skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's common knowledge

In mathematics sure, but not everyone has had the same level of exposure to mathematics in software.
When to invest in mutual funds: An exercise in data science
While true, that doesn't necessarily mean everyone needs to run off and learn Webpack. The treadmill of technologies in JS can be very exhausting so if Grunt is working for your project, why spend the cycles learning entirely new tooling?
I've always thought of it as a flaw in their strategy. It results in less content in the tweet and encourages plain click-thrus.
I feel like we're saying the same thing with a different tone. Yes, he tells stories, i.e fictions, i.e. places entertainment and narrative qualities ahead of facts.

As other have pointed out, Gladwell didn't "oversimplify" but rather seriously misconstrued the research on expertise/practice.
What about the many people who are passionate and who do practice quite a lot but don't really take it that much further. For example, in track and field there are people who are really into it and who run all the time. Or any of the other hobbies that people are into but they never get better than certain levels.
The exact phrasing matters too, I guess. There are lots of ways to find a good packing, and even good bounds on how far your good packing is from the global optimizer. So a reasonable question to your interviewer would have been "does it need to be the exact global optimizer, or can it be a good approximation ?". If they wanted a good approximation it might not be a bad question, and the question may have been designed to get you to ask for the distinction? Or maybe they were just dicks, who knows.
It's not underground:

"The majority of the facility is above ground. The only part that is underground is a subterranean corridor that links cellblocks to the lobby."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_Florence
What Adblock filter prevents Google from knowing what searches you make?
>JavaScript is objectively a bad language

JavaScript is not objectively bad. I have 30 years experience programming in probably 15 languages and both formal and informal education in language theory to back that assertion up.

It's objectively not perfect, but then most languages have problems. There are a few regretful mistakes in the design, but they can be worked around by using programming style decisions enforced by a linter.

JavaScript has some of the most advanced features of languages available today, including lambdas, closures, and asynchronous coding patterns that make it faster at dealing with IO than naive C implementations.

Most of what sucks about using JavaScript is dealing with the DOM and browser differences in DOM implementations, but that's not JavaScript, that's just dealing with multiple browser platforms. Which you don't have to do in Node or Electron.

>"JavaScript hate is so 2010" is a cheap redirect of actual criticisms

No, it was a cheap comeback at substance-free hate directed at the language. If you want to argue details, read JavaScript, The Good Parts (or watch the YouTube video of the same name), and get back to me with what parts of JavaScript are actually, objectively bad. And in order to meet the "objectively" threshold, be sure to cite studies, because otherwise it's just your opinion.
I understand the difference, just as I understand that it's a sneaky way to perform an ad hominem attack. You could have chosen any two contrasting actions, but you specifically chose violent murder as an analogy to what he did. Perhaps you did it subconsciously, but, well...there it is.
The video that was censored in the blog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPpBzF20_7M

The Pakistani Government was a ridiculous situation. To me it was an example of how religion would literally cut off it's nose to spite it's face. Youtube offers them way more good than it does bad.

I think the moment Governments got involved in the internet was where things went wrong. It should have been just complete freedom, regardless of what ended up being put on there with all the consequences of doing so.
Oh fugg! He no use Intarnart Explorerer 150.2.34!!!

OH NOES, THINK OF THE SECURIDITY EXPLOITATION AND SO UNTECHNOLOGICAL.

Everyone knows higher numbers is better every always!
So what you're saying is basically you have "no life", and you are willing to dedicate your waking hours to your job (or playing Pokemon Go). Been there done that, found out the hard way that it usually ends in a way that is not so advantageous to you.
I am still writing code at 58 because it's what I like to do. I have founded, managed and CTO'ed. But when I code I feel better during the day, I feel like I have accomplished more, and I sleep a lot better then when I herded cats.
Retirement is a slow death... I am going to be coding until I die, at least 30 more years!
Windows Malware Analysis and Forensics Reference 2016 by Usb
Or procedurally, you could just have two functions:

publishLive
publishDryRun

Which, of course, is not the point of the article either.
You don't. You get -1/12 plus a positive infinite expression, which is then reduced by a positive infinite expression later. Its theoretical physics, not math.
It would be nice to see the absolute numbers of species for the other contenders. I don't feel that percentage of endemic species is a useful metric.
Can't wait to put these on my microservice so people can concatenate strings more conveniently in the cloud /s
There is a pretty big difference between a mandatory lifetime and a minimum lifetime.

