skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is generally in society's best interest for companies to reinvest their money in the economy and citizens rather than hoarding it, hence the tax.

This is generally not true. Consider two uses for a human - he can build a piece of factory or build a home. Suppose the factory has an NPV of $99, while the consumption value of the home has an NPV of $100.

The best thing to do with this human's labor is building the home.

If we have the AET, the corporation may be taxed $5 on this $100 if they don't build the factory. Therefore the corporation pays $100 for the human to build the factory, creating an NPV of $99 for society.

If we don't have the AET, the corporation hoards the cash (or distributes it to shareholders) and the human then builds a home instead of building the factory.

The only argument I can see is that ROI for on-shore use of funds has to be higher than the repatriation tax rate to justify bringing the money back, but so what? That just means that we're in an economic situation where no one thinks they can get a 35% ROI

You just answered your own question. If you have an X% ROI overseas, the company needs to gain an X+35% ROI in the US for the investment to be equally profitable.

If we eliminated the tax on global earnings, then companies will invest the money in projects with an ROI larger than X% and smaller than X+35% that they would not otherwise have done.

Do you believe all possible domestic projects have an ROI either smaller than X% or larger than X+35%? That's the only way eliminating this tax wouldn't spur investment.
Right, totally understand, but, functionally, these are pretty much the same UX (and a pretty common one).

My point is that this is quite a bit of code for the same UI and, unless there is a compelling reason to have a client side model (which, of course, introduces the complexities of syncing w/ a server side model/data store) then you end up with a lot of complexity for very little benefit.
I may be cynical but a 2 month job search after being laid off doesn't sound that unreasonable
The Unabomber and the Norwegian mass murderer
The reluctance for people to be skeptical of anything to do with Magic Leap is strange to me.

How is their product not rightly described as vapor ware? I feel like I've been hearing about how amazing it is for ages and still...nothing.

Stories like this aren't helping me change my mind either.
I cry, maybe 3 times a year, and tear up maybe 10 times a year. Last year was really rough, so it was a bit more, but I have no idea how someone could cry -that- much and still have a livable life.
Read a little deeper. This is a part of the investigations into the way in which p16 works in naked mole rats. If it isn't HWM-HA then it is something in its chain of relationships.

"When HMW-HA was removed, the cells became susceptible to tumors, confirming that the chemical did play a role in making naked mole rats cancer-proof. [The] team also identified the gene, named HAS2, responsible for making HMW-HA in the naked mole rat. Surprisingly, the naked mole rat gene was different from HAS2 in all other animals. In addition naked mole rats were very slow at recycling HMW-HA, which contributed to the accumulation of the chemical in the animals' tissues. [Previously researchers] showed that the p16 gene in naked mole rats stopped the proliferation of cells when too many of them crowd together. In their latest work, the two biologists identified HMW-HA as the chemical that activates the anti-cancer response of the p16 gene."
Just this week at the Twilio Signal conference they announced a partnership and that 10 devs from the Twilio community will be of the first group to build on their SDK... When asked if next year it would be more widely available, he said he would adapt a cheshire cat grin and say maybe... JeffL the CEO of Twilio said he's seen it and it is amazing. http://www.engadget.com/2016/05/25/magic-leap-partners-with-...
Isn't porn a type of movie?
I do know about fractional reserve banking, and know that the government requires a minimum reserve percentage. The banks holding a percentage required by law is not an instance of corporations hoarding cash.

The reason banks offer free checking is so they can get your money on deposit and then make money loaning it out back into the economy. They aren't offering free checking because they are being charitable.
My observations..

* binutils 2.17 (last GPLv2) - complete.

* all archs transitioned to pie - complete as of 5.7.

* /sbin/init static pie - complete.

* ROP gadgets are being hunted down systematically, many nop sleds changed to int3/illegal instr.

* BROP - many base daemons now fork + exec, not all.

* SROP - mitigation committed - complete?

