skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>College adcoms want well-rounded students, not narrowly-focused math drones.

I find this incredibly misguided.
I really want to like the idea of IronPython, having used Jython in the past (similar project, Python on the JVM) I understand the value in integrating external libraries into a "better" language (where better is totally subjective). However, especially considering the relative neglect IronPython has endured, I'm not sure Python has a really solid place in the .NET ecosystem with the direction C# has taken. C# is more and more like a statically-typed Python, very high-level, very fluid (totally subjective). It seems like C# is incorporating the better idea from Python faster than Python-the-language can be incorporated into .NET.
I really hope we move past a model where a company both needs good lawyers, to get the licensing deal with the record companies, and a good software team, to get the app right. I really hope an intermediate layer arises, such that talented app developers can write good streaming music apps without needing to talk to the RIAA first, but rather by just purchasing access to the content through some "music wholesale" service.
Kind of off-topic, but what has your experience with HIIT and sleep been? I am just starting, and being somewhat obsessive about sleep would be interested to hear your experience.
Oh, cool, finally :)
Now it's the time to read it. :D
Edit: have been waiting for it after seeing it on /.
This will sound like a stupid question but I'll ask it anyway.

Why can't they just drop the price controls?

I expect it is ideological, but surely being alive trumps ideology (in that you'll starve or else people who have decided to become more flexible will kill you).
Can confirm that I've had the same problem with my El-Cap / 16GB MBP system too. I still suspect it was a faulty USB Network connection that caused it to throttle so much - but in the end, they diagnosed it with a faulty heat-sink on the MB and replaced it out. I've not had any other problems since then.
Modern emacs isn't old or brittle anymore. Heck, we even have text antialiasing now for users with graphical displays! :-)
yes it appears that way without reading the paper. Basically the main factor to me is speed which has a huge differential for untrained subjects "The model finds that identifiers written in the camel case style took 0.42 seconds more time." Doing the math you see how much wasted time that is. So I should have been more specific in the parameters. Your quote is perfectly valid as well.
The "profit" in real BI would mostly go to the recipients, with the government only getting the usual IRS cut, and taxpayers likely not getting it directly.

The analogy also doesn't work because you also have the rich douchebag investing venture capital and buying board seats and laying people off. Taxpayers don't do that.

Also, semantically, calling those who accept basic income "whores" is not going to serve the goal of promoting basic income.

Also, the BI in the story only goes to those earning "close to the median income."

Etc, etc. There are so many ways this piece fails: Getting the facts right on BI, as an analogy, as satire, and as a pro-BI piece.
That hasn't stopped them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappearan...
I laughed at the CGI reference, but TBH pub/sub + microservices feels really awesome and clean so far. Combined with DB as a service it's even better IMO.
The biggest surprise to me is that this has so many up votes on HN.

Getting "hacked" by a sleazy browser extension is about as surprising as getting a virus after installing something from a warez site.
The term "socialism" has more than one meaning. Classically, it referred to the means of production being owned and controlled directly by the society, either through the state or workers collectives.

Later the word "socialism" came to also mean a market economy in which the government intervenes to a considerable degree, as in European-style social democracy.

American conservatives have also recently come to label New Deal-style liberalism as "socialism."

I think it would be helpful for productive discussion if people labeled which meaning of the term they are using, and acknowledged that it also has other meanings.

Let me add that the state-ownership version of socialism could be totalitarian or democratic. I am not aware of any countries in the world today that have a state-ownership version of socialism and are democracies. Venezuela, from what I understand, has a partly state-owned economy, and is semi-totalitarian.

update: let me explain some why I think that discussion can be more productive if people acknowledge the term "socialism" has more than one meaning, and are clear about which one they are using.

There are many different economic and governmental systems that are labeled "socialist" including, among others, the totalitarian, total state-control system of the old Soviet Union and the democratic, semi-socialist system of the UK after WWII and up until Margaret Thatcher.

What is needed is to discuss how the various systems work and what are their outcomes, good or bad. This is a complicated and difficult discussion. If people insist on either labeling all of them as "socialist" or only one, then people get into endless, fruitless debates over who is right, and it greatly undermines the more factual discussion about specific different systems and why they go right or wrong. The comments to this link are a good example of what I am talking about. But if everyone agrees there are different definitions, then they can focus on the more important part of discussing the systems themselves.
Interesting! Do you happen to still have your source and/or research? I'd love to add it as a bullet on the post.
There is a very good reason. Apps can auto-update (the default) if they haven't added permissions over the previous versions. Consequently it is very common practise to add every permission you can conceive of using at the beginning, versus having to support a large body of users who haven't updated your app in ages.

