skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Going by this argument there's no point using Kickstarter because you could already fund projects without it. But what Kickstarter did was act as a hub for many different projects (EFF won't help much for anything pertaining to health care), a public tracker to monitor progress and outcome, a means of describing what the goals are and what different fund totals will help achieve, and a trusted method to transfer funds.

Within each Lobby Kickstarter you could outline which organizations would receive funds for specific goals, e.g. ACLU for particular civil liberties that are under attack, EFF to address dragnet surveillance etc. Yes you're adding a middleman but you have a one stop shop for initiatives that range far and wide. You could also keep score of which organizations have been successful so that you have an additional trust mechanism, much the way a company might keep track of its subcontractors when choosing who to use to get a job done.
The EFF even has an Amazon Smile account, so you can donate that way too.
If you're writing games, you aren't using those Java/Obj-C/Swift APIs; you're using the C API.

That's the use case they're targeting. They want Go to be a viable language for mobile games, not mobile apps.
Google does it with Inbox. They have Java business logic that they cross-compile to Javascript on the web, ObjC on iOS, and run as-is on Android. The respective UIs are done natively on the respective platforms. (Surprisingly, they do not use GWT for the web UI.)

I guess there is a lot of complex logic in there, the GWT chunk is a good megabyte or so, if I remember right. I think it's all syncing and conflict resolution stuff, but it's hard to tell for sure. (GWT code is optimized/compacted enough that I only have the string constants to go on.)
Also speaking as a sysadmin, I've found "every way" to be inaccurate. Initscripts have their limitations, but the most glaring issues with them (lots of boilerplate, hard to write, etc.) have been resolved in BSD Land for quite a while, thanks to things like rc.subr.

systemd does have some nice features that I've come to appreciate on my GNU/Linux boxen, but I'm still not exactly sold when my OpenBSD boxen have a mostly-sane rc system not subject to most of the problems the systemd crowd claims are inherent to initscript-based systems.
Ask HN: Would you want to know more about teenagers?
Hello HN,

My name is David, I'm turning 16 soon and wondering if product makers would like to know more about my age group. I'm wondering because I feel that little is known about us and making an effort to knowing more could be difficult. I'm considering putting a site up where makers could ask questions about my demographic to better tailor products to us. I'm not sure whether or not this would be a valuable product.

I sit at an interesting intersection. I live outside of the valley yet I know a lot (enough) about it. Obviously, I also know about being a teenager. With these qualities in mind, I feel I can answer any questions you would have if you wanted to build a product for younger users.

Any questions/comments/suggestions would be appreciated.
Good question. I don't know if we should, although I've heard similar things said about requests to non-FISA judges, as well. It makes sense to me that if investigators' careers involve learning to cross their t's and dot their i's before they go to a judge requesting an intercept, and they spend years doing it, they get good at it.

Separately from belief, which is somewhat subjective (i.e. it involves more inputs than is practical to list in a discussion), it's important to realize that on a logical level, there are at least two interpretations to a 99% acceptance rate: (1) the bar is really low and (2) there are pre-filters. The certainty with which I often hear (1) being declared or implied seems to miss this point.
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I like where your head is at but I'm not sure this is an ad hominem. My understanding is that an ad hominem is an attack on a persons character[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
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Hmm I'll take a look. Is there any particular animation choking? Or all of them? It runs like butter on my Macbook Air in Chrome.
It's possible to have significant amounts of business logic. Google is able to share 70% of it's code (written in Java) for the Google Inbox apps[0][1].

[0]: http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2014/11/going-under-hood-of-inb...

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/how-go...
Very interesting read, I wonder if Twitter does it in a similar way.

Anyone who knows where to learn more about the system design they use, with the pre-processor, parser, scorer, and ranker?

How do these interact? What's the respective input and output?

Links to some similar system with more in-depth on this area would be appreciated.
After some searching, this is the best support I could find:

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In early 2010, Ebert and Chaz announced on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” that they’d enlisted a Scottish company called CereProc to create a computerized voice that more closely resembled Ebert’s own by using snippets of his TV work, DVD commentaries and the like, but that never fully materialized. Alex stayed with him until the end.

--snip

Alex being the Apple TTS voice I mentioned earlier.

