skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Landing slots at airports have different fees. If you the A is a very expensive airport (e.g. Heathrow) the price of flying from and to A can be higher than the reverse.
He does say "There are usually escape hatches, but at some limit you're just writing procedural code again."
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The US is not regulating the currency, it's regulating how US citizens and companies use it. Coinflip is based in California.

(By the way, I'm not disagreeing that the US has plenty of imperialistic tendencies. But this is not one such case.)
No, this is wrong. With small sample sizes you may get a statistically significant result, but it still might not be a real result and might not be reproducible. This is a major issue in science today and why a lot of studies can't be replicated.
I haven't looked over the project extensively but I'm thinking it may bridge the gap for programmers or newcomers who are not familiar with assembly. You could of course just program a modern game in Python but then you're probably looking at a tech stack. I think this type of game design could be a great starting point as all you need exists in the given environment. I've recently been mulling the idea of an NES programming environment in the browser.
Another way to understand the distances is the old scroll-through solar system. If the moon is one pixel, then Pluto is pretty far away.

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...
“Private blockchain” is just a confusing name for a shared database
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Prediction: BitCoin will be the cause of the great world depression, watch the news.
Could come down in part to device driver support:

Microsoft's post revealing ACS says a fair bit about its features but doesn't explain why Microsoft felt decided to do with Linux distro? Perhaps the complexity of the world's switching ecosystem was the reason: Redmond says it has demonstrated ACS across with “four ASIC vendors (Mellanox, Broadcom, Cavium, and the Barefoot software switch), six implementations of SAI (Broadcom, Dell, Mellanox, Cavium, Barefoot, and Metaswitch)....

Per an Azure blog posting yesterday (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/switch-abstraction-int...): "As of July 2015, the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) specification has been officially accepted by the Open Compute Project (OCP) as a standardized C API to program ASICs."

To my very limited understanding of this space, FPGAs and cheaper application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are essential to high speed networking.
TL;DR:
"Rumours have begun to circulate about the re-emergence of the iconic VW hippy-van.."

"Dr. Heinz-Jakob Neusser spilled the beans at the recent New York Auto Show that Volkswagen is in fact working on producing an electric version of the classic camper bus."

"Unfortunately the new electric model of the hippy-classic is still a concept car, and releasing it to the masses depends largely on manufacturing cost. "
That part made me cringe too. "Actually, we are in charge now. You just haven’t realized it yet." is a complete joke. Whom ever pays the bills is in charge, and if you work for anyone that ain't you.

I believe the entire ecosystem of "hackathons" to be a scam for Billy like people to exploit naive developers. In fact, if one reads the terms of many corporate sponsered hackathons, the corporation (I'm lookin at you Intel) backing the event claims usage rights to any ideas pitched.
Okay, that was actually pretty cool. I had no idea we were at a point were such control was possible. I would've thought the drones would get tangled in the rope when adding the stabilizers.
What concerns me as much as the initial side effects is your last paragraph, and the sentiment surrounding it. Benzos have been known to have some additional significant neurological consequences in the long term, and have always felt to me like a rather large sledgehammer for the problems they often treat. As such, "your behavior-modifying drugs give you a side effect so we'll shove more powerful drugs in your face" was an attitude that I've seen multiple times and NEVER to good effect. (I'll be very candid that I was part of the "you have ADHD so we'll treat you with pills" generation, at a much younger age, but will leave it at that it didn't end as planned.)

I hope I'm not a total tin foil hatter by looking askew at this trend, but being married to a neurologist and the son of a behaviorist, I'm VERY aware of how little we understand what we're doing when we muck around up there.
Of course actions can (and should) be taken. The OP protected the identity of the parts involved, but I am feeling free to drop in more info about the whole thing:
http://www.caledonvirtual.com/2015-startup-weekend-columbia-...

The start-up is called StaffedUp and it's site is up and running (with that unlicensed code, I presume):
http://www.staffedup.com
Can somebody elaborate why the need for such libraries, when:

-client side websocket handling is ~3 lines of code

-server side websocket is ~200 lines of code even with pure bit level C/C++ on top of any TCP socket (the websocket RFC is very simple)

-writing a simple protocol for yourself is obvious

So, you can write all these for yourself within one day and then you know all the details. It takes more time to study how to use others code and you will still remain on the wrong path if some modification would be needed, feature missing or you have to fix a bug.
In the blog comments someone raises proposes the sentence "Mary saw the jaguar". And points out that it wouldn't know if the jaguar was an animal or a car. Once again, confidence comes in but it would be based on context. Or perhaps it would become clear after more conversation.
It was a response to the original comment of - I'm not going to call him a liar, because that presumes malice. He was wrong and irresponsible in his defaming statement. - which I still think merits sarcasm.

