skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An experimental, proof-of-concept fork of Python 3
For what it's worth, there's also `asciidoc` and its implementation asciidoctor (http://asciidoctor.org). It has an both official JVM and JS packages in addition to the Ruby version, as well.

Notably missing is math support, however, because rather than Madoko's approach of using LaTeX and then using a LaTeX-to-HTML renderer, asciidoc renders directly to HTML (or Docbook, or LaTeX). IMO, the end result doesn't necessarily look like an academic article placed on an HTML page… But it's nicer for consumption in a browser—the whole asciidoctor site is generated from asciidoctor.

EDIT: this means asciidoc is a better fit for documentation, in book or article or whatever form—but I think once it gains math support (which they're working on) it would be quite useful for this as well.
Well, that, or you know, educate the staff and discuss strategies to asynchronize things.
There is literally a US government conspiracy against vegan mayo
I get the feeling from a few of them that the subjects of the AMA don't want to be there and that they're almost forced to do it by their PR. I'm used to the AMAs of old where the subjects really got into it.
> Once I caught up on my sleep something funny started to happen. I would only sleep about 4 hours, then wake up for 2 hrs in the middle of the night

Some are convinced that this was our sleep pattern before electric lighting was a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
Node.js / Io.js State of the Build: ARM
Assuming I am the average Gentoo user, how many CPU hours would I save in a year? I doubt it is worth the time investment.
I guess the open letter is in reference to recent press coverage like:

"""The whining billionaire who says being rich is sheer hell: Inside the life that Minecraft founder Markus Persson says has been ruined by too much money

Swede who created online sensation Minecraft made £1.2bn selling it on

He splurged on Beverley Hills mansion and enjoys lavish Vegas weekends

But has taken to Twitter to bemoan his riches which have made him lonely

His marriage lasted just a year and he now pays £4,000 every month in child support

"""

- Daily Mail.

He should probably do what most tech guys made rich do and plow the money into funding and mentoring starups.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3220333/The-whining-...
So correct me if I'm wrong, but a lay-person's understanding might go like this:

It's like a fiber optic cable, except that instead of light, it transmits a magnetic field, and instead of being a cable, it's a metal ball.
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1) It seems to be a bug. Please, report it to the issue tracker.

2) You can read more about debugging DSLs here: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/MPSD32/Debugger
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10116916
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Which is quite a feat, since 70% of Rich Families Lose Their Wealth by the Second Generation. http://time.com/money/3925308/rich-families-lose-wealth/

Clearly, the guy can manage. That's more than any profesionnal politician can say!
It´s probably a myth that a systematic review of X studies, each involving 35 participants on average is better than throwing a d100.
> It's how very early version of Unix effectively did stuff, they exceed a program, and when it exited they exceed the shel again.

Makes sense, since those systems might not have enough memory to run the shell and another program at the same time.
Well, the 'hose' came out 2 years ago: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514201/physicists-build...

Am I correct in saying that this got a "wormhole" label just because the "hose" is shielded??
The way I think you do an end run around that is to not think in terms of tools but in terms of skills. If your skill today is building CRUD forms, that's what you'll do in 30 years, only you'll do it in that decade's tools. I think you're then supposed to look at the supply and demand of skills, and try to gain a skillset that will be in high demand but with a limited supply. For example, building CRUD forms has probably reached peaked demand, and the influx of programmers in low wage markets is going to put downward pressure on wages for decades to come, so no matter how well you keep up with tools, you don't want to be in that market for the next few decades. On the other hand, if you specialise in data science and assorted algorithms, you're probably set for life, because demand for those skills will keep rising as software gets smarter, and the difficulty of gaining those skills will limit supply.
Any plans to make it integrate a little nicer with Immutable.js? Currently it's impossible to update Immutable props and have them reflect live in my app through React Devtools the way that you can with plain JS datatypes.

What would be really awesome is if there was something similar to Chrome Dev Tools' "store as global variable" feature, so that I could edit props in the console and then pass back to React.
Because you're bad at grammar?
I wouldn't be naive to try to point out reasons for such slowdown, but this response is somewhat dangerous.

The rhetoric of 'WE NEED MORE DEMAND' has hurt many countries and is probably one of the causes of this slowdown.
Oh, wow, this could be great. LaTeX only for the math, markdown for everything else.

What if you need to futz with margins and styles or use a publisher's standard .sty file?
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/banks-got-114b-from-governme...

Our banks did get bailed out. Even more than the American banks on a per-capita basis.
There's obsession and then there's workaholism.

