skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's absurd. The law of diminishing returns comes into play, and for most cases, assembly is just not worth it (whereas C or C++ is). Rust seems like another interesting take at that sweet spot, but it seems like in Go this was an afterthought (though to be fair, the performance benefits of C / C++ are often cargo-culted even when that kind of performance is completely irrelevant, so Pike still has some valid points).
I've been using Colemak cold turkey for 6 months now and I still can't type properly to save my life. I barely make a proper sentence these days.
I never had this problem when I was trying to learn Dvorak. It seem the hand alteration makes it easier and you more accurate.
NO. Teary eyed. :(

3.7 million phone sales are nothing. Only if they had copied iOS the Samsung way in time.
[Self-replying because I can't seem to write more than a few lines in the mobile interface...]
I personally did get a lot out of HS sport; I was a shy kid who could run fast, so I became a mini hero/authority in my small fish pond - but I have to agree with the article's point that the majority of the students were not benefiting.
I don't know aboot 'angry' but there should be defined laws on the books about what organizations (i.e. anti-keystone ppl) get placed under added scrutiny. Also, some of the ways attempted recently to garner support for internet censorship have also been somewhat offbeat. But they are at the vangaurd of things, pretty important stuff.
> With the exception of pain management clinics and anesthesiologists, the board doesn’t have the authority to inspect a doctor, or to start an investigation on its own.

Somebody's watching the medicine cabinet; they forgot about the knife drawer.
Making a sandwich, the Linux way
If you've ever worked at a company with more than a single employee, surely you've noticed that not all employees necessarily know what the other employees are doing.

Now imagine that scaled up to a giant corporation, with hundreds of thousands of employees, and multiple independent divisions with their own goals, strategies, and financial responsibilities.
I think you're missing a couple of points here. First and foremost, he wouldn't mind being asked "petty questions pertaining to his ability to do the job," but by and large, he is NOT being asked those questions - that's kind of the entire point of his article. Second of all, it's not that he "tolerates" C level execs, he's just making the observation that they seem to conduct better interviews because, when it comes to the value of other people's time, they "get" it.
Oh and regarding "creating a system that deletes unused cached entries"

Just use tmpwatch in a cron job. You can use mtime or atime depending on your linux and capabilities to expire the resized images and delete them every so many hours (or days depending on your space).
Vampire mice and zombie hard drives: USB dangers lurk in Linux
That's like comparing losing a lottery by guessing only 3 numbers out of 4 and playing a lottery where you need to guess only one number. These are statistically very different events, since you don't guess other 3 numbers correctly every time - and all fail-safes aren't failing at the same time. That's the point of having many of them - if each of them fails one-in-a-million time, you get 10^24 of security.
to add to this, where's the NRA and supporters of the 2nd amendment regarding NSA/the government recording "everything"? wouldn't they be very vocal if the feds implemented a massive gun registry? (I'm not American so I may be off-base here)
> A first strike in the cold war was expected to be all out

Not universally. The potential for a limited exchange wasn't completely discounted -- the US or the USSR could detonate a single explosive in a side conflict or in the mainlands to signal that they're no longer posturing and are willing to deal with the diplomatic consequences of a single detonation.

Similarly, submarines and SLBMs (with MIRVs, no less,) guaranteed MAD even in the face of a full first strike; responding to a single explosion with a single retaliation (and a diplomatic message of "you knew this was going to be the response; don't escalate") was a lot less suicidal than responding with a full attempted first strike. As a side note, SLBMs also provided for the potential of decapitation strikes, which are a far more measured (...) nuclear strike than attempting to destroy the entire population.

Both sides knew that nobody wanted to suicide their entire country, and knew that both sides knew that (et cetera,) which lead to a number of responses between "do nothing" and "kill the entire world." I'd like to think that the US and USSR wouldn't've attempted a first strike even if the tanks were rolling into the capitals, but that might be idealistic.
Obamacare software glitch?
BlackBerry to Cut 4,500 Jobs Following Gruesome Loss
Was digging up some numbers. In 2010, BlackBerry still sold more phones than Apple.

How the mighty have fallen.
Canada infringes on polygamy for a very specific reason, from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_polygamy#North_...

