skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a little confusing though, at least for me. There are infinite integers, and "doubly-infinite" reals. But there are also only "doubly-infinite" complex numbers.

IMO the easiest way to illustrate different, and infinite number of, infinities is to think of sets. Suppose you have N-infinite number of things, say triple-infinite to use the grandparent's lingo. Now the number of sets that you can create from these triple-infinite objects is greater than triple-infinite, and it's called quad-infinite. You can prove that indirectly. Assume that there is a one to one mapping of the original object to the sets. That means that some of the objects are mapped to sets that the objects are members of (let's call these red objects), others not (let's call them blue objects). Does the set of blue objects get paired with a blue or a red object ? Cannot be either, so we've reached a contradiction, ergo there are always more subsets of things than things.
Despite hard evidence of gender bias in STEM fields, men don't believe it's real
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I'm generally more productive with a split screen view for code, with either different files on each side, or different parts of the same file on each side. This kind of workflow needs quite a bit of horizontal resolution to work well.
>> In the end, you can recover the same money by taxing dividends and income accordingly

In different countries, which totally destroys this idea.
As much as everyone is entitled to their opinion, some people really seem to lack self-awareness, and this post reinforces my opinion on this.

What I mean by that is simply that I often find that people can be incredibly unaware of the impact of their presence and/or actions; and I don't think this comes from a lack of empathy, because most people _are_ empathic, just not towards everyone.

I'm all for anonymous trolls having a bit a pun fun. But these commenters _aren't_ trolls. They seem to genuinely believe their inane comments and I think that's partly because they're just not aware of their own impact.
In Ontario, a lot of effort (TV ads, billboards, etc.) goes into Kids Help Phone (kidshelpphone.ca), which is a call center staffed with counsellors to help kids and teens. But kids and teens are moving away from having a landline telephone in their bedroom, and towards smartphones and iPods and Internet connected devices. If this study helps make those services easier for the current generation of kids and teens to access, then that's worthwhile.

What I find concerning is that overall Internet/computer use isn't a measure in the study. The conclusion ("health service providers should monitor SNSs more to provide support to youth") seems reasonable, but it isn't going to be enough to cover all the ways a kid could demonstrate a cry for help (e.g. tumblr blogs, fanfic involving people from school).
"Equitable division of marital assets and liabilities."

This doesn't require anything special.

Legalizing same-sex marriage required changes on license forms, this will too.
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Just to clarify a little bit: For each integer n there is also an infinite amount of rationals (fractions) between n and n+1 and the rationals is also a countable set like the integers (just as 'infinite', so to speak). Quite counter-intuitive, I think.

I usually interpret the first steps in Hilbert's hotel as the first steps in the ordinal hierarchy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number).
Generally cars in this segment don't age well to begin with. For example a new BMW 750i will cost you $100k+. A used 2009 750i with only 60k miles though? $30k. Not just BMW, either, a certified-used 2009 911 Turbo can be yours for $70k, less the half the starting MSRP of $150k.

But the people who buy them don't care. They'll just buy whatever the new thing is.
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I don't even know where to begin.

And I mean that literally. I started typing about five different responses, each beginning differently. None of them seemed to work, and besides I would've probably ended up typing too much anyway.

Instead I refer you to:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_(political) and http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legitimacy/
Use Vim, it's the best diff tool by a long shot. Syntax highlighting, side-by-side diffs, and code folding (when large contiguous sections are equal)

vimdiff <(curl -s "https://httpbin.org/get") <(curl -s "https://httpbin.org/get?show_env=1")

It takes some getting used to but once you go vimdiff you'll never go back.
I think you are voicing a frustration here which is not coupled to your earlier point.

If I am wrong about my interpretation, let me point out that the US system isn't especially better than other developed countries in this respect.

For example, the local college library to where I went to high school in Miami requires a fee to enter the library. http://library.miami.edu/policies/non-um-patron-access/ . (As a student in an advanced class, we got a special pass to allow us to do research in the library.) A member of the public can only visit the Stanford university library for free for 7 days of the year (http://library.stanford.edu/using/access-and-privileges/visi... ).

You mention open stacks, and I fully appreciate the joy of being able to browse. However, your enthusiasm about any US experience must be tempered. Many US academic libraries have off-campus shelving (eg, https://bioethics.georgetown.edu/using-the-library/request-b... and http://www.library.yale.edu/Administration/junk.Shelving/Wor... ). Quoting from the last of those two URLs:

> Many universities, including Harvard, have successfully adopted off-campus shelving as a way to meet both their shelving and preservation needs.* Such shelving costs a tenth of what on-campus shelving costs, and it provides nearly ideal conditions for the long-term preservation of library materials. The principal disadvantage of off-campus shelving is that readers cannot browse the material at these facilities.

