skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand why these types of compilers lack reflection support, but it still bothers me (and general makes me want to avoid them). JavaScript is naturally a very dynamic environment, and both Java and Scala have some pretty strong dynamic capabilities of their own.

But somehow when they are combined (GWT or Scala.js) you end up with something that is more static than Java or JavaScript. I know the reasons have to do with the static compilation optimization, but I still think this is a huge downside relative to languages that are designed for the browser from the start.
This program was developed by a former colleague for his daughter.
I like the low-res pixelated photo of the CEO. Classy.
For sure. It's fun to mess around with type providers over https, but not in production. The whole point is to have a (relatively) stable schema.
Container data management service ClusterHQ Raises $12M
ClusterHQ raises $12M Series A from Accel, Canaan to build data layer for Docker
Note this:

acc[camelcase(dependency)] = require(dependency);

could be replaced with:

Object.defineProperty(acc,camelcase(dependency),{get:function(){ return require(dependency) }})

and you'd get demand-loading!
I would be happy to. "Because everybody else is doing it", is not exactly the most convincing of arguments.
>> "Finding the author is the first obstacle, then finding out if and when the author died is next."

Isn't that going to become less of a concern as most content and creators are very public online these days?
This thing rocks! I always thought about building something similar - didn't know it's called linear programming though.
That brings up a fun idea. Why not have 'intellectual property tax' along with the yearly expiration.

That would solve the orphaned works issue- an orphaned work would quickly return to the public domain after falling behind on tax.

It'd also give creators of non-orphaned work the impetus to let go of their copyright.

And it might be possible to scale the tax by some factor that would give 'Big Content' a bigger incentive to let go, while levying a nominal cost on individuals that would function more as a tripwire for orphaned works than a financial burden.
One of the flaws of conventional school systems is the assumption that learning can be reliably quantified. While measurement can have value, something ineffable is lost when looking only at the numbers. How does one test for critical thinking, or broadness of worldview, or emotional intelligence, or general creative problem-solving?
Now there's a nice recursive definition.

First you pass a crazy law - then force your partners to adopt the same. And when you want to extend your crazy law just point at your partners and say: "Its not crazy, everybody seems to be doing it!".
Has anyone had any experience of using services like this? I struggle to interview for completely new roles when we first establish them, and could see this being useful in those scenarios.
Not sure why this is being downvoted - diluting the meaning of 'harassment' could have very unfortunate consequences for both victims of REAL harassment as well as the general usefulness of social media. It seems reasonable people should be able to agree on what constitutes harassment and what clickbait factories like gawker and the verge are casting as harassment in the name of ad impressions.
Quite right. I was only mentioning it w.r.t. actual learning, not a more general use case. :/
Even cockroaches have different personalities, scientists find
Hard to say if your service is valuable without some references but the pricing looks quite attractive if your people really are qualified. I know job titles look good but some of the smartest people I've met haven't beent CTOs or founders, they've been senior developed who have years of experience.

Nevertheless good luck and I think this is a great idea.
Unfortunately, most watch wearables are in the same class of "It's a watch that can display texts, emails, and has an accelerometer". Not to mention, they also have glaring holes in the BT communication, where they are easy to decrypt OTA.

One wearable I do like for the innovation is Thalmic's MYO. Before they opened up Raw data to the sensor array, it was pretty much a doorstop. After what I did, they came to their senses. http://hackaday.com/2014/11/18/thalmic-labs-shuts-down-free-...

There's a few other wearables in the class of "first of a kind". Those are the ones I'm interested in. Well, that and computer vision, ML, IoT, distributable computing, and other areas.
Why I hate using JavaScript plugins, and You Should Too
OK, so I got it wrong. Still, the cable in my neighborhood was laid before I got there 12 years ago. My bill has gone from $50 to over $100 and nobody has done anything locally - no digging. Sure they bumped me from 150kbps to 2meg many years ago, and I'm sure that was upgraded equipment somewhere. But even with 3 cables running down my street (yeah rare, wow, yippie) we still have relatively low data rates and high prices.
Many of the celebrities that you see from the US actually have porcelain veneers put in, so you're not even actually seeing real teeth. Perhaps this is the kind of teeth that creep you out?
Assange is well within his rights to apply for asylum, and Ecuador is well within its rights to accept his application. Assange is inside the embassy legally. It's the UK who are choosing to monitor the embassy with police officers (rightly so IMO, mind), not Ecuador.
As danbee said, it's the only way to do it. You should be able to set up an app-specific password via Apple's site first and provide that instead.
I am not a lawyer, but the author should consult one. Money transmitting businesses are heavily regulated in the United States, and operating such a business without registration and compliance with regulations may be illegal.

