skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious what the plot would look like if the U.S. were subdivided into coastal regions vs. interior:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusland_map
And C++11 just got reference counting as an official library option.

Reference counting is better than mark-and-sweep GC for several use cases:

* Real time code where you don't ever want a GC to steal cycles. I know that a lot of research has been done to decrease the amount of time stolen, but it's always non-zero.

* Immediate, deterministic clean-up of resources as soon as they are no longer referenced: If you have a limited number of file handles, for instance, you want them closed ASAP, and not when some GC decides it's time.

* No performance penalty for having weak references. I use this in asset management: A map of asset handles to weak references to currently loaded assets. If an asset is no longer used, it's deallocated immediately. Having weak references in a GC system can increase processing complexity.
I think it is not considered a developed country.

And if it is, it reinforces the OP point
Totally agree. And not just from a performance perspective, the positive affect on mood in general is very important. Melatonin has helped me greatly in the last year.
>Things get fixed much faster than you think.

Because things were working other places.

Example 1: your town catches on fire and every building burns. Everybody leaves your town, or people from other towns bring you supplies.

Example 2: Every town catches on fire and every building burns. There is no where to go. People from other towns are in the same situation.

You run into the bootstrap problem. Everybody needs the resources to get going again, but there will not be enough resources to get everybody going at once. If you don't get the resources to get going quickly you might die of starvation or exposure, so you're willing to fight for them. Who gets the resources?
At first I thought, "there is no way all of these happened in the same year." Then I clicked through a few links to check the date, and a few more. o_O
I kinda assume that if easy money is over (and I don't know that it is. That would be my guess, but it's just a guess) - if easy money is over, then the startups that depend on easy money are probably mostly doomed, but that seems obvious and uninteresting.

I was talking about the next generation of startups... if this generation is, in fact, doomed, there are going to be, for example, more supply and less demand for small office sublets in the trendy parts of town
I think it's saying that "patterns" are themselves values that have operations you can perform on them. For example, adding to patterns, or subtracting from them, or concatenating them, etc.

I don't know SNOBOL though, so I'm having a hard time picturing what the actual implications of that are, or exactly how it works. But I'm intrigued enough now that I want to go read this "Green Book" and see what it's all about.
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I think parser combinator libraries are pretty similar. In Haskell, people often use Parsec instead of regular expressions.
Fighting for literature in an age of algorithms
Curious to know how the effects of "stress, arterial stress, vasoconstriction, increased heart rate, and high blood pressure" from Adderall (which I don't take) compare to caffeine and/or nicotine (current and former). Are the problems similar or the same for a daily coffee drinker/smoker or reduced?
If you have a pattern that matches FIRSTNAME and another that matches LASTNAME, roughly:

FULLNAME = FIRSTNAME LASTNAME

Whitespace is a catenation operator, and catenating two patterns gives you a new pattern that matches a string matching the first and the second pattern.

Maybe you want to handle old-school people like raganwald:

OLDSCHOOLNAME = LASTNAME ‘, ‘ FIRSTNAME

Or both:

ANYNAME = FULLNAME | OLDSCHOOLNAME

The vertical bar is an alternate operator.

Regular expressions work the same way, but in most languages, the regular expression language is really a DSL embedded in the syntax for a regular expression literal. Whereas in SNOBOL, all those operators are ordinary language operators and you can use them anywhere.

So you can manipulate patterns programatically.
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Everyone can just use Lantern (https://www.getlantern.org). They already are, but in greater numbers since the Shadowsocks announcement (https://github.com/trending).
I prefer 10x accounting principles.
Several Eastern European countries have very strong orthodox churches. There is a large, general area there referred to as Europe's bible belt for that reason.

For example, Romania is an extremely religious country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Romania
Another good way to attract hummingbirds is to plant a butterfly garden ... we have a half-dozen to a dozen visit every summer.
The title of the article is "Modafinil for cognitive neuroenhancement in healthy non-sleep-deprived subjects" (emphasis mine). I don't think the article, nor anybody here in the comments, suggested that Modafinil is a good substitute for sleep.
From the tables of fatalities per 100 million miles that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration compiles [0], the accident rate for trucks went up from 1.03 to 1.29. Passenger vehicle crashes are actually lower, going from 1.03 to 1. These are still on the low end historically: both rates were around 1.36 15 years ago.

[0] http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/data-and-statistics/large-tr.... I'm using tables 4 and 5.
Actually, anything intelligent wouldn't have used hardware, form factors, or mimics of form factors...Once.

