skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good point. I am generally anti-copyright but that view is somewhat recent and I still sometimes have an internalized belief that copyright is natural. However we invented copyright and I do think we should either go to something like 5 year terms or eliminate it completely.

I completely forgot that without copyright, this issue would be dramatically different. They could still use obscurity to a point, but we would have the legal right to discover what they are doing and reproduce it.
The World's Soul
Would an insurance ever cover something that is already known? That at least doesn't sound like an insurance in the usual sense of the word.
From a Destroyed City to a JavaScript Developer
Long Before Pokemon Go, There Was Geocaching
Well, first off, program code is not one-dimensional; you would be more correct saying that it's "two-dimensional", which is is why indentation is helpful at all. Also, saying " text is one-dimensional" is almost as superficial as saying that a book is just a stack of paper. No, it is more than that, of course, and so is text in general. When you are reading, do you imagine a one dimensional world? Of course not, and that is how text's "dimensionality" should be measured, not by its appearance as a mere sequence of markings on paper or a computer screen.
Sure, but here's the thing: The inter-subjective reflectivity of perceived para-circular linearity is subject to radial normality of the urbanoid race condition reflective of mostly pervasive stray projection, which, in 93 percent of all cases, prevails as the main subject of pre-relationary trajectory analysis, as proven by the late Phil Corytorov.
Ewe, A Salon article
Quirk was hitting a limit before 10 due to time costs, not space costs. Avoiding the matrices also saves you a lot of time because you can apply M 2-qubit gates to N qubits in O(M 2^N) time. Usually M is much smaller than 2^N (e.g. for the Fourier transform M is O(N^2)), so this is huge savings over the naive matrix multiplication.

(Also keep in mind that Quirk's nature applies a lot of time pressure. It animates and reacts as you drag circuit elements around, so I only have ~100ms to simulate a whole circuit from start to finish and draw the results before the experience starts to really suck. Having minutes or hours instead of centiseconds is a big help when it comes to having more qubits.)

Another side note: there are ways to simulate millions of qubits using a GiB of RAM. BQP is in PSPACE. The problem is it requires doing the equivalent of path integrals, and there will be lots and lots and lots of paths. All of the space costs get turned into time costs that are exponential in the number of operations... so not actually viable for more than a handful of extra qubits.
Only one function as a module, Seriously?

There are 10 modules that you need to imports if you are using 10 functions. I think it's unnecesary
Terry Tao shows how to get from side of equality to the other:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclauri...

It goes into detail and shows the derivation and internal consistency of the method.
New Senate Bill Aims to Restrict Tor Access for Illicit Activities
I was editing an incorrect entry that stated mission/values that are not current. My position beyond that is that mission and values for a university / college are never promotional. I believe mottos are promotional since they don't actually affect governance.

I think the idea that if it is on the web, then it shouldn't be in the entry is problematic.

In any case, I'm done with the whole trying to fix what's there thing.
Something i can relate to. It just feels wrong to do a npm install for something very basic and see half a linux installation happening in the console...
Big data and its developer fallout
Awesome. Thanks for the reply and I apologize for suggesting something incorrect.

It does strike me as tricky needing to match driver versions between the host and the container. Do you know if there is any effort to eliminate that requirement?

Also while we're chatting, is there any hope of NVIDIA open sourcing their linux drivers? How would such a move affect nvidia-docker?
How did the JavaScript community come to this?
I had the chance to meet and interview the author of the open source tool (Tim Omer). Super smart, motivated and clearly capable.

I hope his work can help many people who are in need of this type of tool.
Does it work on people butts too?
I've noticed a big difference in coverage over just the last few years. Before then there were large swathes of content that just wasn't licensed to any streaming services, unlike today.
You can probably map Super+C and Super+V (i.e. the "Windows Key") to copy and paste in your chosen terminal emulator.

(I have done this in KDE's Konsole, so I can paste from a web form I must often use, which somehow blocks the standard Unix/Linux selecting-to-copy, middle-click-to-paste method.)
Did anyone get the example code at https://github.com/corbett/QuantumComputing to work? I always get "'QuantumRegisterCollection' has no attribute 'get_qubit_named'". Scanning through the source code, I also couldn't find a function that might do the same thing under a different name.

EDIT: Literally found it a minute after typing this: It's called 'quantum_register_containing'.
Right. Programming is also a terrible example. I think anyone who is not mentally handicapped would become an excellent programmer with 10k hours of practice.

