skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that will actually change anything. Two positively slowing lines (of any slope) have, by definition correlation = 1.0. The "random data" he used is just a small amount of noise on top of the line(s).
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8964949
Another thing is contract programming, but it is really hard to sell to managers where shipping cheap outweights quality.

I don't envision FP or contract based programming in enterprise offshore code.
at least three very unsimilar transit connections are used.

What does transit mean in this context; like between my VPC and your appliance? Can you give an example for e.g. an AWS region?

How is the appliance implemented, is it physical hardware, EC2 instances? Is it redundant, how do you scale it in terms of bandwidth?
My experience is that, Haskell syntax is a dream compared to Ocaml, with 'where' clauses, beautifully simple lambda syntax, do notation support, . and $ composition, typeclass operator overloading.

Ocaml is more practical in a hard to explain way. Much more predictable in terms of it's memory and cpu use with non-lazy default evaluation, and I found much better performing on general code.
Honest question -- This is amazing! But why limit the search only to legal profession, why not apply Watson to all general questions and compete with Google?

I'd love an answer to a question without a list of results.
> This involves an Exchange server and MS Office;
Pretty sure you must be joking. We 1000+ real company have zero exchange. Google apps. People sure love to run MS products on their Macs though. Puzzler that. I'll stick to google docs when I have to and alternatives when I have a choice.

Can't remember the last MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint document I've ever created. You could not pay me to run Exchange.
The only music appropriate to listen to while programming in ArnoldC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbtlPCbhVGw
Yes, but this is a system that gives you unlimited queries for even cheaper than if you were to outsource research. And since it is a cognitive computing system, it gets better over time.
On the other hand, this is a nice piece of evidence (along with Kindle 3G) that it is actually possible to negotiate reasonable deals with mobile operators globally.

They probably use Jasper Wireless (just like Kindle 3G)
>You actually have to snail-mail them your resignation letter

So? You have to send written notice to cancel any contract in Germany. This is totally standard.
Anywhere in the world but not Macau?

http://www.whatsim.com/en/coverage
It protects from a bunch of lesser threats, like backups leaking keys, anyone hacking a front end box getting keys, needing to rotate keys when employees change, etc.
It may not be a solution for you, but AFAIK, all online Apple stores let you select a U.S. keyboard for all laptops (I just checked a single laptop on both store.apple.com/se and store.apple.com/no) at no additional cost.
I know, and comparing its current state with what F# offers today doesn't make sense, not today.

In a few years time when Rust has the same eco-system has F# offers today to Windows devs, then we can compare the current state of the languages.
> Strictness can always embed laziness

And vice versa, although I think embedding strictness in laziness is probably more syntactically heavyweight.

http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/strictness-in-types/

> Is that syntactic noise enough to disable the advantages of laziness? Actually, maybe!

Hmm, if that's the case then it seems that

thunk = return long_computation

is enough to disable the advantages of monads! :)
And where US law has limitations, they have the Five Eyes coalition to do the work for them. "We didn't spy on them. Someone else gave us the info!" ... in an automated fashion, 3ms after "someone eles" did the dirty work.
OpenOffice is not good enough but you still think Amazon can release something better just like that? Oo shows how hard the problem is, even if you have decades of experience. Amazon has almost no experience with huge desktop applications, they can't possibly release something that can seriously compete with MS Office.
Rates - http://www.whatsim.com/en/rates
Apologies - In at the deep end with a very specific (hardcore?) question.

In Titanium it is difficult, if not impossible without resorting to a Native plug-in (which kinda defeats the object of using it IMHO as this is not 'Learn once, use anywhere'), to re-create an interface similar to the Facebook app. i.e. the vertical scrolling timeline with embedded horizontal scrolling images in each post. (on Android it really does suck) due to issue with memory, threading etc.

So I guess my question is, is it something to that React Native could cope with, or would it potentially suffer from the same memory, threading issues?

And my guess is that at some point it has to surface, so a good architectural comparison would be fab.

Perhaps the Hyperloop/React Native race is on :-)
At first i felt the same, but after i fill the form and continue, it will redirect to payment gateway page, which is using HTTPS.

Seems like it is legit. The payment gateway page shows that payment goes to ZeroMobile.it. Yeah.. i think they need a better flow.
Living in Spain, I haven't noticed much to differentiate ISP's on compared to the UK. Telefonica seem very average to me, and their service was pretty reliable when we had it.

I live in Barcelona, is it likely that bigger cities get better service than other places?
I run lawdingo.com. Any ideas on how we could use this?
> when I first saw the React syntax

Do you mean JSX? Because "the React syntax" is just plain JS unless you're using JSX, is it not? IIRC even vdom nodes can be created by hand with literal objects.
> So all you need are compiler/interpreter experts that can turn any problem into a interpreter/compiler problem and you're golden.

