skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you expand on the lack of hygiene? I know Nim has hygienic templates by default, with an opt for 'injecting' variables into the enclosing scope (which comes in handy when (for example) you have a DSL for parsing command line options like the docopt.nim or commandeer packages).

If you mean that whatever AST is generated by calling macro gets put in the enclosing scope - then yes, AFAIK you're right, but this can be fixed by wrapping a macro in a proc (function).

I'll agree that forward declaration is really clumsy, I hope that that is fixed before 1.0.
That seems uncharitable, the OP was somewhat confusingly worded.
You may have read all your free articles for the month. The NYT is a paid subscription newspaper but they offer a handful of articles a month for free.

If you enjoy the NYT and read it often, think about subscribing.
A better -- but still not really P2P -- example of social insurance is https://wearesosure.com (UK mobile phone only for now)

With So-Sure you link up with friends and are bonused if nobody claims. Of course that means nobody links with that friend that always loses their phone, which in theory reduces their risk and pays for the bonus.
AudioKit v3.4 released
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Assuming you guys are gathering some data off the "get a quote" form to figure out where the most interest is outside of your current market.
If you read that forum thread you would know, that many of them already went past various ways to contact Lenovo and even got a "it's been escalated to dev team, but nothing more to say about it" reply there after a few months of complaining (that changed nothing of course).
Really depends on what size able means. Let's say the founders split the company 50/50. They're on a standard vesting schedule. One of them leaves after 1 year. They will have 12.5% of the company.

Do you consider this sizeable? I certainly would, and this will happen even if you have all the standard mechanisms in place!
Not this time- just a good ol' case of launch frenzy. Saw the comment, just this part "I got to "enter your name" and leaked out of the funnel" and jumped to conclusions :).
Surely cancer has always been a threat, it's just that in more recent centuries or millennia humans have achieved long enough lifespans to actually see its effects. Nowadays we live long enough to actually see the results of accumulated transcription errors as our cells regenerate (every 7 years I think?), which is basically the root cause of cancer.

Things like carcinogens or radiation make those errors more likely and can cause fatal cancer to occur sooner, but even with otherwise perfect health and perfect bodies, my understanding is that we'd all die from cancer eventually (with a long life, but not that much longer than what we enjoy today).
phone + fingerprint auth anyone?
Can't they just give an address nearby instead ?
Modern Technology Unlocks Secrets of a Damaged Biblical Scroll
I see a follow up to the article which provides further motivations - http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/09/ll-and-lr-in-context-why... - but I don't see a blog post diving into the algos.
> Autoimmune disease?Fixing the immune system would be the best solution to autoimmune disease

Zuckerberg should give you all his money.
I read some of the comments about the funnel and I set out to try it myself.

There are 8 steps to get a quote

1. First and last name
2. Full address
3. question (renter/owner)
4. roomates/alarm
5. current owner of insurance?
6. Jewelry over 1000$?
7. email, birthday
8. Quote, which seems highly generic and could be done without 6 of the 7 previous steps.

I can't even imagine the conversion rate from just checking it out to paying customer, it can't be too high at all (outside the founders circle).

ZipCode -> Quote should be the only step. The rest should happen after you convinced me about your value. By the way, don't email thisisridiculous@gmail.com, it's not really my email.
I've come across similar experiences in the K-12 space.

Flipped classroom models almost always also invariably involve more work for the students, who quickly shun it as well.

For an effective implementation, the flipped model class should flip the experience in its entirety: You will do at home 100% of what we'd do in lecture, and class for 100% of what you'd do at home. That is, no more homeworks, no more readings, etc., that gets done in class or in labs. Homework is literally just for watching lectures. That model has a much higher chance of success.
You'll have to talk to a lawyer for legal advice; You could do it preemptively or just wait. To properly pursue a UDRP they'll have to file a complaint in court, at which point you'll need a lawyer anyhow.

Personal opinion - is it really worth the hassle? You've not launched anything in 11 years, why not just set a fair price and re-brand your un-launched venture?
Indeed. It was a fun read.
Just because a business is using a proven model, doesn't mean it can't be a "hot new startup". Good for those businesses with sound fundamentals made accessible through new technology.
> Evolution doesn't decide

> Evolution exhausts

So, the remark is not about evolution being passive, but that the ability to decide requires sapience? I think, decidability is elementary to programming and in that sense completely mechanic. Anything else is begging the question of free will and the jury's still out on that one, so your "of course" is illegitimate.

> Evolution exhausts the lowest energy possibilities first, before moving on to higher energy configurations.

that's basic arithmetic. You can't have all the other numbers without the first.

> higher energy, more expensive configurations.

Expense and state are not equal. First, energy from the current state has to be expensed to activate some process, that will in turn increase or decrease the energetic state.

