skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not about going to events. Nolone is about meeting new people randomly.
Transvetten: welke voeding bevat de meeste transvetten?
Whenever I read something that starts a sentence with "Leading scientists believe...", I immediately question my choices that led me to that point, and whether I want to continue reading, which I usually don't.

I'm not sure I've ever read those words outside a critique and found the document they were in worthwhile.
This is a legitimate discussion.

Another story on the front page right now talks about a class-action lawsuit against Google for age discrimination. The person that's put up to it has a pretty flimsy case, it appears ("they didn't like me after my phone screen! Age discrimination!"), but the class action may uncover something more real. Finding somebody who has a real complaint seems before starting litigation seems like a good solution, because it ensures that at least one person was harmed. On the other hand, the EFF has a good point here: most of the people harmed by this aren't going to spend the money to deal with it.

I like the idea of EFF pushing back against unfair patents, but I don't like the idea of ambitious lawyers building spurious class-action lawsuits. I'll admit that I'm not fully informed about either of these cases, but there is real value in putting up barriers to spurious cases that cost real money.
> You make your bed now lie in it but dont drag the rest of us with you!

By taking an extreme position for the user, but not for the designer/developer, you're not making a fair comparison.

In the same way that designers don't force all visitors to calibrate their monitor colours before opening the site in Photoshop, to be as "authentic" to the "experience" as possible; likewise those of us browsing in Emacs or whatever don't expect your Unity-powered Minecraft clone to work for us.

What we do expect is that text-heavy, 'unavoidable' sites (eg. for governments, banks, etc.) aren't built inside Unity-powered Minecraft clones.
Every project must have a changelog
Indian edition for little older kids
http://www.hindustantimes.com/newdelhi/even-class-6-students...
Ask HN: What is bad about Haskell?
There's a post almost every other day on the front page praising Haskell. I've currently been learning it myself for a few months now, and was just wondering what do people (who are proficient at it) not like about it?
Indeed, found this on the linked page:

Stores heart rate data at 1 second intervals during exercise tracking and at 5 second intervals all other times

Thank you!
Building a new Twitter trends experience
I miss GNU Make in "build & test automation" section.
So, you could change the merchant ID and send payments to other accounts?
Iconic Space Photos Are Actually B&W: Here’s How NASA Colorizes Hubble Shots
I think the problem is in assuming only 20% will be deleted. When you consider companies going out of business, technical obsolescence, etc. the figure will be closer to 99% after 50 years, that's my prediction.
Realtime Launches React Native SDK
Start by coding. Be prepared to rewrite your first big project once or twice (good thing is that you'll realize it needs a rewrite sooner, rather than later - anyway, don't start with something too big), but start coding. You won't learn it by reading.
Exactly. It's a different kind of risk.

And the lack of understanding becomes binary instead of the usual array of ugly, but maybe recoverable scenarios.

With that comes some obligations, IMHO.
Cause they didn't have to write the NDK.
Because C++ is faster and can be compiled to machine code and, at least for now, you will need a 3rd party solution like Xamarin in order to compile and run C# on other platforms.
I was only explaining the advantage over png. Great point about the use-case though. The average site is probably not going to offer 95 payment options/operators; a specialized svg library might be more appropriate.
time to short zappos
No. The shortcut does not work, nor is the menu entry in the "Fill" menu.

It's one of many missing features.
Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of emotionally unhealthy women who respond well to statements like that from strangers.
Maybe Pakistan should pay something for harboring one of the world's worst war criminals? [1]
I don't agree with many of things the U.S. has done in its past relating to war, but there was a Geneva convention for a reason, and it seems like the U.S. is the only one that is trying to abide to it as of late.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/magazine/what-pakistan-kne...
I like the idea.

Does not seem to handle my main use case however (transforming a schema entry in Rails to a list of symbols).

