skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. But the book is about Perl5. Perl6 is such a different language that someone moving from Perl5->Perl6 will likely be mostly/completely a rewrite.

... unless, I suppose, they are following the practices in Modern Perl ala Moose and some other things. I guess maaayybbeee they could translate across. But it would be touching ever single line, in a transformation that would be on par with switching to Ruby (or Python I suppose).
Are you actually able to correlate/consolidate data from multiple sources? And what level of no code is no code? Basic sql or drag/drop or some form of DSL?
Literally every server (db and otherwise) sees the universe as a sequence of strings that need to be parsed. Native drivers have to encode/decode strings; it's just that they have full control over the format and can, at their convenience, build it as efficiently (or inefficiently) as they like.

The things that reduce this overhead (but don't eliminate it) are things like Protocol Buffers. EDIT: And others. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data_serializati...
Via comment (by drew) at http://www.cringely.com/2015/11/30/soylent-green-now-made-wi...

(The outcome predicted by Cringely in that article, by the way.)
Video content is also significantly more expensive to produce than music. The distributors and production companies in the music industry really didn't add much value, but distribution and production companies in video absolutely do add a lot of value.

You can produce a professional quality album on a laptop with a $50 mic and free software and release it on iTunes yourself. Songs are generally 3-5 minutes long, have only 3 - 5 moving parts, and file sizes are small.

It takes minimum $5k of equipment (and a LOT more time) to make professional video content. You have to worry about video, sound, talent, backgrounds, framing, etc. You need a whole team to produce even mediocre video content if you want it to be watchable (I'm not counting YouTube/Twitch streamers here - that's definitely a different niche).
I use a one-cup Finum brewing basket which fits into a standard-size mug and leaves plenty of room for the leaves to circulate while they steep. Works great.
Totally agree. Twitter has the wrong management team in place. However, I discovered Ello and will mske that my new home. It respects users and has the right view of ad-tech. I will misd Twitter though.
Set some increasingly harder concentration and focus targets. Try to achieve these targets when you are not tired, i.e. not when you come back from work. It's not just social networks btw. The fact that we imprison our children in home does not help with our ability to concentrate either.
Terry Pratchett often described what he did as "craft"
Correct; they'll make the entirely different mistake of trying to bundle the Golf channel with scripted-procedural-police-drama channel and charging so much for the bundle that no one who wants either channel individually will give them any money at all.

Meanwhile the <30 market will be too busy watching Youtube and Twitch to bother with hour-long shows, and before they realize it, their content will have been completely supplanted.
>If there's compiler support for avoiding nil propagation, that's great!

Yes, would be great, but there is no such compiler support. You can ignore errors completely. Maybe you could argue that compiler errors for unused variables are a very weak sort of compiler break on ignoring errors.
I have an East SF Bay developer friend who told me in California you can't build a house for less than about $150k (just the structure) because of permitting costs and building codes. It doesn't surprise me major renovations for a Detroit bungalow are in the $50k - $90k range.
This may shock you, but we also have a York and a Hampshire.
I have hope that this is true. So much of the treatment and prevention is focused on protecting the surface of the teeth which is certainly a major consideration. However, there are health conditions that seem to effect the teeth and enamel that are not born from a tooth problem. A symptom of celiac is holes in the enamel. I don't know if these heal though after the diet is adjusted for celiac.

Bones can heal so it seems to follow (to me anyway) that perhaps teeth can heal too. Again, I hope this is true. I agree that conditions would have to be right in order for it to happen.

There are 'those people' that never get cavities. Would be interesting to know what's going on there.
When stories like this appear in the press, it is always the victims, who have already been smeared by the FBI, whose names appear. Why not the FBI agents involved in a sketchy raid? Who are the macho men who manhandled a professor? They deserve their own fame.
Someone knowlegable about Live Writer should update the Wikipedia article about Windows Live Writer with this information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Writer
Is there an explanation for the "peculiarity of her character?"
If you want to try tea I wouldn't try earl grey first, it has a funny taste to me - and I drink a lot of tea. Try english breakfast (twinings if you can get it), or even better orange pekoe, but all the other instructions are spot on.

There are so many different flavours that black tea can be, no two brands taste the same, if you really want to enjoy it though avoid supermarket tea bags they are so very dull.
In addition to the other comments, mortgages under $50k might be very hard to write legally. For the most part, the origination, appraisal, and closing fees for a $50k loan and a $250k loan should be very similar.

Let's assume $2000 in fees associated with these two loans. Both borrowers area offered a 4% interest rate over 30 years. On the $250k loan, the APR is 4.0662%. On the $50k loan, 4.3280%. 35k, 4.4665%.