In November, 2011 the court released its 335 pages long decision, which was that the polygamy abolition law is indeed constitutional, but that it should not be used to persecute minors for having taken part of a polygamous marriage.[21] Chief Justice Robert Bauman conceded that there is a conflict between this law and some civil right principles, but stated that there are other and "more important" issues which in this case takes precedence. He wrote (as quoted by CBC news[21]):

"I have concluded that this case is essentially about harm. More specifically, Parliament's reasoned apprehension of harm arising out of the practice of polygamy. This includes harm to women, to children, to society and to the institution of monogamous marriage".

Bauman argued that there are cases where the "wives" (who may be rather young; sometimes as young as 12 years) are abducted and abused, but because they believe in a faith promoting polygamy, they are not willing to bring complaints to the authorities. He reasons that these offences sometimes may be stopped by applying anti-polygamy legislation.

The decision was welcomed by the attorney general of British Columbia, and by a representative for the group Stop Polygamy in Canada. Likewise, according to the CBC news,[21] some polyamorous groups in Canada expressed their relief, since Bauman had stated that the law shouldn't apply to them unless they decide to formalize their unions.

===

reference [21] is a broken link on wikipedia, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/11/23/bc-polygamy...
so i offer this one instead: http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/568/B.C.-court-u... it is more focused on the harm aspect and does not notice the polyamorous angle.
True. I try to make such disclosures whenever there's a chance it could influence what I'm writing. I decided this comment didn't need one. I put a tremendous amount of effort into writing accurately, concisely, and without commercial or other influence. Feel free to google me. I'm beefman here and on Wikipedia, Carl Lumma or clumma everywhere else.
>If one hour's worth of information is incorporated into the securities' prices between the two sets of fills, that is a really huge amount of exposure compared to what I would expect today.

I don't think it's accurate to call what's going on today "an hour's worth of information." Not that much happens in an hour, per stock. It's more akin to an hour's worth of random walk. This is harder to argue, but I think this scheme would cause most of that random walk to disappear. Certainly whatever component of it is second order would disappear, (that is, based on signaling from the price movement itself.)

>I'm not even sure if the notion of a spread or an inside price would make much sense once everything is so illiquid.

If you think of liquidity in terms of "the chances that I can sell without having a large effect on the price of the stock" then I think this only increases liquidity. You're no longer counting on the availability of moment to moment orders on the other side of the deal. You're essentially building a smoothing function into the market.
Or used Samsung hardware in their device! ;)
In an environment where inventors were not sufficiently motivated to produce sans patents, patents might quite legitimately be "promot[ing] the progress of Science and useful Arts" in part by providing that motivation.
In your example, 15-20% of your lumber sales are to me, so regardless of what happens with the furniture situation, you still want to keep selling me lumber. It's a symbiotic relationship.
Why? The problem isn't with the phones. The Z10 and Q10 are fantastic and BB10 is probably the best business-centric OS ever written. The problem is that the applications are just not there, and that people associate BlackBerry with reboots, battery pulls, and outdated, clunky software, even though that's not the case.

It's an image problem, not a phone problem. They can't market like Apple used to. If they could, they would get more sales, but their marketing is just pitiful.
4 hours? Unless I misheard, he mentioned he waited in the queue for an hour, and then waited on the agent for half an hour.

If you've ever flown into Toronto when it's busy, you can spend longer waiting on the normal queue in customs... Is that detainment too?

I'm sure if he wanted, he could have gone back the other way. He didn't need to enter Canada. At no point in the podcast did he describe anything that could actually be called 'holding' or 'detainment'....
The Internet Alphabet
The Future of Work according to LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner
There was a lot of talk about the A7 being potentially made by another company. In that context, saying that nothing has changed is still significant.
Verbal Cupping Descriptor Visualization
So tell a big enough lie and everybody believes it but a big enough truth and nobody does...
Perhaps not so much a mechanical device, but take a closed source patented piece of software for example. You could be able to keep the design (source code) secret, and yet still sell it to the public.
Because securing and defending territory, with its associated resources and productive capacity, is one of the most fundamental activities of socially-organized mammals.
Looking Beyond Radar Charts
Check out the "minimal" one on the page. iOS's new web progress bar looks like that.
BlackBerry to Fire 4,500, Write Down Up to $960 Million
Since I first heard about FVEY, I have assumed that each of the member countries has total unrestricted access to 100% of the data that any of the other member countries have collected.

