skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were looking to buy a house. One house we were shown, there was something different about the kitchen. There was no stove! We laughed and left.
Is it supposed to be the percentage of women in the workforce or the percentage of the workforce that are women?
Ooops -- './' vs. '/.', e.g. right array vs. left array
So let me see if I get this. The build process runs a huge autoconf etc., then compiles from C code a proto-emacs, which is then executed and loads up a bunch of Lisp code, then a (self-described as) ugly hack is used to dump that running program (including the loaded Lispy-bits) as a new executable, which is your editor? Wow.
Depending on what list the adblock is using, it can also block analytics and every with ad in it.
More time to think about that too.
Wonderful article. I've recently started growing some sunflowers in my yard. When they're young sprouts and only have a leaf or two, they are very fragile -- if they lose those leaves then their growth is stunted forever. They'll be stubs after that. As some sunflowers outgrow others, the shadows they cast on the smaller ones causes the little ones to twist and bend to escape the shadow and drink in some light.

I think what I love about them is observing their lives play out so much more slowly than ours. They react to their environment and strive for their own goals of survival and reproduction. But so slowly, gently...
> One of those memes is that death is natural and ok. Which, if you believe in religion, it absolutely is.

To be clear, this is pretty untrue of Christianity, the dominant religion in Western civilization, so I'm constantly puzzled about this claim. (HPMOR makes the same claim.) The central story of Christianity is that God takes human form, dies, and cannot stay dead. If it were just "Jesus died for our sins", there would be no need for a resurrection story; his followers would have had way more credibility saying merely that he was killed, which is far more objectively verifiable.

From 1 Corinthians: "The last enemy to be destroyed is death" (which, incidentally, comes up in canon HP), and, quoting the prophets: "When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: 'Death has been swallowed up in victory.' 'Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?'" From Revelation, also quoting Isaiah: "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." From a 1500-year-old hymn: "Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death."

Death is an enemy; death is not good, and should not exist. Perhaps other religions disagree, but Christians and atheists should be able to agree on this basic fact.
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If i could pick just one, it would be academic publishing. It's an ancient system that locks in tons of useful empirical data and rots the roots of science with its publish-or-perish/impact factor lunacy. It's also a sector (digital publishing) which YC knows well and can easily make a great contribution. This can be a game changer, as it can alter the way public funding is allocated.
Weight minimums are good for keeping a level playing field by keeping the cost to entry "low" by keeping it to the thousands. They're also good for safety reasons, both for the rider and others they might crash into; there's no incentive to try to cut too much weight in a way that could impact safety if there's a weight floor anyway.

The scanning is simply going to have to become pervasive.
Go language expands to IBM mainframes
The real question about nonhuman intellogence is not "do trees behave like people", it is " do people behave essentially differently from trees"
10x this. See http://contrastrebellion.com/

When this is additionally compounded with a non-standard super thin font, the result is text almost invisible, even when zoomed, at least on non-retina non-macs.

I also noticed some (very few, but not that rare) websites use a font that looks completely rubbish on my Windows machines (certain serifs not being displayed, making it impossible to decipher letters). I thought it was impossible that every Windows user had this, they would have learnt. Turned out my ClearType settings hugely affected the rendering of mentioned font (ClearType is antialiasing method on Windows, when you enable it, it goes through manual calibration process, hence every Windows machine may have radically different config)

Don't go wild with colors and fonts for main content of the page. The more standard ones you use, the better chance it will render well for every user. Not everyone has same device with same config as yours.
Depends on one's perspective. You could also make an argument that Simula was the first.

I'll grant you that Kay coined the term (at least AFAIK)
It wouldn't be very satisfying to undergo a procedure that resets my body but wipes out my memories in the process.