Any text processing, symbolic data structure manipulation can be reduced to a compiler phase, it is just apparently many CS degrees don't teach it properly.

> Alternatively, Facebook has been experimenting with Haskell and OCaml. Seeing their case studies would be valuable as well.

Microsoft Research also does lot of FP related work.
Well, in a nutshell, the way Watson Ecosystem works, you are granted access to an instance of Watson in which you can build a corpus of knowledge only in a particular domain.
The number of registered users was sitting at around the 2 million mark at the end of 2014. Since then, they've started issuing invites for people who asked for them at a more rapid pace (one Ello developer said signups are now at a rate of around 250,000 a week). Of course, there's no way to obtain an indication of the number of active developers from this.

I'd speculate that the reason they held off issuing solicited invitations is that they spent most of December 2014 performing infrastructure and backend upgrades and improvements. (The fact that these upgrades happened is fact, the connection with the change in invite policy is speculation).
Women's public restrooms are almost always much worse than men's- this is something that has been echoed by every janitor I've ever talked to and accurately reflects my own experiences as well.

That's not to say any public restrooms are generally good, but the idea that women are somehow cleaner than men really needs to die.
Unless you can do all that via Whatsapp chat :)
Wow, what a potential!
> Cross platform: Screenhero supports both Windows and Mac.

It's like there isn't any other operating system...

We do both, country AND western!
But it doesn't work anymore with the correct password...

I always found it was cleaner to either force (jmp) or remove (nopnop) the jump rather than inversing its condition. It's more explicit.

Also, in the real world, cracking's usually a bit more than finding the right jump to force/remove. Although, if it's enough to reach your goal, you should do it.
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I started a company that works extensively with geospatial data and I often interact with cities from across the country (https://angel.co/civic-insight). Learning how to get access to government data was probably one of most challenging parts of starting up, but I've seen a significant evolution in the thinking of governments in the past few years.

I was a Code for America Fellow in 2012 (I am still heavily involved in the space) and back then any talk of publishing datasets, shapefiles or having "APIs" was thought to be an exotic topic reserved for fancy cities with large budgets like San Francisco and Boston. It was something that smaller cities would love to have but don't have the resources to do anything about it.

But that's not the case anymore. Even a lot of the smaller cities now understand that opening up now gives them access to a new ecosystem of tools and technologies that are rapidly developing.

Hence, our startup.

Also, the California Supreme Court ruled that Shapefiles must be made available to the public at almost no cost. See summary of case here: http://www.ocregister.com/taxdollars/county-519947-landbase-...

Oh, and when it comes to SLC. Here ya go:

http://gis.utah.gov/data/sgid-cadastre/parcels/

ftp://ftp.agrc.utah.gov/UtahSGID_Vector/UTM12_NAD83/CADASTRE/UnpackagedData/Parcels_SaltLake/
up here also
In a roundabout way, that answers the original question, doesn't it? This sort of data is so seldom used, that efforts at 'standardizing' and 'broad distribution' don't scale. You didn't see any value or use in the data for years, only in hindsight, maybe, it would have been fun to look at. Because that's what it is - it's fun (for those from outside the field) to read posts like the OP every once in a while, but there's very little actual value in it, and it's too much work for the vast majority of people to do themselves.

I work in geospatial modelling and I use data like this every day; have been for 15 years. So I know a thing or two about availability of this sort of data, how hard it is to assemble and maintain, and how many people actually do something with it. In the EU, there are directives that create obligations for governments to offer all sorts of data freely to everybody. The amount of money this costs is staggering, and although I'm very happy with it (because it has made my life 100 times easier in the data respect), the useful stuff that is done with it by people who didn't have access to it before is minimal; and certainly disproportional to the amount of money that goes into it. The consultants are laughing all the way to the bank, of course (and hey, I get paid indirectly from it as well, so it's not like I'm complaining).

So that makes the 'data should be open' mantra an entirely ideological disposition. I used to believe it as well, but then why shouldn't we also say 'governments can only spend money on vegan stuff because some people believe in 'animals rights'?' I no longer see pet peeves like 'free data' as black and white as I used to. Bureaucracies are expensive, partly because their goal is not efficiency (which is something that is usually overlooked by the naive) and partly because of other effects inherent to them. We need to restrain ourselves in what and how much we demand from them.
but how can I know that this payment gateway is legitimately going to go towards WhatSim's account? Going from HTTP to HTTPS basically makes anything about this a crapshoot
This is not a good article. It's badly written and shit for nuance.