As far as I know, minimum fitness-for-purpose standards are pretty good for the consumer.
> How well do S3 and Cloudflare handle a page changing potentially every 2-3 minutes? I was under the impression S3 is not made for this use case.

It isn't made for that use case...the CDN provider I use takes ~15 minutes to update its Push Zone globally.

However, a pair of $5 VMs and loading comments via JS "solves" the need for dynamic updates since comments are the only thing likely to change frequently. Personally, I don't have much need for hosted comments so I don't bother.
So when you have an infinite series of the form 1-1+1-1+1-1+... then because there is no single point of convergence and so you average the two values 0 and 1 to give 0.5.

Why does an average of the two values that you can converge on help?

Also, what about something like:

sin(π/2) + sin(3π/2) - sin(5π/2) + sin(7π/2) - ...

what would this be?
Google provides a service called takeout[1] which lets users export their data from other Google services including Drive and Blogger.

[1] https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

Disclaimer: Alphabet employee, but not related to the takeout service.
In China the censorship was ridiculous using "Bangol" or whatever it's called there. I couldn't search for western products, animals, videos - anything (, until I used a VPN of course!).

But here in the UK I think it's much less than 1%, although what's worrying is what is actually blocked. It seems as if enough money and/or power will get you any blocks you want.
Fourier transform, which is used in classical wave theory (optics and electricity) and in quantum mechanics
None that I've found, but ixquick.com can perform an anonymous Google search for you. Now, whether you trust them with your search history (they claim they don't record anything[1]) is entirely up to you.

[1] https://www.ixquick.com/eng/privacy-policy.html?hmb=1
so does LiveScript
What about the crimes of the NSA - which are still ongoing?

They are violating the US constitution, the universal declaration of human rights, and are breaking innumerable laws outside of the US, gaining unauthorised access to systems and information.

It is the NSA, and their employees who have participated in carrying out these crimes, who we should be discussing punishment vs. pardon.

Snowden is simply the messenger, nothing more.
Reminds me of reading about at least one case where a problem was solved in a situation like that. Anyone recall what it was?
> If you allow undue influence of money you loose in effect your freedom of speech

Only when that influence buys off the government to suppress speech by force. Which is what Clinton is proposing from the get go, not just a possible repercussion.
The problem is that the executive's power to prosecute can be abused to undermine democracy when it's targeted Presidential candidates. Politically motivated prosecution is not unheard of. That's not the risk in this specific case, but that's not a road I want to start walking down.
CycleJS recently switch to Snabbdom as well.
map and filter are already builtins anyway, so it's kind of a moot point.

It sure is confusing why the author implemented these functions...
The average is simply a summary description of the behaviorat infinity. Averages are a standard way to summarize complex phenomena.

More precisely, the sume is 0.5+/-0.5, which is greater than 0 and less than 1 and ambiguous in between.
RxJS is also from Microsoft and a huge contribution.
It's the author showing personality, free from the strict form rules of journals.
I really don't feel like carrying on another JavaScript argument, so we'll just have to agree to disagree.

> I have 30 years experience programming in probably 15 languages and both formal and informal education in language theory to back that assertion up.

Although please come back when this becomes a true statement.
I think the argument goes like this:

1) You introduce a family of series, parametrized by epsilon, whose terms, for small epsilon, closely approximate your original series. Sort of; obviously for large n they don't. But the idea is that if you pick any N and delta you can pick epsilon such that for n < N the approximation is within delta of the actual terms.

