skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few bits of misinformation.

> Is There a Big Performance Difference Between Classical and Prototypal Inheritance?

Yes (but not the way the writer is trying to imply). Performance as a metric of code production per dollar spent. The amount of time and effort traded for prototypical models that are trying to mimic classical models, is a nontrivial penalty to this day.

> Isn’t Classical Inheritance More Idiomatic than Prototypal Inheritance?

Saying that javascript prototypical inheritance is just as idiomatic (or more) than a classical inheritance that JS doesn't support natively, is disingenuous. Putting a gigantic NO... in the article, doesn't change the fact that classes are the idiomatic way to do inheritance (ie CLASSICAL) and javascript was not designed to use that.

> Prototypal OO is simpler, more flexible, and a lot less error prone.

Dropped without the slightest bit of proof.

At least he shills his products at the end for proper perspective.
Was hoping this is about Goat Simulator.
> When many people say "the JVM" they mean the SE (i.e. "standard edition") of HotSpot

This changed in Java 7. OpenJDK is now the reference implementation, and thus "the JVM"
Please read all the other posts.

Otherwise this is like getting a box full of dog poop mailed to you then complaining to Fedex that you got dog poop. Ad networks are just a delivery system and while they do their best to match sender/receiver as the right fit, the contents aren't always safe. Trying to infect you with malware doesnt make the networks any money and is not good for business... instead, why not be upset at the actual authors of malware who are constantly attacking everyone? They're the real problem.
This site would be a lot more interesting if it could link you directly to each thesis.
Don't worry, it's just a few bad apples...that spoil the whole barrel.
I'a ma huge fan of boardgame and cardgame thanks for the link
Anyone interested in MTG history should check out the Drive to Work podcast, where mark rosewater discusses why decisions were made and general game design theory http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg...
This is the best thing that could have happened
There are sites which do display just such a message, so it's clearly not as hard as it might first sound.

If you think about it, it can be as simple as just displaying a message 'underneath' an area of the screen where the blocked content would appear. Blocked content = displayed message.
It's well known that a large body of fire investigation knowledge is basically made up nonsense. On the plus side, the very fact that it is well known to be nonsense is effecting changes. There is a push towards actually having to use scientific methods, which is both gratifying and horrifying.
Probably on the grounds that it's hard to push around a defendant who has a lot of money for lawyers.
> By blocking ads, you are breaking the terms of use of all the sites that provide you content for free in exchange for ads.

No... you're not. You're just not. When I visit a website, I don't agree to any terms of use. I don't sign anything. And if there's some out there that make me tick some bullshit box, it's nothing legal.

You have a superbly warped view of the world and I really can only encourage you to get out of your advertising bubble and try to look at websites with a less-informed eye, a process which is not easy to do I'm well aware.

Users don't want "anything and everything for free". They just don't want you. I'm happy to pay sites, apps I use on a daily basis but I'm not happy to let them serve me ads. Especially when those ads suck - and they do suck. This is content I am not willing to subject my retinas to, and by extension my computer because it only serves to slow it down, and sometimes be an infectious carrier.

You're claiming a right to people's brains. You're claiming people who don't observe that right are breaking "terms of use" (they're not).

"Just don't go to these sites" doesn't work. The internet is not a place where I research the publisher of the content I am about to consume before I even consume it by clicking the link someone just sent me. You're not fooling anyone, and I really hope you're not fooling yourself in thinking that.
Console sales down 20% in March
Perm. Generation was removed in Java 8

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=zoczVe...
> There is no information about the landslide, except that it occurred on 1st April 2015 at Zarechnyi.

> Given that this would be the thawing season, the conditions would be right for this type of landslide.

I wouldn't jump to those questions.
> The Garden City Police Department had cannabis oil activist Shona Banda’s Facebook account shutdown

Citation needed
And that's an attempt to re-write history or at least remove something from it.
Yes it's a bit tinfoil-hat but when you look at shows like CSI and 24, you couldn't imagine a better propaganda campaign that "evidence is infallible and torture is OK".
HBO Targets Torrent Users Over Game of Thrones Leak
Thank you for posting this. George always had children in mind when he made Star Wars.
Actually FedEx have specific rules against mailing dog poop to people, and if one of their customers were routinely doing so, I would indeed complain to FedEx and want them to do something about it.

Ad networks saying "well, the contents aren't always safe, we're just a delivery system, not our problem" results in Ad Networks being Considered Harmful.
Seems like this would be a good format for buzzfeed as it leaves out all relevant context, completely stamps on all the hard work put into these thesises and packs it into a nice less-than 140 characters sharable format.
Interestingly, I find these blatantly honest short sentences more informative than abstracts.
It was discussed in the article but the author didn't find the answer given in the documentary convincing.
People make harmless jokes that are applicable to your life at a daily basis, you're just not party to them. Thinking a joke is dangerous just because you observe it is a base rate fallacy.
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Ha!