Eg:

Input:

t.integer "Id"

t.integer "Active"

t.string "Email", null: false

t.string "CryptedPassword", null: false

t.datetime "created_at"

t.datetime "updated_at"

Example:

:Id

Output:

:Id

:Active

:Email

:CryptedPassword

:created

:updated
I was always using UserVoice. It's quite cheap, and even has (or at least had) discounts for open-source/non-profit projects.
I think this is Xamarin, it's mentioned once on the page:

> ...or use these C++ libraries to build complete Xamarin Android Native or Java Native Interface applications.

It's a little unclear though
Apple 5W USB Power Adapter (Folding Pins, UK)
I've seen a bunch of terminals that have a place for a chipped card, but they don't work yet- I assume that a firmware update will enable them sometime soon.
I wonder how many websites this will break. A few times in the past I have tried seeing if websites support https and been served a default Apache page or something instead. Still, the more encrypted traffic the better.
"Huge differences in default memory allocation don't necessarily mean there'll be huge differences in Memory-used for tasks that require memory to be allocated."

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/play.html#whymemory
Are you still having issues? What OS/browser/device are you using?
Yesod is the closest thing to a Haskell version of Ruby on Rails.

Scotty and Spock are both Sinatra-like.

There's a lot of good info here: https://wiki.haskell.org/Web/Frameworks
Moreover, why not make an effort to warn users? My best guess is that Ancestry intended to export the data properly, hit a technical snag, and made the cynical decision to not follow through, in the hopes that nobody would call the company out on it.

Perhaps it isn't the cynical decision, rather it's the result of nobody being left to turn on the lights, let alone handle a technical task. Once companies enter shutdown mode, there's frequently nobody left to complain to. I'll be the first to admit that I don't know the specifics here.
I don't really agree with that. Some people are naturally more outgoing and comfortable in interview situations than others. It doesn't mean they're bad people.
I don't have a lot of experience with it myself, but I don't like the package/dependency management. I'm used to the JVM way where you bundle your third party libraries per project as opposed to installing them on your system.

Other than that, there is really not much that I don't like. I think it's one of the best languages I've tried and I wish it was more widely used in the industry.
Thanks userulluipeste! It's great to get feedback, seems Yandex API isn't the best, very interested if there's any others people have had a good experience with?
How do drone strikes go wrong?
Back when I first had the shock of discovering that VS only supported C89 I remember poking around to figure out why and finding a rant from a higher-up on the compiler team along the lines of "C is a dead language, just use C++." What happened? Did he leave? Did an order come down from on high? Did he mellow with age?
The same FUD applies to copyright - the sheer amount of free (as in speech) artwork out there handily disproves the "no one will do things" argument.
I applaud his boldness! I think that this will be a test of the strength of Zappos's culture as a driver of human behavior, and a test of how well they've been able to hire and retain only those people who fit in with and drive that culture.

To quote Larry Niven, "Anarchy is the least stable of social structures. It falls apart at a touch."
While some card payment terminals talk directly to the bank, there is strong evidence that this is not how all POS work.
Looking at Waffle.io, it seems to me that they don't actually store any data on their end. Everything is managed with issues, comments, and tagging.
Nifty but yet another proprietary adapter/connector from Apple. Seems they just can't help themselves.
It is no Xamarin here! What they say is that you can use these C++ libraries from Xamarin or directly from Java (with JNI).
I'd use a Chrome extension that let me request features for the website I'm currently on.
For me, uBlock seems to block https://www.everyoneapi.com/static/bower_components/angular-... which apparently prevents the whole page from loading.
I happen to be a typophile; so, those discussions are interesting to me.

