skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it really so wrong ...

No, that would be _wonderful_. Unfortunately, "easy" is only one dimension along which we must make tradeoffs. Clojure has chosen one point in the design space for input validation vs performance. You're free to have a different preference.
When SpaceX starts landing people on Marx, I wonder if they will use ipfs on their internet.
The more complex a theory is, the harder it is to draw useful conclusions that people can actually apply.
Are you neighborly with the homeless people and beggars in your neighborhood?

This is a genuine question. How do you interact with people who live on your street but do not have shelter?
Since when it has become acceptable that the goal of academic institute is/should be dirty ROI?
And then why just football? Start funding cabaret, rave parties and poll-dance events as they surely will have more ROI.

Sports has been the undoing of US education in schools [1] earlier and now it seems even in higher ed.
The sooner they get rid of sports from educational institutes the better for them.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/10/the-case...
I'd bet it helps that you can talk to people whenever you want on this website (and others). Human interaction.
https://youtu.be/6eIoYMB_0Xc is a screencast from the actual talk, including many questions at the end.
I get that feeling as well, sometimes. Even though I don't want quite your level of isolation, I don't mind working alone or not talking to anyone else in person for days (except my wife).

I sometimes think of it as the 'tyranny of the extroverts'. Since they are, well, extroverted, they are the ones controlling the narrative of what's 'normal', while the introverts are too introverted to really speak up. Extroverts are the ones saying cities are better than rural areas since there's more to do, etc (see other HN threads).

I'm with you, though. I will take a quiet, rural or semi-rural area over a city any day.
Misread indeed. The thesis still applies though - there's no point in delivering opinionated features if they don't work as expected, and in a consistent way.
The "cheaper" services are those for rent a few dedicated servers - often old generation, and run WHMCS for billing and SolusVM for control, the first it's a matter of time until your private information is leaked, the second only a matter of time until your VM is rooted, do a search for all the comical security issues of reccent years. DigitalOcean or any provider that avoid the trio of tripe WHMCS, SolusVM, cPanel are worth every extra penny, although in this case DO is a cheap as they come.
I agree, but he needs to chill a bit. He really does come off as someone twisted by his experience.
Seriously why are we liking Salon?

For more self reinforced rubbish that has zero citations?

Left wing person is outrage now about a self perceived issue they once saw!

There's plenty of real sites that talk about this re-occurring perceived issue we've all heard a million times before.
> but does not clearly communicate this up front

Author of Clojure fork (cursive is mine)

> Clojure is Rich's personal project, which he is so kind as to share with the rest of us and in in its refinement Rich chooses to accept some amount of input from us as users. I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that it took me two years to realize this

https://www.arrdem.com/2016/02/22/clojarr_-_a_friendly_cloju...
Thousands of years of violent human history suggest that designing a better helmet to mitigate TBI is likely to help more people than wishing war would go away.
You are correct, my response is the text book answer. Often the 85th percentile is rounded to the nearest speed that matches the fixed limits. Special speed zones, schools, definitely need to exist for obvious safety reasons.
Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches
Or Taco Bell or whatever local cheap eatery is in the local neighborhood.
You should check out Baqqer[0]. It's a great community of makers building, sharing, selling, and crowdfunding together. The idea is to shorten the feedback loop while building community around products people actually want.

You can also create private projects if you want to work on something stealthy with people. :)

[0] https://baqqer.com/
> So your "type system can really help" is really just an irrelevancy you've come up with to try hide your attempt to shove your preferred programming paradigm onto other people.

Not exactly, but it is a weaker advantage than I thought when writing it. The advantage is that languages like Haskell encourage specializing functions in that manner which avoid that specific bug.

However so does test driven development which is just as possible in dynamic languages.

The advantage the statically typed language has over even the dynamically typed language plus tdd is that the program won't compile whereas dynamic language plus tdd relies on programmer discipline.
> The idea of a divide between mind and body is strange.

I think that is an important construct. It allows us to abstract the notion of an individual and make it something well above a bag of bones and meat. By "above" I mean something superior, trancendant, more important.

A lot of religions have the concept of a soul, and due to Abrahahim religions, the West that concept persisted. Even if people don't believe in a soul there is still a concept of a mind as separate from the body.

In computer terms (because it is hacker news), there is a tempting analogy of software and hardware. The mind / self / personality / soul is the software. The body is the hardware. Of course, we know that software is stored by altering some parts of the hardware (electric charges, etc)). So there is a connection obviously, but we still talk about it as separate things.
Of course, if you like what Doug has to say and are building your own search functionality on top of Solr or Elasticsearch, you'll want to buy his book:

https://www.manning.com/books/relevant-search
and unlike solving the problem of horizontal scaling, a mathematical equation or something with a clear solution, there is no clear, Silicon Valley style cure to this problem.

