skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a blog post about a simpler and statistically grounded method: http://julesjacobs.github.io/2015/08/17/bayesian-scoring-of-...
Piecing together the dark legacy of East Germany's secret police
Shervin Pishevar on Uber/Benchmark
There was a concept like this floating around the internet a couple of years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JelhR2iPuw0

http://gizmodo.com/keyboards-that-rise-out-of-a-touchscreen-...
A Game of Life on Penrose Tilings
I didn't didn't mean to imply JS was more or less buggy than C++ or Java.

Regarding the article you linked to, I recommend reading the discussion in the comments section (https://medium.com/@oxymor0n/eric-9f4869bb0ecb).

The UC Davis paper, for example, concludes:

"...language design does have a significant, but modest effect on software quality. Most notably, it does appear that strong typing is modestly better than weak typing, and among functional languages, static typing is also somewhat better than dynamic typing.

"This is strong evidence that functional static languages are less error prone than functional dynamic languages … In order to strengthen this assertion we recode the model as above using treatment coding and observe that the Functional-Static-Strong-Managed language class is significantly less defect prone than the Functional-Dynamic-Strong-Managed language class with p = 0.034."
JavaScript is already concurrent. It isn't parallel though.

Is there any real world application that currently cannot exist without this feature? It seems like a solution looking for a problem.

I can see needing the ability for parallel JS for highly-parallel compute-heavy applications but those already seem serviced by SharedArrayBuffer.

So... why?
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The elephant in the room is that humanities have zero predictive power. And reaction to unexpected results is markedly different, too. If the eclipse did not happen exactly as predicted, hard sciences would (mostly) excitedly scramble to understand how and why. If Trump gets elected...you get stuff like this article "oh my what kind of person we are in this Trump era".
Skype’s new ‘Interviews’ feature lets you test candidates using a code editor
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The socialist “silicon ceiling”: East German women in computer science
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Is "get" som es6 thing?
10%, sure. But are you any worse off if, out of those 10%, 1% can afford a private jet?
Hi Zach, I'm working on a implementation of the actor model for node, and since you mentioned it, I was wondering if you would perhaps be able to provide some feedback on it. Still very early days, but making some good progress on a single node implementation.
I need concurrency to parse and prepare streamed 3D data while keeping the main javascript/render thread fast. WebWorkers are already very useful in that regard.
Used to be true but increasingly less since the euro crisis tbh. I've lived in two countries in the EU (native to one of them) and the perception is definitly that a lot of power has shifted, and not for the worst. Honestly small EU countries love the EU for the strong currency and the appearance that they have for making smart legislation like this one, the ban on roaming charges, etc. even the windows without IE thing was a good idea, while poorly implemented. Without the EU small countries would have little to no power over global corp anyway, so this is essentially the EU delivering on its promise.
I always thought an interesting experiment would be to fire off a handful of nuclear bombs in space. (Rather deep space, like well out of where they could do any harm to Earth.)

Then pace the time between detonations to different prime numbers...
The weird stat that always sticks out to me is the maternal mortality rate being so bad in the USA versus other developed nations in spite of unrationed care. There's a big racial component in that but it doesn't explain the difference (You're more likely to die if you are a black mother in the USA, and there is no physiological reason for that.) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/has-maternal-mort...
And here you are on HN... (SCNR)
It is actually ES5: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

In a nutshell: it is used for computed properties, which compute their value on 'get' operations instead of storing them.
What happened here? My original comment about Trump is gone and replaced with the body of another comment I made.
You analysis is on point. The comments on Reddit in particular were so far off base. On one hand you had people raving about how this needed to be patented and produced for sale - those people are (perhaps optimistically) out of touch with reality. On the other hand were people laughing in his face for how ridiculous this was to produce as a project, because it's obviously not marketable ("I am so smart").

It goes to show how the average person thinks - everything has to be about the ability to make money, right? Why should anybody do ANYTHING if it's not aimed at directly producing income? So few people remotely understood that this has NOTHING to do with the final product and its (non-)place in the world. This is about learning a lot about every step, from concept and design to an extremely complex production process, of a single interesting idea. No, it's not about patenting. No, it's not about mass-producing in China to get-rich-quick. No, it's not about showing off "an amazing 23rd century Apple product", which it is clearly not.