2) You show that the series in this family can all be summed and the sum of each one is 1/epsilon - 1/12 + O(epsilon).

Now of course what this means is that the sums blow up as you approximate your original series better and better, since 1/epsilon gets large. That's good, because your original series totally diverges off to infinity. ;)

The part after this point I'm less clear on, but it sounds like in the computation involved what you actually have is your (divergent) series 1+2+3+... plus some _other_ (also divergent, going off to negative infinity) stuff. And that you might be able to arrange things such that the other divergent stuff looks like -1/epsilon, cancels out the 1/epsilon from your approximation, and you come out with the sum of the two things being -1/12.

The obvious issue here is that once you start adding up divergent things by rearranging terms and telescoping you can come up with whatever answer you want: see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_series_theorem>. So this procedure all only makes sense if there are some sort of fundamental reasons to think that this particular rearrangement is the "right" one in some sense.
"Traditional harmony" evolved after the Medieval and Renaissance music the parent post is referring to, which can sound rather radical by Classical Era standards, by which time the diatonic harmony you speak of dominated professionally composed music. I'm not am expert, but I understand Western folk music traditions remained pretty funky.
> There is a tendency for a lot of people to hang on to tools and ideas that worked for them in the past. e.g someone who comes from a relational world, finds it very hard to get used to nosql unless their boss gives them no choice.

I work on a system at my dayjob that was "NoSQL" in the 1980s and is functionally similar to modern document-databases.

So...yeah. I'm sorry but the idea these things are "new" is the perception of someone who hasn't touched older technologies.
The executive don't dictate how the law is interpreted and they don't enforce it, but they do make it. Treaties are one form of law, and whilst for some reason the OP is focussing on extradition treaties (which will only mean a person is moved from one country to another to be judged for a crime) there are other binding treaties that could be used.

Still not a good idea though.
Biggest issue for me with Snowden is what he didnt publicly disclose or withheld with the intention of bargaining with the he Chinese and Russian governments.

It's no coincidence that his escape route took him through the only nations in the world that would not ask how high of the US told them to jump.

Were the Chinese and Russians able to obtain significant advantage from whatever privileged info Snowden fed them? Most likely.

Just as the America would do if the situation was reversed.

What option did Snowden have though? I certainly can't fault him for basing the seriousness of the consequences on what happened to Chelsea Manning or on Assange's situation. Truth is if the US considers you an enemy, spy, traitor etc you no longer have any rights and will be tortured.
It is a little tiring to hear all code design advice dismissed this way.

I notice this form of dismissal in virtually all internet arguments. It's like most people aren't aware of the difference between a strong argument and a sound argument.
> serving 2500 hits/sec for $15 is awesome

That's peak...I doubt he'd still be paying $15/mo if he was sustaining that kind of traffic. Even as lean as his site is (looks like it's a bit over a kilobyte being served from his domain...wow!), 2.5 MB/sec is around 6.5 TB/mo, which would cost another ~$100/mo from DO.

However unless you have some desire to roll your own setup and maintain/admin the servers, I just don't see the rationale for hosting your own statically-generated site. GH Pages is free. And if you need more than what it offers, Netlify's $7.50/mo plan will be fine for more than 90% of these kinds of blogs and has many advantages...no servers to maintain or worry about going down, use of Akamai's network for faster content delivery, and automatic site builds from source code. And all for less than a 2-server hosted setup. And there's also Surge, Forge and a few other competitors in that space, so it's not like you'd get locked into a single vendor.
I'd say the problem (which may be correlated with age) starts when we repeat "I know" too much and "I'm learning" too little.
Good time to remember 0^0=1. Or some people (like Knuth) like to assign that definition because it's convenient, and it makes everything work out in certain situations.