That's three and a half years of a 9-5 if you work 7 days a week. 5 years if you work 5 days a week. And I mean work to learn not work to put out a sub par product.
This fails to recognize that the smallness of npm modules is intimately related to the proliferation of dependencies. The idea behind the node module-design paradigm is that packages should be small and many, instead of large and few like (for example) in C++. That makes sense because you only use what you need, but it kind of falls apart because the "small" packages you import carry with them 50 other "small" packages. Also because you lose the shortcut for vetting your dependencies which is to vet the people who wrote them. That's a half-assed approach to vetting code you rely on, but the alternative seems to be to do nothing at all.

So these modules are small, but anything that uses them is going to contribute to the proliferation of dependencies just as much as ever.
> If I have to choose between freedom of speech and stopping the undue influence of money in politics I think I'd have to choose the former.

Unfortunately it's not that simple. If you allow undue influence of money you
loose in effect your freedom of speech and your other freedoms (e.g. privacy,
which is not even guaranteed in USA).
Where does Richard Stallman endorse not enforcing the GPL or other open-source licenses?
> About the only thing that comes out right is that to develop a skill, you need to practice. Which, to quote my own least favorite phrase, we already knew.

Everybody knows they need to practice. But at least for me, the 10,000 rule set my expectations properly. Knowing that "practice" means 20 hours a week for 10 years helped me get past the temptation to quit when things aren't so easy in the beginning.
And it would be. The use case is when you need one function and want as small an import as possible.
15 U.S. Code § 1125 [0]:

...
(3) Exclusions The following shall not be actionable as dilution by blurring or dilution by tarnishment under this subsection:

(A) Any fair use, including a nominative or descriptive fair use, or facilitation of such fair use, of a famous mark by another person other than as a designation of source for the person’s own goods or services, including use in connection with —

(i) advertising or promotion that permits consumers to compare goods or services; or

(ii) identifying and parodying, criticizing, or commenting upon the famous mark owner or the goods or services of the famous mark owner.

(B) All forms of news reporting and news commentary.

*(C) Any noncommercial use of a mark.*
...

Do you know of another section, subsection, or other that would validate your claim?

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/1127
Control+Shift+F on Konsole (in KDE).
Doesn't Google offer a generic domain for you to use, like amazon has s3.amazon.com with some information about your username in the URL or subdomain?
It just gets in the way for users these days.

The periodic pre-load "checking your browser" delay, and the absolutely infuriating, and almost constant, captcha makes it a positively user hostile service.

I won't use the net from public wifi without VPN active, which now means cloudflare asks for that captcha for every site in its control, and re-asks every 30 minutes. A year ago it was rare for the captcha to pop up, now it's near permanent.

Most of the time now I'll just go elsewhere.
can you provide some examples of missing functionality?

(I have never found thunar or dolphin lacking for anything serious, so I wonder what TC is able to do that they can't)
Do you believe that any one person deserves jail in the united states?
Yes, text files are useless. This "programming" thing will never take off. It would require an editor and code checking. Totally inferior to SQLite.

Makes sense.
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I think the kicker here is that if you are a born musical genius (and there are such things) those 10K hours will get you on a world stage.

Otherwise, as you say:

> advanced student in a very competitive field...
Disney has lobbied (and succeeded) to have the copyright length extended every time Mickey Mouse is coming up to it's copyright limit. Is it a net good when a multibillion dollar corporation manipulates IP laws to further its own interests? We've had our laws manipulated to protect a cartoon mouse. Copyright was meant to be a short term guarantee that creators could profit from their art, not an eternal claim of ownership.
I did not make that claim.
On Linux I usually use Ctrl+Shift+C, Ctrl+Shift+V which seems to be bound by default on most terminals. Ctrl+C of course terminates the running program, usually.
Seriously it took PC MFGs until 2015 to get trackpads to be not awful, when Apple had great ones like a decade before. The clickpad was copied by basically every PC laptop maker and I didn't use one that wasn't terrible until last year. For better or worse, everyone rips off what Apple does, even if Apple didn't do it first, and the rip-offs are generally really bad. People buy them thinking that "it's the same thing".
As someone working on TIBCO BusinessWorks, a competitor/alternative to webMethods, this sounds all too familiar. We have had major challenge ourselves in bridging this gap - semantic diff/merge on process/flow engines like BW, WM, etc. with visual tooling.

