skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are cultural trends that shift to and fro. Once people get sick of the self-conscious bantering in Joss Whedon Marvel superhero mega-blockbusters, they'll start embracing straight pulp adventures again. I'm hoping that the upcoming Universal Monsters cinematic universe is unironic, earnest fun.
Not a cure, but you might experience notable reduction of symptoms if you up your intake of magnesium.

(If you need magnesium, you likely also need calcium and calcium is best absorbed when taken with vitamins D and K -- and there is also the issue of bioavailability. Magnesium glycinate is the recommended form, or eating magnesium rich foods, such as certain nuts or dark chocolate.)
Aspiring to a Higher Plane: “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions” (2011)
Another example of SO managing to alienate a user (in this case, me): Posting my very first answer to a question, finding a very similar post and adding my solution there as well, then getting an email that I had posted the same thing and that the second post would be removed. This was unfortunate because the second question had a more lively discussion and seemed like a better place for the answer. I deleted the first answer, tried re-posting on the second question and wasn't allowed. After that, I gave up.
Citation for the binned Xeons resulting in i3 to i7?
Costco has been pointed out already but there are other major retailers doing this. Loblaws discount arm "No Frills" being one example. (Loblaws is the largest food retailer in Canada with over C$30B in sales).
"Duration of membership" seems a much less relevant metric here than "quality of post".
wait.. how much RAM? 8x16 = 128gb?
What, 9TB disk space? And 128GB RAM?

How much of this is actually utilized? O.o
Do you think that maybe it is that all of the questions that can be succinctly summed up in a tidy Q+A fashion have been asked within the languages you work in?

I was messing around with Elixir (which is newish in the scheme of thing) and it's very different than asking about Rails/Ruby.
Stan makes Euro predictions
Since I am not an economist, I can't argue its validity:

http://www.reuters.com/article/financial-un-drugs-idUSLP6507...
Jon Harrop started writing a new ML language
He made his initial money selling a quack nutritional supplement called "BrainQUICKEN": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ferriss#BrainQUICKEN

Since then, he's made his money selling books and programs that claim to teach you how to make money (a.k.a. the Robert Kiyosaki method).
come back to Toronto where they also can't afford a home? Or live in the suburbs of the GTA and slog it through some of the worst traffic in North America for two hours each way?
New iPhone 7 Releases Without Headphone Jack, More Rumours and Leaks
Even their trailers look crappy.

The Marvel Universe is wearing out, too. Avoid "Captain America - Civil War". The writers are running out of ideas. It's a heel-face turn, always a bad sign.

Now what? Movies from video games? "Warcraft" and "Angry Birds" are in theaters now. Disney did Kipling's Jungle Book, which is a CG demo reel for animal animation. We're almost to the other side of the uncanny valley. But it takes thousands of animators to drive the tools.
What types of problems are you solving in this space? Internal infrastructure, service provider? Do you not need any sort of layer 2 adjacency between your servers? It sounds very nice indeed to be able to resolve your location/identity split at the VM infrastructure layer. I had a very hard time getting customers away from wanting L2 adjacency between entire datacenters in my network consulting career for things like DR in their enterprises...
$3 million in the general hypothetical. In the case of a single sex tape, probably more like $750k.
I imagine the author still has a CD drive and likely a 1.44 floppy drive as well. And maybe RCA cables instead of HDMI.

I get that this is going to be rough at first (not for me) but does the author expect tech to stay the same forever?
Maybe I asked the wrong question. What sparked the debate? Was there an incident or a series of events that propelled this law into existence?
> peer pressure and fear-of-missing-out

What? It's just commercial entertainment ffs...
That's actually true. In that era, studios would make a wide variety of movies on lower budgets, with the expectation that some would hit and some would flop. When you accept that, it's easier to bet on bold, risky movies.

The worst thing that can happen isn't that a big budget film flops; it's that the audience ceases to pay attention to what's being made at all because so little of it feels fresh and none of it blows their minds. Why spend $25 on tickets to see something that's probably mediocre at best?

