skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also a fair point, and I take your implication that the effect of a change to the outer loop syntax would probably be lost in the noise. It just struck me that using ref cells and loops feels like a concession to writing Javascript-style code in the first place (I grant in this particular case it makes the code more obvious) and I wondered how much difference it actually makes. Is the compiler able to flatten a fold into a similar loop? Or do you get a readable fold call in the JS code and, if so, is it much slower? Or neither?
But to be fair, and this won't be a popular comment, but I'm asking honestly, why did you take on a non working partner and child fresh out of college? You evidently have great character to overcome, and I don't know the UK system, but these would be impossible burdens for most middle class Americans before the age of at least 25, and likely put long term if not permanent damping factors on their career growth to be able to get to where you are now.
Slack’s Bot and the collective curation
Why am I seeing this?
Time’s Almost Reversible Arrow
> loading the next byte into a register is going to set the status register

not in x86
"Make Real Things with Browser Technologies"

How is that better or so different than making real things in C ? What problem would it solve?

I get that js got very popular thanks to browsers, but does that mean we should use js for everything?

Seems like mozilla is just trying to salvage firefoxOS.
They are mostly accurate. I use a Garmin Forerunner 235 and the average heart rate seems to be mostly accurate. I don't really pay attention to the absolute values though. It's only interesting to see how they change as I my fitness improves.
Well, 6/52 would be around 12% which is approximately the percentage of humans living in the southern hemisphere.
The benchmark where mithril was much faster is very flawed, see comments from creators of vue: http://vuejs.org/perf/. Mithril was faster because it rendered asynchronously once every frame, while React rendered on every single simulated event. We will write a blogpost describing why Imba is in fact so much faster. I stand by the benchmark, and would love to explain it in detail. You can see some more discussion about it here: https://github.com/somebee/imba/issues/9
The End of Eternity and Nightfall (the novel with Robert Silverberg, not the short story) are Asimov's greatest novels.
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Have you seen this talk it might lend some persepctive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy062kp-LM4
The context of your quote (note no ellipses because I'm not eliding anything, the context is literally the preceding sentence):

> The rate at which individuals can create wealth depends on the
> technology available to them, and that grows exponentially.

In what sense does technology grow “exponentially”?

I think the context makes clear that the author means "In what sense does technology grow the rate at which individuals can create wealth “exponentially”?". It's not a rhetorical device where he "pretends" to not know about Moore's law. He is in fact baldly claiming that the results of Moore's law haven't "trickled down" to the common man.

> The wheat example seems weak as well

The author merely presents it as less weak than an allusion to Moore's law, which it is.

> proponents of "Basic Income" seem to also be relying on ever increasing technology productivity to replace human jobs

A well-credentialed economist, who I assure you has no interest in "post-scarcity" fantasies, asserted to me that a negative income tax bracket is considered by mainstream economics academia to be the best way to foster socioeconomic mobility, and the only opposition to its implementation is political. The reasoning presented to me was sublime: government programs for wealth redistribution like food stamps, education grants and loans, Medicaid, commodity subsidies, etc, which are widely accepted, are typically based on income anyway, but they all have independent standards and techniques to determine who gets how much aid, and consequently are rife with abuse (commodity subsidies going mostly towards large, profitable corporations; education grants filling University of Pheonix's coffers; etc). Consolidating them into just a negative income tax would be much more efficient, maximizing resources and incentives to prevent abuse.
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Awful awful advice. OP, do not be a sucker.
Getting to 40 hours/week is trivial (or rather, the difficulty is all on the emotional side) - you walk out the door after 8 hours every day, and you do it consistently.

Getting down to 20 is much harder, as is getting remote work - all I can suggest for that is being upfront about it, and only working in positions/contracts that are explicitly remote-first.
Whoa, Coral Bay looks so beautiful. Guadeloupe, too. Wonder what life is like in those places?
Thanks! Alright then. Am I guessing right that a powerful quantum computer could find the solution in constant time though? It seems to me molecular bonding is just an energy minimization problem.

Also, is it really necessary to look at everything in combination? You mean things like catalysts? Are typical chemical compounds really as complex as proteins? I think Computational Biology is lately often getting breakthroughs that were quite unexpected, see for example http://www.hpcwire.com/2015/01/16/nvidia-gpus-unfold-secrets....
We usually spell the project 'hendrix', not 'Hendrix' - that way, the uppercase version always refers to the musician known for concurrent singing and guitar playing, while the lowercase always refers to the package known for concurrent network traffic. :-)
Lose Weight like the 1950's
Sony XQD memory card boasts up to 440MB/s reads
I think it's just unfamiliarity with anything else, and unawareness of the staggering complexity this introduces. Also, this is Mozilla who have a large concentration of people familiar with browser technologies.

