skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The better analogy is to J. Edgar Hoover, about whom presidents from Roosevelt to Nixon did nothing, many of whom disliked, distrusted, and feared the man.
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They can issue new shares but they would have to notify you. You should have a clause in your agreement that any new grant you have the ability to get more options to stay at leat less dilluted or you can walk.
Im no linux person (gawd no) and so dont know EXACTLY what you mean, but is this the sort of thing you meant?.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd73b-Twf4I

Mentioned....

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3yo754/osjs_a_j...

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/3yo754/osjs_a_j...
Probably another boring humanities elective of dubious merit, being taught by someone whose adult life has been preoccupied with empty navel-gazing.
I know you realize it's an example and as an example it probably isn't the best. I also have to assume you know that promisified code is almost always a better approach than nesting, particularly deep nesting. So I'm missing your point.
LEGO does sell some "creative" and "basics" sets that are just a bunch of bricks without too many specialised weird bricks.
As often presented, QM asserts that the system collapses under measurement. But for a fundamental theory, measurement as an external thing doesn't make sense. Thus, when does collapse happen? This is that cat thing.

One can shrug and say, we know what we need for computations. But a fairly fundamental theory should be cleaner. Of course, there is a perfectly simple theory (Bohm's) involving Schrodinger's equation and a guiding equation for particles that has all of this quantum formalism derivable from its dynamics.

A paper by Bell that goes into this point more clearly than I can articulate: http://www.tau.ac.il/~vaidman/IQM/BellAM.pdf
From what I can tell, in 2012-ish Amiga Inc. transferred all copyright to Cloanto, which is why they're able to sell kickstart rom images. [1]

This puts them in the position where they're pretty much the gatekeepers to making UAE legally usable, and they benefit from probably millions of man-hours of emulator development while demanding payment for 30 year old IP they never developed and a front-end UAE launcher that's not needed.

1 - http://amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2015-02-00027-EN.html
No, but I feel as though I've put too much faith in Google and I probably should.

My @ntlworld email account, that I've not used for 12 years or more, will probably disappear as a result of these changes.
Thanks very much for the link to the essay "In Praise of Lectures" (it's not a lecture) by T. W. Körner. Both the points he makes and the way he makes his points (with his characteristic sense of humor) are well worth reading.
The main point which hit home for me was that the students are running the asylum now and there is no respect for the professors or faculty attempting to teach them.

From the comments:

The key to this article is the explicit statement that administrators are aligned with students against faculty. I work at a major university, and my department head has often sided with students without even contacting me to hear my take on the incident. I get an angry email from him saying that a student complained that I say hello (Really! I didn’t say hello!), or that I must give a student the opportunity to do an assignment after the deadline, because she said it was impossible to do it for technical problems. In fact, though, 21 students had completed it successfully, despite the alleged technical problems. Still, I was ordered to allow the student to complete the assignment late, for full credit. I was never consulted, or I would have mentioned that the student spends most of class on facebook, among other things. Another time, a student sent him an email saying that I “diminished her” in class. The head sent her a passage from the student handbook saying that students are to take it up with the professor. She refused, saying that made her “uncomfortable.” Instead, the department head insisted on visiting my class to observe my teaching. At the time, I said that he was spineless -- that she had told him to jump, and he did. That may or may not have been correct, but I’ve since realized that backbone had nothing to do with it. Instead, the head was actively searching for opportunities to baby students. It explains, for example why I was told to teach a student to use a calculator that I do not even require in my class.

I feel like this professors experience is fairly consistent with what I know. I had six friends who all went into academia and education. Within a year nearly all had exited the profession and only two remained. They all cited the same thing - the over coddling of students by administration or faculty. The stories they told were eye opening to say the least. The crazy part? This was going on in the early aughts, nearly two decades earlier.
Date 2011.
True, but so are good ones. Subsidies are orthogonal to business morality.
Pair Programming demystified
this, i think, is what he's addressing. if you don't see value in humanities or the arts, i'm afraid you're completely missing the point of being alive.

a world run completely by engineers is no place i want to live.
> imposing max lengths .. ends up hurting people

In that case you'll want to pre-hash your BCrypt-encoded passwords, otherwise you'll be imposing a silent 72 character limit.

Remember to encode the hashes, since BCrypt also silently truncates after NULL bytes.
Tanks are not exactly solar or battery driven either, am not quite sure what is your point.
"imagine that instead of building a public school, the area allowed a private company to build and operate the local schools. If you lived in the area, would you be in favor of these plans? Of course not, because the opportunity for conflicts of interest is too great".

It really irks me when someone tries to convince me by speaking on my behalf. Yes, I might be in favor on these plans.

