skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And is thus reviled in retrospect by the US public for being too smart.
> The EFF's analysis is generally of the advocacy sort. Nothing wrong with that of course, but it's important to recognize that.

This is a really subtle and effective way to attack EFF as uncredible, and I don't respect that.

Let's recognize some other important things:

- the EFF is not an advocacy-only organization, but fights dozens of actual legal battles every single year

- As a highly effective, currently-practicing, often-winning legal organization who uses advocacy as a part of their legal efforts, they are bound by realism when talking.

The idea that the EFF exaggerates for advocacy is offensive and frankly, I'm calling it a "lie" unless you can source that.

They are not fast-talking liars. They fight these battles in actual courts all across the country -- and win. That demonstrates that their arguments are more that pop-advocacy, they're the well reasoned arguments of lawyers winning cases.

Frankly, the EFF doesn't take up a cause they don't legally believe in.
`ReplaceFile` is supposed to be atomic, at least according to the documentation: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh8...
Why should companies fight the stupid laws that foreign countries have put in place? Why is it up to the American company Netflix to fix the laws in France?

I get that you've chosen your rhetoric here, but you've drawn the lines in the wrong places.
Agreed. But... Honestly I love Justin but I couldn't care less if he understood quantum computing. As long as he has the sense to surround himself with the right people . JFK probably didn't know a single thing about the science of getting to the moon, if you catch my drift. i.e., I don't think our expectations ought to be much different, and not expecting a politician to understand quantum computing isn't a 'low expectation' to me.
Hail the Maintainers
I think that story gets blown way out of proportion. If you picked random people on a street and asked them to integrate 4x³ from 0 to 2, you would maybe get somewhere between 1% and 10% correct answers, probably way closer to 1%. Still this is something that maybe half of the people once learned how to do in school, they just forget it because they don't need it in everyday life. But spend an hour or two and you can certainly teach them once again how to do it. And most of them will of course also forget it again pretty soon. Along the same line it shouldn't be to hard to give someone a rough idea of the difference between classical and quantum mechanics, notwithstanding that most people will pretty soon only have faint memories.
> Why is it up to the American company Netflix to fix the laws in France?

What law in France requires Netflix to ban users who access it through VPN? There is no such law. Same as there is no law in France which says that you should forbid selling a book that's not available in another country, to a customer from that country who comes to a store in France to buy it. So don't shift the blame here. Netflix run ahead and performed xenophobic ban because they decided to, not because they are required by any laws.
If all of these things only work for a while or not a all then perhaps there is nothing that will match the expectations of importance. Maybe one could figure out the reason for those expectations.
Indeed, the way I try to avoid it is to make public commitments (that are achievable but timely) which will become obvious to others. This will include milestones along the way. Possibly the commitment won't be all to one person, maybe I'll be telling someone that reports to me that they can expect a list of requirements by X, then someone else that we will review the first wire frames by Y and then those I report to that they can expect to feedback on Z date. This keep me continually moving and fits nicely with the scrum/lean methodologies that we follow.
The g-index (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-index) attempts to include "average citation score" but I think you're after just discouraging "Scientist C" in this article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371/jo... or the so called "mass producer".
There were posts with longer hours and fewer points ahead of it.
oh my this is wonderful. I spent so much time playing this in high school.
I'm wondering if massive bacterial computation will beat quantum computing on tasks like factorizing large integers.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2009/jul/24/bacteri...
This was at a press conference at the Perimiter Institute to announce $50 million in funding for Quantum Information projects

Edit: in defence of completely missing the joke, I can only offer that I haven't had coffee yet today
This would have been better if it was a CD/vinyl+DVD selling shop, not a coffee shop.

With real world online retail there are many reasons for not delivering goods to certain regions of the world, inability to work with a good courier for the final miles being one of them.
It's a simple concept. How can I help you understand it?

It's created large amounts of social change. American disability law derives from it, for one example.

Here's a cite from UK goverment mentioning the social model: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-gove...

> We encourage the use of the social model as a way of understanding disability. It says that disability is created by barriers in society.

> The barriers generally fall into 3 categories:

> the environment – including inaccessible buildings and services

> people’s attitudes – stereotyping, discrimination and prejudice

> organisations – inflexible policies, practices and procedures

You probably need to be aware of this, because not being aware of it creates a risk if you ever have any management role.
You need to restrict YAML to SecureLoad, with manually adding allowed typed and classes.

At least perl doesn't support this, so it's inherently insecure there, but you can always use YAML::Syck which didn't go this way.
I think the answer is pretty obvious: at the moment it's
rounded to "6,000 years old". Presumably in several hundred years they'll round to 6,500, then 7,000 after that...

