skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have similar experience. For the most part I agree with you, but types often make reading code a lot easier. I've found that many people tend to encode their types into the variable names in languages without type checking. A lot of refactoring tools work more easily with types as well. If you have a method like "write", it's nice to be able to rename it and know 100% for sure that you didn't break something.

I'm with you on the excess typing thing, but I still think types are useful just for tool integration. One day I hope that a popular language will emerge that presents an AST so that we can have non-type based refactoring browsers like Smalltalk's.
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That's a really good book, indeed. Cliff in the book is much less annoying than Cliff in real life, though. I didn't expect him to be such a conservative anti-technology person. A good example is this[1] newspaper article of his. At times, he just seems like a typical attention-seeking contrarian.

[1] http://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirva...
This is what MEGA does. See: https://github.com/meganz/webclient/blob/master/secureboot.j...
I think you missed the part where I require 1 in 125,000 to succeed?

you're saying it's harder to get an education with an Internet connection and $300 than to start playing for the NBA without any particular interest or background in sports, just picking a high schooler at random? Well, okay.

plus, you say "if your business is even remotely reasonable" you'll get steamrolled by anyone with more money, but under our scenario there are more investment rounds if you succeed. (since that's the only way to end up with a $1b valuation.) in short I'm afraid you've missed the point of my calculation entirely.
The problem with replacing constitutional monarchs is that they know their place, but the heads of state who would replace them might not. After all, they are likely to be elected, and could therefore have a viable claim to legitimacy in the exercise of their prerogatives. The Japanese emperor has no political power, and really doesn't cost the country that much to keep around.

Remember that in parliamentary systems, the head of state and the head of government (the prime minister) are not the same person. In some countries, like Germany and Italy, the head of state is an elected president, usually an fairly elderly politician. The emperor of Japan would have to be replaced as head of state by someone holding some new office, who would do pretty much the same things the emperor does now, at a similar cost to the taxpayer. It wouldn't be the prime minister.

There is a similar aspect to the debate around House of Lords reform in the UK. A lot of people in the House of Commons don't want an elected House of Lords, because if it were elected, the Lords would have democratic legitimacy just as the Commons does, and could therefore make a reasonable case that it should have a lot more political power than it has now.

So, beware of unintended consequences.
I gave my own book, "Zero Bugs and Program Faster."

I gave Randall Jarrell's version of Faust it is an excellent book.
> If atoms caused the discovery of atoms, it would have happened ten billion years ago, not two hundred.

What were those scientists made of, exactly?
I'm on my 2011 laptop. Battery's pretty bad; I might get half an hour or something (last time I tested). Shortly after I bought it, I replaced the HDD with a hybrid HDD+SSD (500GB spinning, 16GB solid-state cache, or something). My kid bent something in the keyboard, so the F12 key sticks up a little bit. Everything else works like when I bought it.

I sometimes get the "new tech" itch, but I haven't convinced myself that I'd get enough benefit to retire this thing, yet.
I see how it can sound ridiculous if we take "symbolic" into any other context. But in this case the symbolic part is a really big deal, just as the pope has a symbolic role that affects a ton of people.
The problem is that the term data analyst has come to mean data reporter. Similarly "business analyst" generally involves tasks that are best solved in Excel. The "science" in data science is about testing predictions. But I agree data science is a terrible phrase.
Pretty cool read.
Protocol-less urls use the same protocol as the current page. This resolves nothing.
I'm sure there are some who complained of that, but nobody I know did.

Look up "Bush Hitler" and you'll see plenty of images. It's the American national past-time to compare our president to either Hitler or the Antichrist, depending on your persuasion.
> A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it

It's going to be great once AI exists and we can point more concretely to something that doesn't work the way you describe (ie a purely evidence driven epistemology).

While we wait for that, I'll just point out that the pace of technological progress we're seeing in society -- faster than a cycle per generation -- indicates that technical theories don't work the way you claim. Math theorems don't become "true" because the opponents die.

There would be something deeply wrong with a theory that requires ignorance of the old ideas for someone to accept it. If science actually worked that way it would be no better than the humanities.
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
I think that depends on if it's garbage (noise) or an actual understanding (signal).

'AI' solutions don't always solve the problem you're trying to train them on, sometimes they solve the problem of giving you the expected answer from the samples you give them.
Also the book that inspired the name Animals as Leaders.
This analogy is not explaining why.

Why not just make more hands? Why multiple levels?
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It's quite plausible. However, it's also common for successful hawker stall proprietors to hire staff to do much or even all of the work for them, and since it's essentially a cash-only business, it's easy to avoid taxes for a good chunk of your earnings.

