skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worry that the author of this article seems to leave out key facts about Dian Fossey and her "research". These facts are unpleasant. Without those facts, the general public, like myself ( before learning of these details), may significantly misunderstand why why the system (conservation/politics/charity) has continuously failed gorillas and the people living in the same habitat.

Firstly, there's the matter of Dian's falsified qualifications.

"Fossey had failed to gain a degree in veterinary medicine from the University of California at Davis and transferred to San Jose College where she gained a BA degree in physical therapy in 1954. "

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Dian_Fossey.aspx

She was selected and provided funding despite having obscured and falsified her qualifications. However, this was not unknown to her employer, Louis Leakey. Why he chose her is rather scandalous.

"This lack of scientific training did not concern Leakey, who believed women uniquely possessed the patience required for long-term field studies"

Why he believed this is perhaps better explained by his actions.

"Louis had extramarital affairs and fell ardently in love with his young proteges, chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall and gorilla-watcher Dian Fossey." http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-684-80192-6

Then there's the matter of Dian's horrific racism and actions.

"Fossey defended her policy of encouraging the apes to fear black Africans because nearly all poachers were black."

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-12-29/news/mn-25922_1_karis...

"she habitually referred to Rwandans as "wogs," never in all her time recruited a single black African as a researcher and even burned the crops of neighboring peasants whom she suspected let their cattle graze in the reserve" http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1015200880517583680

The sad thing is that this is not unique. For example, WWF's leadership has few if any representation from humans who cohabit the regions where species they seek to protect live. Instead, they send what seems to be mostly their college/family/country club friends to lead these actions. Is it any wonder why these conservation efforts fail so spectacularly when there's no emphasis on engagement with the local populace.
> The application architecture is reckless and full of race conditions

Honestly curious, can you point to one or two?
I use rlwrap instead.

The REPL is one of the features that hasn't gotten as much attention as it should. It was much more important to spend the time getting the rest of the language into shape.

That said I use the REPL for 90% of my coding. Including temporarily replacing parts of the runtime while trying to fix them.
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I believe you are misunderstanding what they're saying. they are saying you use the special characters and your editor can display it as you please (2char wide or 4char wide). if you literally replace the tab char with N spaces, my editor will now show it as N spaces.
all of this smells suspiciously of what the RNC did with Ron Paul. What'll really clinch it is if BS gets all the votes, but due to vote tampering (and refusing people at the primaries) Clinton wins.
... its almost as if it was entered into the character set for that precise purpose even. XD
Do Apple/Google have a built-in way to A/B test images and text today?
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Mere humans are incapable of doing this right as most don't run with show whitespace (so tabs and spaces look different) & many don't grok the difference between indentation and alignment.

I wonder if gofmt logic can be extended to other languages.
Is there a site that collects these sorts of tips? Seems like there are a lot of potential pitfalls that can be hard to find in docs like: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/java-r...
The author writes as if the Glock 19 had a greater capacity vs the Sig: "Additionally, the Glock had about half the parts of its auto-loader counterparts and three times the firepower of revolvers, holding 17+1 rounds instead of just six."

In fact, both have the same capacity in standard, flush magazines (15 rounds). It's the Glock 17 that has a 17-round standard magazine.
There was a certain point about 6 months ago when I got intensely angry at the intrusive ads, and looked for adblockers. I have found a few that claimed to work to varying degrees, but none of them actually blocked all the ads. About three months ago, it got worse, and the added motivation made me find the appropriately named Adblock for Youtube™[1]. It's a Chrome extension (sorry, other browsers!). It works.

https://goo.gl/3bQcha
They already integrated React in! SSR is possible with a few packages. RDBMS is where you got me :)
Yeah that gets me. I kind of understand the "you cannot see taxpayer funded stuff from outside the UK as you didn't pay for it (well, actually I don't get it either)

But this is weird - is it a new thing? Why bother?
My wife doesn't really understand my obsessions with the spoons. They just feel better than anything I've used before.

Muji has done very well in China, they have them in just about all the good malls. But it is nothing compared to Japan...the Muji in Ginza Tokyo even sells houses!
In many materials, especially crystals, the speed of light is not isotropic. There are a bunch of simple tools in mineralogy for making use of this fact to identify crystals in thin section, for example the optical indicatrix and Michel-Lévy colour chart.
Why use such a small selection of repositories? and why does Go seem to use all tabs?
I really cringe when dealing with spaces, which is a real problem since I code in Python a lot, which cannot deal with a mix of both. I don't understand people using 2 or 4 spaces at every line, it's so much slower. Sure the first time they probably use a tab and their editor is setup to replace with spaces, but as soon as you go back to edit you need to deal with the multiple spaces.