These laws are not a joke; there's a reason that all the mainstream Bitcoin businesses have these constraints, registrations, and rules, despite the way they impede customers and businesses: "know your customer", anti-money laundering and Patriot act constraints on terrorism funding are very real and serious interests of government units with powerful enforcement powers.

Be warned that this is not the same as selling lemonade in the government's eyes.
Oh absolutely a home schooled kid thrust into a regular school environment will seem awkward at first before they adjusted. This is more due to the fact that the social norms of a high school are most definitely not the social norms of most of society. I think home school kids learn the latter first and the former only if they get placed into an environment where they need to.

One set of social norms will serve them throughout life. The other is only useful for surviving till graduation.
That slows it down on general-purpose CPUs, but not on special-purpose ASICs. That's the exact opposite of what's desired.
Early music training prevents loss of listening skills later in life
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9001713
Salon... where I would definitely go for a straight forward and honest view of something on the right. The place to go to reaffirm your hatred of people who you disagree with.

It was neat how he worked in the evil Kochmonsters at the end there. And Halliburton. And Palin. Great article... next up, a FreeRepublic discussion of public unions...
I'm not even sure that involved drugs or anything - they got busted on straight up AML. I can't find the drug case now, I saw it within the last six months but any Google search just returns tons of SR hits...
Obamacare Architect Gruber Wants Body Weight Tax
Composition: easier than decomposition. :)
A cargo cult understanding is probably superior to no understanding because science operates at different levels of abstraction. Most programmers have a cargo cult understanding of hardware for example.
An interesting article - thank you. Very useful to have the steps laid out so clearly, even if I don't intend to follow them on this occasion. Impressive calculation, too.
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You have way more insight than I do. What you describe reminds me of a complicated webbing of aluminum to hold everything in place. If I understand you correctly having access to a titanium equivalent could do two things. One, you could reduce part count, replace an array of aluminum supports with one titanium part. If the strength and weight are about the same, the simpler design seems better to me. Two, you could free up some space for other stuff. I'm thinking fuel tanks in wings, but i'm not even at the level of armchair aerospace engineer. There are probably many cases where aluminum is lighter but bulkier. Opening up a channel to simplify wiring, or hydraulics could be helpful.
I haven't got a reply from you.
What is the jurisdiction? What counts as a unit of copyrightable work? Are we obligated to accept work copyrighted in another county or state as being copyrighted in ours? If yes, what can we do about jurisdictions that set absurdly low tax rates (see race to the bottom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_to_the_bottom )?

I guess I should be explicit. My fear is that states will race to the bottom and charge $0.0001 per page per year which will lead to aggregation of perpetual copyright into the hands of copyright trolls.

I am sorry but why does Mickey Mouse deserve perpetual protection under copyright? Why does Disney get to write our copyright laws and dictate foreign policy so much?
wrong. it is 70 years of debt you can now borrow hedged against that copyright.
Anthem Blue Cross hack: Millions of records breached at health insurer
I think these bottom of the barrel techies have got it wrong. How many home schooled kids have been accepted as founders into YC? My guess is not very many. Most founders are elite college graduates that come K-12 schools where standardized testing is the norm.
It will be interesting to see how we deal with the lifetime aspect of copyright if/when lifespans begin to trend toward forever.
Who are these industry leaders who only price their time at $60 to $120 per hour? (Certainly not anyone who's read the advice by tptacek, patio11, et al. about consulting.)
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> Hopefully some parents will be able to pool their resources and serve groups of children. One parent can teach engineering to the neighbors kids, and another can teach literature.

This happens quite a bit actually
A lot of his arguments are backed by the assertion that "The majority of British math major graduates can't do X." As I can attest at the US polytechnic university I graduated from, graduation is not necessarily the best measure of the success of an education system. This is especially true for math majors, most of whom decide partway to disengage from the thinking part of mathematics and turn to teaching. It's no secret why: they thought math in university would be a continuation of math in high school, and when they are instead asked to think hard about linear algebra or topology or analysis, they decide they don't like math after all. Such students have special, easier courses and yet get the same degree as the top students in their department.
I can create a new copy of a book in a few milliseconds. I cannot create a new piece of land, at all. What a dumb argument.
It was reversed:

http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/apple-ios-license-...