A good example of this is 328 Katong Laksa, once Singapore's most famous hawker stall, which has fragmented into at least half a dozen competing variants: one's at the original location, one has the license to the name, some are run by the original dude's family, etc.
Ask and you shall receive Caddy 0.8 and 0.9 benchmarks against Nginx 1.9.7 and 1.11.3 over 2 periods Dec 2015 and Aug 2016 https://community.centminmod.com/threads/caddy-http-2-server...
I guess many people have something to gain from optimization and this means you could get a cut of the money they save. So I would say the potential is big.

Actually the market is also limited by the required effort or competence to use the system. OptaPlanner needs apparently a Java programmer. This is where you could make a difference. Make it really simple to use as a toy.

It may seam that the use of such tools is a one shot and done. But rules keep changing, and users may want to test and explore the impact of changing rules.
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan. A beautiful and moving tale of post-boom rural Ireland.
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After reading the article I have a strong feeling that without RedHat there wouldn't be such a happy ending. Great contribution on their part.
Calling Ender's Game pro-genocide is a riot, but I guess if you didn't read the next 3 novels where Ender is trying to atone for his unwitting participation through an allegory on the book of Mormon, it works. There's Pastwatch which is so pro-genocide that it has a future civilization go back in time to inoculate the Americas against European diseases, and they successfully Westernize their technology just enough to make colonization moot. If I recall correctly in the Alvin Maker series, the main character sympathizes with the Native American population under pressure from alternate-history Colonial America. Let's see, what else...

There's that allegory on the Book of Mormon - the pure allegory, the Homecoming one, meh, might be worth scrutinizing the last bits when they actually get to their little promised land and there's fractious conflict? Betting no one really reads that stuff outside of Utah, though - I certainly can't believe I bothered. (It was a slow summer that year and my standards may have been low.) Anyway, moving on... I skipped most of the horror except for the Sleeping Beauty novel...

Oh! There's also the Songmaster stuff in which - in 1980! - had a homosexual main character who (while ultimately a tragic character) was treated with such human dignity and respect that Card had to fend off scathing criticism from his own church (and others') for doing so.

Orson Scott Card is like Atticus Finch and we're all reading Go Set A Watchman. If all we can find for either of these characters today is hate and loathing and calls to pirate books, what kind of a future are we really setting ourselves up for?
I heard the owl call my name, by Margaret Craven

I get the feeling this is better known in the US/Canada than here in Australia.

I found it during an unstable time of my life and it helped a lot.
In fact, in the north at least, when we say "town" as though its a proper noun, we mean the city centre. To me, that's Manchester despite living in Salford. For example, "I'm off to town this weekend" means I'm going Manchester.
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I use Brew as well, but look...it's ridiculous for a company that prides itself on out-of-the-box experience to ask people to do this when they could fix it themselves. It's not hard to do. There is simply no reason why Apple can't ship a laptop with the most recent versions of the common userland utilities.
On a personal level the Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins because it explained that "evil" is not evil but "mathematically" inevitable, thus allowing me to find (relative) peace of mind.

On a professional level The Mobile MBA by Jo Owen, because it explained to me - the programmer - valuable management skills in no bullshit way (I can not stress this enough), thus allowed me to grow in my career.
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That's untrue. Facebook was in no way or form trying to provide 2g/3G.

Thank you for putting the point across so nicely because this is the root of all the confusion.

Facebook was trying to serve a few sites via their platform.

In no way was it 3G or 2g which is full internet.
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As I said, I'm sure that plenty of people did. Fringe groups will always have extreme opinions.

That's different than mainstream news sources and even multiple historians making the comparison. No credible argument could be made for Bush (or any other Republican) being a fascist, but Trump's campaign follows many fascist criteria. Compare the results, to see for yourself that it's obviously a whole different degree:

- http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/trump+hitler/

- http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/bush+hitler/

Or just look at the facts. Bush never campaigned on an explicit central theme of xenophobia and fear of foreigners. Heck, immigration reform was actually one of the stronger aspects of his policy proposals. Yet Trump's most consistent message, by far, is that we need to be afraid of foreigners and minorities—something straight out of the fascist playbook.
With github pages and Jekyll, updating the blog is also just a simple push of the Jekyll sources. The HTML page generation will than happen on github's side. Of course with this, you're locked down to 2 techs, github and Jekyll.
So implement the accessors logic and invalidation logic, centralize the rerender scheduling and you've rebuilt React.
One, Two, Three... Infinity by George Gamow.

