skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been listening to streaming radio for over 15 years now and to this day, none of the algorithm-based services can compare to my list of Shoutcast bookmarks.

I always wonder how things would've played out if anyone did a better job of promoting such things (although I guess there's not much money to be made in promoting tens of thousands of small-time DJs and music enthusiasts who are doing the streaming).

The whole Apple music streaming thing made me do a double take because they're basically offering a much smaller set of the kinds of stations that have been freely streaming for years.

Streaming mp3 like shoutcast/icecast streams will play in just about any mobile or desktop media player. They can be bookmarked, creating your own custom "radio dial" of stations you personally like. And the variety of music is astounding. I've got maybe 15 or 20 stations that are programmed by people that consistently expose me to new and interesting music along with stuff I already like. I get to enjoy those simple pleasures like realizing the common thread between the last 3 or 4 songs played since there's a real human DJ behind the playlist. And I can access them anywhere I could access Pandora or Spotify.
I've seen parts of this pointed out in a wide variety of places.
One question I have; with general availability, it seems they indicate packer builds inside of Atlas are free now? It was my understanding that this would be a paid product, so I have my workflow for the OSS vagrant boxes I build all local.

If I can switch my workflow to build and store all the box versions inside of Atlas, that would save some time and effort...
It's not even necessary for the compiler to do it: writing a type-safe wrapper is pretty easy in C++11 and a decent approximation is doable in pure C99 (ask me if you want a sample). Yet using the ugly PRI macros seems common even in C++ projects. It's understandable why one wouldn't want to use ostream type formatting, but at least write a better printf...

(Type-safe at runtime, that is, via automatically passing a type info argument along with each format argument; C++ is braindead enough that doing the check at compile time is only somewhat possible with C++14 - as far as I can tell, it only works if you define the format outside of a function - and probably fairly slow, since that involves a template instantiation per character in the format. Oh well.)
In my humble opinion I suspect that the only fields more arrogant then the computer field are law and health fields. Then of course you can throw in the engineering and political fields. Have I missed anyone.

I seem to be cut from the old hacker mentality that all information should be shared and the collective minds can improve it to perfection. I have increasingly found though a mentality of "ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies".

I guess my being a narcissist isn't what it used to be.
How to draw a great white shark. Because why not
Re: Vegetarianism. Because there is technically no need to say "I don't want to have animals killed on my behalf." That statement adds no extra information about their diet, it only says that if they were eating meat, they would be having animals killed on their behalf.
Actually, I took an online personality test of sorts as well. I'm fairly certain their reasoning behind it is to find level headed people (or at least find people that could potentially work well together).

I didn't think it was lacking much - it was enjoyable and I also got surprised with some programming tasks(wasn't sure if that was going to happen or not). For me, it was an OO question on "How would you design an elevator" just talked through it and explained the different functions and functionality.

The puzzles were super laid back and were asked by another developer, so you got to see his personality as well as the other people in the room participated.

Awesome experience thus far.
I've actually thought this exact thing before. A site with a curated list of potential entrepreneur partners. It would be tremendously difficult to do well though. But thanks for the comment, this gives me something to reflect on.
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Hey there! Thanks. No it will only be visible to the creator so that they can add you.
Do you have an email address that I could use to get more information regarding one of the positions? Preferably someone able to answer technical questions about the position. Thanks in advance!
There is no excuse for being arrogant or an asshole. In my mind it's as bad or worse than physical bullying. Sure, you may be more knowledgeable than someone else in your particular field of expertise, but you were once completely clueless. Being an asshole to people who are trying to join your community is like cutting your nose off to spite your face.
I think more often, the outcome is that while you're on the same page the rest of the book turns out to be very different. Glad it worked out for you though!
Where's the data? If the data is the tweets cited and googling 'Functional Programming Arrogant', then it's definitely a hasty generalization (the community is open) of a hasty generalization (the community is arrogant).
Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit in Use from Hacking Team Breach
Yup. Moto X did the same thing. Love the phone, but I don't love the AT&T aspects of it.
The thing is, CPUs are designed to execute imperative programs. A stream of instructions is imperative. Until we see real hardware that executes object-oriented programs, OOP will always be somehow treated as a second-class citizen in the computing world.

Everything we do is an abstraction.
You can blow up all sorts of things with gzip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
The parens help to make sure CoffeeScript parses it correctly. Plus it looks kind of Lispy which is good right?
Another vuln from adobe, for another month..
I wasn't aware of that :)
A 'side-effecting' monad is also pure ;):

http://chris-taylor.github.io/blog/2013/02/09/io-is-not-a-si...
Personally, I'm hoping for a huevos rancheros bot
... Is this thread just filled with stereo types?
I would tend to suggest that the arrogance of functional programmers specifically is a pretty understandable response to the years of being told that they are worse than useless by hordes of people who have no idea what they're talking about.