"Exxon could build a school and then teach kids in its science classes that fossil fuels are the healthiest way forward for our planet"

And states don't do that? Pick up a history book from American, French and Russian public school, see if they tell the same story...

"Penguin could build a library and stock it in a way that pushed more people towards reading (and buying) Penguin’s books"

So what, as long as other publishers aren't forbidden from doing the same thing??
Equal justice before the law is essential for any true democracy to function. And whatever laws we implement, it is their fair and equal implementation that will be in the best interest of everyone. So if it's really best to have more or less surveillance, either way we should have members of government under the same surveillance, just the same as the citizens being governed.

This is probably welcomed news from the average citizen, who already feels (and fears) the end of privacy and the endless gaze of our panopticon surveillance systems.
> GDP seems to be less than half of that

GDP is total INCOME not revenue. GDP is total value of FINAL product, so all steps in the shipping chain are not calculated, just the last one.

>Are small businesses selling in a chain hurt because there are multiple sales, therefore promoting huge single companies where there's only one sale?

SMBs are actually the ones that will profit from this the most. Since the tax is on all revenues and there is no tax credit, the tax amount on final product between large shopping chain and small shop is rather small. Large chains undercut small shops now by using advanced accounting, something that small shops cannot afford to do.
This way of taxation was used before in communism to some extent to help to ease tax burden. It was quite successful - and now would be even better with country-wide usage of banking to handle revenues rather than cash.

The amount of sales does not matter - only thing that matters is the amount of middle man in the shipping chain. Small shops would be encouraged to get products from local producers and directly from warehouses that avoid middle man in order to save on taxes. This would encourage direct transactions between farmers and vegetable shop owners for example boosting local markets and distributing employment more evenly. Large companies would need to fight the market with higher quality products, better marketing and unique products - driving technology up.

>Increases to basic staples would hit the poorest harder, for example.

With overall products being cheaper and local markets being boosted, the distribution of wealth would be easier. Also government instead of reducing VAT on certain products which creates a lot of creative accounting by corporations, could for example provide "food stamps" for certain products to the poorest. Additional £25 a week in food stamps for groceries from government to poorest families would have way better affect than decreasing tax equivalent to £25.
Right. A "contract" like that will restrict their ability to raise money. They'll just move on to the next guy who knows nothing about options (most of us) and isn't so demanding.
In the US at least, the strike price for options in a private company is set at whatever price the last 409A valuation was. How this is done is a bit technical, and typically something done by a specialized professional accountant type.

At any rate, the younger and riskier a company is, the lower the 409A usually is, and the more legal wiggle room they have to keep it low so common stock option grants are worth more later on.

For public companies it's whatever the stock price is on the date the option grant is made. If it goes up, the options are worth money. In general, for public companies options are vastly more easy to understand and actually cash out.
Ask HN: A framework for doing data science with Ipython Notebook?
When I do data analysis with IPython Notebook, I find there are some common structure.

I'm wondering if there is a framework like Ruby on Rails for summarizing these practices, which can make everyone's life easier? It could include things like these:

1. Environment set up, like gemfile and bundle install in Rails

2. Global Helper, defined in specific place, like View Helper in Rails, can be used everywhere. So no need to scroll up and down to find it within your long list of cells. Eaiser to maitain.

3. Common productivity hacks, like select and run multiple cells, sidebar navigation (make notebook easier to read when it grows longer).
This sounds less like metaphysics and more like a math exercise to me, though. Deriving a smaller handful of cleaner axioms that result in quantum mechanics is a valid exercise in mathematical cleanup. And if I'm reading their claims correctly, doing so such that all but one axiom equally applies to classical mechanics, and only the introduction of one specific one yields quantum mechanics, would be legitimately interesting mathematically. It reminds me of Euclid's Fifth axiom, where it turns out that tweaking that one specifically yields multiple different valid geometries.

It probably isn't really progress in the sense the article writer thinks; juggling isomorphic representations is in some sense not "really" progress. But it can still be worth it for the practical improvements and potential didactic improvements. Perhaps if we had better education for QM with a better mathematical model, it would lead to less existential angst in the first place. I've seen Scott Aaronson trying to do some work on that front as well. In fact I'd consider it ironic if QM turns out merely to be slightly difficult and a hundred years of psuedo-philosophical babbling sourced from nothing more than a slanted view of relatively simple principles. I think some people will actually get upset if there is success in taking the mysticism away from QM....
I don't think Dawkins disputes the existence of religion in human culture, or the role of works like the Bible as cultural artifacts.

