jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Crockford claims that JSLint is more indicative of true JS performance, but doesn't really explain why. I think we're all predisposed to take him at his word, but I'd still like an explanation

"So I have come up with a benchmark that should be more representative of large, well-written JavaScript applications. It is in fact a popular, large, well-written JavaScript application"
Any technically inclined person can point any domain whose DNS they control at any IP (or cname it, which is pointer indirection for DNS). Many servers will not be happy with you if you try that, and will refuse to process the request if the HTTP host header is not in an enumerated list. HN simply ignores the host in he HTTP header, allowing any HTTP request which reaches it to resolve normally.

(For that matter, you could hosts file google.com to that IP and it would work, too.)
Does anyone use TapTapTap? How about Google mobile ads?
Great question. It's tough for me to single out just one favorite, though this one has had a large impact on me. It's from Dan Buettner on his study of Blue Zones and why inhabitants regularly live long lives:

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_buettner_how_to_live_to_be_100....

This talk from Robert Full also had an impact, because it reminded me to look at unrelated fields for inspiration & solutions, like as the field of biology:

http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_learning_from_the_gecko...

On a side note, an exercise I've had fun doing with friends lately is to ask them who among our own social circles we would like to see speak, if we held our own TED talk. And what topics we would like to speak about ourselves. It has spurned a lot of interesting discussions amongst ourselves.
Thanks--I'll check them out. I hope it's the kind of stuff that is only called philosophy, but actually falls under the purview of science, which doesn't yet have a framework to deal with it. That's the only kind of "philosophy" I've ever found of value.
The FBI agent's statement rephrased in boolean logic:

nervous = background && companions && alarm

If the value of alarm is false, nobody gets nervous because the whole expression evaluates to false.

The FBI agent did not say "You are being subjected to additional screening because of your background and because you're traveling alone". That they are nervous because of his background and lack of companions is orthogonal to the fact that the additional screening happened because of the positive match for explosives.

Or are you suggesting that if a white person traveling with companions matched positive for explosives, that they wouldn't be subjected to additional screening?
What I meant is, not the first result on the list, but the first result that you click, and then press back and then click on the second result.
Great post! Completely agree! While we still do traditional interviews at CoachUp, we favor the contract->perm model whenever possible.
This is pretty cool, I'm glad that we're starting to see these prices come down. I've been wondering if something could be put together with either a kinect or a small pico projector + webcam to do the full structured light sort of scan without the huge expense. The laser line scanner deals are pretty cool but if you can vary the light used under computer control you can work around problems with relative positioning of line/object/camera by changing the pattern you are projecting.
Which would be a great point if not for the oversight, subsidies, reserves and incentives that affect staple foods.
The stunning thing to me is that Gen. Alexander clearly sees this at least partially as a left/right issue, or at least that was his game at this dinner. In fact, most of the left-leaning people I know, with the exception of the civil libertarian leftist, have been averting their eyes from the whole surveillance issue now that Obama is in office. The left and right are hand-in-hand together in this. The only people opposing it are the civil libertarians on the left and the libertarians on the right, both with equal conviction.

So the fact that he attributes her concern to being "to the left of Sen. Wyden" is very interesting and tell me a lot about his worldview. And yet so many Democrat leftist have been defending this program (or at least ignoring it) and going after Greenwald with an energy unseen from the right. Some thinking Democrats may be finally waking up to the threat this poses to our democracy, regardless of who is now in office, but the majority of them still are standing behind Obama (see recent vote on defunding the NSA surveilance program).
I do think he is a bad guy and they're always the best at hiding their true intentions. I also think you're naive, more so if you admit he lied to your face.
You can have a cardboard box and prevent people from entering. Therefore a website is like a cardboard box. You can have a moon colony and prevent people from entering. Thus a website is like a moon colony.
Nice analogy. Trello is my "journal".
A funny fact. I am working on automation of various finance operations in different organisations , and in workshops often the business users will ask for complete automation; "I want to press the button and like that, reports produced." People fail to realise that the easiest thing to automate is pressing a button.

I am sure myself I am assuming the convenience of the technology that will take my place rather than realising the threat.
Even if human doctors become demonstrably worse at it than the machines?
Why do you think the revolution will come from startups rather than from tech giants such as Google and Amazon?
CFAR (the Center for Applied Rationality)'s goal is to create workshops that effectively train people to be rational.

Probably not what you want, though. They're pricey and not targeted at kids.
Glad to hear that. Some additional info then: Counterparty published an Ethereum version built on top of Counterparty. Ethereum responded by building Counterparty on top of Ethereum. The obvious difference is that Counterparty uses Bitcoin's blockchain and security, while Ethereum has nothing. To makes things worse they use PoS which we know can't be made both secure and decentralized at the same time. That's why all PoS coins are centralized through checkpoints or whack-a-mole style security patching.
>> And of course it requires assuming "unmarried" is not distinct from "widowed" and "divorced", which may or may not hold up.

