skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't actually take sides on the question of if the URL should be formatted as it is. It's almost too ingrained in my mind at this point to seriously consider other forms.

I would say my biggest criticism of it is it's rather intolerant of human error. A single mistyped character, and you are not going to the website you intend. I think that's the reason searching for something on Google can actually be a better experience than trying to figure out the URL directly.

To your advertisement point, there was a long history of companies including the http:// and www in their ads. There's always this of course too: http://i.imgur.com/cfTxpd2.jpg
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If you are thinking about .xyz and similar, you still have to have another domain below those. you can't simply register xyz and have it point directly at a server.
If you think URNs are cool give IPFS a look. It's like content-addressing taken to the next level.

https://ipfs.io/
> the very people that were instrumental in creating and spreading Socialism and its intellectual foundations to begin with: Marx, Engels, Hitler, Mussolini, Lenin, Trotsky, etc.

Its worth noting that your examples include:

(1) two members of the same early subset of socialism (Marx and Engels) and two later people known for involvement in the same descendant of the form of socialism embraced by the earlier two (Lenin and Trotsky), and

(2) two other people that aren't recognized as having an important involvement in anything recognized as a branch of socialism, though one of them was involved in a political party with "socialist" in the name (Hitler and Mussolini).

Its hardly a broad sampling of "the very people that were instrumental in creating and spreading Socialism and its intellectual foundations to begin with".
I don't think this is so much a translator as a story writer. At least that's the only way the decodings made sense to me.
I didn't mean to imply all the prelude code was perfect. What I meant to imply was some parts are insofar as the specification is complete and specific enough that it yields one solution. An extreme example would be the id function.
Some people really dislike subpixel rendering.
>this would be an easy win

It'd be far from easy. The cost and magnitude of a project like this would be enormous for the entire subway system, and the MTA is not without bureaucracy. As others have pointed out, the subway has far more pressing modernization issues that rank higher than this.

I lived in London for several years before moving to NY this year and the failure rate of swiping my MetroCard is about the same as touch issues with my Oyster card / contactless debit card in London. While it would be a great advancement technologically, there really isn't a pressing need to replace the swipe card anytime soon.

There are definitely many advantages to contactless cards, but I'd rather the MTA focus their efforts on something with much more of a benefit. E.g., real-time train information, something that also requires a huge infrastructure change, but one that would have a greater benefit to travelers.
My limited guess as a OpenGL developer on Os X is that it has something to do with Apple prodividing a software OpenGL -implementation also, so maybe they don't want to pour in the work in that to support the more recent advances in OpenGL ?

Or maybe they're just focusing on the Metal -implementation, and iOS more specifically.

Currently the OpenGL stack is years behind on OS X compared to Windows or Linux, Os X supports only version 4.1 (released in 2010) with some 4.2 extensions thrown in.

I've yet to come across a good reason. If somebody knows, would be nice to know also.
They actually did lock the hood with the Audi A1. Just had a flap through which you could top-up water and oil.

Perhaps we could adopt 'A1' instead of the confusing term 'serverless'...
Really good point. It would either only make sense on the same origin, or if you authenticated the domain.
I think this is rambling about things that are largely unimportant (spaces or tabs). At least that's what his "Perfect Code" definition seems to be to me.

The important part is the flipside, not the presentation: Given a problem domain and a context there is an optimal or "best" solution or there is not, and we can get at the answer for most cases.

So code can be perfect if we understand perfect to mean optimal. If we understand it to mean spaces/tabs probably not, though given an input and desired output we can even prove some of these as well (for instance, underscored function names are more quickly processed than CamelCase : http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.158....).
I always suspected there must have been 2 archaic null tokens between the :// of http://...

If it was a design choice to use a 3-character separator instead of a single character, seems an odd choice.
Hi, I'm the author of . It's my take on an anonymous location based chat. It's written in react, using node.js, websockets and a redis backend - deployed to heroku. I'm a big fan of omegle and slack, so I took some of the best bits and mashed them together with the gelocation API.

ps: It moos as the notification sound.
No way. Not even Russia, using all its military.

Now, if you had said one week...
Absolutely, I'm not saying that the best use of my time for my clients isn't asking me questions... sometimes. There's a set of stuff that I can answer in 2 minutes that might take someone an hour poring through code to figure out.
I am not a web developer, but I have to ask.