I could have done better however, so in that spirit, here's First Dog on the Moon's take on the event - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/sep/18...
Regarding performance, one thing to keep in mind is that all of the languages you mention use GC, which can help with cache locality issues. In Rust, of course, the situation is different. Gankro also addresses the common and useful idioms you see in most functional languages through corresponding vector-centric functions on the Rust side. (Scala is perhaps a reasonable midpoint.)

That all said, I too would love to see some substantiation of the performance intuitions here.
Not really across all of humanity.

The majority of the human race lack the ability to digest milk (more specifically lactose sugar) once they are passed weaning.

It was a relatively recent mutation in some human populations (Northern Europe et al) that allows them to continue digesting lactose into adulthood.

They think this was because in Northern Climates where growing crops was more difficult milk and dairy products where a much larger source of calories than in other places as well as an excellent way of storing a valuable food product (Cheese however has relatively low levels of lactose at around ~1% compared to regular milk at ~5%).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence
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Did we ever leave feudalism, at a fundamental level?
That's a great list but it's really hard to distinguish between fully nomadic (Buffer is the perfect example) and companies that hire many workers remotely. I think most of the listed companies hire remotely (ex. Trello) and have big distributed teams.

I am hugely interested in more examples like Buffer.
You are ever so correct, sorry about that! I also would like to say that I am slightly "disappointed" that Red decided to stick so closely to Rebol. Personally I definitely don't find everything in Rebol to be so perfect. ;)
Maybe web developers are not comfortable with the basics?
You can keep trying to delude yourself, and you can spout theoretical numbers all day, but I know when a picture looks better and more crisp.

You're like one of those people who claimed that nobody needed 1080p televisions because 720p was more than enough.
The more commonly used term is viral, which these days, I think captures the can-be-the-right-choice/can-be-the-wrong-choice nature, while still saying it spreads to most things it touches.
> (If you happen to be depressed, I can guarantee it gets better as you age, or with time. Hang in there.

Not always, people can be depressed for long periods.
...with just really bad inter-node bandwidth.
I'd be curious about studies on something like programming. Many of these talk about cognitive function and typing ability, but they don't mention the actual tasks being done (that I can find). With all due respect to everyone else, programming is a different beast altogether. I worked in finance at a computer all day, and my requisite attention level for that job was significantly different than when I switched to programming full-time.
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New Horizons team member John Spencer answered that question on the Unmanned Spaceflight forum:

Yes, this was a single channel image (we wouldn't have held out on you if we'd had color!). Several of our closest MVIC images were b/w rather than color, because of limited time near closest approach- we can take B/W images faster than color ones, and they allow higher-res LORRI riders. We still don't know what color the haze is, though we'll have lower-resolution high-phase color images soon, which will answer that question.

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8071&...
Thank you for posting this. Fine work. I need to give it another read later, but for now, I find Thomas' iambs a little heavyweight. Every line has the same 4x(ba-DUM, ba-DUM) rhythm, with almost no variety. Frost has a lighter touch with meter.
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Yeah, from the point of view of a 70s university department minicomputer, Docker is another tool. A rapidly evolving one, one that has focused on developer adoption over other concerns. If you're using it to install just one thing on a server where you've installed many other things the old way, it's a pain.

When it gets interesting is when you invert the relationship, where you have multiple apps in Docker. Then the main server starts to look quite simple and bare, much easier to maintain. And then things like ECS start to make sense:

https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/

At that point, the OS becomes irrelevant except as a host for containers.
Don't forget Halloween Memo X, along with as I remember stuff from GrokLaw, which revealed that Microsoft funneled 86 million to SCO when it was litigating SCO v. The Open Source World.

(Especially bogus because SCO knew in advance they didn't have the rights to UNIX(TM), but I doubt Microsoft knew that.)

I'll bet that by itself had consequences.
I'd hope they would have learned their lesson after last year's U2 album debacle.
As noted in the FAQ, it was actually against the rules for an already existing company to show up.

That's part of the reason why contracts are not allowed - everyone owns the IP then so there cannot be an owner-employee relationship in any sense.
This is a nice platitude, but doesn't hold up to scrutiny. For example: I'd suspect most ideas aren't that good, so it logically follows that execution would not be THE problem in most cases.