We whipe out memories every day. Your memory of your childhood is a half imagined highlight reel of moments. If you lived 10,000 years, you might only have a couple moments left from this century.
So, basically, Mattel owes a large part of its fortune to the non-existence of IP laws?
Fake Online Locksmiths May Be Out to Pick Your Pocket, Too [NYTimes]
Wonder what the author thinks of Cleanly, a YC startup: https://angel.co/cleanly
I would like more clarifications on the sort of arguments that allow for retroreflectors to legitimately be on the moon without the moon landing. I was not making fun of anyone; at most, I have frustration and confusion about how the belief of a hoax can exist in the face of repeatable verifiable proof that we put something on the moon.

The section on that wikipedia page on retroreflectors does not mention any theories that allows for it to be there, and glossing over the page a bit, it states that "the foremost idea is that the whole manned landing program was a hoax from start to end."

I would appreciate a discussion of any argument you have found that allows for retroreflectors.
A concerted, long-term (~10 year) effort to develop the models, theory, and tools necessary to simulate a prokaryotic cell. This is not the kind of thing that’s being funded by the NIH, given their translational shift, and it’s not the kind of thing that can be done by industry because of the time horizon. Nonetheless it’s foundational to building a quantitatively predictive biology. It’s the sort of thing that can enable entirely new applied sciences and industries. And I think it’s possible.

There’s a certain way to doing this which I believe is key to success. It can’t be about doing molecular dynamics from atoms on up, because of computational considerations, and because that’s useless anyway (one wouldn’t learn anything beyond the known physics and maybe better force fields and sampling techniques). It also can’t be like the kludgy attempts that have been made so far (e.g. Markus Covert’s paper in Cell from a few years back—it’s perfectly alright work, but won’t get us closer to solving this particular problem.) Instead, I think the key is to develop a new layer of abstraction for describing biological phenomena, much like say organic chemistry is a genuinely new abstraction built on top of physical chemistry (which is itself built on top of QM), that hides away the irrelevant details (e.g. most of QM) while capturing what’s salient about the biological phenomena of interest. It would require advances in the aforementioned areas of models, theory, and tools, that are made in concert with the aim of simulating a cell.
That's a whole lot of strawmen you're beating on. Way to miss the point.
For good reasons: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html
Why do you need a replacement?

Depending on what you're doing datalog might work for your needs, which has implementations/libraries in a multitude of languages
First-year students in our maths curriculum here are still taught Fortran 95.

> not having to deal with pointers

There are pointers in Fortran, though. It's the absence of things like pointer arithmetic that makes them much safer to use.
Oh cool! I had been watching originally, but hadn't seen this, thanks!
I brought its charger with me, yet I’m too lazy to connect it to the outlet, take off my watch and connect it to the charger.

Not sure how that's the watch's fault?

I don’t suppose to take off my watch every night and charge it!

That's kinda part of the deal.

the sport band, which doesn’t make it easier to take the Watch off and put it back on.

But, it does. For putting it on you just have to brace it against something else to hold it in place. A couple practice times gets it down pretty good. For taking it off, it's basically a pull tab. Can't be much easier than that.

It's a physical watch, not our abstract lord and savior we can offload all subjectivity onto to make us feel better about ourselves.

keep telling myself it’s the best watch ever designed…

Just wait until it's also the key to your Apple Car.
I've had the sport band and have successfully taken it off and put it back on probably 500 times in a row since I've gotten it (showers and sleeping) - it just takes a bit of practice at first.

I'm also solidly in their target audience since I follow the fitness wheel religiously - about 125 straight days of meeting my "goals", which really has made a marked positive difference in my life and health. I hadn't used anything like a fitbit before that.
How much tech in America isnt a knockoff or rehash of some other tech? By your standard, most American "innovation" or IT doesnt count either.
Intel used "iHDL" which was an in-house language from 1986 to 2005, and after 2005 switched mainly to Verilog.

You usually see VHDL in .eu and some defense contractors, and Verilog everywhere else. VHDL feels similar to Ada, and Verilog is more similar to C.