> If any of those building blocks are "deprecated", perhaps this effects things up the line, leading to the probability that cheaper, more basic constructions will survive longer because they have fewer steps in a given dependency chain.

That's a non sequitur motivated by observation. The idea of entropy is from thermodynamics and I'm not fit at that, but I think it is just defined for closed systems. Same basic Issue as with the free will, it depends on your knowledge of the limits of the system. If you deem free will a thing, why would you consider a bigger system, that works on a much larger timescale than humans, that is virtually limitless, to have a lesser degree of freedom, ie. none?
Fair enough. The reason we ask for your name first is because we want to create a more personal chat experience. We believe that buying insurance should not only be instant but also delightful.
On a side note: I talked to ICANN and, to my surprise, they really answer the phone now, and try to provide help. A couple of years ago I reported a domain registrar that didn't offer any mean to pay for a domain renewal, and they told me that they don't deal with customer support issues.
Who puts you in line when you're in the wrong? Do you have a CXO who feels truly comfortable telling you something you don't want to hear, even if she knows she can be fired on your whim? Do you go to lengths to make it be known that you welcome all critical feedback?
Well idioms don't translate well usually :)

They could've stated that they want to see the offers without providing a lot of information off hand.

You might want to consider displaying similar quotes for the area and filter them based on age group and income.

I don't know if there is a regulation requiring you to take the name before displaying a quote or not since different countries can have a different legal statue for a quote.
If 1% of your customers cause 10% of support tickets, it might be profitable to stop selling to those customers. Lenovo has no obligation to you or anyone else.
When I was a kid, I loved playing transport tycoon deluxe videogame.

When I grew up to be a programmer, never had much problems with concurrent stuff.

IMO designing concurrent programs is conceptually similar to building complex high-throughput low latency railway networks in the game.
I think peoples' perspectives on this are basically divided by the question of who they think is more effective at using these pools of money: foundations run by certain wealthy people, or governments. I've waffled on this question my whole adult life, but now more than ever, I'm pretty happy that, for instance, the donors to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation were able to donate all that money, instead of seeing it under the control of the current (or last few iterations of the) US congress...
The low end of ASUS includes things like the X205TA.

Here's Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/X205TA

Here's Ubuntu (this is a very long thread): https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254322

There's a video on youtube of a school tech support guy who has a bunch (149) of ASUS X200 to image the drives from a USB drive, and that involves updating the "bios" and then editing the bios settings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yectQ5MeS_Y

tl;dr: it's not fun on any of these netbooks.
My selecting that as an example is based on http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story....

My phrasing "seems to have been" reflects both my opinion, and the fact that it is far from certain.

That said, regardless of what happens with this specific theory, it is well worth reading Richard Feynman's remarks from 42 years ago in http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm. Until a field of research can demonstrate the kind of integrity that Feynman talks about there, nobody should believe what they claim. They can talk all that they want about how much work they did, the publication history, the supporting evidence - it is all BS until you have that.

Increasingly people call themselves "scientists" and call what they are doing "science" while lacking that fundamental foundation. The result is that it is becoming harder and harder to tell which claims about reality deserve provisional belief versus healthy skepticism.
It is. That's why immunotherapies have gone from a fringe area to something super hot attracting tons of funding.

But first, we need to understand the cell. For this we believe we need not only statistical learning, but also formal methods. See e.g. a slightly dated but brilliant paper from Luca Cardelli:

http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/Abstract%20Machines%20of%20S...
I would be surprised if it did not devolve into a kickback arrangement at some point. Benefit corps are a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist but gives a ton of leeway for under the table dealing. Not saying these guys have any particular reputation a priori, but when the structure is set up for it, it tends to happen sooner or later.

"Note, the Giveback is currently not recognized as a tax deductible donation- sorry!"

So it's actually worse than a standard mutual insurance dividend / rebate which you could donate yourself.
Your display is severely miscalibrated. Do a gamma calibration first then try again, things should look very different then!
... whether they want to or not.

Whether some would prefer to have Friday, or Wednesday off instead of Sunday is irrelevant. The state has decided that having time off on Sundays is the only acceptable way of organizing one's life, and it is imposed by force on everyone uniformly.

A democracy by definition is the will of the majority, the tyranny of the majority -- not the will of all the people in general.

To the extent that a democratic society does not wish to be oppressive, its participants ought to choose to maximize respect for individual rights and personal decisionmaking -- not arrogate to themselves a paternal decisionmaking role that dictates moral virtues from above to everyone, whether they like it or not.

