skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the thing about traditional journalists and their organizations: they have to maintain a relationship with these people.

If they ask hard questions that might make the candidates look bad they don't get invited back or pay other access penalties.

Random people don't suffer from this problem. But they also don't generally have the inside knowledge to ask the real questions. Solution: anonymize the professional journalists and their organizations. No one to blame, no one to retaliate against.
Considering how butt-hurt these PU guys are over Scala, it seems to be unlikely.
I would but I've never been able to get them to work properly. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

On the second point, there was 'recent' news about Nintendo bringing games to iOS, etc.

http://9to5mac.com/2015/03/19/nintendo-games-iphone-ipad/
One might almost imagine Kung Fury was heavily inspired by Danger 5. At around 7:30 in the YouTube video, they add Hitler. And then he shoots the phone; a trope memorably used in Danger 5. Also, the cop with the triceratops head - people with dinosaur and animal heads are another major trope of Danger 5.

I'm still appreciating Kung Fury, though. Just an observation.
"Realty has a known liberal basis".

All joking aside, I don't think conservative candidates would get a fair shake, but only because their ideas are so far divorced from what younger Americans think of as values.

Younger Americans ("Millennials") who have been through the crucible of the latest economic recession are going to be proponents of a strong social safety net, while older voters who lived through the most prosperous of American times will simply say "Bootstraps!" (even though those very same 65+ voters are the ones who will extract more from social security than they've contributed, owning to longer life expectancies and the current biomedical revolution).

Younger Americans are more likely to vote in favor of policies supporting same sex marriage and the legalization of Marijuana (neither which infringe on the rights of others, may I add). I know older Americans who are still opposed to interracial marriage.

I don't have time at the moment to continue with examples, but as I mentioned above, I think conservative candidates would get skewered in a forum where you can't outright lie, as you'll be fact checked immediately through publicly available data sources.

"Gallup: Americans Continue to Shift Left on Key Moral Issues"
http://www.gallup.com/poll/183413/americans-continue-shift-l...

"Americans are more likely now than in the early 2000s to find a variety of behaviors morally acceptable, including gay and lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage and sex between an unmarried man and woman. Moral acceptability of many of these issues is now at a record-high level."

"Moral acceptance of divorce and stem cell research has also jumped by 12 points, reaching 71 percent and 64 percent respectively. By slightly lesser margins, Americans have also grown more accepting of issues such as polygamy and cloning humans. Still, these issues are seen as morally acceptable by less than one-sixth of the population."

"Americans are becoming more liberal on social issues, as evidenced not only by the uptick in the percentage describing themselves as socially liberal, but also by their increasing willingness to say that a number of previously frowned-upon behaviors are morally acceptable. The biggest leftward shift over the past 14 years has been in attitudes toward gay and lesbian relations, from only a minority of Americans finding it morally acceptable to a clear majority finding it acceptable."
Something similar is available in F# using FSharp.Data.SqlClient[0].

[0] http://fsprojects.github.io/FSharp.Data.SqlClient/
2 questions:

What is Slack?

What is Meteor?
It's not uncommon, but it's uncommon around here.
Every citizen of every nation of the earth is entitled to having crapware bundled with their software installers.
The world isn't fair
'Selling' and 'Commerical use' are not equivalent. For example, using CAD software to design a product that you subsequently sell would be 'commerical use' of the software, and would be encompassed by the 'any purpose' clause.
I believe it peaked in the 80s and is going down since. I just watched the magnificent "Slugs" (80s gore). I didn't expect so much nudity.
You're aiming to high when you reference The Naked gun, Beverly Hills Cop and Bill & Ted. This film references the lower budget fare more than the popular big budget films. Don't think of the films you'd see of the cineplex in the 80s, think of the films you'd either see late night on one of the local UHF TV stations or on VHS, often starring Chuck Norris or some no-name mediocre white martial artist. Also emphasis on Action, not the Comedy (or think of Kung Fury as a comedic take on 80s low budget action films).

I was a backer, but also grew up in the late 70s/80s and this film skewers my childhood movie memories to near perfection.
were you a late 70s or early 80s kid? I feel like a younger generation wouldn't understand this too much.
It links to official installers which are sometimes on SourceForge, but uses installer switches to set options to deselect crapware, do silent install, etc.
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I also wanted to come in here and promote matrix. You can use it internally, or you can federate it. It takes a lot of concepts from XMPP, and is essentially json over http with an "eventually consistent" synchronization between clients and servers.
Yes, as long as they are GPL-compatible. So 3-clause BSD, MIT, etc are all fine.
That is clearly C with macros.
Slack is a software-as-a-service chat application:

https://slack.com

Meteor is a javascript app building platform:

https://www.meteor.com
In addition to giving Google even more access to data, I wonder what the antitrust implications could be.