Also, Adobe Air does not compile to Objective C, though it doesn't run in a conventional Flash VM either. See also:

http://www.adobe.com/cn/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6903202/adobe-air-ios-pac...
The larger point is that if a device is going to work with multiple unknown future security systems (theater or not) it needs to be convenient to do so.

Expecting me to change my security to suit your needs is the height of hubris, when your device is not a necessity.
California lawmakers seek to end 'personal belief' vaccine exemptions
Well if Explicit is better than implicit then this is one example of where Perl should be the preferred!
It's hard t believe NFL players can maintain that size without some type of help. There is definitely a lot of unreported PED usage going on.
They recently changed their name. Could be that they wanted to use the domain for something else initially.
I've seen a few friends recently start homeschooling as a way to opt out of the public school system without paying for private school.

In every one of these situations, the wife stays at home to raise and teach the kids while the man works. In many ways it forces a continuation of traditional gender roles, which I personally don't agree with.

So while I understand and agree with some of the decisions these folks are making, there is a clear gender divide that they are ignorant of, or unwilling to even talk about.
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It looks like another interesting difference may come from the workflow primitives (e.g., sequence, parallel, input choice) that Jolie comes with.
Thanks for the comment. True about the titles - the people we work with have years of experience in industry, and setting out to build their own companies. They’ve had to recruit along the way too and so know the struggles of finding good candidates, especially when expanding and having to interview for new roles. Our process starts with a chat so that we get to know the client’s requirements and they get to know us before going forward.
Store All of the World's Data in Your Skin
> It's in everyone's interest to disallow high-throughput usage while permitting burstable high-bandwidth low-throughput usage.
> "Bright line" rules that no type or source of content may be discriminated against by carriers only make sense if bandwidth is not a scarce resource.

There's no reason to believe that this couldn't be solved with some variation of fair queuing with bursting and since that's content and source neutral because it applies to all users equally.

This is a basic network admin skill and the technology is already pervasively deployed – in the 90s, 56kpbs was the speed you assumed for the average home users and businesses used to have a hundred people behind a 1.5Mb T1. The only challenges since then have either been extreme scale or the more expensive things the major ISPs have tried to do to throttle traffic selectively.
Right on the GCHQ website it states:
"In addition, we are also pleased to announce that GCHQ and MI5 are working with their US partners to further strengthen UK-US collaboration on cyber security ..."

I think it is fair to say they all use the same tools!
This is an introductory pricing to get a feel of what people think / need. Our experts’ time are definitely worth much more than that in their day jobs!
Making Data Storage Safer: The MaidSafe Network
There is a lot interesting stuff going on in the hiring space, I like that this has a human touch - uber-for interviewers.

have you thought of working with something like https://clarity.fm/?
I wonder what you would have said about aluminum in the 1880's, back when it was a useless novelty for the wealthy.

After all, the fast majority of applications are satisfied just fine by cast iron, brass or pewter. At the time at least.
Just as an aside, when I was working at a bike shop, we had a guy come in and was looking for a road bike. After some small talk, he told me he owned a cryogenics lab and said they could freeze anything, including bike parts. Doing so, made them permanently in the range of 20-30% stiffer than the original material. Most guys at the shop thought about frames, cranksets, drivetrains, forks etc. Places on the bike which experience high levels of torsional flex and stress.

I'm wondering how many engineers ever thought about using cryogenics to enhance the stiffness properties of metals to achieve higher levels of performance.

The cost to do it was around $1,500 if I remember correctly. A pretty small fee to get what I'd consider a big gain in performance.
> Yeah. Its a turd.

I bet that would've been a valid verdict for the first search engine way back then too, compared to all the neatly organized catalogs. Or the first android compared to the iphone.

Personally I'm still amazed that something like Glass is not only possible but can fit in a $1500 budget.

> $1500 . For "Google Quality".

Establishing that pricepoint is a monumental achievement by my account. It's well withing the grasp of us mere mortals and the way hardware prices tend to evolve will fit comfortably in any "why not try it" budget within just a few short years.

