skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what the takeaway is from this blog entry. Is it that Python 3 can do substrings easier than the other languages therefore we should use Python 3? That was what I thought it was, anyway.

Seems silly to pick a language based off this single, silly criteria otherwise why not JavaScript or probably other languages that can make the code even smaller?

console.log(mystring.substring(0, 12));

So it just seems arbitrary and weak in my opinion.
Generally a really really bad way to negotiate severance. Not as bad as changing all the passwords on the company routers and then holding them hostage but pretty sad.
As of last summer, DC's system had its 7 millionth ride, and at least as of that time, there had been no fatalities and only one life-threatening injury (see http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2014/06/03... ). As far as I know there have been no deaths since, either, despite virtually no users of the system wearing helmets. The actual risk associated with helmetless riding, and especially helmetless riding on bikeshare bikes, is dramatically overblown. Speeds on chunky slow bikes in an urban context are simply not high enough for accidents to be likely to result in serious injury.
I don't think I believe your last paragraph.

It's certainly true that when predicted interest rates go up, existing bonds (which have fixed yields built into them) become less attractive and their prices go down.

So it's certainly true that decreasing bond prices can be indicative of higher future interest rates.

But if bond prices are decreasing only because the Chinese government is unwinding its position in Treasuries, surely that doesn't apply.

Parallel example: Suppose I hold a vast quantity of exotic options that pay off in some rather specific circumstances -- e.g., Apple shares increasing by more than 10% during January 2025. And suppose I have carelessly mismanaged my financial affairs so that these are a large fraction of my assets, and now I need more money. So I start selling off these options. That will reduce their market price, but that doesn't (unlike most movements in the price of such options) indicate that anyone actually thinks Apple shares are now less likely to gain 10% in 2025-01.

Perhaps there's some subtle way for these artificially decreasing bond prices to cause higher interest rates in the future? I'm not seeing it, but I'm not an expert in finance or economics...
> stop creating analogues of real-world things

I agree. Almost everything useful around us is the product of ideas with our needs in mind, there was no TV and TV remote control in nature, no vacuum cleaner, clothes, watches... if ever, nature inspired us. We create artitifical things that make us more efficient and effective than it would be by just dealing with raw stones and sticks as they are found in nature. When it comes to today OOP we have to deal with stones and sticks again instead of thinking about a new aritifical thing that directly satisfies our needs (you call it 'responsibility').
In reality, people want a page that becomes usable as quickly as possible. Specifically, people use hovers and scrolling to test that a given page is 'ready.'

That is very different from a page that fires DOMContentLoaded as quickly as possible. That metric is pretty much irrelevant to real people.

Which is part of why ads aren't quite as nasty as a lot of tech industry people make out.
What was this blog platform which was html only ? I remember seeing one some time ago, but I don't remember which it was. It was a very clean, simplistic way of posting things online, I wonder if it's ghost after all.
If you'll allow me a moment of self-advertising, my company sells a version of Wine called CrossOver. It has a user-friendly wrapper, so you have less fiddling to do with files and command lines. We contribute all of our improvements back to the Wine project and are the largest force driving Wine's development (check out the email addresses in the Git log). Working on Wine is my full-time job. Even if you don't end up using it, purchasing our product directly helps improve Wine :)
You have my attention as a potential customer - you are saying Amazon FreeTime Unlimited is useless due to hardware/software issues? To me it seemed like a unique service no other company is attempting to provide right now. Can you give any additional detail regarding the device type and specific issues? Thanks in advance for your time!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?&docId=1000863021
I meant between the sexes and racial groups -- not between individuals. I thought that was abundantly clear from the context.
>The Yuan is a highly controlled currency that does not behave like other normal free market, floating currencies.

They "control" it by using free market tools: buying and selling yuan in the open market.
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or quit your day job and try to go up from here...
Not at all!
The title about 'warning Washington' is almost certainly a heads up and not a threat. The Treasury needs to understand market dynamics to have smooth auctions for new treasuries, which is in everyone's interest. Prime dealers (the big banks that deal in treasuries) give the Treasury a heads up about these things, so would be natural for China to do so.
That's all well and good, but I'm sure many of these "decisions" are of dubious legality and really morally reprehensible. When hearing that an employee has a pregnancy, an expectant child, or an illness, the answer should never be to consider termination...

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) forbids discrimination based on pregnancy
when it comes to any aspect of employment, including hiring, firing, pay,
job assignments, promotions, layoff, training, fringe benefits,
such as leave and health insurance,
and any other term or condition of employment.