In theory some very recent barely used newer Android version fixes this by asking for permissions at first use of them (eg first time using camera or first time accessing contacts). In practise this doesn't matter for several years.
It is. Which is why it's so difficult.
Yes, it works wonderfully. I published a Grafana dashboard for this here - https://grafana.net/dashboards/162
When Can I Get “Pokemon Go” Plus? This Wearable Will Be Available Soon
> but not the default install IE9. Figures

To be fair, the author said browsers, and not incompatible mock-browsers like IE.

Browsers:IE::cheese:"cheese food"
..Now why the heck did I think cutting was on K. D'oh!

Still, I think it's a conscious design decision, something along the lines of "why not just store deleted text, rather than having a separate clipboard-like feature".
Nope, that's only for the same station. Assuming you swipe into station A, exit station B, and swipe again at station B, you're fine.

If you swipe into station A, realise you got into the wrong entrance, you can usually just walk to the 24-hour booth and ask them to let you in the gate.

Also you can walk to another station.
Really late reply and I doubt you'll read it, but this disregards the increase in transaction costs from this.

Who is going to spend all their time negotiating this, most people are perfectly content paying a little bit more because they didn't have to spend hours arguing with multiple utility providers.

Never mind the increased distribution costs anyways because there's multiple sets of lines running.

The way it works already for most people have the choice of multiple different energy providers with a common grid system, this is what has happened due to the deregulation of the energy space which has been both for better and worse.
http://www.bunker42.com/eng/

There's also this one, the entrance tries to look like an ordinary house.
I have a lot to thank the humble and useful Wordstar for.

In college, I worked at a law firm and they were still using wordstar as well as wordperfect. Wordstar had this interesting markup that I quickly learned, and it was faster to use than moving around the screen with a mouse. Later on when I first viewed source on a web page, the markup looked quite familiar.

My new career as a web developer had begun.
I suspect the threshold is actually about 450 people - but if you scale that up, and have multiple units of 450 people each - then you start to have something workable. The long term problem with planned economies is the inherent inflexibility and immovability in the face of changing realities.

Markets work because they are irrational, and move with people as situations change - like a subconscious reflex - planned economies require conscious effort to reapportion their efforts in the face of change.

The solution to socialism is collectives - lots of little ones from 50-500 people, which then interact with each other using market settlement and price adjustment mechanisms.
Unless it is formally verified, then it is really perfect. Not sure why we shouldn't strive towards that final state of evolution. Conceding the game at "good enough" is a cop out.
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What would you change? If you were a manager, would you expect people to put in only 2 hours of actual work per day, regardless of when their butt is in the seat?
I was referring socialism as a society where state does not allow private property (at least to a major extent), and violates individual human rights in favor of collective ones.
That's not the conclusion that Ian Kershaw came to.
A Big Collection of Free images (in picjumbo)
Proving the fundamental theorem of arithmetic
Emacs is based on arcane incantations and Elder horrors. It predates creation and sanity. :p
Follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952290
An even better headline would be "Serverless Architecture," but that's already in use today.
Hey, did you see the positive performance from Chicago rap Artist Cpt. Kirk
What's your replay attack mitigation strategy?
RethinkDB meets Pokémon Go: computing shortest paths between Pokéstops with ReQL
I guess I'm confused. The title of your post makes it seem as though you are a forum for APIs, but the site makes it seem much more like a marketplace. Am I reading it wrong?
GM’s first autonomous car will be electric and launch on Lyft
You’ve created a concept and attached the word “perfect" to it. Your concept is different than the shared definition. This leads to disagreements, misunderstandings, and (as you said) twitching.

The purpose of words is to share information. If you have write a paragraph describing your definition when you use a word, use a different one.
> Meaning of "AAA" is totally mixed up

It makes me think of a big budget game made by a company that makes big budget games and primarily publishes them through mainstream channels. It makes me think "opposite of Indie". I don't think that there's an indisputable, unambiguous definition of either term.
If you send a minimized example to the mailing list, I'm sure someone will translate it from Guile to Racket in a few hours. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/racket-users

(If the example is not too long, perhaps you can paste it here.)
Oh man, that's a dirty trick. I like it.
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graduation rate

Any insight on what this is intended to mean?
Rise and Fall of Theranos in a Biotech Cartoon
oh, don't worry. you won't have to make any tough decisions. if you don't have vested equity that you keep when you leave, they're just going to fire you as soon as some real money shows up.
This is a paper on the work that the article cited: https://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/working_paper_s...

There is a critical mathematical mistake with their use of statistical analysis which basically, as an artifact, bakes in this "conclusion" into the "results".

It comes about because they manually add "Working hours-squared/100" into the factor analysis, and then, low and behold, there is a parabola correlated with the data. It's a downward facing one, because an upward facing one, or no correlation will not match as well. But the model is not reality.