An interesting history from Intel's perspective is available here:
http://webee.technion.ac.il/people/kolodny/ftp/IntelCADPaper...
It sounds like he'd be happier with a pebble. Battery lasts for most of a week and it's closer to just being a watch than the other smart watches.

I mainly use mine for clock, stopwatch, two factor auth, weather, and music control. Big fan of the hardware buttons that your can bind two favorite apps to, instant access to your commonly used features makes for less poking around on it.
Don't forget the excellent http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/#print too.

Plus, https://angel.co/laundry-1
Can't have a mention of MUMPS without the classic:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS
Urban, but I am also not well informed on social issues. I don't deny the existence of whatever issue that the article mentioned but I just find it interesting that they don't showcase any progress India makes in these regards.
Slack is way different than that. Yes you can set DnD but the point of slack is that all messages aren't necessary to watch all the time. You should have settings to only be notified on your name/channel/everyone and a few key words.

While I think it will be hated at some point (we all blame our tools rather than our selves), not sure it'll be for what the author says.

Power of slack is in async public conversations with little friction and unified view/interface/features/etc. It's not really about saving time over all. It's about having clearer conversations and those savings over time of understanding better. Can't tell you how much having the person right there I could clarify right away and get answer was so much nicer than having to send a whole email which would feel like a waste (from UI and UX of email) so I'd need to get enough questions things to mention for it to be worth it.
Comprehensive Sudoers Management with Ansible
The article states that Mattel bought the rights to the doll.
In that context, saying that change causes death sounds like complete nonsense. I change all the time, yet I am not dead.
For Code.org, you will find https://code.org/about/2015 to be quite interesting, including a breakdown of where money was spent. You'll see that a lot goes towards training teachers and building interesting programs.
Hyperminimal JavaScript dependency injection framework
> Having to take off your watch, every night, is like a Chinese torture – it impinges you one drop at a time, until you can’t stand it anymore.

Huh? Does this mean that he normally sleeps with a watch on?
One wonders whether the operators of these drones are trained in the rules of engagement. It is my understanding, for example, that flying an aircraft across the bow of a military ship is universally recognized as an act of aggression in international waters.
Stung by a Bad Purchase and Faltering in Digital Era, Xerox Decides to Split Up
debuted Barbie at the New York toy fair on March 9, 1959

acquired the rights to Bild Lilli in 1964
#222 on #eee is fine but some sites do #777 on #ddd or go farther. This radically lowers the contrast and makes text really unpleasant to read with some fonts.
If you get a charging stand it makes it easier to keep the watch charged and activates the nightstand mode.

I got this one for $10. http://www.amazon.com/Orzly-Night-Stand-Apple-Watch-Conceali...
Edit the subject of an E-mail that I receive. That way, it can be made more sensible to me, or categorized more automatically. (I typically use Apple Mail.)
Jobs from history that silently killed people
I've known many people who do, but I couldn't ever understand it. It seems more common with people who have fully waterproof sport watches, I assume at least in part because they can wear them in the shower.
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Love my apple watch. Notifications are good, I've found my lost phone a number of times, I talk to siri via it, I've noticed things that come in after wards by checking notifications while phone was in a tough pocket or bag. The faces I have setup give me all the info I need. Recently I found some of the watch apps are much better now and I've been using their views in glances.

Granted, I don't usually go in to apps on the watch cause they're slow, but it is very useful to me. I have a sport band and it is super easy to take off and tighten/loosen.

Plus it looks leagues better than the pebble I had.
Some other in the wild examples, the WHATWG has a tool called Wattsi that's written in Object Pascal: https://github.com/whatwg/wattsi

Interesting blog post from last year on someone's experiences developing an application in Object Pascal: http://ziotom78.blogspot.com/2015/01/lfi-data-analysis-with-...