Source: http://voices.suntimes.com/arts-entertainment/the-daily-sizz...
Agreed. I'm all for cracking down on title bait, but this is just going too far. This submission had a clear, descriptive title, and now it completely lacks context.
Sad accident.
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The concept you're looking for is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy, a broader form of ad hominem.

Also, they didn't say it's bad because it's from reddit, the statement could be interpreted as saying that it's bad, and also that it's from reddit. Imagine http://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html applied to the genetic fallacy, and you'll see what I mean.
Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired EIGHT full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

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* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and year-round.

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (in-office go-karts!) in the center of the startup world in San Francisco. Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

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40,000-year-old jawbone reveals early modern humans interbred with Neandertals
> This is simply the case of getting used to something.

My point was that other languages provide more visual hooks. Lisp is just words and parens. Nothing sticks out. Everything is the same.

So, you can't learn this "visual vocabulary" because there simply isn't any. There is a thing at the beginning of each list and what follows are the parameters. That's it.

"(define x 5)", "(square x)", and "(+ x x)" are syntactically the same thing.

> Array programming may seem like an odd niche if the only thing one knows is web development

You make it sound like it's either web stuff or maths.

Array programming languages aren't used for scripting (e.g. games), are they?
That's not really homoiconicity though, is it?

Smalltalk source code does not appear to be expressed in terms of a Smalltalk data structure. Whereas Lisp source code is expressed as lists of lists.
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The actual article title is:

"Genetic analysis of 40,000-year-old jawbone reveals early modern humans interbred with Neandertals".

The fact that modern humans have some Neanderthal ancestry is a well-known fact these days, and does not capture what is really notable about this particular find. The title I used on the submission is:

"DNA from a 40,000 year old jawbone reveals very recent Neanderthal ancestry"

which I think accurately reflects the content of the article and communicates to the reader why this article might be worth reading.
Someone tried to steal the genderless no form factor options of everyone & more long ago. They may have succeeded, or they may have failed.

One of the two happened...

Which would mean, the public would be absolutely useless to them anyway.
Experiment on Combining OOP with Erlang's Actor Model (2014)
>why should someone be able to keep a parcel in his ownership for decades if he doesn't plan to use it?

He shouldn't. Next question?
How is this legal?

Edit: Beware: scrolling through that page adds items to your Navigator History. You may have to Go Back a large number of times to return to HN.

Edit2: Better question is, how is this enforceable?
I've been seeing a lot of articles about Erlang recently any reason?
Abstract class and method is now part of TypeScript
> some kind of legal version of MAME

> I came back six months later and it had been replaced

are you sure it was legal? Seems unlikely.
That is a spiffy facility, but it takes another kind of political fight to build bike lanes or dedicated bikeways in the city center where people actually want to go.
Right now, I'd like to see if there are any tweaks that can improve the quality (or even experiment with concatenate synthesis). Most likely, it will stay robotic. So an extension to do would be to research on singing synthesis (vocaloid kind).
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That's an incredibly weak justification, and it comes off as patronizing. You're telling me that they have to hide when they do trade deals, because people might object to the concessions?

So you're going to commit is to something we didn't agree to? That's exactly why we need transparency.

And who decides who gets to make these deals? "Oh let us decide for you." No, you'll make a decision I don't want.
> echo 'scale=500-1;10/(10^20-10^10-1)' | BC_LINE_LENGTH=12 bc

will give you the ten digit ones, with the last digit rounded up on the very end.

I havent quite got an exact formula for scale before the rounding is wrong, e.g. for 100 digits:

> echo 'scale=50000-2000-1;10/(10^200-10^100-1)' | BC_LINE_LENGTH=102 bc
In a few years when all the cars are computer controlled it should be possible to ride your bicycle like a total madman and not get hit. Even if the computers have to slow down to 10mph while bikes are near it won't be too annoying for passengers lost in VR. Dynamic bicycle only highways would be easy, but even better is not needing them. Going to be fun!
Does Netflix even have a physical presence in Chicago? How would the city be able to compel Netflix to pay otherwise? I'm thinking about how I paid no sales tax for Amazon purchases until Amazon opened a warehouse in my state.
Except that the only time that vendor pool would be used outside of tests is when folks build systemd from source on their own. Each GNU/Linux distro overrides those defaults when building/packaging systemd, so the vast majority of users would be entirely unaffected.