Not really. Many people consider those other options as special cases of "married" or "unmarried". In that case, how you match them up is not relevant to the problem because she still fits one or the other. She could also be a cat, which would change the answer.
My initial impression, too. I'm disappointed. :)
Right. My point exactly. In most cases this is not a problem and sometimes can be really nice: like when you want to add some profiling code, etc. However, this is also pretty terrible when it comes to large code bases or when you see libraries out there that modify prototypes of base objects.
It's also a Greek word, meaning (roughly) "like this".
Samsung 22" (2243: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012TTX2O/ref=cm_rdp_produ...)
I don't have academic access to the actual article. A commonsensical result may not be surprising but I want to know how they did their metastudy. Anyone care to elaborate?
lttng is integrated into eclipse framework, the gui looks better than the gtk lttv gui
That's great.

I'll seriously consider a Flattr button in my Android apps.

Just a quick piece of feedback about the blog: make it easier for people that land on your blog to find out what Flattr is about! The most promising link (in the "About" in the bottom) is broken. Maybe some quick words in the side would help.
Indeed.

http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/520.html

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=raise+IQ&as_epq=&...
Looking forward to giving this one a try, been looking for something like this for some time
I currently pay for Trifecta, it's ridiculously expensive. The meals are good though, and meet my nutritional needs and keeps my calorie consumption in check.

I just want an app that can give me keto recipes, plan my meals for the week, and tell me what to shop and cook for the week. Seriously, that's all I want. Does this exist?
If you are very good (top 1% of employees), the max comp even for individual contributors is far higher than 350k/yr.

It's not uncommon for senior staff engineers to be making 1M/yr all-in. But this is for people leading important efforts, who it would be considered damaging to lose.
Also, we know that the people being tracked complained that they felt unsafe.
It could be the copyright for sole purpose of recognizing the author and respecting its ownership of the work, no the copyright for earning profits from sales.

Earth within the Federation may not use money but there are other civilizations and species especially on the outside that still require it to trade - it's possible that humanity just lost the reasons of pursuing acquisition of wealth but still utilizing some kind of currency or just simply replicates whatever its needed to barter with other species. I don't recall that there was any law that required abandoning the currency based economy upon joining the Happy Alpha Quadrant Club - it's possible that member world did follow Earth or other worlds independently in this matter seeing benefits of replication technology. Or it's the natural step of the society evolution of this fictional universe in majority of cases.

It's definitely a really interesting topic that always fuels discussions.

As for the question about AI - I think that granting rights would require first recognizing AI as natural person (or entity) ot legal person and granting them necessary rights; and perhaps this would generate all sorts of other questions, issues as well.
For anyone looking for a quick summary of what a lottery ticket is, how they're found, and some implications, here's what I remember from a I talk I saw about lottery tickets at EMNLP 2019:

- The core hypothesis is that within "over-parameterized"[0] networks, a small subnetwork (a small set of weights) is often doing most of the work. A weight can be thought of as an edge in the neural network graph, and so subsets of weights can be thought of as subnetworks.

- You can find these subnetworks by initializing weights randomly, training for some number of steps, identifying the least contributing weights, and then retraining from the same initial parameters as before, except with the least-contributing weights from the previous run zero'd out.

- People have observed that you can achieve something like 99% weight pruning with relatively little loss in performance. After that, things get very unstable.

- This has implications for understanding how neural nets do what they do and for shrinking model sizes.

This is all from memory, so forgive any errors.

[0] - Networks have grown to enormous numbers of parameters lately, and there's reason to think that even before the era of 1B+ parameter networks, neural nets were over-parameterized. Why do we use such large networks then? For a given trained neural net, there might be a much smaller one that does the same thing, but in practice, it's difficult to get the same performance by training a smaller network. This may be because our typical optimization methods aren't well suited for finding these lottery tickets.
For me personally the regularity is definitely a plus. Especially combined with an editor like paredit or smartparens it becomes very easy to move entire sections of code around.
You can't just "get rid" of FOSS software. It'll live on. :)
The parentheses give you Macros, a completely uniform calling convention, and the "everything's an expression" programming style. These are arguably the things you cannot get from a non-lisp language. Almost everything else varies between lisp implementations.

