skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Seems pretty obvious to me, why that failed - the linked specification describes how to represent a tree of pairs of byte strings. What do I do with that?

Whatever you want to. Once you have lists, trees and byte strings, you have everything you need (note that JSON is this, with some sugar for alists).

> Why six ways to represent a byte string?

Because different approaches make sense in different contexts: for a single word the word itself is completely fine; for an English phrase "this is a small phrase" works; for certain constants hex works, e.g. #DEADBEEF#; for large binary strings then Base64 encoding works, since it's opaque anyway. And all of that is really for display: for transmission (and cryptographic hashing) the length-prefixed canonical form works perfectly, but is still visually-inspectable in time of need (unlike, say, a pure-binary format).

> It has the feel of just do whatever you want.

It's a tool for one's toolbox, not a finished product: you use it to build whatever you want.

> Where would you even start to build a useful library around this specification? It is so general that it is useless.

How does one build a useful library around JSON? Canonical S-expressions live at the same level of abstraction (but are efficient and visually appealing, unlike JSON).

Are you aware that S-expressions are how Lisp code is represented? This takes that same universal code format and turns it into a universal data format. How would you build a library around it? How do Lisp implementations build a useful library around S-expressions? Simple: they offer functions like READ to read in structured data, and functions like EVAL to evaluate it as code. Likewise, the user of canonical S-expressions would have some library to read in the expressions, and some other library (or his own code) to evaluate that structured data as code in whatever format he's using.

I point you to the SPKI RFCs as an example.

In the context of the parent to my post, one can use S-expressions as an alternative to tag-length value. Instead of 0x01666f6f20626172, one might have (name "foo bar") as something a human being can read & write, which encodes down to (4:name7:foo bar), which is fast to parse, reasonably efficient for transmission, and can be read by a human in duress. And if for some reason one wanted a copy-pastable version (maybe for end users to paste auth tokens, or to survive emails, or something) then one could use {KDQ6bmFtZTc6Zm9vIGJhcik} (that's just Base64-encoded).

Or you could use JSON: {"name": "foo bar"}. Which is larger, more error-prone to type, uglier, harder to parse, and still needs to be evaluated in its context anyway (What if name isn't the only required attribute? What if it must be in HTML format? &c. &c. &c.).
Woah, I'm not from America, but that seems really wrong. More taxes and bigger government does not create any sort of extra benefit for the poor - the extra taxes will simply go to creating more levels of indirection and inflated prices in existing government.

Why do you think anything with a government stamp is automatically 10x the price? It's not because of people wanting smaller government. Smaller government is about localizing procurement down to the smallest workable level.

Making a huge tender to build these environmentally safe houses for everyone would mean only the biggest and most expensive companies could compete in the 10 year long bidding process. Making a tender for 10 houses for the local poor in your village would be free in comparison, and those 10 houses would be ready before the poor die of old age.
So are you saying that if it's a partisan position we're not allowed to post "voting can change things"; we can only post that if it's a bipartisan position? Because if not, you're in no way addressing the point I was raising.
Why isn't Oracle running this on the JVM or Oracle DB?
Since many people disagree with you, I'm going to chime in and say that I agree with you 100% when it comes to Tinder being used for hookups, at least where I live. I am a 25 year old male in South Jersey (near Philadelphia), and Tinder is primarily used for hookups here. I think it varies a lot based on where you live though.

I mean if you think about it, it's an online dating platform that provides nothing more than a few pictures and a sentence as a basis for decision making. It's designed to allow for fast selection of people based solely on appearance. This is backed up by the fact that there's no profile text displayed when you're swiping...all you see is a picture of the person. If you want to view their actual profile, you need to click their picture, which hardly anyone does.

This is unlike other dating sites where you have to take a personality test, provide a detailed description of your interestest, etc...

However, like someone else said, many people go there for hookups, but they are actually seeking a longer term relationship whether they like to admit it or not. Some are probably looking for hookups maybe with the possibility of a longer term relationship. Additionally, this is going to come off as sexist, but I feel that there's a large percentage of girls on there who aren't looking for anything at all other than attention. This is particularly true for attractive girls. Hell, who wouldn't love to have people constantly telling them they're beautiful? I've even talked to a few attractive girls who use Tinder "because it's funny". For guys, I will go out on a limb and say that 90% of guys on Tinder are looking for some action.

EDIT: Just to add, keep in mind that age plays a huge role here. I am 25 years old, and many of my friends are in the 20-23 year old range. I have a feeling that the average age of the commenters here is slightly higher, which could explain why so many people don't agree with Tinder being used for hookups. There's a big difference between a 35 year old and a 21 year old when it comes to maturity in dating.
Interesting that nowhere in the article really examines the degree to which trucks are making the US/foreign difference. Even though the distinction between US/foreign has been greatly diminished in recent history, the workhorses of farms and rural areas are american (e.g. F-150).