On the other hand, I think IoTs with web interfaces aren't a bad idea.
Stating that after asking "Why would I want hunter-gatherer fitness?" (presumably a rhetorical question) implies that their understanding of hunter-gatherer fitness involved running slowly for long distances. I may be wrong but I don't see why it would have been brought up otherwise given that the article already addresses that point:

"The prospective clinical trials that have been performed
assessing the health effects of various exercise regimens
and the observational data are generally supportive of the
health benefits conferred by a hunter-gatherer style of
fitness regimen. A growing body of data indicates that
many of the benefits of exercise accrue at relatively low
to moderate levels of exercise. Continuous higher-level
activity, such as jogging 32 km/week, was not found to be
statistically better than walking 19 km/week for reducing
features of the metabolic syndrome."
Facebook Says the Phone Number Is Dead
Big or small, it's not just the size that matters. One per city would be almost always very unoptimal.

Eurozone is not good currency area because it's too big, but because it does not fill the criteria for good currency area [1]. US is much better. US-Canada economic region might be optimal if divided into three[2], but it's not a big deal. United States can function fine as a single currency region.

[1] A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas (classic paper from Mundell)
https://www.aeaweb.org/aer/top20/51.4.657-665.pdf

[2] Optimum Currency Areas within the US and
Canada: a Data Analysis Approach http://utopia.duth.gr/~pgkogkas/duthwp/4-2012.pdf
Almost simultaneous submission with some comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10863974 (26 points, 1 hour ago, 7 comments) (Let's keep all the discussion there)
I've developed a few things on my Espruino Pico[1] board, some Raspberry pi and also so arduino things. Just toys really.

One of the nice this I've found with the Pico is because of the JS vm, when I don't do anything in the code all the power in the chip goes to sleep state, and just wakes up for me as I've got scheduled. Yes Arduino has sleeps but i've also go to go learn that as another thing, yes the Pi can be configured so but that's even more tinkering.

JS seems like a really great "Just get it done" sort of phase to work in. After that you'd no doubt make a better job of the project with a myriad of other technologies.

1: http://www.espruino.com/Pico
It is interesting with standing space for some of your work. I find that I can't stand and do certain types of work (I have a standing desk I use a lot). Writing which require assembling a lot of information into something coherent is really hard for me to do standing. I could imagine that maths would be the same, but I haven't tried it. If you then have a class room with only standing space, maybe that isn't great. But it could of course be the opposite, that standing works better.
I agree. A new poster with 2 up votes asking an inane question. I guess none of us have flagged it.
Thanks for the links, didn't know about these issues.

Because of the syntax alone I want to play around with Imba, haha.

How does it interopt with JavaScript?
IIRC, with the Freedom Hosting bust the FBI compromised the Hidden Services server, then used a browser javascript exploit to leak the real IPs of those who connected. So, your quoted text is very plausible.

Tor is intended to be anonymous, but not absolutely.
Thanks, seems like an interesting read. Will look into it.
There is also a group of people who would like to work less but are in an industry that doesn't really offer part time jobs.
not that I like javascript that much, nor I know how meaningful are the result you can get with js in iot-firefoxOS, but js is absolutely more approachable than C so there's that problem that can be solved (lowering the barriers to access hacking on some iot device).
Yes but I'm not telling you because its valuable to me.
Browsers allowed developers to bring new things to customers quickly, because it was the only decent way of developing application that could work with Windows. It was the only way good open source software could "breach" how microsoft was doing business and putting barriers to the internet.

The problem is that now, we should move on, and use something else than a browser. Maybe it involves inventing an alternative to html, or making all application networking p2p. Not talking only about bitcoin. Also, html is so much focused on TCP, and not on real time networking.

I'm not dismissing the web, but to me it seems that it's the only decent standard to do things, and there's really nothing else.
But I wouldn't see Python as being speedier or better at scale and certainly not reporting. What are your speed up and scale advantages in Python over R. (Seriously interested)

Going R to Clojure or Julia seems like a gain but Python.
The free slot thing is brilliant. Levels the playing field to some extent and removes the need for candidates for relying on outside investors
How to turn off Facebook Memories
A huge amount of OEMs in Android does this as well or release late. Let's not jump the gun on a company doing amazing things and give them some time to do it.
> I think IoTs with web interfaces aren't a bad idea.

I think it is. The internet-of-things does not need to suffer from massive power consumption and hard to implement on the micro-controller scale protocols.

It needs something much more along the lines of encrypted UDP than that it needs to use 'web technologies'. Imagining a stack made on 'web technologies' running off power harvested over a relatively long period of time is painful.
So corporations get their own copyrights? Then they can just create a new subsidiary to hold each work. Maybe transfer employees to it while producing it, and then move everyone out when it's done. It'd be annoying having to manage all of these subsidiary corporations, but I'm sure they'd be up to the challenge.