Edit: incidentally, Sunday trading laws were not created to give people time with their families; that's a modern leftist retcon of the motive. Sunday trading laws are a relic of the medieval legal system, where they were created so that everyone could be required to attend church and receive moral instruction and sermonizing from a state-approved minister.
It is possible to win a UDRP case but I don't know if it's worth it. The following cases come to mind:

http://domainnamewire.com/2007/02/07/mgm-loses-bid-for-warga...

http://www.finnegan.com/publications/updatenewsletters/pubde...
> Those fines aren't coming from the top executives (or even mid-level) who made the decisions to promote this behavior, but rather the investors.

The investors are responsible for hiring and delegating authority to the top managers of the firm -- and through them the rest of the employees -- they may choose to be hands off, but that doesn't eliminate their responsibility.

The are also responsible for establishing procedures for holding those managers, etc., accountable for harms they cause to customers and/or the firm itself, so if the firm is (and, thereby, the investors are) getting hurt with no recourse, that's largely the investors own fault.
JotForm and Square announce integration
I'd say it's the rest of us who are defective.
As a near 10-year sufferer of severe ME/CFS, I can confirm this study has done unbelievable damage to the cause and should absolutely be retracted in full. Recent research has identified unquestionable, tangible and severe abnormalities in immune and metabolic function that are unique and consistent to ME/CFS sufferers, and this is no longer realistically up for debate. Most doctors though still dismiss the condition as psychological, and because of this (and even though the burden has been shown worse than other immune disorders like AIDS in many cases) funding is virtually non-existent. This study has been so widely disseminated and taught to medical professionals, the damage will take some time to undo unfortunately.
Well despite our differences in opinion, I respect your contribution to anonymity and privacy. And I'm a bit envious that you've met RD and NM.
One thing I hate is that essentially all vector graphics and text rendering (Cairo, Quartz, MS Windows, Adobe apps, ...) is done with gamma-oblivious antialiasing, which means that apparent stroke width / text color changes as you scale text up or down.

This is why if you render vector graphics to a raster image at high resolution and then scale the image down (using high quality resampling), you get something that looks substantially thinner/lighter than a vector render.

This causes all kinds of problems with accurately rendering very detailed vector images full of fine lines and detailed patterns (e.g. zoomed out maps). It also breaks WYSIWYG between high-resolution printing and screen renders. (It doesn’t help that the antialiasing in common vector graphics / text renderers are also fairly inaccurate in general for detailed shapes, leading to weird seams etc.)

But nobody can afford to fix their gamma handling code for on-screen rendering, because all the screen fonts we use were designed with the assumption of wrong gamma treatment, which means most text will look too thin after the change.

* * *

To see a prototype of a better vector graphics implementation than anything in current production, and some nice demo images of how broken current implementations are when they hit complicated graphics, check this 2014 paper: http://w3.impa.br/~diego/projects/GanEtAl14/
Eh, the money is going in and eventually coming out over lengthy timescales. If active management means dipping into a smaller number of tradable assets, then the effect would only be worse. If they have to split it between a large number of active managers with different strategies because their fund is too big, then they might be de facto indexing the broader market while paying over the odds for it.

For assets traded on an exchange at least (e.g., not directly-invested real estate), it's more of a logistical problem than anything else: how do you track indices that you want to track by dripping money into and out of the market, both trying not to affect supply/demand too much, but while not deviating from the index too much. It's the same problem that a BlackRock or Vanguard face but at slightly smaller (!) scale, and one more for computer programmers with knowledge of market microstructure than people that demand outsize bonuses who think they have "alpha" and get lucky (or not).
The thing that makes this a mystery is that we think the continents separated 175 million years ago, but primates didn't evolve until only 50 million years ago. I guess if there were still land-bridges between the continents 50 million years ago, then it makes sense that all humans are from the same small tribe that spoke the same "original" language. Problem solved. But my point was that language could have existed long before primates, and no one knows if that's right or wrong. The fact that monkeys don't talk is moot, because they are already 98% identical to humans so you can't make any argument based on similarity. Based on genetics there is no analysis that would have predicted monkeys wouldn't be able to speak, or for that matter be as intelligent as man.
How did I know it was going to be Matt Levine just by the title?
That opinion adds nothing to the current discussion. This isn't just an open "tell us any random opinion you might have!" forum; the idea is to contribute thoughts relevant to the topic.
I do wonder if Dell's trackpoints are going to suddenly improve now that IBM's old patents are expiring. If so maybe I'll get one too.
In theory, this is indeed true. However I went through the funnel twice. I googled "The worst neighborhood in new york", went to google maps and picked a random address from this neighborhood. Got the exact same price as another "good" neighborhood in new york.
What this guy does is not right. Yes, we can let crooks and sharks get what they want, but should we?

This is a daylight robbery. A trademark != domain name. You know the Dove trademark being used for both confectionery, and cosmetics, and there's no confusion in the marketplace even with such widely popular brand - how can there be an issue with som awkward loan shark company?
I think what you complaining about is really that Tolkein wasn't a moral relativist and that shows clearly in his writing.