I don't think it's bad to say that 0^0=1 when you hear the whole story, which is that there are multiple right answers given how we define exponents and operations on 0. But it's misleading to say 0^0=1 and stop there. Similarly, after reading about this today, it's making more sense to me that we can, if we choose, define 1+2+3+...=-1/12, and it makes sense in some contexts. It's just that this isn't the only answer and it isn't the whole story.

I liked the article, and ended up reading a bunch of Evelyn's column earlier today. I see some people complaining about the pictures... I thought they were funny and relevant, my only nit pick is I can barely read the light blue text on the wink gif, the colors are so hard for me to look at.
Very interesting write-up.

My concern with this coup is that the results of it failing are going to be worse for the Turkish people than if it had succeeded.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4t4ke5/pro_erdogan_is...
I love this. Thank you.
I don't know for certain if (0 + S1) ?= S1, but infinite series require care. Consider this:

Let S1 = 0 + 0 + 0 + ... = 0
Then surely,
S1 = (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) ... = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + ...
-1 + S1 = -1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ... = (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) ... = 0

But then -1 + 0 = 0
>Middle Easterners and Africans are known to be far more violent than Europeans. It is just a fact. Denying it is pointless.

Ah so you're just a racist. Which explains the rest of your drivel.
The names are in the first result on startpage.com (ixquick).
Yosys is a Verilog front-end; this is being designed in VHDL.

It looks like there is a translator, but I'm unsure about its license, source availability, and capability.
Rust does have such a syntax: map_err(ToString::to_string).
Sorry, I meant specifically that the 40% is all on the left and the text is all on the right.
> To explore the effects of harmonicity and roughness found in Study 1, we measured pleasantness ratings for pairs of pure tones (single frequencies) separated by intervals from the chromatic scale (0–8 semitones)21 (Fig. 3f). This range includes some consonant intervals, for which the tone frequencies approximate harmonics of a common fundamental (and are thus related by simple integer ratios), and some dissonant intervals, for which the tone frequencies are inharmonic.

So... they went and found a group of people unfamiliar with western music, and then tested which of the intervals from 12-tone-equal-temperament sound good to them?

What would be the result if we were to repeat the test with people familiar with western music, but the notes were taken from 13-tone-equal-temperament? What conclusions (if any) could we draw from that about whether those familiar with western music appreciate harmony?

Granted, notes like the equal-tempered major third are probably close enough to their just equivalents (such as the 5:4 major third) that to someone who was familiar with the latter, the former would probably be recognized as such even to one who had never heard equal-tempered intervals before, but still they'd probably sound weirdly out-of-tune. (The ET third is about 15 cents sharp of the just third.) Why not just test with just intervals, which are more universal/fundamental than equal tempered intervals, which are sort of a modern "good enough" compromise we use for convenience.
I've tried using Elixir's iex as a login shell. It was an interesting experience. The pipelining in Elixir actually makes it feel a lot like bash. In Elixir, remote shell [1], autocomplete are built in. Strings are binary. Structs help structure output for human vs machine use (e.g. see HTTPoison.get("http://example.org") vs. HTTPoison.get!("http://example.org"). Processes are cheap. Functions are compostable. Rock on!

http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/iex/IEx.html#module-remot...
Yes, but if the machine clock is synchronized to UTC the machine itself doesn't need the table, and you only have to distribute the table to a small number of NTP servers.
If I was going to compete with Facebook I wouldn't use React anyway.
Cutting power? Hmmm, not so much.

Batteries, generators and wi-fi, coupled with low-power operation modes for modern equipment, are going to be a quick answer to that strategy.

Cutting power will buy less than a week of opportunity, and piss off LOTS of other ordinarily unmotivated, apolitical people.
I was into BMX when I was young, and really wanted to learn how to manual (coasting on the back tire). I practiced this every day for 6 months, I got to being able to manual about 30 feet on a good run. One day, my friend who was a natural athlete but had no particular interest in BMX decided to give it a try. He had it figured out within an hour. It was pretty clear that 10,000 hours would get him a hell of a lot further than it would get me, and that it was time to divorce myself from any aspiration of becoming a professional, or even competent BMX rider. I rage quit. Natural talent is huge.
Many nonpartisans as well as leftist Democrats (ordinary liberals are too much of institutionalist authoritarians to be too outraged) criticized both of these instances of direct evasion of transparency. The Bush administration was a disaster on transparency. I find it shameful that that is where the bar is set. It's embarrassing not just politically but institutionally.

