skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, Joel isn't wrong. Quiet distraction free environments are hard to come by. I do my best work personally when no one is bothering me for about 6 hours at a time.

I worked the cube farm before, it was ok when it was quiet. Open spaces are horrendous. You may as well try working at a bar with your friends. It just ain't gonna happen. A private office seems like an unheard of thing these days.
Thank you for your story.

How much weight would you put in the saying that you are the average of your five closest friends? Do you have any close friends who didn't make it out?
if this news is even partially true. I'd say the US gov is pretty adept at manufacturing any "proof" at will

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/us-government-pentag...
I am always puzzled why Curry which is Haskell + Prolog in one unified packet has never taken off. Combining the advantages of functional and logic programming paradigms seems to have so many interesting applications.

Admittedly, Curry is an academic language, not 100% production ready.

http://curry-language.org/
Open offices are a fun time, right? lol, that meta-distraction from other's distraction is entertaining in a metaphysical sense. ;) I find that semi-quiet large workplaces are the most difficult for my ADHD brain. If there are people working near me on similar problems I have to share with them otherwise it's extremely distracting for me as I can't as naturally filter out what they're doing, like getting coffee or being distracted themselves. It actually feels rude.

For me it's like I don't have as much of a "middle ground" like most people. Either I'm social engaged with people around me and tossing ideas around, or I'm super-focused and completely absorbed in work to the point of completely ignoring coworkers (which again doesn't go over well). Medication helps bring that filtering function from a step-function to more of a smooth "sigmoid" function. It's more for other people though than myself.

Making usage of those distracted times by communicating necessary details or help arrange effective sharing across projects helps a lot too. That "distractibility" can be a boon at times if honed. Still I like to put focused project work at night when others aren't around, but that's hard to maintain.
If Google can reuse names like "Go" and "Dart," then their "szl" is fair game for reuse.
Cutting through to what matters
Instead of memorizing tables, it would be more valuable to programmers to read how these numbers come to be in the first place. An excellent, and much longer read, is by Ulrich Drepper[1].

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/
Writing that is totally irresponsible and betrays how little knowledge the creators have about general nutrition and allergen health. Nearly very single item in their product is a well-known allergen, which includes soy, oat, canoloa, chocolate, etc.
>which imbues the government with the imaginary omnipotence

No it merely recognises that the government, by its nature, is in a unique position to attempt to tackle these problems, because pretty much any other actor has neither the power nor the inclination to do so.

> What evidence do you have that this possibility exists at all?

Perhaps there is none. But unless you can prove that, I'd rather continue trying, because inequality sucks pretty bad.
? You have strange beliefs about what is easy and what is hard on machines that are setup properly in advance and ones that are not. I could believe that the DoD can occasionally do attributions on attacks into its network. That poorly administered machines attacked over years contain sufficient data to identify that only one perpetrator took data and then which attack they were needs a lead actor like travolta.

(Nowhere did I say Russia attacks without traces, script kiddies just watch ninja films. They are among the tens of thousands of attackers that leave traces of attempts every few minutes. The only inherent advantage state attackers have is that they don't need to monitize so 90% of the ways they should get noticed are gone, leaving them to get noticed more by honeypots than people running machines on the open Internet with no specific plan to detect intrusions.)
Couldn't tell me who the CEO of Apple is... :(
> Why does one meal made by a tech company need to have literally everything you need to live when the alternatives don't?

Mostly because of their marketing claims: 'We engineered Soylent to provide all the protein, carbohydrates, lipids, and micronutrients that a body needs to thrive.'

Particularly the 'micronutrient' claim I think is totally unproven.

Nobody seriously expects to survive and be healthy eating nothing but breakfast cereal (admittedly, a lot of cereal is crap), but that's Soylent's claim at face value.

One thing that traditional foods have going for them is that there is a lot of empirical cultural experience with them. You know yogurt, or curry, or broccoli is probably ok to eat, because humans have eaten them for some thousands of years and tinkered with them nonstop during that time. The same can't be said for 'engineered' foods, whether Soylent or any other modern processed food.
That's an interesting perspective, and a good point.
The saddest part is that by torturing few the US triggered the torture of many many more. Egypt, Turkey, Venezuela and almost everybody else: why hold back when the US do it? When the good ones do it? Torture is mainstream, morally acceptable and maybe even efficient - why else would the western democracies do it? By torturing their foes the US damaged the whole world for decades, maybe centuries to come.
Long-term insurance business is losing money. It only exists as small insurance companies can re-insure with bigger ones and the biggest get state support.