Reading deep into the comments about his resulting product made me even more cynical about the average population. People just don't get it. The overall assumption is he's trying to invent the latest thing to sell people. The only reason to do anything in life must be backed by capitalist ambition! It is an idea, brought to fruition by one man's amazing ability to dedicate himself to learning - and performing - the entire process. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR OWN SKEWED INTERPRETATION OF HIS SUPPOSED INTENTIONS.

tldr; People's obsession with capitalism seeps into everything they come across. You can't share the result of your labour without people only being able to see the possibilities from a capitalist point of view. Everything is viewed from a capitalist (if not, then political) standpoint; anything else is apparently unfathomable.

tldr #2; I am envious of this product's creator. I wish I had even 5% of the creator's vision, ingenuity, ambition, or skill - let alone all four of those attributes.
I'm the Riddler
Yeah, both my work and my wife's companies are taking it very seriously. The point is at the moment, we all think we can handle it internally: legal is very busy doing prep work that will result in requirements across the business, some of which will result in development work (I'm in the IT department). My wife is busy documenting and preparing requirements too.

What kind of companies do you sell to? Maybe they are actually trying to handle it internally too? What do they say?
Having more market share means you have more power. The level of overall harm you can cause is greater.

If you're a minor player, and you cut out a particular competitor from your results, they're not hurt that much and people are less likely to come and use your service.

If you are the main entry point for the vast majority of people, then limiting your results can easily kill whole groups of businesses.

Yahoo only linking to yahoo mail when people search for email providers isn't going to kill off other providers. Google (if almost all results are found through it) doing the same could.

That's ok if Google treat their own services like they treat other people's, and let them compete on merit. But if they use it to just kill competition then that's not good for consumers.
I'm very surprised lobsters and other shellfish don't make the cut…
> Explain how this is the best use of their still-limited power

Weapon. I suppose you could ask the same question looking at our nuclear tests - why someone would waste so much energy in a single event? Maybe it's just remnants from their firing range?
Rust: Adventures in logging
To equate tax minimization with malice is ridiculous and you know it. Only the most brainwashed statists would think allowing public officials to piss away shareholder funds unnecessarily is virtuous.
How to Step Over Legacy and Start Using Static Code Analysis
I'm going to be snobby. There is a vast VAST difference between the humanities and social sciences and natural sciences with jargon use. There are a shitload of things no one ever talks about that need a name. Jargon in natural science is used to speak precisely, but in social science it's invariably used to speak in general terms. In human geography the words "place" and "space" for example are quite maddening to a scientist.

In natural science words aren't made up to replace simpler common words about phenomena most people are aware of. Instead the names for the most part are very specifically systematic and precise especially in Chemistry. So from a composite name like "hydrogen dioxide" and "carbon dioxide" you get an idea of similarity. If everyone spoke about "water" and other dioxides, it's actually less obvious you're only talking about dioxides.

The worst offenders in natural science are for sure people who work in taxonomy and phylogenetics. They still demand that everyone understand Latin and use really ridiculous names for most species. It took me two years to realise all the things with "carteri" in the name wasn't something meaningful. It just meant "Carter's", who was the victorian mutton-chop-rocking guy who discovered them. But the naming of species isn't very systematic in general, and is frequently whimsical.

A fun example is "Selenochlamys ysbryd" one of the only species to be designated with a Welsh-Latin fusion name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_slug#Etymology I like that they got away with it, but I doubt anyone got from "ysbryda" the slug would look "ghostly". I can't even argue with the use of latin, there is too much stuff to name in just english without it becoming incredibly confusing. There's only so many ways you can say "brown beetle".
Have not tried any apps - since way I learnt(ing) meditation was/is without them.

First time I tried meditation was in a small Tibetian temple/monastery whilst in UK. I fell in love with experience.

The method and mechanics learnt there are simple and I take them as guide.

> sit in a comfortable position. (on a meditation pillow / chair / with legs folded etc)

> keep your spine straight (mind to be alert).

> head slightly down with hands together at navel (look up in internet - it is some mudra - I forget which).

> a hint of smile on lips

> tongue touching your upper jaw (so we can breath only from nose).

> deep breathing slowly (5-10+ secs for each breath in and breath out)

> observe breath nothing else

+ variations (both were really good):

> Send good feelings for world to be happy. This happened to be a very powerful experience unlike all methods - it would be wrong of me to claim it works wonders since have tried it only few times communally whilst in monastery. Wish I could do more.

> guided gong meditation (observe breath and sound of gong - both kind of sync in meditation).

= = = =

vipassana. Came across this meditation method whilst reading about Yuval Harari (author of Sapiens) who seems do it like an olympian for two hours everyday.

I have tried vipassana intermittently - the emphasis is on long meditations where you 'learn to observe' your own thoughts (and nothing else). Google for Goenka's vipassana lectures. This appears to make one slightly analytical of one's thought than previous methods.
> I just don't think that we have sufficient evidence to conclude that using type systems to aid the development of concurrent code actually leads to better concurrent code.

This is like saying we don't have evidence that evolution is real.

Type systems are proof systems. If a type system encodes concurrency safety, and a program is valid under that system, then you can be 100% certain that program doesn't have a race condition bug due to shared state between threads.

