skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people believe that charity and wealth redistribution is not the providence of the government.

It's not that they believe charity is bad, but rather that it is either morally wrong or inefficient for the government to force it.

This opinion has become less popular over time, as the norm for government jurisdiction has increased. Progressive income taxes are, historically speaking, a new concept, starting in 1909 in the UK and in 1862 in the US (and requiring an amendment to the Constitution).

Another reason for the dislike may be the large amount of welfare abuse (not necessarily fraud, but abuse), which you will probably find even after only a little exposure to the system.
The Muse is looking for a fullstack engineer who cares about mission
Regardless of which browser you used for development, wouldn't you need to test with every browser that your product supports? Even with modern browsers, browser-specific problems are unfortunately quite common.
Tunisian here. My country is sadly known as the first exporter of ISIS fighters. I couldn't agree more with this! It is mostly attributed to the educational system. Engineering studies are focused mostly on math and physics and albeit present, Languages are treated like scond-class subjects. You end up with a generation of students who are effective engineers (to an extent) but who can't think at all. They are not taught philosophy, arts and even the logic of mathematics is obscured by the nature of testing.
Steve Jobs reportedly considered adding window sash weights to the case for the first Apple II computer, for exactly the same reason.
It's a shame you can't fix it.
> fonts on my Linux box either render strangely or are downright ugly

The "fc-match" command can be used with font-family name to figure out what fallback font your system is selecting by default. There is also a "fonts.conf" file in which you can specify your preferred fallback.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Fallback_font_ord...
It only adds to the discussion to show that what seems on the surface like a nice idea is actually intrinsically illogical.

It's clearly not intrinsically illogical. Societies of scientists demonstrate that it's possible to harness human instincts against human biases. In many societies of scientists, the perception that one is ready to accept they are wrong when collating new data trumps the natural ego driven desire to be recognized as "right."

While it is clearly far from perfect, it is undoubtedly effective. Likewise, there have been examples of societies and organizations that demonstrated effective self-awareness of out-grouping psychology. (Two were headed by Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi.)
Title should be: High school students: launch your startup.

The meaning is totally changed by missing that semi-colon or comma.
When is this going to be available to buy/download?
Looks like they've been trying to already.

http://www.lonelywhale.org

http://52thesearch.com/
If you use the ST monad instead of State, you get actual mutable variables. STArray lets you write typical imperative algorithms that work with mutable arrays, like sieve of Eratosthenes or dynamic programming.

Imperative sieve of Eratosthenes:

https://gist.github.com/rik0/1171446#file-erat1-hs
It is in fact 30-80%: see page 11 of the PDF: http://0b4af6cdc2f0c5998459-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f...
> then why does the Chinese government bother cracking down on map making activities

Most China polices can be explained by the "fuck you" treatment. What is "fuck you" treatment? Well fuck you go figure it out yourself.
Project GAMMA
Remember that it is rare to be close enough to a whale to experience the full pressure
Like a conspiracy?
That's meant to be "12 + 3 = 15" (or maybe it's an intentional error to make the thing look more confusing?). The idea behind this particular subtraction algorithm is to reinforce two number-sense ideas: 1) a subtraction problem like "32 − 12 = ?" is equivalent to an addition problem "12 + ? = 32", and 2) we can group additions in ways that are convenient to use numbers that are easy to add or to use convenient intermediate results that are multiples of 5 or 10 or 100.

EDIT: to fix my own math typo. :P
I'm just dreading when the Twerk version comes out, and the upgrade is just messy, with people wanting to go back 3-4 versions.
Haven't you got the causation wrong? Isn't it the more educated people become the more left leaning they are? It's not the left captured academia, it's academia created the left.
drowned the reader in unnecessary detail

That wealth of detail was the best part for me. If one wants to be immersed in such a world/scenario, then it is a pleasure. It's much the same as savoring the paeans to nature in the Lord of the Rings trilogy books. There's more to some books than the plot and characterizations.
10 minutes is nowhere even close to my experience, especially because Oracle/OpenJDK has incremental GC.
Your suggestion amounts to advocacy of tight coupling, which massively dilutes the long-term benefit of shared libraries and leads developers under pressure of expediency into a tangled thicket of anti-patterns. This is an illustration of how technical debt is accrued, and I've seen it umpteen times, never to the good.
"This is a trait shared by entrepreneurs, engineers, and extremists. There's a high overlap between the three."

Are management-level terrorists coming from former entrepreneurs? None of the top people in al-Queda were engineers. Bin Laden did come from a family that runs a huge construction company, but he himself never did anything in that area. Within ISIS, many of the top people were either career military or religious. Shaker Wahib al-Fahdawi al-Dulaimi was a computer science student, though.
>And I've solved it (you'll have to wait awhile to hear about that).

Why tease it like that? Why not just say how you solved it? There are a handful of people who have published options [1] and nobody has ripped them off.