The former is something that you're driven to do internally out of great desire for it. The latter is just trying to avoid problems by working.
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My point was more that before condemning the Indians, we should remove the log from our own eye.
Causality is needed as an axiom because if it does not hold, then it means that the result of an experiment could be depend of something happening in the future.
That means that we could not have reproducible experiment anymore for instance.
> If you have an existing perpetual license, you can use it infinitely, just as the license agreement stated when you purchased it.

My understanding of the agreement is that you can use the software infinitely with the version that was available on the last day of the subscription term.

As languages and frameworks change, it seems inevitable that everyone who wants to continue working with the latest stable version will be forced to subscribe via the Toolbox (because the renewal of the perpetual license is no longer supported), at which point they no longer own the software they are paying for.
I'm looking forward to great speech-to-text technology. I help run fan-driven transcripts for a podcast, and I recently tried using Google's; it returned something like the hosts were concussed, or Markov models of themselves.

Edit: the word salad result: http://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Podcast_107_Transcript_%28automated...
Sure sounds like it:

"Or they could heed the advice of Henry George, an American follower of Ricardo who in the 1880s made the case for a land-value tax. It has many theoretical virtues. Most taxes dampen, distort or displace economic activity by changing incentives on the margins. But a land tax cannot reduce the supply of land, and it would stimulate economic activity by penalising those whose land is unproductive. And your tax base is always right there—a city lot cannot be whisked off to Luxembourg.

The mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, hopes that taxing vacant lots by value will help deal with urban blight in the Bronx and elsewhere. But there are practical problems with a land tax—perhaps the largest of which is that by its very nature it hits the well-connected rich hardest. Even fiscally purist Estonia, which adopted a land tax in 1993, has complicated it with multiple bands, including an exemption for homeowners."

As criticism goes, that is so weaksauce it's a 0 on the Scoville scale.
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I'm actually quite upset about this. I love PyCharm and I've always upgraded to most recent major version because even though I didn't necessarily need all the new features, I wanted to support JetBrains for making such great software.

So now I'm stuck using PyCharm 4.x forever unless I pay a monthly fee to upgrade. And if I stop paying I lose access to my IDE? Truly an awful way to treat loyal customers.

I can only hope that JetBrains abandons this new SaaS model or has some plan to allow users to purchase either a perpetual license or a subscription a-la Microsoft Office.

If not, then I hope Atom or Sublime Text get some robust debugging plugins for Python like PyCharm has.
> Please don't use what you hear on the internet to base your option of the USA.

Isn't that self-contradicting? Then who'll listen to your claims?

How about Wikipedia: "In October 2013, the incarceration rate of the United States of America was the highest in the world, at 716 per 100,000 of the national population. While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, it houses around 22 percent of the world's prisoners." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...)

So much for "be respectful and they will be respectful back." Such systematic problems aren't about "respect." If an official enemy was so jail-happy, we'd probably not take such a claim seriously. Because we're not so programmed to believe their propaganda.
Does anyone seriously doubt that the use of prolonged solitary confinement will be listed in the history books alongside other examples of state-sponsored torture, slavery, and terrorism?

I'm not going to make any cliched remarks about karma here, but the United States will have to deal with the consequences of its actions eventually.

Ironically, our own history books are filled with such redemption stories, which forms the basis of the ludicrous exceptionalism that so infects rational discourse about most anything these days.
Solitary wouldn't be used as a punishment if people preferred it. It's nearly universally feared.
I find myself wearing my headphones even when I am not listening to anything. It acts as a signal.
Being of a race doesn't prevent you being racist towards it. A black cop can be just as racist to a black person walking down the street as a white cop can. Indeed, I seem to recall hearing on a few occasions that they often are.

The assumption that all a black person can do to be racist is call you (a white male) "cracker" is rather disingenuous.
Civil war in the west is just not going to happen. There is localised political violence, but a proper civil war requires the defection of some or all of the military. The most likely country for this that counts as "western" is Turkey.
Aren't those older areas? They have some new construction, but the street plan and most of the buildings are pre-war.

Toronto's new neighborhood, the condos by the waterfront, is hideous: http://urbantoronto.ca/sites/default/files/imagecache/displa...
This write-up misses a small but important fact: Bradley initially only wanted to offer license enforcement agreements, and did not think that anyone would be interested in copyright assignments. The only reason that they now offer both is that he was persuaded to do so.