Other the other hand, there are plenty of TV shows trying to be original, and nobody ever seems to stop talking about it.
On systems I control, I currently stick with the latest PHP5 release, unmodified - either the distro maintainer version, or in case of Windows, the official binaries.

Configuration customization isn't really needed, only the usual date.timezone to get rid of the warning (and hell, this is annoying! can't PHP just use the OS-provided time zone?!), and in extremely rare cases the memory limit and max_execution_time.
That's substantially harder to follow than the code in the article - you have to jump around to see where index changes and how that interacts with the loop condition.
Code Review [1] is a thing. But that comes with the same problems - nobody wants to review reading from a text file in language X over and over again.

[1] http://codereview.stackexchange.com
I think if any city/region wants to be a future Silicon Valley (given the rents, why would you?), first focus on being the next Seattle/Austin/Portland. You can't beat NY in terms of having access to capital, but then NY (and LA) is its own world with its own dominant industry, so I'm not sure if it's comparable as to SAP in terms of "the next SV" talk. But you can do what those three cities have and have access to affordable (if increasing) housing, good business environments, and the standard of living that would draw in potential tech folks.

Maybe I should replace Portland with Boulder, in which case it'd be SAB. (Or with Denver but that's just SAD.)
I was listening to Jake Tapper on On The Media today - and he said something that struck me.

Trump had attacked Cruz's father and the news cycle covered this as "Trump levels charge - Cruz denies charge". Tapper's line stuck with me - "that's not journalism, that's stenography".

Journalists need to be somewhere between our ears and eyes and our conscience. It is a hard line to walk. Most fail.
Euro 2016: Κατευθείαν στα δύσκολα Βέλγιο και Ιταλία
Disclaimer: I code for Stack Overflow and before that I was a mod.

Many of these comments lack a sense of proportions regarding Stack Overflow. We get 8,000 questions... per day. There are more than 30 million posts, 12 millions of which are questions.

Yeah, we have to close a lot of them, and we keep the ones which we can answer. Lists are disallowed for a reason. Opinions are disallowed for a reason. We aim to build a library that will last for years longer than solving the problem for a single person.

Another thing that people don't get is that Stack Overflow is basically a school. When programmers say their profession is a life-long learning exercise... they do it mainly on Stack Overflow.

Stack Overflow is not a community. Is the school of all developers. We can only ask them to be nice, but you can't expect everyone to be exactly how you expect. It just won't happen.

While we do moderate rudeness, it can only be a post-hoc exercise where users help us identify such behavior.

EDIT: I removed a paragraph that was very misleading and added a clearer one. Sorry about that.
Even worse than the salary is the attitude at Toronto area startups. Elitist "you-should-feel-so-lucky-you're-at-a-startup-now-work-for-peanuts"...

Leaving the Toronto ad-tech startup I was at to work (remote) for a NYC ad-tech startup (well, recent startup and growing) was the best thing that ever happened to me. Got lucky to work for the best founders and senior management I have ever had in my career.
Note that asking for opinions is frequently handled through Programmers.SE. Also, "too specific" hasn't been a close reason for quite a while now (and probably never applied to you anyway).
Predicting the fate of our Universe
Culture.

Missing out on /culture/. Also if you want to avoid spoilers you can't participate in normal discussion venues because there's always going to be that one user that just can't behave.
Right on, I think the goal of having this pristine collection of content is not really feasible given how fast things change. Most good answers become bad after at most 4 years, on new tech it might not last a month.

It's good that there are rules, but what really matters is the community. People are on there are trying to get help following their passion or making their living. The stakes are often very high for the asker, making a rude response particularly painful.
So what would your friend call snooker?
I have Sublime and I paid for a license. It's my second editor of choice and I like how it integrates with the OS better than terminal Vim (my number 1 editor of choice) on OS X (drag and drop files onto the Dock icon for example for a quick edit). My only nitpick about Sublime is that I don't like how it looks (Chrome like) instead of the native OS X GUI widgets.