In fact we have a whitepaper that does the same and I'm happy to share our approach which is also a VRD system based on pinlight display with some persistence of vision tricks. Quick, everyone sign an NDA!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P407DFm0PFQ
It's really disappointing to me to see Redux being the "defacto standard" for React applications. It's overly decoupled for simple applications, which makes it harder to reason about the application. It also doesn't help that the Redux codebase itself is hard to understand.

It is only a tool you should reach for after you find you need it. Too few developers approach software development with this level of pragmatism and instead we get "use X because it's being used". I guess you need to understand the tool to know when to use it - but that doesn't mean it should become the "defacto standard".

Ironically Redux is being coupled with React, which is a great library for structuring UI into components and resulting it simpler to understand code.
How to Code and Understand DeepMind's Neural Stack Machine in Python
The actual paper doesn't describe the drives as enterprise or consumer. Indeed the word "consumer" appears nowhere in the paper. The charitable interpretation of the FA is that its author was making the simplifying analogy of SLC : enterprise :: MLC : consumer.
Which is not a good reason to design anything based on that assumption it's extremely easy for a single user to use a multi user system but not the reverse.
Power lines in much of the US are hideous and fall very frequently.

SkyTran would amplify those bad qualities with especially serious consequences regarding safety. I don't want to live below (or near) fast-moving vehicles that could fail at any time. And don't tell me they wouldn't fail, because power companies can't even keep flexible, durable power lines from falling down on a fairly regular basis.

Imagine if a tree fell into the track?
>If `we' is imperatively trained programmers, then Yes.

No, we refers to both "imperatively trained programmers", and, more especially, laymen.

>For anyone else---normal people without programming experience, or programmers trained in different paradigms---loops are not special

I very much doubt any layman who does anything repetitive (e.g. runs 10 laps) thinks of it as recursion as opposed to keeping a mental index and thinking it similarly to a loop (without knowing the terminology of programming of course).

>In any case, lots of languages have gotten map and filter, and people seem to adapt to them just fine.

Those are just abstracted loops though, not recursion.
It's funny to watch the node.js community because it's like watching years 1998-2006 in fast forward, except when some framework reaches the maturity tipping point instead of consolidating it is ejected from the community

I was trying to pull some dependencies a while ago and they were failing to build because at some point grunt decided to change the build file name.

I'd be usually fine with that except the only way these tools work is to install them globally so they can't coexhist even with themselves

Some of the tooling is so broken and awkward people got used to commit their /dist/ on github so at least I can skip bower grunt and all that and just get the minified file for many of libraries I need
I read the citation given in the wiki but I can't figure out why exactly deaf people may think this whale may be deaf. It is not clear to me.
in case anyone missed, the source code of evil transform between WGS-84 and GCJ-02 in C/C#/Go/Javascript/Python/PHP/Swift

https://github.com/googollee/eviltransform
tl;dr Silicon Valley is temporary because all things are temporary. A better article would convincingly argue about how, when, or why Silicon Valley would lose its prominence in tech entrepreneurship.
I think more than what we are taught in engineering, the field itself tends to attract more conservative minded people (maybe because it's a safe field?). There's also correlations shown between religiosity, conservatism and studying engineering.
Are you proposing that this creature might be a hippo, or were you showing off your knowledge of recent re-orderization?
Do non-cetacean ungulates call like cetaceans?
Since I run Browserling (a cross-browser testing company), I test in all the browsers. :) Before I start testing, I use Chrome to get it done.
you seem to be talking about what theseatoms mentioned, because capitalism is nicely summarized by Wikipedia as:

Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Characteristics central to capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system, and competitive markets. In a capitalist market economy, decision-making and investment is determined by the owners of the factors of production in financial and capital markets, and prices and the distribution of goods are mainly determined by competition in the market.
+10^10^10 betaflight is better
Maybe it's simply that (civil) engineering is the go to higher education path that is vouched for by parents in arabic cultures? As it is considered one of the few pathways of upward mobility plus and crisis/future proof. At least from my experience in german higher education, that was my takeaway.

Would be reluctant to read too much into personally traits, when there are convincing other explanations.
And yet that's somehow harder to find than a high resolution, ergonomic, HMD in the Bay Area.
Because it vocalizes at an nonstandard pitch for its species, like deaf humans do.

And because it appears to be unable/unwilling to live in a pod with other whales, perhaps due to its inability to communicate with them vocally.
You're not wrong, but you're being a little rude. Your OP raised an earnest concern: people are being excluded from academia who shouldn't be. You responded by basically saying "the group of people you are alluding to doesn't even exist, the only purpose of that label is someone else's nefarious one".

It's quite likely there's another label besides "Right" which would point towards the group of people in question in a way you would accept. What is really gained by trying to enforce this nefarios depiction of what "Right" means?