The lack of syntax matters in the sense that once you don't have any you realise that it just gets in the way. Having lots of parentheses is a small price to pay for powerful tools so that's why "it doesn't matter". Non-lispers generally don't understand how lisp is different from their language of choice and therefore don't understand why the lack of syntax is an advantage.
Cybersecurity defense contractor?
Is there even any situation where "async function(..." or "generator function(..." is currently valid syntax?
Henry James made it into the original (for me) Hack FAQ https://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Hackers/hacking.faq

But also Neruda:

Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,
I cannot settle on a single one.
They are lost to me under the cover of clothing
They have departed for another city.
When everything seems to be set
to show me off as a man of intelligence,
the fool I keep concealed on my person
takes over my talk and occupies my mouth.
I honestly think it was deliberate. What class of Operating System developer ships their OS releases without 100% CODE COVERAGE? Apple do code coverage testing, surely? I mean, more than the "-warn-dead-code" args that get flung around.

I can't understand how this would have gotten released into the wild if they were doing industry-standard code coverage tests. And .. if they're not doing industrial-strength code-coverage testing on their iOS/OSX release builds, thats the real news here ..
At this point I'm just glad that the language we are stuck with is JS and not PHP.
Set an HTML font-size—likely 16px—and use body { font-size: 1rem; }. Allows for easy media query scaling of type.
Nonsense. Modern diesel passenger cars can approach 1000 miles range on a tank of fuel. Tesla is nowhere close to that and probably never will be.

And I'm talking about nice cars, too. Not tin cans.

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/25/bmw-320d-goes-over-1-000-...
When I got my last car if I could have gotten the Euro-diesel version (which supposedly gets > 50MPG vs. the American petrol version getting 30-something) here in the states I would have. I don't have anything against diesel, I've just never seen it offered on anything outside of a truck, let alone a budget subcompact.
Oil refineries are nowadays complex factories that convert crude oil into lots of different distilled products. When you process a barrel of crude oil, you're not restricted to some proportion of gasoline, some proportion of kerosene and diesel and whatever. You can basically turn it up to produce more gasoline, or more diesel fuel, or whatever. The losses aren't significantly different.

You can get more gasoline out of a barrel of oil, but you can also get more mileage out of a litre of diesel than litre of gasoline. Diesel has higher energy content.

What's more, diesel fuel can be made from biological materials as well. In fact, we have had people drive their diesel cars with discarded frying oil used in hamburger restaurants to make fries. You have to filter it, and you won't make the current EU emission standards, but for moving a vehicle, it works all right.

Whether it is feasible to move all or most cars in the US to use diesel is then another matter. Diesel engines are a bit noisier, for instance, so someone might object that.

But the everyday driveability of a car with diesel engine, particularly a modern one with turbo, is nice. Lots of torque on low rpm's so it's easy to drive.
Javascript is definitely an interesting language. For a while there it was the lament of code purists who shrieked every time you called it a language with the usual retorts like, "Javascript isn't a language, it's a hack"

I think ECMAScript 6 is definitely a welcome change to the language, ES7 will be undeniably better (even if for Object.observe alone). Now that releases for ECMAScript specifications will be released yearly, we'll see the language evolve and now that we have a nice range of evergreen browsers, developers can take solace in the fact they don't have to support older browsers for much longer (as new features are released, browsers incorporate them).

While Javascript definitely has its warts, what other language can boast of the same market share as Javascript? There is no such thing as a perfect language. Not to mention its low barrier to entry, nothing to deploy, no compiler to configure and how powerful it is in capable hands. I think the success of Javascript was more than being in the right place at the right time, I think its ease of use spurred a booming community. Not to mention the fact you could be confident you can write Javascript and it'll run basically anywhere.

People who feel the need to complain about how bad Javascript is to educate themselves further or most likely have never used it properly. There are definitely bad parts in Javascript, but any decent developer who has a good understanding of Javascript knows what those bad parts are and how to avoid ever encountering them. Any language allows you to write poor code, some just make it easier than others (like PHP).

For me the biggest and most exciting thing to happen to Javascript is React.js. And once it is released if my gut-feeling is correct: React Native is going to drive the Javascript language even further, possibly spurring a JS revolution even more-so than Node.js/IO.js has.
I just read the article in Firefox with NoScript. Works fine.

I just read the article in Safari with JavaScript disabled. Works fine.

The NY Times has one of the most porous paywalls in the world. It's been that way since they switched to a subscription model, so it probably won't change anytime soon.
But why would you want to? FSM intended us to use ISO-8601 dates and nothing else. If you disagree, I'll meet you on 18/06/12 at 2:04 to discuss the issue, although you have no way of knowing what date or time that string actually refers to.

We have a perfectly good, unambigious date and time format. It's true that many users are deeply committed to ambiguous formats, but we should at the very least be trying to dissuade them from using them by making ISO formats the default.
I am currently playing Earthbound on an R4 and this comment made me warm inside :)
> I've taken several years of French in college, never had
> a vocab set quite like that!

