skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That made me burst out in laughter. It has been longer than a year, and they made a huge mess of it. Essentially you can do a pseudo-merge of exactly one personal account into exactly one business account, that is then the beginning of all sorts of glitches and problems. That includes things like removing that personal user from the business account deleting all their personal content, being unable to separate the folders, logging into either account giving access to the other account, difficulty administering the accounts separately (a colleague had to call them up just to figure out how to update a credit card number and delete a user because he had both paid personal and business account psuedo-merged).
> Err, yes, it does.

Err, no, it doesn't.

> If you are successful at something, that means you did something right.

No it doesn't. It often only means you had better opportunities and knew people that someone with a better solution didn't know.

Success is a social game; not a game of correctness.
That comment of mine wasn't the spiel I'd give to someone first trying to learn about the typical use of monads in a programming context, any more than I'd lecture a beginning programmer on the general theory of commutative rings while introducing integer and floating-point arithmetic (the latter not actually comprising a commutative ring...).

But teaching the use of monads to unfamiliar programmers wasn't my goal in that comment. I was just pointing out the accurate response to "Adjunctions aren't highly relevant to programming".
I said long-term. V8 makes changes all the time that breaks Node, degrades performance in certain ways and essentially says "tough shit". Why wouldn't you look for an alternative?
what about trello tech stack? that's quite interesting for HNers too!

http://blog.fogcreek.com/the-trello-tech-stack/

but that post is about 3 years old, so I wonder how they changed over the years....
It's a common format for a flagship wide-area journal (like Cell or Science) to have editorial content at the front of the journal and the more hard-core research papers at the back. The editorial content can be breaking news, political/social context (e.g., Federal budgets, legislation), review articles, summaries and context for the technical articles at the back, and position papers seeking community comment.

Getting a paper in the front pages of the journal is a matter of invitation, and getting one in the back is considered ... how to say it ... the righteous way?
Earth to Facebook: astroturfing entirely sucks, it was a very 90s tactic and it's an absolutely shit way of convincing anyone of anything.

Frankly, you look like you are bullies, and you've pissed off a lot of people by absolutely misleading them into signing your petition, to the point where you actually tricked many folks directly.

There are many, many people who distrust Facebook. I used to be on the fence, but now I see just what Facebook is like, I have to work out if I'm going to continue with an account. Frankly, it would be great if Facebook would wither and die on the vine (IMO, of course!) and a more ethical social media platform takes over. I can but live in hope.
Minority Report - Personal Advertising in the Future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ
That morphed into application and OS containers. Basically. They're way better than anything agent-oriented programming had back in the day. Also more versatile. That's why you don't hear about them for that much anymore except fringe academia.

Might have been different if Cyc or OpenMind had achieved anything. They could be the reference point for autonomous, mobile agents using knowledge-based programming. Best just to create more high-level languages, good libraries, and ways to package them up. It's not just good enough: it's more predictable and reliable than agent or expert systems even on their intended use-cases. Funny how that worked out, eh?
Horrible web ui
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We do, and we're pretty happy with it!
https://exist.io is attempting to solve this problem (no interests, just a happy user).
Not a ruby dev so don't know how they compare to pry but I've been a happy heavy user of ipdb [1] and pdbpp [2].

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipdb
[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdbpp
The Go Programming Language is a recent concise book that will give you a basic grounding in important CS stuff through the lens of a modern language. I'd say that will clarify loads of jargon.
I think I now have an idea for counting people who attend church. :)
Controlled boundary condition let scientists create really cool waves
Yeah, but this campaign never tricked people into sign anything. People who signed this petition actually knew what they were signing. The Facebook campaign was based on deception, pure and simple.
Still, it might have been interesting to have your blood work done before and after to see what the changes were. There's compelling evidence for fasting. See Micheal Mosley's Eat, Fast and Live Longer documentary:

https://vimeo.com/103656060

Personally, I'm following a 5:2 intermittent fast this year while also maintaining 63 mi/week running, including 9 mi on the days I fast.
Judgements on motive, while critical for investigations and character analysis, are obviously irrelevant to online tech discussions, famously impervious to baggage, ideology, and petty warble.
A very quick Google search for "rails rename column" will show that there's a method called "rename_column"

You can even search for "rails typo in migration" and the first result is a stack overflow post suggesting and explaining how to roll back the migration so you can edit it
I've seen some of the large websites in India offer OTP (one time password) login using SMS, which I personally have used many times. You enter your mobile no, get an OTP and login with that. Removes the hassle of remembering the password.
I think the point is that indeed, there are no new "types" of jobs - only variations of the few basic ones. And automation is a problem because it eliminates types of jobs. For each labour-intensive profession you now have a corresponding machine. For each precision-related occupation you now have an industrial robot design. And nowadays we're coding up programs addressing brainpower-related jobs. What else is there? What other type of jobs we have left, and is there anything preventing them from falling prey to technological progress?
You can put it as text.