There are numerous other conceptual problems with the study, like "what is work?" and a lack of real data on the nature of work beyond what is correlated with socioeconomic indicators, like University education, however, it is remarkable that even at the level of statistic analysis, the work is critically flawed.

I am also disappointed that nobody else on hacker news seems to have pointed this out.

Hopefully, this can serve as yet another example, of how to interpret and understand data the new, be it hacker news or otherwise, presents us with. Statistical data analysis is both hard, and often times misleading.
RC's motto is "Never graduate!"
Actually, I have a historical example I'd like your opinion on. 18th century Warsaw, Jews and Poles. Clearly distinct groups, near-zero interbreeding. Separate sub-species?
>No self-respecting people (in Europe/East Asia atleast) give up their languages for a common medium.

It's not giving up the languages if we were to find a logical(because the rest of the world speaks this too) common medium to speak.

And,

I am amazed as to how you are trying to connect dots from 'you guys speak English, so you have to also support colonialism, if not, you are hypocrites and pmarca is right'.
"...show theoretically..."

That's great (no sarcasm!). How difficult will experimental confirmation be - or is it in the article to which I don't currently have access?
I'd guess more .2 - 1.0 after rounds of dilution, but it depends on when he came on board. The $30B valuation is preferred shares, right? If he sold any before liquidity, it'd be common shares, which is often deeply discounted (~33% of preferred).
Sure you can: http://ai./ (there are other CCTLDs doing this).

Only one new TLD does this, and the page is empty: http://мон./ or http://xn--l1acc./
Glovdi..A wearable smartphone in the form of a glove
Not really. When I look up the definition, it is 'completely free of faults or defect'. I don't think I've strayed past that meaning.
I'm up-voting you in the hope that this is an incredibly droll joke. And, in case it is: very well-played.
That's not it for me. I recall creating boxes using arrow keys (not as much as creating database). It was very intuitive and fast to create tables (the work was ledger based accounting).

We used to use Lotus 123, Wordstar. This is before QuattroPro showed up and changed the landscape with its colorful grids and menus.
It's scary sometimes that previous consultants (I'm a consulting developer) may have gotten an application "working", but have incurred so much technical debt it is nearly impossible to make changes. They've escaped and taken the biggest chunk of money leaving something built on a foundation of toothpicks. Thus the project becomes a ticking time bomb and requires full-time programmer maintenance. You wonder if the next feature request will become the impetus for the collapse- Then you turn into Robert Gates: "I don't know where. I don't know when. But something bad is going to happen!!!"
The human body is the result of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000+ organisms dying before or after reproducing. That's evolution. It has absolutely nothing to do with the "maintenance" that doctors perform on the human body, especially when doctors are loathed to lose even a single organism.

I'm not even sure why I responded to your comment, since it was so random and unrelated to the rest of the thread.
I suppose, as weird as that sounds to a descendant of Spaniards, but Ted Jorgensen is not Hispanic, as far as I can tell.
Wikipedia has a list for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_unsolved_problems
Arbitrarily relocatable furniture tends to be made of steel and weigh 300 lbs. I think the extended metaphor works for software as well.
Eggs That Clear the Cages, but Maybe Not the Conscience
Here is the CoreOS blog on using it: https://coreos.com/blog/prometheus-and-kubernetes-up-and-run...
The L suffix of the MOVL says it's using 32 bits of the register. You move a byte with MOVB and use CMPQ to compare the full 64 bits.

You see this too with AT&T syntax, sometimes.
that's why I am sometimes envious of sales guys or traders. Their work is easily measurable.
Yes, yes, yes - these are the things we ought to be talking about! In academia, in government, in society! Great to see these problems summarized here, usually one only sees an article on one of the seven.

It gives me hope that we have started talking about these things - at least in academia (as numerous think-pieces in Nature et al. testify). We need to continue this discussion, make the public aware of it, and then start taking steps to solve it. No, science is not doomed, but boy do we still have a lot of work to do to get it to where it should be...
Time to stop using Opera . It's a shame ; it used to be a good browser .
State of HTML5 Video in 2016
Very interesting article. What are these plasmons? I've tried reading the Wikipedia article on it, but I'm not getting it. Can anyone explain it here?

To me it sounds like some half matter/half light-like particle. Like an intermediate particle between a photon and an electron.
It's a historic feeling, that is no longer accurate, at all.

I just bought a new computer, and until a new flash drive arrives, I'm stuck running Windows. I installed Strawberry Perl, and my Mojolicious projects and some other stuff Just Works, like immediately, with no fucking around at all required. It is, admittedly not a huge project with a huge variety of dependencies, but it does have some XS modules among other things, and they all were functional without trouble.