Perhaps it's more like using gopher than a web brower. ;)
I would guess the particles are from diesel soot[0], but that doesn't make sense that it's the 'first time they have been found', as diesel engines have been popular in Europe for decades.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust#Effect_of_parti...
For years I've struggled with anxiety and stress not making me functional. My peers often glorify the results of my work, allowing me to do interesting projects and working at Google, but inside a wretched ball of anxiety. Whats worse, is that the anxiety is the driver of my external success.

It wasn't till recently that I tried actuating on stress in my life, by accepting that my work is exceptional because my workflow is exceptional. I begun taking time off whenever I felt like it, self-assigning projects and ignoring unrelated requests from others etc.

That being said, some of my most stressful periods are when I'm doing nothing. The reason I got to Google is because I can't 'turn off' -- but I've come to realize that making good decisions at Google Scale requires a peaceful mind. Fear and anxiety leads to short term pain-reduction decisions that aren't often the best for the long term or large scale problem.

Its a sort of horrifying filter I haven't quite solved yet, but the first step seems to be quantifying my stress, like this article, actively reducing it, and accepting that the "turking" stage of my life needs to step back to make way for more intelligent decision-making and discipline.
Ha! Can we soon replace Twitter? What happened to RSS feeds? Does Dave Winer have a say here? I remember this as .plan on Unix.
A pedal-powered recumbant kayak, surely.
You can also submit your preference to YouTube, even if you _do_ have Flash: https://www.youtube.com/html5
I really enjoyed this book - it wasn't on the level of "Soul of a New Machine" in terms of writing, but the subject matter was really interesting. As a software guy, it was a great way to understand what's going on at the lowest level of computing. Not from an in-depth technical level, but from a "what do chip designers actually do??" perspective. You know, after they sit down at their desks, what is the work involved? Also, the insight into how corporations have to make hardware decisions years before really came through as well - the book starts in 2000 if I remember correctly.

I'd love to see a follow-on book about how AMD landed both the PS4 and XBox One.
The consolidation in the semiconductors/chip IP industry, thus far in 2015:

1. Intel-Altera: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/intel-buys...

2. Avago-Broadcom (and earlier, Avago + LSI):
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-27/avago-said...

3. Silicon Imaging-Lattice:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/lattice-to-buy-silicon-image-for...

4. NXP-Freescale:
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1327236

5. (2014) Cirrus-Wolfson:
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1322171

6. Avago is further looking at Xilinx, Maxim, and Renesas: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/14/us-chipmakers-m-a-...

This is one industry that is in flux ATM.

Edit: Further afield, though tightly coupled with this industry, on the manufacturing equipment side, Lam Research announced acquisition of KLA-Tencor today http://www.wsj.com/articles/semiconductor-firm-lam-research-...
I especially enjoyed this comment from a user entitled OMGWTF :-)
> It's unfeasible to get the consent of everyone

then don't do it.
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Yikes. Perhaps the best thing to do is not to "slurp" a file. It's a "quick and dirty" method, which certainly has its place, but perhaps not in critical production code (slurping a file of unknown size is a Bad Idea).

It's too bad the File::Slurp module has bugs, and the author seems unresponsive about them, but it's not a core module, and other authors are free to produce alternatives, which is exactly what happened. Looks like the change in the fine author's code would have amounted to a two line difference.

In my opinion, it would still make sense to use a CPAN module - I'm glad their orginal code is faster, and if it works with that specific use case - fine with me.

The problem, obviously, is if the fine author of the home-grown code needs similar functionality somewhere else. Do they make their home-grown code into a module for reuse, or just copy/paste? Say they copy/paste and then they find a bug in their implementation years down the line (or worst, someone else does, as this author has moved on to greener pastures).

Uh-oh - same problem as relying on a module, but now it's more work to fix (the code is everywhere and perhaps has evolved now independently), and there wasn't the framework of module authors, testing infrastructure, bug tracking system, peer review, etc, etc, etc there to have a drop in replacement for ya.

The line to draw for reusable code is certainly yours to make. My line not to cross is when I'm practicing, "Copy and Paste Programming" - easy enough to take the extra 5 minutes and package the code up for reuse. Makes it easier to make my unit tests up and all the rest of the good practices of a Perl programmer.
> My point is: until readability is formally defined and we're able to measure it objectively it's utterly useless to talk about it.

It's more defined than we, as programmers, pretend it is. There's research in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and lexicology that tells us that some things are easier for human brains to process than others.