* shuffle - libc objects get shuffled at boot by rc(8), stack object order shuffling as a gcc extension.

..

Progress continues.
No, I don't yearn for that at all. This sounds like "Fight Club". "Fight Club" is, I think, a reductio-ring plot - it disproves its original premise ( through contradiction ) and ends up where it started ( is a ring ) .

So, no.

Our ancestors had no choice but to embrace harsh physical challenge. We ain't gotta do that no more. I have ancestors I have met who were like that. They weren't romantic about it. If anything, they were a bit embarrassed by it.
Not worth it. Most people are splitting their shares to get out now.
Except that it is communicable between humans (and, presumably, other hosts).
Yes. This is what I was thinking. What are they really giving to companies to deserve that kind of share?

AI engine or not, the only metric that matters are success stories.

Without it, all of these numbers are meaningless.
The reason VocalIQ's success rate was "over 90%" is probably because they were constrained to a specific domain (car control). This is very common approach among NLP community. Of course you will perform better when your algorithm is constrained to a specific domain.

All the previous speech recognition platforms like Siri, Cortana, etc. perform worse since they are for general purposes. On the other hand, the reason Amazon Echo works so well is because it has very limited purpose.

We all know just because AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol doesn't mean AlphaGo is smart enough to take over the world.

Spinning this "90%" vs. "20%" just sounds like a bullshit marketing.
After $625M Win in Apple Trial, Patent Firm Moves to Shut Down FaceTime
I feel conflicted about "Persian" rugs. So much child labor goes into making them that by buying one you are helping support a dispicable trade in human misery. At the same time they can be highly beautiful and practical. I have decided to take the same approach as with Ivory - old ivory is fine, but new Ivory is not. I have a few antique rugs that I really love, but I would not buy a new one.
One thing worth noting is all Kickstarter backers get a free Oculus CV1 from Facebook (that's of course in addition to the DK1 they received after backing in August 2012).

That decision takes away a lot of the "betrayal" of the Facebook acquisition - for backers it's an incredible return on investment (that was unlikely to happen if it weren't for Facebook)
It's like spam filtering. It may be hard to imagine but it can work. Algorithms look at multiple signals and produce a confidence score.

Consistently rejecting the one black customer you get every year would probably raise your score enough to prompt an investigation, and the outcome of that (like a fake white test booking) would give more confidence that it's not just coincidence.
> One shouldn't have to enable filesystem-wide W|X just to run one application

This is a very good point, and it seems like enabling it more granularly would be worth it.

But, for your second point, I have trouble believing that switching between W!X and X!W is going to happen frequently enough to be substantial for performance. (It was very small in Firefox's JavaScript JIT, causing something like a 1%-4% performance hit depending on system).
However that does cause an extra round trip for the OPTIONS message (slowing down your site). The options can be avoided if you do not set any optional headers (plus a couple of other restrictions).
Can you provide more detail on what you're actually looking to post and how much functionality you want to include?

On the lowest effort end, squarespace is a pretty decent option for getting something that looks nice up and running quickly without needing to deal with server stuff. It works for several colleagues, but has some flexibility limitations.

The next step up would probably be a Wordpress installation either on your own server or the lower-effort hosted solutions from wordpress.com. Personally I can't stand wordpress (it's become immensely bloated and keeping it updated and all your plugins/themes/whatever in sync and playing nicely can be a pain), but it works well for a huge number of people.

After that you're looking at rolling your own custom page on your own server, maybe a simple themeforest template on a shared host. I don't recommend this approach these days unless you're itching to get your hands dirty with some code whenever you want to update something.
The DAO should allow the owners more control of funding. Instead of a single "creation period" with arbitrary fixed rules to fund The DAO, new funding rounds should be possible, that can be voted on as any other proposal.

This would prevent The DAO from running out of funds to support a long term but seemingly viable project midway, either due to splits/withdrawals or because of unexpected additional costs.