Are the functional programmers arrogant? Certainly. Are their critics arrogant? Yup. Are they both irritating? Sure.
Is it even possible to conduct proper valuations of Chinese equities? If the equity markets have the same standards for transparency as other sectors of Chinese society, I don't see how that's possible.
>Why isn't everyone and their sister shorting the Asian market right now?

Because every seller requires a buyer.
Very, actually. It's about time I add more tests, maybe remove its opinion about what view context to dump to JavaScript (leave that to the end dev), and version it as 1.0. I think it's had one significant bug in almost a year and no problem issues in the past 6 months.
News at 11: hyperbolic Twitter negative comment.
The thing is, CPUs are designed to execute machine code. Machine code isn't memory safe. Until we see memory safety implemented at the machine layer, memory safe languages will always be somehow treated as second-class citizens in the PL world.
No need for the phone to be smart enough if it can just virtualize itself in a host laptop / computer. Not saying this is a good idea, but the phones not being fast enough is not all bad; what I need mostly from my phone is the files and content. The apps I could run locally.
shrug Fine. Assume they leave that bit off. In fact, assume they give no rationale at all. You're trying to figure out where to eat, and someone suggests a steakhouse, and someone else says "Er, I'm a vegetarian". Some people will get defensive of that, even with nothing further. The person didn't bring up that they were vegetarian pre-emptively, it was absolutely in the right context, it was in no way judgemental, it was not even saying -why-, and yet, many people get defensive. "Oh, man, I could never do that; I love meat too much", "Pff, you and your rabbit food", "How do you get enough protein? You know that's unhealthy, right?", etc.
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One of the big promises of Windows Phone was that you'd be able to use the same apps as on your desktop, so in a way, yeah, they kinda did.
There is a danish guy who started answering all business spam calls with "we do not use X" here - so they would call up and ask for whomever was in charge of lighting and he would say "we do not use lighting here", then spin a story about how they just used very bright monitors etc.

You might be able to have some fun with them at least - or just abuse the heck out of them (unfortunately telemarketers seem pretty blasee about it).

As for your private line, if you don't recognize the number just don't answer it? My cellphone blocks all calls during the night (with an exception for families) but I think it can block all numbers not in my contacts.
...which is true. And only a problem if you're defensive about it.
How much does one need to contribute to be Gold?
Thanks for that. Actually, the example above does not showcase a unique flight combination but something like this happens rather often. I hope next time you check it out you'll face something similar.

Let us know about it ;)
FYI - Gold contributor means the donation was somewhere in the range of $25,000 to $50,000.
DigitalOcean Raises $83M Series B Round Led by Access Industries
Interesting. As a former vegetarian, I was always a little surprised when someone would take offense at my vegetarianism, even if I hadn't said anything. They just assumed there was a critique implied.
While I have received some helpful advice from Tony Morris on the Scalaz mailing list, I think that attitudes like his are poisonous. And actually, it's because of such issues that some are attempting a Scalaz fork: http://underscore.io/blog/posts/2015/06/10/an-introduction-t...

On the other hand such an attitude is not representative of the Scala community, which is filled with really nice and helpful people. I just went to Scala Days in Amsterdam and everybody I've met was super nice. Try it sometimes.

What is "shared-immutable programming"?
Topppp Level RADD!!

I'm one of the members from Apes in Space! I'd love to entertain some questions if anyone has any! I'd also love to hear about some of your ideas if you want to share!

-Adam
I'm in China and my Chinese wife uses several of these apps but they are battling pretty hard and she changes her app preference fairly regularly. Currently she's alternating between "Yihao zhuan che" (http://www.vvipone.com/) and "Didi da che" (http://www.xiaojukeji.com/). Yihao has several different upgrades like "fast car" and "dedicated car" which can pay more for quality. While Didi is more taxi grade and does car pooling with lower cost options and delivery driver services. Didi is also doing a lot of promotions like "free Mondays" which free is fairly bloodbath pricing.
According to the Economist, a very small fraction of Chinese households are invested in the stock market.
Eh, just compare the active fund against the S&P 500 on a suitably long enough horizon:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSEARCA%3ASPY%2C+NYSEARCA%...

I'll admit it's looking for a needle in haystack though. In all my looking I've only found these three. Really just VHT and POGRX, since the success of BRK (Warren Buffett's company) is common knowledge.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to me for a vegetarian to mention which of many possible reasons are relevant to their choice.
I would argue that this relationship hasn't worked well at all since the late 90s. The customer experience with OEM Windows PCs is horrible, thanks largely to all the crapware those "partners" install to make a couple extra bucks. And their margins are so shitty that those extra bucks are basically the only bucks, so they just keep piling on. Throw in the mobile revolution to give people plausible alternatives and Microsoft's way of doing business is toast. In mobile, there was only one vendor selling devices with Microsoft's OS on it; their market share was negligible and either the product line or the vendor itself was going to go under. No one else was (nor is) interested at all.