Cities are by definition not rural, but Oklahoma City is much closer to the rural lifestyle than, say, SF or NYC.
>why it's valuable.

The market has been valuing yahoo's core business at about $0 after you deduct the value of its Alibaba and Yahoo Japan shareholdings.

However the remainder can have value. At the moment they have income of about $4.6bn/year from adds and the like which is spent paying the wages of 10,400 employees. How many employees do you actually need to run a site like yahoo? They could probably cut back a good bit and be quite profitable.
In general, I agree.

In this case, the percent-of-GDP approach used by the Economist is probably a good one, because (1) it relies on high-quality data (the Bank of England, founded in 1694, provides GDP data going back three centuries[1]), and (2) it measures the bond's size in relation to the size of Britain's overall economy, which intuitively makes more sense for financial-market figures.

[1] http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/Pages/onebank/threec...
This, too, will pass. Mutability is fine, if isolated and carefully accounted for. However, to understand when it's fine and when it isn't, you have to bring years of experience both in imperative and functional world.
Yeah it's a great plane, hard to beat for any operation where you don't need more speed more altitude. I'll bet law enforcement can operate them for about 2X a regular squad car.

Unfortunately most of my family gets horribly air sick, so mine is for sale - I'm looking for something cheaper to operate and cheaper to buy.
Yeah, it's neat. (I work on stuff that exploits this). We open-sourced the software side of our first flash IO accelerator last year. [1]

You can do some pretty cool things from a HW designer's perspective inside the accelerator, and in the main application. Since the accelerator is cache-coherent, and able to map the same virtual addresses as a given process (and attach to multiple processes' address spaces) the device can do "simple" things like follow pointers, which used to require building a command / data packet, DMA'ing it to the device, and then waiting for a response packet. This, effectively, frees up the main CPU to do other things, rather than wrangle data. It also means that bottlenecks move.

[1] https://github.com/open-power/capiflash
> ...advantageous for the species...

What about saving premature babies and babies with congenital diseases?
AngularJS: Service, Factory or Provider?
My experience in Canada was that "experience" was simply a euphemism for age.

I'm not complaining about genuine experience/wisdom/etc. I just think the correlation with age is a lot weaker than prevailing wisdom in the great white north, where age is almost seen as a requirement.
All about npm and why it is the heart of JavaScript ecosystem?
I think Amazon does not want to use OpenRack, not sure if they consider it. I think they are in the position to negotiate good price from normal x86 server vendors or make them produce a modified version of a normal server (without the things Amazon does not need). I am curious what is up with them nowadays.
IIRC there is a Google Drive application which allows the users to have a similar "virtual folder" functionality as Dropbox has.
> The Daily Mail has a bad reputation with the Twitterring classes, but like every other UK newspaper they cater for their own audiences

The Daily Mail has a bad reputation with virtually anyone in the UK who has any interest in accuracy of reporting. It is a rag which makes money by selling fear and outrage.
> That feeling never really goes away once it's been trained and recognized.

I found it again in surfing. And luckily, the wipeouts are not so hard on the body in surfing, well most of the time. :-)
Agreed and all BMW SUVs are made in South Carolina. Mercedes makes the larger SUVs (and some smaller ones too) in Alabama.
The Data Quality Tipping Point
i once had the opportunity to sit right next to him, having a little bit conversation.

there were like 15 other people in the room and he was the star, so not much of a chance to talk about profound topics.

I remember him being a exceptionally quiet and polite person.

farewell
it's precisely when values change
over time that you want immutability
most.

Values always change over time, otherwise you could replace variables by constants.

I suggest that immutability is most useful for data that crosses into a context that you (the programmer) have no/little control over. There is nothing wrong with a bit of state, like so

def pow ( n : Int ) : Int = {
var result = 1
var i = n
while ( i > 0 ) {
result *= 2
i -= 1 }
return result }

The reason this is OK is that the state changes are local, while globally (from the outside) pow remains functional. There is no need to coordinate with other programmers, or other functions or modules, to get i and n to behave properly.

In contrast, if you pass shared state into a context that you have limited knowledge or control over (e.g. shared memory concurrency) then things become hairy.

That's why I advocate: "locally stateful, globally stateless" programming.
tl;dr Scala is powerful. With great power comes great responsibility. Constrain yourself. :)
The keyboard looks remarkably similar to the 48k spectrum I had, and the little stripe in the corner is adorable. Thanks for sharing.