It also would allow a group of investors to split from The DAO and form a more private organization. They could decide not to have an initial "creation period", thereby preventing outside investors from getting in and upsetting their shared vision. They could also then have a funding round which guarantees they still own more than 50% of their DAO.
I find it far less exhausting to be calm than to be emotional.
One of the best:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

I also block

127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 platform.twitter.com
127.0.0.1 assets.pinterest.com
127.0.0.1 www.pinterest.com
127.0.0.1 gravatar.com

But some terrible web code breaks and have to uncomment selectively. (Looking at you, Rotten tomatoes)
I read the study, not just the article. (Perhaps you missed "elsewhere" in my statement above.)

Again, there are many steps before such a claim could be made, let alone before having a safe and effective "cure" using it. You can't just genetically engineer humans to manufacture and maintain large amounts of HWM-HA in their bloodstreams.
Am tired. Also tipsy. So bear that in mind.

>Indeed, what Thiel is doing used to be illegal.

It isn't legally relevant that Anglo-Norman laws would find Thiel guilty of something. They're from a different time and place to us. That's hand waving if we're talking legality.

Now let's talk of selectively leaving facts out.

Supposing there exist laws for chamberty and barratry in our society. Ok. Now has Thiel violated them?

Chamberty isn't worth discussing because not even Gawker believes he did it for money.

Barratry is defined in the article as vexatious litigation or incitement to it. What's left out is that Thiel did not incite litigation by searching for a person who could hypothetically sue Gawker and then proceed to financially motivate them. He found somebody definitely wanted to sue (I might be correct to say that he was already in the process of this) Gawker and supported that effort financially.

It is vexatious litigation? No. This is when a frivolous lawsuit or meritless motions are repeatedly launched. This is left out. Hogan/Terry's lawsuit had merit and the judge evidently must have found it be be a straight forward black and white case of wrongdoing judging from the fact she awarded more compensation than requested (I think). Again, relevant information left out.

If there existed a variety of bullshit lawsuits against Gawker, they would definitely be making us aware of that and pointing to Peter Thiel as the originator. Since they are not we can be reasonably sure they do not exist.
A couple reasons, in my case:

1. For the work I do, what "The data" is often somewhat ambiguous, and depending on how you define it, falls anywhere from "That's not mine to give" to "This is useless for what you actually want, but obeying the letter of the law".

2. It makes work with minority communities harder - they have a very, very poor history with "Consent to this, and researchers will do whatever they please with your information without consultation."

3. Sometimes privacy issues come up as well with medical data.

4. I think it gives us a false sense of security. "I re-ran their code with their data and got the same answer" is markedly inferior to "I attempted to replicate their study in a different population", but we often do the first and then pat ourselves on the back about it.
Gigabit Internet with no data caps may be coming to rural America
I've noticed this in myself, and had put it down to getting lonelier as i get older. When i was talking to school or university friends every day, i was grounded in reality, somehow; now i only see real close friends every week or few weeks, i'm off in a little emotional world of my own where any little thing can take on subjectively huge proportions.
Clojure is my favorite language, and I'd probably like scheme just as well if it had the easy to use (yet advanced) Data structures of clojure. I just can't seem to get my brain to mesh with Common Lisp yet, but I periodically dip my toes to test the water.

That said, I just don't get statements like:

"It's also an ideal language for expressing complex ideas, such as teaching a robot to solve mazes or finding the shortest route on a map." More ideal than C, sure. But I don't see the huge advantage over other high level languages.
Which typed languages have you tried? In which have you written anything bigger?

> Of the article that you find "laughable": show me the research that actually validates the claim of significant safety benefits and we can talk.

I'm yet to see one good research paper that looked into the field that was worthwhile. This sort of thing is extremely hard to measure across different people. I speak from my experience and from what others have told me.
400M-euro deal awarded to build the largest land based telescope
So those 3 could cover federal spending for almost 2 weeks.
that's awesome! this would be a sort of dream project for me (I am not classically trained in physics; just a computer scientist)
We all knew that, Brazil has been way over budget and over schedule, heck - half of the buildings haven't even been built yet.