You can't exactly Facebookify people who are lonely.

Also, AFAIR(r=recall), Japan has a similar issue of loneliness.

Makes you wonder though. Even if you cure the economic (poverty) and health issues (living into your old age), something else will probably get you (depression, loneliness, boredom, etc.)
That's because it's LeviOsa, not Leviosa.
Do photons quantize and transmit the electric force? Are charged particles constantly sending a continuous stream of photons out in all directions?

I'm genuinely curious and haven't had luck finding this with Google - neither sites that confirm this, nor those that deny it.

Edit: /s/magnetic/electric
From the linked page, out of 12 million. A 99% acceptance rate.
Beatles
Most corrupt people on the Earth
http://www.petition2congress.com/20324/expel-indian-american...
That's nice first.... first time I saw it.

Any evidence of it in the wild in the past 8 years, like, you know, actually used once?
> Two years later, his work with a local tech contracting company pays $45,000 a year less than his Eversource salary. Many of his former co-workers are also struggling, Mr. Diangelo said, but stay quiet to avoid provoking the company.

So basically, the company wasn't making enough money to support the affluent pay of its workforce so it had to take drastic measures to stay afloat.

If you are suddenly making $45,000 a year less than you were... Perhaps you were getting paid above your true market value
(Perhaps a bit self-serving for me).

So you think she's biased in pointing out that academia has systemic biases?
I suppose so. This is the only site I participate in, but I usually end up posting a comment every week or two.
high minimum lot sizes.

I'm confused. I can hardly think of an area with smaller average single family house lot areas than SF.
I spent two years getting to know many of the homeless people in (what was at the time) my neighborhood, and made a movie about the experience:

http://graceofgodmovie.com

You should watch it. I think you might be surprised. I was.
I am. I look them in the eyes and treat them like people. I know from the people I talk to that the worst part is having everyone ignore you and not treat you like a fellow human. It breaks my heart. It sucks out there. We might be off topic but I get you.
How about Chicago? The #2 biggest non-car centric city in the nation?
Couldn't they make sure to transfer their h1b before they resigned from their old job?

(And not threaten or complain until the transfer is processed successfully?)
Uber driver returns lost money to World Series Poker player
Great question. I personally use @rill/session along side @rill/loader. Basically on the initial page load @rill/session asks the server for the current session then for the rest of the users session the browser manages the data.
I was also brought up to greet people, but try to greet neighbors in London, UK and they will look at you like you fell from the sky. Most of them will not even give a response. Big cities are a lot like this now.
It is very entertaining to read his posts. Especially comparing corporate culture to The Office. I don't necessarily agree with what he said all the time. But very interesting dude. I think he talks at his local haskell group quite a bit too.
And it is in many countries, but for some reason the U.S. doesn't seem to work that way. I was a bit surprised when my son spent a year in high school in the U.S. and I found out how youth football (soccer) system works there. Over here in Europe, we have a plethora of local clubs that collect the young and old to train and play, and to work together to organise everything, fund it, and so on. In the U.S. the football (again, soccer) seems to be predominantly organised by schools, and a very small part of players belong to actual soccer clubs. I understand the same is true with other sports (American football, baseball, basketball, etc). Similarly we have lots of clubs that arrange things like music and orchestra trainings for youth, whereas in the U.S. this is also organized around schools.

This is good in many ways - for instance, the integration of activities to the school day helps it for kids - but at the same time, it makes the school's "quality" (in terms of what the teachers and staff are like and what kind of parents the children have) all so important. If the school fails, then everything will. And if you don't have kids at school, can you really contribute to the community in the same way as a seasoned football veteran can in a local club?
Unless you're right on top of a fault (like most East Bay hospitals are), proximity to the fault is less important than the rock and soils beneath you.
This question came up on StackOverflow a number of years ago and sparked an insightful conversation. I recommend reading through the thread to anyone interested.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/118984/how-can-you-progra...
Richard Dawkins’s Biomorphs Come Back to Life
There's nothing wrong to be user-friendly or user-hostile. But it helps to be clear about that up front. Good example, from not user-friendly (but developers-friendly) Linux distro - http://exherbo.org/docs/expectations.html
Check your https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

1. Who're your competitors?

2. Who're your customers?
Interesting. Thanks for answering. I'd say that not having PowerPoint presentations reflects well on you.

Unfortunately in my line of work (aerospace engineering), PowerPoint is endemic. All kinds of documents that should be actual reports are just PowerPoint slides.
Yes, this is a great point that I bring up frequently. Even though I don't participate in churches I do think there is a real value in the communities they create.

The challenge is, is it possible to create such a community without it being around something like a religion or cult?