This Elenco 200 in one was pretty great. And it kept on giving when using it as a platform for other experiments (you can use the VO meter, speaker, etc)

(However I remember paying around $50 for it in a Radio Shack in NYC, around, oh my, 20 years ago!!)
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A much fairer comparison would be watercolour vs oil painting. It's the same art, but different mediums, involving different skills, different techniques and achieving different ends.

Fwiw, there are certainly things that are extremely difficult to replicate digitally. Solarisation is one of them. (Don't get hung up on the camera bit. There is more to the darkroom than just a primitive analogue Photoshop.)
What an overreaction from the EFF. Use a bit of judgement and realize it isn't a smart idea to talk about hacking an airplane full of passengers.
However, clocks were expensive to manufacture and few ships had them. The lunar distance method was a mainstay of navigation until the latter 19th century.
Particularly for a "security researcher". If he is, he should know better.
Your boss should pay you handsomely for the extra overtime and responsibility involved.
Perhaps some people can give you some useful advice if you narrow what you want. For example if you know python and want to develop web applications the next step seems to be to learn django and flask, you could develop a small application and show hear in hn asking for feedback or ask in stackoverflow questions. All of this are easy ways of learning things. For you to get a mentor I think you should learn the basic things and then ask for something more concrete. Just my two-cents.
You need key party mode where you can have the key populate itself with (old) callbacks of other cars, and the key urn can be a triangulating honeypot and general alert to when your model has new vulns (locksmith key mode choice timeout attack...) out.
Or yes, a reed switch with alternate magnetic circuits to latch onto.
Or the cocktail shakers that are good Faraday cages.
Networks don't say that. We actively try to block malware and accounts and have rules on content as well. Some networks have no issue because they don't accept 3rd party content or all the ads are created in house. Other networks are self-serve and let advertisers upload their own assets and script tags. This is, understandably, much harder to guard against.

My point is that content is offered for free in exchange for ads and the ad networks are enabling this trade of value, they are not actively trying to spread malware but a few bad actors do get through. Like they do anywhere.
> but I remember one of those versions changed some JDBC interfaces which would break any application using JDBC

lol wut? How exactly does adding a method to a JDBC interface "break any application using JDBC"?
"I just wanted to write about Kanye, idk." doesn't even have a link to the paper ;(
That's interesting, because weren't Kotlin and Ceylon created because people wanted to have "just a better Java", which Scala is not really interested in being?

> they realized that almost all of the features are available

Interesting too. Looking at the stuff I'm currently doing, there is plenty of stuff which is just impossible in Java.

By the way, isn't "Scala has such a nice type system that it blows out OCaml from the water" already the case?
I jump between JVM and CLR depending on the project, with some occasional C++.

This is what I am aware of on the CLR side, maybe you already know them.

There used to be the "CLR Inside Out" column at the MSDN magazine.

The "CLR via C#" book.

https://www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/book.aspx?id=15528&...

Channel 9 Presentations

https://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/clr

https://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/clr+4

https://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term=mdil#ch9Search

The ECMA documentation also provides valuable information.
Norway to switch off FM in 2017
> Until ISIS reads the Qu'ran less literally

That's the point of extremism, you do not "compromise". If one believes in the Quran,why would one take a part literally and another part figuratively ? Or is it a limitation of language ? the fact that men invented it(along with books) therefore it is impossible everybody agrees on its semantics anyway? which makes the Quran imperfect ,since it relies on devices men invented, languages and books.
What did it bolt on? Where are the checks missing?

The last major version and the next major version don't ship with any new feature at all, and removing some stuff, so it's a bit hard to see were you are coming from.
While a very interesting article, and it provides a broad overview of what is to be expected by any JVM implementing the "JVM Specification", not all JVMs are made alike.

For example, JikesRVM, Aonix, IBM Websphere Real Time, OS/400 JVM (which makes use of OS/400 kernel JIT and TIMI) and many others.
> If he was going to harm the aircraft, he wouldn't have announced it in a tweet.

You can't know that.

> If the FBI already had reasonable suspicion he would, they shouldn't have let him get on the plane in the first place.

They may well have stopped him getting on the plane if he'd made similar tweets beforehand. "I'm going on a plane next month. What should I do with EICAS ;-)" would probably have had the same effect.

He shouldn't have had his stuff confiscated, but he has no excuse for not knowing how "they" reacted. Their over reaction is entirely predictable, not just from theory but from their past behaviour.
My dog has to have eye surgery on Thursday. She is a 5 year old rottweiler. That has nothing to do with the article, but please give her your best wishes, her name is Ruby.

