skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neurons don't feel pain either.

In fact, the whole brain doesn't have pain receptors, which is why you can do surgery on it while the patient is awake.
I agree. Cannabis appears to be more of a stay-at-home intoxicant while alcohol is a superior social drug.
Interesting - especially the using the mouse/trackpad part. They're going to want pro tablets. Some of those two year olds of yore are now seven - and elementary schools in the U.S. are still very tablet focused. It'll be interesting to see what happens in four or so years when they start middle school and are expected to use traditional laptops.
> it was that the company was unable to produce & deliver the product that they said they could, at the price they agreed to

How is that not the deal going south?
I've been using BitWarden for about 4 months now and really like it. It's not as full-featured as others, but it does the job and is OSS, and unlike 1password, the chrome plugin works on Ubuntu.

Also, I am not a .NET dev, but if you take a look at the code it's one of the cleaner projects I've seen.
Yes, but one mammal has created a technological civilization.

There are no mice on HackerNews. I think.
Same in phone "portable" for "telephone portable" (portable can also refer to laptops, for "ordinateur portable"). The word convergence is coming, and the answer might be neither computer nor phone.
I used to do something similar. Go out but to a coffee shop and do my emails and planning, then go home and start the real work. I just found it too hard to go straight from breakfast to working at home without some sort of routine to switch to a work state.
> The easy is hard, the hard is easy

Probably the best single line description of Haskell.

The learning curve helps with the former (easy) part, the latter (hard) part contains some really brilliant ideas where you start to wonder why so many people still use other languages for everything, then you remember how hard the easy stuff can be...
A sidenote from a former bartender in a rough area: I'd be happy if this trend continues. I've had loads over loads of alcohol-related fights, but never a single problem with stoners. The stuff chills people down, in contrast to alcohol which for some people is enough to get them out of control for insulting their favorite politician...
Twitter live streaming channel now available on Roku
That was my guess, but I didn't want to be presumptuous. I tried with them and as well it didn't really stick. In my opinion "Learn You A Haskell" is a great supplememental reference, but a terrible teaching tool. And I think It's done more disservice to enforcing the reputation of Haskell being difficult to learn.

I highly recommend the lecture notes online from the "Upenn Spring 2013 Haskell" class. Search that phrase and it should be the first hit (am on mobile).

Go through the lecture notes, and do all the exercises in the homework. (Link in purple at the top). It's a night and day difference from LYAH.

And you get to build some nifty real world style projects along the way.

Good luck!
When you consider "trivial" to mean "only if you ignore all kinds of edge cases that most languages implicitly ignore" ... then Haskell has plenty of paper-worthy trivial problems.
Like interpreting 3d geological data used in oil drilling. I hear your idea express a lot, but have yet to see many great examples.

However... with something like leap magic (or any touch control), and voice. Suddenly you can constrain the data with your voice and manipulate it with your hands.
A Perspective on Electric Vehicles
> "Human fingers only have a very narrow range of motion in a single direction"

Each finger has three joints that can bend in and a little bit back. Each finger can move from side to side. There is a small amount of rotation around the base of the finger. The thumb has three joints, the bottom of which is opposable to create a gripping hand. The entire hand can bend, yaw and rotate with respect to the arm, and there is further flexibility in the bones of the palm.

If you doubt how complicated the hand is, download a free 3D figure posing system like Daz Studio [1], instantiate a figure, and then try to make a hand grip a small object, or gesture (e.g. v-sign, 'ok', hitchhiking, vulcan greeting).

[1] https://www.daz3d.com/
I've done it successfully. It was not easy. One of the hardest things I've ever done.
I agree - Torwald. Well done! Few people actually even compare percentages - they prefer the absolute number (88).

I'm good at math, not everybody is.

If you looked at it mathematically, this subset (black female co founders) are actually very well funded.