I'm curious though, since TextMate 2 is open source and is regularly updated why is it not as popular for OS X users? What's the turn off that makes Sublime that much better?
I don't disagree with the gist of your argument: the quality of Stack Overflow would greatly diminish if people (newbies or otherwise) were allowed to ask questions whose answers are in the manual. But there are better ways to correct undesired behavior. For starters:

(0) Don't downvote newbies to oblivion. That's just being a bully. (IMO, downvotes should be reserved for bad answers.)

(1) When contributing an answer, provide an option to flag the answer as “taken straight from the manual”. I'll call such answers “RTFM answers” for short.

(2) When a user receives their first RTFM answer, just tell them in a gentle way that they're expected to do their research, and perhaps provide useful links, depending on the tags associated to their question.

(3) Only if a user consistently asks questions with RTFM answers, punish their behavior in some way: reputation loss, decreased question visibility, etc.

I've asked my fair share of dumb questions and even posted dumb answers, and the community has treated me relatively kindly. (I have ~7k reputation as of now.) I wish others could be treated the same way.
THE NEW ENGLAND SONG EURO2016 – ARE THESE GUYS THE NEW BADDIEL AND SKINNER?
The filter goes both ways.

Some may feel discouraged when SO closes/downvotes you to the coldest pits of "I'm a newb and don't know anything", but imagine a situation far, far worse:

Imagine searching for this exact question and getting 36 SO questions all asking the same basic thing, just tweaked ever-so slightly.

It sucks to have mods putting in some effort with strict-filter rules, but without their filtering, the 'noise' ratio would be horrendous and would render the generally useful SO into oblivion.
I can back button just fine. /e what browser are you using?
>> Trailers of relevant films often simply aren't reaching potential moviegoers anymore.

Have you been to a movie theater recently? Trailers are everywhere. They make up the first 20 minutes of the movie. They are playing on screen outside. I think we movie goers are suffering from trailer fatigue.
Atlantic/CityLab followed an earlier article by 99pi:

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/hard-to-love-a-brute/
You seriously really can't cite benchmark results when you don't show the source.
Totally agreed the default policy thing (you can't run scripts until you allow it) can be a nasty shock, especially to folk (like me and everyone else here) coming from Unix.

OTOH, you'll spend way less time scraping stuff for regexs and actually just asking posh for fields. It's really, really worth learning.
A job with freedom to learn and explore, rather than get the next jira issue closed.
It's from the first sentence of the article. Brazil is fair game.
The Weather Company Seeks Next Data-Driven Platform
But hey, if you don’t want a friendly community or you don’t want more people to ~learn how to code~, then you’re doing it right.

I have all the community I want, thanks. If you think I'm being self centered, you have it backwards. I don't care what you do, but you think a community you aren't part of should cater to you.
Putting More Brains in the Network Frees Up Compute
Okay then: Chinese Bitcoin activity
Adam Biens series about JavaEE.
Of course it helped that they forced theaters to pay for all those films if they wanted to get the latest Bogart.
I guess what I genuinely don't understand is why lists are more harmful to the community than rudeness and vitriol.

If I post a question that asks for an opinion or list, someone will swoop in and edit it or delete it. Why can't we do the same when someone embeds a little bit of professional problem solving with a lot of unprofessional personal attacks?
Very happy to see more tooling being created for distributed systems, it is much needed. Will have to check out the talk, too.

We've also released a tool for testing distributed systems, https://github.com/gundb/panic-server . It integrates with your existing tests (like mocha and others), and even reports/throws bugs back from the remote machines you're testing across.
I probably average less than one per year. Before Star Wars VII, I can't tell you what the last movie I saw in theaters was.
I'd love to see some comments on what it's like raising money in Toronto. Is there a local investor ecosystem? Do companies raise a series A led by a Toronto firm? Do they fly to NYC or SF and hope to find investors who don't want them to move?
What's behind this? Postgres?
> Culture.

The article is about big-budget Hollywood movies.