If a type system can prove buggy concurrent code is invalid code, then by definition it leads to better valid concurrent code.
I've been pondering a similar problem to this - secure state verification - and it seems fundamentally hard.

In the case of the LED, it would be simple to open the case and cut the trace to the LED. Now you have to put every single calculator into test mode to verify the LED lights up before you can start the test. That won't work.
I am waiting for the joy of using an open standard (WebAssembly) to deliver us back the joys of Flash, Java and Silverlight plugins.
Indeed. The conservatives are already drooling over all the consumer/citizen-hostile things they'll be able to do once the UK is out.
Adding concurrency to smart contracts [pdf]
I always consider intellect to be a part of the nature.
It is a nature's way to reason about itself after all.
Strangely, the delivery thing is a return to a previous model. Grocery boys used to deliver the shopping to the house. Then the supermarket killed that. Now we're returning to it.
If you ever stumble on old or further information about these 4-function calculators, I would love to learn more. That sounds amazing.

Did the solar panel actually power it, or was there a hidden battery?
How come the EU doesn't care about "pesticides, pharmaceuticals/medicine, GM" ?
In our shop where we have built many high-performant, and pretty complex (various types of security tools and all that) react apps, the state is managed at the top-most component and it is passed down to all other components as props. It works great and it is functional all the way.
> The states that have better schools and more subsidies will have correspondingly higher taxes.

The reality contradicts you. The Netherlands and Ireland have some of the best schools in Europe and at the same time they're some of the best tax-heavens for big corporations. Too early in the morning for me to search out for any reasons for why this is the case, I've just presented what the facts currently are.
Time Spent in Educational Activities in 2016
Is Rachel Maddow considered relatively 'normal' within the news landscape of the US? I'm just kind of taken aback by how gleefully dramatic she is, and how relatively little information she produces with so many words.
Legs are natures' intended way to get around. I don't get why people even wonder if processed alternatives like cars or bikes might be superior to running.
IRC is free and what Slack is based on. There are plenty of nice clients, and it's easy to write "plugins" you just write for the protocol like a webapp.
From a linked article [0]:

> AMP’s new speed gains in Google Search are due to several key optimizations that we made to the Google AMP Cache, such as server-side rendering of AMP components, and reducing bandwidth usage from images by 50% without affecting the perceived quality. We also used a compression algorithm called Brotli that Google launched a couple years ago, resulting in a reduced document size by an additional 10% in supported browsers.

So, no. Just stripping down the page would not make pages load as quickly as AMP. Then, there's also the fact that you get Google's CDN for free.

[0] https://www.ampproject.org/latest/blog/turbocharging-amp/
There's a queen bee farm (right term?) in my neighborhood. One time I walked into the post office and as soon as I open the door I hear a roar of buzzzzz... There was at least a full pallet of flat-rate boxes of bees.
> I can

Yeah but you != me. And I am by no means the least dextrous person I know.
Thus sounds more like issue of not listening to user and replacing her response with own wishful thinking.She did not said she will use it if it looks like mac.

She was saying no and identified one easy to see thing she dislikes. There is no implication that it is only reason or that she has general interest in it. There is nothing to imply that she would even find the app/topic useful.

By anything measurable, the
"I don't even look at apps that don't looks mac" have been absolutely honest and true. It did not however meant "the only reason I don't use it is UI look". That part was wishful thinking.
What is Causing the Lean Inventory of Houses? [pdf]
there are countless places like that all over the world, like most of russia, amazonia most parts of all the deserts etc.

now something close to western civilization, its mostly national parks of at least medium size (hundreds of km2) or more remote mountain ranges
It is, Jon Skeet (as usual) has a great blog post on it that even discusses Java: http://csharpindepth.com/Articles/General/Singleton.aspx

Specifically the "third version" exposes the object before the effects of construction are necessarily visible on other threads.
> So from a composite name like "hydrogen dioxide" and "carbon dioxide" you get an idea of similarity. If everyone spoke about "water" and other dioxides...

Er... I generally agree with what you're saying, but water is not hydrogen dioxide, it's dihydrogen monoxide. It's most definitely not similar to carbon dioxide :)
6 Reasons to Build Common Language into Your Code
I mostly do Perl stuff and get £400-500 day rate easily even though I'm far from a Perl expert (and, indeed, I loathe and despise the language nowadays.)

There's a few (senior) Go contracts starting to appear in London (at £500+/day) that I'm hoping signify the start of a trend.
Quoting each usage of a variable is almost always correct.

The only context where it isn't correct is when you need word-splitting to occur, which is almost never.

Even "$@" is special-cased to do the right thing and quote each individual parameter, instead of the whole list.
Four Best Practices to Eliminate Security Analyst Alert Fatigue
Nitpick: DRM files also support mmap(), which is how you map video memory into user space.