Anything with a form factor or using hardware, is rather retarded, and useless...
> CMEs, it appears, only generate the third, long-lasting type of electric disturbance. According to NASA[1], these have electric fields up to 26V/km, which is a much lower intensity, but for a significantly longer duration.

And on a much bigger scale distance wise. An EMP would not engulf half the planet in one go.
You may want to read this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/world/middleeast/cia-said-...

A lot of these guys ended up in ISIS, it would be foolish to assume otherwise. If you view America's foreign policy aim as maintaining an unstable middle east, then it's not a slippery slope argument.
Chiming in on your little rant, I really wish Spotify would make it easer to just listen to some albums.

I'm old, I grew up with tapes and vinyl, I don't want to shuffle, I don't want to share my listening to facebook (I'll message my buddy when I've found a gem), I don't want to know what my friends are listenting to (my backlog is big enough already), I don't want crappy playlists (I have radio already, thank you), I'm too lazy to create my own playlists, and the last thing I want to do when running is listen to music.

All I would like to do is save a couple dozen artists I like so I can slowly dig through their oevre and it would be great to have a way to manage that (one endlessly scrolling list is not enough). I still haven't figured out how the play queue gets populated.

Finishing off with something positive, the wifi sync is pretty awesome, first time I got some music stored on my iphone (I use a linux laptop).
Have been noticing this for the last few months too, very weird.
A simple implementation of the SECD abstract machine
Eastern block countries after half the century of communism are mostly atheistic, even if they appear religious on the outside. I think that some pretty low scores (less than 50%) may be due to poor education - some people simply couldn't comprehend question, for it being too abstract.
> Unless your claim is that sneezing is classified as a "violent crime", the paper appears to refute this point.

A number of people in the US have been arrested for assault for farting on a police officer. At least one was arrested for farting not on a police officer, but for fanning the fumes from his fart towards a police officer.
I'm genuinely surprised that USA has such a high incarceration rate, and even so much higher than China which I consider still a police state.

But in terms of science, technology and programming , civil liberties ... can any other country compete with America ? Google, Apple, Microsoft, FaceBook, Yahoo ... all the most innovative companies are made in America ...
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You can express political dissent in America without getting jailed (as far as I know). You can't do that in China or Singapore
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Yeah, like one for old people and one for young people. I don't think it's possible to make one app that works for everyone from 15 to 75.
This article is spot on. American businesses are not hanging by a thread, they are beating a horse drawing an overloaded cart, and don't care if the horse drops dead. They think they can just get another.

In today's business environment, everything seems to be both urgent and important. I think that a lot of that is
due to who is in charge and what they think is pressing at the time. Everything cannot be urgent and important, only some small percentage of what needs to be done should be labeled as such.

The only way to fix this in the short term is for everyone to start saying "No" to chronic overtime. I define chronic overtime to be a work week which exceeds 48 hours over a 6 week average. Maybe then, companies will decide which tasks are really worthwhile and only direct efforts to them, or if they are understaffed, hire enough staff to get the important stuff done.

In the longer term, we need to reform the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to eliminate unpaid overtime except in unusual situations. The European Working Time Directive is an excellent example of model legislation. We just have to keep nagging our congresspersons, and beat back the US Chamber of Commerce's lobbying efforts.
I certainly think 20,000 deaths is worse than 10,000 deaths yes.

I believe there is a much greater discrepancy than 2x, between the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and ongoing drone strikes inflicting civilian casualties, and Chinese incursions into Tibet.

That's not to say I support China in their incursions into Tibet. I am very sympathetic to those who have had atrocities committed towards them.

I do think however that the scale of a crime is important, and can be compared.

With the numbers you can make meaningful comparisons. This person committed two murders, this person committed one. To suggest all atrocities are equal is weak.
Firefox to gain support for Chrome add-ons and lose support for legacy XUL plugins
How were countries selected? The obvious exceptions (other than the states) are left out (i.e. Arab gulf states).
> How would self-driving trucks help the trucking industry?

The people running the companies will be looking at labor as a major expense and human employees as a high source of variability and day-to-day complication. Trading labor cost (typically seen as an expense) for fixed asset costs (typically seen as investment) is hugely appealing to a lot of executives.

> It seems like driverless technology will only make the business even more commoditized than it already is [...]

Sure, and buying a $1 lottery ticket is financially equivalent to asking the store clerk to change $1 and then throwing $0.40 into the nearest sewer grate. But everybody buying a lottery ticket thinks they'll one of the few winners. Executives are generally like that too. But worse, because they get to gamble with other people's money and then take a slice of any winnings.
That would be a hallucination, which no is not real.
> The data here is poor in several ways- the selection is highly weighted towards european countries and excludes, for instance, Canada and Mexico and South America. Africa is right out and the only asian country is Japan. Further, GDP is not a measure of "Wealth" but the size of an economy (wealth is like savings, GDP is like gross revenue.)