Will 3rd parties also be able to user the same hooks that given them access to every other app's text? Wouldn't that turn into a nasty free-for-all where every app tries to steal as much data as possible, now that they can bypass the few restrictions Android imposes?

If access is limited to Google - that is, that this is some "OS feature" instead an app that uses features available to any developer, isn't this effectively the same issue as United States v. Microsoft Corp.?
Not in this area. $15/hr means that at paying a third of your gross (not net) pay in rent, you'll not afford anything anywhere near the facebook campuses, and will barely afford anything at all in the bay area. [1] The real estate market in this area is amazingly dysfunctional; the working class cannot live here.

[1] http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa?maxAsk=833&bedrooms=1
Also, when the dinosaur is fighting the Nazi robot, the Swastika flips sides.

Boy, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
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> But Cuba was never under an embargo because of Mandela

Cuban support to the ANC and its armed wing, which the US considered a terrorist organization while it was actively backing the apartheid regime as a bulwark against Communism in southern Africa, was among very many instances of Cuban support for "terrorist" groups cited by US governments as evidence of Cuba's role as a sponsor of international terrorism in the 1980s.

Of course, the embargo and the sanctions related to inclusion on the State Sponsor of Terrorism list are also two entirely separate things.
> up-to-date docs

Which parts are out-of-date?

> and bundled ORM

Didn't they just go the other way, de-bundling all persistence APIs/libs?

What's wrong with just picking the one that's right for your use-case and using just that?
It just takes one user to ask a good question.

Besides, Reddit is just one echo chamber of many. And there are plenty of smaller echo chambers within reddit which boasts some pretty large conservative communities of different stripes -- especially Libertarian and AnCaps.
It's worth nitpicking about, for several reasons.

It would be a shame if a young entrepreneur thought their trademark was protected by the Berne convention and someone came and took it. It would be a shame if the Mickey Mouse lobby went completely unopposed because people can't think critically about what they don't know. It would be a shame if a large corporation could grab the trademark of a small free software charity because people don't think it's "a big deal".
Cookieclicker
I'm not sure about that. If your car had uncontrolled acceleration, for instance, would you consider use a crowd of people to slow you down or would you put it in the ditch? For the sake of argument that amounts to a left or right turn.
You can down vote? I don't see any down vote button on HN. Do you need a certain number of reps for it to work?
When everyone can be on the list, it becomes a lie to single out one party. It's like in the Soviet republics where 100% of the population was breaking laws all the time just to live. Police could then just go and arrest anyone arbitrarily, with 100% confidence they would make something stick.

Same here. There are lots of terrorist supporting states. The ones one the list are the ones that are US enemies. Cuba's place on the list is "political^" in that sense. Yes, they sponsored terrorism. Yes, that provides justification for inclusion according to the rules of the list. But no, sponsoring terrorism is not why they were included on the list. They were included for being enemies of the US and its allies.

^I wouldn't even call it political, unless you'd also call an invasion or declaration of war political in the same circumstances.
OSS isn't for just the contributors.
Ask HN: Python Enthusiast – How to get my foot through the door?
I am a Python enthusiast, picked up the language a year and a half ago by self tutoring and also took the Udacity Introduction to Data Science course with a keystone Project.I also picked up learning the Flask Web framework, in order to deliver web applications using Python.
I am really struggling with getting my foot through the door, as there is the typical catch 22 scenario, "We can't take you on board as you do not have Production centric experience" Well i need to work on a real project, in order to gain Production experience. I'm even willing to work Pro bono, in order to gain experience under my belt. Are there any suggestions as to how to break through? anybody out there with a project needing help?
Ford pretends to open up patents like Tesla
In Q1 2014 they they were absolutely horrific and we had one of the worst plunges ever if you look at the graph. It's not really a fair comparison.
Working with Sass, Bootstrap and Gulp
>Depends on what you mean by productivity. Taken as a whole, people are working less and less.

Productivity is well-defined: output per unit of input. Labor is only one input, but since it's the most common, productivity-per-hour is one of the most measured forms of productivity.

If we assume that wages and productivity are correlated, then while reducing wage floors sounds like a good idea, what actually happens is that we're encouraging employers to use low-skill, low-output-per-hour labor in place of machines that have a higher output-per-hour but a higher up-front cost and no ability to externalize maintenance expenses (ie: between the cost of keeping a machine repaired or a worker fed and housed, we currently allow employers to externalize the latter but not the former).

