skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another reason not to applaud: the U.S. and UK governments have been furiously manipulating interest rates themselves since 2008, through the big bond purchases that drive short-term rates near zero. These policies didn't help the economy as much as hoped. They also destroyed small savers' ability to earn interest. But the politicians pressed on anyway.

What if the government fined itself $25 billion and distributed the money to the public? I'd like that settlement more. By contrast, this Libor settlement actually taxes the public -- because the ultimate owners of bank shares are our very own pension funds or 401ks -- and then gives the $$ to the government. Meanwhile, the rogue traders get no punishment whatsoever.

I can't find anything in this deal to like.
Language can be abandoned, but it's pointless argument, sorry. When language is abandoned, there's no reasons to argue about any aspect of that language.

In second part of your comment you comparing stdlib and external libs as they are equally reliable, but my point is exactly about difference in this aspect. I agree stdlib shouldn't be swiss knife, but I disagree it shouldn't have nothing except minimal set to serve language constructions. Go was designed as C++ also, not only for networking. And it has image module, not only http (for example). I see how fast and successfully Go evolving, I think Rust is better and that's why I think it's the area where Rust can take better idea from Go.
Somebody please name names here. While the crimes did occur at Deutsche Bank, it was actual human beings that were the bad actors.

Who fixed the rates? And why aren't they going to jail?
Look for any story where someone said they had their app taken down because they had copyrighted material in the promo pictures or used a trademarked name in the title or copy.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
The First Pair of Complete Woolly Mammoth Genomes Is a Big Boost for Cloners
> I don't trust them any further than I trust car salesmen.

Sure, they have the same incentives working against you. They both work on commission based on the amount you pay.

> I don't see any reason to use a realtor.

You're not doing it right.

First, don't work with agents ... work directly with a broker. Second, work with someone local, who knows the market really well. You look for houses and tell him what you want to see. He gets you in quickly and makes suggestions. He presents options and negotiates everything. Get your own inspector. Make sure he's detail oriented. Now give the inspection report to your broker and make him work for his commission. Beat down the price with the report. It's his job to make sure you get a better deal. Make sure he does his job.

On the seller side, their sole purpose should be to get you listed on the MLS site. The house will sell itself. You can negotiate a discount rate if the only thing they do is list your property and coordinate showing requests with you.
Not quite. I did consider Servo, but it's hardly ready for use in the wild. It'd fall foul of many iOS guidelines, not just the 'no browser' one.
It'd also fall foul of the 'only C, C++, Objective-C, Swift' guideline, for example.

I didn't know the second point, but it's clearly there for the same reason; it's an easy way to stop apps from including new functionality and bypassing the review process.
> If your my kids teenage friend or the mayor of our city you have to play with my rules :)

Do you require Apple devices to be deposited in the letterbox, as in Better Call Saul?

How deep does this go? Do you avoid software which might have been compiled with clang, for instance?
If you have a running shell, you will have at least the shell builtins, which include things that will let you list files (echo *) and write out data; you could, in theory, use echo or printf to generate a simple netcat binary, and then use that to restore /bin.

Probably easier to just boot from a USB stick and restore though.

[edit] And of course many systems have useful binaries in /usr/bin due to old hard drives being small.
Yeah, I think that sadly, there is going to be a little bit of an inevitable equivalent to the unix wars of the early 80s. The sooner we can reach a standard place, the better it's going to be for the container community and developers more generally.

One of the reasons that I pushed hard to get Kubernetes open sourced, is the hope that we could get out in front of this, and allow the developer community to rally around Kubernetes as an open standard, independent of any provider or corporate agenda.
NASA forms unprecedented coalition to search for alien life on exoplanets
Leaving The New York Times
That's not accurate. Apple themselves have already lost a suit about anti-competitive behavior in a market in which they do not have a monopoly. [1]

I don't know about you, but I've bought hundreds of ebooks from the largest ebook retailer on Earth - and it's not Apple.

There is way more nuance to it all than "do they have a monopoly or not" and there are a range of anti-competitive practices. There are also different laws in different jurisdictions of the US and abroad. The EU has a much stricter definition.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#eBook_pr...
There are some interesting ideas buried in his writing (panopticon) but Foucault's ideas aren't consistent and it isn't even clear that he takes them seriously himself. Discipline & Punish is also pretty elevated nonsense.