"We currently serve parts of SF, Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Please see ... for a map and how we plan to expand our service."
I think I can boil down all the debates in the comments:

Some people prefer the Rails way of doing things. Others prefer something else. Nobody is wrong.
Differences in criminal supply chains are normal. In Canada it's mainly South Asian diaspora criminal networks who import heroin, so they source from India (Afghan heroin) as they have influence in India. US it's mainly Latino networks who import heroin and have influence in Mexico and Colombia to bribe police and dockworkers thus source from there.
How did he create those demos, did he actually write a windows manager that wraps existing OS functions into his format? The amount of code that would take to give all of the functionality would be stupendous. Also how did he implement eye tracking with such robustness? Could he be kernel hacking and remapping the video memory buffer so that his shim code can take the output of working programs and then rearrange it for the purposes of his demo? Could a designer shed some light for this programmer on how exactly that video was generated. What type of tools would he have used so that I can google them on my own time?
I'm not sure you'd get it if you haven't experienced it up to this point. Maybe just how your mind works.

I know some people walk into a movie consciously or unconsciously determined to not be surprised. They're usually disappointed to varying degrees or at least not surprised by many things. Best way to experience those movies is mentally go with the illusion for at least the duration of the movie rather than try to outsmart the director. I mean, common tropes you'll see coming anyway but one gets more out of it overall.
Amazing the results of pooling people's brainpower. But this is NOT A SURVEY. Surveys don't pool brainpower, they just tally individual opinions. Artificial Swarm Intelligence is a totally different beast. I can't wait to see what happens when it gets out of Beta.
If we ever desire to see real usages of the Internet(that is more than just information exchange medium) which requires real time data transfer (for instance remote surgeries, remote operation of machines by a human operator, etc etc), then that would require to get rid of net neutrality.

I just don't see how this can be the case. Show me your evidence that some data is causing real time data transfers to slow?
I love it! I would want an angled keyboard with integrated touch-pads for each hand. I use the Goldtouch V2 keyboard. It would be great it if the keyboard was edged with 2-3 inch touchpad surfaces. Then I could keep my hands in an ergonomic position and avoid having to reach for the mouse with every interaction.
I've always wanted to like Trello, but i'm never sure quite how or what to use it for. It doesn't work well for me for project management, since you can't create tasks with due dates or assignees. I'm not sure how folks get around that.

edit: I was thinking of checklists, not cards.
Would love to see "subscribe" options that were accompanied by at least 10 enforced heuristic parameters...
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Interesting that this piece isn't getting more notice here. Pando deserves more notice too considering that they seem to be trying to do real journalism.
Have you tried SageMath and/or its cloud service with Jupyter notebooks?

* http://www.sagemath.org

* https://cloud.sagemath.com
I want hierarchical tags, e.g. "comp.lang.ruby.rails" instead of just "ruby" and "rails". And of course, when I search "comp.lang.ruby", I want to see results from all of its children.

The problem with traditional hierarchical organization is that objects often belong to multiple categories. With hierarchical tags, that problem disappears because you can easily assign multiple tags to the same object.

Actually, we can already do this with hierarchical filesystems and hard (not soft) links.
That's an interesting puzzle. If you want my $0.02 cents on it check the knock sensor or unplug it for a bit and see what that does, alternatively replace ignition coil for that cylinder, cable, cap and plug.

Those would by my main suspects if it works well in open loop mode, knock sensor first.
I once ordered 100 Model S's at one time (Google it) then later took delivery of 12 Model S's at one time. Here's what I can tell you. Tesla's system for selling one new car to one person at one time is very, very good.

Tesla's system for doing anything other than one car to one person at one time is not good.

When we initially placed our 100 unit order we got 100 confirmation emails timed suspiciously as though some poor person was entering the details one at a time. Their owner's website couldn't handle 100 unique vehicles tied to one user. When we took delivery we had to go through a bunch of human processes 12 unique times. The people seemed incapable of batching tasks like signing title paperwork. We went through the routine for each car twelve times.