This is why low wages are a bad idea: they reduce the total output of the economy, but make up the loss by externalizing it onto workers (who then have to take Food Stamps to stay alive because their job isn't productive enough to provide them a living). It means we end up using losses to the total economy to subsidize exploitative and unpleasant working conditions, throwing good money after bad.
I wonder if there are very different notions of fluency at work in different contexts. For example, I can speak extemporaneously about many topics in Portuguese and only somewhat infrequently pause to think about or ask for vocabulary. But I need others speaking with me to be cooperative, speaking clearly and without slang (in which case I generally understand easily). I usually don't understand informal conversations between native speakers. This could be viewed as obviously fluency by some people, yet obviously not fluency by others.
That also happened in transportation: Ferrari set the expectations so high that nobody rides bikes anymore.
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I wonder, does it handle responsive UIs?
Your comment was initially amusing, but then I did the math and realized how little $15/hour actually is. If someone were able to work the equivalent of full-time, they'd make what? 15 * 40 * 52 = 31,200? Where could you live anywhere near a Facebook office on that? Seattle? Definitely nowhere convenient to their bay area HQ.
Nope, you are including the IP header. The UDP head has: port.
3 major reasons:

1 - After a certain point in time (based on # of shareholders) it becomes more onerous to be private, and you wind up with all the reporting responsibilities of being public.

2 - It's easier for a public company to engage on both sides of M&A. There's less quibbling about theoretical valuations since the company has a price. (When one private firm buys another with stock, there's 2 theoretical prices that need to be negotiated)

3 - For enterprise deals (not Snapchat) some customers prefer the stability of public ownership.
This is hilarious. Definitely can see what they are talking about. Did they control for how much people like chocolate and sweets?
Lateral flows of data within a network, as opposed to traffic that goes through a gateway.
And how does it compare to DropWizard? I'm porting a plugin from Atlassian Confluence to make it a standalone app, and I'm leaning for DropWizard because I can reuse and share the common code made of Jersey REST resouces and synchronous calls.

Both Play and DropWizard seem to have the same goal, Play being more integrated and scalable, DropWizard more respectful of existing Java frameworks.
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They're working on Professional, Business and Enterprise plans that offer some more advanced enterprisey features and support: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ferventcoder/chocolatey...

Pretty similar to npm.
#1 - Yes. My major complaint: I have a non technical manager who sets unreasonable timelines.

#2 - I think so, wish me luck... :)
Wow, this is impressive! However I'm still eager to see the matchup against the MIT Antelope.
The cost is in potentially scaring other people away because you annoy them too much. I think the potential there is fairly high.
Can't good survey question design, mitigate this? Haven't psychologists and researchers been doing this for decades and solved the problem of asking verb questions properly?

Because at the end of the day you have to ask what people want, right?
Calling something terrorism never implied favorably that the interest was legitimate, so it isn't a corruption to apply it to hated groups like ISIS, it's just a description. The phrase "freedom fighter" has never been usable in an objective way.
My father speaks 7ish languages, and if you talk to him about it he says there are some problems. It definitely takes some time for him to get into the "mindset" of a language. He also says that vocabulary is the hardest part: he says that if he forgets the word for a thing in the language he's trying to speak, he'll find the word in one of his languages, so sometimes he embarrasses himself that way.

That said, it's certainly amazing what he can do. He taught himself Italian over the course of about a month, simply to read a single dissertation written in Italian. He spoke French already, and he asked me a few questions because I'm fluent in Spanish, because when he didn't find a word in his Italian/English dictionary he wanted to make a guess based on other romance languages. I think ultimately he wouldn't even consider himself at all competent in Italian, even though he was able to read doctorate-level writing for a few weeks.
Pretty sure that the baby carriage is a reference to Battleship Potemkin [1].

[1] https://www.google.ch/search?q=battleship+potemkin&espv=2&bi...
In many ways, it's a "perfect" game. Smooth scrolling, no frame rate issues, cool art style, amazing music, excellent control. No tutorial levels, no shitty movies, no hand-holding. Just - go. It blew my mind in so many ways. Way ahead of its time.

The first game on the PC that came close to matching that experience was Commander Keen, which was, what, 1991? 6 years later...
$15/hr is a $30k a year FT job. Sure it's not going to make anybody wealthy. But I don't think there are many people making $120k a year commuting on the back of a pickup.

I don't think the GP is saying folks are working 4 full time (40 hours per week) jobs to get up to 120k per year. I'm pretty sure 8 hours of sleep a week isn't feasible.
FCC’s Internet-for-the-poor plan sets up fight with Republicans
The notion that a file can be illegal makes as much sense to the internet as a plant being illegal makes to the earth.

