skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. You really have no theories you want to share, about why we see this kind of trolls from Python people continuously?

>>Moreover, I've avoided making personal attacks on anyone.

I argued you wrote extreme flames about subjects you showed you didn't understand -- then claim to understand them. I call yet-another-Python-troll.

>>I don't think you understand the issue here.

You missed(?) my point: With real inline lambdas and map, you don't need to create/teach list comprehensions Python style. It is there from inflexibility ("no braces!")

So, everything has warts(/tradeoffs), you flame about some that you obviously don't understand:

>> what benefits do we get from that decision?

You really see no possible benefit -- except in Common Lisp? -- from being able to modify the execution environment in code before running a program?

2. I gave the example -- to help with language extensions. No need for that in any environment...?
This is my preferred Tunguska conspiracy:

http://www.teslasociety.com/tunguska.htm

ps: I don't care if it is correct, it is still an interesting read.
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Anybody else notice the "I can't know MVC without knowing ASP.Net" in there?
My employer is always hiring Python developers because in this area looks like is hard to find the right candidate:

http://www.memset.com/careers/#PythonSoftwareDeveloper

But you're right, that was my first thought :)
Here's what you do. Make friends with immigrants that still have connections to their olive oil producing motherland. They either get shipments from their family, know somebody else in their community that gets shipments, or know somebody back home that may be willing to ship some. Ask them if you can buy some from them. Or, be nice to them and they may offer you some as a gift. I've done this on many occasions, and it's always very much appreciated.

And FYI, not many people press their own olives anymore. Typically they'll bring their harvest to a factory that will do it for them. And the pressing that is done is typically not a cold press, and they're certainly going to press it more than once. Oil is food, they're not just going to throw food away to be fancy. But what you will get from this process is still miles above anything you will get at the grocery store.
As others have stated, salaries in London (and almost anywhere else in the world) are quite a bit lower. But many would argue you need less for a good quality of life in these places as well.
Hmm, that must be a Mailchimp default. Agreed, it's not very good or clear.
They are certainly communities, and it is the obligation of the governing bodies of their communities to maximize the prosperity of the people in those communities just as it is the obligation of the governing bodies of our community to maximize the prosperity of the people in our community.

Inside versus outside isn't theoretical. People in other communities will not come to your defense when you need help, they will not perpetuate your culture and values, and they are not part of the body politic that animates your democracy.
The Huffington Post does not have pension obligations, and it doesn't pay its reporters six-figure salaries and benefits. (Well, not most of them, anyway.)
I will celebrate by watching "Citizen Kane."
I say "conspiracy theory" because that's the category of thought that falls into a particular kind of rationality anti-pattern.

Here's a general formula for most "conspiracy theory" thinking:

Step 1: Characterize the "official theory" of some event or phenomenon, often in an overly simplistic manner.

Step 2: Identify some sort of inconsistency or counterintuitive result in the relationship between the "official theory" and the purported evidence.

Step 3: Use that inconsistency to leap to the conclusion that an alternate theory must necessarily be correct.

I've seen this pattern played out a million times in as many different scenarios.

For example, look at the moon landing denialists. They point out that the shadows look unusual in Apollo footage. THEREFORE THE WHOLE THING WAS FAKED ON A SOUND STAGE ON EARTH.

Or, look at the JFK conspiracy theorists. They point out that if you position JFK and Governor Connally in the seemingly most normal riding positions in the presidential limousine then the bullet alleged to have passed through JFK's neck and also to have injured Connally would have had to travel a very unlikely route. THEREFORE THE WHOLE THING IS A FRAUD AND IN REALITY JFK WAS ASSASSINATED BY THE CIA.

Or, look at the 9/11 truthers. They point out that the temperature that structural steel melts at is higher than the temperature that jet fuel burns at. THEREFORE THE WHOLE THING IS AN ELABORATE RUSE BY THE US GOVERNMENT AND THE BUILDINGS WERE DEMOLISHED USING PLANTED EXPLOSIVES.

And so on.

Here we have a perfect example of the beginnings of another conspiracy theory in progress. Hastings' car didn't appear to leave much damage on the palm tree he allegedly collided with. Logically the only conclusion is that a vast government conspiracy remote controlled his car to veer off the road and trigger the explosion of a fire bomb in order to prevent him from revealing secrets that they didn't want revealed.

It's just simple logic right?
Apart from believing a public statement, do you have any reason to believe he will be a good steward of a journalistic entity?