Also, if copyright can be transferred, then there'd be 2.1 billion lifetime copyrights available. A substantial portion of that would be available on a secondary market, I bet. It still might be better, since not everyone will want to use copyrights on minor works. Then again, you'd be encouraging people to do 'big' works rather than lots of small works, which doesn't seem like something a copyright system should be changing.
Creating an entire HTML page structure just to get to the code because you need a <script> tag? Oh god.
I was buried alive in a real-life coffin for a disturbing new VR experience
That's a good point. And running node.js on an IoT device still makes sense to me, but emulating a browser just seems unnecessary.
When your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
> most middle class Americans before the age of 25.

That applies only if you live in any of the big urban centers, where the idea that living well until your 30's and even 40's with roommates just to be able to make do in shitty apartments that cost $1000+, not to mention the student loans to pay for the useless degree in humanities. Or alternatively, to choose med/law school and keep deferring the high-income years.

Move to any part of flyover country, choose a career that does not require the stupid treadmill of higher-education and it will be pretty possible to start raising a family at age 25.
Another option, make it cost more money each year you want to keep the copyright.
I wonder how those specific places (bars, restaurants) got there. I live in one of those place and I didn't know about one half (really expensive restaurants, so my fault I guess) of those and the other half (bars) wasn't particularly special. Not a bad selection.. just very arbitrary.
I'm interpreting the list as "52 places you might not have considered" because in each of their categories (national park, metro, attractions, etc.) many obvious - and IMO better - choices are avoided, at least for the US.
"and the transformation of 700,000 square miles of former docklands into more than 5,000 new apartments and public waterside attractions"

700,000 square miles? Of Dockland? In Bordeaux? And each apartment gets 140 square miles of land? :-)
The article seems to suggest that latent racism from the banks, real estate agents and white buyers remains the main engine for segregation even today.

While I haven't lived in US, it seems to me segregation can persist in an unequal society even if racism is marginal: it's enough that buyers of all races observe that higher blackness is correlated with poverty. If that's the case, buyers will rationally flee black areas for the sake of property value. Black affluent buyers will flee to white areas for the same reasons, but if they are a minority they can't balance out. So depending on the correlation of home ownership with wealth (strong in the US), you get a vicious circle where black areas get blacker and their initial majority black residents become trapped there due to declining property values, with the banking and commercial sector entrenching the segregation due to risk aversion.

So once initiated, ethnic polarization is self sustaining even if the initial instigators (racism) become largely irrelevant. Poverty itself becomes the engine of segregation, so the only way to break the cycle is to promote equality.
It is truly a sad state of affairs when the "diversity" being discussed is the ability to ask questions or debate without being attacked because of real or imagined offenses. You know, like a college!
RMagic for R and Python in Jupyter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StX_F_kq_C0
The question of whether a field is broken (not working how people would like it to work) is different from the question of whether it's valuable.

There's a question of whether lawyers are a net good for society, and I would expect a lawyer to think 'yes' whether or not that's true. But there's also a question of, how much of a lawyer's job involves being friendly with the judge?

I'd expect a lawyer to know the true answer to that, independently of whether or not [she thinks] lawyers are a net good.

(At least, I'd trust the lawyer more than I'd trust a randomer.)
Only if you've modified it. If not, then it's upstream's responsibility to distribute source. And even if you've modified it, I think distributing patchsets is enough, no?
Not GP, but my guess is - because people are not robots. Not many people are responsible enough to plan out their lives and then stick to that plan. Also, you sometimes end up in those situations despite your best efforts at being "responsible". Either because of love, unplanned pregnancy... or sudden loss of ability to work of the other partner (think medical issues).
It compiles to standard js, and it's entirely unproblematic to interoperate with any/all js libraries. I myself use Imba whenever I need to write something for web/node, even if it is only a small library to be used in a larger javascript project, but obviously I'm quite biased. If you're thinking about specific libraries / cases I'm happy to write up an example.
This is a beautiful page, but my god, is it heavy. I'm counting 171 separate requests totaling 31 Mb - excluding the videos. I've not even loaded all videos, and my total is at over 400 Mb now.... Is this acceptable now?
Obviously Mozilla still doesn't know why Firefox OS/phone failed.
Specs:

SoC: RK3066
Memory: DDR3 1GB
NAND Flash: 1GB
microHDMI female
microUSB x 1 (OTG)
USB x 1
microUSB x 1 (UART debug)
GPIO	> 1 (Configurable)
I2C	2
UART	2
SPI	2
Audio	analog stereo IN x 1 / OUT x 1
PWM	1
Analog	IN x 1
I think you are missing the point. The financial support is cozying up to whoever will win. Obviously its not a free donation. The investor will eventually seek payback by having a higher voice in legislative matters.

For example, motorcycle driven rickshaws were recently banned in Pakistan. The official statement says they were unsafe and a menace to society. But it doesn't take a genius to see that other forms of public transport (such as buses) stand to gain from this decision and must have had something to do with it.