Free Pascal itself: http://www.freepascal.org/
Furthermore, the ICC version he is comparing it to (16.1) hasn't even been released yet, as far as I can tell. Wikipedia lists 16.0 as the latest stable version, and it's really difficult to find out which version of ICC is available for download on intel's website without navigating through tens of pages and submitting at least one form.

Also, the article brought up the idea of block sizing, which sounds compelling. But the writer failed to produce a benchmark for it which did better than baseline on ICC, and then kept on writing as if block sizing had merit without even commenting on this discrepancy.
Which court is that?
I'm not Apple Watch user, but I know that many smartwatch users track their sleep patterns.
You don't have to. Majority of internet websites includes either ads or forums/comment sections coming back to FB cookies. So yes they do know what to show you on drudgereport when you chat on whatsapp. try yourself!
For values of "your own good" equal to "for advertisers" but yeah.
Wonder if it would work in iOS Safari running on the iOS simulator ...
Yep, the pebble roubd is fantastic if you don't want something that looks like a smart watch.
You're almost certainly right, but I love that they're doing the experiment. I think, particularly with tools as heavily used as CSS, that we poke around and try different ways of organizing the code. That's how we evolve towards better and better ways of architecting our code.

Sometimes you really do come across an alternate language that is better in little ways and equally expressive.
I had a good laugh at your comment and the parent's because I think I've said "I would have gone insane.", or "Are you insane?" to him more than a few times.

And yet he's more sane than me. He's a funny fellow.
Really? I'm curious here, who was injured? Seriously, tell me the exact person who was harmed by him hooking up his laptop into the MIT network.
There may be some memory benefits to caching the styles.
Watches being early in their platform generationally, I'm finding there's been little that's been interesting to dive in to try out. Apple Watch was definitely the first, but I was quickly reminded how fast I got rid of my iPhone 1, and Note 1.

Part of a young platform is the tasks it can allow you to do vs what you quickly wish it could do.

A watch to me is just another screen that I'd expect to be able to behave like my phone, or tablet.

Watches, as young as they are in their platform cycle, are going to see a lot of hardware development from iPhone 1 to 3GS which was the first viably performant phone.

Likewise, the Galaxy Note 1 was interesting enough but underwhelmingly powered that the Note 2 replaced it within a year. What was remarkable became applicable.

At this time, I've been looking into the Asus ZenWatch 2 as a more capable alternative when loaded with WearTasker.

The $129 for a ZenWatch 2 that I can program any which way I want with WearTasker while the platform matures is almost too good to pass up while the platform develops and matures. Far less thought to buy the next one.

Would love to hear about any other watches other that Pebble that may have caught your interest.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cuberob.we...

http://amazon.com/ASUS-ZenWatch-Android-Wear-Smartwatch/dp/B...
By the way, Lego's patent expired 2011.

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/21/expired-patent-of-the-day-l...
Regrettably, that counts for everything. I wonder what the answer would be if "competitive" were changed to "engineering"?
Write a compiler for this dialect of BASIC for Linux.
State could be stored to something like Amazon S3 and referenced using a unique ID, which would then become part of the URL given to the user.
Man, I loved LPMuds back in the day. I remember being so impressed when I (my character) was sitting around in a pub with a friend, and all of a sudden he put on a hockey mask, whipped out a chainsaw, cut off my arm, and started beating me on the head with it. And I actually couldn't do anything that required me using my arm. Apparently he coded that whole thing up while we were sitting in the pub.
Quoting a fragment of the last paragraph:

"With [...] private companies planning to profit off of lunar resources, the moon is about to become a much busier destination."

Are there really such plans? Can anybody explain what the article refers to here specifically?
Sleep tracking on the Apple watch is nifty. Apps can track how much you move, your heartbeat, when you get up, etc.
That's a common misconception. The law/directives required them to do COMSEC for US govt. Later expanded to offer protection for defense contractors. They still do both. See Type 1 certified gear, NSA inline media encryptor, TEMPEST, etc. Defense use only. ;)
http://aejaks.sourceforge.net/Aejaks_Home/index.html
NSA hacker says zero-day exploits are overrated
Or literally just a linter and ES6.
Switched release version to v1.2, https download and virtualenv Python package management.

