skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that they were working on a scalaz course and book in 2011. I guess that became Functional Programming in Scala. I'd still like a course on scalaz.
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Why not use your Linux laptop more? About 6 months ago, I installed Linux Mint on my Lenovo laptop, and I have barely looked at my MBP since.
It probably belongs on the spanner/wrench page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrench
I was confused until I figured out that "DDD" was not "Data Display Debugger" but "Domain-driven design".

FWIW, the last commit on the debugger was 6 years, 1 month ago.
The advice I would give would be to take the opposite approach and not to look at it as failed, but as not having become successful yet.

Don't give up a job and take a punt on something, do a job and work even harder on the side to build a start up. Quit your job when you are in a safe place. Don't fall for all the news about amazing start ups funded by VCs, in my opinion this is a stupid way to go about starting up your business because you are taking an enormous risk with other people's money. Do it safe and you just can not fail. Its harder but it works.

If your startup never reached success then its not failing, it just never succeeded... work towards making a successful start up instead of feeling bad that you failed.
So the equation should read red*sin(green)?

The colours are already used for amplitude of the function, using them twice is confusing, akin to using the same variable for two different things.
You have to wear a pretty hard outer shell to get through the lows. If you have a good skill set, have you considered just getting a full time job and trying to bootstrap the startup on off work hours? The skills and risks you have taken with your startup can be an asset on your resume.
Saying this applies to most developed countries is a big claim. My own personal experience in the few European countries is the opposite, that being in the military was great for picking up girls.

Obviously your own experience differs, but you must be careful in applying that to an entire continent. Not to mention the absurdity of university students looking down on soldiers, many (almost all in my unit) of whom will hold degrees themselves.
Right. And now you're pushing what should be a compile-time error to runtime, and slowing down performance with runtime checks to boot.
Are we sure that the drones themselves will be carrying payloads though? Just judging by the video and also just thinking about logistics of accurately bombing something from that airframe plus general sizes of ordinance, it looks more like they are lasing targets for some kind of guided ordinance launched from another platform.

The key benefit here is for them to be sent out to autonomously seek and 'destroy' without having to waste man-hours trooping through the bush looking for a target that may or may not be there.
I'm not too surprised by this since car ownership is quite expensive over the life of the car. Combine that with the rapidly increasing costs of living, high rents, stagnate wages, etc and things start to give. Not to mention the overwhelming feelings of depression, rage and frustration that comes with sitting in traffic congestion common to East Coast cities for hours on end everyday. I just wish a good, reliable rail network between cities also existed in the US.
I've visited Summerhill, but as an American it would be impractical to send my daughter there for all her schooling. I'm wondering if you think one or two years would do her much good, assuming we could get her to go back to normal schooling in the States.

Neill said he only wanted the child up until he was seven (the classic Jesuit model of education). Do you agree that before seven is the critical age?
exactly. And as I don't use the layout that is printed on the keys, looking wouldn't help anyway.
Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC)
Hate is too strong a word, but I've seen some poorly written Scala that over used overridden operators and it left a bad taste in my mouth.
That's fine but you can't force openness (because it aligns with your beliefs) through theft. Society has been becoming more open (as people tweet and blog publicly) but forcing the changes you want through illegal means, especially when there is no consensus that that is what society as a whole would like, is wrong.
I like the Paul Graham notion that indicates a startup has failed. Once you refuse a phone call from PG or he doesn't hear back from you the startups finished.
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> this time next year we'll all be talking about "watch first web development."

This doesn't diminish your overall point, but a little side note - Apple Watch has no browser, and it'll never have one.
I agree, in fact the lobbying system really bothers me. If that was all that Wikileaks published I might not have a big problem. But they didn't redact, they released everything, the majority of which just satisfies voyeurism.
I have been working on a food and travel tip related web app. Its a long term thing as I work full time, but it is something I enjoy doing on the side.
tp+tap to drag works. enable it under accessibility settings.
IANAL but the EU is supposed to be a common market. One (slowely integrating) community.
The need/want of the US to have their guns all over the planet means they often have people in a position to help.

If they weren't out there defending people/enforcing US interests then they wouldn't be there at all.
Ask HN: Daily habits to stay focused on startup
I have been bootstrapping a startup idea for a while. At the same time I work full time. I love working on the startup, but some days it is hard to stay on point. What daily habits or routines do you use to stay focused?
> all mobile chargers in the EU have to be of the same standard to reduce electronic waste.

And yet this is the first criticism of the macbook 2015 by iFixit. In their opinion, moving to USB-C is creating waste since you cannot reuse your magsafe adaptor with this new macbook. Then they state moving to USB-C will cause more accidental damage than using magsafe, thus creating more waste.
Torx is a pretty optimized drive [1].