All of their systems are built to do one thing very well.

So this guy asked Tesla to do something it is not built to do and sell him a loaner car. And the systems broke. All of them. In Tesla systems (operational and technological) everything is built to do one thing.

Yes, it stinks that some people at Tesla acted dumbly in response to this. But overall, don't forget. People are components of a system.

There are no programs in the Tesla system to handle any of the variables this situation threw at it, starting with what the guy wanted Tesla to do.

When you deliberately ask a system to do something it isn't designed to do you shouldn't be surprised when it breaks.
I'm not "quelling criticism", I'm saying that you are wrong. And rude for insulting OP.
> As a response to the epidemic the government is fast tracking Naloxone to become a non prescription drug since it reverses the effects of an opioid overdose within minutes.[2] I don't remember where I read that first responders (Paramedics, EMS) will be carrying Naloxone to administer it during responses.

Naloxone should be handed out at needle exchanges no questions asked, it has no side-effects if you are not using.

IMO whoever supported requiring prescriptions for Naloxone and syringes should be tried for crimes against humanity.
> since you can't create tasks with due dates or assignees.

You can do both.
I feel like these sorts of presentations are not very honest. If your claim is improved productivity, why not do a side by side? A cursory glance shows that all of these features would completely destroy my productivity.

Taking a look at the gestures...

1) Scroll through panels - Alt+TAB is unquestionably faster (< 1sec)

2) Open App Control - Win key? (< 1sec)

3) Open Apps menu - Keyboard Shortcuts (< 1sec)

4) Open Finder - Win + E (< 1sec)

5) Close Panel - Alt F4 ((< 1sec)

6,7,8) Resize - Win + UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT (< 1sec)

Now, sure I see some people claiming that "nobody" knows these shortcuts or that they are "not intuitive" (itself a loaded term), etc.

So,

Proposal 1 (Teach people these shortcuts)

Proposal 2 (Invent completely new gestures - teach people these new gestures, which will then slow them down because a keyboard is just crazy fast compared to touch.)

Now, I'm going off of the whole Desktop phrasing. Maybe on a mobile, all of these might make more sense..
I'll supply astronaut instead and see you argue around how that really is just another form of 'traveler'.
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On other browsers too but that’s hacky.
Solid. I would like to see better Clojure docs before 2.0 though. I can even volunteer for a redesign.
You absolutely can create a card, assign a user to it, and give it a due date... I'm pretty sure that functionality has been there for a while.
This web page will be very useful prior art for the big companies that are going to try and patent these ideas!
Is that new? Unless something's changed recently, the only way I knew of to do this is a hacky workaround:

http://help.trello.com/article/942-assigning-people-and-due-...
From the Python Wiki at https://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3

"Python 2.x is legacy, Python 3.x is the present and future of the language"

So you have it backwards there, captain.

print versus print() is a red herring if there ever was one.
Feel free, to grab another book from "Top xyz books to read in your lifetime" and post the link to Wikipedia. Any other pollution is welcome as well.
% tail -1 M74207281/M74207281.txt
010073391086436351
% du M74207281/M74207281.txt
44504	M74207281/M74207281.txt
% md5 -q M74207281/M74207281.txt
53294de131970c2cee8da6fe9a3135b3
I think you misunderstood my comment, I did not mean to state that I thought the guidelines are bad -- I think that they are very good for the community (In fact, imo it's what makes this place better and more informative than Slashdot). What I meant to state was that the increase of the signal-to-noise ratio is a bad thing, that is happening despite the extrememly well written guidelines.

Anecdotally, I would say that this could indicate that either the guidelines are not being enforced (However, from what I can tell they are being enforced), or that the guidelines have a black spot that could be filled (Whether this would cause more harm than good is debatable).
True, but the real problem lies on the road from here to there. I.e. you could probably make half of the population totally unemployable while selling the output of robots to the other half. But will the first half just lie down and starve to death, or will they try to fight back? And, given the incentive structure of market economy, will we be able to get off this road altogether before reaching that point?
The Hatton Garden raid was meticulous in its planning, dazzling
in its complexity – yet still the burglars were caught.

I disagree with this premise. The Hatton Garden heist only made it as far
as it did because of a number of failings outside of the gangs control, that they didn't expect. The heist was doomed to fail from the start and only made it as far as it did because of a lot of good fortune on the gangs behalf.
Has the demo code actually worked for anyone?
>> "...police, hospitals, child protective services,..."