Also, you're seriously saying you avoid certain places/people out of fear of movie spoilers?
I recently discovered Tim with his podcast. While I usually like the podcast, I'm curious, what are the arguments against Tim? What opinions do you strongly disagree with him?

I'm also looking for others thinkers that have usually different opinions with him.
I would claim it's at least as old as spiritual beliefs; aka "The devil make made do it" - "Evil spirits are to blame" - etc.
New Chapter for Classic Paris Bookstore: Books Printed on Demand
With respect, I have to vehemently disagree.

I've been using the site since the beta, have thousands of karma and twenty+ years of experience, and yet I can't ask or answer a question anymore.

When I answer a question, it gets downvoted and then an inaccurate answer gets accepted and upvoted.

When I ask a question, it gets marked as a duplicate, and then they link to the question it's a duplicate of, which is a question I found in my own research that was exactly the opposite of the question I had.

That community has become completely toxic and I can't participate it in anymore.
I totally did not intend to put it to the floppy disk...

So he didn't mean to turn it in. But what he does in his own time, isn't that his business?

Your analysis also tells us that you should not look at porn in your own free time, as the potential cost is much higher because it makes 2 parties uncomfortable, if caught.
Google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1qK6xyT...

Ipython notebook used: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/com.cambridgecoding.stude...
> /s/magnetic/electric

Same answer as I gave before.
"If I sleep poorly and have an early morning meeting, I’ll cancel the meeting last-minute if needed and catch up on sleep."

Must be nice :)
Yet another issue is the actual price of a ticket at a theater.

I'm willing to spend more for something that I trust will have been made to the standards that I desire. This doesn't mean FX standards, it means a film that I can actually enjoy watching.

The current price of movie tickets means that I'm only willing to go to the theater for a really good movie. Marvel has become a brand that I associate with (in recent years) producing films that are of the archetype I expect (from the ads) when I go in, and that also have enough embellishment to the core story that I enjoy watching the film.

If it cost me 3-5 of today's dollars instead of 15 to see lesser films I might still go to some of them even if they are the usual Hollywood crap; instead of the premium product they want to trick me in to thinking they've made.
Boulder Austin Denver Atlanta Seattle Salt-Lake?

Really stretching my US geography to get anything close to a decent acronym
I'm happy to see someone highlight that "swearing" in the biblical sense is not the same as the use of profanity.

“Swearing” in the Bible refers to oaths, promises before God that your words are true or that you will do what you say you will.[FTA]
That kind of reflection. I was starting to think inspecting the types from within a language wasn't considered good anymore ...
Yep, I only suggest there might be a correlation that could be taken advantage of if the main scaling problem is moderation.
I think Boulder/Denver should be regarded as one market. SLC is definitely hot for tech, but is it for startups? Atlanta I'm not too sure of.
Reactrb: An Opal Ruby Wrapper for React.js
Must suck to have been the one to arrive on time for an early morning meeting, just to have it canceled at the last minute because someone just realized they aren't going to make it.
I used to do that all the time before I got married.
Rust -- like any other non-research language -- achieves this particular feature mostly through runtime checks (which, I'd guess, are elided in many circumstances). If you're willing to pay for those, it's much easier to use a C compiler that adds them (and removes them if it can prove they're unnecessary, as I'm sure the Rust compiler does, too). Even adding some of those checks manually is likely a far smaller effort than rewriting everything.

Now, I'm not saying that if you just do that (and not use more powerful verification tools) the result would be as good as rewriting everything in Rust, but the difference would certainly not be worth the cost.

But my main point is this: if the industry decides to make a significant portion of mission-critical C code safer, we should do a careful cost/benefit analysis, and find the best approach to tackle each problem. I'm not saying that manually or automatically injecting overflow checks is what we should do, but I doubt that a wholesale rewrite in any language is the best way to achieve this goal. A complete rewrite of nearly endless code with uneven quality and very partial tests has never been, and likely never will be, a cost-effective or a very productive way of improving its quality (but write your new code in Rust!)
This is a question for anyone who knows more (or reads more) about neural networks than me. My problem with the perceptron since I was a kid is that it doesn't seem to model how neurons work very well at all. It creates a neuron that exists in a timeless place; kind of a homo economicus for cognition.