When I used mine I used BASIC, and I "compiled" z80 machine code by looking up the opcodes, one by one, in the manual that came with the machine. I don't remember ever having access to an assembler, or compiler of any kind. But I eventually learned enough that I could hack games to get infinite lives. I have fond memories of the Speedlock system, along with Bleepload, and others of that time-frame.
it would be the height of immorality to renege on contractually agreed-upon compensation for workers.
Sometimes the Daily Mail even credits the online source that they ripped off. Not always, though.
I could, but you should try it. It wasn't an interesting enough result for me to document
Maybe in a more equal world were people would not be whipped, I mean "incentivized", into working all the time, a larger portion of the population would be able to contribute their passions to society than just the elites of today? Hence maybe surpassing the results of the current aristocratic version of this.
> They mean BUG as in it crashes the kernel.

I know what BUG means. There's a reason it exists: to make sure that code in an invalid state doesn't do something really dangerous. assert() is very useful.
That's only true if efficiency is your only metric, but that's not meanginful for all jobs. Certainly there will be an order of magnitude difference in effectiveness of some security guards over others.
One fun fact: Since Tinder requires a FB login, the DC OKCupid is chock filled with spooks.
Do any system package managers support per-user installations, or are they designed mainly to install to system directories? Pip for example has the option to install packages into the user's home directory, which allows for easy cleanup. If developers want to experiment with a library for a project, they might not want everything chucked into /usr/ and made part of the system.
On a time scale of centuries, the only real way to compare money is by the effect it has on other people when you spend it (i.e. how much effort other people expend when you draw down the claim on future production that money represents). You can look at the percentage of the population / economy affected (for large amounts of money), or the absolute number of people affected (typically measured against of the average wage). When the size of the population overall is changing, numbers calculated using the two basic techniques will necessarily diverge. Which number is more important depends on whether you're interested in relative or absolute purchasing power, which is context dependent.
At first I thought it was on hacker news because the article was auto-generated by software (a "Show HN"), but actually, it appears to be written by a real person. Welcome to journalism in the era of dying newspapers, I guess.
I presume you're familiar with the term "false dilemma" and how it applies to your post?
Why not a package manager for browsers
My guess would be: compact cars are more desired in very urban areas for many reasons (size when parking, fuel efficiency in an area where it is more expensive); less trucks (truck workhorses are overwhelmingly American); and a higher concentration of rich people so more German imports.
Yes and anything else that influences hormones (birth control). Don't marry a woman if she's never been around you off of the pill.
> The hardest part is waiting for the damn things to run.

Would it be possible to distribute the fuzzing on a small cluster or some cloud platform thing?
that for most people means you have to move far into the suburbs.
+ charisma + looks.
When I said "cliche" I meant the good old "women say one thing, do another and think something else".
Agreed.

In my generation, it comes off as awkward to approach a person in the bar or other social gather and try to start a conversation, but it's completely normal to send a random person a message on Facebook telling them that they're beautiful.
The most amazing example of such cooperation is Yanis Varoufakis, who was working for Valve on virtual currencies and economy of Steam Market before becoming Minister of Finance in Greece.
In his own words: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/it-all-began-with-a...
Horror enough to switch to www.fastmail.com ?
Pickup trucks. The #1 selling vehicles in the US year after year are pickup trucks. Those aren't really needed or desired (due to size) in places like NYC and SF.

In the midwest, however, Pickup trucks are everywhere. In my suburban Detroit neighborhood, looking outside, probably half of the houses have a truck parked in the driveway. I'm thinking of getting one soon. I don't usually have a need for one, but a small old S-10 (Chevy) or Ranger (Ford) would be handy sometimes.

It was the same when I lived in Indiana. I was in the minority driving a sedan.

American trucks outsell the foreign competitors handily, though Toyota is catching up with the Tundra.
The Islamic State of Molebeek
Large amount of texts written 2500 years ago is quite impressive, considering they were written on bamboo strips. It proves that most of the old texts we see today were actually written down instead of passing down orally. I can't imagine how they transported their "text books" then. I feel our paper books are too weighty.
What’s new for designers, April 2016
This is a very interesting project. Are you self financing the entire operation? The "about us" page has some info on your review process. It seems those are volunteers or are you also paying them? I love the free+payment optional model and not relying on ads.
What's your bigger fear, lack of quality entries or lack of subscribers?

6c/words seems pretty solid so that's nice. SFWA rights is a good choice as well, seems like you are pretty author friendly :)
How are you handling authors payments btw. (not an author but curious)?

Sustaining >550 paying customers to break even seems like no small task.

I have looked for similar online magazines with good rights in another domain (horror) before and your site seems to be ahead of the curve with regards to seeming professional and transparent, kudos.
What tools do you use for Instagram Monetization?
Bosphorush – Akonter
A nice looking picture with no profile text tells me a lot.

It tells me that the profile is either fake or that the person is only there to boost their own ego by receiving messages.