So Zika was just the plan to cancel all that crap. Interesting.
>in an imperative language

Lisp is capable of imperative programming.
Water resistance. Same reason as planes aren't intended to fly sideways.
I understand the kind of company you are talking about, I was just asking if you really intended to say that all companies are like that, or if you are talking about a specific kind of company. In my experience people don't generally think about potential lawsuits all that much. I'm only curious because you must have experience in a different kind of company than me.

I'm gently trying to encourage you to narrow your statement because it is too broad to make sense to me.
I'm just amazed at how something that would appear to be so simple could be so complicated.
Crazy. I thought I was the only one. It happens to me too at odd moments like if I'm describing a movie I recently watched that I enjoyed.
> I shouldn't have to pay twice to read research papers I helped fund

Most researchers will publish in journals that publish open access for a fee and the money for the fee has to come from somewhere. So in the end the public will spend as much money as they are doing so far.
In Arizona, a credit history is part of their verification process, same as Healthcare.gov. Because I don't have a credit history, I don't exist in the system and therefore any application attempt fails at the "cannot verify your identity" stage and offers no path for recourse.

Edit: Not directly related to the main topic, but Amazon Payments also uses Experian—same as Arizona medicaid and Healthcare.gov—for identity verification, and if you don't have a credit history you get permabanned without explanation from continuing to use Amazon Payments. After asking them why several times, they block you from contacting their support again. Worst customer experience I've ever had with a major company, especially Amazon which is usually quite fantastic to deal with as a customer.
A further bearded guy here, and you know what, the main thing i'm learning from this thread is that we bearded guys cry a lot at some really unexpected stuff. It's Apollo 13 and non-human primates for me.
Paperlike: World’s First E Ink Monitor – 13.3”
How Personalization Impacts the Internet
You might want to look at something like:

https://github.com/gwkkwg/cl-graph/blob/master/dev/graph-alg...

or perhaps: https://planet.racket-lang.org/package-source/jaymccarthy/di...

I was a little surprised to not find any direct graph algorithms at rosetta code[1], but for showing off somewhat similar code, this might be of interest:

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Longest_common_subsequence#Commo...

I don't really think common lisp is a great beginning language, compared to, say, python or ruby - although Racket Scheme is pretty nice. I did for example come across this introduction to A * that uses Python for the code examples:

http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction....

As for introduction to new programmers, Racket's tutorial is kind of nice, jumping right in to do some simple graphics with an embedded DSL:

https://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/

[1] WillPostForFood obviously out-searched me here, finding: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm Not sure how I managed to not find it - perhaps trusting search rather than trying to use the site-index would've helped...
>But Thiel’s Ahab-like mission to destroy it has been even harder to sympathize with. The key problem is that his maximalist and eliminationist goal of inflicting as much damage on Gawker as possible is at odds with an essential civic ideal of the legal system: of trying to reach settlements that balance competing interests.

I disagree. Organizations like Gawker only survive because they know it's difficult and expensive to get satisfaction in the court system. If you sue they can drag it out for years and years until you run out of money. Having a Gawker go down every once in awhile is a good thing.
An emulator is a very different use case than Firefox's JIT.

Take Dolphin (the Gamecube / Wii emulator) for example: you have a 4GiB DVD, it has a massive 80-hour game's entire code engine on there. You cannot recompile the entire disc at startup. Even if you could (you really can't), these games tend to push code into RAM to execute, which a static recompiler cannot handle.

The way dynamic recompilers handle the tremendous burden is to recompile small blocks at a time, and track which ones are hot and cold. When the buffers fill up, they start dropping old, stale code.

It's hard to say exactly what the performance impact would be, and it'd probably vary per game title. But it'd be a lot worse than a web browser recompiling jQuery plus another 200KiB of custom Javascript once on page load.