Elected Republicans, of course, acted in bad faith, as you mention. Make no mistake, however, there are many who find the lapses of both administrations disturbing for a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people".
Citation needed. Quite a limb to claim that internationalism is the lone reason that Europe hasn't imploded again.
Where would you put Richard Dawkins? His science books? I've always found them to be methodical and instructive.
Yes, that's the argument.
>Copyright was meant to be a short term guarantee that creators could profit from their art, not an eternal claim of ownership.

What's the precedent for that statement? What's your definition of short term?
It's strange to me that we need these gyrations to detect and thwart spam. I can detect spam with high accuracy based on nothing but the subject line and sender.
Besides the price (I assume), the YubiHSM does not support public-key cryptography and is primarily designed for use with Yubikeys.
Susan and her SQL Problem
The longest running light bulb is in Livermore, CA and has been running since 1901. It's installed and maintained in a fire station.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light
Turkish Pres. Claims Coup Connected to Cleric Exiled in Pennsylvania
I totally agree, although i would pay money for this code. Not being able to modify it makes it unusable in a custom jekyll setup.
Petraeus received a $100k fine. Not a huge deal for someone who made a lot more on his biography, which was the cause of the issue, but still not zero punishment.
The masks can be converted back into a netlist and then a formal Logic Equivalence Checker can verify correspondence with the original HDL.
Not really. Western folk music is usually harmonically conservative. As for art music, the codification of classical harmony began with Renaissance theorists and the standard codifications are based on that lineage of thought. Counter-reformation composers like Palestrina were considered the most harmonically "perfect". The few true weirdos like Gesualdo were considered, well, really weird and thus excluded from common practice. Finally, most of the guys mentioned by the previous poster are actually Baroque.

I don't think even Gesualdo used chord clusters. IIRC it was his chromatic sense of tonality that was shocking, not his choice of chords.
For others that are curious, appears to be on-line here:

http://faculty.insead.edu/vibha-gaba/documents/Gould%20%26%2...
Next week I bet we find evidence that the stomach controls the immune system.

We already know the stomach can control the brain.
Dantzig solved an open problem in statistics which he thought was being causally assigned as homework:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig#Mathematical_st...
Courts apply the law, the political branches, through legislation and treaties, among other means, make the law that courts apply.
Various Forms of Media Crush Coup

FTFY
Well, sure. That's what I was trying to fix with my suggestion. In that case, the overhead of HyperTerm could be the overhead of a Chromium tab, not an entire Electron application.
Google was magic in 2001. Today, it's impossible to find many categories of information. That's why stack exchange exists.

When I'm doing market research or looking for certain types of information, being aware of forums like HN is more productive.

Long term the movement of everything behind walled gardens like Facebook will make it worse.
Anyone who believes Hillary had no self serving design in the email scandal is not paying attention.
And that's someone we want as our next president????

Also, Obama was presidential and personally I never saw him act or show any megalomania. I want someone like that running this country not any of these horrible people we have now running!
I doubt that. The picture was a pretty generic picture of a statue in the Louvre which I'm sure they searched for free images for. Also, I didn't want to later be sued by the Lourve if it turns out they needed extra rights (which is the contract they effectively wanted me to sign)

If all they wanted was a signed copy of the CC-BY license I would have signed it
The original Pokémon Go
Show HN: An Analysis of Securitization
All three need to pay the bills, but none of them charges for most of the services offered, so I'd say they are similarly free.
Free side channel attacks.
Too many typos. Sorry.
Algebraic patterns – Semigroup