Agreed with this. The selection of countries is limited, and is a result of the source article, which is itself an interesting read on the politicisation of science: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/313/5788/765.full

I wrote a longer response to the rest of your comment, but on reflection I think I'd rather not to get into that here.
Good, I hope they do and I'm an OS X user. Means we can finally move on to a better model than these 6 meg ad downloads.
There is no explanation about which countries have been included and which have not. What is the criteria? Was there any at all? Or did the author just pick some countries to make the USA a more obvious outlier?
4 is pointless to implement because you're in a tragedy of the commons scenario. The worst actor drives adblock installs, and limiting your own ads will just lose you revenue since adblocks don't discriminate networks.
See "A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What do I do?"

http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/200177/234215
The brain is the product of random trial-and-error filtered through selection (Evolution). This process was simple enough to give rise to Intelligence without the need of an example. Now, I'd like to think we can at least do as much using our own brains instead of relying on dumb luck.
Why does coffee shoot out of the lid of your cup?
I agree with you to an extent -- it's all computation, after all -- but I don't think we're too far off from understanding the brain.

We know a good deal about how the individual cells work at the molecular / electrophysiological level, and how simple circuits function; and we also have a fair understanding of the gross structural organisation of the brain.

It's the middle layer that's the big unknown: how simple circuits link up to form complex behaviours, but it's not an impossible problem. I suspect looking at the smaller nervous systems of invertebrates will give us the conceptual understanding of these interactions, which we can then scale to understand mammals. We're largely waiting on the technology to map these circuits, and the computational tools to simulate and analyse them.
The run in SFSafariViewControllers, not all UIWebViews.
I thought the internet got mad at AdBlock not because it was allowing "unobtrusive" ads, but because it was allowing ad companies to pay AdBlock to be put on the whitelist.
Did you read some of the stuff that she posted to me elsewhere in this article?
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The best time for trucks is at night, but trucks don't drive. Humans drive trucks, and humans are diurnal animals.
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Right but you have warned me with a ban and given her very little rebuke.
Stack Exchange makes all the content available as a downloadable file, so they must be expecting clones.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

They then have a bunch of licensing terms if you reuse the content, which must be what they're referring to by "bringing these sites into compliance is often a long and arduous process".
> Programming without pointer indirection seems like cycling without legs

A study of functional programming will demonstrate this untrue. The paragraph you quoted from the paper elaborates to specifically why references are complicated and low level: "introducing the concept of reference ... immediately gives rise in a high level language to one of the most notorious confusions of machine code, namely that between an address and its contents ... They cannot be input as data, and they cannot be output as results. If either data or references to data have to be stored on files or backing stores, the problems are immense". Perhaps one reason why people love working in JSON so much is because it only encodes values.

> indeed high level languages often move the other way, abandoning value types altogether

FP languages strongly emphasize programming with values. Rich Hickey, creator of Clojure programming language, gave an amazing talk "Simple made Easy" which is probably the best place to start to dive into this: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
I sometimes get this feeling that Ubuntu is giving Linux a bad name, with all the weird stuff that happens (or unexpectedly fails to happen) when running it. Of course, I only have anecdotal evidence here...

I've switched to Arch about a year ago and sure, the installation was a bit painful, but after that, I don't know... it just works (including the switch to the new 4.x kernel, but I'm given to understand that the jump was fairly minor). Oh, and Plasma 5 is pretty :)

I had Debian for a while, but the outdated packages were killing me (and I was on testing). Other than that, I couldn't really complain.
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I'm also surprised at how many apps need to run in the background. Notepads, music players, file explorers, an expense manager - why would they need to run all the time if I don't even use them and haven't set up any syncing.

Not to mention that Google Play Services is draining my battery like crazy by using GPS and keeping the CPU awake for way too long...
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Oh, neat.

Perl 6 appears to have assimilated that idea:
http://doc.perl6.org/language/regexes#Subrules
That's true anywhere, and it's what governments of all stripes worry about and steer. Western ones do it with a bit more finesse, but there's little fundamental difference. It's why Chomsky talks about 'manufacturing consent', and why marketing is an important field for Western governments, as covered in some detail by Adam Curtis. The UK government even have a unit dedicated to 'nudge theory'.
> There are far too many [...] jobs at risk to retrain and place in nonexistent "freeing" jobs that just don't exist. Loads of unemployed people with no job prospects to feed their families would be an idiotic situation rife with discontent bordering on insurrection.

