skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the opposite reaction. That group sounds like one where women aren't safe. It's important to show abusive people that their behavior won't be tolerated in the spaces they want to occupy. No consequences = no change.
Sure, if someone's not using a popular 3rd party CDN because they don't know the option exists or they don't understand the potential benefits, then yes, consideration should be given. They're not always the answer, though, and there are plenty of legitimate business and security reasons why one might prefer to host their own dependencies.

Sometimes technical reasons make the potential benefit minimal, anyway. Once someone's already making one request for your application source, adding a bit more to that response (a bundled minimum-necessary-subset of some not-massive dependency) can make only a very minor performance difference. It won't be as fast as if a file containing the entire dependency was in the browser's cache (or possibly even in the JS engine's compilation cache), but it'll be significantly faster than if it wasn't.
I think so. I love my iPad Pro - I can't believe how many hours a week I use it, with a lot of that time spent on creative/work projects like working on my new book, better learning Haskell (I keep one of the Haskell books I bought open and the Haskell App based on hugs - as I am reading I can flip back to the Haskell App to experiment with code snippets), and general research activities.

The iPad Pro has disrupted my work and entertainment flows.

Apple's weak point is web/cloud services but with their deep pockets, I expect that to get better.
Installing Emacs is not the problem. Although I am on Ubuntu in my University, I can build from source. Its is setting everything up to my liking for a computer that I will only use a total of a dozen times that I don't want to do. Maybe I am too lazy :)
Not sure if they are. I remember when the Fed lowered their rates to their current level, someone theorized that it would be profitable, but I have no idea if they are actually doing this.
i was depressed for a very long time. wasn't enjoying life and picked up some bad habits along the way. But now am a lot better. I think what finally helped me out of depression was to hangout with friends a lot and living with friends which distracted me away from my negative thoughts and with I actively trying to control my thought flow, cut negative thoughts out n doing something like following upon on something interesting, researching the way world works etc. It was a huge improvement. It was hard to get rid of bad habits i picked up while depressed, including laziness. Improved a lot in last 8 months. Am not depressed anymore. Negative internal dialogues too are gone. It was like a thought virus, which i finally got rid off. I hope my experience will be of some help for you.

I didn't try therapy or any medication.
Thanks. That's the one I was thinking of but for some reason I was remembering it as having been a "User Friendly" so my google-fu failed me.
I think it's a nice article.

> While I have no formal proof, I postulate that the problem of Artificial Expression is NP-Complete (again, not possible to solve using existing techniques).

But this detracts from it, is it is not what NP-Complete means.

Also:

> Be aesthetically pleasing

> Be purely original

I think a good deal of human art does not fit these specifications.
I think you are onto something but lowering student loan rates would probably just cause even higher tuition.

How about lowered student loan rates with an inflation adjusted cap? Then perhaps schools would be motivated to increase the number of students educated, as opposed to getting more money out of each student.
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With Parse shutting down, what are the best alternatives?
I guess, but if you go to the trouble of localising your website into Chinese, then loading a self-hosted version of the library for Chinese users doesn't seem like much extra work.
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So it's noble to essentially pay a tax to oil sheiks and various middlemen?

Please. Give me an SUV.
I disagree, I think the desperation for jobs will increase demand on colleges and universities and the availability of student loans make that possible. Colleges have been able to, and will continue to, charge whatever students can be loaned.
An attack on cash will surely follow.
> Presumably negative rates are a response to deflationary concerns. Under that scenario, cash under the bed would lose value faster than it would in a savings account

False. In deflation, cash gains in value.
Yeah but it is literally trickle down wealth transfer.

They made millions but you are getting $10-$40 a month back.

Plus as a result we will get more war and extremism out of the middle-east and Russia as they start clawing back all kinds of perks.
Basically the argument is that the Clinton campaign didn’t do real count, they just declared a number, in particular after Martin O’Malley supporters reassigned themselves and/or left.

Reddit discussion http://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/43sexj/...

Screen shot of core argument on Reddit: http://cl.ly/0k3R3d3W1r1W
I think there are circumstances where it is very valuable - it depends on your target audience.

