skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding in the paragraph about C++: when people say that a programming language is "inefficient," they usually mean that programs written in that language run slowly. That is certainly not the case with C++. The link that the author of the post gives is to a stackoverflow entry that explains why the C++ compilation process is slow. That is of course a different matter. As a matter of fact, C++ aficionados often argue that the efficiency of C++ programs is the one thing that outweighs all its disadvantages, like the slow compilation process.
As they mentioned in the original post, a big problem is that TCO does not play nice with two other important features they want.

1. deterministic destructors that run at the end of functions (therefore making things that look like tail calls not actually tail calls) and

2. binary compatibility with C and C++ libraries and tools (they say that tail recursion doesn't let you usethe C calling conventions that these tools and libraries expect you to use)

There is no point in allowing tail recursion in restricted contexts if you can't use these restricted functions to do the sort of stuff Rust was actually made to do
That goes for all of my job hunts too, but it doesn't mean I'm not whatever a simplified title of my skills implies.
Exactly! Complaining to the boss's boss is a very different process than slitting the captain's throat in the middle of the night and throwing him overboard. I'm not sure how one sheds any light on the other.
Yeah this sounds no different than a consultancy.
I am challenging you to a rap-off.
Quickly before I get back to work:

--------

Jazzy beats creep up in my seat,

My back arches low as the words start to seep

Straight out my mind, and down through the keys.

Thoughts and feelings show, so slow with the release.

Complementary to all the pain I hide inside,

I'm literally getting paid to rhyme on my boss's time.

Blasting words off of neuron connections,

A convex complexion changes all direction.

But that's what freestyles are for right?

Fleeting moments of feeling, no reason for stage fright.
GitHub Homepage 5 Years Ago
Sonic.net blocking suspected phishing and malware sites
Just noticed my ISP, Sonic.net, is blocking suspected phishing or malware sites without a way to bypass it.

It shows a page like this
http://dns-blocked.sonic.net/#form

github.io is blocked for me currently with no way to bypass it except to change DNS servers.
Well, argumentum's point is that presumably there is some cost at which the ground holder would sell the land.

Like, if the ground rental brings in $10,000 per year to the owner of the title, and I came along and said, "I will pay your $1,000,000 for the title," well... I'm offering you one century's worth of ground-use fees up-front. Presumably all but the most irrational actors would sell their ground.
Let Over Lambda is down
It's been producing a 404 since at least yesterday. I emailed Doug Hoyte yesterday to let him know. Bummed a bit that his excellent Lisp book isn't currently available, online. Here's to hoping it's just temporary.
The Y Combinator is something important in the theory of functional programming. It takes one function as argument and applies it to itself ad infinitum. Together with lazy evaluation this is how you can implement recursion in a language which does not natively support it, namely (lazy) lambda calculus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Y_combin...

Actually, TCO and Y are not really related with each other apart from the fact that you usually learn about them in the same course about functional programming.
Here's some more real world testing, done by the folks at Zimbra:

http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/OpenLDAP_MDB_vs_HDB_performance

Clearly more than 4x write speed improvement.
It should be mentioned that those laws are being eroded. The sanctiness of the post is no longer as safe as it used to be.
Unless we reach the mining gives you 0BTC limit.
I'm fascinated by this kind of cultural technology. I think we ought to be experimenting with notation of all kinds—numerals, alphabets, languages, measurement systems, calendars and so on. We need to make it easier to learn new systems of thought so that we can actually adopt better ones!
I think they're doing affinity diagramming, not sprint planning...
Yes because it would be TERRIBLY hard to institue a whitelist for domains that could be issued twitter cards and have an API call to register and either allow or not allow it.

all I really mean by this that if Twitter were not being malicious here they would be able to work with Ribbon and other companies who have similar ideas that could help change the internet for the better.
Taxis seem to keep their status by being a very focused interest group. In NYC there are never enough. Why not just sell more medallions? I don't buy the "There's too much traffic" argument. Or why not sell regional ones? Try getting a taxi in Harlem. The city's approach has been to look the other way on private cars. I would rather see Bloomberg allow disrupters to break the system. What's he have to lose? He can't get elected anyway...
Facebook Opens The Door To Dislikes, With Emoticons
This looks pretty slick. Just the fact that its a bit easier to write is awesome. Even if the usefulness of this notation doesn't pan out, the hummingbird website is a great example of good marketing and messaging. It's the perfect name and the perfect website to promote something like this.
I know there isn't any discussion on the article, but quantopian looks like a cool site. Thanks for sharing it.
That situation is not rather unique at all. Most developed nations issue debt in a currency controlled by their central bank, with the notable exception of the Eurozone.
Nexus 4 also cannot do wifi-calling, seriously degrading its usefulness in spotty celular zones. http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/38694
But many modern telephone calls are not really on the old telephone line, but get converted to VOIP calls somewhere along the line.
No, think private car with tinted windows and a privacy partition shuttling you from home to the office. You'd be annoyed if your changing clothes in the back seat showed up on YouTube, because while your transport was along public routes, it was encapsulated in an expectation of privacy afforded you by your private car provider.
Once there are separate owners (for whatever reason it happened), it's not that easy to arrange that - since the land owner usually does not want to sell.
>Essentially, if you hold personal data, you have to give a copy of that to the person.