I'm not an expert in the law, but these APRs, or the ratio of fees to loan may trigger anti-predatory lending laws.
That sounds correct behavior to me. You should add a plain "en" before ja.
As best i understand, since Thatcher dismantled UK industry it has been the one thing keeping the nation "afloat".
Also, by default channels are zero length and block. What is a zero length queue in other languages? Doesn't even make sense!

Zero length channels are a key part of coordinating concurrent threads in Go.
As was mentioned before, you can absolutely do the same thing in Go that you see in lodash by giving up type-safety which javascript doesn't have anyway!.
I can't believe that no one has mentioned the industrial revolution. The nature of the industrial revolution is such that which ever country got there first was going to dominate the world. The really interesting question is why was England the first country in the world to pull itself out of the Malthusian trap via industrialisation.
I dunno, I think ESPN's business model falls apart if they can't force ESPN down everyone's throats. ESPN would cost ~$12/mo if they weren't able to force-bundle it with the cable bundle, and I don't know how many of their viewers would pay that. Certainly some would pay more, but for hardcore sports nerds, ESPN is almost too pedestrian. I think we'll see ESPN fall hard in the next few years -- the gap between hardcore sports fans and casual sports fans is growing rapidly (this is more a function of daily fantasy than anything else; so it's a trend largely independent of media diversification).
I remember someone created a P2P file sharing system that used 'munges' of files to create blocks of data by themselves that have no meaning (a bit like http://monolith.sourceforge.net/). These blocks were then transferred around the network, and people could claim "I'm not transferring files, I'm transferring meaningless blocks of data".

Sure, but (and I'm not a lawyer), intent of law is just as important as the literal meaning of law. Cases play out this intent and add to the corpus of knowledge as case law. So if you did write a program to generate all the data in the world, I'd imagine people would look at your intent, rather than just what you literally did.
«A file sharing network based on rabin file chunking and append only feeds of data verified by merkle trees.»

As far as I understand, this is about efficient verified replication of files, so that only smallest changed chunks are actually replicated (unlike e.g. rsync).
Sure, but I'll take it if that means I can at least use some type of generics. :)

In my experience it's decent, even if not as powerful as C++ templates. Being able to specialize containers is a basic comfort for me.
Slava @ RethinkDB here.

To add to other people's comments, this is really important in the context of microservices/polyglot persistence. For example, a typical app might be composed of Java and Node code, and an object stored from the Java application needs to be read from Node (and vice versa). The only way to do that is to have a standardized intermediate communication format, and after trying a bunch of different formats (Protocol Buffers, custom serialization methods, etc.) we settled on JSON because it has a perfect balance of portability and efficiency.
> It's true that AA is a non-meritocratic hack on top of an otherwise meritocratic system

I'm not sure that's true, and am fairly certain its not supportable as true. While the exact models used in admission have evolved, even fairly recent studies have shown that many of the objective factors considered in admission aside from AA and contributor/alumni preferences have fairly weak predictors of success, and some of them (particularly standardized admissions tests) are measures which are very strongly tied to race/ethnicity, disadvantaging traditionally-disadvantaged groups when they are used. (Now, some schools have adapted their admissions processes to eliminate some of the more problematic factors, but that leaves them with systems that are unproven -- which is an improvement over systems that are proven to be biased rather than meritocratic, but not the same as demonstrably meritocratic.)
SlingTV (offered by Dish Network) isn't able to offer local OTA channels via streaming though. The method of delivery (stream/coax) is enough to renegotiate licensing deals. This article provides a good perspective in the areas you're thinking about: http://www.wsj.com/articles/local-tv-creates-hurdle-to-strea...
Why ....

I can just buy some tinfoil and add it as a lining to ANY of my hats. Even lets me accessorize with multiple hats!
Sooo this is just the contents of https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/ rephrased slightly on someone's blog. I love Let's Encrypt but seriously, how many of these are we going to do?
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Definitely agree with this. I'm surprised so many companies still bother to produce content in the form of crappy articles on beat the horse to death topics.

It feels like having a blog is a must-have to be a legit company these days so a lot of companies hire someone to churn out $30 articles just to have one.

I definitely think companies need to reimagine content. First by moving away from the incredibly boring blog format.

Examples:

Beautifully designed beginner SEO guide (almost feels like a choose your adventure book): https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo

Interactive visualizations: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/02/13/us/politics/20...

Collection of email templates: http://www.artofemails.com/sales-follow-up
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Have you tried a tea strainer - something like this http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-3-Inch-Strainer/dp/B001... the old school way

Edit: http://www.amazon.com/Online-Stores-Inc-Tstr-Strainer/dp/B00... more traditional
In fact the truth of the matter is that most English people don't know how to
make tea any more either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead,
which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just
generally clueless about hot stimulants.

When you're using water that's 212 degrees, and measuring by teaspoon rather than weight, and suggesting porcelain will hold the heat the longest, yes, I think you're clueless about making tea.