That's why they have Surface, Windows Phone/Mobile (and did the Nokia deal), and Signature Edition now. They don't need to do any of that if the OEM partner model were working. It wasn't, and it isn't. Microsoft's decision to go vertical is very sensible. It isn't working because they're too late. One of the basic principles of running a megacorporation is that you shouldn't be in markets where you cannot be #1 or #2. Microsoft is a very distant #3 or #4 in mobile. Instead of trying to break in years after the top players were established, they should have admitted failure and gone off to find the next big thing where they could be #1 or #2. But that kind of courage is very rare in large corporations and certainly no one in the Microsoft leadership team has anything like it. So they'll thrash around for a while until either they hit on the next big thing themselves or, more likely, fail to do so and repeat this process a couple more times before finally going under.
Is there? Care to expand?
DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding
It's just a way too easy to take confidence for arrogance. It does not matter if this confidence stems from an illusion or from some real deeper understanding of how to hack things.
There is a large fine per call because robocallers are relentless at skirting and flat out breaking the law. This is so common. Each time I moved I ended up getting endless debt collection calls on the new line. If you can even talk to a real human (so many hang ups, or "call this number" with no option to speak), they argue with you, scream at you, hang up quickly before you can finish with what you are saying. I was shocked a year or so ago when the person actually talked with me, asked if I knew about the person they were looking for, gave me a number to call if I ever did have contact or learn anything, and the calls from them stopped from then on. I shouldn't have to be shocked about what is normal behavior, but I was.

229K is a pittance. It won't stop anything - an out of the blue one time 229K hit is nothing compared to the millions they are making by acting this way. Sure, that particular woman hit the lottery, but for fines to have any meaning whatsoever they need be large enough for deterrence (because obviously things like having a conscience or being good actors is right out).

edit: I upvoted you. I don't understand why people down vote people for having what they perceive as an incorrect opinion or thought.
I had a WP7 Samsung Omnia awhile ago. WP was an excellent, performant, and snappy to use. It was really nice and everyone that saw it liked it. However, almost no apps (that I needed), app store full of crapware (borderline malware), and slow OS updates eventually led me to Android. No regrets.
Everyone's experience will vary, but what has been suggested to me so far from Apple Music has been very relevant to my tastes. I definitely don't feel like I'm being pushed content to satisfy their business partners -- to the extent that every label and artist on the service is a "business partner."

Of course, Beats One is going to be more mainstream -- it aims to be a radio station in very much the traditional model, complete with top twenty segments -- but I've even found that station interesting at times, discovering some Nigerian music, for instance.

Yesterday I was suggested a mix of Autechre and Squarepusher to help me get through my afternoon's work -- which it actually did. The other day I was suggested the Beach Boys Smile sessions and over a hundred Smashing Pumpkins B-sides -- so, there's a lot of variety and it all feels relevant to me. I'm not getting Taylor Swift thrust on me, and so far I don't get the sense that corporate partners have some quota that I'm there to fill.
Those effects exist. Trust me. I've said and done some truly insane things when staying awake on Ambien. Not on purpose either, just didn't fall asleep for whatever reason, and when those euphoric effects kick in you don't have the critical reasoning to stay in bed. I've had to apologize to many people the day after for writing disturbingly surreal emails and facebook posts. Helluva drug. I refuse to take it anymore.
It's pretty much like any programming language: you have people who see a language as a tool and people who have a language as a religion.

In the latter group, there is often language arrogance. But it applies to any language. How often haven't we heard "that's not a problem with Go, just use it longer and you will understand".

Now I wonder if there are still any arrogant COBOL believers around ;).
My cousin's husband grew up with a few people that ended up a part of Whitey Bulger's operation. He never directly involved, as far as we knew, but he could make things happen.

One time my Aunt visited him and her daughter in Boston, a good 150 miles away for a week or so. On the last night her car was broken into, driver side window smashed and the stereo was stolen. The son-in-law said he would take care of it if they would stay for another couple of days. My Aunt had had enough of the city and didn't want to stay at all so they went back home as planned.

That night, back home, 150 miles away, the car was "broken into" again. This time, the driver window was replaced and a new stereo was installed.

Over the next couple of weeks a total of 8 car stereos randomly appeared overnight in the driveway, on the front steps or in the mailbox.
Japan's Answer to Quora Announces Bitcoin Tipping Scheme
Google anagram
"Did you mean nag a ram? "

Well played.

