skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm. First, I thought that most real-estate-backed bridge loans were supposed to reduce the risk, by the very nature of backing it up with property (or home equity). This is in stark contrast with a zero-documentation no-money-down subprime loan -- only people who have spent a lot of time building equity will get this sort of a deal.

My understanding suggests that the main time you, an individual, would do a bridge loan, is if you wanted to buy a house and use the home equity in the house you haven't sold yet as your down payment. If that's the case, you put the cash in the down payment, and aren't expected to pay it back if the house you've vacated is seized. Nothing about this process seems intrinsically unfair to anyone (yet) though the process is probably an expensive way to get that money.

I'm not sure why you'd put them into bonds. Besides being freakishly irregular loans, they're generally designed to be very short-term, which it seems would be an impediment to securitization -- doubly so when you're talking about a business bridge-loan instead of a real-estate one. Are you sure your presumption is accurate?

And, just for what it's worth, even payday loans can be very attractive if the alternative is worse (e.g. please give me a $500 payday loan so I can go pay my fine and retrieve my car from the impound lot so the city of SF stops charging me $65.75/day in fees. thanks.)
The WebCrypto API is meant to solve this but many aspects of it are not quite ready for production yet.

I'd personally love to see JS crypto libraries like CryptoJS, SJCL and Forge start implementing polyfills for WebCrypto. Even just using the getRandomValues method (which seems to be fairly stable across all modern browsers) for their PRNG implementations would result in a much more theoretically sound crypto library.

http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/

https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge

https://github.com/bitwiseshiftleft/sjcl

https://code.google.com/p/crypto-js/
I went in the army because at the time, I had big dreams and no clear path to them. I thought joining the army and doing a hard training would teach me something about achieving goals.

I went to war because I was in the army and wondered what was the point of being in the army if you don't go to war. After doing my training, deploying in Afghanistan was the logical follow up. Why train so hard just to stay home.

After the mission, I left the army. Partly because life back into garrison was boring as hell, partly because I felt I had lived all that was to live in the army and it was time for the next phase in my life.

At least my original goal is sort of achieved. The army and all the things I lived at that time have equipped me with a confidence that has since helped me achieve milestones toward my life goals. In retrospect, the three decisions I enumerated were sound and being my young self again, I would do the same.
I think that it would be tough to move away from slack because of:

Ui knowledge

Inertia

History.

The last is most important--if cultural knowledge over years gets embedded in slack, it will be easy to justify the modest ongoing costs.
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I wonder where it comes from. I would guess that it's a few small works like software and games, and then a lot of high-res digital transfers of films, scans of 2-D work, and photos of sculptures and installations.
Ah yes, I've been doing

from __future__ import print_function

pretty much since it has been available. flush=True, end='' etc.... much more intuitive.
Even if the motor is quiet you still have the propeller making a lot of noise. I (honestly) don't know if you can really get it quiet enough for the motor's noise to be important.
But wouldn't the colon at the end disambiguate? It seems like the colon is mandatory for labels and forbidden for opcodes.

(My comment, which got flagged as spam. Is spam-flagging common on that blog, or is it just random?)
They join the military for a variety of reasons, which may or may not have involved any feelings about any conflict at hand much less the media. The reason they go to war, however, is because of old men.
I second that, I don't know where he went, but at least in reddit.com/r/scala people are very nice and helpful, and Martin Odersky visits there frequently and answers questions. I was in touch with several people in the community and from typesafe / EPFL and really don't know where the league of legends comparison comes from.

In any case, I do suggest anyone who haven't seen or tried Scala to give it a shot. It's a fun and productive language. And the community is pretty great in my experience...
The rejection is not in not wanting men to go to war, or in favouring any particular social order, but in denying innate sex differences.

According to Junger, these theories are strongly rooted in academia, and particularly the social sciences.

“I have friends who are anthropologists and primatologists and evolutionary psychologists … [who are under] an enormous amount of pressure to generate data that shows that all gender differences are cultural.”
Did you forget to take the engines efficiency into account? I think the electric engine is going to be in the 90 percentiles. The fuel engine in the 30s.

You also failed to read the word "hybrid". But not to worry, battery tech will continue to improve too. Fossil fuel efficiency? Not so much.
This is just how DNS works, nothing interesting to see here.
> In this case, there's also the problem that 'Stream' is already used by node.

Haha, well, your grandparent would like you to know that's no reason to avoid a particular name. Module system! ;)

> var BoringStream = require('stream');
> var Stream = require('highland');

Or if we like special chars, we could get really cute:

> var $tream = require('highland');

It's like Stream, but, you know, blingier.
>is because of old men.