I actually think that's a really good idea, and customers ought to demand that be added to privacy policies.

Really, I think it's a reasonable law; some sort of "corporate freedom of information act" - If I ask you what data you have on me, you are legally required to respond and to tell me what data you have on me.

Now, uh, for me? it would impose some costs (I mean, that's why my privacy policy doesn't include that clause. It'd be work to setup that portal, and liability, too... I mean, what if I miss some personal data? And besides, not one customer has asked for such a portal. Doing work that you /think/ customers want, without any actual customers demanding it? well, let's just say that it only happens after I get all the work that I /know/ I need to do done.) but, I think those costs are reasonable, and maybe even good (for society) 'cause it would cause me (or any service provider) to think long and hard about just how much data they were collecting, and it would add some cost to keeping old data around.

Now, those costs would be different, I believe, for advertising-based businesses, as they may claim to 'anonymize' their data... but we've seen over and over again that anonymized data really is not anonymized at all. But yeah, working that part out would be the hard part of writing the law. If the data is easily connected to a real identity, then yeah, you'd want that real identity to be able to get the data... but how do you tell the difference between stuff that really is fairly anonymous, and stuff that isn't? you need someone smarter than me to write that test.

But still... if customers immediately started demanding that the privacy policies of service providers included a 'privacy portal' where they could log in and view all the data that the provider has about them? that is really pretty doable. It's work, sure, and it's not going to happen without customer demand, but it's not an impossible amount of work.
What do you mean 'browse the mail'? The IRS has to get your e-mail provider to hand over your mail.
No, if you don't consent to taxes you get put in a cage. If you don't consent to bitcoin you don't get caught up in a speculative bubble.
Man will become like God, say Mormons and transhumanists in Salt Lake City
Github: Redesigned Merge Button
You are talking about slightly different things. A lot of the reason why fiat money has value is obviously circular logic: You can use it to buy money at the store, because the store needs to pay its suppliers in the same currency, who needs to pay its employees in the same currency, who are happy (more or less) to work for the same currency because they can use it to buy the things that they need.

The vast volume of why the value is there is clearly because of such thinking, so you are right.

But the parent post is also right, because circular logic tends to be awfully inadequate at explaining things. This is where taxation comes in, because it serves as the "induction base case", so to speak. Taxation is what sets the wheel in motion initially; the additional momentum then builds gradually, but the continued existence of the base case is what gives it stability.

Take taxation away, and the wheel will still continue because loan repayment acts as a "secondary base case". But once that secondary base case disappears as well, it is just a matter of time until collapse - kind of like the cartoon characters that keep running over the edge of the cliff, until they look down and notice gravity.

So if you want to understand why money has value in the first place, the parent comment gives the better answer. But that doesn't mean your reply is wrong, either.
I'm curious as to why google continues to be a important revenue stream for mozilla, despite having 'chrome' itself. Why can't google stop being lovvy dovey with mozilla?
You really can't compare the use-per-capita of cabs between 1937 and 2013...
That's true, but as value drops, there is less incentive to mine bitcoin so there'll be a lot less mining going on(not cost-effective with respect to the cost of electricity).
Maybe this is a MySQL noob question, but why do they have to do this complicated thing to get a unique id for each project backer?

CREATE TABLE project_backers (
# The number they're looking for.
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
user_id INTEGER, # user_table fk syntax here.
project_id INTEGER # project_table fk syntax here.
)

Insert into this table every time someone backs a project and you get the monotonically ascending number for free.

Again, I'm a total SQL noob, so maybe this isn't really doing what they want.
The protections for phone calls arose back when phone lines were dumb analog wires between telephones. E-mail has never been like that, and it's always involved storing communications on a third party's systems.
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This article would be much more concerning if it was titled 'Google claims the IRS can read your email without a warrant.' The IRS can think whatever it pleases about accessing your email, however it still needs your provider to cooperate and turn over your email without a warrant.

Google's stance on this particular issue is actually quite the opposite of the IRS's: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/google-says-get-a-w...
You can tune your weapon to have MUCH lower fission products; essentially the smallest size fission primary you can (ideally, with boosters), and then a big fusion stage and no U-238 tamper. Conventional thermonuclear weapons are usually fission-fusion-fission since a U-238 casing for the third stage is a cheap and compact way to scale up the weapon, but that last fission stage is responsible for >95% of the fission products/long lived pollution. A "neutron bomb"/ERW/etc. is one application of the low-radioisotope weapon (and a "dirty bomb", a non-critical radiological weapon, is the other extreme).