Completely illegal.
I built a JavaScript framework last night after work
Same, did undergrad and masters in HCI at top 30 schools. Love design and love coding. The industry needs more people like us on design teams. Don't be jaded, the graphic designers who claim to be UX designers/researchers that don't understand statistics/how software products are built will not survive for long in the future as tech takes over the world
Tent. Camels Nose. Once this capability is in driver-less cars, it will be retrofitted into all cars driven as well.
Very nice. I love the technology stack, and am curious whether it can run on shared hosting. I see some bash scripts in the source though, and I wonder whether this will alienate windows devs or not.

The technology choices seem to be: PHP + Laravel components + LessCss + Mithrill.
+1 for simplicity
At similar body sizes it's ~20%, women are also generally shorter and often significantly less fit in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_records_in_w...

At unlimited weight it's 151kg vs 212kg, but far more men get into weight lifting so there is bias in those numbers.
tl;dr Man who kills children still not remorseful. Says made correct decision in light of new information.
The bigger hurdle to the SDR is I believe it has to be a free floating currency, which the Yuan is not. Also, I mean, what are you going to do? If people want to get their money out and you're not going to completely forbid them from doing so then you have to pay up. If you want to maintain your peg and pay up you need dollars to do it, which you have in the form of treasuries.
My friend hyderabad and Goa never saw an armed uprising like kashmmir did against India if you remember. You have little or no knowledge regarding the politics of India in general and Kashmir in particular. The politician that granted special status to J and K was your very own Mr. Nehru. One of the greatest Indian leaders. So when you say "Nations are not built that way", you are contradicting the person who probably contributed the most to building the Indian nation.
I'm not sure any of that matters. As long as the same thing was measured in the same way each time, I think the results are relevant.

For your first point, the measurement wasn't "usability", it was how long it took for the load event to fire.

Second, having dev tools open should affect all results the same way. The absolute number isn't important, it's the relative ordering, which should be the same whether dev tools are open or not.

The rest of your points are just nitpicking. Maybe he didn't use the absolute best way to measure CPU or memory usage, but I'm willing to accept they're good enough proxy measures that the results are relevant.
They are anti-harvard for sure.
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Huge win except each would be doing 3x the work or more. That's not sustainable, speaking from experience.
I would have really liked to have seen an ad-reduced hosts file compared to these in-browser blockers.

http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
Yes the checks were exactly what I was thinking about; that way you can be sure that you don't inadvertently do mistakes there. But probably Ruby (or javascript), with their ability of monkey patching, would make that almost impossible.

Maybe some Javascript "transpiler" could do it... it would be really interesting.
World's longest tunnel completed
I know what you mean re: reliability, but you also can't doubt that utility to all those riders that took the bikes and left the rack empty!

Matching the supply of bikes to demand is an interesting problem. The good systems try to address clumping by "re-balancing." In DC, they'd have vans that would move bikes to keep up with demand patterns.[1]

Also, as you've said, integrating bike shares with alternatives (like walking or transit) mitigates the reliability issue somewhat.

[1] See https://www.capitalbikeshare.com/news/2015/04/02/the-system-...
So what is state of the art trade system latency?
I didn't work with C++ for 10 years now; is it now possible to declare a function "pure" and have checks that it doesn't have side effects?
That might help, but I think that first there should be no rules that prevent apps which are not malicious and doesn't hurt end user from being in the app stores.
What the world would have been like, if you wouldn't have had the ability to use IE6 to download Firefox?
MATE is a fork of Gnome 2 that I've been using for a year or so. It works pretty well.
That's the point. We'd like to see which is faster.
It most certainly has to do with who freedom of speech is being sacrificed for and why?
BJJ seems to be pretty popular among nerd/geek types actually. It's a highly intellectual martial art.

(Purple belt here, currently training both BJJ [Gracie Academy] and Judo)
http://www.allmapdata.com/?s=germany+population+by+postcode&...

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=977c56fe98774436b025...
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So apparently perl6 is also "wrong" and operates on codepoints, your system composed my original string and each (base, diacritic) pair was pasted as a single precomposed character (I expect that if you try out the Python version on your system you'll also get the "right" answer).

The new string is composed of 10 user-visible characters (5 character repeated twice) but 16 codepoints (and this time I carefully checked that there was no precomposed version):

DEVANAGARI LETTER DA
DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN E
DEVANAGARI LETTER VA
DEVANAGARI LETTER NA
DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AA
DEVANAGARI LETTER GA
DEVANAGARI LETTER RA
DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN II
DEVANAGARI LETTER DA
DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN E
DEVANAGARI LETTER VA
DEVANAGARI LETTER NA
DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AA
DEVANAGARI LETTER GA
DEVANAGARI LETTER RA
DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN II

Operating on codepoints, both versions cut after the second DEVANAGARI LETTER NA (न) breaking that grapheme cluster (it should be ना) and not displaying the final two clusters ग and री.
Wrong? When did I say wrong? Being right or wrong is a value judgement. Believing the choices we make are free is, on the other hand, delusional and stands in complete opposition to what we've learned about this world.