I say tabs for all!
I don't have a toy example offhand, but the resource failure case I mentioned is one. If resources A, B, and C are in flight at the same time and A fails, Terraform in some as-yet-undiagnosed circumstances will not record state changes caused by the still-in-progress work on B and C. This happens a lot with SNS queues, IIRC, because SNS queue operations on the AWS API take a relatively long time to resolve. So if, say, you mistyped an attribute for an EC2 instance, it can fail out and Terraform will happily forget that it created an SNS queue for you.

I have a sneaking hunch that the continuing problems with template-file resources (complaining that the "rendered" attribute doesn't exist in dependent resources) are related to this, but can't prove that; my clients don't pay me to debug Terraform, but to get their stuff working, and that doesn't leave much time to get in-depth with it now that I've decided not to use it for my own purposes anymore.
Hard to imagine not mentioning GADTs!
You can also use toes, and if you want to get more weird: you can also use your nipple ! Not only it can tell the difference between your and any other person's nipple, it can also tell the difference between your left and right nipples. Don't ask me how I know...
real question is how did X11 performance get so bad that the Pi feels so weak
Constraint programming was a big topic in the 90s. It has kind of tapered off as one since then. There are legitimate questions about whether it can scale or not to general purpose problems.
Yes just thinking about this:

- if you are outside the UK, we can stop you watching Doctor Who for free, and charge you for the DVD version.

Ok a bit meh, but I get it. Although if given the chance to comment as a taxpayer I say make it free, and make it clear why the BBC is valued.

- but the other way round? Where is the artificial scarcity ?
The board looks restarted but the company's other products look interesting. Thoughts?
The Haskell standard is, for great reason, rather conservative. Lots of extensions to the 98 and 2010 versions are popular, valid, and battle tested. Not all code requires them so there's little chance they will be incorporated, but there's also little reason to fear! Few extensions are dangerous—unfortunately it's not clearly documented which is which.
"SpoonRocket for pizza" -- Can we deliver a pizza in 10-15 min instead of 1-2 hours? [By operating a vehicle that cooks them in the truck and circles the block, college district, etc.]

I won a hackathon with this concept and began to pursue it as a startup a year ago. The market is big, and people love comfort foods. Also, today's food delivery startups mostly focus on healthy options.

We did customer validation in Cincinnati, OH, and people seemed very interested, but we don't have the population density spots to run it here. I also don't think it'd work in New York (too many fast $1 pizza joints), or Chicago (people mostly want high quality and are willing to wait). We think it has a lot of potential in the bay, where SpoonRocket, Caviar, Sprig, etc. have paved the way.

Side note: Domino's unveiled their own cars of a similar concept in October. http://fortune.com/2015/10/22/dominos-pizza-car/
Yes - you get to trade with uninformed guys making small trades (i.e., folks too small to front-run) rather than informed traders with large amounts of adverse selection.

Do you understand the mechanics of paying for order flow? could you state explicitly (i.e., a sequence of trades) how you believe paying for order flow allows you to "front-run"?
There's a "Core" output option which is not far from STG if I remember right.
No, God forbid I forgo some better therapy.
This is how homeopathy has hung on as long as it has.

Thinking like this kills people.

http://whatstheharm.net/

Also, am I the only one who sees a massive conflict of interest in a practitioner saying their field doesn't need to be investigated?
The company I work for had problems with users who couldn't install our ClickOnce-deployed application. It turned out that they were using a 3G dongle which modified one of the JPEG files in-flight such that it didn't match the hash in the application manifest. We moved to HTTPS anyway so thankfully this stuff is more or less history.
If you only knew how many politicians find the zodiac to be an essential part of their lives, you would be even more frightened.
Only Google does to my knowledge, they added it quite recently:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
Imagine what DSL would look like in a programming language that is itself defined as several DSLs. That is signatures, immediate strings, regular expressions are all separate domain specific languages that share parts of the same grammar but with certain domain specific modifications.

There is a thing called a Slang where you can replace the Perl 6 grammar with a different one entirely. So you could write a Ruby slang and write Ruby in Perl 6. Unfortunately the design for slangs wasn't quite good enough yet for the Christmas release of ROAST the specification testsuite.
Unix on a PDP-11 emulator on the Game Boy Advance (2004)
This is how science keeps people safe. Bullshit kills:

http://whatstheharm.net/
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I'd be willing to bet that even if you tilt the contest in the most favorable way toward the Sparc-20, the Pi would come out on top on a cost/performance basis.
What you say is technically true, but for a user it's complete BS:

- As a developer I looked for a way to disable this system - maybe something changed, but ~5 years ago I couldn't find any information about the 1.2.3.50 address and support told me it's not possible.

- Unless you're running a site that's professionally based on image distribution, you're unlikely to know no-transform exists.

- NoScript can block the bmi script specifically, not everything. Vodafone doing MITM shouldn't concern webdevs.