Using basic authentication over SSL, does that mean if you entered https://user:pass@domain that the user and pass would be sent in the clear, or does this get put into the header and encrypted?
It is not just a sentiment, but a fact that Perl 6 being called Perl 6 has hurt Perl 5. The only reason you don't have a lot of people telling Larry to stop being stubborn about this issue is that the milk is already spilled.
We've been using Prometheus in production for a while now and found it to be rock solid, it's never an issue, never requires much of an after thought other than extending the current use of it. All of which says a lot. Our only "feature request" is that it stays stable and the project doesn't lose focus. Cheers!
But infinity does exist...?
I knew a medical professional who had to deal with a diagnosed, high-functioning (successful entrepreneur in a "respected" line of business) psychopath in a situation having nothing to do with psychopathy (routine physical ailment). Professionals at the institution were afraid of interacting with the psychopath, out of fear of being sued -- hence my obfuscation of the story. The psychopath very well knew that she/he was a psychopath, but saw nothing wrong with that. There were multiple (more than two) divorces, huge history of litigation (including "ambulance chasing", etc...)

There's no question that non-psychopaths are capable of terrible and even predatory behavior (and certainly multiple divorces and frivolous litigation), the difference is shame, and personally recognizing that there's something wrong with the behavior. This is different from being aware that society sees their behavior as wrong or hurtful and then acting in a way as not minimize harms inflicted by society's punishments (e.g., something akin to what was espoused by the Thrasymachus character in Plato's Republic or -- even more ominously and dangerously -- doctrine of legal positivism).

The latter leads to a very sad point that is relevant to those designing anti-abuse systems of various kinds: anti-abuse systems can also be misused as means of abuse by the sufficiently unscrupulous, Machiavellian, and especially psychopathic (and so can the reaction to this abuse...)
> Although Incirlik probably has more nuclear weapons than any other nato base, it does not have any American or Turkish aircraft equipped to deliver them

What the hell is the point of that?
Why is it that all the ex Spanish colonies are pretty much 3rd world shit holes and all the ex British colonies are doing pretty well. Any causality??
I agree, keeping 'food insurance' is far from crazy.

You can buy MREs that last five to ten years.

They won't solve all problems but they will certainly give you time to react appropriately e.g. escaping an area or growing food for the following year.

Does anybody remember James Burke's Connections? The very first episode on how to live in a global downturn?
The best learning option is to head to http://perl-tutorial.org and check out what the most recent things are. Reason for that is that due to Perl's sheer age and rate of evolution, many of the older learning resources are outright damaging to newbies.
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It's great to hear anecdotes from that era (presumably in MTV 5?); by the time I showed up in 1996, it was MPK 17[1] and those days (from which there were few survivors, for the reasons you allude to) were the stuff of lore. It's not at all a surprise that Roger was in the middle of it all -- and it seems an apt and valuable life lesson to focus less on eradicating stupidity and more on suffocating it by building useful things, which Roger did for essentially his entire career...

[1] Now Facebook Building 17 -- a succinct epitaph for Sun.
That doesn't following from my way of looking at it.

Your view as I understand it: research shows that availability doesn't change dietary habits over the short term, therefore something other than availability is the fundamental problem.

My view: the research you've linked shows that availability doesn't change dietary habits over the short term, but that might still mean that availability is a fundamental problem over the longer term or still a necessary but not sufficient fundamental problem over the short term (e.g. maybe it takes availability + education).
I agree, but that doesn't really require being part of the whole "prepper" subculture, which seems to focus more on scenarios where you're surviving a complete breakdown of society for decades in a bunker. In countries where infrastructure has historically been prone to interruptions, it's fairly common for people to store a good amount of preserved food, but they aren't seen as preppers, just people with a storehouse (which is basically an oversized pantry). My Greek grandparents always had a fairly large supply of food, for example.

I do think many Americans are too far to the unprepared extreme, where a two-day interruption of normal services caused by e.g. a tropical storm sends everyone panicking, because they in some cases literally don't even have one day's worth of food in their house.
Yes, basic authentication is encrypted over SSL but there are more problems to that:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/988/is-basic-au...
That's not entirely true:

http://cdn.doctorswithoutborders.org/sites/usa/files/tpp_ad_...
http://i.imgur.com/HWNM1KZ.jpg
http://www.shofforddesign.com/wp-content/uploads/Oakley-Maga...

This sort of thing is useful for advertising specifically. In the examples I've given:

1) targeted information
2) short url
3) direct-to-relevant-site from the ad

In my experience, in-house or business-wide advertising tends to use just the domain, but campaigns farmed out to marketing firms or campaigns related to specific products tend to use path info as well as domain name.

And while I've never seen auth credentials in an advertised URL, I have frequently seen "example.com/product#platform" style urls, where #platform (and sometimes ?platform) indicates which magazine the ad appeared in.
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It's base64 encoded and put into the header, according to the article.
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A better headline would be "Fake houses hiding tunnels and shafts whose existence is reasonably well documented, well known to those working in specific fields, and neither rare nor mysterious in anyway" but that would generate fewer clicks....
> Frenchmen are not clearly distinct from Germans

Really? You think that walking up and trying to talk to one won't make it obvious which is which within about 30 seconds?