We're like children in a shopping cart, some of whom are hogging all the books. Or at least all the good tenure-track jobs.
Henry George and the beginning of the Progressive Era

(or some such thing)
Maybe a math book should start with a few problem questions, built around every day scenarios.

Then it should break down the skills that are needed to solve each of these problems, and cover those skills and the smaller steps of those problems. Finally building to a cohesive solution to the initial problem.
We're way ahead of you.

https://github.com/otoolep/rqlite/issues/5

But yeah, that is awkwardly phrased -- let me fix it.
But, why presume it's lonely?
Maybe it can also "chat" on the normal "whale channel" and it's conducting a SETI experiment on it's own via 52hz?

so much ethno- ego- centric decision making around animals ...
I agree but those people are around 18 when they enroll into college, they can't be that close-minded. At least not until you show them (via curriculums) that there's to life more than science.
I solved a problem with the information I recently learned, and it fit right into it perfectly. I understood how things work, and started learning deeply into subject.
Unlikely that broken electricity generator would be as loud as a whale, and survive 30years without repair.

Also, would someone choose to generate AC in a marine application?
Viewing RNNs as a generalisation of Markov chains ia a bit confusing, because what you're calling a Markov chain isn't really a Markov chain in its most general form.

The one characteristic a Markov chain must have is that the transition probabilities are completely determined by its current state. This property is true for both RNNs and what you call Markov chains. The main difference is that the state space for RNNs is a lot bigger and better at describing the current context (it was designed to be).
Done. You're right that it's not Raft, it's rqlite. Though I plan to add an option that will send all queries through Raft, if so requested.
OpenBSD removes Linux emulation
If those experiences were universal, then what a wonderful world. If they are not, then something should be done. It seems to be a harmful approach, to campaign against attempts to restore fairness and equity, because "I don't see the problem"
Intel keeps doing this, pricing their products as if they can charge a ton just because something has "Intel" printed on the box. They want to be Apple, but I think at least for these kinds of specialty products (also for example like the NUC or the Minnowboard or whatever that thing was called), their target demographic isn't the same kind of person as an Apple customer. At least, there's no way I would spend $200 on something that is only slightly more powerful than a RPi. I feel like they keep pricing themselves out of the market with these kinds of devices.
Erotic plasticity
> Wow, these jokes are as dry as day old toast. Would people have really laughed at these back then? I read 5 or 6 of them and many of them don't even make sense, let alone are funny.

We are not amused.
I was dealing with multi-source map authoring with coordinate system conversions here in China years ago (~2004)... that's before Google Maps came out.

Later I found that in China a given city's satellite data for a will be off by some standard drift, usually pretty much effectively constant for a whole city area, and by co-relating a few known points throughout your area of interest across multiple sources' coordinate systems you can scale things well, even if you are remaining 100% projection agnostic (black box treatment).

I have never studied computational cartography, GIS and only have a basic self-taught understanding of matrices but didn't find this all that difficult to hack up at the time.

We were using it to generate little point-of-interest area maps to help people find locations throughout the city on a sort of city-focused whats on style magazine operation. Maps were generated in multiple languages.

We were shut down by the publishing bureau but subsequently kept running anyway, apparently with no problems. The business continues today, though I have nothing to do with it.
There are applications where high resolution is interesting but high frequency is not.
Parallels between gilded age sf and today?
People are not comprehending that low pixel density is not necessarily a dealbreaker when you can just move your head closer to things.
> My bigger problem has been relying on 3rd party components that hold me back due to some incompatibility they don't address for months.

Welcome to dependency hell :) It happens with all frameworks. The only solution is to use vanilla JS components.
LOL, "New math" was misleading. Thanks for your explanation.
Quantum Key Distribution – GCHQ White Paper [pdf]
There is a Chinese idiom describing things like this: Plugging One's Ears While Stealing a Bell.
Thought experiment: replace "engineers" with "followers of Islam". The math still checks out, but suddenly I'm not so comfortable discussing the sociological/psychological reasons behind the correlation.
I think this has far more to do with a simple lack of empathy, a lack of caring for (or understanding of) other people, than any particularly noble trait.

That said, a fair amount of your online presence consist of you stating that women should shut up and never complain about anything; so I guess it's not surprising that you like to put a positive spin on your intolerance for and hatred of a full half of humanity.
This attitude is exactly why Linux has such a horrible, horrible packaging experience. Building cross-distro packages is awful. Teaching users how to install packages is awful. Installing custom apt sources or repos to get newer versions of packages is awful. And we're getting stuck up on some inconsequential thing like a library will be duplicated. Guess what, OSX has been doing it successfully for years.