Either way, it tells me that there's no point of sending them a message!
Spoken like a true worm
Yes, so racist they were the only paper to accuse the murderers of Stephen Lawrence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Stephen_Lawrence#Sub...
great book with great entrepreneur spirit
Personal income tax isn't based on how wealthy you are. It's based on how much income you earned during the year.
Pubic List of trolls
Parental leave, mandatory vacation days, unions, etc etc

I believe if you go back in my comment history I have said basically exactly what you stated. Agree fully.
John Oliver on the ugly state of credit reporting and background checks
Trimming Rune pl8 4 free
PyDev of the Week: John Cook
Now look at the figures for any other UK newspaper.
Under Meyer's tenure it's actually much worse: you don't know when you're going to lose your job. With DM, you know if you're in or you're out.
The story I've heard is that they can tell the difference between the violins; they just frequently prefer the sound of the newer instruments.
Who says they aren't? Oracle DB results would be internal.
Where would you start with AFL on the JVM? Class loader verifier?
I don't think Hacked Off are a great decider of who is scum or not. The campaign is a Guardian proxy to protect rich and powerful celebrities and politicians from press investigations.
USPS, Shiny Objects, Recovery, and Recession
No, it's simpler: It's just 'status'. I believe the men you describe are "alpha males" which is a form of status -- albeit it's generally considered a low-class form of status by modern educated professionals.

Wealth, I believe, is only interesting in this equation to the extend it confers status, or at least coincides with it. Beta-males/low-status guys who win the lottery typically gets taken advantage of, rather than swooned over.
World After Capital
DMGT is a big group who owns lots of publications, like Euromoney.

Yahoo will be one among many.
> If you have a huge nose or a massive protruding mole you'll never be attractive no matter your body composition

BULLSHIT. I was very self conscious of my big nose but Asian women love it! The first time I heard 'I like your nose! it's so nice' I couldn't believe it.

I had to turn off notifications for Tinder because it's so active after 11:00PM.
Marketing Tips for Freelance Web Designers
Ask straightforward questions. The way people answer them is more important than what the content (mostly) of those answers are:

Examples:

1. Do you like working here? You should get an impression that the person genuinely likes working there. If you have to drag enthusiasm out of them that's not a good sign.

2. What's your management philosophy? They should have one, or at least be able to sound like they've given it some thought.

3. Tell me about a time you disagreed with your manager or somebody senior, what did you do, what did they do? What ended up happening? What your looking for is a manager who is willing to admit some degree of political prowess. You DO NOT want to report to someone who cannot stand up to their seniors, it can be just as bad or worse than the overly political managers (the overly political managers at least get somewhere sometimes, you and your team will get resources, project wins, etc).

More like this. Whatever question you'd like a direct answer on. Ask it, most likely you'll never get the whole truth, but the way these questions get answered matters.
ALL of the government spending has to come from taxes eventually. It can come today or tomorrow. It can be raised smartly or stupidly, but it's going to come from taxes one way or another.
Where are the statistics for this? Genuinely curious. I might have skimmed over that in the article.
Chariot for Women, an Uber-like service, set to launch this month
> actually holds frame

What does this mean?
But that link isn't Hacked Off's subjective opinion - it's an objective list of breaches of the Editor's code of practice published by the Press Complaints Commission.
Yes, because the recordings would be useful, while the watch does nothing a smartphone can't do.

And I do wear something on my face all the time, glasses. Something Google Glass totally ignored, real glasses integrated with the hardware.
Zeroing in on the last common ancestor of all complex cells
It uses Jinja2 for templates, so that is pretty much its ecosystem.
Can you speak to why the gap is so large between undergrad and grad econ programs?
I miss Candybar for Mac
>No, you're better off having a single well-integrated system package manager.

And wait for MS and Apple and your distro to keep up with ALL upstream changes? And have them approve what goes in there? Yeah, good luck with that...

>Once you start stuffing shit into system directories behind its back you lose all oversight. You can't even answer a simple questions such as "where did this file in /bin come from?" anymore.

You'd be surprised. E.g. brew files are in the Cellar dir, npm modules are in node_modules, global pip files are in their own folder, etc.

No package manager I use (and I use several, and all are quite popular) messes with system directories.
The Life of a Freelancer Shouldn't Be a Lonely One
It sounds like you want a CMS service (content management system) that's not tied to a blog like taxonomy. If you can't find one, there are tools made to build that sort of thing.

You might try one of these:

https://modx.com/ https://github.com/modxcms

http://www.razorcms.co.uk/ https://github.com/smiffy6969/razorCMS

http://picocms.org/ https://github.com/picocms/Pico

All three happen to be PHP based, not sure why most of the CMS solutions lean towards it. If that doesn't work for you, search terms like "simple", "cms", "your preferred language" might help yield answers that are a good fit.