If you really prefer, replace French and Germans with Swedes and Italians. Even the visual appearance there is not that far off from the visual appearance difference between "white" and "black" as the terms were defined in the US in the 19th century. In both cases you can find some people that can "pass" as the other group, but the typical members look quite different.
They can provide the necessary standard of security from random intruders, and hopefully act to disable the bombs rather than lose them if it comes to that.
"self-respect" is a bit misplaced here.

None of the countries you named were ruled or for that matter created by a colonial ruler with another language. India in its current form never existed, its like the EU, there are several states with their own languages, and English is the common one.

As for Aliexpress offering several languages - its just the google translate plugin ;).
Scheme has traditionally had a minimalist philosophy about the language itself. Basically, the language defines only very low-level syntax and operations -- think arithmetic, variable and function definition, basic control flow, etc. It was then up to libraries to add additional functionality.

R7RS small maintains this same mentality. R7RS big is basically R7RS small with a large standard library.
True - and as the OP doesn't want to go into research, a few years out of date won't matter. (After all, it's not like there's been any major breakthrough in biology in the past ten years.)
Made a small tool which theoretically should test if a site is httpoxy vulnerable, but I need a vulnerable site or two to ensure it's accurate. If anyone would be so kind http://httpoxy.rehmann.co/

Your testing and feedback is appreciated.
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It looks very similar to European Mini-Space Shuttle program.

Source : http://www.space.com/28520-europe-launches-mini-shuttle-ixv....
How did you figure out your personal portion sizes? Just approximation (ex: felt too full after 3 eggs, but just right after 2)?

I read plenty of literature on estimating the dietary recommended portion sizes in food, but nothing on how much food I personally should eat in a sitting.
Granted. I guess it boils down to degree of 'Lisp-like' when talking macros. Another article on HN today about Racket, Template Haskell and macros. I think the whole idea is that Haskell doesn't really need them, since it has other ways of achieving similar ends thereby making TH macros a bad fit for Haskell.

I like Elixir a lot, but I have the luxury of not depending on coding for a living, so I am learning LFE because I like how it is as much a Lisp as it can be when constrained by the BEAM. Truthfully, I could stay away from all of the distributed languages like Erlang, Elixir, LFE, Pony and others, since I don't really have a use for them (yet - looking at ABM Agent-Based Modeling).

But I keep at LFE by trying to duplicate the book 'The Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang'. There are at least a couple of other people who have started it in LFE and the other in Elixir. A good fit for ANNs.
"Scientists often learn more from studies that fail. But failed studies can mean career death. So instead, they’re incentivized to generate positive results they can publish."

Not in the "hard" sciences: my background is physics, and there are lots of papers on "failed studies", which serve to constrain the domain of applicability of some theory or other. Or, better yet, indicate new science to be found.

The authors note the bias in the survey: "Our survey was not a scientific poll. For one, the respondents disproportionately hailed from the biomedical and social sciences and English-speaking communities."
I'm sort of genuinely confused what is happening on your side of this conversation. Your account is too old to be trolling, but it surely seems like it.

Here's the conversation I see:

1. How do they deal with the intel management engine in all intel chips? https://libreboot.org/faq/
2. AMD and ARM have them, as well. It's almost impossible to avoid these hardware backdoors.
3. Cite? and our remarks back and forth.

Who is talking about ARM TrustZone? That wall of text was libre boot's explanation (from the original link) of what AMD and ARM's Intel Management Engine equivalent system is.
Can't sell except for the aforementioned £60. Not £60k, £60 - the nominal value of the shares. The only way I can leave and keep my equity is if I die. If I attempt to have that conversation in a board meeting they'll know what's up and will probably fire me - in which case no severance, not even the £60. There's a third party hnw investor who came in a few years ago who's gone from arms length to "where the fuck are you?!", and he sees me as a troublemaker as I do all the talking in board meetings (cofounder is taciturn), and set goals for hiring and growth that never happen as they're strangled in the crib. By staying silent he's kept himself pristine.

So, tough decisions ahead. Do I write off a decade of my life and enter a tough job market with no savings to tide me over (nothing like having your entire value in equity, and a paltry salary (£30k - pay ourselves less than staff, don't do dividends, keep value in company - see above pointless pile of cash)), or do I continue, which will probably see me lose what little sanity I have left.

Of course, there is an option as mentioned which keeps my family financially secure, but despite everything I don't particularly want to kill myself. It feels like a cop-out.
I expected the "hard list" as well.

And got one, just not the one I expected.