More like:

GOOD execution is one of the major problems.
He's not wrong. He's correcting the improper use of the word. However, I would say evolution has results but is actually a process.
Doesn't have to be that expensive, you can get one or two cheap stereo mics per room and work on the data. Tascam's portable music/voice recorders support a very wide range of input levels.
Now I'm ok with this, all they needed to add was the perpetual fallback.
It is a strange world! (and a planet)

Again, the reality is stranger than fiction. I don't think any science fiction movie would have depicted a planet with a giant heart on it. It would have been just ridiculous!
With all due respect to Don (and I do have a lot of respect, he built the foundation upon which my career rests). He misses the larger picture. I'll simply point at Apple's market cap as to why Apple can afford to get away with form over function.
In China, the statistics ARE controlled by one, non-objective party (Party? :-)), so conspiracy theories are somewhat justified.

Even in the much freer US, there are examples of (subtle) information manipulation. Such as releasing numbers that don't fit the government narrative :

- on a Friday afternoon (when all journalists are driving home or drinking at a bar)

- on page 95 of a 96-page report
When was that xkcd posted? - couldn't not find a date.

Since machine vision is such a fast moving field, I think date is relevant for understanding the context of this xkcd. Is image recognition of a bird so inconceivable at the moment? Perhaps the joke now would be - "I'll need one researcher and one year"
No, you tokenize the card through Stripe immediately and then charge the token 2 weeks later. You don't have to hold on to the card details.
The last bit we're doing it because we got financially fucked by the core licensing changes in SQL 2012.
That was a really interesting post, I'd not really considered that as we hit the limits that the glue layer will be the bottleneck.

In hindsight that makes stuff like Go and Rust look doubly obvious, most of the benefits of something like Python with the down and dirty speed of a compiled language.
No thanks, I want to keep my liver in shape.
Nice work, but this is not AI. This is just a lexical analyzer with some output.

AI would understand what sledding is as a concept and be able to extrapolate from the text various traits about Mary without further direct input.
Stack Overflow, from the very beginning [0]

[0] http://blog.codinghorror.com/on-working-remotely/
This is where I can see smartwatches going. Wearable input devices instead of wearable e-mail naggers.
I thought north western border was specific enough. It's a smaller, less formal, less regulated copy. The only difficulty I can think of is that you have to prove you worked for more than one customer during a fiscal year if you want to make use of the tax deductions for the self employed.
It's the first-of-a-kind photo from a probe which flew across most of the solar system and skimmed the target at a range of 7,750 miles while travelling at nearly 31,000 mph.

And sent back images using about the same ambient light as a slightly cloudy evening on Earth.

With no motion blur.

That's not just exciting - it's an amazing feat of engineering.
s/owns/has a copy of/g
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Does anybody know of any lower environments for major sites that are accessible to the public? e.g. www.staging.cnn.com
1) I'm not looking to do anything malicious
2) purely for curiosity purposes ("I wonder what the next cnn.com will look like?")
3) do NOT post ones for project you're working on for clients who will not appreciate it
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Yes, and I never implied its not hard to do. And examples such as this one are quite impressive - which is what got me interested in Rebol in the first place and triggered the development of Ni.

However... if I understand your code properly - you are basically generating an argument declaration by scanning for "get words". So its still a static declaration.

In Ni an arg word is an operation. That means a Ni func can decide how many arguments to pull, and in which order, dynamically, much like stack oriented languages can do. Usefulness? Dunno :) But its not the same.

Also, yes, I opted out of set words in Ni since I want to be able to have keyword syntax á la Smalltalk/Self. And I use "^" instead of ":" prefix for get words, because I wanted the argwords to be similar to how they look in Smalltalk. :)
If strongman governance is the only viable option, then it was never getting off the ground to begin with.
TDD will leave you with a load of tests which prevent you from changing the code. BDD on the other hand should leave you with a suite that isn't coupled to a specific implementation.

Part of the information contained in a test is the intent of the verification being performed, and part is code for mapping that intent onto the implementation. The latter part can be discarded during a rewrite. Cucumber/SpecFlow etc. make the difference between these explicit.
not BSD, make it GPL#3
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10237805
So what would be the alternative for the "glue code" language today? From the top of my head I can think of: (1) Javascript - granted, it is single-threaded in nature but it acquired enough parts to deal with asynchronicity and communication with other processes. (2) Clojure - immutable data structure, refs, atoms and all that (3) Erlang (?)
Billy ended the weekend co-owning the codebase with 8 other partners. Absent any pre-existing business agreement (forbidden by the competition rules), the future disposition of that codebase requires unanimous assent of all 9 owners. No single member can use any of it without permission from all the others.

If Billy already was 50/50 owner with another person on a completely unrelated LLC, it would have to license/purchase the code from the entire group of 9 to use it. As the 0.4% deal was agreed to at the start, it is unlikely that licensing/purchase agreement would be accepted without including that provision.