Otherwise, yeah, it would likely be possible. Many vendors have been proposing semi-automatic structural optimization via finite element methods for a while now (for example, [2]). I'd assume it'd be pretty long running though, as its a non-linear contact problem likely needing pretty tight tolerances/meshing.

In the real world though, you're much more likely to want something standard.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torx

[2] http://www.altairhyperworks.com/HWTemp3Product.aspx?product_...
It's 6 years old as opposed to 43 years old, I would call that new.
Is this true? That's a great piece of trivia if so.
The value is in the execution. I don't think an idea is a million-dollar idea even if you did make a million dollars off it.
Research: browser cache leads to new geo-inference attack
Depends on exactly what but FactSet. Have used both, FactSet is more user friendly, Bloomberg is way faster once you get used to it.
I don't see how is it comparable. What is Internet.org bundled with?
> That's 300k/day Apple gets for doing nothing.

Where by nothing you mean "run the App Store".
Unfortunately one of the pilots disadvantages is that they don't work at high altitudes. Turbo prop and turbo jet planes get around this with PACKs and bleed air. To make a high altitude electric small plane you're going to have to make a mini Dreamliner PACK or carry tanks of liquid/gaseous oxygen.
One thing the article mentions but the headline misses is the need for more and better bike lanes all over the city. De Blasio hasn't been emphasizing this nearly as strongly as Bloomberg did. But the numbers show that replacing one lane of traffic with a protected bike lane can actually ease congestion and increase average car speeds and total throughput (Lafayette St. in Soho is apparently an excellent example of this.)

It's also worth noting that the counting is done only at the river crossings, one park, and one crosstown street in Midtown. A lot of bike trips within Manhattan are missed by the count, as are any trips taken within an outer borough. I don't know that that affects the growth rate numbers but it certainly underestimates the total percentage of trips in the city that are made via bicycle.
Usually yes. There is even a little PCB between the mainboard and the chip to get enough area for the thousands of pins.

But this is not the case if they stack the flash chips with the controller chips. Then only a few external pins are needed for communication and power. But the flash chips actually need the silicon area for all those tiny flash cells.
Corporations are people now, so they should probably get used to having their privacy infringed upon.
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Reading historical articles like this is truly fascinating. Thanks!
> When I want to browse or modify data with a GUI nothing quite matches OS X's Sequel Pro.

I've moved the opposite way (Windows => OS X) and have used SQLYog Ultimate Edition [0] on Windows and like it a lot -- but find Sequel Pro underpowered and slower to use, and wish there was a better alternative.

0. https://www.webyog.com/product/sqlyog
i agree with a lot of the moaning about competition etc, but the tech argument is basically an admission of incompetence. the complaint is that "you used rubbish tech and didn't plan for the future"? thats not the fault of apple or ipad...

poor workmen blame their tools.

its funny how my hand rolled stuff rarely hits these problems and is easy to fix. but then years and years of working on every major gaming platform helps make you forward think these things properly...

as far as a platform to adapt to goes ios is on the very easy end of the spectrum. you want to see what microsoft have been trying to do... at least apple let us do native code with only minimal layers of their crap, and don't break too heavily the standard libraries that have served us so well for the last 40 years. android is almost as bad... i'm convinced google want to kill native code for whatever insane philosophical reason they have
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Ask HN: Why am I getting asked to review books?
I've been approached to review books a number of times now. I'm curious to know if this is common or not. Has anyone here been approached to do a book review? If yes, have you ever gone through with one? How does it work? Is it worth doing?

From my experience, in return for the review you get 2 free copies of the book and a mention.
Thing is, the difference between this and zero-hours contracts is that with zero-hours, it tends to be the employer setting the hours, whereas with Uber, the driver sets their own hours. If you wanted to work a standard 9-6, you could. If you wanted to work longer, then you get paid for that too (unless there are zero passengers).

All of the Uber drivers I've talked too seemed really happy about it as it gave them the flexibility to do what they wanted.
It doesn't count because the day it will be a better deal to be pro-surveillance they will reverse their stance on the subject.

You can't trust a company.
For anyone who has assembled IKEA furniture, it's worth noting that their cross-type screw drives are almost exclusively pozidriv, not Phillips. They are very similar, but you get a noticeably better fit if you use the right driver.

Even with Phillips head I see many computer people using a PH1 driver in a PH2 screw and unwittingly damaging one or the other. These sizes are not supposed to be interchangeable!
>> "Give me an example for a nice looking OS X audio editor in comparison?"