And I don't demonize those who disagree with me, I just state the simple fact that most of them have zero knowledge of the matter and zero willingness to learn, yet an endless desire to argue about these things (that, honestly, they couldn't care less about except that occasionally something inconveniences them a bit) and the lack of shame to make definitive arguments based on absolutely nothing but wishful thinking, gut feeling and exaggeration.

I have actually had similar arguments in the past with people who were at least willing to argue about data and interpretation. But this?
I don't think the connection between Haskell and Curry-Howard is that strong (it's stronger since GADTs were added, but still, functions are not even terminating). Rather, I think the main thing that makes Haskell "mathematical" and easy to reason about is that it is pure, so you can reason about things equationally.

That will help verification no matter what framework you are using. For example, look at the seL4 verification. That was done in Isabelle/HOL, so it doesn't use Curry-Howard in any way. But even so, they proceeded by writing two versions of the operating system, one in C, and one in Haskell to make it easier to reason about.
Positive paradigms- Abundance mentality
Thanks! The compiled source (http://flarum.org/download) should run on shared hosting no problems. The bash scripts are only for building that ZIP that we put up for download, and setting up a Vagrant development environment. See http://flarum.org/docs/contributing for more info.
I'd really appreciate your at least calling out which of these 75 documents supports this thesis. I started skimming the titles and descriptions but didn't find anything contradicting the Official Story which I've been studying closely for the last few months before giving up.

Yes, of course, the Japanese were considering surrender, that was no secret to our decision makers, and yes, of course there was consideration of relaxing "unconditional" surrender, as we signaled to them WRT to the Emperor. We weren't stupid, that was one of many reasons War Secretary Stimpson removed Kyoto from all target lists (he was familiar with the east Pacific region and had visited the city prior to the war).
What happens to the dollar?

For years people railed against China for keeping the yuan artificially lowered by buying U.S. Treasury Bonds. This led to Chinese manufacturing being extra competitive, and a larger U.S. trade deficit.

Now China is doing the opposite. It is selling treasury bonds to buy yuan to artificially increase the price the yuan and everyone is freaking out. It will do the opposite of what is had been doing by causing the dollar to appreciate, and the yuan to depreciate. This will make foreign goods relatively more expensive for Americans, and American goods relatively cheaper for the foreigners. This effect will be most pronounced when the foreigners are Chinese. These will probably be small effects that won't effect anyone's life enough to be noticed.

Whats happens to Treasuries?

Nothing. Short term treasury rates are pretty much determined by the FED. Now even more so than usual because of the FED has it's pedal all the way down on the accelerator at 0% interest. Long term treasury rates tend to be determined what people think short terms rates will be over the long term. What primarily determines the interest rate over the long term is U.S. growth and inflation. So if people think this will cause more U.S. growth, long term treasury rates might increase a little.
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For having an idea on numbers/countries, these are good references:

http://www.treasury.gov/ticdata/Publish/mfh.txt

http://www.treasury.gov/ticdata/Publish/mfhhis01.txt
Go is more frequently presented as a replacement for C++/Java with a syntax that feels more like an interpreted language like Python or Ruby.

I find that to be totally true. It's certainly lighter to write in than C++ or Java, "go run" effectively feels like running the interpreter and eschewing {} and ; lends to the latter, as well.

And Python has concurrency options as well - "goroutines" is, obviously, relegated to Go.
No, of course not, but is the only way they're going to feel safe by oppressing you? When these masjids broadcast threats why were they allowed to be used as an arena in the conflict? Why give the Indian Army an excuse to turn those into a battleground too ( a la Golden Temple)
Show HN: I made a desktop Mac App Store app for fun
So I made a Mac OS X app for fun with a couple of friends:

Graphical Network Monitor
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphical-network-monitor/id1002978158?ls=1&mt=12

The idea was inspired from the website I wrote in my college networking class, yougetsignal.com. Basically the app does a very fast kernel-level netstat of all of the active connections on your computer, geo-locates each remote IP address you are connected to, and drops the icon of each app connection on the map.

I have found some surprising discoveries, mainly around programs maintaining persistent connections to various places in the world (e.g., Sublime Text initiates and holds onto a connection to Texas at all times). It's also just mind-blowing to see how much crap your computer connects to all of the time with even just basic browsing.

There's a Windows version here:

http://www.graphicalnetworkmonitor.com/

We are charging $4.99 based on some price testing we did on the Windows version. Right now the Mac app is #86/100 out of all paid Mac apps which is pretty fun.

If you check out the app please send feedback and let me know what else you would like to see in the app, right now it is very simple and fun utility but I suppose it could grow to do more things...
Interestingly the state I am from, Georgia, was originally envisioned as a debtors colony. It didnt work out as it was planned but I believe some debtors were sent here initially. Debtors were probably treated above prisoners but it was still an arduous journey.
Actually, China didn't have much choice BUT to buy US Treasuries with their current account surplus.
Investopedia has a good overview of the dynamic here:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/040115/reason...