I'm still hoping fission-free fusion weapons are not possible before I can live somewhere other than Earth, since all arms control essentially rests of preventing access to fissile materials. Once you eliminate that gate, it becomes much easier for a clandestine group to build a weapon. Pure fusion weapons would be amazingly destabilizing and, if they were approximately as hard to make as seems likely, would absolutely get used by some group.
Study reveals how melanoma evades chemotherapy
Haha I scrape my banks website everyday 24/7. They dont care / wont notice.
That's an overwhelming list. Well worth a bookmark, though.
That's a good point. At this moment, I'd say they are open to anything that makes them money.
Here in SF they are illegal to sell and must be issued to a person (not a company). People get on the waiting list, get their turn, then rent them to taxi companies for (I believe) ~$100K/yr. Many medallion owners have not driven a cab in years, or never have.
Actually, my point is that I feel that this specific thing is NOT worth a longer investment of my time.
That's a great idea but, no, Google doesn't have anything like that.

You can find mentors, in the sense of people able to teach you things, and there are a lot of great people at Google, but there's nothing like what you described, and managers have unilateral power and the system seems to be described that way (project expediency, I assume).
"but that's not why taxi's were regulated, at least in New York."

Why does it matter why they were first regulated? It matters just as much why they keep being regulated because the reason can change or morph over time. And even if regulated for the wrong reasons it doesn't mean that in the end there aren't any benefits.
Brainwave based authentication prototype from UC Berkeley
> Privacy should not (and in more enlightened countries and legal systems it does not) mean "others are not technically able to see it".

This is really at the heart of the disagreement in this thread. Maybe this is what you think it should mean. But that's not what it means Constitutionally. The Constitution doesn't talk about privacy, it talks about unreasonable search and seizure. And the precedent is that if you've voluntarily handed the information to someone else, its not unreasonable for the government to get that information from them.
> my understanding of intrinsic value is essentially that it is the value of an item when the market value is zero

That seems like a fairly artificial mental exercise. Why would market value be zero if intrinsic value is greater than zero? I suppose the only situations would be if a good has a unique property that can provide utility to you but no one else, like a food that for some reason only provides nutrients for you, or any good in a truly post-scarcity society or region, or if the market is extremely uninformed or irrational.

I think the real problem is with the metaphysical implications inherent in the word "intrinsic." You can always go "one level higher" and say that the value at the previous level was not intrinsic or "as intrinsic." Does an apple have intrinsic value if there are no humans alive anymore, and if not, is the value really "intrinsic" in the apple?

As far as I can tell, the specific term used in finance is based on predictions of the future value that can be derived from the good, regardless of its current market price. Of course, I would suspect that most market participants already make predictions about the future and that those predictions affect the price they are willing to buy or sell a good at. Granted, some people will be able to predict the future more accurately than other people, but does that mean we can only tell what the intrinsic value of something was in hindsight?
We don't have yearly property taxes in Australia, just council rates which are usually around 0.2% of the house valuation (which is much lower than in the US AFAIK). However we don't have the split land/house purchasing like in the UK (or it's not very common at least) - I wonder why?
awesome connection - hadn't heard of that mutiny scene before
Tradehill reported it was a DDoS. http://www.itnews.com.au/News/339410,virtual-currency-bitcoi...
"Feminist" found count - 41. "Feminism" found count - 13. "WHERE ARE THE FEMINISTS NOW?!" was one of the top comments when this post was on the front page a few hours ago and helped set the stage for the continuing commentary.

The uproar in this thread is over placing inappropriate blame on people that neither asked for nor made this app. As Stavros said above, the company is primarily male and this aspect of the app was a last-minute pivot he hadn't heard of before he left the company.

Now look at how HN handled the same type of app for men -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5087859. Seems to be a lot less gender-blaming/misplaced fear going around there.

A better way to handle something like this is to shut down the very notion of it and do what was necessary to tell developers and distributors that this is not acceptable, like the thread linked above did. Instead, it turned into a hateful, woman-bashing array of bruised egos and hurt butts over what women you'd probably be smart enough not to date in the first place had to say about you.
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I'd say that's use-value. Intrinsic implies it's not relative to each person, which clearly isn't true in that case (e.g., I could be allergic to apples, then the value would be nil to me).
> Clearly there are some unusual things going on with those unlucky 6 and you don't think sleep disorder is a possible risk?

As far as I know, the underlying causes of dementia are not very well understood. Besides the fact that 6% is not very rare, there's an issue of the Texas sharpshooter fallacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy): taking whatever problem exists and claiming that may be linked to whatever one disapprove of.