Sports (either watching or doing) are the closest thing I can think of but that takes a certain type of personality.
Research the market. Talk to potential customers. Find out what the competition are offering and the price.
To me, it looks like the only improvement of Squirrel upon Lua is automatic reference counting. Everything else seems like a step backwards.

* C++ < ANSI C

* two null types < one nil type

* separate types for arrays and dicts < tables

* C syntax < plain english

* Builtin classes < make-your-own classes

That's just my opinion though :)
"he certainly did not intend to use ... (which I've heard him use for men) as a gender slur."

It doesn't work like that. If you walk around and use well-known slurs for homosexuals and African Americans, but then say "yea, but I also apply them to straight white people, so clearly I don't use them as orientation and race slurs", you will become a pariah just the same.

I don't know anything about the emails that you mention, but then again, I am not really "plugged in". My e-mail is in my profile, feel free to forward them.
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Happens in Tokyo, not in other parts of Japan;
I would go further and say that—despite its many flaws—the "primary" interface to AWS isn't (or shouldn't be considered to be) the base API, but rather CloudFormation. The simplest way to understand how AWS "goes together" is to write a top-down description of your entire VPC and everything in it, in a single file, and get it validated as a sensible or invalid configuration, iterating and tweaking and debugging just like when programming against a compiler. That's what writing a CloudFormation template gives you for free.
This "QNI" value that law firm invented seems mostly of interest to wealthy people who want to visit a lot of countries with short visa delays (if any) and little to no red tape at points of entry.

QNI seems minimally useful/relevant to people who live in a country full time and rarely if ever leave that country. For them, other indices and statistics are of greater interest.
We live in a society heavily oriented around consumption and under increasing pressure from technology... the market mindset has consumed the world. It's debatable whether wandering shrinking families are a symptom or a cause.
Americans’ Total Wealth Hits Record, According to Federal Reserve Report
Living in Montreal, I'd like to know what the company's response will be. I'll be sad if the service is discontinued, and am still rooting for Uber Eats to come to town.
Split.sh – streamlines large Git project (monorepo) into many repos
It's a fundamental mistake to assume that these are "real" strings being talked about.

String theory is about the idea that reality is best modeled as, notionally, strings - i.e. the mathematics looks a bit like them if you sort of squint and look at it really hard.

But there's a really good reason strings are a compelling here: because near as we can tell, vibrational frequency is really important to particle physics - the energy of a photon is quantized as E=nhf , (Energy = integer * planck's constant * frequency). And this seems to scale all the way down - it works for photons, it works for electron orbitals, and it comes into play dealing with the virtual particles which are exchanged in force interactions.

So however you describe reality, whatever you do, your abstraction pretty assuredly needs to somehow recover the vibrational importance, which implies certain kinds of "geometry". You get "strings" because strings are one of the most fundamental structures which can hold a vibrational mode, and importantly, they kind of neatly explain the quantization as standing waves - closed strings can only setup a standing wave at certain frequencies depending on their length, same with open strings (the wave needs to be zero at the ends of the "string" or it'll lose energy).

Of course this is all my very ad hoc handwavey explanation of it, but the point is, there's a lot of very basic physics which works quite well in the model. It did not, and does not, just come from nowhere even at this very high level.
Despite what one might think, he's well aware of the "insane" reputation of his internet persona, and of the effect that his activism has had (and continues to have) on his health. He's been looking for a replacement, in the job of "conscience of the technology industry", for at least two years. For obvious reasons, no one wants the job.

Knowing him and having seen some of the documents first-hand, he's seen some crazy shit. Stuff you can't talk about without sounding nuts, because it's just not believable except when the proof is right there. PTSD is not out of the realm of possibility.
Haven't tried Byte-Monkey, but have experimented with Byteman http://byteman.jboss.org/ which I find to be quite handy in debugging the tricky to reproduce issues
Your first point is definitely correct, one example (a mix of factors) would be the $17+ wages for Walmart and fast food workers in North Dakota energy boom towns(1).

Your second point is interesting, but I suspect only partially correct. I imagine subsidizing service workers to live in low income housing does allow businesses to pay service workers less in those areas. However, if those low income housing units were not the service workers best option - they wouldn't live there. So I would imagine overall that it does help the service workers, not hurt them.

http://dailysignal.com/2014/06/10/drilling-innovation-forcin...
Buying a potentially million dollar investment just to validate a SaaS seems a OTT. But the PM job seems like a good idea.
I've had some experience with the H1B staffing mills, and yeah, I'd say exploited is pretty fair, if you compare the work they could be doing vs the work they are doing. I would imagine most of those people would call it a fair trade to be in America, but I really think it's a lose lose scenario for the country (which could be benefitting from the full measure of their productivity) and the worker (because they're wasting their precious time).
Wow. Reading that renewed my excitement for programming language design and implementation! But with 5 kids, I'm kept pretty busy and won't really have time for that kind of thing until I'm retired. And I have no real need for it, it would just be really fun. But still...
I can't help but remember Calhoun's utopia experiment: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1...
I like Michael O'Church. His comments are always interesting and insightful.