Of all things to question a Creationist about, the suspiciously round 6,000 doesn't seem like one to me...
Try to analyse if you have noise in your mind. I sometimes feel that procrastination is due to a non focused state of mind. I lately feel that is caused by Internet addiction and a lack of routine.

Also, I use to procrastinate when I have personal projects much more appealing than the project I must do.

Try to unplug from the net, go for a long walk, try to tidy up your mind.
Thank you for the link. I had not been aware of that project. It's really interesting to see life as an RPG game.
Thanks! Yeah not there anymore but good group of folks! Not too many people pushing immutable systems and continuous deployment so well either, which was nice to see!
Carter isn't generally reviled for being too smart. The number one thing that he's reviled for (maybe unfairly) is planning and botching a hostage rescue attempt that turned out to be pointless later when the hostages were freed by their captors.
Some of the impacts are covered here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wave_power&sectio...

If done on the scale suggested in the article, it would be catastrophic; article infers that the whole ocean should be used as a source of engery, which is madness.
This is a interesting field to go into and the potential market is large. Is it more efficient for a user to use a chat bot instead of searching a FAQ or other current alternatives?
I Hate Web Bloat – Please Remove Junk from Your HTML
> The other part of highlighting inherent bias with regards to Silicon Valley (and VCs), is that areas like Hacker News punish you for non-groupthink. The more karma per recent post, the more you can post. If you have a contentious, but well thought out argument/discussion but yet against popular opinion here, you are modded down, and therefore silenced with "you're submitting too fast". There is no distinction between someone who is against the public opinion here, and that of a troll or regular crapflooder. I'd like to think there is a huge difference, but a -1 is a -1. The repercussions remain the same.

I agree with you here. People who get flagged and downvoted for reasonable opinions should not be caught up in rate-limiting, and that seems to happen a bit too much.

For what it's worth you can try asking dang to remove the rate limiting if you're caught by it.
YAML is insecure by default, JSON secure by default.

There are not many secure transportation formats, JSON being one of the few.
And JSON can be parsed much faster and easier than YAML, with its types, cyclic references and classes.
I can tolerate it in Elixir/Erlang because GC is per-process-id (of which there could be dozens or hundreds in a typical Erlang/Elixir app) and not remotely a global world stopper.
To me, he's sending a huge message that science is valued, not denied. And it's inspiring, which I think is one of the PM's jobs.

So what's the reporter's next question? "When will Canada start dropping quantum bombs on ISIL?" =(
i think "half the people" is an overestimate. i don't think most people learn integration in school. i'd be surprised if half learn differential calculus.
Caveat: The game capitalizes on existing IP. He ported a well-liked browser game into iOS. The games he created himself are not doing as well.
Isn't color accuracy irrelevant when the image is obstructed by glare and reflections?
Wait, you need to ask Apple to have your app featured?

This is a really insightful post, but at the same time, I don't even want to bother with all the Do's and Don'ts. See, I don't develop games. I have a total niche app product and Apple does exactly zero things for me and still wants 30%. I even drive the people to the app store through my website. Exposure? No. Payment handling? Could do this myself. New users? Not really.

Luckily, my web app makes 10x more money than the stupid app.
Nope, just a readable JSON. YAML does much more, for many too much.
Similar to habitrpg (great link!) basically when you talk to people they will sometimes ask you to perform a task. In the case of your manager that can happen often :-) And that task might have a number of sub-tasks that it includes. In RPG games, like WoW and others, the user interface lets you open up your current "quests" and on each quest you can get details about how much of the quest you have done. That is called your "quest log."

Much of that can be done with a journal, if you are diligent about updating it, but I can fantasize about an "always on siri" type application that would recognize such a request, and keep the log automatically. That would make it pretty frictionless to just check my phone to see where I am in terms of things asked of me. It will require a much better context decoder than current speech recognition and dialog bots.
I think he's making a joke about a "quantum politician" :)
The problem is with computers we have to build incredibly complex systems out of very basic axioms (the features of von Neumann machines). The closest similarly complex systems built out of natural language are philosophy and law, and both are rife with ambiguity.
A general mixer was the one thing I really missed from my windows machine when I bought my first Macbook. I wasn't a programmer back then and assumed that since there were practically no apps that allowed you to mix app volumes it was technically very difficult to do on OSX.

I'll be interested to see how you develop this.
To quell your suspicion you could download the driver app and take a look at the surge map.
The surge values aren't a secret.
sets aren't ordered
You know words have specific meanings. Like xenophobia:

"fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign"

I'm pretty sure these companies don't hate the foreigners or fear them.