It's funny that a high funding rate is paired with an article that is trying to use the percentage value for exactly the opposite position. Who ever writes this junk needs to take a statistics class ASAP.

Question:
"As a black female founder I'm wondering if pursuing VC is worth the effort."

Answer:
Absolutely. The numbers don't appear on first glance, but they are actually on your side!!
The End of the Nuclear Industry as We Know It
Same here. I'm still shocked that my go-to IDE on Linux is something created by Microsoft, debugging languages they have nothing to do (Python), and distributed for free.

Great way to win back share of mind of developers.

Smart, Microsoft.
> Times are different now

This is perhaps due in part to the impact of widespread use of the GPL within the then-emerging FOSS community.
> Fortran was great for 77 but isn't great for 17.

Fortran is not the same in 17 as it was in 77. They are different languages.

> I don't have a hatred for Fortran. I just don't see any job where I'd prefer using Fortran over a more-sane alternative. Fortran was great for 77 but isn't great for 17.

Others do. Plenty of scientific programmers consider Fortran to be a perfectly sane language.

> I mean... when people use Fortran they usually don't even make use of Fortran 90's abstraction features. It's insane.

False. My group does.

> > Of course people like to use Python, but you don't get to use Python instead of Fortran. That would be incredibly slow. You use Python and Fortran. For example, you use NumPy and SciPy, which make Python a great high-level platform for numerical computing because they wrap large amounts of Fortran code.

> You are mistaken. NumPy does not contain Fortran in it's code base. SciPy does but it only makes up 25% of the SciPy code base. I have no doubt that within the next 20-50 years that will slowly be removed bit by bit.
Wrapping a legacy library is the first step to replacing it. Once you remove the hard dependancy you will remove

GP never said numpy contained Fortran in its code base, that was a strawman you added. Of course, that is what it means for numpy to provide a high-level platform for numerical computing: it means wrapping current code.
Mobile phones are called "Handys" in German. It's become such a satisfying and appropriate name for handheld computers, as distinct from traditional personal computers.

In British English, they've always called cellphones "mobiles", which is also a nice short name for mobile computers.
Tuleap, Free&Open Source Platform for Agile Management and Software Development
This is my question as well. We do that at fairs for fun, a spinning habitat seems very feasible.
But you aren't forced to use it. That's the whole point of having a dialer you can install.

It seems like the alternative you're suggesting is that vendors be able to lock you into their own dialer, which was probably produced by an outsourced firm anyway.

Or are you advocating that Google prevent people who download and modify the Android source from modifying that particular aspect of it?
A New Social Contract with Basic Income
You can buy a $250 aeron chair on craigslist although ;)
At a high-level, async/await lets you write non-blocking code as if it were blocking. Golang has a huge advantage here because the runtime was built from the ground up so that everything is non-blocking and the language has built-in support for operations that look like they block, but underneath the hood they don't actually block a thread.

Futures are interesting, but at the end of the day they are basically not that different from callbacks. Instead of writing a function that takes a callback, you write a function that returns a future that you essentially register callbacks onto. In Java 8 this type is called a CompletionStage. In fact, in one of Scala's coursera courses they teach you how to take callback-oriented code and convert it into code that returns futures. The fact that it is so easy to convert between the two helps illustrate that futures aren't really adding much. Yes you can compose using flatMap, but, again, I don't think this makes the code that much easier to write, or, more importantly, debug and maintain.

As an example, at $lastjob I converted a blocking networking library to a non-blocking one. I started out using futures but I found that it generated a lot of Lambdas, which made debugging much harder because the stacktraces were long and incomprehensible. I ended up switching to callbacks and used named, not anonymous classes to improve readability. Not only did the code feel easier to read and debug but I got better performance out of the library due to reduced memory pressure.
man, as soon as that ad began playing, I remembered it... Remember the PS9 ad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRJXLu3YVpM
I am sorry but you lose me here.

"It proposes a way by which those neurons can create subjective experience, yes"

I just don't see it.