The book makes sense as a history of penal reform, and Foucault is right to point out that changes often served to better punish prisoners rather than reform them as the rhetoric of the day demanded. But pointing out public hypocrisy is hardly a sophisticated observation for a historian to make. And it is a weak base from which to launch the sweeping attack Foucault attempts on the idea that morality matters, or to insist that man's "soul" is nothing more than his position in power networks or that "power" itself is "knowledge" (not vice versa).

In order to support these points, Foucault is dishonest on so many basic historical points that it calls the honesty of his actual historical research into question. I have a ton of underlined passages in my copy of D&P which I made with increasing frequency as his claims started to contradict each other. In the interest of just picking one, look at Foucault's insistence that democratization had absolutely nothing to do with efforts to remove the death penalty. Really? And Foucault "proves" his opinion not by citing a single document but rather by simply stating his opinion that "executions did not, in fact, frighten the people."

Well which is it? Are we truly to believe that the horrific demonstrations of torture which Foucault spends entire chapters chronicling (salaciously, like pornography) did not frighten anyone? Why if so does he describe them in such detailed fashion? And doesn't his own claim about the ineffectiveness of the punishment now contradict his earlier statements about the nature of knowledge, to say nothing of his earlier chapters which actually documented how people were, in practice, quite terrorized.

A lot of the dishonesty slides by in the sheer minutiae of death. And it all gives the impression that Foucault must be right, if only because he is able to a picture of humanity that would repulse most honest people and do so unflinchingly (the virtue of facing unpleasant truths!). But at a certain point, the discerning reader recognizes his sophistry for what it is and stops trying to make sense of it all. I'd encourage anyone on HN to go directly to Plato if they want real philosophy, or at least jump back to Nietzsche (Schopenhauer as Educator) if they want an entertaining and tongue-in-cheek iconoclast whose ideas merit real thought.
That's not quite right. NULL pointer dereference can be exploited:

https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/much_ado_about_null_e...

http://tk-blog.blogspot.com/2009/01/exploitable-userland-nul...
"Grandmother

Mature. Experienced. Tested.

Buying grandmothers just got a whole lot better..."

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/?s=113068361511
> Why should I study critical theory in general, or Focault in particular?

You should study Foucault to better see the prisons you live in. Foucault is postmodernist critical theory. Plain old Critical Theory you should study to understand how people today are subtly manipulated (the Hegelian dialectic is a good start). This is the tool that is systematically applied by our overlords to steer public perception.
Pre installing a browser is not an anti competitive practice.
Company Ethos: Planned or Historical Revisionism?
Even if you were correct, would that mean that we should leave it at that? Society often seems to implicitly assume that it's right that geniuses are outsiders. People are probably used to this, as it is often depicted that way in literature etc. [1]. In fact, some appear to believe that the suffering might even help geniuses to focus on their work and to think outside the box. I suspect that this is a package deal fallacy [2], since there are also plenty of examples of people who didn't walk through hell to make great intellectual achievements.

[1] http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IntelligenceEqual...

[2] http://lesswrong.com/lw/hu/the_third_alternative/
Poverty Shrinks Brains from Birth
very nice, congrats to the creator
"Tiffzhang -- taking BeepBoopStartup[0] to the next level."

[0] https://twitter.com/beepboopstartup
Aha my private motive in recommending D&P is uncovered. I don't think it is possible to find a more memorable and convincing display of the radical shift in the conception of sovereignty than in the comparison of those two passages.
The Sexists at the Top of Wikipedia
Google's $30 Unlimited Cell Service
This captures exactly the reason I am thinking about leaving academia. I got into research because I like doing research, but you can't have a career in research anymore. After completing a PhD, the only way to have a career is to spend all your time writing grant proposals, attending workshops, organizing meetings, cultivating useless collaborations, and promoting yourself. There is no time left for research, and teaching becomes a burden to avoid at all cost. You have to get PhD students and postdocs to do all the work, and take as much credit for their ideas and efforts as you can. Academia has become a dead-end job for people who want to do research.
Title is completely misleading, as it makes it sound like they're searching inside the binary's symbols for Pebble's SDK. They're not doing that.

You simply cannot use Apple's platform to advertise alternate products. Just like you can't mention Android or Chromecast in your App Store copy. Put it in the app or on your website.
Hah! I was thinking the same thing. Being based in the US, I was very confused by what the headline meant. Even in the article, they never explain what a "boot" is.