Reading the article, one could get the false impression that this was all about copyright assignment with the small option of mere license enforcement.
Is it actually described as "over-dividing" in an academic sense? Those individual words do have meaning, but they have later been recombined into forms that have new, sometimes orthogonal meanings. I can see the argument for mashing them back together in that case, but "over-divided" seems a strange way to look at it.
`cd` can be critical in grepping for how a file in a particular directory was made.
It's pretty cool to finally have a discount option to subscribe to all of the JetBrains products. When my existing IntelliJ license free upgrade period expires I'll probably subscribe to the "all products" option. That said, it's a bit upsetting they don't seem to offer corporate perpetual licenses anymore. It's a lot easier to justify the expense when it could be a one-time expense. Suddenly having your critical work tools stop working (for instance, during a budget freeze) is somewhat unacceptable.
death? probably not... but dethroned? gosh i hope so.
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Ask HN: Any tools for two way synced music listening?
One of my work mates and I used to use the Soundrop app in Spotify to have a synced shared playlist. We grew up together and have similar tastes in music and its fun to occasionally talk about a song or share new stuff with each other. He is on the other side of the country from me. Is there any other options? I've tried the few obvious ones that come up when Googling but none of them are as seamless and simple as I'd like. Does anyone else do this? Any awesome solutions that you've come across?
Date and time to the second. For something I start interactively? Yes, it's good enough.
It would be more accurate to compare someone with an advantage such as Trump had, to people who had the same or similar advantage but never were able to achieve as much "fame and fortune". By the way he could have also gambled away and lost that fortune (and in fact he went bankrupt and came back later on as everyone knows actually).

After all when there is an story about a sports star who is particularly gifted, you don't see other articles talking about that "they are great at basketball because they were born 7 foot tall". Or about Tiger Woods "he is great only because his father took the time to train him from a young age". Credit goes to people who take advantage of what they have. It's obvious that not everyone or close to everyone born with a distinct advantage has achieved notoriety or excelled. Sometimes that is even a negative. I often take issue with Bill Gates being born into advantage myself, but the truth is many people with the same advantage never would have ended up a billionaire so yes credit is due vs. the competition or peers you might say.

No doubt that going to Harvard has helped Gates, PG, Zuckerberg and a host of others. But the truth is most Harvard Grads don't end up where they did so yes they deserve credit and not whining from the less fortunate.
You also might want to take a look at GitBook (https://www.gitbook.com/).

It supports both Markdown and AsciiDoc and is used by authors to write books, documentation, research-papers (GitBook has great TeX support, in all outputs: web, pdf, epub, mobi). (Here's a math heavy book for example: http://jandeleeuw.gitbooks.io/bras1/content/blockrelaxation/...)

The format and toolchain itself is open-source (https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook)

There's a ecosystem built on top of that such as a Desktop Editor (https://www.gitbook.com/editor), plugins (http://plugins.gitbook.com/), and more ...

I don't want to hijack the current thread, Madoko seems really cool, I thought some of you might be interested in a more established solution. I'm happy to answer any questions !

Disclaimer: I'm one of the GitBook co-founders
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I think if it's working that's great, I support a cultural plurality. It's like adopting kids - if you're doing well with the ones you have then have at it. If your kids are starving and can barely read, don't adopt more. In my state less than 7 of 10 of both our hispanic and black students are even graduating high school right now. We have too many districts with on-time graduation rates below 60% and those are the districts immigrants and refugees are most likely to flow into.

19% of high school graduates in the US are functionally illiterate[0]. Nationwide only half of black males are graduating at all. Half. We're already failing to take care of our poor. We're spending a very large amount of money trying to but it happens to be expensive.

If you go back to the start of this thread you'll see I've been consistent that there's a point where taking in more people is no longer a good thing. That doesn't mean I think it's always a bad thing, just that we should be honest that it can be.

[0] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/illiteracy-rate_n_3...
The article is in the journal Scientific Reports, not Nature. Nature Publishing Group is the publisher of that journal.
It still comes up quite often. Autoboxing and type erasure are two of the biggest mistakes that have been inflicted upon the Java language after its original release. Not knowing about them will lead to a world of hurt.

They should have killed the primitive/object distinction, turning the primitives into stack-allocated objects and rewritten the collections libraries. But no, syntactic sugar is better than actually fixing the problem for those that want a fix.
this must be some kind of record, in 15 words you took something great, started adding unnecessary, creeping features, and ended up with bloatware no one wants to use anymore :)

Usually this takes years!
Ask HN: How to respond to a request for custom work with supershort description?
We sell our product hosted, and on a regular basis we get sales knocking on our door: a customer wants this-and-that report (followed by a 20-word description), how long will that take us, they need it fast?

In the past we tried to get more information, it never came, sales looked at us like: "this description looks pretty clear to me, what else do you need to know", we still estimated, and we ended up losing money, and/or the project went completely sideways.