For example on mobile, connection speeds in major cities in developed countries maybe rocketing, but substantial areas still need to make a lot happen with very little bandwidth. So it can be a small competitive advantage.
Happen to have a link at hand where I could read up on this? Tried searching for it but drew blank.
I know. See my reply to versteegen. I am just too lazy to do it as they erase everything after each semester.
The last two paragraphs explicitly indicates that the headline (and much of the earlier part of the article) is misleading in its references to "wrong" or "opposite" search results:

A Google spokeswoman said the pilot project referred to by Dr House would bring up counter-narrative messages in "AdWords" - the sponsored links which are returned at the top of a Google search - and not the search results themselves.

Dr House said later: "We offer Google AdWords Grants to NGOs so that meaningful counter-speech ads can be surfaced in response to search queries like 'join Isis'."
On a tangent I really believe you should never use a donotreply@ email address on your companies communications. You're missing tons of valuable feedback and opportunities to help cumstomers.
Look, kid, you must be new here so I'll explain what's going on. HN frowns upon commentary that does not add to the discussion, e.g., jokes.

In this case your joke was dismissive of a drug that holds promise for a lot of people (including some that I know). It has a stigma that it has to overcome to be used medically and your joke just piled on the stigma with an implicit snobbery that practically begged for a comeuppance. There was no /s appended so it could only be taken at face value.

You got down votes and double-downed by saying it worth it. Was it? The community disapproved of your comment and you cheekily said, in effect, "fuck you, I'd do it again"

Then you tried to school me on the fact that alcohol abuse occurs all over the world, as well as drug abuse in the States. Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm well aware of it.

You called me a sap and then accuse me of a slur? For saying you were acting butthurt? You were. We've all done it, so I claim no moral superiority here.

And finally, to return to my initial reply to you: reports have shown that binge drinking is a health issue but it's tolerated because it's the one recreational drug that is legal. Perhaps if cannabis, MDMA, K and others were legal than people might be able to enjoy themselves with less harm.
> They already witnessed PHP, PERL, Java Applets, Flash, the browser wars, and so on.

It's frustrating that the situation hasn't improved. I thought by now the web would have a clean, easy system to work with. At the rate things are going, I don't have much hope before 2030.
I don't think this is that controversial or hard to believe.

That long ago the solar system would have been full of a lot of bodies of matter, slowly colliding, combining and growing. Eventually the bodies would grow until they formed their own orbits and there was nothing significant left to collide with.

We still absorb meteorites from time to time.
Might be referring to the fact that many Japanese women choose not to marry and have kids because it is essentially career suicide. There's a very strong cultural bias against working mothers in Japan.
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What is an 'unchecked mental illness'? Are you a Doctor?

If the member's behavior was so inappropriate, why did everyone else refuse to not associate with this person?
Appears that the author of this paper is a quack hawking magnesium and zinc miracle cures[0].

[0]: http://www.ibiblio.org/london/herbs/forums/alt.folklore.herb...
The maddening thing is that they used to offer Mail Plus for $20/yr, and it was eliminated in favor of providing those features to all users (good idea). So this new paid plan is much more expensive and offers much less value.

It also seems kind of hard to believe that Yahoo makes $50/yr off of ads per user. They certainly are not pulling that in across the hundreds of millions of mail accounts they claim to have. Since Yahoo is getting the money up front and without the work and risk of selling ads, I would actually expect it to be priced at a discount versus what Yahoo would see from ad revenue.
Are you sure you would pull your money out if all the banks started charging -0.1% annual interest? If you have your money in your house there's a higher risk of theft, more than enough to counter the -0.1%. Add in the inconvenience of moving large amounts of money around by hand, not being able to write checks, and no automated bill pay, and I'm still keeping my money in the bank.
This is something I have been looking for with this type of interface. Markdown support seems the easiest, but why not use something more robust like AsciiDoc http://asciidoc.org/ ?
The accelerometer on a laptop on a ballistic trajectory should still read 0, shouldn't it?
s/millenial/millenials that have not yet paid off their student loans/

It would have been fun to galavant around Europe for fun instead of paying off my loans, but I guess I'm the sucker for being responsible.

I'm totally fine with people being able to refinance their loans to market rates, if those rates happen to be negative then good for them. I'm annoyed by this prevailing view that everyone with student loans are unemployed and can't pay them back. I know plenty of people with lots houses, cars, and taking vacations that haven't paid off their student loans yet. Outstanding balance left is not a good measure of the loan's burden or the circumstances under which the student took out the loan.
Why is this news? Code Blocks has been around for ages. If they're talking about the latest release the title should be updated.
I feel the same. I love Ember, it's the first proper frontend framework and boy is it frustrating at the start. Once you get past that though it's plain sailing and takes my productivity to a whole new league.