It divides things into a "Global Gender War" purely for the sake of heightening the mood."Look at these terrible gang-bang interviewers!" is all it has to say. There is no mention of the massive amount of work women are doing in the space, and when there is, it as an example of how terrible they are being treated. Here is a women-led company that offers peer mentoring, but they too are struggling because of gender bias. It calls Model View Culture an "acid-penned, widely read website". MVC is actually doing the social justice work and newsweek calls them "acid-penned". It puts fucking Vivek Wadhwa up as a better example of feminism than the actual women fighting for their humanity. Vivek Wadhwa isn't a good person, in general he's just a terrible male ally. (what he says just in _this piece_ is disrespectful to women, see http://bensk.me/post/109449438931/tech-savvy-feminists)

There are no humans in the piece, only victims and demons. Two examples of struggling women-led startups, and a female VC who was forced to touch a penis. These are women in SV according to newsweek.

This is as badly thought out and less researched than that Rolling Stone article. One of the subheadings is "Asking for It" as a pun on women asking for money. That's an actual rape joke.
> Aside from offering a hands-on account of how the Silk Road worked from a dealer’s perspective, Duch’s story calls into question claims that the Silk Road reduced violence by moving drug sales from the street to the relative safety of the internet. Duch’s testimony seemed to suggest that he wouldn’t have sold drugs at all if it weren’t for the Silk Road...

Wow. What a stupendous flaw in logic and reasoning. I guess I'm glad that the fool who wrote this isn't in charge of building bridges or something, where his astonishing stupidity could directly get people killed. He'll just have to settle for indirectly getting people killed by parroting state propaganda and perpetuating the war on drugs.

Obviously, the fact that different people were dealing the drugs on the Silk Road, than on the street, does not in any way serve as evidence that Silk Road did not reduce the risk to both dealers and especially users, in buying drugs.

I mean, it seems like Ulbricht really did put out hits on some people - or at least the state is pressing ahead with the charges anyway, and if that's the case he is a danger to society and needs to be locked up. But in terms of harm reduction Silk Road was pretty awesome (fwiw, I never used the service). Not only did it derisk buying and selling drugs, in many cases it would have taken money directly out of the pockets of large drug cartels (i.e. in cases where they didn't control the supply anyway, only the distribution). That's a cause everyone should get behind.

The whole ordeal here just drives the point home, that the drug war is not at all about harm reduction for anybody, not users, certainly not dealers, and not even society at large. I'm not sure the drug war is about anything at this point. It's just a self-perpetuating relic of the past, and it needs to be put down ASAFP.
Do you guys have a set of cross platform components like <Image> , <View> , <Map> that will work across Android , iOS and Web ?

The native components might behave slightly different on each platform so I was wondering if you guys have subclassed the native components to behave similarly on all platforms.
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but developing countries still prefer to talk over chat.. if it comes to phone. young people in india use WhatApp as an alternative to email. so like we dont pay for email address.. no one will pay for WhatApp.. there are alternative like viber.. quite popular in india
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Transit providers sell access to the whole internet to us. We are in negotitations with them, but we will be more specific, once we have the commitments. Technically, we choose at least three different providers, so our appliance has a good basis of decision-making.
For the connection between your VPC and our appliance, we use the regular AWS DC API.
I completely agree. When viewed from the right angle almost everything is a combination of some "VM bytecode" and a "compiler" targeting that bytecode. Greenspun's tenth rule applies to anything large enough. That's not what I'm getting at.

What I'm getting at is that when you have a bunch of problem solvers well versed in programming language design and theory the programming language at that point is no longer relevant. Standard Chartered doesn't have all that software because Haskell somehow gave them superpowers. Standard Chartered has all that software because a bunch of PhDs chose Haskell to write it in and along the way Lennart wrote another compiler because why not, the man is good at it. So instead of being a case study in how to apply a functional language to solve problems this is really a presentation about what kind of people you want to hire to build systems, i.e. PhDs, MScs, and MDs (apparently).

Imagine if the title of this post was "PHP in the large". Would anyone take it seriously? Does anyone really believe PHP is a great language to build large systems in? No, everyone would immediately jump on the fact that all of it is running on HHVM and there are bunch of smart folks optimizing the hell out of it. Same here.

The metapoint here is really a quote by Rich Hickey from a David Nolen talk/blog post - "Not everything is awesome". There are few hidden gems in the presentation when concessions are made by including Any type and re-inventing a lot of Erlang style process management. I wonder why more trading companies don't leverage Erlang and Dialyzer?

The relevant post for the quote: http://swannodette.github.io/2015/01/09/life-with-dynamic-ty....
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Do you have any examples of apps that come damn close ?
Microsoft as well. I don't know what kind of production systems are built with F# but maybe there are a few.
A friend of mine used the Dropbox API to let his webapp's users store their own data, encrypted and decrypted with npm crypto. If I recall correctly, the user just had to OAuth with Dropbox on signup and sign in -- the rest was handled seamlessly.