There are multiple crises in science these days, whether of communication or recruitment or replication or of fraud or of anti-intellectualism fueled in part by the most egregious examples of these problems.

Fixing these problems, addressing these seven, would do much to restore the lustre and respect and authority science well done and scientists working well deserve.
"Get feedback from actual customers" is, more often than not, dishonest rationalization. If you never use customer feedback in order to increase product quality (instead of just growing the feature list), "good enough" is just a code word for brushing all dirt under the carpet.

The fact is: software is a lemon market and teams/companies are rewarded accordingly.
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I agree with you that is his personal opinion about "preferable" way to use D3.

> "Unfortunately, I always find D3 code surprisingly difficult to understand and extend"

I would say something different - it is very easy to extend and create various visualization. It is easy to scaffold new chart (line, pie, box-plot, heatmap etc.) and customize it to specified needs. I'd rather say that it is difficult to create a brand new type of visualization which wasn't been already developed [1] and it is easy to understand by random folk.

[1] https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/Gallery
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I mentioned it in the comments of Edward Yang's article but I'll mention it here again, Template Haskell is based on C++ templates, here's the original paper http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers....
Haskell was written to mimic C++ more than lisp, at least when it comes to meta programming. And if you read the paper having the compiler check the template code before the expansion is there by design decision, that's why it's compile time only.
Here's my example from LinkedIn: I joined early (company had a founding team of almost 10 people, and I was the 3rd or 4th hire after that). I got 0.3%. I vested about 0.135% before going to another company. Sold 1/5 of that in secondaries before the IPO, leaving me with ~.11% undiluted. After all of the dilution, it was more like .05%. I sold that shortly after the company went public (at an avg. valuation of roughly $10b). Uncle Sam took a big chunk. I have a few software eng friends who joined LinkedIn shortly after I did, stayed well past their initial 4-year grants, and IIRC after full vesting they had 0.10%-0.15% after dilution at the time of IPO.

On thing to add: early equity grants used to be much smaller in 2003, so I wouldn't be surprised if an early employee of Airbnb or Dropbox or a similar company will have more like 0.3%-0.5% after dilution at the time of IPO.
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I believe the problem with getting to specific content still exists with the search engine approach (and, as you say, may be partially resolved by typing in the exact title of the content you're looking for).

I think search engines are also powerful in that they can provide context - google knows that when I search for C#, I am not looking for anything musical...but that inference is at odds with being able to pinpoint a specific content item out of a more or less infinite pile.

We were all forced to learn the technical constructs of mailing addresses and phone numbers, and URLs provide a similar service to a much larger problem set (so it's not surprising to me that they must be more complex).

I'm sure someone smarter than me will find a solution sooner or later...
There's netlogo, a multi-agent modeling language. It's not quite what you're asking for, and it's not too stable, but it comes pre-loaded with at least starter code for almost every model you listed, and it's syntax is very readable.

https://github.com/NetLogo/NetLogo
> What value is an Autopilot that knows you are not using it the way you are supposed to, but keeps accelerating you anyway?

Good point. An autopilot, whose sole purpose is learning, should make sure the user is engaged so it's provided correcting feedback.
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I didn't read the whole paper you linked, but doesn't this sentence in the abstract contradict your last sentence?

>Results indicate that camel casing leads to higher accuracy among all subjects regardless of training, and those trained in camel casing are able to recognize identifiers in the camel case style faster than identifiers in the underscore style.
As I suspected, all of the features that I can see described here are in Vulkan. In particular, the first couple of slides pretty much identically resemble Vulkan's "elevator pitch".

The presentation is from 2014, so when they claim "better than DirectX", they're referring to pre-DX12. It certainly doesn't back up your claim that it's "much better" than Vulkan.
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Where was this? I worked in NYC, and I landed a non-paying, non-intern learning position at a 3D animation company using SGI with Prisms, which is now Houdini.
I loved the design, and Irix was great! I recall thinking that the screens were so hi-res ;)
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They seem to have done a purge on older courses recently, lost access to 2 courses recently as well. It's extremely frustrating to adapt to the particular style and flow a course and then have it ripped out for...? (I'm not actually sure what justification goes here)

Unless I can download all of the content at once, I'm staying away. (This works well for textbooks, but videos can be large. ~40GB/Semester/Class for 720p MIT OCW off youtube)
But seriously, this could be really useful for github and the like, instead of having to rename project files to README.md etc, just have it display it based on best guess. I've always wondered why github doesn't bother to do this, but I guess it's better to not make a guess and get it wrong than to display a file poorly.
Technically, Flash is a plugin, not an extension.
Correction, code is at most "good enough".

I've seen (and written) plenty of code that was less than good enough.