This is a typical modernist redaction of the will to violence that is common to young men. Past societies found ways to incorporate, normalize, redirect, celebrate that will - now we pathologize it. This is because we think we can mutate the human condition into something better.
> A bit OT, but I have never understood how AMD can win both the XBox and the PS4 chipset contracts and yet not be profitable.

For a moment I agreed. But then I realised that it could be said that the reason they won the contracts is that their competitors didn't think it was profitable at that price.
Ulysses: It’s Still a Scandal
Relay Attacks on Passive Keyless Entry and Start Systems in Modern Cars (2011)
Because young man don't have enough experience to understand the world and they cannot see that war is a good business made by rich men. Rich men who would never send their children to war, of course.
The lawyer taking on Uber and the rest of the on-demand economy
> There was a study done on survival rates of acute heart patients, and the effectiveness of cardiologists. The data showed that when cardiologists were away at conferences, mortality rates went down 7 percent or so.

The ramifications of that aren't clear, though, as it could be something so simple as the risky/difficult procedures being delayed when the best docs are out of the hospital.
I didn't realize that the Slack CEO was also the Flickr founder, so you might be right in that Slack just isn't for sale to a megacorp.

But Microsoft is the most likely buyer, it's been on a spree with integrating best-in-class enterprise products/productivity tools into Office 365 (Sunrise, Accompli, previously Yammer). Slack fits into that mold, though the sale price would probably be orders of magnitude higher than those acquisitions (likely upwards of $10 billion, possibly much more). At that price tag, it might be untenable.

Not sure what Slack's medium-longer terms goals are, honestly. Their valuation is so high that only megacorps can afford them, but there's still enough risk that public markets might be skeptical (their revenue growth is astronomical, but they haven't been generating revenue for THAT long). In the interview, Stewart mentioned market saturation eventually limiting their crazy growth numbers, but I'd imagine they have a ways to go, given that the total enterprise market has to be well more than 200,000 total seats. Exciting times for them.
My intention was just to get ballpark close. 15% of normal range is still not very good. Battery's may get there eventually, but not yet. As stated in the article, they're going after hybrid applications and this is probably why.
> It's funny how every time I hear someone say they have no political agenda, or that they are neutral, they almost always go on to devote the vast majority of their effort to criticizing the left wing.

I see tirades on both sides. I think you're right that the conservative side of the equation is probably guiltier, but you don't have to look far to find liberals doing the exact same thing.

People like to think of their position as the neutral position. I think it's as simple as that.
I don't see how hybrid-aircraft make any sense.

The whole point of hybrid cars are the fact that you're only on the throttle periodically. You start, stop, speed up, slow down all the time (especially in S. Florida!). Normally when you're slowing down, you're burning off the energy as heat (friction from the brakes), etc.
Adding an electric motor/generator to this allows you to recapture energy that is normally wasted slowing back down, so it can be reused to re-accelerate back up to speed. This is why hybrids (unlike non-hybrid cars) get better fuel mileage in town than on the freeway.

Aircraft, on the other hand, are at full-throttle on takeoff, and close to 3/4 throttle during the vast majority of the flight. There is no slowdown to recoup the energy until coming in for a landing. @beloch has already done the math showing the electric range would be downright miniscule, so there's very, very little to be gained here.

Until we have some utterly astounding advances in battery (or more likely, supercapacitor) tech (probably via graphene), this won't really be a cost-effective solution.

However, this would be an absolutely incredible motor for electric car conversions.
Imagine a pair of these (each powering an axle)... it would be considerably more powerful than even the Tesla Model S P85D.
Even this is new, though; I don't remember when they fixed it, but Python 3.0 seriously would just ignore filenames that were not in the expected encoding... as in listing the files on the directory would just skip them as if hey were not in the folder... Python 3 had this big promise of solving a bunch of Unicode issues, but it doesn't really seem to have enabled anything not already possible--and not even terribly hard--in Python 2, while making a lot of missteps along the way and only very recently (as in, not even yet in Python 3.4, though committed to some development branch, per statements by others elsewhere on this thread) providing anything actuallt new in the area most often considered the "carrot" for upgrading to Python 3.
I think he is alluding to the military forced by the left wing to attempt to have equal number of both sexes in every part of the military, when as a result of evolution, males are physically stronger and will be more suitable for some roles in the military than females and should therefore form the majority in some roles, and in others where only the strongest are selected, all of the roles, because the strongest males are stronger than the strongest females.

I think that's what he meant by "I mean the far left is also now rejecting the theory of evolution, which is just insane.".
I don't think that's accurate, if we're discussing what actually motivates military deployments. There are exceptions, but in most wars the enlisted men themselves have not been the ones chomping at the bit to be sent to war. Rather, they were sent by older men serving in government, who did not themselves participate in the fighting, often over considerable dissent from the rank and file. In some cases, such as the U.S.'s participation in Vietnam, the wars were exceedingly unpopular among the young people actually sent to fight them.
Lets wait and see what McDonald's use.
Your second paragraph seems callous to me. Going to war for the sake of not wasting one's hard training, so to speak, is not moral. At least as I look at it.