Typically developers care about this, business buyers don't and they direct budgets and in many ways, product prioritization. To a large extent the proprietary or obscure nature of integration DSLs never helped bootstrap any meaningful tooling for users.

That's changing though with developer-power driving prioritization and investment. In our case, we hope to make good progress with an upcoming project called Flogo. Currently in stealth and soon to be OSS.

Disclaimer: I work at TIBCO on integration
The woman behind the man who runs AirBnB
// Object.map: returns a new object with the predicate applied to each value

That is not what a predicate is.
In TCC/LE (a CMD replacement for Windows by JPSoft) there is one little feature that I miss in Powershell because I got so used to it: if you just enter the name of a folder (as if it's a command), you change dir to that folder (so no need to type the 'cd').

In Powershell you just get an error that this thing is not executable. A waste of semantic space, IMO.
It could be a combination of both, but I would suggest developing some original content along with reference to independent references perhaps. In my view, taking the time to develop original content sends the message that the company/fund cares, and is not recycling external material. Plus, you control the quality of the material. Retail investors, especially, are bombarded with infomercial fluff that has no value. Good quality material can only make you more credible.
The inversion of control flow from called to calling function is an
interesting way to describe (part of) functional programming style. I hadn't
thought of that this way, even though I use it for quite some time.
> Which, to quote my own least favorite phrase, we already knew.

There's a bunch of people who say they can't math, or paint, or play instruments, or learn a foreign language, etc etc. They don't seem to know that all they need is better lessons and lots of practice.

And when the (now withdrawn) "Sheep and goats" programmer study gets quoted here it feels right to some people, because we've all seen people who just can't fizzbuzz.

We may have known it, but lots of us don't seem to have taken it to heart.
Outright denying Gladwell's theory is comforting to pseudo-intellectuals in fields like programming who like to think that they're special or hyper logical.
Yes re: security. UAC was awful and annoying, but I don't have much of a problem entering my admin password in OSX.
Would love something that showed you how the current command was going to be parsed as an argument vector before actually submitting the command (pressing return). Would help with spacing and quoting.
Sure. Let me rephrase a little more precisely: if I have to choose between my freedom of speech being abridged by the government or by the private sector, I'll take the latter, at least as long as the government maintains its legal monopoly on the use of physical coercion. If we get to the point where corporations are able to field private militias (not as inconceivable as it once was) I may have to reconsider.
No disrespect, and I could be misreading your point, but I think it only seems hand-wavey to you because you're not familiar with the definitions of the terms being used. It's just statement of facts that is in basically no dispute by the musical community. A few definitions:

> Harmony

The frequency ratio of two or more pitches

> Scale and mode

The set of frequency ratios out of which a given piece of music can be constructed

> The 12-note Western chromatic scale

The modern western chromatic scale is formed out frequency ratios which are powers of the twelfth root of 2, or ~1.059. This is called the "12 note" scale, because 1.059^12 == 2, and our brains are predisposed to find pitches who are multiples of two apart similar. This is because pitch classification in humans (along with many other human senses) measures inbound signal in exponential, rather than linear, terms, and 2:1 is also the simplest ratio by which two pitches can have constructive interference.

As far as why the 12-note scale is the Western scale, there's a fair amount of debate, but most are in agreement that it likely comes from the fact that 12 is a low number with a fair number of integer factors (1, 2, 3, 4, 6). Integer factors translates very directly into constructive wave interference (3:2 has less destructive interference than 101:100). So, one can easily construct many constructive interference ratios out of the (2^^(1/12)) atomic element (e.g. the "major chord", the most common set of three pitches in western music, is (1.059^7):(1.059^4):1 ~= 6:5:4). Each exponent of the twelfth root of two is very close to, respectively: 16/15, 9/8, 6/5, 5/4, 4/3, 7/5, 3/2, 8/5, 5/3, 16/9, 15/8

So! Now the only remaining question is just a question of the antropological evidence: do all other cultures also use the twelfth root of two as their simplest harmonic difference? And the answer is very clearly no:

* Indian music uses the twenty second root of two -- the "shruti" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shruti_(music)

* Indonesian music has many different scales, some based on the 9th root of 2 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelog ), others based on the 5th root of 2 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slendro which is often paired with a scale based on the 17th root of 2)

* Arabic music uses the twentyfourth root of two ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_maqam#Notation although to be fair, this is just the square root of the western twelfth root of two, but this conceit is largely used for notation, while actual performance uses adjustments smaller than the twenty-fourth root of two)

