skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BBC is very much a state run organization. The people who ultimately decide what happens to the BBC - The BBC Trust - are appointed by "queen in council", which in practice means government ministers.
> Instructions in this program cause electromagnetic radiation to emit from the computer.

I understand that part. but don't understand the technical details. Could someone elaborate a bit how this works?
> 8000 people? Is it like a forum with many threads and topics going on or is it really like an IRC chat room with 8000 people in it?

I'm a member of the UX Slack (https://www.designerhangout.co/) who have ~6k members, and it's pretty active. It's a cross between a forum and IRC, and (from a user perspective) fails pretty badly because of it :)

A major reason is Slack's limit of 10000 messages per free Slack. So conversations get lost within 2-3 days, there's no way to find them unless you've starred them. With no threading discussions don't happen well - there's a lot of noise (like IRC) which can't be filtered out.

Summary: No way to organise/archive knowledge (same q's again and again); noise of IRC interspersed w discussions, Slack's hard limit of visible messages.
I agree, I discovered some authors via Reddit and Kindle Unlimited whose books I loved. But keeping up with what they are releasing is a PitA. One only had a presence on twitter so I set up twitter to rss just for him, some others I check their websites once in a while and hope there's new info…

I wish goodreads would let me say "hey, notify me of every new release from this person, okay? No other mails, just release notifications of those I checked here." (maybe it's already possible? If so please tell me how :D)
Flowdock supports that - https://www.flowdock.com/features

Our team was using it, but since then we moved to Slack as it became the company standard.
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Mediately | Ljubljana, Slovenia | REMOTE | full-time | Ruby backend engineer

We are developers of a medical information mobile app. It's targeted at doctors and other medical professionals, and our users love us. More than half of all doctors in Slovenia use the app daily and we are the market leader in all 4 countries we have apps in. And this year we're growing to 3 more, so we need you!

We do not require a full-stack unicorn who knows everything from AWS to CSS, we're looking for someone to help us maintain and build on our backend. Its job is to automatically combine information from websites and docs and build local databases. Your job will be to help us do this faster in new countries, automate as much as possible and further develop internal tools for getting insights out of these databases. It would be great if you have experience in text and data mining and if you find natural language processing interesting you will love the potential our databases have.

Our sources are in all European languages - knowing these is not needed but some ingenuity and resourcefulness is.

You will find the job difficult without being comfortable in Unix command-line tools and databases. Currently we use Postgres but we might soon be moving to something more text-oriented like Solr or ElasticSearch.

We'll hire you full-time with an indefinite contract, unless of course you have other preferences. We do not obsess over formal education, as long as you have the skills we need.

We have a very nice office in the heart of Ljubljana but if you think you have enough self-discipline, we have no problem with remote work and weird work hours. We use agile development methods as much as is practical, but we're not zealots - a very short daily meeting is unavoidable but otherwise we'll let you work in peace.

If you see yourself helping our user base of 30.000 medical professionals and over 100.000 patients (many more in the future) who currently depend on us for fast, useful and objective drug information, contact us at info@mediately.co!
So only Turkish TMs can apply .ist domain for the whole March.
" if you put a foot out into the road you might trigger a nemergency stop" .. you might trigger a similar painckey reaction in a human, that might include but wont be limited to , pressing brake, pressing throttle, steering suddenly... just let them develop it, and if you dont like it, dont use it. ^^ personally im glad people are working on this, especially for older people who get their licencces revoked due to bad eye sight etc., it can mean the world to them to be able to 'drive' somewhere.....
Haven't thought about it - that's a nice solution, thanks.
What about using observables? Unlike promises, they can be cancelled at any time.

Rxjs provides the observable data type. The extensions are functional reactive operators. There are operators used to retry, throttle, filter, debounce, etc.

Angular2's http module is already based on Rxjs observables for this exact reason.
It's interesting because it is a fun hack and since he seems to be the first to have thought of it. I can assure you are going to see more of this in the future in perhaps more serious circumstances (i.e. actual security abuse).
https://www.reddit.com/user/TheGrinchOfSR

I was close - it's been a while since I had a swim in the Reddit pool. Apologies for sending you on a wild goose chase initially.
I'm glad you're finding works you enjoy among the classics!

I have a long fondness for Bradbury, Shelley, Conan Doyle, etc., but they didn't write, oh, Hal Duncan's VELLUM, or Christopher Barzak's THE LOVE WE SHARE WITHOUT KNOWING, or Silvia Moreno-Garcia's SIGNAL TO NOISE---I don't think they could have been written before the last decade or so, and I don't see that they compete any more with Proust than Taylor Swift does. There will always be a market for new fiction.
It's easy to hard to force Haskell into "not being lazy". I'd say Haskell in lazy-by-default. You could do lazy eval in non-lazy-by-default langs by using something akin to `Promisses` in JavaScript.