For example, if you skim through a block of code, it's easier to pick out "&&" than it is to pick out "and". There are lots of rules like this.

This is partially because of the way humans read words. If yuo spel a bunhc of words wrng in a sentence in minor ways that don't alter the shapes too much, it's still very readable.

That's why your example of J is very hard to read (objectively, not relatively). If someone removed or altered a few of those symbols, no one would notice upon skimming it. It's ludicrous to argue that it's readable just because some people say it is (and I think they're just bragging to begin with).
To make some sort of (of course flawed) comparison:

You want a nice house.

You can drive around the neighborhood, look at what houses exist and inspect the house you are interested in from roof to cellar bevor making an offer. You adjust your price for the parts you think need renovating, market conditions etc. Banks will gladly finance the deal, you don't need to have very much money of your own.

Or you buy an empty plot, buy a lot of materials, hire people to turn the materials into a house of your specifications. In many established neighborhoods it's very hard to even get an empty plot. Maybe you don't find the materials or people in the quantity or quality you want. Maybe your plans are not that good. Maybe the weather is bad and you take much longer than you planned, and you can't stop at half a house when you run out of money. If everything goes well you can get a better house for less money, but you have to be able to afford the risk.
No the kappa is strong in Twitch. I swear I will see kappa on my death bed.
Hate the game, not the player.
Is this just a terminology difference?

The suggestion was to remove floating point from "general-purpose CPUs and leave it to GPUs".

If GPUs are integrated into the CPU in the same way that a math-coprocessor is now part of the CPU, then the future "CPU" will be what we now think of as the "CPU + GPU" combination.
For me, 1824 px of vertical resolution is more than enough.

Whether or not 7.9" of vertical physical space is enough to make use of the native resolution without scaling is an entirely different matter. I haven't tried it yet so I can't be sure myself.
I think we'll look back at this and say "That is when the whole house of cards collapsed." The notions of the Internet being "somewhere else" and the rules being coded by the body legislating the person who is accessing it, is untenable. I expect a lot of churn on the privacy, tax, and access (censorship) policies which have grown up over the years.

Consider:

* France (and China) trying to impose content
restrictions on Google results. [1]

* The EU invalidating the safe harbor privacy rules.[2]

* The recent invalidation of tax strategies in the
Netherlands and Luxembourg. [3]

These are all soverign issues. And for anyone who has ever looked at the Internet as a "place" intuitively understands how impractical it is to have the rules be based on that origin of the connection in meat space.

The depth and complexity of this particular confluence of concepts is really staggering. I can not even imagine how you would establish an institution to "rule" the Internet. I might even go so far as to assert it isn't possible. What I fear is that what is possible is the Chinese model where every country has its own "Internet" and your ability to access it from outside, or to leave it from inside, will be governed by some electronic equivalent of a passport. And that idea brings the whole "identity" question really out to the forefront of the discussion.

Very interesting challenges ahead.

[1] http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/france-demands-google-...

[2] http://www.natlawreview.com/article/european-court-justice-i...

[3] http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-3062128/Appl...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-tax-setup-faces-french-c...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/21/us-eu-taxavoidance...
Sit on top of a nuclear weapon, and detonate it.

Nothing faster, period - and no time for pain impulses to travel along nerves either.
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In order to be accepted as anything other than an anecdote, you would require a much more rigorous study with a LOT more people and a much higher level of scrutiny. We would want to control for external issues, possibly genetic complications, gut flora, blood glucose levels, liver and pancreas health, illness, infection, cancers, etc...

Anecdotal evidence if fine for discussion, but no one should act upon it without medical supervision.
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Yeah, warn your users -
"Please note your security is at risk...<click>

No wait, wait, come back you're choosing to give up your security..."
Also related to buildings, but in this case to avoid taxation - in the UK there was a "window tax", designed to be a progressive tax (the wealthier you are, the bigger your house, the more windows you have, the more tax you pay). To pay less tax, lots of people bricked up some of their windows so that the tax would go down without living in a smaller building. Now days that tax has been replaced in the UK by council tax, which is still progressive but based on house valuations rather than counting windows. You can still see some remnants of the tax avoidance, though, such as http://knowledgeoflondon.com/images/windowtax.jpg
> That was before GPUs. GPU is a modern co-processor.

And the trend of on-die GPUs as part of the CPU -- the same thing that happened with FPUs before them -- has already begun. Again showing that on-chip floating point integration (even of the kind of floating-point operations supported by GPUs as distinct from the functions already inherent in CPUs that have integrated FPUs) is important enough, across a wide range enough range of applications, to justify the expense.
I disagree. I can relate to application setup and deployment feeling like its a fragile, error prone process but library usage in general is a good thing. Now if you're picking up obscure, poorly maintained libraries from GitHub I can see that going south quickly but as long as you're smart about not only which dependencies to choose from whom but also knowing when you really need them then you end up with a robust, easy to maintain system in the end.