My most recent Ruby project still won't run from the source tree using bundler (though it runs fine if i install the gem for the app). So, in my experience, Perl is currently doing better than Ruby on Windows. Or, at least it is a reasonable comparison. I just saw there's a new version of berrybrew, as well, so you can do perlbrew things on Windows. I'm not sure if plenv works on Windows (but rbenv seems broken, too), as I haven't tried it yet, and I have been using perlbrew on Linux, anyway.

In short: The world has shifted quite a bit when it comes to developing with Perl 5 on Windows. It's actually pretty fine these days. As I understand it, Perl 6 is also fine on Windows.
I'd love to see what YCs guidance on code quality is. My guess is "ship it if you get users".
Chibi[0] supports Scribble. :)

0: http://synthcode.com/scheme/chibi/lib/chibi/scribble.html
Thanks for being so open. I like hearing real world experiences. My take away here is that unless you are founder, or the company goes for billions, you don't really make much.
Tim Berners-Lee thought we should have a way of defining strongly-typed queries: <ISINDEX TYPE="iana:/www/classes/query/personalinfo"> I can be somewhat confident in saying, in retrospect, I am glad the more generic solution won out.

The author does not explain why he is glad that the more generic solution won out. Having strongly-typed queries might have brought as much closer to some approximation of a practical "semantic web" and done some wonders for web services, accessibility and others.

Maybe he is glad because not having any strong typing allowed us to have the flexible, completely free-form web interfaces we have today, but who's to decide that that wouldn't have emerged anyway; maybe even in a slightly saner form than the horrible mess we have today.

On a completely unrelated note:

Given the power of search engines, it’s possible the best URN format today would be a simple way for files to point to their former URLs.

This raises immediate concerns about security and spam, but that may be solvable somehow.

That being said, I really enjoyed reading this thoroughly researched history a lot, even more than the previous, also great installment about CSS's history. (But my preference is just because I'm not a Web/Design guy.)
One upside is that it is still actively developed. Opera 12.x is not and should not be used other than for testing at this point.
If you insert a random nucleotide into a DNA sequence, the protein you get is usually very similar to the old one. But if you insert a random branch instruction into the object code of a working program, the results are somewhat different.

The problem with software evolution is that the adjacent points in program representation space -- whether it's source space or binary , neural network parameters or whatever -- are not viable individuals that can participate in an evolving population. They code for junk -- stillborn offspring. This isn't terribly surprising. The apparatus that powers living systems and makes DNA sequence space so nice took almost a billion years to evolve. Building a such a system in silico, one that is both that flexible and that forgiving, is not likely to happen anytime soon.

But you're right. I'd totally read the sci-fi novel.
A Primer on Quantum Computing and Algorithms
If your turnstiles can't talk to a server, they can't check key revocation lists, and I tend to imagine that in a city the size of New York somebody's going to leak a key every now and again - it's been known to happen with physical keys; why not digital ones, too?
Joannopoulos has already advised one Nobel Prize winner himself.
Well said.

And yet, R7RS-large _still_ will not have a standardized FFI.
Why PokemonGo is sitting on a goldmine
This sounds very interesting. I've been professionally programming for about ~2 years (1 year co-op) in Java/Spring/Hibernate/SWT/Angular1.x and have been disheartened by the dry approach to programming taken in the projects that I've been a part of. I feel like I'm basically following templates and laying bricks and not really sharpening my skills; the days of invetiveness and fun I had during my CS days are few and far between outside of personal projects. I'm definitely considering taking a leave of absence or even quitting my current job to spend some time with wizards :-)
"Competitive advantage" most likely. They built their own HTML-based UI on top of Chromium. So, their browser engine is just Chrome/Chromium/Blink, not something unique. Vivaldi can't even sync your bookmarks between devices yet (at least the last time I checked).
NPS is bad and you should feel bad
microservice :D
India in its current form never existed, its like the EU

This is technically true in that yes, a state with precisely India's borders today did not exist before 1947. But that is a useless claim because that is true for every country in the world.

There are have been many many empires, going back all the way back at least 2300 years, and these empires have ruled the majority of the Indian subcontinent. This includes most of modern India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and parts of Afghanistan. Some of them also ruled parts of Iran, Tibet, and a little bit of Central Asia. And these empires all had linguistic diversity. The idea that one language = one country is a stupid byproduct of European nationalist movements.
Remarkable discovery finds immune system linked to social behavior
Hitch looks like a slick iteration on the API Changelog. Any plans to support the ability to search for APIs?

Also curious how Hitch would look if it could more easily detect changes via API providers providing a more formal specification (i.e. versioned Open API Specifications, Blueprint, RAML etc.. that could be diff'd). Guessing it is "challenging" today to either rely on API owners to make updates or to deal with more complicated web scraping.
We used to have serverless architecture... it was called standalone desktop apps! No servers, no backend, no nothing, just you and the code. It was great!
yes you have. you've moved it into the subjective by requiring pleasing aesthetics