He's just opposed to the classification of fiction as non-fiction.
I'm not understanding your distinction between 'websites' and 'web applications'(we can have a debate about the distinction). All the issues that the author raised apply to both categoties when WebSockets are used. So in context, it's a meaningless distinction. And even if you are writing just a 'website' - why shouldn't you use any standard tool available? It's like saying CSS3 is overkill for 'websites'.

At work we have a true 'web application' and opted for long polling for real-time collab for a variety of reasons, one of which is that long poll plays nice with corporate firewalls and WebSockets are a mixed bag.
> which pays me a SF salary despite me living in Montreal

I'm not sure what cost of living in Montreal is, but I'd be surprised that jvns is making less than 100k in SF. If Stripe were smart they'd increase her salary stat. Just based on her excellent blog posts and her insatiable curiosity, this is not an employee you want to lose.
That whole 'measurement problem'/Heisenberg cut/wavefunction 'collapse' situation is somewhat iffy from a philosophical point of view.
>. Folks are jumping onto it because it's free (and "free" has its own charm "If it's free, why not?")

The whole tone of this is very condescending. You (presumably) don't know these people that will be the market for this product. I don't think you should look down on them and deny them autonomy as to the service that they use.

> And given that Facebook isn't even paying for the data, what's it's role here? Some infrastructure (which is unnecessary in the alternate net neutral free internet models -- the infrastructure is only to make "internet.org" work), and some outreach.

I don't see your point. Who cares what Facebook is paying for or their involvement. You're arguing that a free service that could help out many people be banned by fiat. I think the bar should be set pretty high.

> We see a company deviously inserting itself in the midst of something our telecom operators could have made work on their own, and structuring it in a dangerous way so that it is highly benefited.

By all means, if you and others think there is a better model, implement it as a competitor and allow people chose. Partner with the telecom operators, get them to do it. Preventing competition will not achieve your hypothetical ideal.

> Are you going to tell us to ignore this -- the same thing the West is so crazy about -- because it helps the poor?

I'm not asking you to do anything. Let those choosing to use the service or not choose what to consider when deciding whether to use this product or not.

>You don't unleash full market forces on those; capitalism can be harsh on them.

Capitalism has done more to lift people out of poverty than any other system in human history. Extreme poverty has fallen to below 10% for the first time [0].

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/05/world-bank-ex...
I travel a lot, immigration is rarely a bottleneck, if I checked luggage, I rarely don't beat my bag. So every country is different, I mentioned my horrible heathrow experience, I guess India and Bangkok can be bad during peak seasons. Bali will always be chaotic, and someone will offer "express service" for a bribe, but it never lasts that long. Japan moves quickly, austrailia is a breeze for USA passport holders, so is the USA these days if they are using kiosks. The EU has never been anything but fast. China is always a bit slow starting out but they usually open up some extra lanes after all the Chinese are processed.

Security in the states at a big airport is a bit more painful than other countries; you have to get into a 15-30 minute line. But that is the only country actually. Heck, in Australia they don't even check your ID. It can get s bit weird in the Philippines where I don't even think they are trying (very minimal security for even an international flight).
I think Greenwald misses Hoekstra's point entirely.

Consider an analogous situation. Republicans are up in arms because [they believe] right-wing groups were targeted by the IRS for political purposes. No one is proposing that the IRS be dismantled, or that its purpose is illegitimate, but rather its improper use as a political tool of the executive branch is wrong and possibly criminal.

Similarly, I'm sure Hoekstra has not changed his tune a bit regarding NSA surveillance in general. The scandal is using the intelligence apparatus as a political tool.
> I'm sure that neither GCHQ or the Security Service would dream of directly spying on their political masters - the NSA will be doing it and they'll get to share some of the results.

Well, only because they don't have to. I'm sure that they will be more than happy to provide the reverse service in return.
I was thinking more along the lines of thermite
Thank you very much for the historical viewpoint, much appreciated. It is kinda interesting that Delphi/FreePascal is the most live one while also being the one that splitted off from the family tree the earliest.
At the same time, these security checks do create places where 200+ people gather close together in an area where it is totally reasonable for someone to be wheeling around a 35-lbs un-checked bag.
Nah, this slit is the only normal thing about this animal.
You clearly don't understand the meaning of "sociopathic"
Could you not trim spaces upon attempted login as well to make this a non-issue?

I do like the idea of warning the user upon creation.
This is only for certain, verbal questions like antonym of, synonym of, X is to Y as Z to what; for each of them a separate, specific model was built (not that the AI read the question and printed relevant answer).

To sum up, the paper should be titled "Dictionary is better than MechTurk users on look-in-dictionary tasks."