The whole point of having a dependency chain is to benefit from well tested code that often does mundane things that you neither have the time or expertise to create yourself. I've found that as long as I choose libraries that are up to date, look to be maintained, are decently tested, and do something that I couldn't do as well or don't have the time to implement as well then all is well. I also have a rule that if a dependency is at all mission critical or not easily replaced I will either fork that library and maintain my own copy or create one for myself.

This has been true for every language I've worked with. Go, PHP, Node, or Ruby so far.

Updating might be cumbersome but if you're following best practices then you've got tests that ensure updating a library won't break your code. You also don't go around mass updating things. You update when there's a good reason to (security patches, language compatibility, etc.). Deployment should only suck the first time. Nowadays we have tools to ensure systems are replicable so you can be confident code will run fine regardless of the environment.

I don't think we'll ever have a plug and play experience. We have so many hobbyist libraries precisely because our languages and tools are so flexible. Hiding complexity is what programmers do for users. To hide from developers too would likely do more harm than good and result in a generation of programmers who don't understand how their systems really work. I point to Rails and Meteor as examples. There are Rails developers who are a thing in and of themselves. They're not Ruby devs who know Rails, they're just Rails developers. There needs to be the person like the Rails core team who know how to put dependencies together in a way that creates a functional modular system.
You are mostly right. Some of the things people are saying to you are awful and you are rightly calling it out. Please keep doing that.

However, please consider that when something you post starts out by making a gender distinction (ie. "Things men have actually said..."), you are inviting everyone that has an investment in binary gender identity politics to either attack you (bitch) or support you (so brave).

I'd be interested in a post on what is "men" and why it is important to start out dividing everyone into only two groups (where, according to the premise of your argument, one will be wrong [and therefore, the other: right]).

What would be wrong with the title, "Things some people have actually said..."?

Edit: Wow, downmods with no rebuttal or comment. Typical HN.
Capital gains tax is paid by the owners of the company when they dispose of shares, not by the corporation itself.

But I agree that using market cap is not a good basis for taxation. Most companies don't even have a market cap as they are not publicly traded. And among those that do it would hurt the most innovative companies disproportionatly.

Companies would start paying dividends way too early to keep the share price low instead of investing and growing the business. Tesla has a market cap of $27bn. They would pay more than half of what GM pays in taxes if market cap was used as a basis.

I'd rather they use that money to keep innovating and tax them later on when they make a real profit and use a greater share of public infrastructures.
The worrying thing is that many people aren't trolls.

They're either oblivious to what it's like to be a target of incessant cultural bullshit, or are aware that it's bad but say that because "it's better now than when women couldn't vote" it's pointless complaining about it. Then after that there's normally some examples of the author being called whiney/bitchy/SJW/some other personal attack.

Bonus points if it comes from a <3 day old account which still has twitter egg as its logo.
Maybe... or it could be a thousand other things. Not that I was a fan of what you're talking about, of course.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were a president being elected in the US ;) I'm not saying that one party is posting in HN, but the awareness they raised probably triggered some people's mood. It's a topic which gets a lot of traction easily and I've personally noticed a more intense activity of my Facebook since 2013.
I am a little bit disappointed that it has automatic transmission. But this is probably catered to an American audience, of which the common denominator doesn't even know that manual cars exist. Other than that, really impressive. This only needs some controls and motion, and then you have basic gameplay!
The offer letter doesn't make a difference here. Having it in email is as good (in the US) as an offer letter.

The situation described here is a legally-binding offer made to a prospective employee, which was then accepted (also legally-binding). When they revoked their offer s/he could have sued.

Unfortunately, you can't go around suing people for reneging on offers, at least not in the US. It's expensive, and it gives you a bad reputation.

The fact that this happened, however, means that the company had no integrity and that the person who received the offer is better off working elsewhere.
Au contraire to the "why are you replacing SSH" comments, I actually feel that this is really cool and you're on to something that's extremely interesting to certain kinds of hackish/pet projects :)

A good use-case I can actually imagine myself using on the get go is allowing our part-timers to whatsapp our bot for their roster and scheduling, or make plans to what kind of days they want to work.

The beauty of this is that any new part-timers can come and go and with a simple server/authentication system in place it can be quite useful.

Love that it can work with Telegram too since my daily operations use both Telegram and Whatsapp.