skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visual programming is excellent for certain niches, such as audio/video signal processing and the associated automation logic. Examples include Blender's and Maya's compositing nodes systems, virtual modular synthesizers, so-called "open architecture" sound processors, Pure Data, Audiomulch, and many others (including my own Palace Designer for my startup Nitrogen Logic).

When your problem consists mainly of taking some kind of input data, slicing it, processing it, altering it in separate branches, and recombining it, a dataflow-based visual programming system is an incredibly useful tool.
I appreciate your effort, but there are some things that I think you need to know about Python when you come from JS world:

- List comprehensions: helps a lot.

- (str|unicode).format method (http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#format-examples) provides you a very simple templating language.

- Avoid using camelCase in variable/method/function names. Yes, I know Python itself break some of those rules, but they're trying to do it right in Python3. In fact, it'll be better if you read the PEP8 document (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/)

Nevertheless I would like to welcome you to Python and I hope you have a great experience with the language :-)
I only use Twitter via the Mac app and their iOS apps. Use of the web interface is painful and sluggish compared to the native apps. With them killing off the Mac app, I don't think I'll be using Twitter any more, except in the bathroom or in line when I'm bored (on my phone/iPad). It's even more bothersome that there isn't a clear reason for this.
I find these edge cases extremely implausible, and counter to the way crimes are investigated and prosecuted. "Possessing cocaine is illegal but IMAGINE IF SOMEONE THREW A COCAINE BRICK AT YOU AND YOU CAUGHT IT!!!"
> When I see University of Phoenix on a resume... the holder of this "degree" is too dumb to get into a real academic program.

Perhaps, or just as likely, she/he had a family situation which prevented a traditional full-time academic path. Let's not equate personal or economic circumstances with intelligence.
Had never seen this unofficial API. Ugh, postedAgo?! Should be a timestamp... As he mentions, it should be avail. Ask ronneroller to change/add it ;-)
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For a powerful counter-example, look at the industry-standard visual effects system Houdini, made by SideFX. Houdini programs (actually referred to as 'scenes') are comprised of lazily-evaluated pure functions operating on a variety of data structures representing geometry, textures, shaders and so on. The system provides encapsulation, and an embedded expression language for cases where mathematical notation is more concise.

The curious thing about the world's most talented Houdini programmers is that they don't consider themselves programmers at all; their job titles normally include the term 'artist'. I've worked with people who wrote whole procedural simulations, image processing algorithms and shaders, who swore that they could not do programming.

As a seasoned coder by the time I first encountered Houdini, it took me months to get my head around it. It took me days to put together systems artists were able to build in hours. The lesson was: my knowledge of text-based, imperative programming was not directly transferrable to the node-based, procedural world.

Therefore, don't trust the judgement of a text-based programmer who declares that the tools of a visual programmer suck - it's not just a different dialect or different language, but a different medium entirely. And, effective visual programming systems are out there, but they don't have 'programming' written on them, because 'programmers' are not the target market.
It's an interesting article, but a horrible title... As if to say the impact fathers have after conception doesn't 'really' matter...
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A quick google search reveals a study including a case where the pilot in cooperation with the passenger identified his laptop as causing interference on navigation instruments.

Is it really too much to ask to do a quick Google search?
I'm not debating the value of my question. Between two different accounts, I've asked over 150 questions since the beginning. You can have whatever rules you want. I disagreed and quit StackOverFlow. I'm not contributing to the site. I've been on the Internet for over 20 years. I know where and how to get answers.

At the moment, I'm pointing out the the juvenile "beat downs" that happen certainly don't make the site appealing to a certain group of people. I'm sure that I'm not the only person who has quit in frustration.

Btw, it's great that you found my deleted comments. Can you also include his snarky comment to which I'm responding?
"In the past decade or so, the study of epigenetics has become so popular it’s practically a fad."