Also consider that paying out of pocket has transactionall cost and it could be that on average it is cheaper to pay through insurance company.
Yeah, it seems that I didn't make the note functionality intuitive. They supposed to be for general use, like: "I get distracted around 12". Should I explain it better and leave them for general purpose or make a description view for every task ? I will definitely add repeat functionality as well as possibility to plan entire week in advance.
As hunt for sterile neutrino continues, mystery deepens
No, of course not. But the price was listed as "$128k". The closest power of 2 to the actual full price is 2^17, but I doubt most technical people would recognize that as 131,072.
Even more interesting is that Prof. Dr. Hanus, one of the two original designers of the language, teaches both Haskell and Prolog in his lecture, but not Curry.

(And Dr. Huch, another person from Hanus’ team, who held that lecture this year, also didn’t mention Curry in it.)
I've never been to Burning Man but for a few years I was heavily into meditation, dabbled in psychadelics, and was reading Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, and any other mind-expanding literature I could get my hands on.

I get the sense Burning Man used to attract people like my younger self. From my Facebook and Instagram feeds, I now see many startup scenesters I know attending. If I want know, I feel I'd have to be much more careful to suppress my "weird" side. I can understand why the original attendees feel the event has become too diluted to be appealing.

Not having been, I don't know, but from a distance it looks like a pattern I've seen play out in other communities. One thing I've noticed is that many people who are genuinely cool, interesting, curious, adventurous and so on, don't see themselves that way at all - and many people who see themselves as cool and creative are in reality vapid and shallow.
I think the problem is your post reads like it's a discovery of your own, jsfuck and previous artwork are only hinted at the end.
Very interesting! Nice to see how little code it is. I wonder how much work it would be to get it to answer questions like "What is the biggest planet?" or fix that "Who was Prime Minister of Canada in 1945" drops "of Canada"?
Note that caja doesn't protect against local denial-of-service attacks: user-written javascript executed with it could allocate tons of memory or run forever (`while(true){}`). This may or may not be a problem depending on your use-case. (If you're using caja for code written by mostly-trusted 3rd parties, or for one user's code only on their own machine, then it's not much of an issue. If you're serving code written by one user to another, then it could be a problem.)
Show HN: Type: A FOSS clone of typing.io
Why are you not allowed a computer when incarcerated?
I had the same question, so I was sure to be there to audit this class. It was great. He goes into Geoff Moore's product distribution model... underscoring the importance of finding early adopters rather than already established huge guys who think a new technology is too risky. He acknowledges that if you build it they're not guaranteed to come. He shares several anecdotes from his time building Ascent Technologies, which I believe is airport-plane-traffic-management software (with AI) used by 80% or so of all airports in the U.S.
Mercury is another programming language that combines Prolog plus functional programming that probably doesn't get as much attention as it deserves https://mercurylang.org/
And then there's Mario Savio[1]:

"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels…upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Savio
But it seems to be way more than a hand-wavy "feel it in our bones" certainty.

Critics seem to focus on casting doubt on very specific issues with the story and then proceed to write off the entire narrative without analyzing the other very real and supportable assertions.

Certainly no investigative journalism is complete so far as the reporter isn't able to uncover 100% of the facts (especially when covering the activities of CIA). But unravelling enough should warrant that the story be told and considered anyway.
Well,
I've been in the management of the biggest free web hosting provider for quite some years already. I do know what I am doing
But Clinton has more power over media than Trump and I have seen more positive bias in media towards Clinton than towards Trump. The media is creating more noise and publishing their opinions rather than doing good old journalism of bringing news to public without their personal bias. Well, I thought Trump was racist and didn't like him at all. But then I looked into what Clinton has done, Trump looks like better option than Clinton on ethical grounds of who is cleaner politician. Clinton was in power, and what did she do with that power. I think she has been in power long enough and that Trump should be given a chance. My personal reason for not liking Clinton is that video about "we came, we won" comment about Gadaffi getting killed, Clinton getting protected eventhough there is evidence that she carelessly handled confidential email, but since she has power she got away. Why should she be treated different than any govt employee that mishandles confidential info? And the thing about those giving donations to Clinton foundation getting more meetings with her while she was secretary of state than others who didn't get that preferential treatment from her. I think Trump has more integrity than Clinton.
I usually will look at the input, and then look at my output. If it's not what I expect, I look at the code. Then I'll discover something usually. It's hard to articulate how I do it. I couldn't pass one of those hacker rank style challenges for 2 or 3 companies this year out of the box, but I think I can debug code pretty well.
And subtle bugs often arise out of edge cases, and edge case issues aren't caught by most type systems.
re CII

I love that. Quite thorough without being very heavyweight. Keep up the good work. :)
I created this layout and navigation to add tasks as quickly as possible. If I copied it from Google, then it wouldn't be my app. I really like your quick glance functionality idea. I will implement it. I will check what's wrong with reordering.
I remember Borland Turbo Prolog. But it was so long ago that I lost the disk it was on.
3 minutes after they sent it.
FTA:
The study focuses specifically on how the educational attainment of families changes over time, which the researchers use as a proxy for economic mobility.