This is an argument against nearly every technological development ever.
They've been around for years. A while back a few were sometimes beating SO in google results, but google eventually fixed that. Everything on SO is cc-by-sa licensed, so as long as the source is attributed (and it is on some of the sites), it's legal. The motivation is simple: the clone spam sites have ads on them. They're not actively trying to attack SO; they're just leeching value.
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Back-in-the-day I did not consider Smalltalk/V usable, that changed with V286 :-)
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Ask HN: What are your motivations to open source a major project?
Intrigued by individuals' decision trees on deciding whether to commercialize something or open source it.
An example would be Firebase vs Hoodie or Firehose.
As a 2b2t player, I would say that whilst it initially appears to be rather difficult to exit said 'cube', it is in fact rather easy to escape. One must simply be willing to try a few times and meet new people. Why go near people who are potentially hostile? There is no loss: one simply restarts with the same amount as before (0), but one could make a friend which will provide one with food etc. in order to facilitate easier arrival at 2b2t Immigration. 2b2t Immigration's officers are rather ... variable. Some will kill on sight (KoS), whilst others will give render assistance. However, the main factor which has lead to 2b2t spawn becoming easier is the road system. There are roads every multiple of 400 blocks up until the 1200 orbital, for the most part, thanks to the efforts of several players. The roads lead to portals, which in theory allow you to get to over 100k overworld by walking along nether paths. Within the 1200 radius there are a multitude of farms, and within the latter radius there are far more indeed. After about 1k the landscape appears to be vaguely naturally generated, and after 5k all destruction of spawn like intensity ceases to be.
even if you enforce that it's still not gonna help with the fact that as much as people would like it circadian rhythms don't adjust instantly. Ever changing shifts are the bane of a good existence, working nights all the time is fine, working nights a week every 2-3 or worse, 2-3 days a week, is going to cause a lot of problems for everybody.

From my perspective I would totally gamify cars/trucks for everybody, every time you want to go somewhere you get your reflexes tested, if your reaction time is higher than a certain amount the car won't start. This will catch anybody who is too tired just as well as anybody who has been drinking I would think, which in the end works about the same when it comes to road safety.
Firefox is about to work a lot more like Chrome
In the first few years, people always spawned at 0 0. This was a large box, sometimes full of withers, which was difficult to escape. I believe that after some people completely covered 0 0 in cobblestone, rendering escape de facto impossible, the random spawn point system was introduced, in order to make it more difficult to cover all spawn points.
the term you are looking for is "over the counter" or OTC
This is an interesting question. Although I am not deeply familiar with either of the games you mention, it seems that they are inherently time-based. There are also some random elements to CivClicker (e.g. traders that come through). Given these rules, I don't think a simple constraint solver would be sufficient to "solve" the game, but it might be a part of a more complicated solution.

However, there are lots of games that essentially only involve solving constraints. A simple example is Sudoku.
It would depend on company policy. If company policy requires you to take PTO for a doctor's or dentists appointment, then I'd only work 40 hours at that company.
If the company doesn't account for exempt time, then they may get more than 40 hours of work out of me.

Regarding exempt employees having to take PTO, recent court challenges in California have come out in favor of the employer. See Rhea V. General Atomics. http://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1673316.html
It's not that knotted: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133651-first-map-of-the-h...

Data at http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/
I don't understand why StackOverflow allows this, yeah creative commons is cool and all but it IS NOT COOL for actual users. I get so annoyed every time i search for something on Google and it leads to an its clone site. It's not like StackOverflow has better search than Google (which is ridiculous). I still have to search on Google if I want quality search result instead of StackOverflow. With more power comes more responsibility. StackOverflow's policy feels too irresponsible in this regard
I guess it's a win-win situation. Stack Overflow's ranking goes up, because of all the sites referencing it, and the spammers make money.

But as a consequence, the users have to sift through spam results.
I think that is what he meant. Winter is seasonal after all.
If it comes to that, yes.

A top surgeon in Boston was recently crushed under a semi in city traffic. The truck should have had sensors that prevent "right hooking" a cyclist, and the driver should be monitored for standards of sleep and on-duty time, and for alertness behind the wheel.

But really, what most people are calling for here would improve truckers' working conditions.
The SETL language is still available. There is an enhanced version written in Java called setlX

http://randoom.org/Software/SetlX
When it comes to capital China is actively preventing people with money from leaving; and even putting pressure on family members of people who have left in order bring them and, more importantly, their money back.
Researchers made an entirely new type of glass by accident