skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"however sometimes that can take a long time to find the quality."

As a non-academic but with some insight there - this matches with most research, I think. Upvoting at a heat of the moment is kinda worthless as it comes to rating academic output. You need quite a lot of time to draw valid conclusions about a paper. If everyone voted for every paper this would mean that a huge chunk of the competent population would spend an inordinate amount of time on a single paper.

That's why it's far more efficient that only a few people of more-or-less guaranteed competence spend considerable effort in reviewing results. One high-quality vote is much better than thousand low-quality ones.

This efficiency mechanism and validating the qualifications of the reviewers is the only added-value the established publication systems brings in to the table as discoverability has become cheap commodity.
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In the case where you'd require a bfs to traverse a graph, you're already doing something that is algorithmic, and will otherwise be prohibitively costly if explored in a dfs manner. The most complicated part of this algorithm is highly unlikely to be the bfs itself, with it's highly likely 10 lines of code in total.

In this case, someone who didn't have the time to visualise exactly how the bfs is operating shouldn't be writing the algorithm. Pretending like you don't need to know the details of how it traverses the tree when you needed to choose the specific implementation for this algorithm to be performant is a lie. It's not like Guassian elimination, where the concept is far more abstract, this is a concrete idea of how you're moving through the graph and shouldn't be some black magic.

On top of this, who writes this code and doesn't test that it does what you expected it to do on sample data. If you bfs implementation was bust, then you'd miss nodes or revisit them, which becomes immediately apparent from testing the algorithm you're writing.

> It ought to require an exceptional circumstance to stoop to implementing it myself.

Maybe the problem here is that I see a bfs as a fundamentally simple algorithm. Saying writing it yourself must be an exceptional circumstance sounds about as crazy to me as saying no-one should ever use for loops, they expose you to making mistakes with an index you may forget is zero-based, please use anonymous iterators instead. When something takes 5m to write, is heavily tested by default (as it will be a feature under test anyway and possible flaws will be highly obvious) and is at the same level of abstraction as the code you'll be writing around it, then just write the damn thing.

EDIT - Try writing a BFS that operates on an acyclic graph that outputs the value of each node, that compiles and runs and prints at least two node values that has a bug. Try writing bugs into this, it's actually difficult to screw up.
Yes, but you still had to get them shipped home, where parents would ask you what you've ordered. Now with amazon it takes 3 clicks, and you can get them delivered to a drop-off location anywhere(at least here in UK I can get amazon parcels delivered to a nearby corner shop for example).
Instagram sounds like an appropriation of Telegram (invented 200 years ago?). So proof of prior art in my opinion.

If they plan to do this in a UK court then he can represent himself pretty cheaply. Think of all the publicity.

I'm not a lawyer but I've been watching Suits (3 Seasons), I could definitely win this for the guy.
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What bugs me is that if abstinence only sex ed pushers are going to defy the obvious, they should at least make their claims more entertaining. Virginity will grant you the ability to fly and speak to birds. Contraception causes vampires. Having sex outside of marriage will make your skin split and a 20-foot tall bright red demon will emerge from your fleshy husk. Kissing gives you polka-dot leprosy.

I mean, if you're going to be unbound by facts or reality, why be boring?
All the arguments against the CL-style macros are stemming from the fact that it's far too easy to get into a total mess with them, simply because of their infinite flexibility. Yet, if you follow some very simple rules, you'll get the opposite.

Firstly, macros must be simple and must essentially correspond to compiler passes.

E.g., if you're implementing an embedded DSL for regular expressions, one macro expansion pass should lower your DSL down to a syntax-expanded regular expression, the second macro would lower it into an NFA, another one would construct an optimised DFA, and then the next one (or more) would generate the actual automaton code in Lisp out of the DFA.

The best possible case is when your macro pass can be expressed as a set of simple term rewriting rules. And most of the transforms you'd find in DSL compilers can actually be represented as such.

Of course, there is also an alternative style, which may be preferable if you have debugging tools for designing your compiler passes at least equivalent to the Lisp macro expansion debugging. You can simply write your entire DSL compiler as a single function, and then wrap it into a macro, as `(defmacro mydsl (&rest args) (mydsl-compiler args))`.

This way, the same compiler infrastructure can be reused for an interpreted or partially interpreted version of your DSL, if you need it. Still, all the same rules apply to how the passes are implemented in that compiler function.

Another very useful trick is to make your DSLs composable, which is easy if you split your compilation pipeline into separate macro expansion passes. Multiple DSLs may easily share features of their internal IRs or even front-end languages, so any new DSL would simply cherry-pick features from a number of existing DSLs and wrap them into a simple front-end. This degree of composability is simply impossible with the function-based interpreted eDSLs.

A can recommend taking a look at the Nanopass [1] framework, which is built around this very ideology, or at my own DSL construction framework [2].