Bring the kettle back up to the boil, and then pour the boiling water as
quickly as you can into the pot. Let it stand for two or three minutes,
and then pour it into a cup.

Higher than 208 degrees, with typical black teas, you're just accelerating the steep time. Here he steeps for up to 3 minutes because the water was hotter; at 208, you'd steep 5 minutes on average.

Some people will tell you that you shouldn't have milk with Earl Grey, just
a slice of lemon. Screw them. I like it with milk.

THEN YOU'RE NOT DRINKING TEA! YOU'RE DRINKING A TEA LATTE!

..... Sorry. I just get upset when ignorant westerners think they're experts about foreign food. Next thing you know they'll claim they've mastered curry or something.
https://www.dreamsongs.com/Essays.html

http://tunes.org/cliki/glossary.html

http://philip.greenspun.com/
Feature Request: Allow playback of the track that has a row for each of the instruments that you can mute/unmute to isolate. Then allow regeneration of a specific instrument within the track.
Your DNA Is Nothing Special: It’s time to relax about genetic testing
> Libertarians argue against regulations, which are restrictions in place ahead of time.

Regulations typically impose penalties for breaking them. People don't want to pay the penalty, so they don't break them.

> Where did I say 'everything'? This is exactly what I mean by libertarianism has no shades of gray.

My point is that you're lodging a criticism against libertarianism that isn't actually specific to libertarianism.
IMO $22.50/month for an autoscaled, managed database deployment with full backup, upgrades, security, etc. is a bargain. Compose is pretty great!
Sure, but don't be surprised when people have different opinions and aren't convinced by anecdotes. Reading the comments here you can find tons of people that are shocked, SHOCKED, that not everyone agrees with them on generics, immutability, etc. I think it's important that we remember that these are all opinions with no empirical data to support them, on either side.
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> You need a whole team to produce even mediocre video content if you want it to be watchable (I'm not counting YouTube/Twitch streamers here - that's definitely a different niche).

I think we're comparing apples to oranges here. Look at the top twenty most subscribed channels and you will see the production value is pretty high. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_subscribed_us...

They probably started off as one-person-show on a laptop webcam but at some point they tend to get better equipment and stuff. I believe YouTube gets in touch with the top 1% or 0.1% or whatever to help them get better.
This is a business I know well. Jukedeck is an example of how founders and investors do not conduct appropriate market research. There is a limited market demand for low-cost royalty-free music for videos. One could argue there is an oversupply* of royalty-free music relative to buyers. The quality is not good enough to disrupt the billion dollar Production music industry that is top heavy, a relative small amount of creators at the top get the majority of the money, the rest compete for the little that is left. Jukedeck has raised enough money ($3million #) to be around for a few years if they control their burn rate. But Jukedeck in its current form, is just another music startup destined for the Deadpool. (http://techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/)

* http://lmgtfy.com/?q=royalty+free+music
# http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/tech-trail/investment-tree/d...
Sealy, Cameron with SnipBit here. We are working on developing a system exactly like what you are describing. I would love to have a chat with you to discuss what you would like out of a platform like ours in a more in depth conversation (schorgie30@gmail.com). In the meantime, feel free to find us at www.snipbit.io
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Full 100% agreement that even a free tool needs to be marketed, but if we're comparing apples to apples, so does a blog article.

My experience has been that it's much much easier to market a free mini-service than it is to get somebody to pay attention to a blog article as it's just a better "frame" to put the content in.

As opposed to "talking at people" marketing, I just really like the tool creation approach as it feels much more like "helping people" marketing.
What does a hostel offer?

A roof? Is that all a homeless person needs?

For me what I needed, because I came from a place that of violence and abuse, was to feel safety of person and possession.

In many ways, that sense of security trumped everything.

And if you take a teenager that has gone through that and chosen the street over a roof at home... then changing the roof and being surrounded by strangers, some of whom suffer from mental illness and can be violent themselves... a hostel doesn't deliver on safety.

I only stayed in a few, they were how I imagine US summer camps to be. Rooms containing a number of bunk beds, anything from 4 to 8 people in a room.

The ones I experienced separated on gender as you would expect, but didn't separate on age, or other needs.

When I landed on the street I was frightened, crushingly shy, a victim all the way through. A hostel was a brutal experience, horrifying to me in those early weeks on the street in ways that sleeping under bushes, on industrial estates and on building sites just wasn't.

I had a different set of problems outside, namely the weather, shelter and warmth. But what I had with some planning was a sense of security, a sense that my possessions and myself were safe. That the very worst that could happen would just be to be moved on.

Those were things I felt were in my control. I felt safer on the street.