A better module system for Haskell is in the makings (Backpack by EZ Yang), but may or may-not be what you are looking for. To my understanding the module system of Haskell is not very limiting at all.
As someone who has always been a UK citizen and is old enough to remember decades past I can say with confidence that this statement is not accurate.
we are using Bluebird (to handle the Promises) along with Axios to do the api calls.
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Thanks for this class. I'm just starting it. One question: How do I know when to do/start the curriculum? Will it be pointed out when I get far enough in the 'lecture' material?
Sure. Facebook? Bloomberg? Citrix?

https://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html
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A basic income sounds to my ear like an expansion of Social Security, at least conceptually.
> Because node.js is single threaded

cluster's been around a while now, and is built in to node 5.x.
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Thanks for pinning one of the points of Keypirinha :)
Also Elixir's crazy fast: Phoenix apps with no tuning handle most GETs in 5-10ms.
Debt is an artifact of finance, not of capitalism. If some genius tomorrow announced a way to have money creation without the attendant debt overhang, we'd do that instead.

Capitalism would still be exactly the same. Debt precedes capitalism by... the entirety of human history.

The map is not the territory and accounting and finance are technologies that attend to productive enterprise, not the enterprises themselves.
"If you live here, even if you are the poorest person in the country, you are rich beyond the dreams of half the population of the world"

Really? Have you ever been in The Work Programme? Have you ever visited a food bank? Have you ever had neighbours pleading with you for food for their children because they have no money? You can prefer to live inside of a cosy bubble of ignorance if you wish, but this is the UK in 2016.
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Many commercial companies (and startups) use OCaml, eg Facebook, Bloomberg, etc

https://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html
> most interviewees, by shear numbers, can't possibly have seen before.

yea, and in a huge coincidence, you're not going to hire most interviewees...
Except for the Kuwait invasion and Gulf War, and between 500.000 and 1.5M people dead in the 9 years of Iran-Irak war in the 80s, and tens of thousand palestinians killed by jordanians in the 70s, and several Israel-Arab wars since 1947, and Lebanon civil war.
I have kids, 4 of them actually and I must say I agree with the author. The problem with the Kiddle approach is that it doesn't help kids when they need it. Additionally, telling them it's a "bad word" doesn't encourage them to talk to their parents about it, but may have the exact opposite effect.

A better approach would be curated results for these terms vs no results. Or maybe a banner that says "This is a great topic to talk to your parents about." Who knows, may actually work. Probably not thought...
Or why not 4 books so I can maximize my personal enjoyment and cultural enrichment?
When 20-50% of your compensation is stock then absolutely diversification becomes a consideration. While you may consider it a "day job" separate from "a portfolio", smarter economic actors may see otherwise.

(Your latter comment makes no sense.)
Is it possible to tune the V8 GC in the same way trading environments (or anywhere where RAM is cheaper than latency) do for Java?
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is there anyway to get a domain through a Turkish company early?
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> I can't read ebooks before bed because the blue light from the iPad screen keeps me up

Seriously, get a kindle - if you like reading you will absolutely not regret it.
Is it a little strange that computer science types aren't leading the way in this sort of thing?
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Type safety and performance.

Also, how does it make testing harder?
It's worth mentioning that isn't just any commenter, that is Jens Axboe, the current block layer maintainer.
Silicon Valley can't agree on whether the tech market has crashed or not
I think this chart
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iran_Population_%281880-2...
might have a tad to do with it.

More people means more demand for water.
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You wouldn't ever see "the climate changed so we moved" as a cause here, because climate change takes a few generations to fully manifest. People without written records and good observation tools wouldn't be able to spot or record the climate change. But such people would certainly notice when agricultural output drops and decide to move to places where the situation is better.

Such wholesale migrations have been the cause of many conflicts. Steppe nomads have migrated to Europe on many occasions over the last two thousand years and each time it has led to war. Even within Europe this sort of migration was observed. For example, Julius Caesar fought Germanic tribes who had decided to migrate to Gaul because the grass was greener on that side of the Rhine.
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> The right to privacy stops when you put lead in a bunch of people.

That's not how rights work.
Aren't there already C++ async JSON parsers in node anyway?
Get married. See the true societal pressure.
looks like someone registered terror.ist though.
I think that storing data in Slack is a bit of an antipattern.