Wait, are hospitals taxpayer funded in America? If so, why do they charge my insurance such vast amounts of money for tiny services?
When I took the course they used it concurrently. EdX to do some quizzes, site for projects, other hw.
I'll take your comments, good or bad. Thanks.
I frequently have worked with people in Bob Langer's lab, which is an absolutely enormous group.

Most of them described it as being a place where virtually any piece of equipment you wanted to use was available to you, but you will have very little supervision. For a scientist who has a crazy idea that doesn't want to be micromanaged, that can be an ideal environment. Those crazy ideas are the most likely to be published in Science or Nature if they work, in which case, having a famous PI like Langer or Church helps a surprising amount.

So, yes, being in a huge lab is a bit of a pyramid scheme, and probably gives undue credit to the PIs. But, for the right person, it can be the perfect environment to test your ideas and, with a bit of luck, publish some high profile papers.
"The reason I ask for explanation is because I can also see that exact same group of male computer nerds assuming that most of their colleagues, male or female are a waste of time because "few people hack on computers". "

BOOM! You got me there. I overlooked the obvious counter to my own statement for whatever reason. I retract it.

"Related Reading from Meredith Patterson, "The Null Hypothesis Loves You and Wants You to Be Happy":"

I appreciate the article but I'm not sure it applies. The approach is certainly useful when you can do that. There's too many things, especially in social decision-making, that involve multiple factors working together in non-linear or inseparable ways. So, it's more like trying to identify the various factors, look at how they often play out, assess how they apply to a certain situation, and make an educated guess about what's likely to apply. Probabilistic and case-based reasoning dominates most things of any significant complexity and uncertainty.

We get a ton of mileage out of null hypothesis and associated analysis, though. Way more than I'd expect on occasion. The tricks people used to eliminate all variables but race or gender are a good example. Otherwise, we'd be looking at social situations weighing the odds as I described above. So, null hypothesis has limits but still worth attempting to use since we can't be sure of its real limits yet.

That's what's fun about it to me, though. So reliable, relatively simple, and yet so much more potential to find cool new ways to use it. :)
Ah I see what I was remembering now. It was checklists that I wanted to be able to assign, not cards.
I've been programming Rails since 2010, and still feel like it's far-and-away the most productive I've ever been for turning SQL into HTML and then user actions back into SQL. If your task is SQL into HTML and then user actions back into SQL, with a few "sprinkles" of Javascript on top of it, Rails will not steer you wrong.

I have also recently been doing, for the first time in a long while, work which is not SQL into HTML and then user actions back into SQL. Rails was never seriously considered for that part of the project. This was the correct call, and the new stack (GoLang and React) are fun things to have in my toolbelt, but there have been a few points this year where I've said "I just spent two hours on something which would have been 4 lines in Rails and I'm not sure I'm done yet."
> So we are seeing less people getting hooked on opiates. This is of course a good thing.

Not necessarily. You want people in pain to be able to access opiates. And some of those are going to die from them. So the ideal number of people dying probably isn't zero.
I'll bite. An astronaut is basically a highly trained horse carriage passenger. Most of spaceship operations are already controlled by machines anyway, and they do it better than humans. Hell, when you see discussions about manned Mars missions, the recurring question is, "why bother with people when machines can already do it better?".
No, they’ve been available for (at least) 3 years: http://blog.trello.com/due-date-notifications-list-move-and-...
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> I'm curious to know which came first?

The math definitions. These were invented by Saunders Mac Lane and Samuel Eilenberg back in 1945ish, about a year before ENIAC was built.
That link is referring to checklists. You've been able to assign people and due dates to cards for a long time.
Why is a dynamic language quicker for prototyping and exploration?
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I combine that with Greasemonkey on a per-site basis. The following script, slightly modified per-site, can make it so the page only displays the content area. No navigation, no side-bar ads, nothing but the content. Combined with Stylish to style and center the content, remove images, make the typography easier to read, and fix contrast issues/href colors. I use it for practically all news/media sites to make my reading experiences more enjoyable.

It's like my own personal "Readable" or whatever the Safari add-on / that-one-site is called. :)

document.body.innerHTML=document.getElementById('content').innerHTML;
At least 10% of the $61B of assistance the US sent to Iraq can't be accounted for [1]. Since it can't be accounted for it's hard to say conclusively that it was stolen, but someone (or more likely, many someones) somewhere has it...

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2014/06/19/how-the-us-lost-billions-over...