As far as I know, he has no experience in reporting the unbiased truth and a lot of experience in selling stuff.
I waited about a week before contacting paypal and cancelling my order. It's been about 2 business days since I replaced it with a credit card, so we'll see.
Seems like he thought that the price was right for a publication with such a strong legacy, even if he doesn't have a grand plan for the immediate future. This sale was only offered to a very narrow pool of buyers, so I think that it was a very prudent purchase. He is friends with the previous ownership and undoubtedly felt that if he can preserve the publication in some shape or form, there is nothing but upside given the "drop in the bucket" price.
one page view

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/washington-post-to-be...
"give the Post breathing room to find a direction that will be profitable"

Could be but I don't think that's the case. I think there is something else going on here either vanity or some underlying access or asset that provides much greater value to Bezos that has not much to do with Amazon either.

I mean if you have that much money you can afford to buy and have it lose money for years just for other valuable benefits and access. WP is a mouthpiece he could swing elections (influence is way beyond their circulation).
Hmmm... That was just my 1st annoyance with a 'normal' job. And which company is going to pay me when during summer time I work 1-2 hours or only the really necessary/urgent stuff from a campsite somewhere? I'd rather have the flexibility to work like crazy when I want to and relax when I need it.,working for someone else is just too rigid.

What also bothers me:
-working my ass off might mean I get a bonus, but this is only a 1 time thing. No boss is happy to give a raise (maybe I'm already earning above market). Slackers (laggards? English isn't my mother tongue) often earn slightly less compared to people working their ass off.

-I can put my blood and sweat into the company, but from one day to the next they can fire me (ok, they'll,have to pay a hefty fee for breaking the contract). I've got a couple of ongoing projects at the daytime job right now, and I'd worry more about the projects if they'd fire me than about getting a new job... Which is probably an unhealthy attitude.
The important thing is to be arrogant and shame this person for literally doing their job.
It doesn't do the same investigative reporting either.
> Converting large amounts of atmospheric movement to heat will itself result in "manmade global warming" type issues.

This single statement clearly indicates you have absolutely no clue whatsoever about anything regarding energy production. At all. It's like saying that you can't have an LED display on a space rocket because running it would use up all the fuel. Except, that doesn't even capture the scale of the energy disconnect. I can't actually think of an analogy that accurately demonstrates the level of sheer ignorance in that comment...
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> 250% housing-cost-increase cool to me

250%? What city are you comparing to? Are you perhaps comparing to a large town?
print view

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jeff-bezos-on-post-pu...
A web developer making 30-70k is either underpaid or overpaid.
Lots of good reasons to deny requests such as not poisoning a potential jury pool in case charges might be made against someone. But, "because some Fed told us not to" is probably good enough too.
As far as I know, he has expertise in launching innovative technology at scale - something the Post desperately needs to stay afloat. Removing the politics of the business and replacing with innovation would do the whole country some good.
I know someone who works in IT recruiting. He makes $200-300K per year. Nice guy, but he doesn't know fuck all about technology. In fact, I've never once observed him asking a question that betrayed any knowledge or curiosity about the trade.
Quoting from her email:

I have attached the position description along with a description of the company and location.
Well, if we're looking at hits, a few things stand out historically.

Sometimes murders are done as an open warning. The mafia has used that approach forever.

Why did the Russians use polonium to kill Alexander Litvinenko? Surely there were better ways to kill him that wouldn't leave behind a radiated dying body. Were they trying to make a statement? Seems plausible.

What could be better than to publicly kill the target in a manner that can't be provably traced back, but stands as an open and dramatic point for everybody else to 'learn' from?
have had some great experiences with resin back in the day... great product indeed. Kudos to the team
Before this there was maloader [0] which was capable enough to run Apple's CLI toolchain. Really quite simple shim code!

[0]: https://github.com/shinh/maloader
Absolutely this. Our conditioned phone etiquette is abused by these sorts of people. Once I've determined that you don't offer any value to me and aren't going to offer any value to me, I will say "I'm not interested, goodbye", and hang up. You don't feel any obligation to read the entirety of a spam email before deleting it, do you?

This might make me rude, but it sure makes dealing with cold-calling spammers a lot less irritating and time-consuming.
Please stop with the nauseating idol-worship. He's a businessman trying to control more stuff and make more money.
Riffing on the deciding which to get part, you might also be able to allow stores to have accounts on there as long as they rent through your service.
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Just because he's smart doesn't mean he's benevolent, right? I would never argue that he's stupid but I'd be curious to know if anyone has any insight into the extent to which he's likely to be making this purchase in order to gain influence of some kind.
Something I wonder about is the way I get hit up by recruiters driven from LinkedIn in bunches. Most recently, I got a call from a big name and had several profile views from other people at the company.

Immediately following this, I was contacted more in a week than I had been in past 6 months.