That use as a proxy has not been justified. It is a massive cognitive leap. Nobody brought up poverty in the article.
Thanks. I am glad you like it.
Ask HN: What are things that a programmer must know how to do?
- merge two sorted arrays
- fizzbuzz
Justified or not, I still consider those deaths unfortunate.
Note that the vm module doesn't protect against local denial-of-service attacks: user-written javascript executed with it could allocate tons of memory or run forever (despite any configured timeouts: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3020).
You're assuming that people who take Uber would take taxis if Uber were not available. That's a big assumption.

I (like most people, I'd imagine) evaluation my options for each trip:

- Drive for myself. Fast, comfortable, fun, probably a trivial amount of gas, but I refuse to search for street parking and depending on destination I may not want to pay $30+ for a garage space.

- Taxis, which will probably run $25-30 each way + tip, for around $70 spent on transportation for the evening.

- Cycling, which is a no-go in Chicago winter, or when I'm going somewhere nice and don't want to arrive sweaty, or when I'm going home late and don't trust the safety of the bike path.

- Public transit, which will be cheap but excruciatingly slow and a revolting experience on hard surfaces in a harsh florescent-lit car smelling urine, listening to ambient rap music from people's shitty phone speakers, and trying to find something to look at other than the people my seat is pointed at.

- UberX, which is fast but a tad expensive for me at ~$15 for a taxi-like experience (except you can actually get one in my neighborhood).

- UberPOOL, which is usually a "just right" balance of comfort (sit in a nice or at least modern car, look out the window, other passengers are rarely if ever an issue), speed (the routing algorithm does do ridiculous things, but rarely), and cost - usually around $7-$10.

- Not go out because I don't want to put up with public transit or spend what it costs for private transit.

Withdrawing Uber won't put me in a taxi, it'll put me in my own car, occasionally public transit, or more likely staying in and ordering delivery.

Same with Airbnb. I take longer vacations, or vacations I wouldn't have in a hotel, because Airbnb is cheaper. I don't have extra money lying to pay hotel prices; if the cost of travel increases I will buy less travel.
Siege of Jadotville
ant6n, there's something weird going on with images on your homepage - http://imgur.com/a/CGse2 - they all appear shrunk horizontally. That's in recent Firefox on Windows.
Why Pixar open sourced its 3D graphics technology
Web app idea to get practice in realtime
Hi,

does anyone have an ideas for realtime app that will be interested from tech point of you to get practice with Angular 2?

I have some indes, but it's mostly like a "study" cases and not useful..maybe someone have some interesting ideas for that?

I'm looking for realtime app with charts, indexes, maps, anything.

Thanks!
I am absolutely shocked by this 'They knew that the methods inflicted on terrorism suspects would be painful, shocking and far beyond what the country had ever accepted. But none of it, they concluded, would cause long lasting psychological harm.'

How could one reasonably think that torture such as leaving someone suffocating at the bottom of a well would not leave lasting effects?
A president can't do anything without the support of Congress. Electing a libertarian president would move the needle not a jot. Look at how Obama has been stymied, and he's all for the establishment.

If Trump gets in, he'll be able to do a lot of reputational damage with his rhetoric, but without the support of Congress, he'll be able to do very little in the way of actual legislative change. Mind you, it'll be interesting to see what he does when the debt-limit timebomb comes up again.
"Embrace, extend, and extinguish", also known as "Embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found that was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_extend_extinguish
I don't get why people continue to recommend TI-83s. I showed up to Algebra II with an 85, but 83s were weirdly prevalent until calculus "strongly recommended" TI-89s.

In this context, the 83 is an awful, awful choice, because TI-83 programs only allow for variable names to be one character long. I was lucky, when someone asked me to copy my TI-85 blackjack program into their TI-83, that I had used less than 28 variables.
Let me try to be more clear: I make two opposite hypotheses: two alleles versus many alleles. The two alleles hypothesis would imply little variability among families, many alleles would imply much variability inside families. Where is my logical error?
Is curation the future of search?
That's not the problem in so many cases. If you ever try to do anything remotely adversarial (investigative journalism, whistleblowers, for example), you'll find that the anonymity problem goes far beyond cultural inclusivity. That said, strong anonymity doesn't really solve everything since metadata/sentence structure is still damning.
Just 3rd party I believe. FlyInside are at the moment gathering people for a beta using the Rift and Vive with X-Plane. Their FSX plugin is excellent. More info at their forums here https://flyinside-fsx.com/
"In certain sectors such as finance, it can be self-detrimental as in the case of the financial meltdown in 2007-2008. When a predictive system becomes too efficient, it undermines the very foundation upon which it stands.