Plus, I am sure there are many more uses cases for W|X than just emulators and JITs. It would be a shame to try and eradicate them all from existence.
"Herp derp! Successful software companies that move fast and write lots of code quickly despite their size are obviously fools that don't know how to set up their codebases."

http://danluu.com/monorepo/ is a good explanation of why that's a pretty foolish take.
It this very old or this is a re-write? I remember reading that a year or two ago.
Gold open access is where the authors pay the journal a fee for open access publishing. I don't see what's wrong with that and actually I think it's the best approach. The journal offers a service (editing, hosting, ...) and charge for that. Very simple.
Some of this info can be hard to dig up, for sure. Of course, most companies are much tighter with their information, so I can't really complain!
Now, Microsoft says goodbye to common passwords
First time I hear about sxhkd. Deepest internal duh I had this year. Another 'why didnt I make this before'. Thanks.
Can't agree more, especially since the secondary market is quite good right now and you can very easily sell it and get a Vive. ;)
Big deal. Employers always allege trade secrets theft in any dispute with their serf...I mean, employees.
Can't agree more, especially since the secondary market is quite good right now and you can very easily sell it and turn it into a free Vive. ;)
This is real - the agrarian-utopianist streak - but it's very sad. There is a middle course. Just unplug some and you'll be fine. If the TV has to be on, put it on CSPAN or something.

It's not reading (I'm verging on post-literacy myself ) , but one of the Adam Curtis films* has a treatise about an agrarian-utopian communes late '60s. And of course it fell apart.

*"All Watched Over", I think.

I recommend some measure of Dionysian ... exercise - just don't hurt yourself. I have a few beers and play honky tonk music in actual honky tonks ( and somebody else is driving ) . The beers are optional, so I can drive myself, but it's a little less great that way.
I believe this is Twitter once again attempting to integrate their use of watchman (open sourced by FB) into the git core.

Their first attempt was in May 2014: http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg230487.html
Ostagram: Neural Network Generated Artwork
How does just-in-time (JIT) compile being better than pre-compile everything?
2 billion lines of code @ 80 characters per line (with 2 bytes per character) = 320 GB of code, fits on my mac SSD. Wonder if 30,0000 engineers , sending 30,000 requests per second to server(s) with 320GB of code (can be put in memory) is a huge problem (edit) in terms of scale, especially when these same engineers build systems for handling billions of requests ?
Yeah, fair point. I would say, besides interacting with server-side updates, the other use case for something like React is when you have a bunch of event listeners and find they're getting out of control (onclick function triggering something else which has a condition to check the class attribute of something else etc.)
I feel this way. I had little problem crying at the funeral of my grandpa. There are almost no other situations where I find it appropriate.
The primary problem this hopes to solve is actually CSRF. Simply generating an HTML form for a website for any website and submitting it sends the cookies of the target website, regardless of where the form is based. XHR isn't so much of an issue as it has same origin policy restrictions.

This spec allows you to set cookies that turn this outdated and age-old security policy on its head, so instead of having to generate and validate cryptographically derived client-correlated tokens on every form (CSRF tokens), we can simply set this flag and refuse to send these cookies from any other site. This has long been known to be the right thing to do, which is why other new-age web policies like CORS refuse to send cookies completely by default.

The HttpOnly flag is meant to mitigate cookie theft risk via XSS. To my knowledge this particular innovation actually does nothing to that risk.
(2014), but still as relevant as ever.
How is Touch a secret? They had stations with it at PAX East. They're different than Vive's wands but seemed equally good.
Ecosystem slides made by Venture Capitalists
That seems like an argument for minimal emotional involvement in others.
USDCHF: Looks to Extend Gains on Higher Weekly Close
The iOS version was announced previously:

https://corner.squareup.com/2016/03/introducing-squares-regi...
Anyone know if Erlang is good?