Well, that's the one statement in the article I can readily accept as true for purposes of discussion here. Much more debatable is the assertion further down, "Twentieth-century Darwinian genetics dismissed Lamarckism as laughable, but because of epigenetics, Lamarckism is staging a comeback," which includes a link to a low-quality source. Much better sources on epigenetics for our discussion here are

"Epigenetics again: will it cause a revolution in evolution?"

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/epigeneti...

which is a follow-up to

"Is 'epigenetics' a revolution in evolution?"

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/is-epigen...

or

"The Epigenetics Miracle?"

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/08/21/the-epigenetic...

The scientifically careful study of gene regulation is NOT going to revive Lamarckian ideas, not at all. But speculation about this is probably in the popular literature again for years to come.
There is a difference between mortgage debt and credit card debt or student loans. You can't just "cash out" your student loan debt by selling the asset. You can usually do it with a house. Moreover, unlike a car, TV, etc, a house is typically an appreciating asset not a depreciating one.

In a way, mortgaging a house is like renting the home from the bank, but there is a key difference: you own any appreciation in the value of the home, not your landlord. Your mortgage payment is the same every year (and in real terms goes down over time because more of each payment becomes principal and because of inflation). Your apartment, meanwhile, gets more expensive every year. My rent in downtown Chicago has gone up 11% in three years.

Moreover, the mortgage interest and property tax deductions are among the only tax deductions available to higher-earning singles and couples. Your $2000 rent payment is not deductible, but $1500 of a new $2000 mortgage payment is deductible. Also, the portion of your rent payment that goes to paying property taxes is not deductible, but your property taxes are deductible. Depending on your tax bracket, this can be a lot of money.

Finally, buying a house is one of the only leveraged investments available to most people. Say you buy a $500k house with $100k down, at a low mortgage rate of 4.5% per year (mortgage rates are as low as 3.5% today). Say you're in a high tax bracket (= 33%). If your house appreciates 10% after two years, then after paying your interest your total return is 29% on your original $100k investment.

Now all of the math depends on the specifics of your situation. E.g. in Chicago property is pretty cheap relative to rent, so buying makes sense for more people than in places where rents are cheap relative to buying. The tax deductions are also much more valuable for people in higher tax brackets, particularly people who get hit with the AMT.

As an aside, it's inaccurate to say that all housing is characterized by a "bubble cycle." Housing prices in major metro areas increase in the long run because the amount of developable space in these areas remains fixed while population grows. This is unlike most commodities. The price or gold may fluctuate based on the discovery of deposits, but nobody is going to discover more land on Manhattan. This is not a rigid law of nature, of course... housing prices in Detroit collapsed when the city entered a death spiral of shrinkage, but something like that happens once a century. Even in this current housing bubble, most people in established metro areas are still up from where they were in 2000. The people who are underwater on their mortgages are mostly people who bought right before the bubble popped, people who refinanced, or people who bought in unestablished areas.
I saw Sergey Brin's pic in that article and flipped. Then upon reading the image description felt relieved.
The headphone cable for a music player can radiate at certain frequencies.
Thinking through the likely consequences of "volunteer bureaucrats" should send a shiver down the spine of anyone designing a crowdsourced resource. Even without a formal system of recognizing the work such people do, their own gratification inevitably rests on wielding the power they have.

So, yes, a system of meta-moderation, and preferably one that is mechanical and resistant to being gamed, is needed. As fascinating as it is to see emergent cultures in Wikipedia editing and reddit moderation, it ends up being dysfunctional, and that doesn't serve the goals of the communities from which those sites derive their value.
Not JUST two major songwriting talents, but performers. Really, in the early days, when they were doing more covers, George had a pretty equal share of the spotlight. One could easily be a fan of any one of the band, and you'd be able to hear one of 3 of them sing during a concert (less so in later years). Doesn't matter how much of a Bill Wyman or Charlie Watts fan you were, you'd never hear them sing ("in another land" notwithstanding!)