If you’ve gathered enough wealth and your services are so efficient that their values skyrocket, but there’s no money left for anyone to afford them, then you’ve fallen victim to the seductive power of siren servers."

what the fuck is this author talking about? this is so incoherent. CIA can predict black swan events now and the super computers can accumulate so much wealth that no one can afford it? what is this website?
is this satire?
Of course genetics is a factor (and I think you're overplaying the rejection of that), but to what extent does it explain inequality?

Now I haven't personally looked into it in detail, but I'm guessing that, since it's obvious as you say, some studies on inequality have indeed considered genetics. And I think that if the answer was "Yeah, poor people were all just born too dumb to be rich" it would probably have been a pretty big story, and brought up often in these debates.

Since it hasn't, I'm guessing the answer is that it's more complicated than that. Do you have evidence to the contrary?
As even a casual review of history will reveal, torture is something that humans are prone to doing. It has always happened and probably always will. Other than giving up the moral high ground, I doubt what the US does or doesn't do in this regard has much impact on what despotic regimes do.
There's a BSD licensed open source version, all linked from http://shenlanguage.org/download_form.html

That's what I used for my post. There's "Shen Professional" which is a closed source subscription based product getting rapid development http://shenlanguage.org/professional.html

I have not used "Shen Professional" though.
I agree whole heartedly that these are good numbers to have in your head.

http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/

measures a bunch of these in a portable way. It tries to give you latency & bandwidth of all the things.
I have to heavily stress the appropriateness of Computer Science Unplugged. While technically oriented toward younger students, it's absolutely appropriate for an older adult learner without a computer. If he can learn the material in CS Unplugged front and back, and understand it perfectly, he'll be very well placed for starting a career in programming when he gets out. Many programmer interviews are based on the materials that this book covers.

And it's just a book, and all exercises in it can (and should) be done with no computer.

Once he works through this, send him a copy of SICP: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ Covers some of the same material at a much higher level, and more.
If they were all about getting attention, they would get more attention by running a tabloid or glamor magazine
The Barton Swing Aqueduct: the world's only moving aqueduct
He did reply to a mail of mine a couple of months ago though. Curry is still in development.
Me :)

I'm 'fighting' ('working' is a better definition) for civil rights in my city, so I think I will be incarcerated in the future...

I think I will organize a 'paper' version of Scratch, with me as an interpreter of lines of code.

edit: I'll miss Stallman's videos...
> You can be very sure that the anonymous person you communicated with last week is the same anonymous person you are communicating with and potentially transacting with today.

> You can be very sure that your pattern of transactions will not reveal who you are.

How are these not mutually exclusive?

I can understand how the first one would work with a digital signature, but seems like you'll still need to trust the person you're transacting with to not reveal your history.
My point exactly. Cash payment is a pretty dubious option.
This is my stack.

TERP Stack : The most adventureous stack for

InTREPid EnTERPreneurs

Tornado RethinkDB Emberjs Python.

LEST GO!
If you're being incarcerated for advocating civil rights, then you're doing it wrong. There are plenty of ways to affect change without committing a crime.
> I did. Anyone that ever wrote their own Scheme, Oberon, or C compiler in primitive language did. Common assignment in classrooms. :P

Well... you implemented a compiler. And hey, that's a great thing. I've implemented several myself. But I doubt that you proved that it was correct, or that it was a large-enough language that many people would want to use it directly. :-).

> I'm actually ignoring them on purpose to get a short-term win as you put it. Specifically, I'm expecting incremental, well-tested, inspectable compiler without expecting formal verification. I list it as necessary for full-trust but not necessary to get baseline up.

Okay. But as you note, you're also focusing on shorter-term wins... they're just different shorter-term approaches for for different goals. And that's okay.
I think the confusion is due to you thinking of the total number of cell divisions, while I am thinking of the number of divisions separating a given cell from the zygote.

This lead me to misunderstand the relationship you were claiming between "This is not how the body operates" and "skin and gut cells reproduce far more often than normal".
Book: "How to solve it" by George Pólya (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It)
You can create symbols that persist to an external database file when you call 'commit' or rollback changes with 'rollback'.
Similar to SICP, I'd recommend "How to Design Programs" (2nd ed.) [1]. It describes an "algebra of data" using
Racket [2] (a modern lisp) as the vehicle.

[1] http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/index.html
[2] https://docs.racket-lang.org/racket-cheat/index.html
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PDB – ANSI-C to PostScript compiler (1993)