Logic Pro X. It looks good and is very functional. It's also a pro DAW. I've used many different DAW's over the years but Logic (in it's latest version) is the only one to have looked any good.

However, they have all been functional (easy to find what I need and do what I need to do). Audacity I have always found to have a confusing UI for a product used to do such simple editing. As has been said many times - design isn't about how it looks, it's about how it works.
Well I'm speaking of the political spectrum in the German army "http://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article109241172/Welt.... According to the linked article 70% are close to the CDU, which can be considered right wing, 14 % have extreme right views. I'm pretty sure similar things could be said about other armies in Europe.

Since the American political spectrum is skewed so far to the right, that it's ridiculous it might be true that American soldiers have views more representative of the population.
Nothing's going to stop you from running this laptop 10 years from now just like nothing's going to stop you from running a PC laptop 10 years from now.

Except for the parts that fail and can't be easily repaired...?

Incidentally, I know many people who are still using machines in the 6-8-year-old range, and it fits their use cases perfectly well. We're long past the days of multiple-times improvements in efficiency with each new generation of CPU, the improvements are much smaller now.

If the original PC from 1981 could work after 30 years with only a bit of repair...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/237878/can_you_do_real_work_w...

...do you think you could do the same with this Macbook in 2045? For what tasks would it still be useful if you could?

An interesting related article on this: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=1927
I initially read your comment somewhat differently to how it was intended I suspect.
Sure, but how exactly? If I hadn't seen the video I would have guessed a practical prop impossible.

Mashable has an article about it, but they too have some hand-wavy-magnet explanation.

http://mashable.com/2015/04/16/star-wars-bb8-technology/

Too bad there is no discussion on hn or reddit about the workings.
Nice to be downvoted without any argument as to why.
No. This is a Pringle:
https://www.google.co.uk/?q=(x*x)%2B(y-x)-(y*y)#q=((x*x)%2B(...
With the right people getting involved I am talking about the investors. That has nothing to do with execution but to do with access to distribution and press.
As a gamer that is one of the reasons I never bought a Mac laptop even though I was a big NeXTStep fan.

My home is desktop free since 2003 and as you say, Apple does not fulfill such market.
Giving competition to Wolfram Alpha. Very interesting.
This was posted here around Valentines day last year

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x...
Previous discussion may be pertinent:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7458588
If you're on android chrome, try switching to desktop mode and then press enter if it still doesn't show up. Worked for me.
Because it was a bad idea to split the developer ecosystem in two destkop/mobile parts from the start.

My ideal computer before iPads existed was a convertible 2-in-1 Macbook Air. It will never be manufactured, and therefore, I will never be my main machine.

Ubuntu and Windows are working in unifying them again. Let's see what happens in the future.

I'm writing this in a Dell Inspiron 7000 2-in-1 running Ubuntu, the closest thing I could find to my dream machine.
If cases like Liss-Riordan’s are successful, on-demand
companies would have to pay overtime, deductions from
wages, and, in California, the expenses incurred by their
service providers. Those costs would mount into the
millions, and proponents of the on-demand economy worry
that they could force successful companies out of business.

Surely taxes and expenses still have to be paid, and the "independent contractors" set their prices accordingly?

I mean, either Uber pays an independent contractor $10, they pay $2 in tax and $3 in expenses and end up with $5 in their pocket; or Uber pays out $2 for tax, $3 for expenses, and pays the employee $5. In both cases, Uber pays $10 total and the driver takes home $5.

I assume Uber's business model doesn't rely on contractors tax-dodging or skimping on vehicle maintenance!

So why should they worry about the reclassification putting them out of business?
I don't hate Scala but I did not pursue it after only a few 'lessons' : transitioning from Java to Scala was smooth and not intellectually stimulating. On the other hand , Clojure programming forces me to think differently and the solutions are more elegant. I understand Scala is also functional but it is too permissive and I slide back in imperative all too easily. Clojure is highly disciplinarian and opinionated and I find that refreshing.
I tend to think of Gates not so much "dropping-out", but pivoting, once he was convinced he could make it with software.
Is it me or does Microsoft just need to get a decent persistent group chat in office365/lync/skype for business along with a decent api for integrations. As small business/startup running office 365 the reason we started with slack was due to the lack of persistent chat rooms in office365. (yammer is just not usable and not sure who it's aimed at!)
I work in Brooklyn, in a building that houses Etsy, Amplify Education (my company), Tough Mudder (until recently), and others.