The songwriting combo was killer, but even before that, I think they were fairly unique in sharing 'front man' duties throughout a set. Very few bands do that even today, mostly because they can't really pull it off - the Beatles could.

Having more than one main singer/frontman is something I think often gets overlooked in the Beatles' story appeal.
He has his own counterargument in a note near the beginning:

But possession of child pornography is a strict liability offense, like possession of cocaine, at least in the entire United States, as well as several other countries. Intent, mens rea, is irrelevant: if you have it, no matter why, you're guilty.

OK, so make mens rea a required element. It's a reasonable reform.
The key is that I'm not actually polluting the global namespace. I also feel like using the globals object + require() would still be ugly/messy.
I don't thing it's such an edge case. I'd be willing to bet that at least 90% of people on HN have witnessed child pornography at least once on the Internet. That's a lot of criminals. Spend a few minutes on 4chan's /b/ and you will probably see some.
Despite being a day-to-day python programmer (scientific computing with some django on the side), apparently I've been living under a rock. When did .format supersede normal printf-style string formatting, ie. "%f" % (3.14)? Is the latter now deprecated?
In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coaliti... Supreme Court wrote:

The Child Pornography Prevention Act also prohibits speech having serious redeeming value, proscribing the visual depiction of an idea -- that of teenagers engaging in sexual activity -- that is a fact of modern society and has been a theme in art and literature for centuries.
Yes, I don't think we are close yet to anything revolutionary, but, at least intuitive, the combination of visual programming, speak, AR, ILP (and other AI automated programming) can result in something more efficient and/or less error prone in the future. Nothing we have now in visual programming has that but we need to go somewhere from here and textual language are not bringing us enough advantages fast enough to curb the millions of software bugs produced every year.
Thanks for the submission! The GitHub repository might be more interesting:

https://github.com/pufuwozu/bilby.js

The syntax examples show off a bit of everything:

Monads:

λ.Do()(
λ.some(1) >= function(x) {
return x < 0 ? λ.none : λ.some(x + 2);
}
).getOrElse(0) == 3;

Kleislis:

λ.Do()(
function(x) {
return x < 0 ? λ.none : λ.some(x + 1);
} >> function(x) {
return x % 2 != 0 ? λ.none : λ.some(x + 1);
}
)(1).getOrElse(0) == 3;

Functors:

λ.Do()(
λ.some(1) < add(2)
).getOrElse(0) == 3;

Applicatives:

λ.Do()(
λ.some(add) * λ.some(1) * λ.some(2)
).getOrElse(0) == 3;

Semigroups:

λ.Do()(
λ.some(1) + λ.some(2)
).getOrElse(0) == 3;
It's important to note that this is a preliminary finding, based on weak evidence, and that "creativity" is not necessarily the core concept of "openness" in the OCEAN five-factor model of human personality. The "big five" personality model is still developing,

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~johnlab/2008chapter.pdf

and "openness" is the most poorly defined of the five personality factors in the model. It is plain, on stronger and better replicated evidence, that the factor "neuroticism" is a risk factor for many bad outcomes, including shorter lifespan. Some investigators have proposed specific interventions to reduce neuroticism in the general population.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792076/

The relationship of "openness" to creativity is still debatable, and still more debatable is the relationship of openness (or creativity) to mortality.

I should also note that the study described in the article kindly submitted here doesn't allow for the causal inference, or verify the proposed mechanism, made in the quoted statements in the article.
There have been cases where drugs were mailed to an address and the person receiving the package, not knowing what was in it, was arrested. That is one reason why no one who has any sense will accept a package they were not expecting.
Are you saying a car is a luxury for everyone? If so, you must have never lived outside a large city. At least in many suburbs across the US, and in rural areas, having a car is most definitely not a luxury if you have a job outside the home, or if you have kids that have to go to school. I've lived in metropolitan areas in which I didn't have to have a car. I loved it. I hate the maintenance and care that a car requires. But a car is absolutely necessary if you live in the country or in many suburbs, where the nearest public transportation is many, many miles away.
The main points of the article are well-summarized at the end, TL;DR:

"It’s not illegal to film a murder.
It’s not illegal to possess a film of a murder.
But it’s still illegal to murder people.
And it’s illegal to initiate a murder for the purpose of filming it.
If you have taken part in a murder and have film of it, the film may be usable as proof against you.
I can’t see that Rick suggests anything different here – i.e., I see no suggestions that it should be OK to molest children for the purpose of filming it. That’s good."
The key thing which helped me reach bloggers was understanding that they're not interested in covering my start-up, but in getting more people to read their blog. Give them all the materials they need to write a good post - great story, something personal, good images, video, and you have a much better chance to get covered. Good materials helped me increase my success rate by about 5X. Even though most of your future users will not come from TC or RWW, it builds your company resume. It's much easier to approach medium-small blogs with a TC/RWW reference, than the other way around. It also helps when raising (more) money.
In most areas, you can work through up to your junior year of college by attending evening community college classes and transfer to a state school to finish. There's never a good reason to attending one of these for-profit schools, except that you bought into their marketing hype and didn't do your own research.
The article mentions that they failed to reproduce the problem, so presumably they tried.
He seems to be writing primarily about Sweden.
But if you look from another angle - why should cocaine possession be illegal at all?

Cocaine seems (to me) to be somewhat less severe drug than, say, alcohol.

Same applies to child porn. A lot of stuff qualifies as child porn recently, including stuff originally not meant to be any kind of porn neither produced with any harm to kids. Unless child porn prosecution proponents can limit themself with some strict definition of child porn (which they would not do), I say we lose by criminalizing possession of random pics that were considered OK thirty years before.
Great heads up - we'll do this. Thank you
There is. It doesn't have all the features of Eclipse for Android but it's everything you need. I haven't touched Eclipse so far.
This method requires the initial entangled qubits to be in a "Bell State" (equal superposition of both in 0 and both in 1). After teleportation, its no longer in that state. So it's not reusable by this method, but maybe by another that I don't know about (though I doubt it).
No, I meant the window's furniture so no colours. I agree, a tty-wrapper, like tmux, would provide another option.  I don't suppose there are terminals generally about where `tput hs' is true. Have you considered using the end of the prompt line for status, returning to the left for the "$ ", and being happy to do readline's redraw-current-line if you don't like the overwrite should you reach that far?
Ask HN: What is the distribution of startup success?
In the Platonic world there is a distribution of the success of startups that achieve $500K (or more) of seed funding. For instance maybe 1 in a thousand achieve 100:1 returns on the seed investment in 5 - 7 years, 1 in ten goes completely to zero, and the whole range in between. It is pretty close to impossible to actually gather the information required to derive this distribution, but I think a survey of folks knowledgeable in the start-up funding area would be a decent proxy. If you think you can contribute to this survey, what is your estimate of the distribution? Let's establish the following ground rules:

1) By startup we mean largely software-driven company of interest to the HN community. It can either go on to VC financing, or not.

2) Startup achieved $500K+ seed capital on or after 1/1/2002 (we want to eliminate the dot-com bust as much as possible).

3) Within 7 years there is either an actual valuation event, or good subjective evidence to support a valuation. (This rule leaves many younger companies in a nebulous state. Use your judgement.)

4) Return is return on the seed investment.

5) Estimate for distribution points of 100:1, 50:1, 10:1, 5:1, 2:1, 1:1, 0.5:1, 0.1:1, 0:1, summing to 1.

I realize this is not a substitute for due diligence, but simply a data point similar to total stock market return.
I think the argument stands. I think even in Sweden, teenagers engaging in sexual activity is a fact of modern society and has been a theme in art and literature for centuries.
Presented as a reductio at the end of the article:

It’s not illegal to film a murder.
It’s not illegal to possess a film of a murder.