Appears to be the trunk?
Yes but those are just about the only things which you can't get away with. The US has very weak consumer protection laws in general.
Now Google Chrome Browser Does MIDI
Best part about Girl is the team behind it.... no girls!
I ended up extending DJRF to do nested collections, but I'd argue your REST topology would be better with one canonical resource and unique team IDs:

/teams/<id>/

It's fine to be able to add a user to a team by posting to a subcollection though, but there should only be one URL for the resource (IMHO).
I think contemporary parlance pretty much has TLS and SSL as synonyms, as they are effectively two means to achieving the same ends.
I interpret the flag to mean "spam" or "offensive", not "This story doesn't interest me". That's why you are getting down votes. If you don't like the story, don't up vote it.

Flagging things that are not spam or offensive either wastes mods time or raises the bar on what it takes to flag actually offensive things off the site.
This is pure satirical genius. My faith in tech as a higher art form has been reinforced.
I'd guess all of them are VPS instances. When you order a VPS, most hosts will run a full OS update before delivering it to you. (this is a feature of cloud-init, which is fairly standard) So, if you ordered all Debian instances at the same time, they'd all have the same SSH version string even if you didn't do anything special.
Yeah. According to this Django is for enterprisy play-it-safe noobs.

Hmmmmm.
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Indeed it doesn't. So why are they returning status code 200?

> not a failure on their part, it's a failure of assumptions you or some software you utilize

No, it is a failure on their part. They're returning the wrong status code. The software I utilize checks that, they got it wrong. Return 404 instead.
Ten years ago today, the first video was uploaded to YouTube
R&D, PR, and not paying taxes. The weird ideas don't really have to work out for Amazon at least for now. There is also internal knowledge and data being cultivated related to these 'flops.' As someone suggested (can't recall who), sometimes a company like Apple starts developing something internally so when they do an acquisition they have a pretty good idea on the model and have an existing team to integrate with. Unlike Apple, Amazon is choosing to put these stories in the news.
F# is still less verbose and does far better type inference. I wrote teh same program in C# and F# (a few hundred lines of C#) and it F# had only 1/20th of the number of type annotations required.

Also C#'s statement-oriented nature just makes things ugly. Stuff like:

Bar x;
if (...) {
var a = frob();
x = Foo + a
} else {
x = Baz
}

That's much nicer as a sub-block expression. It also allows you to scope things better. F# allows you to shadow variables, which comes in handy a: to avoid using an "old" variable, b: with nested lambdas.

F#'s Active Patterns are pretty damn nifty. F#'s also has deeper support for immutability. Even simple stuff like optional parameters C# gets wrong.

Overall, it's like using vim. There's some big things (like macros) that really help, but a ton of small things really do add up. I find it enjoyable to write in F#, I can be concise and write what I'm thinking. In C# I've got all this extra boilerplate that doesn't benefit me.

There's no doubt that C# can try to close the gap and certainly provide huge improvements from where they are today. But their overall approach seems to get the biggest "bang for buck" while confusing as few of their users as possible. And elegance/consistency be damned[1]. It's not a bad choice for certain projects (I dunno, maybe writing an ERP where you're adding all sorts of boring rules and need to be able to throw interns and get a known-quantity of quality) but it's hardly terrific if you've got control over your developers.

1: Look at C#'s duck typing, or type inference, or lambda expression support - they were forced in for the LINQ use case and nothing more.
The parent commenter was probably commenting on the attitudes that warranted that disclaimer (in both the video and the article).
Or interesting for people who need more than 100 minutes for voice calls (that $30 plan is only 100 minutes voice), who want whatever benefit there is for additional Sprint coverage, or Wi-fi Calling usage with a Nexus 6.
How to Get Mixpanel Right the First Time
I get the feeling that commenters aren't reading the linked article at all, just latching onto the mention of PASCAL in the title.

This article is almost the opposite of Brian Kernighan's "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Language". Kernighan criticized Pascal, essentially, for not being as advanced as C.

In contrast, the linked article is written from perspective of old-time FORTRAN programmer and essentially criticizes PASCAL for being too advanced, "structured programming" and all that stupid, frilly, "advanced", academic, "computer science" stuff. "We get stuff done the old-school way; we don't need no new-fangled language!"

The linked article could be rewritten with some appropriate changes and titled "Real Programmers Don't Use Haskell (or Rust, or . . .)" and written from the perspective of a C/C++/Java or Go(!) programmer.
Branding and recognition. Microsoft wants to be able to say C# is the top 5 most used programming language. Not that they have 10 different languages in the top 100 used ones. C# is the flag ship and there shouldn't be any question whatsoever which language you should use if you run the MS stack (unless you have very strong desires for something special, like F#). Splitting the language into a new one would just segregate the community and you risk ending up with the python 2vs3 mess.