I'll avoid saying "You should" beacuse everyone's workflow is different, but:

I like to treat Slack like e-mail. I'm also a fan of GTD(Getting Things Done), and a pretty big part of that (and things like Inbox Zero) is that _you don't leave important stuff in your inbox_.

If there's some info in slack that will be valuable for more than 15 minutes, it's likely that it belongs somewhere else!

When dealing with bugs, I copy the chat (well, a link to the chat) into a card in Trello. Same for basically any request that requires me to do something. I do use Slack reminders for calendar-based events.

I treat Slack like I treat talking to a person in real life. If I don't write it down, I'll likely forget it, so I better write it somewhere (not in Slack) quickly. You can probably accomplish some of this with pins inside Slack, but I've never accomplished it.

I think that this is one of those intractable problems where, because people work differently together and in individual workflows, it's hard to solve the "long-term coordination" problem without bogging down the "short-term coordination" problem.

Anyways, text is forever, but so are newspapers on microfilm. But we still make history books.
Hi, author of git-cola[1] here, and I completely agree that these features are key. I have a slightly different philosophy implementation-wise, though.

Maybe I'm a unix crank, but I've always tried to keep cola as more of a mediator over individual best-of-breed tools, whenever it made the most sense, rather than re-implementing things that already exist in better forms elsewhere.

For diffs we show inline diffs for interactive staging, one of our uniquely ergonomic features, while also making it extremely easy to launch `git difftool`. difftool itself can be configured to use the best tools for side-by-side diffing, so integrating tightly with it makes for the most cohesive Git experience.

For conflict resolution we defer to `git mergetool`, for the same reason.

With `git cola rebase` it's really easy to reorder lines in a rebase and swap through the pick/squash/fixup/... options using keyboard shortcuts. The advantage is you can't mess up the instruction sheet like you can when using $EDITOR -- cola ensures that the instruction sheet is semantically valid (e.g. "pick" must be first) and does not allow the user to create an invalid instruction sheet. Those little things make a big difference for usability.

What you didn't mention, though is one of the most important aspects to me: A Keyboard-Centric Design

I am a heavy vim/gvim user. I use the keyboard for everything, so cola is designed to augment the command-line experience. If you want to find some string in your codebase run:

$ git cola grep foo # or ctrl-g foo in cola
# hit enter
# navigate results using vim-style hjkl keys
# hit enter
# you are now in foo_bar.c at that exact line of code,
# in your favorite $EDITOR

Being able to do the most common operations, without touching a mouse, is one of my guiding design goals. Hopefully I'm not the only one that feels this way.

[1] https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola
My question is: why hasn't the fbi gone after a smaller player to set this kind of precedent? One that wouldn't have had the huge legal resources to oppose the request that Apple has.

I think what's coming out of this is that the Fbi is riddled with incompetence and inability to face modern threats, plus a silly hybris that is the foundation for silly strategical mistakes.
Threaded discussion support is basically the thing that's been holding Slack back from complete world domination, and for some reason they're taking forever to do it:

https://mobile.twitter.com/slackhq/status/578575540594020353
Your ebook readers get a lot of hints from the ebook file about how to present the material---I am light on details, but I believe them to be significant. It's true that there's no human there checking the typeblocks for rivers and orphans, but I can tell the difference between an ebook file produced by Calibre and one which a human has had a hand in, I happily pay my $13 for the latter, and woe betide the publisher when I discover that I paid $13 for an automated conversion. (The most egregious was a math book which OCR'd the formulas---from a book which was evidently set for print in LaTeX.)

When I'm translating plain text (Markdown-ish) input to LaTeX, I spend a bit of time going through by hand making sure all my formatting has converted correctly, any accents or non-roman characters are correct, the single- and double-quotes are correct, I haven't accidentally copy-pasted any ligatures, I have included hyphenation for nonstandard words, I've included any relevant non-breaking spaces, figures and headings and captions are flowing correctly, etc. etc. And all of these are still necessary when producing an ebook.

It's maddeningly detail-oriented, but the results are really noticeably much better, and in many cases make the difference between the text being readable and not. It's a bit like the cue dots at the movie theater---if you're not looking for them, you don't notice your uninterrupted experience unless the projectionist screws something up.
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Any co-working spaces there? I'm looking for a space for around a week in early April. Need a table for 3 people and meeting rooms.
I'm a fairly heavy Slack user and haven't found any bugs in it. Interested to hear what issues you've discovered that they haven't fixed?
I think the problem is that not enough time is spent explaining these very common techniques - what the rationale behind them is, hot to intuit that it could be applied to a specific problem, and how to get from that intuition to the actual answer / application.