I also did several years of French, and learned the phrases: "maladie de la vache folle" and "fièvre aphteuse". This allows you to place when I was learning French, because you could see when those were in the newspaper. If I was learning French now, I suspect I'd have a similar vocab set.
Link has clickbait all over it. Hasn't hooked me yet.

But more seriously, have there been any other large, but not "biggest ever" firings since 1993? Anyone have a chart?
The title is misleading in multiple ways:

1. It isn't China that is proposing to cut its foreign reserves. It's the Chairman of the "China Everbright Group" (whatever that is), and the governor of the central bank of China. What he says isn't necessarily China's policy because historically there has been tension between the central banker, which wants to use monetary policy to manage China's economy but has his hands tied because of the influence of the exporters who want to keep the Yuan closely pegged to the Dollar.

2. China doesn't just hold $3T in USD holdings. No, it has $3T in foreign reserves, which isn't all USD holdings.

China's actual policy may be completely different from what the governor of the central bank has wanted for many years.
If recent experiences are anything to go by (I'm thinking stuff like Startup Britain, 2010 DEA, etc.) then while this might be a nice idea in theory, by the time it becomes law it will be a depressing reminder of how badly our governement deals with anything technology-related.
Sorry, I cant read something about RMS without remembering his horrific foot incident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
As someone who is relatively familiar with evaluation in Haskell I'm enjoying this series, but if I didn't already understand most of it I doubt I would get anything out of it. Real World Haskell has a more concrete chapter on profiling: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/profiling-and-optimiza.... The Haskell wikibook also has a fairly comprehensive chapter on laziness: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Laziness.
Cool stuff. FYI the link to the app in the first paragraph is dead.
While I am in NO WAY defending Righthaven (they had it coming, really), these draconian domain rules are ridiculous. Having to pay £5 (or whatever it is now) to hide your personal information on your domain is truly evil.

But obviously Righthaven doesn't care about their domain because if I recall correctly, GoDaddy sends three notifications before they suspend your domain.
Dear Dropbox User:

We have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") from Dropbox that the following material is claimed to be infringing.

/Public/laanwj-dropship-464e1c4.tar.gz

Accordingly, pursuant to Section 512(c)(1)(C) of DMCA, we have removed or disabled access to the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity.

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This is BULLSHIT! Dropbox is censoring this because they don't want it to get out there. What will they censor next?
Some do it more formally than others. Paladin Capital has an explicit focus on "homeland security issues and needs." Chart Venture Partners in New York does that sort of deal, or did when I last worked with them.

On the less-formal side, Novak-Biddle Venture Partners in the DC area is also quite friendly to what I call "dual use" deals, where there might be a government play in addition to the commercial one. From a founder's perspective, they're good folks, too.
Is this about startups which products are open source such as status.net or is it something else? Kind of confusing.
I'm cringing. That was a mistake, fixed.
How about acts that that promote your selfish genes? Your relatives share a lot of your genes.
That's why we use version control.
Sorry, schoolboy error - I was thinking of the relativistic mass as if it were interacting with the Higgs field. TBH I'm still not clear that it couldn't.
The 9 times also includes the pipe - perhaps a more accurate picture of Netflix is - pay $40 for high-speed Internet, $8 for Netflix, save $23 . (save more if you have HD cable and the cable company's DVR, which is a better comparison).

The $30 you save is basically what the cable company pays the cable content networks. So they end up the big losers.

The cable company/ISP might squawk and raise high-speed prices due to all the bandwidth.

And the $8 is artificially cheap - see my comment below, and will probably go up as more content is available and providers get wise.

Some speculation on the end result: Maybe there will be a $10 tier with old movies, TV reruns; then a $20 tier with the basic cable fare, but Netflix will only pay content providers based on what gets watched; a premium tier with recent movies and first-run TV; and pay-per-view.

So the future might look like not that different from today - high-speed Internet $50, $20 for over-the-top content services, plus pay-per-view for stuff not in your bundle - you save a little money and get a much better service. The cable company/telco probably comes out OK in the long run if it remains a regulated monopoly/duopoly, a lot of the content providers do deals with Netflix, the ones that have legit hits and can go viral will do very well, the ones that depend on being bundled will have difficulty staying in business.
Pretty hard to ignore their ads (very large and intrusive).
That is an interesting advertisement. I am more interested in reality though.

There are some difficulties like head tracking for instance that would be hard to work out. The advertisement shows the images stationary in space, that's a hard problem to solve to make them stable as you walk around let alone move your head. If it isn't that way and they are in fixed locations relative to the glasses, then it would be a bit disconcerting to move with them on.

You look at advertisements from google glass and it's so far off the reality. I can't really get that hyped over promotional fluff.
Can you please share the URL for that post?