- The injection does not look nasty. It is nasty - you get no easy switch for it and cannot decide for yourself what behaviour you want. If you really want bandwidth saving, use opera mini - it's available for all phones now.

Sorry for being harsh, but I don't see how Vodafone's MITM can be defended in any way.
If you think science is a religion, you're grossly misinformed about what science is.
Spaces for the beauty of code

foo : ( bar )
| i just want to align this
| when writing syntax definitions
Because they are funded by taxes, they have very specific things they are allowed to sell because they have an unfair advantage in internal UK markets. However, to reduce the burden on the tax payers, they are allowed to sell things internationally.

So you suddenly have this dilemma, and this site is a direct consequence of that dilemma. They want to act in a commercial way to worldwide audiences to reduce the tax burden, but are prohibited from showing certain things to UK tax payers because they would have an unfair advantage against commercial UK competitors.

Your choice is get rid of the BBC or put up with this and a few other legal quirks.

I prefer keeping the BBC.
Most of you weren't even alive in 1993.

Which means you never got to experience the internet.

And you don't know why it was important for those of us that did.
> Web devs should make sites that work without javascript, so that turning on NoScript is also a solution.

Sorry but this is a ridiculous statement, it's like saying websites should still be able to run on Gopher. (Which some people want)

It's cool if you want to run NoScript but if you think website should/would be made around that you have cognitive dissonance.

Other than that, informative comment.
ssshhhh... you're getting in the way of revisionism. They need to bury the Parallel Construction somehow.
and my car can drive faster and gives me much more functionality than this... I hope this happens to be improved we need some back to the future hover boards...
The article link is to a PDF.
I like what I see. Now make it available at Godaddy, Namecheap and all hosting providers for it to dethrone PHP as the king of the web.
Techno-skeptics’ objection growing louder
I know it's easy for me as a random internet guy to poke holes in their work after skimming a paper, but it seems to me they are describing enthusiasts for anything, not just geek culture. From the research methods, it's not clear to me if they controlled for that possibility.

Like, imagine the people who work on old motorcycles. You'd probably find narcissistic fantasy (the rebel, loner image), seeking community with people who share the vision, and people who have time on their hands and an interest in being creative with machines.
If you go by the spirit of the argument, you should compare total civilian deaths caused by a side rather than reciprocal deaths. Japan killed way way more civilians in general than the USA, during world war 2.
You forgot GEnie. :)
As a heavy user of Haskell professionally and personally, I think you are a great person if you write a binding to a C library. Any C library. So long as you do a reasonably thorough job. Covering the entire surface area of the library is fantastic.

The barest of C bindings, too. A minimal wrapper for memory management is a much better binding than one that hides the raw API behind an abstraction that may or may not be suitable for every use.
Yet another MUJI fanatic here. The San Francisco store gets my recurrent patronage.

I would also recommend their furniture - I have a very comfortable bed and floor chair from there, and their recliner seat is terribly comfortable (but sadly I do not have the space for it in my tiny SF bedroom)

The only downside is that after you've been shopping to MUJI in Japan, you realize that you do pay a premium in the US. Oh well, worth it.
Seriously? Learning was part of the reason conventions were created in the first place.
Teens Youth Ministry: The Song of Bernadette 1 and 2
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Necessity, mother, invention etc http://www.wired.com/2010/02/korean-iphone-stylus-its-made-o...
if, in 20 years, we view facebook the way everyone now views AOL, I will be a much happier old man.
I imagine if he can't do this, he'll hear about if from the board or CEO or other employees.
In my case it was the Firefox browser. It's been much better since I made the switch to Google chrome.
Brief History and Guide to the UK Underground Scene
Keep forgetting the Apple Watch is actually a thing
Maybe, I don't know enough to say. But radical transparency has always been part of their brand. Here's one he wrote a few years ago about their Series B. It was so comprehensive that TechCrunch just linked to the post instead of trying to dig up more info behind the scenes.

https://moz.com/blog/mozs-18-million-venture-financing-our-s...
The existence of whistleblowers doesn't invalidate every possible conspiracy theory. We can't assume comprehensive awareness by proposing: If that were true then it would have been leaked. Every known government secret is eventually revealed. That's a tautology. Generalizing it to every imaginable secret is a failure to understand the limits of inductive reasoning. The people who know how much Snowden knew regularly indicate that they still have more to hide. I'm suggesting that our awareness is limited to a variety of "lesser" secrets. These secrets are callously and ineptly executed by design. They inspire whistleblowers to act before they become aware of "greater" secrets. Their revelation also, apparently, lulls the public into complacency. Exposure to "greater" secrets is gradual and divergent. We will never be fully aware of what mk-ultra involved. Most of the documentation has been destroyed. It was actually kept secret despite being far more sinister. It's the greatest (known) example of this fallacy. The documents with "tens of thousands, perhaps a hundred thousand people in positions to read them" weren't leaked intentionally. They were discovered because they had been improperly filed and, for that reason alone, survived destruction. Alien visitation is extremely unlikely for numerous reasons. We don't have to go nearly that far to support a potentially actual conspiracy. We need only assume that the perpetrators are motivated by power and/or have advanced technology. They were able to hide a mind control program utilizing torturous methods 40 years ago. My point was that its worth conjecturing about what they may be doing now. They have apparent motives and we can extrapolate realisticly advanced technology. My second paragraph was just an example I threw together in the spirit of that activity.