It made me wonder if LinkedIn rotates through "featured" profiles, whether recruiters have some indication of who other companies are looking at or what?
Not necessarily, the Moto X seems to have a feature called "Trusted Devices" which gets gets past security when in range of aBluetooth device you've opted in with: http://i.imgur.com/EPKauya.png

Looks like Topolsky missed this.
Wouldn't users navigating to .onion sites within TOR be free from a GPA (global passive adversary)?

Couldn't the TOR protocol model Perfect Dark?[1] Which uses a Mix Network.[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark_(P2P)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_network
Wrong! You don't have to disclosure any amount within the country. Only if you are entering or leaving the country
I think that tedsander would have wanted that your explanation follow the snarky four character comment, so that there would at least be something of merit to respond to. Comments like "this" "lol" "ftfy" "rtfa" "ruh roh" are the kinds of responses that generally annoy users of HN looking for intelligible discourse.
I'm saying their speculative analysis is approaching (and surpassing) the line between "analysis" and "fabrication", and they should be punished for it.
Or just plain tables. Look under the HN hood.
Are you really trying to justify genocide on the basis that people who live in a community have no moral obligations to anyone outside their community?

I would have thought that reasoning went out of fashion circa September 30, 1946.
It doesn't at all define america, but the rest of the country is literally built on dirt. May as well embrace it. Maybe it's because I grew up in the country but living on a garbage pile doesn't really phase me after poking at animal carcasses in my childhood.
No slate.com, though there are many other assets. Check out page 4:

>The deal does not include the company’s headquarters on 15th St. NW in Washington (the building has been for sale since February), or Foreign Policy magazine, Slate.com, the Root.com, the WaPo Labs digital-development operation or Post-owned land along the Potomac River in Alexandria.
But that's exactly what I've observed: nearly all ObjC developers fit into one of those two categories, and that's why roughly nobody wants to bother with GNUStep. I suppose I could have made some different point instead, but I'm generally going to make points about the stuff I've seen.
The first is the courage to say wait, be sure, slow down, get another source. Real people and their reputations, livelihoods and families are at stake.

A 1000 times. At least it won't turn into the next PandoDaily(and its BeachMint fiasco).
I think he cares more about it being on the Kindle and the Fire than using it as his mouthpiece.
Such an overly dramatic post. If the NSA can accurately monitor the bandwidth of every device connected to Tor, then why did they go to the trouble of injecting exploit into Freedom Hosting sites? And even if they do have that capability, a protocol that masks bandwidth usage through junk data would be an expensive, but effective counter to it.
Jonas, thank you for your interest. Please stay tuned.
If your job is harassing people and wasting their time, it doesn't make it okay because you're "just doing your job".

I'm just gonna go ahead and Godwin this particular subthread and say "I was just following orders" didn't hold any water at Nuremberg, and doesn't hold any now.
For the record, both of the people who have praised Swiftype in this thread are actual Swiftype customers, and both of them have written about Swiftype on their own sites (without prompting from us).

http://canadian-fury.com/2012/05/19/presenting-swiftype-inte...

http://blog.mailgun.com/post/weekly-product-update-mailgun-d...
Really the halting problem comes down to "Can we tell if a function will end or not?" A simple while ( time ) { 1 } will stop us from finding that out very nicely, so the fact that it's not parseable is actually a separate issue. (A much simpler halting problem using parsing is do 1;)

We could remove the ability for Perl to compile, interpret and execute code at run-time, which would mainly involve removing eval, use, require, import, do, etc. But would that be better or worse than not being able to "parse" Perl code?

(As an aside: Ruby is also subject to the halting problem, and thus cannot be parsed; you just can't get away from the pesky thing!)
I do not know if there's a word for that (imperialism doesn't seem quite right), but the US are totalitarian in regards to other countries, and they've been so for a long time. Now some of the tricks learned from speaking softly and carrying a big stick are being used domestically.
This is kind of awesome.

Things that need fixing though - repeat lines, lines that don't rhyme together.

You should look into RapMetrics, and implement something like that to figure out how good the generated lyrics are, and then use a GA to create an optimal rap from a pool of 100 random ones.
Download the resources and you'll be able to take the class at your own pace. There are several tools for that purpose on github. e.g this one: https://github.com/dgorissen/coursera-dl

As a special gift, it's allow you to archive the courses for later review.
I'm not sure, but if I'd make a guess about why I got into YC it's because I was able to build something that tapped into a powerful need. It's definitely a good indicator that something is when whent there are so many resources out there and yet time and time again people who finished my class said it was the first time they had ever successfully learned how to code (after failing with other resources).

We're trying to take a more human approach to learning about technology. There are live chat and discussion sections as well as in-person study groups which is not something you'll find on peepcode and the rest. On top of that, you don't end up finishing any of those resources with a live product that can serve as the MVP for the company you're trying to build.

Just some thoughts, though I'd love to get your take.
Agree 100%, it's maddening. A lot of the people that would get the most out of these courses don't have time to adhere to a strict schedule like they expect you too. I wonder if it has to do with colleges realizing just how disruptive it could be to there business model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_state
It is actually difficult to find talent, though. The fact that idiots are claiming this for the wrong reasons doesn't mean that smart people can't also think so for the right reasons.
Is this in the category of buying sports teams, or does he expect to make money off of it?
So the plan is to appeal to rank nationalism? I suggest any lobbying group that's formed concentrate its ad dollars on Fox News.
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Is there anyone rich enough to buy a newspaper who wouldn't have a conflict of interest? Is there any human alive who wouldn't have a conflict of interest?
Few people were aware that a sale was in the works for the paper, whose reporters have broken such stories as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate scandals and disclosures about the National Security Administration’s surveillance program in May.

Claiming credit for the NSA story seems disingenuous at best, especially given their antagonism towards Snowden:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/06/how-washingt...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130702/11474423694/washin...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jul/10/washing...

EDIT: While acknowledging the WaPo's significant contributions in the early 70s, it seems like they lost their way somewhere along the line:

Washington Post Kills Account of Its Failures in Iraq Reporting and Runs a Defense Instead
http://gawker.com/5992158/washington-post-kills-account-of-i...
UK's IT recruitment industry have to die.

After 2 years of uphill battle, here's how I managed to get off from all recruiters' spamlist & call list:

- For every email coming from an agency: search via the recruiter's domain name for all older emails; scan their websites for contact details; BCC everyone on it (this will make it a subject of coffee conversation)

Subject line: Cease and desist further communication

Body: Dear $RECRUITMENT_COMPANY,
and to all whom it might concern,

Pursuant to my rights under the Data Protection Act 1998, I am requesting that you cease and desist communication with me in relation to job offers, or vacancies of any kind.

You are hereby notified that if you do not comply with this request, I will immediately file a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office. Civil and criminal claims will be pursued.

Sincerely,
$FULLNAME

* Send, and mark the original email spam. This will help spamfilters to classify emails of this kind correctly.

* For phone conversations, where the phone number is visible: register for http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html (this is a good idea regardless) ,and file a complaint.

* For phone conversations, where no phone number is available, your mission is to elicit a company name, and while keeping them on the phone, look it up using http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/ . If the company exist, use the above form via email, and inform them the same content verbally.

* If, despite all the above, a company is repeat offender, contact me (email in profile), and we'll take them to small claims.
Certainly odd, and I very much want as much investigation as possible, but it's not necessarily such a crazy thing to happen, in my opinion.

A burn victim is most likely to be cremated, I'd imagine. And it's possible that Hastings had a desire for cremation in his will or living will.

Let's wait and see what the evidence shows.
Seeing that some are adding timings to the posted solutions.

The APL solution I posted above (+/⍳1E9) takes 56 microseconds to execute on my system (checked by solving it 100,000 times in a loop).

The interpreter is obviously not doing a huge memory and clock-cycle sucking expansion of a one billion element vector.

This highlights another advantage of a symbolic language: Idioms or patterns within code can be recognized replaced with equivalent highly-efficient, highly-tuned operations. The above example is obviously solved by having the interpreter swap it out for the well-understood mathematical solution.

Because of this the programmer can focus on the problem space rather than having to dork around with figuring out optimizations. Granted, this is a simple one for anyone with a decent math background, but it can get far more complex. Have a look at the famous Finn APL idiom library:

http://aplwiki.com/FinnAplIdiomLibrary

An interpreter designer might very well decide to detect a good number of these idioms and execute highly tuned code instead of the memory and CPU-cycle hogging expansions that might result from running the actual code as written.

In many ways I equate this to what happens when using a language like Verilog to design FPGA circuits. You are designing hardware, not software. FPGA compilers have inference engines that recognize certain structures to mean specific circuit constructs. It's a contract. We agree that when I write this I mean to ask that you instantiate that and everyone is happy.
I taught myself how to code on my own and realized that there are no good resources out there that provide a clear path for beginners. Yes, and the fact that I get to empower other people to build something they want to build is a bonus )
I cringed too, but I guess they meant the framework of the same name from MS: http://www.asp.net/mvc
I currently run a technology company with VC backing. I've considered recently leaving the US and moving my business to Canada (specifically Toronto). I wonder if anyone here with experience in Canada's tech market has a short bullet list of pros and cons of Canada and Toronto specifically when it comes to that.
Also, how many other towns have a similar operation ongoing?