Especially when it has the side effect of inhibiting what otherwise might be a compelling solution.
The article is a very interesting popular account of the Fermat-Wiles Theorem and the discovery of the flaw in Wiles's first attempted proof of the theorem. I was glad to see that the article makes the timeline of Fermat's writings on the topic sufficiently clear to support the historical statement that Fermat himself surely didn't have a proof for the full theorem: "Fermat himself had given a proof for n = 4." (Writing marginal notes in the book about number theory he was reading was something that Fermat did early in his amateur study of mathematics, while doing his professional work as a lawyer. Fermat later "published" many proofs in the manner of his era by writing letters to other scholars. Fermat's son published the marginal notations in an edition of the book Arithmetica published only after Fermat's death. If Fermat actually had a proof for the theorem known as his last theorem, he had plenty of opportunity in his lifetime to find other pieces of paper on which to write it down.) I recall that the current textbook Mathematics and Its History by John Stillwell[1] reviews the history of this topic pretty well.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Its-History-Undergraduate-...
Seems like nobody respect their users today ...
> "But they also don't generally have the inside knowledge to ask the real questions."

What do you mean by this? That Reddit can't do what Woodward and Bernstein did?
Chasing the next billion with Sundar Pichai
It's a little new-speakish, but it basically means traffic flowing between servers in the same hosting tier.
With SaaS you will be able to reproduce your customer issues much more easily. Also, by reducing purchasing options you avoid the effect of paralysis by options.
I used Ninite for years and recommend it to non-techy friends. As a dev, I prefer Chocolatey since it offers a lot more dev-focused packages, meta-packages, can be scripted, works with BoxStarter, etc.
> There are philosophical reasons, too: GitHub is closed source, so we can’t make it better ourselves.

There is GitLab.
Applied DevOps and the potential of Docker
There aren't any inherent protections to storing illegal data in the Bitcoin blockchain, either (short of evading the issue by using a thin client, I suppose). The nature of what is illegal being so encompassing, in that you can ultimately encode the information into some integer of sorts either way, means it's impractical or unnecessary to provide full protection for such things.
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Intel close to deal to buy Altera for $16B: sources
Ali withdraws, Blatter wins
The private valuations are not really comparable to the public market caps, given the conditions these private investors get.

Maybe I'm being cynical, but given the exuberance of public tech stocks, and the bubbliness of the tech market in general, some may be impatient to cash out.

Also see: "greater fool theory"
I put together ToBuildSomething because I realized that when I was taking a break from my main gig to work on something fun, I wanted to take that opportunity to collaborate with new people. I've also always enjoyed helping out my students when they have coding questions, so I figured this would be a way to do that for a larger audience and that others would have the same wants.

I'm rolling this out slowly to avoid it becoming a community overrun by recruiters or people looking for co-founders (nothing wrong with that, but not what this is), but if anyone on HN wants to jump to the front of the line, just use the beta code HACKERNEWS.
> they'd take my work under my name and bundle their crap into it.

Oh, is that a thing? I was surprised when the Lobo project's admin rights were handed over to some relatively unknown developer. I had a long and confusing discussion with the new project admin here: https://github.com/UprootLabs/gngr/issues/87#issuecomment-86...
Babel comes with Core.js [1] built in, which is (I believe) a better and more exhaustive shim library than es6-shim and the others.

[1] https://github.com/zloirock/core-js
Doobie is quite new, though it was available before Slick 3. If you're still in the market for a database access library I would definitely check it out. It's very simple but powerful.

The evolution of database access is interesting, from raw SQL, to ORMs, to tuple oriented abstractions over SQL (Slick, Squeryl in Scala), and now Doobie and Slick return to allowing raw SQL (with machinery in place to make it safer).
"The Moncada Barracks"? Seriously? Back then (1953), US government support to the dictatorship in Cuba was quite evident, but I don't think they would dub "terrorists" those attempting to overthrow it.
Next up: Throwing wrenches at the robot to see if it can play dodge ball.
That's an interesting idea. How would you get a candidate to agree to an anonymous interview though?

EDIT: One way to take the pressure off is to tell the candidate, your interviewer will be one of these people but we won't tell you which one. However, I think they truly value the ability to retaliate so that is probably not enough.

EDIT 2: Also, anonymizing journalists deprives them of the credit they'd get from a tough interview. While I imagine many would participate out of civic duty, they'd really like to be able to get (timely) credit without being retaliated against.
I hadn't thought to pull that, thank you. The median income is around $79,894.
I do have to ask: who says there's no political will? Japan is unusual in having an extremely stagnant, consensus-based, establishment politics. In the Western world, labor movements against the current establishment have been gaining steam and local victories like they haven't done in decades.

If political will stands in the way of getting out of the stagnation, it will be moved or removed.