Also, I heard somewhere and repeat often that some dogs have human eyes in a dog body.
In the late 80's when I was in computer classes at school (UK school, not University) I always remember my teacher citing a study where people using PC's (probably on DOS at the time) produced better work than people using Macs. At the time Macs were way ahead with their GUI's and so students would mess about with formatting and making it look pretty, while the PC users focused on content.

A few years late studying my Batchelors in Molecular Biology, we got access to a room full of computers, mainly Macs. Most of the students found this fairly novel and typed up essays spending ages in the process. We were told that 5% of the mark would be given for presentation. At the time I found Word really frustrating (Trying to type 1 / 2 which was part of my address would always reformat it to a single character half). I gave up quite early on and went back to focusing on content. To this day I avoid Word, or fancy markup in favour of text when I can.
The fallacy is that those of us that deal with commercial JVMs have more to choose from than "the JVM".
> I am convinced that their lack of openness lead directly to the C.F. that is their "SmartStruder" which now has people calling for class action lawsuits.

What is the story of this? (I tried searching for "SmartStruder class action" and all I found was this particular comment.)
The article you quote puts the hardware revenue at 5%, not 14% - but perhaps that is only "Products" excluding "Services"... hardware services revenue should be smaller than products, so 14% still seems wrong.

$5b is less than 2/3 as much as Sun's yearly hardware revenue in FY2009, which was substantially lower than in 2008 due to the financial apocalypse (big finance was busy trying not to go bankrupt instead of buying the best hardware money can buy).

(Unfortunately Sun's 10-K does not break out hardware revenue specifically, but was split up in "Server Products", "Storage Products", "Support Services", "Professional and Educational Services" so it's not obvious to me how the news reports back in the day got their ~$9 billion number for hardware, but at least they're consistent on that)
I read the article but didn't understand what the deal actually was.

Do they pay no interchange on Citigroup issued Visa cards branded as Costco? Do they pay no interchange on Citigroup issued Visa cards? Do they pay no interchange on Visa cards? Do they pay no scheme fee on Visa cards? Do they pay no fee to their acquirer?
Word does have some kind of feature like this does it not? I have seen documents with red changes marked at the side. I never worked out how to use it, but then GIT is hardly intuitive either.
It would be interesting to see Facebooks take on this... any FBers on HN?
I know another website that does this...
The baggage questions is so stupid, IF you wanted to do some evil with things packed, WHY would you say something that isn't the "right" answer to them?
Git seems too much for many programmers unless it is forced upon them, I don't see it gaining traction outside of its intended field. Maybe there is a market for a simple to use equivalent.
Eulogies are not Resumes
Java 8 update 40 has a commercial feature called "Application Class Data Sharing" [1] that extends Class Data Sharing to application classes. However almost no documentation is available. Likely it is almost useless because likely it only works with the default system classloader.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u40-relnotes-...
This is all nonsense. The number of people making threats is tiny, and they're on both sides. The reason those lists exist is because people on the anti-GG side have built very fragile bubbles to live in.
The html text are I am typing this into includes a spell checker.
Hey guys

Exactly, this is an out of the box Telescope install. I'm using Modulus.io to host. They handle a ton of the technical and database stuff so there want much for me to do.
Umm, doesn't happen on mine.
Her profile appears in my friends' list but when you click on it, it goes nowhere and opens back up my feed.
Why didn't Harrison build the clock and demonstrate the accuracy to counter the criticism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Laboratory#Controversy

> The history of the FBI Lab hasn't been without controversy. Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, who joined the FBI in 1982 and served as a Supervisory Special Agent at the Lab from 1986 to 1998, blew the whistle on scientific misconduct at the Lab. In a subsequent investigation, it was found that evidence had been falsified, altered, or suppressed, or that FBI agents had testified falsely, in as many as 10,000 cases, resulting in many false convictions. More than a decade later, cases were still being overturned because of this massive fraud.
SoundFeed: Generate RSS feeds for your favorite SoundCloud playlists
http://soundfeed.preslav.me/

SoundFeed is a weekend project of mine, solving a very specific, but annoying problem. There are many great podcasts and shows on SoundCloud, but alas, not all of them are easy to listen to, on a generic podcast app. As far as I know, SoundCloud provides RSS exports of user accounts, but only after the user has applied, and has been approved to get one.

I created SoundFeed with the simple idea, to allow myself, and other podcast fans, listen to their favorite shows, using their favorite podcast apps. Since RSS is still the de-facto standard for podcast syndication, SoundFeed allows you to export an RSS feed for your favorite show, just by pasting its SoundCloud link
I was just frustrated with not having an easier place to find great podcast content even though so much is created every day. So using Telescope and Modulus.io I was able to put up a full community site without much effort.

Are you a podcast listener?
Yes, I should qualify my experience somewhat - I don't think I learned any math till around grade 6 (btw the town I lived in had the second highest expenditure per student in State - this is not just a underfunded school system problem).