On the other hand, those are probably just examples of bike shedding[1]. The various talk pages on the Balkan Wars articles range from about 9,000 to 15,000 words, for instance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality
This is a version of a Wankel Engine, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine

Originally invented and patented way back in 1929.
Why on earth is the mouse over fade effect achieved via Flash?
I was expecting that as the output but got:
35, ROBERTO/CARLOS, Michael, Jordan

See other response as it works on word by word. Here is (hopefully) a better example:

Input:

35, Billy Jean, soccer, USA
29, Billy Jo Jean, football, USA

Transform-at:

35, soccer, Billy Jean, USA

You'll get:

35, soccer, Billy Jean, USA
29, Jean, Billy Jo, football

But I was expecting:

35, soccer, Billy Jean, USA
29, football, Billy Jo Jean, USA
This is a poor way to interpret the reality. Interviews have relatively weak validity, but the relationship is still positive. Of course that assumes a structured interview from competent interviewers, which is more the exception than the norm.

What interviews may lack in utility for predicting good performance they can potentially make-up for in determining cultural/supervisor-candidate fit. But this also requires the interviewer to 1) accurately represent the culture and 2) to not implicitly discriminate with things that might correlate with fit, which many things (age, religion, gender) might do. No simple ask there.

I think the primary value of interviews it that it makes the process seem more fair. Everyone had a chance to put their thumbprint on the experience, including the interviewee. In the absence of other selection measures (e.g., work samples) I understand its use, but if you have better tools then you should use those. For me, an interview's primary outcome question should really only be "Is this person completely unqualified or terribly unprofessional?" If the answer is "no", rely on the other indicators to make a decision.
Yeah, somehow no one on HN upvoted the stories, previously posted, about it. And, for once, I am glad I didn't do my usual search before posting. Otherwise this is a tool that wouldn't have had much exposure among the HN crowd. But this is a different topic altogether. ;)
Perhaps they were looking for free SEO?
Higher wages and employee turnover
Who’s behind Linux now, and should you be afraid?
It has a pretty high learning curve. Not entirely fault of Haskell, but more that people find functional programming to be difficult, to say the least.

Then there is the "Chicken & Egg problem" behind libraries and adoption rate.

1. High Learning Curve = Lower adoption rate
2. Low adoption rate = Less people making libraries
3. Less Libraries = Less People want to use Haskell - Goto 2
"These are hierarchies of influence, not position, and they’re built from the bottom up. At Morning Star one accumulates authority by demonstrating expertise, helping peers, and adding value. Stop doing those things, and your influence wanes—as will your pay."

Form the company's perspective this is probably a good thing but I think it results in a hyper-competitive situation for the regular employee.
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that 5 years ago, this would have been a free command line tool? But nowadays it's a closed-source web app instead?
Strange, I see a link on the main page [https://www.ztory.com/en/magazines]

Regarding the service, it looks nice but a lot is in Swedish. Still not bad for $11 (USD) a month.
Unfortunately, if you get there, there's not enough therapy in the world that will help. You can never pay someone to teach you to love yourself, or to decide for you who exactly you are, or decide for you what you want. You have to claim it for yourself, and if you walk the path laid out for you by others you will not have the tools to do this. After pair bonding with the mother, the foundation is laid as a toddler, parents praising effort, not outcome, and teaching kids to learn and explore and create for the sake of their own curiosity, not tying that process to external judgements and motivators and robbing them of their agency. The goal of parenting should be to teach self reliance. Parents and our current scholastic environment are raising children that are so tightly coupled to the system that they are extremely brittle in the face of adversity, they fall apart. Their reference points are external. They have no compass. You might 'make it' by society's standards with no internal compass, but this 'making it' is incredibly deceptive. You've acquired a debt working against self realization and direction that is incredibly difficult, sometimes impossible, to pay. Countless broken homes and shattered lives result from the inevitable reckoning. Everyone will become accountable to the amount of responsibility they've taken for their life at some point, and it can be equally liberating and devastating.
Thoughts Can Fuel Some Deadly Brain Cancers
Does this have data for the UK?
Under the Influence: New York Hardcore
Same here. I tried Firefox & Chrome on Windows 7 with no luck.
This isn't proprietary. It's USB.
Early neglect and abuse have significant impacts on kids. Prenatal exposure to heroin is pretty gnarly too.