Please find more suitable words to express your opinions.
Not at all... I see most of the non-touch laptops having glossy screens, as well. Also, I have a Samsung 900x3c with a matte screen and it's contrast is very impressive. Not having reflections makes all the blacks really deep
My experience with Algorithms:

1. I study, fully understand topics, solve some problems.

2. Time passes, I don't really need most of this knowledge in my real world engineering.

3. I forget most of what I've learned.

I've iterated this several times, so I no longer have that motivation to (again) study algorithms without a real world need... :)
"Are the sum of one and two equal to three" is how you'd read that.
Five lines of code. Each day, just get to the point where you've written five lines of code, immediately when you get to work, before looking at twitter or news or whatever. Tell yourself that once you get those five lines in, even if it takes two minutes, you can take the rest of the day off. Justify it because ultimately five lines is better than the zero lines you'd have written otherwise.

Likely, once those five lines are behind you you'll whip out 100 more because you've gotten over the hump. But don't think about that initially, lest it overwhelm you. Just think about the five lines and how much better it is to have those out of the way and the rest of the day to do whatever you want, while feeling like you've at least done something that day.

Use a website blocker like "stop procrastinating". Yes they just work by updating your `hosts` file. You may think "that won't work because I know how to override it", but they do: usually you're only going to twitter because it's a single button click away; if it involves more effort then it's not worth it. And yes you could write it yourself but I think don't: otherwise you'll spend too many hours gold-plating a dumb utility.

Finally, try to end each day with an interesting task five lines of code away from completion. It'll annoy the crap out of you as you toss and turn all night thinking about it. When you get to work you can't wait to get that done and out of the way.
And there is Margaret Thatcher, who had a Bachelors in Science: Chemistry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher#Early_life_a...). Canada's former P.M Stephen Harper, in his early twenties, was a computer programmer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Harper#Early_life_and_...).
A news article about r9k...
My format for this is a daily checklist to begin my work. I also left space to gather tasks to do and check those off as I go. I log these "quests" on sticky notes as I continue working throughout the day.

How do you do this?

Edit: I see your answer to a commenter below. I'm picturing journal pages with big headers for each project and accompanying subtasks in a list beneath them...
> I'm pretty sure these companies don't hate the foreigners or fear them.

Forbidding selling merchandise to foreigners who come to your store based on the fact that they are foreigners is xenophobic. But if you have a better term for it, please describe it another way.
You go it it's OBS
Or career-track politicians. (The UK.)

Law and politics warp your view of the world because everything becomes a subjective, debatable matter of opinion.

Politics is especially dangerous because the definition of a successful argument is one that increases your power. Facts are tangential at best, distracting and unwelcome at worst.

The corresponding problem for people with STEM backgrounds is a lack of understanding that this is how politics works. If your approach is based on facts, model-building, and reality testing, it's incredibly easy to be blindsided by a career politician - or career manager - who only cares about public opinion, and is perfectly prepared to lie professionally if they make more money and/or gain more power from it.
It's that: "the solution came to me in the shower this morning"...
Programs are for humans to read. That is their sole purpose.
> They rant against and mock everything deemed inferior. They treat people like they're idiots for not understanding basic but unfamiliar principles of the language. And nobody ever seems to shut them down, despite the fact that the majority are pretty welcoming.

I'm happy to try to shut them down but I've pretty much never seen it (perhaps because I'm not in those other communities). If you do, please point me to it. Contact details here: http://web.jaguarpaw.co.uk/~tom/contact/
So history and inertia by now, in other words. The point is not that people didn't think about them when they first came up with them, but that they are not generally regularly revised based on e.g. practical teaching experience or research.
Looks really cool! Have you thought about adding multiplayer?

I really wish someone would do the same for Elma/Elastomania. I feel like it has much more funnier physics with it's elastic suspensions etc. Even the third party extension which added multiplayer support was amazing ten years back.

Btw, is this project still active? Last commit was nine months ago.
Is the time zone for your measurements Pacific Time?
David MacKay's "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" [1] does a good job of putting energy sources like this in perspective. Wave energy is indeed challenged by issues with mechanical parts; however, the reality is that there isn't much wave energy their to begin with. As MacKay puts it, "sun makes wind and wind makes waves" [2]. Waves are just diluted sunshine. Sandia National Labs does a good job of putting this into perspective, assessing solar electricity with a theoretical potential of 89,000 TW and ocean wave with 34 TW [3].

We could try to make the case that, despite the small potential, wave power is convenient to extract. We do this for hydropower, for example. However, where there are waves, there is wind. On cost and reliability, I don't see wave power ever being able to beat out offshore wind.

1. http://www.withouthotair.com/

2. http://www.withouthotair.com/c12/page_73.shtml

3. http://www.sandia.gov/~jytsao/Solar%20FAQs.pdf
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Woah. I've recently tried to do something similar in userspace, but came to the conclusion that it's not possible without a kernel driver. I'm impressed, and tempted to use this soon :)
No this isn't the same article that was posted the other day. Is a response to comments.
I guess most people, when they hear the word Router, they think of their DSL-box. And those commonly have a WiFi access-point built in. (commonly also called CPE (customer premises equipment) by the telephone companies).