I can't recommend it enough.
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It conveys the message that he actually ia glad about his death, because he's glad about the effects and implications of his death. RMS is a proper sociopath.
GEB is not about learning something that can be covered in class; it is about achieving enlightenment.
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Nothing wrong with a constitutional monarchy. You get all the benefits from democratically chosen representatives without the downside of the 4-year moodswings. The monarch will always choose what is best for the country instead of what is best for the currently ruling party. It looks at long-term vision instead of just the 4-year term. It takes care of continuity instead of the "this will not be my problem in 6 months" effect you currently see with Obama.
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Or maybe they just talked to no-nonsense lawyers that don't just have an agenda of pushing forward the GPL.
I have a Ship of Theseus desktop built in 2001. Then I replaced some hard drives. Then I replaced the motherboard+CPU+RAM. Then I replaced the video card. Then the hard drives...etc, etc. Currently, it's got a 2008 CPU+RAM, a 2010 mobo, drives from 2006-2014, a 2012 GPU, and it's about to get a 2016 PSU, because that just blew yesterday. It's hard to say how old a computer like that is ;-)
I used Harry Potter as my first Spanish book :) I recommend it!
If you're interested in reading someone's books without paying for them, I propose there are several decent alternatives:

1. Do the legal thing and go down to the local library, even at some inconvenience to yourself.

2. Drop the smug sense of moral superiority.

3. Stick up for your moral superiority by making a sacrifice by depriving yourself of the pleasure.

It doesn't make a whit of difference in the economy, but it's the right thing to do for your principles. I'll be over here celebrating having a diversity of viewpoints in literature, so git off my lawn.
This is a toy example - one needs to have a lot of values for that whale of a Variable class to create a problem.
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> If there were a serious bug in the code used in ATLAS, do you think that the scientists on the project would have been equally diligent in finding and fixing that bug if it made a Higgs boson appear where it didn't actually occur than if it hid the appearance of the Higgs boson?

Actually, the scientists trick themselves by injecting fake signals to avoid bias on their part. So they have that covered. They're well aware at how badly one can goof up when looking for a really rare signal. The statistical standards they set are incredibly high.

The more completely scientists are able to control the experimental conditions, the better science works. Things like psychology end up probing an extremely complex system (our brains) with a lot of constraints on what they can do for obvious, ethical reasons. Add in a side of politicization of certain results and you end up with a larger amount of replication problems than you would in particle physics where we can carefully isolate effects on significantly simpler systems.
The reason these nominal monarchies remain has nothing to do with the monarchs' unwillingness to let go, and everything to do with the useful diversion of royal celebrity. Oh, some of the european royals have said good things about the environment and peace and the need for civil society, and the japanese emperor notably rebuked the right wing for its jingoistic understanding of "patriotism" a few years back, but let's be clear that it's their usefulness to the establishment that preserves them, not their own clever designs on power.
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Make sub-folder/sub-directory of GitHub repository as zip and download it
Pope can actually make decisions with consequences.
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That's still 1500 years.
I'm guessing in 10 years Chrome will refuse to connect to http hosts, given Google's track record of aggressively unilaterally deprecating and disabling web features they consider harmful.
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Quite obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
Personally I'd love a Steam flatpak, but since the current images are based on Fedora AFAICT (no surprise there, GNOME/FreeDesktop project) it would take a lot more work since you'd have ta create a Debian/Ubuntu SDK to base it from.
Good theoretical argument.

Empirically, constitutional monarchies probably do better than the more moded and congruent systems.
Gavan - one idea for you is to do a mini tutora on the source code on Udemy or one of those sites. It would not have the obligations you allude to yet still provide you with some income for your work. Of course doing the tutorial would require some efforts but you can keep it raw and not put too much effort into it. Almost like a walkthru that handmade quake or handmade hero are doing. Just my two cents. Thanks for your work!
I generally like real-world analogies, but in this case I do find it too elaborate and unnecessary, too.

As a straight answer to the question, it would have sufficed to explain that accessing a larger cache takes more time and resources than accessing a small cache.

Then one could have compared that to desk vs. cabinet once to make it visual, but there's no need to extend that analogy for each individual cache level.

That just exhausts the reader and makes it near-impossible to tell which parts of the analogy are relevant/accurate and which parts are just fluff to make the analogy work.

Alternatively, if you really want to explain each individual detail of caches, then do go with such an elaborate analogy, but then explain at every step to what it corresponds and which part of the analogy is relevant.

You shouldn't write out a page-worth of mostly accurate text and then write a paragraph afterwards to explain how the analogy fits.