War is horrible and should be avoided at all costs. Sometimes it is justifiable and necessary. War should be a last resort. I wish society had alternate means of accomplishing your first paragraph without resort to the second.
I am not following, but why would they chose 249?
It's not really in the Amazon, neither the forest, neither the state. The vegetation is called Cerrado and it is located in the state of Bahia. Nevertheless truly amazing work.
> Why train so hard just to stay home.

Yeah, better use those muscles and brains to kill people across borders. That's the spirit!
@shortoncash - I like that approach! If you live up to your username, do you've any interest in doing it as a side project?
Summarising the content:
about 9:10

"virtual machines and garbage collection which when java first appeared were still ridiculous concepts"

So I'm listening to a guy's thoughts on programming languages who apparently never heard of lisp and is seemingly unaware of Guy Steele.

"Our time is much better spent using a high level language..."
Which is a sweepingly generalisation for which the exceptions, nuances and caveats are very clear to most reading Hacker News.

I'm stopping now. That's 10 minutes of my life I'm not getting back. If someone thinks this promotes scala please think again, it probably has the opposite effect. If someone was kind enough to point out where the non-ridiculous content actually starts and provide some summary of why it might be worth anyone's time I'd have another look but I think I'll be looking for thoughts on scala elsewhere. Signal to noise far too low for me here. YMMV.

As an aside, promoting a wider popularity for a skill set you already have is usually a good idea professionally. Ask any Perl expert. This is probably has something to do with the vitriol in the "programming language wars." It's nothing new, Dick Gabriel described C as "a virus." Many C++ promoters hate on C reflexively even when they're right. Many Java's hate on C++, Pythonistas on Perl, Haskell on Scala etc etc. Choose life.
Gratuitous comment about how "rethinking Scala" and "scaling Rethink(DB)" are both valid expressions.
Hey now, give Kate Upton credit where it's due; she also struts around battlefields and tells people to shoot monsters with catapults. That's hard fucking work.
Not the engine author, but from our app experience:

Tracking Apple's breakage (in minor releases, even) and fixing our code -- code that was written to the defined API -- is a cost that is rising precipitously as Apple's quality and stability keeps going down.

If you have revenue from other platforms, it can make sense to just say "f it" and drop the platform. The AppStore is a shitty retail pipeline; 30% is a crazy commission for digital software distribution, the single-retailer-monopoly + appstore design is driving prices to unsustainable levels, etc.
I've been several docker components heavily, on a real system. This was the state of play just prior to the Docker 1.6 announcement:

- Docker registry, the old pre-2.0 version: I hate it. It's incredibly slow, and it raises lots of errors.

- Docker 1.5: Mostly stable and usable if you're on the right kernel, occasionally does something weird.

- docker-machine (from git): Very nice for provisioning basic docker hosts locally or on AWS. Nice feature: it's capable of automatically regenerating TLS certificates when Elastic IP addresses get remapped.

- docker-compose 1.1.0: Kind of a toy, but a fun toy, and it generally did what it advertised.

- docker swarm: With docker-compose 1.1.0 and docker 1.5, it was pretty much unusable. Simply running "docker-compose up -d" twice in a row was enough to make it fail with random errors.

I'm going to re-evaluate swarm with docker 1.6 and the new docker-compose.
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Multimedia Content Identification Through Smart Meter Power Usage Profiles [pdf]
Electric aircraft can recharge in flight from the sun. This will mostly be long endurance, high altitude utility aircraft, like Facebook/Titan Aerospace's wifi UAV or surveillance drones that can stay airborne indefinitely. These aircraft can be pseudo satellites without requiring a rocket launch. They must be extremely low in drag and weight efficient, with powerplant weight being a major issue because previously large electric motors have not had application in aerospace and have not been weight optimized as gas turbines have. Siemens has seen the growing market (QinetiQ Zephyr for another example) and is responding to it. We definitely won't be seeing any passenger aircraft electrically propelled anytime soon.
"phrases like that hurt a little, and exclude a little."

I agree with you on that part but your substitution doesn't make much sense.

The original comment links programming competency to masculinity, which is a problem. It's as simple as that.
FWIW, I have a Nexus 4 and saw basically the same symptoms with two different models of Qi chargers. The same chargers worked perfectly with other people's phones.

My guess is that either there's a serious design flaw in the Nexus 4's inductive charging, or it just has a very high defect rate.
Ask HN: What articles, essays, blogs you have helped you master coding the most?
I'm just open to absorbing as much as possible from the experience and wisdom of others on the same path as myself. There is so much good stuff out there, I'm sure I've only discovered a fraction of it on my own.