Plenty of links from there to get you acquainted with the terminology.
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Not a clone, I've been developing a blogging platform with the same basic feature sets called CiiMS [1] since 2011, which is written in PHP. Unlike Ghost however, CiiMS has a working API, comprehensive documentation [2], and a dashboard. We also offer our own hosting as well [3].

[1] https://github.com/charlesportwoodii/ciims
[2] https://docs.ciims.io
[3] https://www.ciims.io
Have you job hunted since then?
You refuse to define your words, claiming that the meanings are obvious and that I'm dishonest for asking you to offer your definition. You define consent as impossible because incentives are possible. You change your positions as you go while simultaneously claiming you have not. Enough.

I wish you luck with your rhetorical games, but I shall not be playing them with you any longer. Perhaps someday you'll stop and wonder why the revolutionary change you wish for hasn't happened. If you've become wiser, you'll realize that the answer is that the revolutionary is you.
Whether agents act rationally is an open question in the economic literature. I claim most investors are irrational, but that the market appears to have an emergent behavior that makes it appear rational. Truly explaining this sort of emergent behavior in a feedback and partial information and game-player system with a trivial narrative about whether agents are rational seems to deny the inherent complexity of the system.
It's syntactically similar to javascript, and there's heaps of examples/tutorials/projects to learn from for games or anything else.
After you find a game you like enough to pay for, you could always buy it directly.
> "If these kids didn't listen (weren't forced by the State to listen) to older men telling them horror stories about the 'enemy', they would just hang out, drink and party together."

I'm sorry, but that shows a complete misunderstanding of human nature. It's the same kind of "everyone is the same and wants exactly the same things as we do" attitude that led to the belief that we need to bring democracy to the Middle East, leading to the Arab (nuclear?) Winter there is now.

People fight wars. Always have and always will. And they don't stay out of wars in order to drink and party together - they stay out when the perceived costs are greater than the perceived benefits.
> Can anyone here who owned a legit copy of Windows actually say that this happened to them

Yep. Just recently my windows 8.1 installation deactivated itself and I had to call in an talk to a person to get it reactivated.
I setup Discourse for a couple of days and absolutely hated everything about it.

- It actually ok to setup, following instructions.

- The UI is awful.

- Changing the sub domain didn't work until I executed some commands.

- The admin panel was awful, just a mess.

- The frontend didn't really guide the user through what they were doing.
> statistical inequality presumes the existence of injustice unless proven otherwise. That's a reasonable presumption.

I disagree. There are too many other factors that are plausibly contributing. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim.

I'm fine with attempting to change the culture to make e.g. STEM more appealing to women. Achieving this by enforcing an artificial prioritization of women over men in tech jobs seems to me a last resort approach. Is that really the only way to achieve the culture shift? In any event, at least I would find reasoning along these lines honest and am not opposed in principle.
The dashboard was one of the biggest selling points.

https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/000/511/606/53cb7cffa27c89a...

>Ghost grabs all the important data about your blog and pulls it into one place, so you can see it all together. No more clicking through tens of browser tabs to view your traffic, social media subscriptions, content performance or news feeds. Drag and drop the widgets most important to you into your own custom dashboard, and stay on top of your blog's performance.

Considering how important social media is for blog growth, this was a really exciting prospect for people. Being able to see all of the details on how your content was doing there, growth figures, etc.

It got completely cut.
I don't think China has much of a choice to be honest. They're still not able to get a Chinese middle class to buy goods made at home at the rate they want. So, I think their economic program of being the world's factory floor has been a failure so far. They (Chinese Community Party) really need to rethink their strategy and look towards other methods of improving the living standard because it just doesn't look like their brand of market socialism is working (I'm using the term market social very loosely here).
I generally agree, but Monday didn't have to be a complete non-event. If the market has just gone down sharply, that looks like a buying opportunity to me - even if it continues to decline for some time afterwards.
We're also one of the rare languages that swears not only with sexual organs, excrement and bodily fluids, but also like to throw diseases into the mix. Actually surprised me when I learned this is uncommon in most other languages, it seems so natural :-)

In particular "older" diseases that are less common in modern days, like tuberculosis (tering-), cholera (klere/kolere), typhoid (tyfus), plague (pest-) and pox (pokke-) are popular as general insults, adjective or interjection.

"Cancer" (kanker) is also used a lot, but is considered almost universally to be in bad taste, because nearly everybody knows or has lost someone they know to cancer, whether it's highschool kids or in "polite company".

More modern diseases (Ebola/H5N1/Swineflu/SARS/etc) are being used as well, but mainly for comedic effect.