$ ip route
default via x.x.x.1 dev eno1 proto dhcp src x.x.x.x metric 1024
x.x.x.x/nn dev eno0 proto kernel scope link src x.x.x.x
192.168.2.0/24 dev br0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.114
192.168.2.1 dev br0 proto dhcp scope link src 192.168.2.114 metric 1024

$ ip link
(...)
2: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> (...)

Network guys, when hearing the word Router think of something that holds a full BGP view...

BGP router identifier 213.200.87.253, local AS number 65534
BGP table version is 7863026, main routing table version 7863026
578096 network entries using 58387696 bytes of memory
578096 path entries using 27748608 bytes of memory
344077 BGP path attribute entries using 20645160 bytes of memory
129723 BGP AS-PATH entries using 3908750 bytes of memory
1054 BGP community entries using 58126 bytes of memory
4 BGP extended community entries using 96 bytes of memory
0 BGP route-map cache entries using 0 bytes of memory
0 BGP filter-list cache entries using 0 bytes of memory
BGP using 110748436 total bytes of memory
Dampening enabled. 145 history paths, 277 dampened paths
BGP activity 730922/149406 prefixes, 731552/150036 paths, scan interval 60 secs

Neighbor V AS MsgRcvd MsgSent TblVer InQ OutQ Up/Down State/PfxRcd
213.200.64.93 4 3257 2823796 74946 7863002 0 0 3w5d 577951

Woodworkers, when hearing the word Router think of something that can effortlessly carve a groove into wood.

So, who's right?
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." - B. F. Skinner
> And I don't even know how to google any one of them. Don't know how to solve this for myself.

https://www.haskell.org/hoogle/ lets you search for functions by name, including symbol-named functions like <$> and co.

(You can also search for functions by type, which is a pretty cool feature, but not what you were asking for.)
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> Haskell sucks because mutability and strictness are extremely important for writing large complex programs, and Haskell deliberately makes both of these things inconvenient.

That's funny, because I'd say that immutability is essential for writing large on complex programs.

Strictness, on the other hand, hmm, I can take it or leave it.

> Haskell's ecosystem and tooling is still crappy

No argument here.

> because writing complex programs in Haskell needlessly difficult

Argument here :)

> And the "type-safety" guarantees are a red herring. They are not that useful in practice.

I've found the opposite. Type safety has saved me so many headaches I'm never going back.
IMO the way to tackle a problem like this is:

1. Figure out the right primitive(s) that applications need to provide both correctness and performance. Make these as simple as possible.

2. Make a portable library that implements the simple primitives by doing whatever is necessary on each platform to provide the API's guarantees. This will likely require a lot of research/expertise on each platform. The result will be an ugly mess of #ifdef, but using the library will not be ugly.

3. If implementing the library is impossible or unnecessarily slow on some platform, lobby the maintainers of that platform to provide something better. If they fundamentally disagree with the abstraction, put it on them to counter-propose a better one.

4. (Optional) lobby to have the primitive become part of the C standard library or POSIX to shift the maintenance burden to the platform owners.
In the West he's also disliked for being viewed as being anti-dam building during the biggest dam building spree in history.
Nope, that's not what it is at all. IO is "just" an effect tag.
All species self-regulate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Matthew_Island#Mammals

Also really fun comic about this: http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/st-matthew-island/

happy to admit I'm wrong.

There you go.

Now before you start blaming developed nations about their energy usage, it is good to review the data persented here: http://visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2007/12/09/comparing-po...
Read all about it here: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/my-ted-talk.html
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Thank you for eloquently expressing what I was trying to say. I am unsure why fakery, even if said fakery is "good", is encouraged.

"Fake it 'til you make it" is an individual endeavor, not a mantra that the leaders of a populace should embrace, I assume.
You've learned how able you were on the way.
I agree with the conclusion of the last paragraph. My problem with STEM majors is that the softer virtues, like humanity, mercy and a certain large-heartedness which are needed to govern a large group are missing. ("Govern a large country like you fry small fish" - Lao Tzu, meaning govern with minimal interference)

I have found this disturbing view among many of the bay-area programmer friends I have - that life is a cut-and-dry game in which the losers in life deserve nothing - which I do not agree with. The animosity that the programmers face as a community in SFO may be down precisely to their view of others.
> This would have been better if it was a CD/vinyl+DVD selling shop, not a coffee shop.

Yep, or a bookstore. Since the source of the underlying mess is related to copyright.
What is your app?
I've seen something like this happen to someone I know. :(
Would you say otherwise if "they" where actually separate companies? ie, Netflix US, Netflix CN, Netflix FR