Novelty stuff like this usually costs one or two orders of magnitude more..
What a great deal for them. They know that in almost all cases you won't be liable for the losses suffered due to identity theft (e.g. loans, credit cards, etc), so they "insure" you that if, somehow, you ever are liable they'll pay it...

However what are the situations where the person for whose identity was stolen is asked to pay back the fraudulently obtained goods? I can think of no examples.
The strangest moon in the Solar System
A 1% tax is a little bit steep. But what if the tax was only .1%? Or maybe you make it a 0% tax for the first ten years, .1% tax for the next twenty years, and 1% a year after that?

If the tax was only .1%, the corporation with big pockets would have to raise their bid to millions of dollars in order to bankrupt you. And in that case, just take their bid and walk away with the millions!

It seems fair to me. If you want something protected by the long arm of the state, if you want to impose a burden of DMCA compliance across all of industry, you should have to pay some tax to pay for that service.
I'm really excited about this. Stateful containers is something which needs addressing.
Well, I accidentally kicked off a bit of a storm in this thread. Others have addressed your points in more depth than I care to, and the current leaf comments are wandering close to getting Godwin'd, so it might be time to wind this down.

You haven't explained how you got bigotry out of my comment and I wish you would.
Twitter's grand plan to monetize people who don't know a hashtag from a retweet
I would be interested to read more on their interviewing process since every "interview" thread on HN receives triple digit comments and there doesn't appear to be any consensus on how best to interview candidates.
https://plus.google.com/events/ctgh4ss551t10kg4fktqood9t3o, about 12:30 in on why removed Whoops.
So, as a user of Google search, can I expect crap to show up in my search results that I was managing to avoid by not using Twitter regularly?
There are lots of steel factories around the world. Some smaller ones have specialized in rarer steels.
UIStoryboards
I'm a consultant, produce plenty of value, have very happy customers, and I don't get called a "dick" too often. Don't pay all of us with the same brush, please :)

(Note: I'm the guy who wrote the post OP linked to)
Well, the US has States and that complicates things quite a bit for this type of thing. Most states will give you a driver's license number as an id (with the appropriate "ID Only" mark).

There is also the Real ID Act[1] that trying to establish federal id requirements. This is going to cause some problems and look for it in the news. It is a DHS enforced national ID law.

And yes, some of the folks in the US believe a national ID that is needed to buy, sell, or get a job would be a little too close to the Bible's mark of the beast. That gives quite a lot of friction to any national id.

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act
It would be responsible of them to alert their current students and alumni of the breach, because as of now, I don't think they have. At UCB, there is a medical facility on campus and when you have ship insurance it almost feels as if your provider is the school itself. Dues are paid as part of tuition and most services can be rendered on campus, as well as, most questions about your insurance answered at their front desk. Easy to forget that you're actually a client of Anthem.
Author here. Fun to see this getting some HN love. Those who want a glimpse of what Elixir metaprogramming is all about can check out my Erlang Factory SF talk which gives a nice overview of Elixir's macro system:
http://www.chrismccord.com/blog/2014/03/13/write-less-do-mor...
> This kind of performance wouldn't be put on, at this expense, if a random alleged-rapist took shelter in an embassy. The police would leave them to it, and act when they had intelligence that they'd slipped out.

An embassy would never shelter a non-citizen unless the case was politically sensitive. Sheltering someone free on bail is particularly insulting to the UK's judicial system.

The UK would never just leave them to it and accept that kind of insult.
OP is right though. As far as the onion is concerned you better add more characters to the security pass-phrase, also make sure WPS is disabled on all routers etc.

Once someone has determined to break in, even minimally sophisticated they will spoof the mac address. It is good that you want to add extra security, but even as your story shows it just creates confusion, and make using the system harder.
Debatable. Also if he wasn't talking to an undercover FBI hit man there would have been, so there's that....
Don't be baffled.

There are, at the very least, some very dubious aspects surrounding the original claims: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange-...

I guess I am suggesting that due process, in this case, should be avoided - but only because this is clearly an exceptional situation, with some profound risks for Assange and other whistle-blowers.

The idea that any change to due process should be avoided because it 'sets precedent' I think is a misdirection. There appears to be not substantial reason for Swedish prosecutors to attend London and talk to Assange directly before making their (next) decision.

To be candid I don't really understand what his political ideals are - but I am informed enough to understand that it's more complicated than the way one might explain it to a 5yo.