It's just not mentioned... anywhere. It's not hip like React or has a big sponsor like Angular I guess. But I don't get it, it's really really good.
> Let's assume rates reach a point such that personal savings accounts have an interest rate of 0% or negative. How is this any more an incentive to spend than it is an incentive to have a box with thousands of dollars in cash under your bed?

Having a box with thousands of dollars in cash under your bed is, itself, an incentive to spend (specifically, on goods and services related to home security, protection of dollar bills from vermin, flooding, etc., and similar things.)

So those two things aren't opposed options.
Yeah I'd expect this is pretty standard, what bugs me is when I reply and don't get a response, and see the posting again for the next month.
> Because of a light with poor timing that causes a back-up on the main road, our subdivision is used as a bypass during Rush Hour.

Your kids have been nearly killed on several occasions. Why are you projecting anger at some schmuck trying to drive home, but not standing in front of your town/city/county officials to fix the light?

If the light gets fixed, people stop using your subdivision as a through street.

Look around and try to find a civil engineer who does traffic management to talk to. This stuff is a science -- if you make the right demands, you'll get what you want and be able to sleep at night.
Unfortunately it is not explained HOW they did it.

It is somewhere on Mechner site and diaries, but I can't find it again.

Basically, one day while coding, he found out that one single bit caused a bug in rendering that flipped the whole game upside down, it was completely unintentional.

But he thought it would be hilarious to make the easter egg (indeed, it was).

Later he used the same technique on Prince of Persia game (there is an area of the game where you drink a potion that flips that bit, flipping the whole game upset down, this had to be emulated for non-Apple systems, probably caused some pain to people porting the game :P)
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You're assuming there is no demand destruction.

Keep in mind: China economy cooling off, fuel efficiency standards, shifting demographics (older populations drive less).

We reached peak oil, it just wasn't supply. It was demand.
What is slack? Their website wanted me to watch a video to learn what it is.
If AlphaGo eventually beats humans at go I think it says more about the game (or the way humans play the game) than about AI in general. Its strength comes from mcts with better heuristics. Previous ConvNet work posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558831 was already impressive in generating human like moves and combining it with search was an obvious next step. Unbeknownst to all Google's DeepMind team had already succeeded in doing so at that time.
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I try to avoid being judgemental, but I am going to do so here:

In general the Clinton people strike me as being willing to do anything to win but the Sanders people seem to be more likely to play fair. Am I right about this? Maybe not.

Clinton's team reminds me of how the republicans cheat by gerrymandering, etc. because they seem to believe so strongly that they are right that it seems like they have a win at any cost mentality.
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There is a line somewhere between 'this person makes me uncomfortable' and 'this person is a real threat to my/our safety.' We should always show kindness, but we also need to protect ourselves and people we care about. It's a tricky balance, for sure - but I don't think we can say that we must always tolerate everyone being a part of any group regardless of their behavior.
I concur with your description of the symptoms and your desired outcome. However, the current state of affairs has less to do with capitalism in general and more to do with the western world's addiction to short term results resulting from subscribing to Keynesian economic theory.
I think his point is that if someone writes something, he's entitled to be able to use it on his preferred platform. Or, at least, that's how it comes across.
I've been using Quiver for the last year as a means of writing programming tutorials for beginners. Fantastic product.

I usually save the notebooks I create onto google drive, which gives me the ability to easily open each notebook on other machines. Poor man's sync.
What I read from the article:
Relax, it is just a stress test.
We aren't going to actually do this.
We would only do this in the case of an emergency.
We would totally do this, but only if we have to.
We have to do this.
None of those people have anything remotely like the global profile Snowden created with his actions. It's not really comparable to a no-name nuclear scientist getting assassinated.
> The banks will do everything to get rid of cash, which, in theory, should devalue the currency.

Not necessarily. Far more likely is to encourage investments or holding cash-equivalents (bonds). Most banks are not going to engage in currency speculation merely because of a negative interest rate.

> Bottom line: negative rates are all about devaluing the currency against other currencies in the world so that the exports become cheaper.