Ideally, each member of the team (including Billy), gets a 1/9th split of the prize winnings. Billy-the-LLC buys the code from Billy-the-team-member at a reasonable price, and each member gets 1/9th of that. Additionally, Billy has to grant each other team member 0.4% ownership stake in his LLC, or they never agree to sell their code.

The team members, of course, surely realize that 0.4% is going nowhere if Billy is trying to run a tech-based business without respecting the nerds, so they might just sell it right back to him while he is still full of himself, and before he realizes that he is dead in the water when the first customer makes its first feature request.

The end result is that the 8 nerds get a nice paycheck for one weekend, and Billy gets a stale codebase that he can still monetize through excessive schmoozy salesmanship. It should be a win-win. The only hitch seems to be that Billy seems to think his LLC already owns the code, rather than his informal partnership-of-nine.
NICTA/UNSW have apparently started working on a QubesOS port

https://my.cse.unsw.edu.au/thesis/thesis_topic_details.php?I...

http://sel4.systems/pipermail/devel/2015-March/000312.html
Playing with analogies, I feel like maybe Java is more our generation's Lisp, with respect to the AI boom: it hit a key enterprise "cool" factor and seemed to offer a productivity jump in some particular niches, but failing support levels from the language companies supposedly maintaining the languages (that got too bogged down into pie in the sky hardware projects or got bought out at ridiculous prices and scavenged for parts)...

The fun fact there is the snake is eating its tail in that analogy as most of the interesting stuff I've read in the last while regarding Java/JVM is Clojure, and that's a direct Lisp descendant.
This was my take...the interface for turning it off is difficult to find because it was designed to be thus. The last thing most thermostat users want to do is to turn it off completely. Instead, they want to "turn it off" or "on" relative to local environmental conditions...and that's the dead-easy interface mentioned in the link: turning the big dial ring and having it respond both numerically and by color: I am going to get hotter or I am going to get colder. The click side of the interface is deliberately more obscure and meant for the administrator (for lack of a better term) and not the random temperature adjuster.

TFA seems to be complaining that it's too difficult to find a feature that most thermostats elide completely. Every other model I've owned in the past could only be turned off by unplugging, which requires un-mounting the entire thing or powering down the furnace (or similar).
It looks like Stripe can defer payment for 7 days:

https://stripe.com/blog/auth-capture
lol no, all it takes is "StaffedUp is hiring a new stack engineer to take us into the next level" post
In the summer there is a daily direct flight from Hamburg to Whitehorse in the Yukon to cater to all the tourists pouring in. They flood to the Yukon in last spring, and leave again in the fall. The flight is somewhere around $$800 one way, $1500 return.

If you fly the reverse time of that i.e. Yukon->Hanburg in late spring and then Hamburg->Yukon in the fall, you can do return for ~$300 - because the planes are almost empty.
that's a good idea, but on second glance, it's none of their business. people should value their own work, and not throw themselves at the first smooth-talking jerk in the gamblers' hope of earning some hilariously unlikely windfall in the future.
They're the current hip thing because they work really well and keep working better. They take a fundamentally different (I think better) approach than he's taking.

My recommendation comes from a more informed place than "Dur, neural networks!" Of course, this is my opinion, and you are welcome to have a different one.

What is your recommendation on the topic of most promising research areas for teaching reading comprehension to computers? Skip deep learning and read what instead? Or the OP has it figured out?
I wonder how one compensates for the Hawthorne effect? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Heh Jerry Pournelle, another science fiction author, used to say "The secret of good writing, is re-writing." :-)
To build a global paywall, you first need to have a global payment system. Google still doesn't have a way to accept digital payments in many countries.
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I missed that one, awesome find.
Yes, so it's an unprecedentedly easy to transport commodity, but that doesn't mean it's not a commodity.
It's thanks to people like you things move forward for that I thank you.

Of course it's going to be challenging, who cares – you are going to learn a lot of things even if this attempt fail and you are going to allow other people to stand on your shoulders.
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I think it was meant as 'turn off the AC' which would allow the room temp to equalize with the outside world.
I'm used to stand alone AC units so I think in terms of 'turn it off to allow room temp to rise'.
Could you say more about this? I agree the app described is a mess. If a database is a shared resource, I think it's important for a single app not to have massive privileges in the database. But if the database is also containerized, then I'd rather the app just have its own isolated database. So it seems to me that problem is that the app has been only partly containerized, not fully. Would that approach solve your concerns just as well?
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Thats a completely fair point, however I wasn't basing it on this alone :)
Yes, unfortunately too many people see it this way.

I think it comes from the fact non-technical people don't necessarely understand what building software is. All they see is some nerds doing arcane magic with keyboards.

The question is, can we do anything to make things better?
One researcher and a month ( perhaps even less ! ) is more like it..