In the annual bike commuting challenge put on by Transportation Alternatives, our building is overflowing with bikes -- all of those companies achieved double-digit participation rates. Granted, these are tech and lifestyle companies that draw a young and idealistic workforce, but it's pretty cool to see.
If no one joined then the war would end much more quickly.
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I heard third hand that Tiny Speck was re-using the server infrastructure that they developed for Glitch in their next (at the time) secret project.

To what extend that's literally true or it's just that he's just working with some of the same people and tools, I don't know, but it would certainly make sense.

In much the same way Slack rose from the ashes of Glitch, Flickr did from Game Neverending, the predecessor to Glitch.

http://gaming.wikia.com/wiki/Game_Neverending

>Although development of the game was later shutdown in 2004, the tools built for GNE later evolved into Flickr, a widely-hailed photo-sharing service. Occasional signs of this legacy are visible, such as the '.gne' file extension appearing in Flickr's URLs.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/15/as-flickr-co-founder-butter...

>Whether or not the next venture is based around imaging services, it looks like it will have a social element: “We have developed some unique messaging technology with applications outside of the gaming world and a smaller core team will be working to develop new products,” he writes.
This is where I expect an attorney to step ITT and chortle about how companies and individuals have no power or influence over the government's laying of criminal charges.
Sounds like? Is it or is it not?
This may not be the legal definition of corruption, but there's also no legal right being violated here.
The meaning of live coding is quite specific, I mean, there is toplap and even a whole conference on it coming up.

Gilad Bracha likes to push live programming in smalltalk via his newspeak work. No time travel though, which I don't think is supported by any smalltalk environment yet (you can change code via fix and continue, or objects via direct manipulation, but code changes do not update objects retroactively). So the Bret Victor style of live programming probably isn't supportable (without changes to be model/runtime).
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To me, as the user, whose fault it is could not matter less. I only care if the system works or not. In the event of a driver failure, knowing it's not MS's fault makes the failure no less impactful.
I wasn't pointing out the UK hacking as an unpunished wrong, I was saying that there are certain wrongs which (in practice) can only be exposed by (potentially illegal) leaks.

A better example from the UK might be the widespread allegations of uninvestigated child abuse by members of the establishment that I'm not going to name for fear of libel litigation.
briliantly put in many ways... one could possibly say an analogy for Iraq - some friend of a friend of a friend overheard something noone else believed - that a guy (let's say convicted felon who served his sentence) in next town has a gun in his basement. no idea why, but imagine you feel the urge to dispose of this "threat", maybe because you're a military nutjob, or anything else. it doesn't matter that many guys in his neighbourhood have the same weapon, and many more.

you try to rally your neighbours and friends to have a raid group. unsurprisingly, your german and french friends are against armed storming of someone else house based just on some overheard rumours (), rest is at least hesitant. you say something along "fk you puies" and storm the house with only friend you are left with - that british fella that you have so much in common with. Long story short, you kill the guy unarmed, don't find any weapon whatsoever and burn his house in the process to ashes. After that you refuse to move from his property, stating you need to keep that neighbourhood protected and invite other armed people to join you.

Sorry if I missed some important stuff, and of course this describes only beginning, with all the current mess being result of these (probably intentional) mistakes. If anyone still thinks US is viewed anywhere as a good guy in this war, then NO - there are only bad guys. Personally, ISIS would still have to work hard to match all US-directly-caused civilian casualities in Iraq. It doesn't matter much if someone is beheaded, blown to pieces or machinegunned while going to work, does it...

() - that Bush speech in UN was really horrible, I recall it quite well, saying to myself - and they want to screw up another nation completely based on THAT???
Should the EFF fight _for_ Sony then? :-)
Unrelated to Sony, but related to WikiLeaks... Andrew O'Hagen was tapped to ghostwrite Julian Assange's autobiography. It didn't work out. The story behind why, and the insights into workings Wikileaks and the personality of Assange, are incredible:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting

Great long long long read.
Not hate, but I had a feeling that it was a kitchen sink language, also too much academic influence leaves a bad taste.
And to think, we threw the tea in the harbor for a mere stamp tax.
I'll be more interested once Lambda can access resources inside a VPC. There are only so many things you can process off of S3...
So you shell out $1500 for one of these guys plus AppleCare. Three years of free, no questions asked repairs, then the thing lives an indeterminate amount of time, dies, and you do it all over again. When you look at how much people are comfortable spending these days on wireless, cell phones, digital services in general, I think most of us are fine with that scenario. The days of buying a PS/2 in hopes of passing it down to your grandkids are long gone.
BBC Worldwide. Yes, that is correct, I've seen this block message before:

> "BBC Worldwide (International Site) We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee."