skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair Factor/Forth's way of thinking is really foreign to the usual Pascal/C derivatives. Learning how to program from scratch certainly too you more than 30min.
I did come up with a prototype, but it went a bit of a different direction.

My theory was the biggest issue was the UI enforced a workflow. Most likely the banker is given a big pile of documents, then they work through it. One confirms your address, the next your income, the other is some other piece of evidence.

I particularly noticed they would be sitting there shuffling back and forth between the paper & then shuffling back and forth on the interface. It caused a lot of rework, and required you to remember where you were at with both.

The Web Interface was waaay to rigid. Want to add a party - you need to enter their name and work details. So you'd have to track down that information. Even if it wasn't 100% required to get a provisional. You could enter whatever value you wanted for the income at this stage, so why force the banker to enter work address and work phone? They can do that at final docs when you're required to provide a payslip (for example!).

Paper & terminal worked because you could move quickly between disconnected parts. Enter the person's name and DOB. Then jump to income. Back to their home address. Over to some kind of KYC information, etc, etc.

So I came up with something that was a bit more of a mind-map. Each node indicated if it (and it's subnodes) were complete or not. You could jump around and enter data in whichever order you liked & not have to think too much about what we left to do. Then the nav was about quickly moving up & down the tree (keyboard being a big factor).

It focused on making the data capture piece much more organic & goal-based. You only needed to enter discrete information to get a provisional, so use flags to tell the user what's needed. Then they can populate the space in any order they like.

Was waaaaaaaaay to weird for a conservative bank to consider :-) So I never really got to try it out. Would have been interesting to see if it made any difference.
Same. Happens in Firefox but not Chrome.
I'm seeing handbills around the LA area for a something similar called "ilivingapp" that seems to be a free app that lets you pay $10/mo for the privilege of promoting it. It has remarkably well-astroturfed Google search results.
Nit: it bothers me when people call JavaScript a "scripting language". What do they mean?
Factor the language or factor the Unix command?
Access to water shouldn’t be a public right, privatise it.
So how close to one of these indicators do I have to be for it to be hazardous? There's two hot spots very close to my apartment complex (<1000 feet). Now I'm paranoid since I've been living here for 2 years and drinking tap water.

Edit:
Zooming out on the south bay it looks like the whole area has issues. I thought the TCE issue was contained to the Moffet Field area. It will be interesting to see the whole bay area when you add other counties. It's amazing to me that these hazardous conditions don't affect home prices.
Because there are like 10 person using it. Until the language grows and acquires a package manager it's easier to just put everything in the stdlib.
Well - it depends what he defines as "our field".

The author David Leib has an engineering and MBA background. This stuff is "duh" levels of old hat to folk with any kind of cog psych background. Anybody who is vaguely competent and IA/IxD should understand the term and have it in their toolbox.

This stuff is, unfortunately, rarely talked about and even more rarely taught to engineers and business folk.
Anything containing the substring "admin" is banned. Which is a PITA when you want to set up a Twitter account for a sysadmin book/service...
Ah that makes sense, thanks. In that case I wonder how many more BTC Nakamoto may have mined since then.
"Pupil size changes were monitored during the solution of various types of problems. A number of solution and response strategies were required of the subject. There was strong confirmation of the theory that this autonomic index can provide a sensitive measure of the fluctuating levels of attention and arousal, which are associated with the various aspects of information processing and response."

PDF link (bad quality): http://www.filedropper.com/article
Sure, but I'd vote for doing things right to begin with rather than waiting for complaining users. But I guess we might disagree on what 'right' means in this context. :)
If someone's browsing the internet with unpatched XP then they've got bigger problems than some certificate warnings appearing.
Moist air coming down. Has the same effect, just less so.
I prefer to read news after it has been gestated through the gauntlet that is hackernews readers.
There is energy expended during the process though. I imagine if this continues 'banks' of the future will be data centers. Also might be a way to make money on idle servers at data centers.

If anything this is an extremely interesting time in currency experimentation. Side effect of this is massive energy cost, another awesome side effect is hardware/supercomputer miniaturization and evolution. Great for really hard problems like verification (as in mining here) and maybe brain research/processing or other really hard data crunching problems.
Could you elaborate on what is 'worse' in CS:S etc? I'm not a gamer, just curios.
Why the Largest Social Network in 2015 Won't be Facebook, and Will Be From Asia
Amazon to pilot TV comedies and children's shows online
Solution (rot13):

Whfg genpr nebhaq gur bhgfvqr gura hfr gur fbyhgvba gb gur fznyyre chmmyr.
Ask HN:  Does Facebook use facial recognition technology to display ads
I had to do a double take as one of the faces from the sponsored ads on Facebook looked like me.

I really wanted to click the ad even though I had no interest in the product.

Does Facebook use facial recognition technology to show a similar face on the sponsored ads?

If not, I was just thinking about how creepy it would be if they were to build a composite of your face or friend's faces for the sponsored ads.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision
for the limits of the world. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

I am definitely guilty of this. It's why I try to walk around the intellectual block a bit, see the sights, then come back and realise I know nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Heck, I even wrote a disclaimer:

http://chester.id.au/standard-disclaimer/
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Because Java allows signed applets to ask to run native binaries, it will always be hopelessly dangerous.
This is working out exactly as planned - the security of the system against double-spending is predicated on honest nodes controlling the majority of the hashing power in the bitcoin network, so the fact that people are working very hard to add hashing power to honest nodes is desirable for the system as a whole.
What if you wrap the paper (if the dots are on paper) and draw a line round-and-round?

A bit hard to ensure that it's straight though..
> The software should have pattern hints.

I think a better idea would be to scrap the datasheet concept completely. Make people use a dataflow programming language, it will give you:

a) versioning of source code with standard tools

b) separation of inputs and process

c) program source that doesn't look like a game of battleship unless who wrote it was disciplined

d) strong typing

But it won't happen, god forbid we are faced with an initially steep learning curve.
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Except... can you use "id" instead of "I'd"? My language parser also rejected this as invalid token and I ended up interpreting that sentence the same way Xcelerate did.
What book is this from?
It doesn't say you have to go through the center of the dot. If you angle them a bit 5 non-infinite lines will do.
It certainly does. I've had occasions where I spent most of a day fossicking for a halfway decent domain name.
Who needs paper when you have ℝ²? :P
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My technical drawing teacher called that the "fat point theorem".
Won't work. To play devil's advocate: 'let's see if we can make some money alongside the social good; maybe getting a bit grey.' Then: 'It's only a "stated goal" to make social good, but this is an organization, organizations are made to wield power and make money, so let's make money!'
It's an imperial gallon[1].

As to why it's an imperial gallon, or what an imperial gallon really is, or who uses it--don't ask me. I'm a very metric sort of person :P.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=imperial+gallon+in+cubic+dec...
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

Your definition is a new interpretation, and is only one of many forms of fascism.

I'll continue to adhere to the definition which predates the internet, Wikipedia, and the other sources which have chosen to ignore the words of the father of modern fascism.
Ergo, The USA is, arguably, the epitome of a fascist nation.
I'm not exaggerating at all.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7260.htm
Which will be promptly ignored.
Thank you for the comment. We will take care for crafting our PR messages.
How many of us would use a music player that just had start and stop buttons? Why would this seem as an inconvenience? If the product is already familiar, then it would be better to improve on the already familiar interface. When it is a completely new technology, you get an opportunity to make a fresh start.
Similarly, many niche products have power users who would be unhappy if the interface is too "dumbed down". The classic case of an IDE and UNIX text editors come to mind. An IDE is quite obvious to use, but many would not find it as efficient.

Erm... This is the point of the article to some extent ;)

I think you're misunderstanding cognitive load/overhead. It's not about dumbing down. It's not about reducing the amount of information or interface. It's not about "less stuff".

Dealing with the human limits on what people can process often involves doing exactly the opposite. You add more information or use familiar interfaces so that folk don't have to remember/learn new things.

See http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Cognitive_load for some info.
I think the biggest concern with the Moffet Field area is trichloroethylene vapors. Trichloroethylene causes cancer.

They claim to be filtering it out of the air at the affected complexes. I don't think there's anything more you as an individual can do.

One way of looking at it is that car exhaust causes cancer, and we don't even attempt to filter that out of the air.
A nice rebuttal to some of the other articles going around. I am reminded that it is a poor workman who blames their tools.

(And that covers choosong the wrong tool for the job.)
I'm very surprised at the gullibility towards the whole project. Who's to say they don't add more cubelets by themselves for free?
You're the author? I think you have a parsing issue. I'm looking at barium: apparently the color-coding only looks at the number, discarding the unit (ug vs. mg). The MCL is 1 mg/L; for a measurement of "514 ug/L" (=0.514 mg/L), you code it as >100x Federal Threshold:

http://i.imgur.com/Vd75wlo.png

And for more confirmation, on the sidebar, the 0.220 mg/L measurement maps to the minimum of "0.220" (out of the 2 measurements in the field of view), and the 514 ug/L maps to the maximum "514.000". They should be 0.220 and 0.514 (mg/L).

Your map shows severe Barium pollution over the whole region, but that's just this error repeated many times.

http://i.imgur.com/bDQ3Lie.png

update: And zinc too. The severe zinc pollution all over the map is also an error:

http://i.imgur.com/8RoXpy8.jpg

update: Copper too:

http://i.imgur.com/ZZsm02G.jpg
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There is another aspect too: when everything is in the stdlib it forces developers to collaborate and not create their Nth implementation of the same lib because theirs is better. There is a breaking point in number of developers where it becomes more efficient to distribute the work trough a package manager but then you also introduce package hunting which can become quite a time consuming task.
Spot that triangle among the million cells in a 1000 by 1000
table.
What were the limitations and hacks involved in this? I mean, parts of W95 (certainly including explorer.exe) were 32-bit so either they had to be disabled/replaced or the kernel extended with an 80386 emulator.
This is why I like Perl,

perl -e 'print sort{length $a <=> length $b} <>' english-words.txt > sorted.txt
I actually don't know. What a shame, considering the author is my supervisor.. I will ask her.
Give it a little more time and ramp up the "degree of neglect". You'll find the point where yours begins to die. You just haven't tried hard / long enough.

It's not just about the durability of your business / value delivered. It's also about the number of people who know or can learn about your offering, competition, etc. Neglect can make you very vulnerable in those areas.

But, on second thought, I do agree about it not being about age or stage for different reasons. That is, neglect at any stage can ruin your business. It just tends to evidence itself more harshly and more quickly in startups--particularly those that have yet to gain traction.
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Public defense spending is about on par with public educational spending (if you factor in private spending education on college education then education wins out). Additionally, the total of pension, health care, and welfare spending trumps defense spending by a factor of nearly 3.5x to 1. It's simply not correct to fantasize that our government is exclusively military focused to the exclusion of all else, defense spending is quite large but it's not enormous compared to the equal or greater public spending priorities of education, health, pensions, etc.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2013USbn_1...
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"A tribe of Native Americans entered the wrong row into the cell of the Excel ... Just kidding. The error was made in Lotus." - I wonder if Afrika is not making a big mistake with Ubuntu now :-)
So, all criminals who have shot anyone have less rights than rapists and child molesters?

What about the military? They hurt innocent people all the time.

Regardless of all that, how do you determine "anyone that decides..." - sounds like you need a trial to determine guilt & intent. At which point if guilty they are punished, and if not they're set free.

So if he's guilty by trial, are the existing possible sentences not harsh enough?

You fucking Americans don't need to worry about "evil" presidents and senators taking away your rights, you can't wait to fucking hand them off at a moments notice all on your own.
Where's the 'solved' part? At the very best, he shows that you can do it with 2n-2 lines. Even that includes a lot of hand waving/implicit "it is easy to see"-s.

That you need 2n-2 lines, he doesn't talk about at all.
What? kindly explain a little..
Interesting topic. There were early operating systems that served as an infrastructure for user's programs, they trusted the user, etc.., as nation-states basically trust their citizens to trust the government. But then too much malicious os simply unsafe software got written (as developmen became easier; life of citizen demanded much less care for the state) and the OS began morphing into restrictive and oppressive systems like OSX and Win8. As these restrictions inflicted real inconveniences on the well-behaved individuals, and voilà, the government's no longer trusted and has to be fought with.

AFAIK, in software world the way to deal with this situation is to build a new level of infrastructure abstraction to deal with oppressive OSes (ie webapps) and let the old system slowly die out because its services aren't really needed.

Wonder what will become the political analog of the Web.

Oh wait, the Web will itself evolve to become oppressive, no new analogs needed.

Hegel would be happy, now that's dialectics in action.
Precisely. YOU find. The masses, however, find the converse.
Christopher Hitchens diagnosed antisemitism (or anti-Jewish prejudice) as "an unfailing sign of a sick and disordered person".

Support for Multi-Level Marketing is an unfailing sign of a credulous sucker.

(And yes, there are people who are quite happy to defend MLM, just watch any comment thread on some shill product or another. It's quite amazing to witness to what extent of... rationalization the human mind is willing to go.)
As usual in psychological work, the title of the article is flatly contradicted by the article's contents. In point of fact, the scientists don't "decode dreams with brain scans" -- that is simply false.

A quote from the article: "Our dream decoding is still very primitive,” Kamitani said.

Decoding color, action, or emotion is also still beyond the scope of the technology, Kamitani says. Also, it only seems to work for imagery that occurred — at most — about 15 seconds before waking up.

Finally, the decoder is unique to each person. To decode the dreams of another person, the team would have to train up a new decoder by having that person view hundreds of images."

This would be like claiming to have psychic powers to detect which book a person is reading -- by asking the person which book he is reading.
Also, that isn't irony.
I guess the poing might be where there is no peer review or quality assurance - these cultures are prone to produce this kind of errors. And Excel culture is most of the time a one man show for every spreadsheet. They are hard to audit.
Nice, the interesting point is that you choose bubble sort.
It doesn't have to go to infinity.

Look at this solution for 9 dots/three lines: http://www.goodmorningcreativity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010...

That scales up to whatever sized square of dots you like, provided the "dots" are not points but are circles with a non-zero diameter.
Response Time, Throughput and Horizontal Scalability
Thanks ! Just, you're missing a "print" and single quotes would work better :)
From what I understand these devices started shipping right after the BitCoin peaked... Maybe the vendors kept "testing" them for just a bit longer than they expected?
Cheers for that! Fixed.
I guess it is just that to do a proper audit you need to have your logic on one page. Otherwise it is extreemly hard to follow the code. In excel every formula is sitting essentially on it's own page. It is easy to code this way but hard to audit.
Which is > $8... and specially > free.

You can get a free Lamborghini for an inexpensive $400,000 one-time fee!
> Walk up behind an accountant or a web designer sketching out banner ads, and nine times out of ten they’ll know you’re coming from a mile away. But computer programmers aren’t like that. You can stand right behind a programmer for ten minutes and quite often they will not even know you are there–especially when they are working on a difficult section.

Getting lost in your work is not a phenomenon specific to programming.
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I've never really noticed rain to have a smell. Maybe I need to live in a drier place and get out more.

I know this doesn't really add anything to the discussion, but if there is someone else here who has no concept of that "sweet, fresh, powerfully evocative smell" I don't want them to feel alone.
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Thanks for clarification! How do they approach interactivity with "big data"/hadoop(Hbase I presume)? Apache Drill is still draft/wip, Impala is not that fast from what I hear (for interactive)... unless they pre-calculate some use cases, but how would that constitute (semi)real-time interaction with hadoop. MR by its nature is not very real-timey.
Use a hammer. Hit your thumb instead of the nail. Blame the hammer.

Use a table saw. Cut off three fingers instead of wood. Blame the table saw.

Go scuba diving. Return to the surface too fast. Get the bends. Blame the equipment.

Drive a car. Have an accident while texting. Blame the phone.

Go fishing. Be careless. Put a hook through your hand. Blame the fishing rod, the reel and the hook.

Use Excel. Don't make an effort to learn what you are doing. Mindlessly copy and paste. Do not seek out peer review. Cause massive financial losses. Blame Excel.

Boy, do I like the sound of the word "moron".
I'd agree that it's cultural tolerance that is the important factor, but I don't know if that results from diversity - I think it results from education.
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I wonder on what basis people make predictions like that. It seems like wishful thinking.
I just discovered that site while looking into this question as well. It seems really useful.

Here are two charts that backup your point further.

Education since 1900:
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1900_2015...

Defense since 1792:
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1792_2015...

In particular, it is worth noting how low military spending was before WWII. I would be very interested to find similar charts for all world powers going back to ancient times, if anyone can help.
Sure: my girlfriend always mentions the nice smell when it has rained while all I smell is the nasty smell of wet concrete.

I've never noticed the rain having a nice smell but that might be because I live (and always have lived) in a densely populated area (The Hague area in the Netherlands).
The people paying to add may be simply griefing, but what Peter himself has done certainly qualifies as trolling.
You have provided a nice way to see how your product will work for any site owner rather than providing some Hardcoded demos. The demo first renders the site quickly and then loads your form immediately. Nice one..
I think that's true. Forth is so called "ultimate low-level language".
Nice, but it still needs to grow in number of libraries!
Don’t Be Afraid of a Pencil.
Does anyone know how LibreOffice compares?
That's an excellent point, which I will take a step further: It has to provide something that people truly want, and the acceptable cognitive load is a function of the pleasure derived from having that desire fulfilled.

The pleasure payoff must be higher than the pain inflicted (so to speak). Just because people want something, it doesn't mean they are truly willing to put in the required effort to get it. As the average pain tolerance of the mass market is low, the payoff must be very high (communication with loved ones, financial well-being, major time savings) for a high pain point (cognitive load in this case) to be endured.

It is helpful to identify if there are multiple types of users, each with different goals and pain points. If that is the case, it is optimal to only expose users to the cognitive load necessary for the tasks they are interested in. For example, there could be anonymous browsers, participants, authors, and moderators. In that case, the cognitive load for casual browsers should be as low as possible, since they have the least benefit and buy-in. As with graceful degradation for less capable web browser software, apps should degrade gracefully for users with less capability or interest in using the additional features which require a higher cognitive load.

With regards to Shazam, I disagree that it would have been as successful if the interface was more complicated. Sure people would still have used it, but if it was harder to figure out or required more steps or had a 15 minute delay before it emailed you the answer, usage would have been far lower.

Sorry if this all sounds like a cognitive load of shit. Hopefully I have communicated it clearly, but I suspect I may have exceeded the pain threshold a while ago.