Any other witicisms from Google?
Quip Releases Mac and Windows Apps
This reminded me of the concept of demurrage in currency [1]. The idea was brought up to solve that exact problem. The messy system of inflationary fiat currencies won, and even though it is probably better and more practical, the demurrage would have had the advantage of making it clear what we're trying to achieve. Inflation seems to be hated by many people which, judging from their other political viewpoints, should be supportive of it...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_%28currency%29
Motivation and curiosity should come through naturually when the candidate discusses their past experience.
Yes sure I can see your point. If a site was developed that solved the issues I pointed out then of course I would also reconsider. As a qualifier I would also like to point out that I was a non-technical co-founder in all my previous ventures and the frustrations led me to focusing on developing my technical side to the point where I can do it all myself now. I am between ventures currently but am much more inclined to go solo in the next one at least until I have basic idea validation and traction so I am probably not the norm in this regard.
Overall JetBlue and Virgin have been great. AA and US Air have been good. United is the worst.
React with C++: Building the Quip Mac and Windows Apps
This phrase is quickly becoming the new "Micro$oft".
> A monolithic concrete dome that is energy-efficient, fire-proof, tornado-proof and earthquake-proof costs around $30k.

For a space smaller than a typical studio apartment. The Monolithic Dome Institute[1] quotes domes at $125/sf (including walls) for a "regular" finish. Your $30,000 dome would have a footprint of 250 sf. My house would cost at least $287,500 to replace with a dome; in contrast, it would cost about $150,000 to replace it with another wood-framed house. Concrete block costs would depend heavily on how complex the floor plan is, but would still be cheaper than a monolithic dome.

[1] http://www.monolithic.org/forms/the-residential-evaluator
Apache cTAKES: NLP system to extract information from medical free-text
The developers of said apps will still have to upload them to Microsoft's store.
Theo de Raadt always complained that such companies never gave back. HNers were always quick to suggest he change his open source licence. Hopefully this means him and his crew can do a better job than they are already doing without them feeling they compromised on their values.
This can be extrapolated to say "the community which uses a language should not have any bearings on your decision to use that language", which to me is crazy if only for pragmatic reasons -- a strong, welcoming community has tons of observably positive effects on my experience with a language (between docs, third-party libraries, SO/IRC presence, etc. etc.)
The LISP machine was never popular, but it did exist.
Shame, that's pocket change for a company like Microsoft. Happy to see they're contributing nonetheless.
Interactive ski experience
The professions you should be comparing programming to in this case are not admin assistants or spreadsheet users. Of course they won't care because it makes no difference to them. How about computer graphic artists. Do you think they care if they use 3ds Max or Rhino or whatever exists these days? How about musicians? Do you think they care if they use FL Studio or Reason or Cubase or Logic?

I could go on and on. The answer is a resounding YES to both of those questions by the way. They care just as much as programmers do about their software. It's not limited to software either. Writers who write by hand care about their pen. A lot. People who put a lot of energy into their craft care. Is that human nature? Absolutely. Is it human nature to then compare and try to set oneself apart from the rest? Of course.
Could you list us some programming communities that do handle jerks well? 'Cause I'm having a hard time thinking of any.
It did seem a bit strange with "I created a pedo honeypot and gasp horror it attracted a bunch of pedos!!"

The biggest thing he demonstrated is that a percentage of pedos would run an executable from some guy on Tor if he asks nicely. How can it be hard for the FBI to catch those guys?
You: "I'm generally a pretty negative person for a reason. Negative feedback is necessary for anything to actually get better." - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9318260

So, what are you actually making better here?
Patio11s comment on debt collectors and how to pown them (sadly still requires paper mails and letters):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833
> they both choose to save the banking system instead of letting it self correct

People keep saying this but few governments in modern financial history have gotten away with letting the system "self correct". Normally it's a recipe for deep depressions or long recessions.

Some economists have a recommendation: letting the system self-correct might produce positive long-term results if you print enormous amounts of money to replace the missing credit--enough to cause potentially double digit inflation. But usually, the let-everyone-die crowd doesn't believe in monetary policy; they're just advocating old economics from 1929 that usually fails.
Why Feature Parity Is the Enemy for Startups
Adobe has a new vulnerability just about every week, they all do not get exposed and released in the wild.
Woah, hacker news worthy.

I'm also an Apes In Space member. Feel free to shoot some questions about our out of this world hacks. Also looking for wicked ideas for Hack the Planet!
My friends and I started using a new verb: "thieling". As in "you're totally thieling right now". Definition: 1) expressing overarching assertions in the parlance of populist tech speak. 2)Expressing obvious assertions as if they were counter-intuitive.

Get angry about dyeing? What has been the larger point of healthcare? People aren’t dying because of “pessimism”.