To your overall point though: do you think there's something better?

The operations required by user-mode drivers and APIs just don't map well to file operations. On the other hand, creating dedicated syscalls for graphics isn't very attractive either, because many of the ioctls are quite hardware-specific.

Using ioctls is a pragmatic solution, and I doubt you can really come up with something much better, though I'd be interested in being proven wrong.
Apple is still pretty far behind, in my view.

Here’s an excellent in-depth comparison: https://www.justinobeirne.com/cartography-comparison/
>A polaroid picture that starts playing as soon as you attach it to a suitable power source (please make it something standard like an AA battery or USB cable), on the other hand, is something you can keep in a box in the attic for your grandchildren to find after you're gone.

Unlikely, unless it's very carefully engineered. For example, the flash life of most microcontrollers is measured in decades.
So you pass the entire state object, however large it might get to all child components?
>Explain how this is the best use of their still-limited power. Even the old standby "well maybe they're just incomprehensible and we can't understand them" doesn't really work here because when we're talking about "incomprehensible" aliens we don't usually mean that they're incomprehensible on account of being cosmically stupid and wasteful.

Sorry, where did the idea of "still-limited power" came from? Or the idea that they're power constrained enough for this to be "wasteful"?
I use Google Maps, Apple maps, Bing maps and OpenStreetMap

Some comments:

- Apple maps were pretty awful when they first came out but now seem good enough (and I generally use them for walking directions in cities)

- Google StreetView is great - satellite view where we are in the UK is about 12 years old so useful for a historical view

- Apple and Bing satellite views are good, much more up to date that Google's and often better quality

- Bing in the UK has Ordnance Survey maps down to 1:25,000 which is awesome

- OpenStreetMap often has details (particularly footpaths) that no other map has

Edit: Was impressed with the speed that Google had the new Queensferry Crossing bridge on their maps - neither Bing or Apple have this on their maps yet. OpenStreetMap does, of course!

Edit2: Use my cars built in sat-nav, mainly because of the ergonomics (big buttons) and multiple displays.
For a single data point they are useless. But I thing a rating in aggregate could be informative. Of course, the rating is self defeating as too many people who were positively surprised will raise the expectations.

For movies I would love to have reviews in style: Somebody writes up their expectations before going to the movie, and then rates the movie according to that. I find most "press and critics" reviews useless as if somebody is not a fan of story-less action movies, then why the hell is he reviewing them.
I've ordered frogs in the mail before, still have them
I wonder why IRC instead of XMPP.
I did not, but I did swallow the ads they sent me so maybe I should.
Yeah, especially if you combine that idea with Flow/TypeScript or Reason. In fact that's why Redux isn't really used in Reason very much, with algorithmic data types, exhaustive pattern matching and all the power of OCaml you don't need it!

I enjoy the simplicity of it so much that I've now entirely adopted Elm -- type safety, super simple but powerful, and completely based on uni directional data flow with a compiler that is the most helpful I've ever used all wrapped up in the same State -> View function hierarchy that I adore in React.
>It's like a car full of young punks stopped at a red light beside a police cruiser and when the light goes green they burn rubber and peel away from the intersection first, but never exceed the speed limit. Very provocative, but the police have real crime to deal with, so they ignore it.

The punks can be charged with dangerous driving or reckless endangerment.

Testing your ballistic missiles over populated areas is not just "provocative", it's reckless. One mistake and people die. It's not so much that it's not a "real crime", it's that [shooting the missile down / accelerating in front of the car and doing a handbrake turn into its path] doesn't make anyone safer. You deal with it afterwards.
I love the work you did!
There was some rambling about the RPi setup process - I fully agree that it can be time-consuming.

A good way to make that better is building one's own OS image. Once you get the scripts running (which is fairly easy), you can customize them to your liking, preinstall your software and config, etc.
There's a lot of opportunities to save power and make the bootup quicker if you look through the scripts.

https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen
Well, randomness (entropy of the singal etc) is a good criterion which doesn't require deciphering.
Our study also helps provide a framework for future mechanistic studies on

I realize that repeat studies are important generally in science. But, many studies (particularly health related) seem to have such a result built into their design. If you get a result, it will just be preliminary and require a larger sample study moving on.

Is there a mechanism in science for actually taking these preliminary results and validating/falsifying them more conclusively? Does a result like this make a larger scale study this team's top priority for the next study? Will these results convince another team to do the full study?

Otherwise, it feels like there's something structurally wrong. If the study is designed as a non-conclusive prototype or framework, what's the point unless it leads to other studies?
Hah! See this is why it should be just "water" OMG. Ok so dinitrogen monoxide :P which also has a common name related to how I feel right now. I just woke up gimme a break :'( It's almost certainly not obvious using "water" and "laughing gas" the two have something in common.