In other words, the people who would run into the error you propose are the same people who know fully well what systemd is and is not (and - I'd hope - would know how to read the rest of that hostname and surmise that the issue is with an NTP pool and not systemd itself).
This really has to stop , you are just wasting other candidates time , i know more of a dozen of people that did not get any response back not even automatic rejection , and also a lot of people here had the same problem , i find this as highly disrespectful for candidates , i hope this post stops posts like these.
You can actually do that with a lot of languages now. C# with xamarin, java/clojure with robovm, java with j2objc, etc.

I was tempted with robovm, but found the 30s minimum build & run cycle for trivial code changes too slow for me.

And the performance is pretty good for these guys, they're all as fast as objective-c:

https://medium.com/@harrycheung/mobile-app-performance-redux...

At my last job we did the C++ cross platform layer, and it was very painful. C++ is slow to compile and can create bloated binaries. There can be something said for the freedom of having separate platform teams with just a server api.
That's an error prone way of doing things. People will start putting yaml in their json. Better to just call it yaml then.
kolbe's likely referring to Prince Alwaleed's specious tactics, used to inflate his wealth[1]. His investment company, Kingdom Holding Company, has opaque assets with questionable MV. In '09, an auditor scratched its head at KHC's valuations.

The issue: nobody can trust Prince Alwaleed's claims about net worth.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2013/03/05/prince-al...
Democrats sure love their taxes. Meanwhile, there are dozens of shootings per week among the city's black community. Will any of that money to to solving that issue? Likely not. Meanwhile Houston is on track to become the U.S.'s third largest city, supplanting Chicago. I wonder why. Couldn't be taxes. Could it?
With Chicago's famous history as a bastion of innovation in corruption, this doesn't really surprise me at all. Those pockets need filling, people, and who better to squeeze for cash than those silly Internet businesses? They aren't even real!
Well, this is $25/month for 100GB of traffic. CloudFlare Pro is $20/month for unlimited traffic plus the security features.
I'm not necessarily worried about 'requiring systemd', I'm more worried about requiring systemd-component X where component X replaces an existing service I had installed, and is a broken reimplementation, leading to system doesn't boot, doesn't bring up network, doesn't respect my previous settings, shares my data with the world, is susceptible to security bugs that were fixed in mainstream implementations many years ago, etc.
You have a year's worth of code with you as well as another employee. It sounds like you're pretty valuable.
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That sounds awesome. Did he publish his journal online anywhere?
Thanks. The ad hominem is a counter-argument; you're discrediting an argument based on a person's character. So "jack is an idiot" is not an ad hominem; "that can't be true, because jack says it, and he's an idiot" is.

I thought the guy meant: "I don't like it because it's from reddit."

But ikeboy has it right: in this case, because reddit is not a person, it's a genetic fallacy, not an ad hominem. Which I didn't even know existed. And, of course, he didn't say that it was because of reddit, so it wasn't even that :)
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Your comment dredged up old memories about this flight sim pod place. My friend (well, his dad) took us there a few times for his birthday. It amounted to ten minutes or less inside the pod, with primitive graphics and kind of twitchy controls, but it was pretty cool as a kid. Looking back, it's probably the kind of activity you'd book for a teambuilding exercise; it likely cost big bucks.

This would've been mid to late 90s, somewhere in the Bay Area. I did a cursory google but didn't come up with anything.
If used widely, wouldn't this basically kill every software startup? A new startup with, say, 10,000 users can't possibly afford to file hundreds of pages of tax paperwork in each of 2,000 separate local jurisdictions.
Do you think it would still be possible to get into UO today or has the game changed an the community dwindled to a point that the game is effectively dead?
> All the political momentum was for further European integration.

And for selling military equipment to Greece: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/19/greece-military...
I'm always curious how taxes like this are enforced, presumably the City of Chicago can just sue companies like Netflix and Spotify if they think they're not getting their share. If I have my own small-time video streaming business does that mean I have to worry potentially about any municipality coming after me for unpaid taxes? That could get a little nuts if there are thousands of cities that could potentially have ordinances like this. How do I keep up? Am I just not understanding the scope of this?