This is different to the original complaint about a dichotomy - belief that some things are ultimately good and some other things are ultimately evil is not the same as dividing everything into rigid categories of only good or only evil.

Calling it a pilgrim's progress tale is a bit unwarranted, or at least overly reductionist - it's not that simplistic and that's only one aspect of LotR anyway.

A few grey areas off the top of my head: various elven decisions, Denethor, Frodo, Smeagol/Gollum, Saruman's initial study of ringlore. In Tolkien's writing, individuals do clearly good things, clearly bad things, difficult to judge things, and and things that are some combination of the previous three. All this happens within the framework of the very traditional overarching light v. dark theme (which is also the source of the association between evil and 'dark' and 'twisted' characterisations that some like to complain about).

A lot of it boils down to taste.
They (Government-sponsored scientists) were already working on all of these things.
Good question. Not so far. I can't quite see how to do it without getting bogged down in details. The "traditional" algorithms and grammar classes (Strong LL, Full LL, LR(0), etc) are complicated, and yet few people use these. The ones people actually do use (LL(star), ALL(star), GLR, IELR, LALR, etc) tend to be even more complicated.

Maybe the thing to do is to illustrate a few of the most basic algorithms by example, just to give people a taste of what they look like.
The article found that even strong punishments for failure were not enough in their toy model. So it isn't as simple as just punishing discovered bad behavior.

I'm reminded of an economics article that I read on cheating in sports. It turns out that no amount of punishment of cheaters would be enough to stop cheating in bicycling. What would be required is that if ANY bicyclist is caught cheating, EVERYONE who had worked with him who hadn't reported it would have to be punished. Don't just punish the cheaters, punish those in a position to have conceivably known who didn't report it.

The scientific equivalent would be to not punish bad research articles, but to punish everyone who went through the lab who could have raised the flag and didn't.

I'm pretty sure that they didn't try modeling that. It would have been interesting to know what that would have shown in their model.
How much are you making? What industry are you in? Where do you live? Is your income stable or volatile?

I charged a $250k rate ($125/hr) as a contract front-end developer based in SF for years. I worked exclusively for startups, and I worked remote more than 50% of the time.

My income was stable. I never had any downtime between contracts, and I often turned down work. I only had "light" months when I took vacations. Some months I made as much as $30-40k.

How long/What did it take to get to your level? What kind of work do you do? Do you enjoy it, or is it the stereotypical "highly paid because it's crappy" work?

I started as a web developer in college and I had contracts where I charged $60/hr. I didn't start charging $125/hr until I was 26.

I genuinely enjoyed the work I was doing. I only took gigs where I'd have a lot of creative license. More than a few times, I was the only front-end developer on the team. Sometimes I was the designer, too.

Is this a short-lived opportunity, or do you expect it to exist in 5 years?

Depends on the supply and demand of the startup economy: how many startups there are, how much funding they're getting, and how many good developers there are. Things seem like they're going strong, though. Last year I taught a smart friend of mine to code. She got a job making $100/hr in January. In hindsight, I probably could've charged more than $125/hr :D

Personally, I'm done with contracting. I really like the idea of running my own businesses/projects that generate regular income. Currently I'm working on https://IndieHackers.com. Not only is it a business for myself, but it also helps other with the same goal. I think being independent is the future of work for programmers.

What would your advice be to a 25-yr-old aspiring developer? 30? 35 ?

Don't become complacent. Never stop learning. Keep working on side projects and releasing them into the world. Almost all of my contract jobs were inbound requests that came when people saw my projects and wanted something similar for themselves.
Yes, and they're disproportionately more expensive (ie more than twice the price of 2 500GB's) because of the aforementioned issues. It's also the bottleneck in having say 5TB SSD's that are just 20 smaller ones stuck together, because you could cram them into a 3.5 inch enclosure.
Do you have a E=MC2 sort of revelation in regards to cancer?
> A democracy by definition is the will of the majority, the tyranny of the majority -- not the will of all the people in general.

No, its not. A democracy, by definition, is exactly what it seems by etymology, rule by the people in general.

Pure majoritarianism is one means of operationalizing the concept of "democracy", but its one that's pretty much been rejected as an undesirable means of doing so for, at least, most of the modern era.
Also, if anyone might be interested in being a mentor, please let me know. The more the merrier.
While I understand the sentiment it seems like a confusing message to put out there. With the "P2P" label when it's not a typical P2P model.
Only by turning almost 10% OF AN ENTIRE COUNTRY into doing nothing but producing an atomic bomb.

That's not 2 billion dollars, that's 2 TRILLION dollars.

So, basically, redirecting the US military budget. I approve.