It's actually surprising how horrible the effects of neglect (especially during the first 24 months) is on kids. You're probably worse off as a kid if your mother didn't do drugs during pregnancy, but then is too high to consistently take care of you for the next two years.

[edit]
Also if your parent does anything to put you in the foster care system in the first 3 years of your life; the system tends to move kids around a lot, and sudden changes to the primary caregiver between 6 months and 3 years significantly increases the risk for attachment disorders.
I've never heard of it, but PPA apparently means a lot of things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPA

What are you referring to?
Here's the journal article this is based on:

Neuronal Activity Promotes Glioma Growth through Neuroligin-3 Secretion

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867415...
Perl. No, really. Hear me out.

"Read in a line. If it ends in a newline, remove it." We (humans) talk to each other that way. We use words like "it". But we can't talk to the computer like that. "Read in a line from where? Put it where? If it ends in a newline? If what ends in a newline?"

But in Perl, you can say "read in a line", and it means "read it from the standard place, since I didn't specify, and put it in the default variable, since I didn't specify that either". And "if it ends in a newline"? Well, since I didn't specify, that means "if the default variable ends in a newline".

This "natural language-like" approach to Perl is, I think, one of the really interesting ideas in programming. It shows that Larry Wall came from a linguistic background. (Note well: When I say "natural language-like", I am not referring to Perl's syntax!)

Other things I find really interesting:

C++: RAII.

Java: reflection.

Lisp: macros.

Haskell: the type system.
Single Founder- Self fulfilling prophecy and myth
The "major" issue is the tighter and tighter coupling between init and desktop login thanks to systemd-logind+"bunch of Freedesktop.org kits"+gnome (and with Wayland +KDE).

Eventually you have to go back to using FVWM for your GUI needs if you don't want to do a wholesale userspace-ectomy on a perfectly functional distro.

Never mind avoiding anything GTK or Qt based, as they are likely to depend on some lib form Gnome or KDE that in turn depend on something tied to the hip of systemd.

Seriously people, logind is at present in charge of handling the likes of laptop lid closure. If that does not bring out the WTFs, i dunno what will.
Gone now, but here's a screenshot: http://imgur.com/DLgxDCZ
That's because the Scala stdlib doesn't abstract over things that can be mapped over. If you want to do that, then you need a typeclass. Scalaz has a typeclass for mappable things and it's called Functor.
Exactly. Q=32 Random 4k IOP reads are much, much faster than a queue depth of 1 on SSDs. On regular hard drives you might see a 200% speedup with a high queue depth, on SSDs you could see 1000-3000% speedup.
> This benchmark is out of date almost immediately

Why do you think that matters?
Eff – A language for programming with algebraic effects and handlers
I've actually found the exact opposite. The library ecosystem is rich and mature. Haskell is, by default, "concurrency safe" because of referential transparency. You can safely "async" and compose almost any library in the Haskell ecosystem without worrying about shared memory etc underneath.

Also, a lot of the really common libraries like text, attoparsec (parsers), aeson, networking, etc are highly tuned for low latency and performance. Many use compiler rewrite rules and techniques called stream-fusion to compact a lot of the machine code away. Also aggressive inlining etc can be done.

I'm sure there are some memory-heavy or poorly optimized libraries out there but that's certainly not the norm. I've had no problems with the libraries off-the-rack.
I'm using this library for a side project, whose main application is on mobile. The layout system and styles are absolutely fantastic, but the library falls short on forms.

Specifically, the range input uses a bubble on mouseover, which is not touch-screen friendly. I've also had minor issues with the select widget not closing after a selection is made. Additionally, the styles for labels is inconsistent amongst different input types.

For everything else, this library is wonderful. The forms area could use some polish.
> While the US was not victorious in Vietnam, neither were they defeated by the Vietnamese/USSR.

Wait, what? At the very end US Troops were evacuated from Saigon, and the city was taken over by the Viet Cong. That was the end of the Vietnam war. South Vietnam was reunified with North Vietnam. It's still a communist country.