Also consider working in enterprise and asking your manager if it's ok to "change language" from C# to MSNEW#, vs doing a "minor update" from c# 6.0 to 7.0.
Even if MSNEW# was backwards compatible and C# 7.0 wasn't, i imagine the answer on the second question to much more likely get an ok.
That's a pretty silly complaint for Americans to make, considering I still cannot get a 4G signal in the suburban or rural Northeast, and can only get one some of the time in the heart of major cities like New York or Boston!
My Thoughts on the Internet of Things
Yeah, I said that mainly for my somewhat niche case of having a team that works together on stuff in the US but needs to on occasion share files to partners in China or team members who need to access files while in China. Agreed that it isn't the most convenient but once you set it up it just takes care of itself for the most part. Dropbox is just syncing files so there isn't much that can break.
Apple devices also record your location history and send it to Apple. It's to build a wifi location database.
This is really great!

Refusey
DO YOU REFUSE?
We're refusing to drive things that matter.

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=61244441196
As a current CS PhD, I feel there are elements of truth in the letter, on the whole, it's a bit too dismissive of the value of academia.

Yes, a lot of research in academia ends up going nowhere, but that's not always obvious beforehand. Research is an inherently chancy endeavour with a low chance of success. But academia is still a source of important research. To name just two examples, much of the major deep learning research which everyone is jumping on these days was kept alive and done at universities. The CRISPR/Cas9 breakthrough in biology was done at universities.

It is true that there is a huge pressure to publish which leads to a lot of crap being published but that doesn't mean the academia is not valuable and it seems like a hard problem to figure out the right incentives (which we should of course work on). Maybe something that gives a weighted rank of the papers would be better able to put value on the research you've done and make purely the # of papers less of a unit of currency in the academia. Citations do that to some extent but they're still not a great solution.

Egos are a huge problem, but that's true in every sphere. Academics are humans too...
Let's pray pilots flying air crafts are not relying on an iPad as their only navigation instrument.
> "The final cut of "Cog" consists of two continuous sixty-second dolly shots taken from a technocrane, stitched together later in post-production [...] needed only limited post-production work, as the decision had been made early on to eschew computer-generated imagery wherever possible. [...] Several sections also required minor video editing, such as re-centering the frame to stay closer to the action, removal of wires, highlighting a spray of water, and adjusting the pace for dramatic purposes"

I have also seen the 'making of...' short film about 'Cog' and that, too, confirms that CG was not used to create the machine. All the interactions between the car parts are genuine physical interactions.

I believe you're correct about post-production, though. It seems from the references in the Wiki article that the usual editing and manipulation took place, but none of that added any fake car parts or fake interactions.
This is the first version of Ubuntu to ship with [GrooveBasin](https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin), a music player server I've been working on for 4.5 years.
Ahh! Yes, that's a perfect match for the given context. Thanks!

I question the assertion "Django is older and larger, but Flask has a more active community according to GitHub." Surely the number of stars and watchers don't mean that those people are active in the project. According to the github pulse reports for the last month:

> Flask (March 23, 2015 – April 23, 2015): Excluding merges, 19 authors have pushed 23 commits to master and 69 commits to all branches. On master, 16 files have changed and there have been 340 additions and 43 deletions.

> Django (March 23, 2015 – April 23, 2015): Excluding merges, 124 authors have pushed 189 commits to master and 608 commits to all branches. On master, 2,395 files have changed and there have been 25,689 additions and 84,146 deletions.

By those numbers it seems that Django has a much more active community, in the sense of making code changes. There are other types of activity than code commits, like support, conferences, etc. I don't get the sense that Flask is more active there either.

Edit: If it is meant as an allusion to the Mac/Apple][ era at Apple then activity is a poor measure - there was much more activity and general interest in the Apple ][ during the Mac development.
OP this is actually very interesting and a potential money maker.

The designs it generates are quite distinct and pleasing. You can actually sell this as a template generator.
Neovim hits first goal in campaign for sustained funding
NASA Once Considered Insuring the International Space Station
Not according to the site's guidelines.
Very interesting. But...

> One knows this in relation to the family; and one knows that the university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.

Wasn't Foucault a professor? He just, essentially, refuted himself (because he's part of that teaching system, which appears to disseminate knowledge, and is really about maintaining a certain social class in power).
Woman's brain tumor is actually her twin, complete with bone, hair, and teeth
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