The world is full of people doing bad things all the time, you and I included.

I think he could write in a way that don't insinuate people who do bad things are bad people. He writes as if people are intentionally greedy, or they intentionally take advantage of software engineers, just because they can get wealthy, and for some reason, that's bad. I think it's the judgement that alienates him from other people. (In my very humble opinion)

He blames these "power figures" in the tech industry for the woes of software engineers. But what we've got to understand is, it's normal to take advantage of circumstances to enrich oneself. It's par for the course. There's nothing bad about the people doing it better than everyone else. It's like stuff is on sale on the supermarket and there's nothing unethical about taking advantage of that sale to get a few more milk cartons in your fridge. It's not people's obligation to remove suffering from the world around them.

But where he's insightful and interesting is, he makes me think, what is it I do that lets these people have all this power[1]. These people, if they're doing such things, are doing it because they're being enabled. Am I the enabler?

If people are being taking advantage of here, it's because they allow it in the first place. The tech industry wouldn't even exist without us.

[1] For example, letting Facebook decide for me what news I see, or working for a startup without demanding equity, or working in a company where there's no one to learn from. "They" can't do these "things" to me without my participation in the first place! The power is right here in my chair, not there in Facebook's office or in the startup's board of directors.
odd, I shared the 2 courses on google drive

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_H50uBwsok6ZGxzbjU0cUU0OW...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_H50uBwsok6d2w4YlVQcjNNSG...

hope it works :)
By definition of positive ROI, the university has more money than before, which in particular means it can spend more money on research by building football stadia.

On the wider scale, extracurriculars only affect[2] share-of-students rather than increase the total number of students[1], so such programs have a globally negative ROI. But each individual university is making a rational decision.

[1] I'm assuming there's a negligible percentage of students that would avoid college entirely if no or very few colleges had football programs. It's safe to ignore football scholarships, because you still have the option of giving the students free money, which is cheaper than giving them free money and also running a football program.

[2] I'm also assuming the football program itself doesn't generate enough revenue to offset its costs, and only affects enrollment. I honestly don't know if they make enough money in tickets and trinkets to offset the debt service for a stadium, salaries for coaches, free tuition for students, etc. If the ROI is positive(or even negative, but with a positive cap rate), then it might be rational economically to continue them.
Is it possible to be an objective history teacher?
He's an east coast liberal. He comes from a social circle where it is unthinkable to insult someone because of their gender, but where the words "cunt" and "fuck" are barely considered profanity.

Given that the tech industry is teeming with misogynists and uncultured mouth-breathers, he probably shouldn't have used any word that even looked like "cunt". That was stupid on his part. No disagreement there.
April fools! But string theory isnt testable so clearly falls in thé domaine of religion :P
I completely relate and I don't think it's weird at all. I'm currently transitioning to your lifestyle right now.
> Not much of an issue unless you actually need the performace ofcourse. Ime, simd intrinsics is everywhere in code optimized to run as quickly as possible on x86. That about half of The Benchmark Game's benchmarks uses sse proves that point.

My point is that the Benchmark Game is not representative of real world code. The website says as much. Because the benchmarks use sse everywhere does not mean that most code, even perf-sensitive code will use simd everywhere.

Again, if you need simd, use a nightly. There's little to no drawback there.

I fixed it up to run on modern rust (https://gist.github.com/Manishearth/5fc73c405641162f0712951c..., compile with cargo build --release), and the numbers I get are:

(Ranges are just what I got from 5 runs, nothing scientific)

Rust: 610-630

c: 706-716

c_fast: 919?

cpp_clang: 669-694

cpp_plain: 717-728

I'm on a new (i7, 16gb) Mac so I don't yet have g++ around (nor do I know how to obtain it without messing things up; I'm used to linux), everything here done with clang.

Of course, this isn't an indication that Rust is faster than C. But it is an indication that it can be just as fast, and a reinforcement of my point about microbenchmarks having large error bars.

Edit:

On my older x86 linux laptop (with gcc):

Rust: 844-987

c_fast: 808-860 (perhaps clang somehow made c_fast slower than c on the mac? shrug)

c: 982-1025

cpp_plain: 977-1019

cpp_gcc: 925-947

I think I've proven my point.
This thesis on image dithering and noise shaping is one of the best works I've read on the subject: http://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/10012/3867/1/thesis.pd...