Really need a good release engineer to come clean this up. Been a little busy with comma.ai :)
Ousterhout designed Tcl as a general replacement for the kind of small crappy one-off interpreters he found himself adding to larger systems over and over again. At one point he decided that enough was enough and we was going to write an embeddable interpreter with the flavor of a simple shell like bash.

Tcl is great for simple scripting and automated testing. It's also great when you want to represent small bits of data as code. Perspecta Presents[1], one of Ousterhout's first commercial ventures, used Tcl scripts as the file format for its presentations[2].

But Tcl was never intended for large programs. Ousterhout expected large programs to be written in another language with compilers, linkers, linters and other tools. Once a Tcl program gets past a certain size it becomes effectively unmaintable. Tracking down a variable name typo bug in a 100,000 line Tcl program is a hell I refuse to visit again.

1- http://wiki.tcl.tk/4191
2- http://www.rpi.edu/dept/rcs/packages/ppres/1.10/common/sampl...
I suppose in that case, they had the bandwidth to send the high-def pictures back to Earth, because they didn't need to transmit a digital picture via radio transmission, they simply brought the film back from the moon with them.
Me too, Perl most days, C most weeks.
Interesting, didn't know about the mainland expansion!

If anyone else is curious: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/07/apple-supplier-tsm...
I really suspect Prolog would fit my brain, but I have trouble thinking of real-world scenarios where it would be useful to hack in. Other than the tutorials out there that focus on toy problems, what are some other examples of where Prolog is actually a good technology fit for side projects?
Even Transhumanist Elites Are Worried Only the Rich Will Be Able to Hack Death
I made a quick VR version of the panorama* (using aframe.io) if anyone's interested.

http://tobyvervaart.com.au/moon/

* caveats: probably not to the correct scale
This is true, but keep in mind that higher-resolution, bigger digital backs (in comparison with fully integrated dslr cameras) were already on the market.
Even so, Hasselblad lead that market for a time, then lost ground due to flagging innovation, bad decisions, etc.
What the average American consumes in a year
Some consultants are going to make a ton of money selling some stupid "solution" backed by a couple anecdotes, a mediocre book, and a single never-reproduced study, though. Then administrators will only implement the parts of the program that don't make them uncomfortable (maybe half of it) and in two years they'll be scratching their heads wondering why it didn't work like the stories in the book.

And it'll probably add another 15 minutes of paperwork to every teacher's day, somehow.

Just like any other time a bunch of money is thrown at teacher training and curriculum.
I've recently fallen for Standard ML. It's been a steep learning curve due to all the compilers and implementation choices but what a mind bending approach to software development. OCaml seems to be the obvious next step but I'm having fun with toy programs in Standard ML right now.
I'd say to go with happystayapp.com
> all the while taking longer to do your assigned tasks and looking like you slack off for a day a week?

The difference between a hirable employee and a fireable employee is not 20%. There is usually 2x or more of variation amongst people in a pay grade. As long as you're in that ballpark of productivity, you're fine. Personality conflicts will get you fired long before a 20% dip in stories checked in.

In fact, there's a good chance that taking the 20% of time off will actually increase your productivity the rest of the week. But if it drops you below the "worth their weight in pays stubs" line then you are already on very thin ice.
Clojure Katas Inspired by Alice in Wonderland
It's certainly weird, but what is so terrible about it?
People seem to be pretty good at finding these things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendition_aircraft
Concatenation still helps under HTTP2 due to better compression (more similar stuff in one file), but the individual files can't be cached/evicted/updated individually, you can't just load the bits you need for the current page, and you can't prioritise certain parts to load first.

What the new standard approach will be I'm not sure.