No. That is not the goal of negative rates. The goal of negative rates is to encourage investment and spending, not to devalue the currency. The government has much more direct means for devaluing the currency if that's the goal.
> Tree-shaking is a game breaker

To my knowledge, this has never, ever, worked well enough in a dynamic environment. Smalltalkers have spent over 3 decades trying to get this to work. What became the Smalltalk industry standard? Some form of code loading, often based on source code management.

Anyone who is doing tooling/library work in a dynamic environment needs to delve into the history of Smalltalk and ask if it was already tried and what the problems were. Chances are, it was already tried, and that there's useful experiential data there.
> The only incentive that will effectively cause companies to pay their employees better is more demand for labor

Or wage regulations (increasing the minimum wage)

Or labor organization (ie Germany)

Or tax regulations (shift tax incentives from machinery to labor)

> which is most likely to be caused by increased economic growth.

Growth is over my friend, at least the growth that would be necessary for wage inflation (ie Japan). EDIT: We can argue this point if you'd like, in a thread about the strongest world economy planning for negative interest rates, while other central banks have already gone (and continue to hold) at negative rates (can't "push the string"!, ie stoke demand with free money).
> I remember rebuilds after a single line of code was changed taking almost 10 seconds.

Do you happen to be on Windows? My Ubuntu laptop compiles changes to our pretty large app in under a second, but on Windows it does take up to 10 seconds.
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The Nazi party had this film withdrawn from release. They felt the film was realistic to the point of giving away German technological secrets.
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I think the difference is whether the problematic behavior is actively engaged in, or passively. Being uncomfortable by being in proximity to a homeless person is your problem, as that is a passive state of theirs, but being uncomfortable with a homeless person that confronts you about how you have money and they don't is their problem, as they are actively causing the situation.

As communities we deal with situations like this all the time. That's why we put criminals into jail, for forcibly separate them from the community at large (the nation) because they are actively causing problems (and to punish them), and it's not feasible to exile them anymore.
This is certainly correct vis-à-vis the real implications, but usually not the behavioral tendencies. In a way most "virtual lives" seem more similar to the real life of actors and public figures, i.e. persona-oriented.
> Frankly I think we need to stimulate the demand side of things

That's a fiscal policy choice that would take action by Congress, and doesn't seem likely with the Congress we have.

OTOH, if people get to care enough about it, well, it is an election year, so in principal that could change.
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Hmm, not sure why I assumed Windows. Probably because at the time I switched away from Windows to the liberation of the Unix commandline I never even thought of checking whether Code::Blocks or Dev-C++ ran under GNU/Linux.

I have a custom .emacs file (predicated to work on Windows/Linux/Mac and several emacs versions and including a function to install all the custom packages I need) and other config files like .bashrc in a git repo fr quick setup. Having to compile emacs yourself would be hugely frustrating though. I've never gone that far. I use TRAMP instead :)
I think the vast majority of people still have "free checking."
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to, but to clarify, I was discussing the potential impact of sustained deficit monetization on Japan's middle class savers via its effects on the monetary base and inflation.
> Do you have any evidence that these smaller files stress the client CPU more (this is probably not an absurd statement, but I claim that one can only make serious discussions about this point if one has a computable (i.e. not only empirically measurable) metric that measures how much a client CPU is stressed by some file).

http://tukaani.org/lzma/benchmarks.html, Actually I was wrong, Gzip decompression doesn't seem to be impacted at all by higher compression rate, it's even the reverse with small gain in decompression speed. Gzip compression is though - for a mere 3% to 5% gain in size, compression is taking 4x to 6x the time.

> proxy caching is harder, could you explain me the reason for that?

The tricky part is each filed can be compressed in different ways, the CDN might have to store different versions of the same file that can lead to a mismatch between the compression used and the actual compression of the file, a good post on the topic: https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/accept-encoding-its-vary-importa... It's doable but it's not trivial.
I wish the Fed would research sending checks to tax payers as a stimulus strategy. Because it appears the low interest rate (and QE) strategy isn't as effective as it once was - in part due to uncooperative banks.

If/when the time comes to put the breaks on the economy, the money could be removed from circulation with a slight uptick in taxes of some sort (income, gas, tariffs, whatever) -- but unlike a normal tax, we would apply it against the Fed's balance sheet and not place it in government coffers.

Milton Friedman and Ben Bernanke have called this idea helicopter money.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/buttonwood/2014/11/reviving-e...