The Linux community is missing the forest for the trees.
Good. Get off this ride. I'm asking why the hell we are still stuck with the current packaging schemes.
Indeed. We had to tackle this for Expedia's Viewfinder[0] (which was done by utilising nodejs as the server), and we're tackling it again for another project that has it's server-side rendering done in PHP. Interestingly, we are leveraging the v8js PHP plugin to be able to execute JS from inside a PHP context, sharing variables between them as needed. Though I'm not convinced its the perfect way of tackling this problem, there's still a lot of quirks and bugs.

[0] https://www.expedia.com/pictures
Not counting other parts of its API like combineReducers and subscribing listeners, Redux is essentially..

function createStore(reducer, initialState) {
let state = initialState;
return {
dispatch(action) {
state = reducer(state, action);
},
getState() {
return state;
}
}
}

It's quite simple.. and yes, it should only be used when needed, but the whole implementation of the Redux part of an app can exist in a few lines in a single file.
What? Where did you derive that from?
Students of the humanities, like those of the “pure sciences”, tend to have “more sophisticated and less closed views of knowledge than do students in engineering . . . Scientists learn to ask questions, while engineering students, like followers of text-based religions, rely more strongly on answers that have already been given”. Engineering students from all backgrounds, they suggest, share a more rigid outlook than students of science and humanities. Intolerant of ambiguity, they show a preference for authoritarian systems and have more simplistic views about how the status quo can be changed. Far from them being more “religious” than other Muslims, it seems that it is the Islamist vision of a “corporatist, mechanistic and hierarchical” social order, combined with “well-regulated daily routines” that attracts them, and accounts for their over-representation.
React is version 0?

Does that mean they don't follow semantic versioning, or that it isn't production-ready?
the dependency hell from building from source is slightly less of a purgatory than that coming from anything above it. That includes the headaches of autotools.
Here are two math problems. The first is from an article linked-to in the post. The second is from Challenging Problems in Linear Algebra.

Two planes, which are 2400 miles apart, fly toward each other. Their speeds differ by 60 miles per hour. They pass each other after 5 hours. Find their speeds.

Show that a Matrix A is of rank 1 if and only if A can be written as A = xy^t for some column vectors x and y.

I'm more excited by the second problem. I'm going to use concepts I mostly understand to prove ("if and only if") a concept. In so doing, I'll understand all those concepts better.

In the first problem, it looks too much like I'm trying to tell the teacher something he/she wants to hear: the speeds. It's hard for the reader to see how he/she learns something about arithmetic.

When doing the math that mathematicians do, what you learn is often explicit: "prove that for all..." It's more motivating.

Of course I imagine the makers of Common Core have more expertise and experience in teaching students; I have no plan to reform math education.
So can the TSA do engineer profiling? Seems like it would be more accurate?
I think you meant "$@" rather than $*

(The quotes in "$@" are important.)

Also, your script will fall over if any of the paths have spaces in them, such as INSTALLDIR.

You should use lowercase for variable names like SCRIPT_PATH. Uppercase is for exported variables.

readlink -f $0 breaks on OS X. You must do both readlink -f $0 and readlink $0 in order for it to work everywhere.

Shell scripting isn't easy. It took a year to understand these nuances to the point that they're second-nature, and I'm still discovering new ones. Anything that improves this situation would be a welcome change in my opinion.

EDIT: cat<<'EOF' is necessary here. cat<<"EOF" will interpolate variables.
Does anyone here have previous experience with this programming system, and how it would be implemented today?
There is that. The FBI's list of terrorism prosecutions [1] shows a few suicide bombers, some gun nuts, some druggies, the losers who talked about blowing up the Sears Tower (the FBI director said their plan was "aspirational rather than operational"), and some bigger losers who were trying to blow up a bridge in a park in Cleveland.

[1] https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/terrorism...
Flummox, while amazing (and my favourite) has been deprecated in favour of Redux. That said, my personal replacement is Alt.js[0], which has the same style of architecture and API that Flummox had

[0] http://alt.js.org
As a seller, I can confirm that Amazon's policies tend to be very buyer friendly, more so than say, eBay, IMO.
Real engineers (i.e., people like me who are licensed PEs) or PHP script-kiddies who call themselves "engineers" despite many state laws prohibiting it?
> but he himself never did anything in that area

Other than earn his degree in civil engineering?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_life_of_Osama_bin_Lad...
Somehow this reminded me of the old `sound()` help file from Borland C++ 3.1. I think it was in dos.h.

http://everything2.com/title/7+hertz+-+the+resonant+frequenc...

/* Emits a 7-Hz tone for 10 seconds.

True story: 7 Hz is the resonant
frequency of a chicken's skull cavity.
This was determined empirically in
Australia, where a new factory
generating 7-Hz tones was located too
close to a chicken ranch: When the
factory started up, all the chickens
died.

Your PC may not be able to emit a 7-Hz tone. */
Sunstone Adjustment Errors in the 1st Step of Sky-Polarimetric Viking Navigation