* And plenty of other cultures besides ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtonal_music#Microtonal, https://danielpaulschnee.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/microtonal... etc )

Does this constitute "A large portion of the world (possibly a majority)"? I'd probably say not a majority, but certainly more than 15%, likely at least 25%.
It makes me wonder about the birds. To my ear birdsong is typically more consonant in general use and dissonant in alarm or alert use. But a quick search did not turn up a lot of research in that space.
Using Keras and Deep Learning to Play FlappyBird
In the US, "health insurance" mostly isn't about actual insurance, it's just part of the evolved process of obtaining care with a degree of oversight and (semi-)centralized records. You can pay out-of-pocket, in much the same way that you can represent yourself in court: nobody can deny you the option, but the system isn't really set up to operate that way and something will probably go wrong when you try it.
I've seen IMAP certificates changing back and forth, too.

There's an explanation of this phenomenon that doesn't assume malice: there are N (> 1) servers with different certificates, and you're not hitting the same one every time.
My primary complaint about Unix CLI is that the commands try to do two disparate things simultaneously: outputting text for humans and generating data for consumption by other commands. In a properly designed command line ecosystem (it's far, far too late for that now), there would be good human readable output in one mode, and tools would exchange structured, already escaped data amongst themselves in another mode. Alternatively, the shell would render the output for humans, and tools would just communicate in machine format.

Consider for example executing a compression command on all jpg files in a folder and below. Currently, the syntax goes something like this:

find . -iname "*jpg" -exec gfxcompress {} \;

Naive Unix users would have expected this to be achievable by piping, but no! In reality there is a special syntax of the find command that does this, and it's not completely clear how you would deal with file names further down the line, or how you would achieve further chaining. This syntax is also completely unique to the find command. You can't just plug in another data source and perform the same operation. In a CLI where tools are designed to be chained, it would look something like this:

find | match :name="*jpg" |> gfxcompress :name

In this example I used an imaginary |> operator to indicate I want something performed on every item, and I can refer to the "name" field of each directory entry directly. If I wanted to filter by time, for example, I might use the :time field instead, without any need for explicit support. If I wanted to mutate the name somewhere in the chain, I could do it. If I wanted to chain additional commands, it would be obvious how. And it would just work.

The same goes for error handling. Imagine a compiler spitting out structured error information which you could use directly in other tools without having to parse and interpret it first.
If you have a little sense of humor, Gary Bernhardt spoke at length about what effect a better terminal environment could have on things like terminal based editors:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
That seems like a very old version to review.
> Even 2 or 3 spaces sometimes work.

What? Every number of spaces always works. Anyway, it's nice to separate style recommendations and syntax.
Now we are fighting semantics. I consider lies in titles to be attempts to bait my interest. If they are in link titles, they try to make me click. Thus = clickbait. Not sure how that definition changed after buzzfeed but that's how I 'learned' it many years ago.
You claim that enforcing open licenses, designed to make it easier to use, modify and share works for general benefit is more big-bad business than Stallmans perspective. But Stallman is generally a vocal supporter of such licenses, so if he supports their enforcement he is just as bad?

Both CC and open-source software use the framework of existing copyright law to guarantee a "fair" use of works, with only few restrictions. Not without any restrictions.

I maybe should not have responded with this provocative question, but to me both movements use very similar tools for similar purposes.
All of these are available in Lodash, both as one package with no dependencies and a plethora of individual micropackages with very small dependencies.
Man who runs a funeral business books his hearse in to have the paintwork redone. What colour is it?

Woman gets dressed to go to a funeral. What colour dress does she pick out?

In large parts of the west, these questions have one answer.
That Bobby McFerrin video is one of my favourite videos on YouTube, never fails to make me smile
I wish you luck. I prefer these sorts of curations much better than piecing together things based on reviews. I haven't had Netflix for years: Youtube can be fairly pleasant, until I click on something that "poisons" the feed. Surprisingly, Spotify does fairly well on recommendations for me, considering I have eclectic and sometimes unpopular listening habits. I'd consider the app you are working on :)
JavaScript has always been uniquely tied to the web, where page load times matter and serving a bunch of unnecessary data to a user can have a significantly negative impact. I think there is a balance to be struck with how we architect our libraries. In fact, ES6 module imports already go a long way in addressing these issues. Take a look at http://rollupjs.org for how efficient module bundling can be done through the use of ES6
Might it not be appropriate to explain what a predicate is, since you don't agree with her definition?