PS: Public transport is largely owned by private parties in Pakistan.
It's probably is sutible for public facing sites, just not globablly.

Little bobby tables doesn't need the ability to dump your users or credit cards, even if he does need access to all the blog posts.

I have to read up on the feature a bit more, but it sounds a potentially massive win if you build the support into an orm / framework.
>We apparently inhabit completely different circles and cultures.

Sorry I was unclear. I meant beheading videos. Please reread it with that in mind.

Everything you've said about child porn is only about violent child porn and other kinds of child abuse. I completely agree with you on that. What I'm concerned with is harmless child porn which people still demonize too. For example when a parent's innocent bath video gets leaked to a child porn ring. That does't transform it from OK to bad. It makes no difference to the child. Yet it does become illegal and people do hate the viewers of that video despite the child not being harmed.
I think the brand and portal "product" could have been saved, but I agree the brand and portal could not save the current corporate entity.

The brand and portal is a much smaller company than Yahoo of today and probably the current spin off should have been the original model along with some very heavy layoffs.

My thoughts on saving the portal product, personally were always

- Buy tumblr for ad sales potential
- Buy digg.com and some smaller facebook page style properties to drive traffic and seo to news
- Buy inside.com and essentially make that yahoo news.
- Produce high quality streaming video news content, particularly finance.
- Buy libsyn or podbay. With existing ad data yahoo could do targeted in-audio ads for streaming and download.
- Double down on fantasy sports as a driver of daily visits.
- Rebuild mail. Use it as a daily visits driver / cross promotion opportunity with minimal or no ads.
- Spin flickr off to employees or sell it.
good job mozilla.
this will also promote firefoxOS
It's exactly for those users. Android is easy to maintain and hard to fuck up for the regular user, which is what everyone does with any and all Windows PCs. And you can't just get a grandma to use Linux.
A New Economic Era for China Goes Off the Rails
I'm a fan of this, it seems easier to apply and harder to hide how much you say you're profiting from it. It also represents the trade with the public for protection. The longer it's out of the public domain, the more you have to pay the public.

You could have this increase as a percentage each year, allowing a slow ramp up and much higher fees for something that's been kept for 100 years.
And it also means less loudly-speaking American tourists elsewhere :-)
Lenovo and Google make weird smartphone – takes two to Project Tango
//We will share openly the firmware code, board design, manufacturing process, API spec, and all necessary sources. //

thats a good thing bcoz firmware code is not open in Raspberry PI
RebelBB: forum written in Rebol (source code)
Still better than binary created by an obscure toolchain. [wrote the comment before I realized we're not talking about µC stuff]
I'd be interested in seeing that when it's ready!
Its easy to conclude that but suppose you're a white high-income professional who is looking for a home in Baltimore city. You have your pick of any neighborhood. Would you choose....

A) A rowhome in a squalid neighborhood beset with heroin dealing, unsupervised youth, poor upkeep, and median household income of 10K, a main street of furniture rental shops, cellphone stores and liquor stores that sell mostly "40's".

or

B) A gorgeous house in a neighborhood of other professionals with meticulously maintained and upgraded houses, a mainstreet with a wine bar and coffee house that makes cappuccino's with the fancy swirly foam.

Whether you're black or white, you WILL choose B if you can at all afford it. The sad truth is there aren't enough African americans who can choose B enough to change the optics of this situation.

The pattern persists partly because large cities in the united states consist of the poor or the wealthy with very little inbetween. Middle income folks go to the exburbs because they can't afford the nice parts of the cities and can't afford private school for their kids (sending your kids to public schools in the cities is completely out of the question for any family that values education).
> We're just as much to blame every time we whip out or iPhone -- (http://www.cnet.com/news/riots-suicides-and-other-issues-in-...) not only involves working conditions so bad that people are driven to literally jump off the roof of the building

But it's not clear that the suicide rate is higher than the rest of the population.

> so frequently that managers placed a net down

That's a good thing. Restricting access to means and methods is a mainstream bit of suicide prevention. For tall buildings this means putting the telephone number for suicide prevention helplines around, and putting fences up, and installing nets if fences can't be put in place.

Of course, that's only the beginning, so if you're complaining that that's all they do then I agree, they need to do more.

But putting nets up is more than many places do. How many multistory car parks do you see that have easy access - no fencing, no netting?
> If you start with C++, you're committed to a multi year project, that's what it takes to advance from novice to junior level.

This is ludicrous. Depending on your back-ground and the amount of time you spend working in the language each day, a journeyman level competency can be had in just a few months. Honestly this sounds like a comment from someone who has not done much C++. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The actual quote is "residential segregation levels are lowest in Southern cities such as Atlanta, Houston and Dallas" not "the South" generically.