But one has to wonder: What if it were? What if YouTube had a button for "Report Illegal" that forwarded the video to law enforcement, hid it, and cleared it from your cache? What if people who watched video evidence of a crime and didn't report it to the authorities were treated as just a little bit complicit? What if the media were prevented from broadcasting potentially titillating evidence of crime to the public, but had to leave its analysis up to the professionals?

Can we say categorically that that would be bad for our society?
I was in school from 2004 - 2009 and took out modest student loans, about $11k total, and never experienced any of this.
I am pretty sure they are. The "some" is due to my lack of Python knowledge. :)
I'll be a contrarian here: don't use mega-frameworks (Django, Rails). Instead, use micro-frameworks. Stay away from ORMs (I'm looking at you, Django). A skilled engineer can get a product comprised of small packages up and running in the same amount of time (and sometimes less time) as one built using a mega-framework.

(Imagine, using a python example, gEvent + zeroMQ + pystache + db-of-your-choice. You can do almost anything.)
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I think we should make judgement on the outcome rather than the email (since it's basically speculation anyways). Judge: Do these types of problems happen in the same amount and severity in 6 months? (or whatever time horizon you think is agreeable to see significant progress).

And there shouldn't be mockery for him fixing one account. Sure there are many to go, but before this account was in the same boat...so it's an improvement no matter how small. Whatever Andy said in his post really resonated to D. Marcus; now I hope it really is the catalyst for PayPal to improve.

edited
shortened it up.
Yep, for this "pipeline/processing" type of workflow, I've seen several good examples of visual editors. It feels like it should be possible to implement most of the standard unix commandline tools in this kind of environment. With a system like that, you'd be able to let users create essentially shellscripts, but with a lower barrier of entry.

I'd really like to see that project. Time to stop procrastinating, I guess :)

Edit: This kind of system would also facilitate having multiple inputs/outputs and typed data - stuff that's fairly complex to get right in the actual commandline.
Also:

-vi(m) vs. emacs

-Taxes (and governments) are abominations

-Talking about funding

-SEO is evil

-Marketing is evil

-Conversely, "Growth Hacking" is cool

And the general sentiment that, despite being a board about entrepreneurship and startups, taking money from people in a business transaction is evil. There is a lot of double-think on HN about money, particularly if it is paired with marketing and advertising.
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What silverdrake said, but also it's a matter of error-tolerance. If we want to do a difficult two-step computation and know when each sub-step succeeds or fails, than:

1) Perform the first step on a qubit (repeat if failed)

2) Your friend performs the second step on their qubit (repeat if failed, but no need to repeat (1))

3) Teleport your qubit to your friend

4) Your friend performs a simply operation on their qubit

After this, the state of your friend's qubit is now the result of applying both operations. But each sub-step can be redone without affecting the result of the other, so mistakes are easier to correct. So in this case, "your friend" might refer to yourself - the important part isn't teleporting the qubit somewhere elses, it's that the computation is less error-prone.
Of you are interested I switched to PhpStorm. I like it very much. And it has a plugin that allow you to edit source code with VIM bindings :)
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I did. Now, I can not change. Let me try to submit this again.
What we did was ensure we could have a story behind the product we were building. From the start we knew exactly what angles we can approach the press with for our app. In fact the timing was perfect for us and we managed to get a lot of good press (AllThingsD, CNET etc).

Unless you have the perfect product don't expect anything but a spike in downloads/visitors to your product.
For me it has been an excellent learning process and every time I release something I get better and better at it.
> Flagged.

Downvoted. Whatever else this article may be, it is well within the bounds of what is appropriate on HN.
I hope he gets hit by a truck today. I really do. There isn't, nor will there ever be an argument where the enablement of child molestation and rape is acceptable. And if there is collateral damage, then so be it. I'd rather 100 go to jail wrongfully accused than to enable 1 child to be rape. This guy make me sick. Seriously Rick, please kill yourself.