"She has Parkinson's, which X in 100 have by age 70. Clearly there are some unusual things going on with those unlucky X..."

"She has Huntington's, which X in 100 have by age 70. Clearly there are some unusual things going on with those unlucky X..."

"She has Alzheimer's, which X in 100 have by age 70. Clearly there are some unusual things going on with those unlucky X..."

"She has MLS, which X in 100 have by age 70. Clearly there are some unusual things going on with those unlucky X..."

"She has brain cancer, which X in 100 have by age 70. Clearly there are some unusual things going on with those unlucky X..."

"She had a crippling stroke, which X in 100 have by age 70. Clearly there are some unusual things going on with those unlucky X..."

You see my point. There are an awful lot of things that can go wrong with a brain over time, the rate at which things go wrong goes up with time (we call it "aging"), and sooner or later something will go wrong (and you will "die"). It is inevitable that some short sleepers will suffer awful brain problems. Just like everyone else.

I saw another example yesterday in a discussion of famous drug chemist & inventor Shulgin; apparently, upon getting cancer at age 80 and asking for help, his friends had to deny to people that it was related to any of the drugs he took! I was like, "are you serious? A large minority or a majority of the entire population will have cancer at some point in their lifetime, many will not even make it to their 80s at all much less only develop cancer at that advanced age, and people seriously think that this might be more than-microscopically-small evidence that some of the drugs cause cancer, when if anything it may be evidence against?"
The parent is referring to people selling their bitcoins, then launching a DDOS attack on the exchange server to get the rest of the world to sell in panic, and then buying back bitcoins at the lower rate. I haven't been following the bitcoin news carefully, but presumably that's been going on recently.
There are. Probably the #2 most popular coin is 'litecoin' (http://litecoin.org/). It uses scrypt instead of sha256 in order for it to be harder/more expensive to use GPU clusters and FPGA/ASIC hardware to mine them. Mining using GPU is still somewhat quicker/more efficient than CPU, but the delta is much less than exists for bitcoin.

There are other coins as well, but I'm less familiar with them.
Work with local governments to get the fine information easily accessible - it would improve both the gov't 'customer service' as well as the fee/revenue collection.

That's a different area of business, but it's something that might be useful both for residents and maybe for a separate startup.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Welcome to an 80′s VHS vision of the future. The year is 2007 and you are Sargent Rex Colt, a Mark IV Cyber Commando who’s fighting against a cyborg army gone rogue. Your mission: get the girl, kill the baddies, and save the world. Experience every cliché of a VHS era vision of a nuclear future, where cyborgs, blood dragons, mutants, and Michael Biehn (Terminator, Aliens, Navy Seals) collide.
Holy crap. Although there may be a few problems with it in such a setting, it would work wonders in my student union's club.

There's always (as with many clubs and bars) a massive, 4 row strong wall to the bar all night. I've been thinking of ways to solve it every now and again, one solution of which is to preorder and pay for drinks through an iOS app and pick them up at the bar.

This solution seems quite good, if only for the problem of drunk people trying to pour their own drinks. I think in most cases, it'd work perfectly though and really ease up on the queues at the regular bar.
I started to use colorific for palette. it's good, and i think to support also your project. thanks again.
I agree - I liked the parent post up until the last paragraph. If one were to ignore the last paragraph and form their own conclusion, I think they would walk away with a nicer message.

(Though "nicer message" is subjective)
DDOS attacks are fairly common, even for completely unprofitable endeavors, right? Why is it unreasonable to assume that potentially lucrative DDOS attacks would also occur?
actually in both settings you have an example of shared values being affronted. on a ship the values concern safety and food. in a firm the values concern socialization and esteem. in both settings, leaders undertake actions that violate shared values. so the mechanism that stimulates mutiny in both settings is identical. moreover, it is indeed possible for mutineers to take control (subtle control, over weeks or months) of a venture, department, or firm.
The dev isn't a contractor to the agency. The dev just pays the agency 15% of billings.

That's really the only structural difference, but it's important. 10X takes less than a typical consulting co, provides less tangible benefits, and has a better marketing story as long as they are smart about it.

Recruiters and consulting cos have always been highly variable in quality, but the current tech hiring drama has brought out some especially bad ones. In the late 90s (the last time I worked thru a consulting co), it was possible to find a rep that you respected and would shop your skills to reasonable customers and handle the annoying bits professionally.
The cans you buy just spray down. I'd need an insecticide that can somehow get through the slots and spay the underside.
> it was protecting an existing industry from competition

Otherwise known as "keeping people employed at a living wage." When the market decides that human labor is worth nothing, it's irresponsible not to contradict it.

I will agree that medallions should have gone away after the crisis, but it wasn't "parasitic" at the time.