Suppose you somehow show me that various neurons contain particles that are entangled. Let's say I believe you.

So now how do they create subjective experience?

I see blue because my neurons are entangled? I see a flower because my neurons are entangled?

What is "the medium that they are creating"? How are you even using these words.

If I knew that my neurons have entangled particles, I would know no more about consciousness than I do now.
>but I think the separation in the causal chain between condition and response is significant.

Term 'free will' seems to be thought terminating cliche. It seems poetic and deeply meaningful but descriptions as yours say it's just 'deterministic action interrupted with coin flips'. From the subjective point of view it does not matter if action is deterministic or arbitrary coin flip. There is no 'freedom' in free will.
Ok, I see. Well, I agree with you there. But I have an other problem here : it's theft as well when people who keep buying and selling property keep profiting on people who actually keep companies running, who keep losing.

Trump, Lepen, what is called populism (I hate that word) feed on that. People feel that what they produce is being stolen. I, for one, don't want to think that finance is a problem. I think it's going too far, though, and that History is taking its revenge (or that it's on a downtrend?).

I require your help here to stop the hate : can you think of something that allows to be fair to both those who own property and those who create its value?

EDIT : or, to get more conceptual : you're fair to everyone, or you're fair to no one. Fairness is not a thing that applies to only a few, it's the exact opposite, by definition.
>Cue the cries for UBI.

$12k is the cited number that you see a lot in basic income discussions. That's just over the poverty level. That's not enough to live on and it's practically a bonus for some members of this site. It's not enough to do anything with. Even with that, people would still work massive hours to obtain the best house on the block.

But just to do that in the US you are talking about 3 trillion dollars (300 million x $10k for easy math) that you have to find in the budget. Now basic income advocates will say you can make up some if not most of that by cutting welfare programs, but given the nature of welfare programs - good luck. That stipend is also not enough to pay for healthcare, so you can't cut that.

How exactly do you convince a nation which already isn't willing to pay for healthcare to pay for basic income, too?

I'd love to be wrong, but I've never seen any numbers that are workable, especially in a political climate anything like today. There could be a complete paradigm shift in the future, where machines literally take care of all needs in an automated way, but that's such a strange reality that welfare is honestly about the last problem we'd need to discuss.
The vive already has a camera... could this be applied there?

What are some other applications?
Your grand grand parents probably died of polio or something, so I am not sure if taking their advice on health is a good idea.
Granting permissions seems pretty clear. If a dialer asks for too many, use a different dialer. If a manufacturer preloads data-hungry apps, buy a device from someone else.
I use `pass` with git versioning. Encrypted with GPG. Does the same, doesn't it? Not that fancy but it works well.
Weed is extremely popular right now. Weed is big part of a lot of people's budget right now.

With weed legal, the price will go down and I'm not sure if those people buying now are going buy so much more that their expenditure will rise - my guess is a lot of people may buy more but spend less.

Which leaves more money for ... beer.
Seems like 3D space rail shooters (e.g. StarFox) do okay, but nobody ever wants to make one of those. (Even the StarFox team seems to only want to make games that are at most half that, to everyone's consternation.)
There's a measure of consciousness - if you accept that other adult humans are conscious then at some point babies move from not capable of conscious to capable of conscious (maybe 20 weeks?). If you accept that then go and play with a dog and reflect on awareness/awakeness/agency and compare with a baby.
Funny - my first thought on seeing the name 'pigz' was the parallel decompression algorithm put 'gzip' in the wrong order!
He explicitly calls out "copyleft source code." That means reciprocity.
Take government issued ID into the bank. They can reset everything for you.
Some say all sound engineers are all failed musicians. And then some became coders. And then some became founders...