Thanks for taking the time and contributing. :)
how else can you mutiny?
The very definition of "cultural" is in dispute between the right and left wings. The right wing typically operates on a narrower definition of "cultural", which goes hand-in-hand with their emphasis on individual responsibility. The left wing operates on a much broader definition, which goes hand-in-hand with their emphasis on collective responsibility.

The social sciences tend to gravitate towards the latter because who doesn't like scope creep? (The right wing, on the other hand, seems to restrict the scope of the social sciences by slicing off a large chunk of it to the biology department.)

I personally prefer the idea that something can be both biological and cultural. Pretty much any change that happened to us in the last few tens of thousands of years is both biological and cultural. Unfortunately this idea doesn't seem to be popular among those with stronger ideological commitments one way or another.
I highly recommend http://babun.github.io/ for Windows based development. It's a well configured cygwin install with many standard addons included. Helps me keep my sanity while switching between Linux, Windows and OSX.
LAUSD parent here. At our school, we have been successfully using iPads for instruction in certain grades. MacBooks and Airs in higher grades. The software used is pretty much the stock iPad selection, reinforced with some pedagogical offerings through web SaaS products. In Kindergarten, my daughter made a Ken Burns-style presentation using iMovie, researched building a parachute with a gondola to compete in the egg drop competition (her and her partner's egg broke), and has been drilled in numerous ways on spelling, counting, addition and subtraction. I am unsure how tech is applied in other grades, but I have seen the movie making and egg drop competition themes at the other grade levels, so I assume there is some iterative rigor year over year. By 4th grade, I expect my daughter to be participating in curriculum sourced from the Hour of Code program.

In my view, Director Deasy's persecution is politically-motivated. The choice to go Apple was the result of successes in various Magnet and Lab Schools, conducted prior to the service agreement with Apple. Multiple vendors were evaluated during the Magnet / Lab development process. There was no opportunity in the process to put it out for three bids during the actual procurement process, because the other vendors were eliminated prior to procurement.

Our technology program is funded by our PTO, which is a becoming a common trend in many public schools. It's much easier for our PTO to raise $80K/yr for tech (we raise more than that, to fund other programs) than it is for LAUSD to indemnify the purchase or lease of tech on a district-wide basis. We will likely continue to choose Apple products, with the primary motivation for that decision coming from the instructors, and secondarily, the build quality being able to stand up to student use at school and home.
> it is certainly not rejecting the theory of evolution. [...] Evolution only shows us what is. [...] Meanwhile, it's our job to figure out what ought to be

I'd take this a step farther, and argue that the author's "doing otherwise is rejecting evolution" framing is actually a rather common "Christian right" paradigm.

There's a biblical mindset which constantly intermingles "The revelation is truthful" with "The revelation indicates the proper path". The author is assuming the inverse relationship: "If you don't like it, you must not believe in it."

It's a type of normative fallacy, because you can't naively search-replace "bible text" with "science paper". They are qualitatively different kinds of claims about the world.
Quite honestly, the thing that has helped the most is actually doing it. In order to get good at programming, you have to program a lot, constantly challenging yourself. Build something big, then take a step back, see where it needs improvement, then re-code it with the improvements. That's the best way to learn.
> Things like living in a web browser and a platform neutral IDE (I use IntelliJ for Clojure, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby) make OS platform less impactful on using a computer.

Really? I'd think this would make the remaining things matter more. Things like:

- International text input: in OS X, out of the box, é is opt+e, e (or the now even easier: hold down e and choose é from the menu). In Windows, é is alt+0233 or something, or change your keyboard layout and relearn how to type apostrophes. Everything else related to international text input is also much nicer in OS X.

- Trackpad quality: I've yet to find a trackpad as nice as the ones that come on Mac laptops

- emacs keybindings in every text box! Anyone? ...Anyone? Maybe it's just me.
Is the App Store really the fastest-growing, though? It's a ridiculously-dubious claim (in addition to being pretty meaningless without context).

It reminds me of a particular XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/1102/
It will take much more than a month to begin to understand your velocity
No. Somebody doesn't have to go, for most wars, and certainly not for the wars the US has started recently. Existential threats may require war, but the US doesn't face any right now.
These could dramatically improve the throttle command response of the aircraft and make the aircraft far quieter on departure and approach. Civil aviation is one of the most annoying hobbies that anyone has ever conceived, from the perspective of people who live near airfields. If this tech opens up the possibility of living near and airfield but not having to put up with the sound of private pilots coming and going all day long in Korean-War-era airplanes, that would be nice for those people.
>if we're discussing what actually motivates military deployments

Sure, but don't try to weave a narrative around the idea that old men are the only ones eager for war.

>Vietnam

Poor timing, poorly managed, generally a waste of time, and therefore unpopular, yes.