Chances are you've lost half of your readership at that point and many (myself included to be honest) will quit reading at exactly that point, because they feel like you're repeating yourself.
Not a very good parallel. The pope has real power in a large organization with genuine real world influence. (Not nearly as much influence as it used to have, but still.)
Fiction: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is beautifully written and I've recommended it to many people. I've gotten lost in Carlos' worlds over and over again, and the cemetery of forgotten books is mesmerizing.

Humor: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. I've recommended this to many friends who needed a good laugh. I don't remember another book that made me laugh so hard that I dropped the book.

Non-fiction: this one's a tough one because many good books are mentioned already, but two that I really enjoyed and have recommended in the last year are: Boyd by Robert Coram and How the Other Half Banks by Mehrsa Baradaran. Boyd tells the story about a brilliant but petulant air force pilot who rewrote the guidelines of US military aviation. How the Other Half Banks is an eye opening account of how broken our banking system is and the history of how we got to where we are.

Business: again, a lot of good books are mentioned already, but two I've enjoyed are Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg and Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. Both are fascinating books that'll leave you thinking about how to improve your own game.

--Edit--

Bonus: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is a tremendous piece. It's a short read but a must read!
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Hands cost a lot more than benchtop space, which costs a lot more than cupboard space, which costs a lot more than supermarket space.
Non-fiction

The Emperors New Mind - Roger Penrose

Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglass Hoffstadter

Brocas Brain - Carl Sagan

The (mis)Behavior of Markets - Benoit Mandelbrot

The Black Swan - Nicholas Nassem Taleb

Fiction

Gates Of Fire - Stephen Pressfield

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

Hardwired - Walter Jon Williams

Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan

Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson

Space - Stephen Baxter

Enders Game - Orson Scott Card

Skeleton Crew - Stephen King

I've given away a lot of books. I'm old.
Plenty of nations have successfully abolished constitutional monarchy in the past couple of hundred years. The role and political power of the head of state (be it Prime Minister/Chancellor or President, or a combination — doesn't matter) should be well-defined in the constutition (which of course needs changing). I don't really see any loopholes here... I find that argument to be a red herring.

As you say, in some countries, the official (purely symbolic) head of state has no real power (pointless in other words). That's OK-ish. I'd rather not have a symbolic president. But the main point is to not make the position hereditary.

Germany's president, whilst largely ceremonial, actually has some (residual) power by the way, but it's a 5-year term. Not elected by the people, however, which is a shame. For example, Finland's president is.
How so? Most of these are explicitly apolitical

The monarchy didn't help with Brexit. I suppose it could help broker coalition governments in a parlimentary systems... though Thailand certainly shows how overly broad lese majeste laws and and strong military can have the opposite effect at least with regards to national unity.
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Um. No thanks.

Unless you're being sarcastic, the casual way in which this is being proposed makes me very uncomfortable. That is imperialism in all but name. An example of such a phenomena is that South Africa was forced to take on millions of tons of American "waste" poultry. It hurts our economy and makes us policy slaves. The IMF is another institution which has a long history of forcing African countries to act counter to their best interests. We'd like to retain some scraps of our sovereignty.
The Ambidextrous Universe, Martin Gardner, 1979 edition. I find it fascinating even today
We are limited to two hands. The kitchen can only hold so many tomatoes and other things you need to cook. You could buy all the produce you needed for the year and store it at your house, but it is wasteful (you actually don't need it, storing it is expensive, and it displaces other things you need in your house like your toilet).

In the old days, humans would live near their wild food and not cache much. Then the Neolithic revolution happened, we started caching seeds and then surplus produce in cities, and eventually refrigeration came along and we could cache more. Each new level of caching allowed us to do more (increase population). Ya, we could still live as hunter gatherers, but we would be doing less. We could still be using Eniacs, also, we would just be computing slower.
I don't think I've grasped the distinction between substituting a variable of type t with a value of type t versus an expression of type t.
> is a term in political science that means the country has the ability to project unparalleled influence on a global scale

What is the quantitative metric of this?
It is very long. It gets a little bit murky in the 1300s because there were rival claimants to the throne, but they were all related to each other. It's very likely that the dynasty has been in the same family since the 6th century. Some historians think some of the early emperors might have been unrelated to their predecessors, but even those emperors reigned during or before the 6th century.

The throne was not always passed from father to son, but sometimes among close relatives, which means that an emperors lack of children was not a problem for the continuation of the dynasty. Furthermore, emperors have been figureheads for most of Japanese history, so there was no significant benefit to usurping the throne as there was in Europe. People who wanted to control the country wanted to be the emperor's advisers, and later the shogun.