Link to the original paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.07909v1.pdf
What a ridiculously biased article, and a great example of the narrative that the media is trying to push on people. Was shutting down all those subreddits a bad thing? Well not always, but the fact of the minute is simple; the new team (including Pao) were bad choices for a site that was founded on freedom of speech first and everything else last.

That's it. If you have a forum where the culture leans towards a lack of censorship and an everything goes attitude and you try and forcefully change that, of course you're going to end up with a huge firestorm of controversy. Many of the changes here were just terrible community management by people who didn't understand the original site and had no interest in doing so.
Very true. My cnc uses these. However I couldn't see getting it to walk or hop like these mules. You don't really get impulse with a ballscrew.
Uh, what? The article is on a site called coolmomtech.com. The article is going to be about kids because it's aimed at mom's.
The ironic part of your statement is that the Justice Department scrutiny of James Rosen came and went and nothing was done.

One of the foundations of this republic is a free press. In his case, you had a major abuse of power where the government started seizing his emails and going through them without his knowledge to try and build a case against him to release one of his sources to a story.

And what happened? Absolutely nothing. No one was charged, there was no investigation, and two years on, does anybody even remember it or even care about it?
Also egads is everything just mining leftovers?
(my after-tax salary -- I pay 40% income taxes or something? basically I'm saying my salary is less than 150k USD)
In Cincinnati there is a general purpose, private library: http://www.mercantilelibrary.com/

It's not regulated - not sure about the profit part. It is hugely dwarfed by the public library, but it is still quite popular. They have a smaller collection, but the percentage of the items that circulate is supposedly astronomical.

It only has a 10,000 year lease though, so I suppose it's only temporary.
Great tool,help devs to naming thingsSave my life
‘You’re not representative’: Identity politics in sex industry debates
If you're being offered options in an early stage startup you need to ask at a minimum (and any half decent founder should answer):

1. How many shares of the same class are in circulation

2. What is the price per share at current company valuation

3. How many shares of other classes are in circulation and whether these come with liquidation preferences

4. If you will be required to exercise your options in the event of leaving the company and, if yes, how long you have to do it

5. If you have the right to transfer your options (and later shares) to a third party. Unusual to have this right (unless you're transferring to immediate family) but good to know if you do have it.

6. Ask to see a copy of the company's articles and/or shareholder agreement (to check how voting rights work, tag along & drag along rights, entitlement to quarterly management accounts, right to first refusal, what power the board has on deciding sales/transfers etc.)

That's in addition to being very clear on what the vesting terms are (assuming you are not being given all your options in one go).
A boilerplate of JavaScript things that mostly shouldn't exist
The author is indeed well aware of WebSockets limitations, and OP's "Examples of where it's acceptable/recommended to use WebSockets" seem sound.

The problem is that the appeal of oooh-shiny is so strong that some (many?) developers and influencers do end up "using WebSockets for the wrong thing". Last case I met: a tutorial for a client+server js app using React & Redux [1], building... a CRUD voting application. Quoting the article on why choosing WebSockets for this, "This is an app that benefits from real-time communication, since it's fun for voters to see their own actions and those of others immediately when they occur. For that reason, we're going to use WebSockets to communicate."

Well yes, WebSockets work here (modulo problems and missed benefits/tooling that are the whole point of this article), and socket.io seems like a nice library, but a good old long poll would have done just as well :)

[1] http://teropa.info/blog/2015/09/10/full-stack-redux-tutorial...
From the original post: "Much research in economics and finance uses secret data. The journals publish results and conclusions, but the data and sometimes even the programs are not available for review or inspection. Replication, even just checking what the author(s) did given their data, is getting harder."

If the data and programs remain secret, it's not really science; it's just another example of Richard Feynman's cargo cult science: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm

Sadly, much if not most "economics" research is cargo cult science... often motivated by political, religious, and moralistic ideologies.

--

EDIT: In response to davidw's comment below, here are a few other economists weighting on the topic:

* http://paulromer.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Mathiness.pd...

* http://paulromer.net/mathiness/ (shorter version)

* http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/theory-vs-data-in...

* http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/freshwater-vs-sal...

* http://news.mit.edu/2010/krugman-event
Well its in your right to choose not to use it, advocate that it should not be used by others or offer an alternative. You shouldn't have the right to force others to not use the product and therefore bare a cost to serve your ideal.
> I had to turn it off after a while because basically every website was asking for WebGL.

I think part of that comes from frameworks like modernizr probing for WebGL, without actually using it.
Turn my sudo movie/book/comic/game review site into something a little more
Can't wait for modules. Header files are the worst.

Also really excited for co-routines. I never liked using promises.

Wow, had no idea ranges and contracts are on the table too. With all this stuff, C# is really losing its appeal.