Often, there's a very large skill gap between the student and the teacher (especially at college level, where many of the career mathematicians live and breathe maths), and these things are hand-waved away as obvious. Even worse is when the teacher doesn't actually know, and is just presenting the material straight from a guide. The way most course material seems to be set up is to skip over the middle part, and as a result the best short term strategy is to learn it as a bag of tricks.

I love maths, but I think its universal applicability and beauty get lost due to the way it's generally taught.
It's pricy ... 300 $
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The first thing I thought of were Diablo 2 runes...
Cool. I guess the first thing that struck me was that stuff didn't look too clickable, it is hard to discover things in the structure.
Looks like it's been open for a while already, most of the good "-ist" dictionary words are already taken. Would have loved to get "minimal.ist"!
To store the RTree entries. Say you want to switch between 32 bit and 64 bit floating point types in your implementation, without re-writing the entire thing.
Cannot agree with you enough.
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It would be easier to transfer electronically if the systems existed.

I'd open the banking app or website, put in the other persons mobile phone number. Their name would be shown as confirmation. Enter the amount, press send. It's in their account in minutes, an hour at most.

If I transfer the same amount regularly, I'd click to make it a regular transfer.

If I don't know their phone number I'd use their account number. Either way, they're saved as a contact for next time.
Thanks a lot, as a backend distributed systems person I have hard time understanding UI in general. I'm half way through your videos now, and for the first time I could grok what React is all about.
> I strongly suspect both genders are equally susceptible to being manipulated by societal pressures.

Sure but which gender does society place more pressures on?
Using an interface is not good for performance.
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Well, to be fair, I'm not really that much of a fan of even saving files. I think that real programmers ought to remember.
How so? I don't see anything mentioned here that the UK doesn't have.
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Getting OCaml working at all on Windows was a hell nightmare early last year when we were setting it up for WebAssembly and that definitely soured people's opinions of it. We stuck with it because it had some dedicated fans in the working group (happily using it on linux, mostly) and it turned out to be worth the trouble, but otherwise we would have turned to some other language (F#, probably). So I'm really glad to see those problems are being taken seriously!
Which is strange, they seem to require a certificate if you actually want to register a .ist domain.

http://www.atakteknoloji.com/en-US/default.aspx?Load=9&domai...

It says "certificate required".
Couldn't make the PR with the Super Mario theme play on my Macbook. It played only the first two notes than it got stuck there.
It seems there are lots of posts complaining about how ODE's are taught here. I am planning to study them in the next months. I can only learn maths through applied mathematics and always need to know the why before I can get the how. Can anyone please point me in the right direction for online materials which will help me self-learn, taking into account my learning preferences?
It's more than that: EU companies mustn't collect data they don't need in the first place.
They explicitly allowed customers to use Mandrill for any type of email, transactional or "bulk".

They even used to note that you could build products that compete with MailChimp using Mandrill.
There are people who don't like using 200MB of RAM for a git client, plus 200MB per browser tab, plus the few gigabytes for their IDE, etc...

Because very quickly you reach a point where 10GB RAM are not enough — I know, I've had that very issue.

Replaced every electron app with a native or Java alternative, now I can actually work without swapping.
Ever consider moving to Discord? No chat history limit there.
This is simply not true. The 'societal pressure' on women to be accommodating is the cost levied on women for being allowed to be judge and jury about how someone is treating them. To quote, 'with great power comes great responsibility'.

By missing the power part of the equation, you are creating a victim of responsibility.

In a world where women actually don't have to face any repercussion for being irresponsible, I think you are making a grave mistake.
Well OK, in Germany, telling others, that something was disappointing is most of the times not only a subjective statement, but also a negative rating/non-recommendation.

So if you wanna say, that things were not what one expected, one must say so explicitly, to make it clear, that this is not generalizable.

Maybe that does make it more clear?
There was a decade of relative peace in that region before the US went on the warpath.
Elixirs IRC is also a great place to ask questions. Really warm and active community that have helped me quite a bit while I was learning Elixir (still am).

https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#elixir-lang
In my opinion not always "climate change" but one of the main factor. For me main factor is opportunity to moder human to acclimate for this factores. Yes, climate changes are important but more value is respond for that e.g. better groups organisation, better equipment. In that time if you do not acclimate quick you died
Its purposefully not styled so the developer can do whatever they want to it
Can anybody comment on that? (page 8 paragraph 1 ):

Professional mathematicians have
avoided facing up to density functions by a variety of escapes, such as Stieltjes integrals,
measures, etc. But the fact is that the current notation for density functions in physics and
engineering is provably superior, and we had better face up to it squarely
Doesn't work on Safari 8 using a 9 month old macbook :-/