TL;DR: Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get me.
hi! my problem is with situationally granting anonymity in press articles, not with criticism overall. Although I generally believe people should stand publicly behind their opinions when making specific accusations about other people, pseudonymous systems are very important/valuable for a variety of reasons.

Also, while now, later in my career, I'm certainly better connected than I was when I started out, I'd like to think I've behaved consistently in this belief.
Three spaces fares horribly in this analysis. I wonder why the aversion for three? Are odd numbers inherently less appealing?
Development: npm start

Production: npm run build
This is not a mainstream media article. It's a blog post. I doubt my cousin the insurance adjuster ever heard about it, just as I never hear stories about the insurance industry.
Scrolling is really janky for me in FF, but afaict it's just due to the charts being expensive to render rather than the site screwing with scrolling.
I really wish articles would be more visually informative. A photograph of a 'button battery' would be useful. A photograph of the histology of the oesophagus pre and post exposure would be great.
Are there opportunities for living there long term, or only for just working there?
It's not a power of two!

But really, I recently worked on a project where we used 3 spaces, and it's works quite well. Not too little, not too much.

I can't remember why I've never considered it before..
You're assuming all late stage startups have ratchet clauses and using a single tech company (Square) to make your argument against joining any late stage startup.

At a certain valuation, many late stage pre-IPO firms do start awarding RSUs vs. options (i.e. Facebook), which eliminates major downside risk to employees.

If anything, I would be more weary of joining a mid-stage tech startup that is >$1 bil valuation with little revenue, nowhere close to an IPO, and still awarding options vs. RSUs. The inherent risks of other investor clauses (i.e. liquidation preferences) goes to 0 the closer a company is to an IPO.
I don't think Perl 7 will be a thing in anyone's planned future. There are now two languages in the Perl family: Perl 5 and Perl 6. Perl 5 is still developed, has yearly releases and feature additions. Perl 6 is a brand new language that just had its first release. There is some history involved in why it took 15 years and why it's named "Perl" and not something else, but it's an entirely new language.
Obvious depends on your constraints.

Suppose (1) some of your newlines are indented but some are aligned for readability, and (2) mixing whitespace has a tendency to create subtle bugs.

Under those constraints, the only possible choice is spaces. Tabs can indent, but only spaces can either indent or align. Process of elimination forces you to prefer spaces over tabs in that situation.

This might be why PEP 0008 urges, "Spaces are the preferred indentation method."
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ [Specifically, four spaces.]

I had heard Google urged two spaces for indentation of Python, per some old style guide, but not sure if that's still followed or not.
A friend did a subject at university called something like "The history of science" where they studied and recreated tons of early experiments and measurements like this. I remember they did another one to calculate the mass of earth based on the deviation of a weighted string.

The idea was that if anyone is ever going to "discover" new things in the future, they'll have to use out of the box thinking and measurement techniques to get there.
No idea :) In my 16-year programming career I never used a REPL of any sort. Just pop up a temp file and edit it with $editor-of-choice? XD
They've picked a very narrowly defined behavioral model (convention going) for their generalized observations about geek culture, so the basis of the analysis is wrong, which makes your question somewhat inconsequential.

We don't engage primarily because of some narcissistic need, need for belonging or need for showing off. We engage mainly because of our much more essential and more persistent need for grater knowledge and deeper understanding.
In situations like this, its normal to think that your own behavior is faultless, and that the "others" are conspiring to screw you over.

In reality, its usually you that is the problem. For whatever reason, the people in power don't view you as a key player. They may even be hoping you'll leave.

Situations like this are pretty much unrecoverable, so best to look for another job.

But, do think hard about where you went wrong, so that the same thing doesn't happen again.
Assume that github could do that for you. There would still be some based on tabs some on two sieves and some on 4. This was just looking at what people were using.
Who has sex wearing a watch?
Why wouldn't they put more and more resources towards the paying market and short as much as possible the market required to pay by statute?
My brother is an Er physician and yesterday we are all together and our dad is changing his hearing aid battery at the table. My brother points down at the battery on the table and says be careful thats a baby killer explaining that once swallowed the kid almost always dies.
I would expect that it would be not too hard to get some pretty severe constraints on any anisotropy.
Sounds like an argument against spaces. If you indent using spaces, there is no easy way to change the indentation. But with tabs you can change that global width of the tab.