[1] http://andykeep.com/pubs/np-preprint.pdf

And some examples:

https://github.com/cisco/ChezScheme

https://github.com/eholk/harlan

[2] https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase
Smart farming and SPARKL
Teenagers now engage in more virtual interaction over social media, and the number of teens with driving licenses has decreased dramatically over the same period - I think the scope of their social interaction has increased, but they have significantly less physical privacy. They spend more of their time in contexts where adult monitoring is possible.
I also think the availability of porn and the increased pressure to adopt a low-time-preference mindset also alters the risk/reward calculus of potentially procreative sex. With the disappearance of much well-paid blue-collar work, both in reality and the public consciousness, derailing the fast track to college is much more costly than it was in the past.
On a more speculative note, I can't help but wonder what the effect of more widespread hormonal contraception has been on female sexual desire, and maybe even on the prevalence of environmental estrogens potentially affecting males.
Elixir has _something_ similar: Behaviors - http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behavio...

While this isn't exactly what you like, I thought I'd throw it out there because I find it a fair substitute, especially when paired with Dialyzer - a static code analysis tool: http://erlang.org/doc/man/dialyzer.html
I haven't used Proxmox or oVirt (but know roughly their strengths), but can tell you right away that Openstack almost certainly is not what you want. Unless you expect CERN or Rackspace-level traffic, and are prepared to fork it and throw a dozen engineers at it.

The Openstack documentation is terrible, the user interface is awkward and clunky, and the configuration files for each component are several-thousand lines of Python code. Unsurprisingly it has more bugs than New Zealand, and regularly breaks in inexplicable ways. Additionally it does not support crucial features such as node evacuation or rebalancing, and you can't even use the built-in scheduler to pick a new host when live migrating.. And good luck upgrading from one version to the next.

If you're a small shop, oVirt or Proxmox are both solid options. Ganeti fits here too, but has a much higher barrier to entry (no web UI or guest OS support by default).

Source: used Ganeti for 6 years at three different sites, and recently resigned from my current job after one year of fighting Openstack because I could not convince my colleagues to pick a better platform.
It is very hard to reason about the laziness, unfortunately, so it is more of a beautiful hack most often rather than a sustainable design methodology. While with macros you've got a very simple, reproducible, verifiable design methodology for constructing arbitrarily complex DSLs.
Haven't we solved the quality issue in other situations by giving users the ability to rate a scientific paper.

What's wrong with giving other researchers the ability to rate and comment on a paper.

It's a not a perfect filter but I would argue it works just as well a this journal reputation system and it prevents issues like people having to publish with them to get recognized not to mention it encourages discussion between academics which could lead to some breakthroughs as well.

You want peer recognition so why not go to your peers directly instead of a proxy like these publications.

This system is a product of a bygone era and as all other systems like it it is resisting change by relying on copyright.

I see copyright as the root of most of our current societies issues it is just not compatible with how we work not to mention most of these papers were made with public funding so there shouldn’t be any copyright on it to begin with the copyright belongs to the public domain they payed for it.

A publication just publishing it on their website and slapping a price on it is pure theft and they should be treated like the pirates they are pursuing.
I'm sorry but I want to point out you are not middle class. There is only one class: humans.
Am I the only one here who thinks Instagram has a point here? This guy named his photo sharing app littergram which clearly is a reference to Instagram. There might actually be people in the target audience of littergram or Instagram who think these apps are related. If Instagram is evil for doing something about this, I really have no idea what constitutes as good trademark protection.
Who is going to mistake "Instagram" with "Littergram"?

And what about my valentine's day Candygrams from 10, 20 years ago? Should we rename those too?

This seems a bit ridiculous.
What should concern us most? Take your pick:

"Party balloons consume 19% of all helium; hard drive
production uses less than 1%."

(http://www.hgst.com/sites/default/files/resources/HGST-Heliu...)
My "guess" is the "forensic" "examiner" watched CSI Cyber or NCIS the night before, an episode where the show's forensic "sees" patterns in Matrix-style flow of data.
Diggit: Mining Git repositories for developer insights – feedback needed
Creator of pop-up ads apologizes for inventing ‘internet’s original sin’
Not if you're bankrupt and represent yourself.
Just curious to see what you can accomplish with StackOverflow Driven Development.
Luckily, nobody cares what you think.
Thanks for your input I dispute that wealth concentration to the extent we have now is a universal truth however.
Not sure why you're getting downvotes. From what I've read it is as effective as vasectomy, but fully reversible.
Not to mention feathered animals!
I've been listening to a lot of Rumpole on Radio Four Extra.

