site) shuts down any Microsoft news immediately, drowning out any legitimate conversation with complaints about how evil Microsoft is. And if you challenge that by saying they work just like any other company, the troll says "yeah but I hate them all" followed with "this article is about Microsoft, not about Apple". Yet only a certain few companies manage to draw such ridiculous levels of trolling. Hell, look at the Amazon Echo announcement the other day. Two articles made it to the front page, and both were filled with "but NSA lol it's a trap".

If I'm an asshole, it's only because I bothered to call out jacquesm. I'm not going to apologize for anything I said. jacquesm is trolling this article with deception and bad intentions, ignoring any arguments they don't like or doesn't fit their worldview, and most certainly is not civilly defending their criticisms.

I really cannot stress my frustration enough, and I see it in others as well. If you don't use Microsoft products, it's easy to think you're just having fun and not doing anything wrong when you come into a thread and begin a discussion about everything Microsoft has done wrong. For some reason, Microsoft is one of the few companies where this is socially acceptable on the Internet, and people like me are shut down or, like you are doing, called a shill. I'm not loyal to Microsoft. I'm running Windows 7 in a RHEL 6 VM, using Firefox to post this. But guess what, my livelihood depends partially on supporting Microsoft products, so I follow them in the news.

All I want to do is make the point that coming into Microsoft threads and saying "Microsoft is evil" is not being a good citizen, not being productive, and not being civil. And if that's all you have to contribute to the thread, you're being an asshole.

I think it's hilarious that jacquesm can get away with focusing on the word "asshole" in my last comment, though, and ignoring the one point I've been repeating since the beginning:

Ignore it. Just move on. Go comment on articles that are interesting to you, involving companies or people or organizations you don't despise. Just stop fucking dragging down legitimate discussions with the line "they're evil", and stop pulling the defense "I just don't like evil companies, that's all". You're not innocent.
> Personally I'm not sceptical towards IDEs because I don't see the use in them. I'm sceptical towards IDEs because they are so integrated.

This is like saying you're skeptical of ATM's because they are machines.
I'm glad to learn that your first solution matched exactly what I assumed it would be. Had the solution been present in the article, I certainly wouldn't comment that it's just "look how others on the internet are wrong."

Thank you for sharing these new details. Together with them I have much better feeling for getting involved in reading it and discussing it. In my view the approach to solution as you stated now matches with the concepts I've stood for in my comments here. I wish you luck in your endeavours.
Why do you think that the "king for a day" won't be abused either?
Clinical depression is a physiological condition that produces irrational negative emotions that are largely unrelated to the sufferer's circumstances.

Telling a clinically depressed person "buck up, things aren't that bad" is about as helpful as telling somebody with diabetes that "sugar is actually pretty tasty, you should just try it again and see if you like it."

Those pills you so casually dismiss prevented me from taking my own life and have lifted a lifelong fog.

Hope you can find something better to do with your time than writing incredibly ignorant comments on Hacker News. I know you can.
Yes ... I'm in the same boat, however the 'core' of my app I developed as a PCL, the substantial part of developing for which I spend time in VS and using Resharper. Xamarin Studio is pretty OK, but VS is damn good to develop with.
It would probably still make sense to sell some equity for the ability to pay your employees a reasonable salary. Basic income isn't meant to be much.
> What were you doing 10 years ago?

Wasting my time on Web forums.
Doesn't Scala run on the JVM, and isn't this announcement about porting the .Net runtime? And you're really drawing this comparison?
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The expense ratio of VTSAX is .05%. It's ludicrous at that price to do it yourself.
Nature. What better secret ally to start a war with?
Microsoft Lumia 535
Regarding heliotrope: wmorgan has left the field a long time ago to our great despair. He did start heliotrope, which I hacked a bit because it looked cool. I even started a heliotrope-to-imap bridge [0]. After a while the community decided to create a common repository to host them, at which time I abandoned heliotrope because its client was still too buggy and sup was already working very well, and I needed a working MUA.

So the current state is: heliotrope kind of works, the client a little less, we are now fully working on sup. If you want to hack on heliotrope though, feel free to ask -- but there will most likely be no code from me.

Sup, on the other hand, works like a charm ! Visit us at supmua.org !

[0] https://github.com/rakoo/imaptrope
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Counterparty has a production release which is entirely functional, and in active use (I think they just hit 100k transactions). In fact, it's usually responsible for 1-2% of Bitcoin's daily transaction volume. The contract feature was just announced today, but Counterparty's development is very quick, and the feature will be in production soon, judging by their pace thus far. The project went from starting out in January, to securing the Overstock deal in November. Compared to Ethereum's glacial pace, I'd not be surprised if these contracts are in production before Ethereum even enters beta.
A bit: http://blog.codeship.com/lxc-memory-limit/

We use librato for monitoring our build server infrastructure and mostly only look at max/min values for metrics that could mean trouble. Generally we're able to separate data of different instances by their instance id so we could look into them individually.

We use NewRelic for our Rails application on Heroku and pump Heroku data into Librato as well (we love data and metrics)

And of course you can always send me an email to flo@codeship.com with questions.
I find this funny. http://i.imgur.com/YkzUmLq.png

OSX 10.10, up-to date Chrome (stable channel).
Codeplex needs to die... It was shit when it came into existence, it's still shit now.
The burden of depression
Does replacing the word really make it less arbitrary though? What's the threshold for something being considered news? An "official" news outlet? A blog? Does being quoted in a couple of news stories count? How about, say, a blogger who is reasonably well-known within a specific community--and may even be quoted by other bloggers--but doesn't write about things that would necessarily be picked up by news outlets?
Companies don't have agencies or personalities. People do. You're aware that a huge portion of the people responsible for the shenanigans of previous decades have left the company, right? Give the current crew credit.