Me and my co-founder regard our "ventures" into music as part of what needed to be learned to be able to become good coders. Without it, we would be not this skilled. So we're happy we didn't end up doing what we wanted to. Sounds like you have the same experience :)
An AI defeated human fighter pilots in an air combat simulator (2016)
I love LeapMotion, just wish more apps supported it.

When I use LeapMotion I dont get motion sickness. Huge win!
Not if the people who could solve this problem refuse to participate.
... which is the opposite of its pure vision, which is why I can't help think it is a negative.
Imagine the same situation with other "core" component of smartphone — browser. That you have TrueExplorer Pro that sends each visited url and form data to central server and has broken https. And that you can't replace it with Chrome/Firefox/Opera. It will be worse than custom caller.
Medical records can also be used as identification since they contain data that is unique only to you.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cybersecurity-hospitals-id...

It is very easy for the typical software engineer to come up with the brilliant idea of open sourcing everything without thinking of any of the consequences. But the real world is much more complex than that.
If you are spending nearly a grand a month on it, then you might as well just grow ~4 large potted plants in your living room. They are beautiful plants, and their timed lights help to keep your own circadian rhythm steady. They also make a nice conversation piece.

They do have a distinctive smell, though, especially once they are budding. If you aren't already growing other herbs and vegetables, then that might be undesirable.
I am curious if you have never visited the United States, you're atypically nonsocial, or live in an isolated region.

I'm really interested as to how you got your perspective, as I find all of your premises bizarre.
You keep posting this as if it's relevant. Shit does happen, but it doesn't change the facts that Blizzard owns that code. Also, many in this thread are acting as if Starcraft itself is going to be destroyed thanks to this guy returning the code. You can download Starcraft for free from Blizzard [1] and they're releasing a remastered version soon [2]. It isn't going anywhere, so even by your own assertion there is no moral right to preserve the source, which isn't needed to enjoy the cultural artifact it creates.

People make mods for tons of games without source code. People are making up excuses and flimsy reasons to get what they want.

[1]: https://starcraft.com/en-us/articles/20674424

[2]: https://starcraft.com/en-us/
Rational self interest? Heresy!

We must ride the train of pathological altruism to the very end!

Ironically, this religion of globalism is a crude form of Christianity, with none of the pretty prose. The original sin of success must be paid for by eternal self-flagellation.

Even more interestingly, this new religion has only taken root in the west, which has mostly abandoned traditional religious dogma. Perhaps pathological altruism is inherent in those of western genetic origin? The non-western world appears to have none of these hangups regarding their past successes. I don't see Japanese and Chinese leaders flooding their nation with immigrant labor to atone for their recent economic gains while demonizing their own people for past sins.

Fascinating indeed.
> ...know abstract algebra and category theory

How true is this? I never seen a FP tutorial that started with this or even mentioned it. Or is this simply an assumption that it should be known before even trying to take Haskell seriously?
Anything short of figuring out how to prevent the heat death of the universe is a waste of time.
ANT DOWNLOAD MANAGER PRO 1.4.4 BUILD 40330 DOWNLOAD FREE 2017
I have never received one. Ever. I have had a mobile phone for twenty years. This problem seems very specific to the US.
Annual, although I'd like to see some real life high volume SaaS numbers on churn comparing the two.

We do non-recurring monthly and recurring annual as a in-between solution.
How you can dramatically speed up your Django site with one setting
Inside Codeland – the most inclusive developer conference yet
A brisk walk instead of sitting down: Just ten minutes a day makes a difference
It sends each URL already, they call it "safe browsing"...
It's more fun when they try to swipe the TV and can't understand why it doesn't work the same way.
The ones controlling advanced aircraft will, in some cases, fly faster than most bullets.
Yeah, but we are made of The Universe, and yet The Universe is and we can't say why. So I don't get where Dennet's argument goes.

I don't think he does either.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/daniel-dennetts...
I can't have a separate office; I'm stuck with the office my employer provides me. I could go find another job of course, but it's going to be the same there, or worse, since all the employers have jumped on the open-plan office bandwagon.