Let me know how I can help.
For many years Amazon was proud that they did not make a profit.
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Helium is notoriously hard to contain. I wonder what the MTBF on these drives is going to be?
I kind of agree. But I wonder whether an effective market can really exist for such a specialised service, with so few customers and even fewer suppliers (SpaceX, ULA, Arianespace ...)?
Flat Masters – Essay on a team-work paradigm [pdf]
Any clues as to what Littergram's legal position would be if they were to completely ignore Facebook?

Would Facebook really bother with blackmailing (court fees are expensive) a small nonprofit into changing it's name?
I believe HN's algorithm discounts links which didn't attract much attention last time, so as to allow for interesting links that happened to be overlooked to get a second chance.
HN's misogynist underbelly is showing particularly badly here.
> A publication in "Science" or "Nature"

What excludes the academic from also publishing elsewhere?
Besides the user base, buying the open messaging platform it's an interesting movement considering Google decided to get rid of xmpp and close their Hangouts client.
Hmm, yeah, I'm contradicting myself there.

The papers are produced by individuals within the Federal Reserve, so I know there are individuals in the organisation who is aware, but the way the Federal Reserve acts and the public statements it makes, as group it looks like it isn't aware. Maybe it's kind of like how a PR person working in the cigarette industry thinks smoking is horrible to people's health, but hangs his or her morals at the door when he or she arrives at work.
This story has been posted multiple times - as is often the case on HN. It's just one of the posts that get noticed and voted up by the masses.
U.S. high court approves rule change to expand FBI hacking power
At least he honestly lists the grants. I still don't know if the grants came because of the direction he took or vice versa.
> dodge enemies trying to kill it

I thought dogfighting was nolonger required in this day and age?
So true.

After working remote for a year now, I stopped asking my coworkers much stuff about code.

I often don't even read documentation anymore.

I just open Github and search the code myself.

This is a bit slower the first time I search a repo, but not that slow and I get faster the more often I do it and the answers I get are definite and not "Well, I think I did....". Also it makes me more comfortable with using libraraies, frameworks and such.

I also started doing this with my own code, because me from last month isn't me now haha.

Face-to-face is good to talk about requirements, bugs and intentions, but not for talking about code.
According to BackBlaze's data set, Western Digital are the least reliable: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-201...

Seagate and Toshiba tie for 2nd, but HGST drives are by far and away the most reliable.
You should never ignore the other options. Between someone who's incompetent but has good intentions (assuming you buy into the populist discourse) and someone who's very competent and will work very efficiently against your interests, I'd take the incompetent.

For a lot of people, Chávez was a measurable improvement over his predecessors.
I am not a lawyer but I am curious what affect this will have. Does this mean that the FBI can cherry pick to it's favorite judges to get any wiretap subpoena they need?

Is there a source of public information to monitor judges actions in giving out these subpoenas?
Not exactly.)
The Mastermind: The Next Big Deal
Off-topic, but I had to ask -- do you have any information as to whether future HGST drives will be manufactured using WD shops, or visa-versa?

I'd be very sad if HGST lost their prestigious lead as the most reliable drive manufacturer due to being taken over by WD.
> Unfortunately, our socio-economic system (outside these specialized communities) is just not set up to accommodate pregnancy at the age when we are most fertile. It's too bad[cut]

I'm not so sure: I feel like I wouldn't have been mature enough to raise children correctly in my twenties..
IMHO the ideal age for raising children is your 30s: not only you're mature and young enough but if your parents had you in their 30s, they can also help raising the children especially if they just retired: win-win.
Launching Developers Tools
> I want to see VC-sponsored ambitious research projects.

Isn't that exactly what YC research is?
Social Media – The Rockstar of Digital Marketing
That's part of the plot of Cyroburn, by Lois McMaster Bujold. (Come to think of it, Neuromancer as well)
I'd emphatically recommend Zen Bound and Zen Bound 2.

More than most other mobile games with good touch controls, the Zen Bound games really took advantage of the tactile nature of current mobile devices and their touch interfaces.

Aside from the mechanics, they were also pretty relaxing, while some of the levels managed to be simultaneously challenging while remaining completely passive. A very gentle and non-frustrating form of challenging that not many games manage to achieve.

I don't think Zen Bound gets enough praise as a game that is unique both from a gameplay perspective and how well it relies on the interface of the underlying device.
Your credentials blow mine out of the water. I'm promoting you to head council for the defence.
There is something to it. E.g. the government telecoms monopoly in Norway in the 1980s spent way more on research than the present day commercialized Telenor. However they were not necessarily innovative in products, but they did develop a lot of the original cell phone technologies which got later widely used.

I am not necessarily a fan of monopolies, but I think we owe it to ourselves to understand the tradeoffs and consider alternatives. E.g. how do you do basic research if there is so aggressive competition and shareholder look only 3 months ahead.