English classes were particularly bad as well. I'd imagine in Russia you read Pushkin in first or second grade. In the US I don't think we were assigned an English classic instead of one of those bestselling children novels till grade 7 or 8.

Around Highschool it got a lot better, classes became differentiated based on student levels, also AP courses (we were offered the opportunity to take other AP subjects which weren't taught in school for free online as well).

Also I certainly don't think IPads are the cure here, as far as I am concerned ed-tech is a blatant scam to build a business from poor administrative use of tax-payer money.
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Text vs. screenshots might appear that way if you have AA disabled or you don't load what ever micro-version of the font the website wants compared with the person who took the screenshot.
I'd spend it all on medical and biological research.
Another interesting one in the style of the Singaporean puzzle that's been making the rounds recently: http://jdh.hamkins.org/transfinite-epistemic-logic-puzzle-ch... (knowledge of transfinite ordinals is useful)
> London just lost almost all it's culture in just a few years, the London you see in movies is long gone

Having been around London most of my life (51 yrs) I find it hard to think of much culture which has gone. Crappy instant coffee and BT phone boxes which hardly worked spring to mind. Most of the other stuff is there if somewhat modified. I suspect the 'London you see in movies' was a bit fictionalised.
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Democracy is fundamentally broken; for example populism and voter ignorance can totally ruin the process. I don't see how democracy will help in programming.

What we need is an example of democracy's failing that is so simple that everybody can understand it.
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Get involved in your community & then ask what programs they have.

For example, in Php we have http://phpmentoring.org/

I don't know what Python, Java and C# communities are currently offering
There have been preliminary experiments intended to answer this question. I remember one of them involved administering oxytocin as some sort of spray. I can't remember if these trials were in animals or humans.

One of the hypothesized effects of increasing oxytocin levels is making people with autistic minds think and behave in more typical ways. If this comes to fruition, I hope that autistic people will be able to help decide whether they become more typical or not.

Because it's not well understood (and may be very powerful), a widely-used oxytocin-increasing drug seems to be quite a few years away.
The way we keep airplanes full of passengers from falling out of the sky is that we talk openly about the risks up front, so that the people who created those risks get fired or demoted, and their bosses (or, failing that, regulatory authorities) make sure the risks get fixed. It isn’t a smart idea to short-circuit that process; that’s how we ended up with things like the Ukrainian famine, the Great Leap Forward, Lysenkoism, and presumably Windows Vista. Use a bit of judgement; we’re trying to have a civilization here, Nero.
Isn't the thesis title supposed to do just this?
Someone should make a cockney rhyming slang 'skin' for a programming language's naming conventions, e.g. Cockney rhyming swift.

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A cursory Google search to help me with an example reveals that Mattt Thompson made a CR slang generator![1]

[1] — https://github.com/mattt/cockney
I think the greatest thing we can learn from Harrison is being able to throw away a great deal of work for something new if it will produce a better result. The fact he did this himself with his orginal large sea clocks in favour of the smaller ones really speaks of dedication to the idea over implementation.
Because you might not be aware that you're being used. I can't find the reference right now, but that question started being asked after a man put an explosive in his wife's luggage (when she was flying without him, naturally)
Yep. Let's Streisand her GoFundMe: http://www.gofundme.com/rw8p88r
Again: isolation and suspicion, coupled with unwavering loyalty.
There's a dirty word for that, and it starts with B.

I think he means brainwashing, judging by the context. But I'm not a native English speaker either.
They are well known in our circles (which are tiny), but to the wider public (and world) they are not.
Now AmEx is going to start hemorrhaging discounts and incentives as they lose valuation. Could this be the blockbuster of credit cards? That was a fun two years. So many "free" games and movies.
I think it's because it's a field that demands exact answer from fuzzy data. You can't do that unless you are willing to accept some wishful thinking as true.
With the little effort of google translate your dirty words to Spanish (copy paste all words), you obtain a filter for Spanish, add synonyms for stronger filtering.

Perhaps gay is not a dirty word? (is included in your dirty words, but gay people should think otherwise.
The author states that the bitcoins were stolen over time, however, the graph shows that between June and November 2011 there is a gap due to missing data. It then opens in November 2011 with a huge gap between actual btc and expected btc of some 500k bitcoins. Practically almost all the "missing" bitcoins. Suggesting therefore that either they were "lost" sometime between June-November 2011 or they were hidden at the time somewhere on blockchain or that the authors have made some sort of mistake.

I am not sure how such a huge amount of bitcoins can be "lost" within such a short period of 4 months. Leaving open the option that there may be some mix up with the internal data or that the analysis is incomplete.
I agree. It can be a cheap one. One of my friends actually has a company where they produced a cheat ($50) educatioal tablet and have many schools in Brazil using it. They are looking for apps. So I can get it to market.