I'm very sorry, but exactly how is that not complete and total defeat, except under ridiculous exceptions like, "it wasn't really a war because: Congress"? What a disservice to everyone that fought.

The war escalated to the point where LBJ could neither stop, nor continue without basically destroying his legacy (as well as humanitarian and social goals), so he just kept fighting.
Better Team Managment in Sentry
Visual Studio is way more than what one sees at the first look. Huge part (and value) of it is the probably unparalleled debugging/profiling capabilities. That are very much Windows specific, porting them to OSX/Linux means writing a lot of new code, not just taking the old stuff and adapting it.
On this same subject, I would just make the boxes on the very first page editable so you can just play with it right away. After reading the description at the bottom I spent a few seconds trying to manipulate the text boxes on the front page before I realized I had to click a button. It would be really cool if they were live editable examples right on the front page.
This could be a result of Adblock or similar services. We use angular on the frontend and are troubleshooting this / working on a graceful failover. In the meantime, we recommend turning off Adblock or similar services to allow the site to load.
I think you're overstating these two sentences. He was clearly very curious, but that does not mean he had ADHD.

I mildly agree with your sentiment insofar as it would be interesting who did or didn't have ADHD, but don't you think it's a bit trivial? Furthermore, I believe it sets a poor precedent for all the people that tell themselves they have ADHD when really they just need to improve their self-discipline. Sure, there are people out there who have a lot of difficulty focusing, but no, I do not believe it's as rampant as we like to tell ourselves.
Day 16: Piano
Same here...the client code probably has a dependency on GA loading.
Fields Medal winner.
Still even more impressive is AWS keeps dropping prices year after year and has impressive revenue growth.
Comcast walks away from $45.2B deal for Time Warner Cable
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Do you think they deserve equal intellectual footing?
I fear they are fighting a uphill battle, as even Canonical has bowed to the RH backed project.
Wouldn't it make sense to keep the same hardware for all of one series of tests except the SSD?
I can confirm. I tried it on Firefox with uBlock and I see this: https://i.imgur.com/5XRKz8d.png

Apparently no issue with Chrome + ABP though.
That would be an interesting headache. I would hope there are some sort of back end checks in place for this type of modification
kzhahou
Any thoughts of flocker using hdfs?
Pavel, you are correct. We are troubleshooting a more graceful failover.
> faster only on the regex benchmark

fwiw Also binary-trees, pidigits, n-body.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...
Want to Market a Ground-Breaking Flight Search Tool? Post-Beta, Mysterious Stage
Just curious... would your market making strategy be susceptible to the spoofing strategy that allegedly caused the 2010 flash crash.
The two that jump to my mind right now:

SENS: I know this sounds egocentric, but de Grey believes that even if not dying is not achieved, every dollar spent on these research will make people less sick, and that this is not "just for the rich" countries with government provided healthcare will (alredy are?) be pushing and paying for this because people not being sick will make the healthcare system save a lot of money:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SENS_Research_Foundation

Promotheus Research: They are fairly small, and write tools to help researchers digging into data:

http://www.prometheusresearch.com/
I think it goes like this: If you gave someone your PIN you broke contract with the bank, but you also authorised the transaction. Similarly if you did the transaction you can't argue that you didn't authorise it - mistakes happen, but the bank isn't usually liable for your mistakes.
Right now the coverage footprint is NPA-NXX-XXXX. This includes US, Canada, Caribbean and parts of Central America (excluding Mexico). We anticipate international coverage by the end of the year.
The Cable Era Is Over
It's my understanding that it is Apple that attempts to preserve the design of the typeface, not Microsoft:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html
These guys have been around since 2005, if I'm not mistaken. So I dunno if I'd call them new.
Missing Nix/NixOS/NixOps :( Which is build, continuous integration, deploy, configuration management and provisioning. Everything with a single language.
Comcast/Time Warner Merger Dead – Comcast walked away but killed by government
Come on, you can hardly fault an automated language tool for not translating something idiomatically. Try your comment, and see how it does.