It is also worth nothing that the case of ULA isn't necessarily a case of merely monopoly but also how how that monopoly works. E.g. being a monopoly shouldn't require a cost plus contract. Secondly GM and the other big three are certainly not monopolies but have not proven any more capable than ULA in competing with Tesla in creating an electric car.

SpaceX is beating lots of other rocket companies which aren't necessarily monopolies. I think it is easy to overstate how bad ULA is when perhaps it is really about how good SpaceX is ;-)

Also remember the Russians also operated government monopolies for rocket building and yet managed to build considerably cheaper rockets than the Americans. I think there is a lot more to this issue than whether it is prive/public or a monopoly.
I was disappointed the article didn't mention individuals unaffiliated with institutions. What fraction of PhD's have a university job? 20%? These are people who devoted years of their life to reading others' research and doing their own. But if you aren't any more at a university you don't count.
I don't think trade mark ownership is in itself the problem. Trade marks serve a useful economic purpose in helping consumers to easily distinguish between products in the marketplace. I have no issue with companies using trade marks for this purpose as without them consumer confusion would be rife, and there's a legitimate interest in allowing companies to police use of their brand names.

The problem arises when a company looks to abuse its trade mark rights and prevent usage of other brand names which to most reasonable people would never actually be confused with the trade mark owner's brand.

I always want to be in the underdog's corner, but I have sympathy with Instagram here I must admit. The origin of 'gram' is irrelevant. The fact is that we are dealing with two apps with very similar functionality, who both share the word 'gram'.

On that basis, I think there is a high likelihood of confusion in relation to the origin of the app. There's a decent chance that a certain proportion of the relevant population could think that Littergram is an official offshoot of Instagram.

It's also likely that the name was also chosen to free-ride off Instagram's goodwill to attract attention to the app.

To be fair though, he has got good publicity for the app as a result of the cease and desist, which if he hadn't named it Littergram he would never have got. I doubt Instagram would pursue a damages claim and so both parties can presumably walk away if he changes the name.
So if I advertise my kissogram service using that word then people will think it's from Instagram?

How about my hydraulics company BigRam?

Suppose you think Apple are infringing Facebook by using the term face-time?

Good TM protection is stopping people from using your trademark in a way that confuses the origin of goods/services of theirs as being yours.

Littergram if surely a reference to sending a message (-gram) about litter.

Similarly, FWIW, Instagram aren't ripping off Instapaper either in my opinion but they're a lot closer to it than the Littergram service.

If Instagram wanted a more unique name they should have chosen one that wasn't the combination of a well-known prefix and suffix.
Interactive 'browser' for this: http://gallantlab.org/huth2016/
I'm British. So is the BBC.
ICANN mulls moving Puerto Rico meeting to Las Vegas due to Zika virus
"IfThenElse" in Rebol (called either) is also just a function with 3 args:

either 1 = 1 [print "true!"] [print "false!"]

Here's an example of writing this in Rebol directly:

if-then-else: function [
cond [logic!]
true-block [block!]
false-block [block!]
][
switch cond [
#[true] [do true-block]
#[false] [do false-block]
]
]

This works because blocks aren't evaluated until explicitly called:

>> if-then-else 1 = 1 [print "true!"] [print "false!"]
true!

>> if-then-else 1 = 2 [print "true!"] [print "false!"]
false!
looking at the pictorial map representative and suggestive of "hyperconnected cities" looks rather like trade routes.. which of course have been around for milenia
I think it comes down to leadership.

Put simply, monopolies do have greater capacity to innovate. When you're stuck in brutal competition, it's hard to funnel money into research which might not pay off for decades—your competition might have driven you out of business by that point.

On the other hand, the allure of monopoly profits is hard to ignore. It's tempting to simply funnel the profits into shareholder pockets and that's the approach investors will generally favor. For any middling CEO, it's the path of least resistance.

This is why founder-controlled monopolies (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) are such a potent force. They have the incentive to preserve the companies long-term legacy (it's their personal legacy as well) through ambitions projects while also having the credibility and power to resist investor preferences for short-term profits.
Access to pubs is just a symptom of a huge issue, calling science science; science as it is at best a "soft" science and at worst, in many cases, whack quackery that preys on the weak.

As an example of what I mean, as of 2010, 91% of published pubs for the field of psychology supported their original hypothesis; if this isn't an obvious red flag, not sure what would be.

Intellectual fraud needs to be criminalized and claims based on science must require not only reproducibility, but solid means of denying the authors of any form of plausible deniability from escaping responsibility for what in many cases is fraud, or worse, blindly seeding their own bias as reality.

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[1] Quackery
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackery

[2] Positive Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

[3] Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Amen. Further, I think there's a lot of evidence of actual "productivity" concentrating in fewer and fewer workers as the labor force continues to segment into high-productivity knowledge and low-productivity service jobs.