I just wrote him to ask if he's blogged about this. Send me a message (in profile) if you'd like more info about this approach.
Plus many phones in those markets are dual-SIM, so you would still have a voice / data SIM installed.
Good luck getting anyone to admit that Cringley was right.
The statistic comes from a talk at this year's 31C3 In Germany and was delivered by a professor from the University of Portsmouth -- Dr. Gareth Owen.

His personal site: https://ghowen.me/other.html

And a direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZdeRmlj8Gw

I'd imagine he'll publish a full write-up soon but the talk was only a few weeks ago so il not surprised it's not out yet.
Very simple python Twitter clone with ajax front end
I studied a patent[1] filed by National Institute of Health. The patent application talks about the recent study that has established that passive immunotherapy is a tractable approach to Ebola virus treatment pre- and post-exposure.

The invention provides an isolated humanized [2] glycoprotein pre-fusion core that has more than 95% similarity to a human antibody framework region. It also comprises of the different heavy chain and light chain CDR sequences.

[1] https://greybmusings.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/us-health-dept...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanized_antibody
Couple of my friends that work for IBM told me that it still needs a lot of work because researchers that take blind tests can almost always tell apart the cold, inhuman responses that are devoid of any human decency from the responses generated by the computer.
I didn't know teletype machines were that old. By any chance, do you happen to have a video available?
This is the same Silicon Valley where having Mahbod Moghadam is an asset.

Revenue, especially in the form of VC, is so disconnected from productivity that massive inefficiencies can exist (provided you have the capital to power through them). You can build a sufficiently-successful company ignoring half your resumes. In some places it's way more than half, and there are biases to top-tier schools, biases to personal referrals, etc., and things work.

Also the nasty thing about those sorts of biases is that they're self-perpetuating. If someone else previously hired you for a job you were well-suited for, you now have nice experience on your resume, a good referral, and usually connections. So a company hiring experienced local developers, or a VC firm judging founders by what they've built in the past, gets the result of everyone else's biases.
There's also explicitly some allowance for mistakes if you look like you should have been and could still be successful, ranging from the acceptance of pivots to giving people funding even if their last exit wasn't so great. While useful, this also tends to defang the savagery of the free market significantly.

This is not to say that anyone is guaranteed free money. There's certainly hard work required, and also certainly some blind luck. But the market won't shake out mistakes as quickly as you'd hope.
Sorry, downvoted you by mistake! I agree -- it might be a reference to Mike Ross (chap with an eidetic memory) from Suits.
I also covered some of the performance related questions in another HN thread here ("zero DOM not virtual DOM"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8964935

I'll try to address some of the other more specific questions inline.
Apparently they are using Pentaho. See screenshots starting at slide 7: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1510163-cse-presenta...

Pentaho Data Integration Kettle: http://www.pentaho.com/product/data-integration , https://github.com/pentaho/pentaho-kettle/
Attitudes towards women in IT environments would become a little more relaxed if a fair number of programmers would have the courage to stop denying and come out of the closet. There, I said it.
So I have a simple question; how is this better than Swift or Objective C? It seems like Facebook has done everything in its power to avoid writing Objective C. I am also interested to know if this is what powers the current 1.7 star rated Facebook app. I am just having a hard time understanding how Facebook has earned much credibility with their mobile efforts. Also, how is this different or better than Ruby Motion? I just don't get it. We've had a lot of these fake native solutions but how does it work with existing Cocoa libraries, etc. I think the bigger question is why? Is Facebook allergic to actually writing Java ObC or Swift? Before the downvotes, consider the history and track record and quality of Facebook on mobile. I honestly don't know the answers to the above questions (they aren't completely rhetorical.)
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Hi Jordan, I'm interested on which CSS rules causes reflows?
The progress here is getting spooky, including the success of such networks for captioning arbitrary images and translating between natural languages. I read that one researcher predicts live narration of video within 5 years.

A cold-splash-in-the-face intro for laypeople can be found in the TEDx talk of Jeremy Howard (founder of Kaggle):

The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx310zM3tLs

For cutting-edge research, it seems the "NIPS" conference each December is where many of the new results appear:

http://nips.cc/
cool! will be in Mandalay on Feb 19th :)
Don't most dual-SIM phones allow only one of the SIM cards to be used for data connections?
So it takes sending/receiving 50 photos in the cheapest zone (5 in the most expensive one) to empty 5€ worth of credits. Isn't it a bit expensive? Then maybe this is targeted for the frequent travelers.