My understanding of neurons: The signals arrive at the dendrites at different times, as soon as a signal arrives its strength decays steadily, and when the sum of decaying signals and an additional signal reach a threshold, the axon fires, getting rid of all energy and beginning the process again (creating the largely irregular pops that everybody is used to listening to.) Aside from that, there are effects from other bodies and chemical concentrations between neurons that are mostly unknown (that I get leaving out as not central to the process.)

My question: is there any paper that explains how that process, which seems pretty easy to model, can be mathematically reduced to perceptrons (hopefully comprehensible to the educated layman) which are just addition and a condition?
I will assume this is some sort of sarcastic comment.
On Windows, does Rust currently require/use (nontrivial features of) the C standard library in addition to the C "win32"/"winapi"/w/e libraries?
Standard Chrome (new tab change sucks, btw) on Android. The back button still worked, but the first press displayed a full screen form to sign up for a mailing list, or other such spam. Then, I had to push the back button again to get away from the site.
agreed. and I agree with many people out here in Seattle, that I'd really rather not see the city become "the next Silicon Valley". I'd much prefer Seattle become the best it can be, by itself, without needing to draw on Silicon Valley (or anywhere else, for that matter) for guidance and inspiration. that's the way I'm sure a lot of people here and in other cities feel about their own towns.
I feel like the Twelfth Amendment hampers this. I don't know anyone that wants the House to choose the next president. I can't even imagine what a fiasco that would be.

"If no candidate for President has a majority of the total votes, the House of Representatives, voting by states and with the same quorum requirements as under the original procedure, chooses the President. The Twelfth Amendment requires the House to choose from the three highest receivers of electoral votes, compared to five under the original procedure.
"[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Amendment_to_the_Unite...
> Lists are disallowed for a reason. Opinions are disallowed for a reason

but then

> Stack Overflow is not a community. Is the school of all developers.

Maybe the school you went to is different, but the one I went to definitely was a place where we got lists of useful things and had professors and classmates who expressed their opinions, which we then discussed.

If you want to be a school, then discussions of opinions is the number one thing you should be encouraging.

But regardless of that, the problems go much deeper. As I commented before, when I try to answer a question, it gets pushed down so that an inaccurate answer can be upvoted and accepted, and when I ask a question I get marked as "duplicate" when it is in fact the exact opposite of the question it is supposedly a duplicate of.

It's a lot easier to get some points for marking a question as a duplicate than it is to actually read the supposedly duplicate question to find out it isn't a duplicate but just happens to have some of the same words.
It feels like publishing lists of jews...
In case anyone is interested, here's the quick hack:

#!/bin/bash

echo $( date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S" ) $( \
curl -A ReaderCheck https://www.reddit.com/r/news/ 2> /dev/null \
| grep -ho "<span class=\"number\">[0-9,]*</span>&#32;<span class=\"word\">readers</span>" \
| grep -ho "[1-9][0-9,]*" \
| sed "s/,//g" \
| grep -v "^32$" \
) \
| tee -a Reader.log

I'm sure there's lots wrong with it - don't really care, it's a throw-away.
It's also a problem of cash: when I was maybe 12 years old, a ticket cost 5€, and add another 5€ for soda and popcorn. Easily affordable, especially if you're disciplined enough to skip eating junkfood for two hours.

Now, I'm 24, and a movie ticket costs 13€ + 7€ for soda and popcorn.

If I want to go to the cinema with my girlfriend, together with public transport tickets I'm out 50€ for maybe two hours (which, thanks to the insane rents in Munich, is 1/6th of my disposable income!).

Eh, no thanks, I rather pay the same amount for Sky Entertainment (pay TV) + Netflix and my projector. Added bonus: no idiots on their cellphone, no queues, no one who farts right in front of my seat. Oh, and there's no money wasted when we decide that there are more important things to do than watching a movie ;)