Usually these things should take a few weeks at most, so they are small, but as a company we really can use the cash.

I always ask the programmer that is intended to do the actual work, but they come back with either no estimate, or with a far too high cover-my-ass estimate, which we cannot sell.

What's the best way to handle this?
According to the article, he manages slightly worse than a simple algorithm.

I agree that this is still more than any professional politician.
SAT scores at lowest level in 10 years, fueling worries about high schools
Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming
In React, Redux as a container for "state". I think your first link is incorrect, and should instead be: http://rackt.github.io/redux/
Anyone who'd like to donate a Raspberry Pi (or money to buy one) should let Rod know - details at the end of the post.
He did mention trying most of the standard techniques for that. From an individual perspective, I think that's a reasonably well-explored space.

If the problem statement is "interruptions cause me to be unproductive for some time after one occurs", there's a lot of value to working on cutting down "some time" as well as simply trying to avoid interruptions. Some interruptions are unavoidable, as well: bathroom, RSI-induced rest breaks, loud noises from outside.

I moved away from programming a couple years ago, and I've found that there are non-programming tasks that require the same amount of "load-up" that development does. Writing comes to mind. Programming is unique, though, because there are far more digital artifacts you have to navigate while you do it. That makes these sorts of techniques particularly interesting. How do we take advantage of the fact that there are so many markers in the code, instead of making their complexing the problem?
There's also http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-broken-sleep-is-a-gol... which was posted a while back on HN and which I found quite interesting.
>>That's more than any profesionnal politician can say!

More like: that's more than the United States government can say. There are quite a few wealthy professional politicians.
Because right now, we can pay a one time fee and use the software as long as we want, without incurring any more cost in return for not getting updates or imposing a cost on JetBrains.

However, from November, that will no longer be possible. If Jetbrains decides, in 2016, to increase the license fee to $300 per year, or $500, then we will have 2 options: Pay it and continue to have access, or don't pay, and lose all access to the tools, despite the fact that we have already given you money. If I have a cashflow problem, I can no longer decide to stay with last year's version for a while, instead I lose access.

I'm sure you know this, I'm sure everyone at JetBrains knows this.
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That's partially due to Google's approach. It appears that they're building a single model for every acoustic model, language, and domain. While that works as a general purpose tool, it's less useful as you go down the rabbit hole.

Side question.. how do you host your podcast? I'd love to chat if you get the chance. My email is in my profile.
This kind of reminds me of something I almost ordered: http://varianto25.com/code-deck.html

Nice work by the way!
Most people in prison are not in solitary confinement.
What is absolutely baffling to me is that companies assign coding tests as a pre-qualifier for the usual whiteboard interview despite the coding test being a far more adequate measure of the abilities of an engineer. I've had interviewers tell me that my coding samples went above and beyond what they usually receive (exhaustive docstrings, tests that make sense) and yet rather than discuss, say, how my code worked or why I chose one algorithm over another, they insist on making me solve puzzles on the whiteboard as the ultimate decider.

The ideal hiring process for me would be introductory culture fit phone call, in which working hours, benefits, vacation policy etc are discussed to see if there is a lifestyle fit between prospective hire and employee (not 'Do you rock climb and crush brews?' culture BS), then a coding challenge, and then an in-person discussion of your code. The in-person discussion could involve throwing new requirements and hypotheticals at the problem to see how the candidate thinks on their feet, but it would still be relevant to the work they did at hand rather than some arbitrary puzzle pulled from Cracking the Coding Interview.

I would be interested to know how the hoop-jumping-to-whiteboard process came to be standard. To me it does not make any sense why the determining factor for receiving an offer for a software engineering job should be dependent on one's improvisational problem solving abilities over actually writing code that runs and satisfies requirements. Is it because a whiteboard interview is much more cut and dry than code evaluation? Because every software company wants to think that they are Google?
Good info. I'm perhaps too paranoid.
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A recently published controlled study found that in two groups who were deliberately exposed to the cold virus then forced to sleep less than 6 hours a night or more than 8 hours, the group that slept less than 6 hours caught colds at a 4.5X greater rate, which was independent of previous immune system strength, age, socio-economic, and every other variable they tracked.

The experimental design seems to be pretty solid, and once these findings are replicated, this is pretty strong evidence that "we're not getting enough sleep."

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/02/short-sleepers-may-...
If you left to get more space, why would the Economist think that the place could have five times more workers if they lifted building restrictions?

Because the people attracted by the massive drop in rents would more than offset those who leave because of the increased density.
> "Though a tiny fraction of people can get away with much less."

Why is that?