I should note that I didn't spend every night of 2.5 years sleeping rough. I was young, and learned fairly quickly to seek out Universities, find the student union bar, arrive late afternoon and read a book, and then wait for people to arrive so that I could chat to people. From there the opportunities opened up, and there was a good chance that if I overcome shyness, didn't scare them with the state of me, and everything was cool, that for one night there was going to be a bed, a shower, and some toast. I became quite good at this, but never stayed in a city more than a couple of nights before hitching elsewhere so that I never overstayed a welcome and doing this meant I could have a few nights a week on a sofa of someone my age who had a kind heart.
> Why do you believe they are not predominantly meritocratic?

What is the concrete merit being assessed, and where is the evidence that the measures used provide a race, ethnicity, and gender-blind predictor or measure of the that concrete merit?
This is actually pretty interesting. Maybe imposter syndrome is an inevitable side effect of our aversion to credentialism.
That's not really what I'm referring to. I understand that you are referencing the status of London as one of the main financial capitals of the world but I'm looking for more about the allusions towards some sort of special tax situation perhaps. Or maybe I'm misreading the allusions.
> So what is the IoM status? Is it a separate country?

This mostly explains things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
No, it was just a very harsh land that no one except thinly spread poor tribes really wanted.
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Here is the report: http://web.mit.edu/innovate/entrepreneurship2015.pdf
Premature generalization is the root of all evil
Keep in mind it's possible to win territory during a defensive war...

There was no great Russian conquest. Early Russian history consisted of cultural expansion of Slavic tribes. Kievan Rus started when Vikings (Varangians) became the rulers of Novgorod (by invitation), then assimilated into Slavic culture and established Kievan Rus (Kiev + various territories along the Dnieper to preserve trade with Constantinople). They eventually unified the various Slavic lands, won territory from the Khazars (who of course were nomadic Turkic tribes who invaded from the steppes), until Kievan Rus was eventually destroyed by the Mongol Horde, and Russian cities were forced to pay tribute to the Khans.

'Modern' Russia was established when the Muscovites expelled the Tatars and Mongols from Russia, fought off the Lithuanians, Poles, and others (Arabs, Persians, Germans, French, British, etc...), colonized Siberia (which, much as today, was largely a frozen wasteland), and you get the 'modern' Russian empire.

It's history, though bloody from various conflicts, didn't involve massive conquest or colonialism (unlike the Khazars, Khans, Tatars, Poles, Lithuanians, Swedes and Germans they fought against). Russia started as Slavic tribes who were indigenous to the region, not foreign invaders from the steppes, or from the west.
I think you could argue that England didn't really become a naval power until they realized that organized piracy could be wildly lucrative. The East India company probably doesn't get founded if a British privateer doesn't capture a Portuguese carrack loaded with spices and make everyone involved rich enough to be a lord. For much of its early history, the merchant shipping of the company heartily supplemented their more legitimate trading with raiding their Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch competitors.

Even the Royal Navy was a pretty piratical endeavor. Reading through their wartime exploits, there are a very few big fleet actions, some smaller single-ship actions, and an enormous amount of prize-taking of enemy merchant shipping. And it makes sense - the captain would get one-quarter to three-eighths of the prize's value, with the remainder parceled out down the line to the ship's officers and crew.
> One key requirement for us when evaluating different static site generators was the ability to hit an API endpoint and dynamically generate static pages based on the data returned.

...dynamically generate static pages?
That is exactly what I was thinking....they didn't even mention Dan Gilbert, even though it is clear they should have interviewed him as the driving force behind so much of the revitalization and the chairman at a mortgage company...
What problem is that? It's quicker than C&P it's more secure than a swipe, you can have all your cards on a single device and select the one which you want to use for each transaction (e.g. to get offers / discounts).

The watch actually is quite more awkward than a phone to use, but Apple pay is definitely convenient, and if you forget your wallet allot it's quite a god send if it's widespread where you live (like it is atm in London).

I can pay for all of my daily expenses with Apple pay atm, this includes transfer (TFL), food and coffee, cloths, electronics, groceries everything.

Is it superior to contactless credit cards? The only big clear difference is that it's not capped in the amount (although some retailers might implement their own cap on contactless) whilst most credit cards limit the amount to anywhere between 10(HSBC debit) to 50GBP(Amex).
I have dental sealants but my insurance doesn't cover them because they're considered unnecessary, so I pay out of pocket to get them renewed every once in awhile. Maybe patients are reluctant to do that.
The speed of evolution is proportional to the population size so it is not surprising given how common dinosaurs were and are (birds) that they have evolved fast.

On this topic the most evolved species are some of the deep ocean bacteria like prochlorococcus [1] with huge populations - these bacteria are like a racing cars.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prochlorococcus
I had a slightly different approach in that I made a script to launch Emacs server on-demand: https://github.com/qiushihe/dotpiles/blob/master/emacs/emacs...
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