At home is the only place I get a little peace and quiet, aside from my cats jumping in my lap. Kids would eliminate that.
I'm in the process of becoming a farmer. Weed is one of the crops I've researched. It could take a ~90% drop in price and still provide a sustainable profit.

That's from a cultivators perspective.
I wonder if there would be some way to have FFIEC revoke their acceptance of SMS as 2FA?
Fair enough, if you make mad money in this industry, you could obviously afford it.

That brings me to the next point: to smoke 1 oz / weed every 2 weeks, you probably smoke at least once every waking hour.

So these HN rich kids who do it would almost assuredly require being high to do any work at all.

Personally, I don't want my engineers high as a kite 24/7 while working for me. Personal time is personal time, but on the clock non-stop smoking? But I guess people get away with it.
PureScript has great potential. I'm very excited for what it offers the future of Javascript and even Haskell. It's on a whole other level than Elm.

The only problem from my experience trying to use it in a project is that since it's alpha software a) it's changing so fast that APIs/libraries are very unstable to the point they are almost unusable if you try to follow newish releases (this was 6-8 months ago, I hope/expect stability has improved) and b) you have to be intimately familiar with Haskell.

As the OP's article describes about Haskell with PureScript the documentation situation is even worse, the documentation is 90% "hard" and 10% "soft". Which is fine if you know Haskell, or even a bit of Elm, but it's very tough coming in as a newbie of both Haskell and PS.
Question, why use Optimizely for server side testing, you're going to pay a lot of money for something that has a ton of open source alternatives, and really isn't rocket science.

Their client side stuff was revolutionary, marketing can run tests by themselves FTW. The grid in this article goes into that.

On the server side, you're going to need to add triggers for goals etc in your development environment, just feels like shoehorning Optimizely in their non core competency is a mistake.
Yeah, but look at those joints, though. Big, loose, with lots of smoke just drifting off. Not a problem if weed is cheap, but it does mean that some compensating factor is needed to make a valid comparison.
I think a lot of Haskeller's will find Elm's type system to be limited and frustrating. Even for simple things the solution in Elm is that you have to write a bunch of boilerplate.
I don't think it'd be cheating, just like using programs to compress files isn't cheating.

However, there's two ways to look at this.

1) designing "some kind of data" specifically for this problem.

2) a general-purpose solution, where you could could put any data on the paper.

You could hit some obscenely-high number for 1), using some tricks or whatever.

But 2 probably has some sensible solution on the order of MB.

Example: if our function is as simple as "raise each number in the sequence to the next" we'd get some obscenely-large number, and we can put that function right on the page.

But, finding an obscenely large number representing some kind of data that actually means something, then coming up with a rule like that to reduce it?

Anyway, my argument would be: no, having an external compression algorithm isn't cheating, but formulating your data to fit the problem is.

Anyway, there exists no general-purpose compression algorithm, so compression would largely be out of #2, unless we're taking a subset of the problem: "how many English words can fit..." which of course we can come up with a good compression algorithm for (I think!) which would make it work.
I was about to comment, it is very annoying to write on a tablet for any kind of school length work. I would hate to write an essay on a tablet.

Then I realized I have installed Dragon on this computer, and there wasn't even a reason for me to type this reply. So I will risk a guess and assume that in the future essays will be spoken, not written. No doubt there will be an epic fight over this, as people try to defend why children of the future will have to learn to type. I will hazard one more prediction: they will lose.
I find it quite misleading to call it "Free" if the free one is only for personal use or at least to not the Team/Organization option.
Up voted for the reference to Steve Harnad what a lovely man :)
Excellent post!

I hated my last job, was thoroughly miserable and finally realized that I had ended up in a state of "learned helplessness." Your approach would have helped me tremendously.

Thankfully, I've had some time for growth and introspection since leaving that company.
Really? I find the single-letter version far easier to read.