The more that we find out, the more I believe that that is an accurate assumption.
Fanboys will be fanboys.
Colt is a pretty funny dev. He co-ran that html5 game development course last year.

https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255
Another iOS7 Lock Screen bypass with Control Center turned off
What would they think of putting "suspicious" people on a list so the govt could pounce on them the minute they try to cross the border? The purpose of which is to avoid warrant.
Sorry man! If you read the rest of my posts I was agreeing with you. I was just trying to address the reaction chetanahuja had to your article to say I wasn't blinded and had healthy skeptism, but I still agreed whole-heartedly with you. C++ is great for special circumstances but I'd hate to have to go back to it for general coding. Functional programming offers some very intriguing ideas, which I'm only starting to grasp. I don't really mind you being provocative because it provokes and discussion follows.
Yeah, as I said it depends on how long the code ends up running. For sections of the code that you end up changing all the time you'll have a much higher proportion of developer time to "running core" time, so you obviously can reduce costs more on the productivity side. But there's no simple, 300-cores-per-developer math for it.
Spain passes new anti-piracy laws, raises maximum penalty to six years
The A7 is not a hybrid approach.

Unless you work at Apple in silicon design, you don't know that, and to be fair neither do I. But history has shown that every A# release gets greeted with incredible fanfare about the completely-custom CPU work at Apple, to later quietly get corrected when it turns out that it is at most a marginally derived ARM core.

I'm just going with history. Given that the A57 finished design last year, and started taping out early this year, it seems unlikely -- if not strategically risky -- that Apple just went their own way. From a pure performance perspective, ARM is hyping a clock-for-clock tripling of performance with the A57 over a Cortex-A15, or a quintupling of performance at a given power usage level.
Ive been doing interviews for a few months now, and I try to make it as casual as possible. Why? Because I don't want to ask the candidate about who they think they are, I want to know who they actually are.
Ugh, coming up with something "cool" under time constraints, while someone is sitting there and watching my every move, is not exactly a realistic gauge of anything. One of the reasons the hiring process is so broken for so many is that they fail to take in to account the nervousness and pressure the candidate will invariably be feeling. Speaking as someone who has done many interviews, questions like this always make me cringe. Sitting there in a suit, sweating and angling for a job, isn't really the best time for me to come up with something "cool."
It's unfortunate, as someone who just purchased a Q10 (switched from Android), I think they've finally got their act together and released something excellent.

The Q10's battery life is great, the hardware keyboard is solid and travels well. The Paratek antenna gets the best reception and data connection of any device I've ever used. The BB10 software isn't great, but it's decent. (It's certainly far better than where WebOS / iOS / Android was when they launched. Even today, BB10.2 is significantly better / more powerful than Windows Phone 8, even if the UI is less well defined).

Their story, to me, seems almost down to timing. They're executing pretty well right now, it's just two to three years too late.

It will be sad to watch all that hardware die. In a year or two, there probably won't be any devices available that have a large battery, solid hardware keyboard, and decent cellular data reception.
Patients don't deserve to be ruined, either. Risk from unfair lawsuits and misfires of civil law are something we all have to accept.
It's stuff like this that makes me amused by the reverence geeks approach the Kobayashi Maru scenario. Yes, everyone cheats, but what's actually important is that no one feels cheated. That's where the anger comes from.

Thinking sideways is a natural thing to encourage. A particularly subtle and cunning piece of underhanded trickery, once the cards are on the table, is impressive and laudable. The real trick is to not be a dick about it; when you win, you need to learn to share your winnings, to communicate that it's just a game and it wasn't personal and you weren't trying to hurt the others.

The problem isn't that the banks and funds and such are cheating. The problem is that they're causing damage and failing to genuinely express remorse over that damage.
Agreed. Success breeds success. This is an attempt to pivot from an existing ad-hoc business into an accelerated & more formalized business. There are customers, there is money coming in, the brand (CEO) is known in the field.

IMO, the only question is if it can grow beyond the existing niche, and how far it can grow.
I highly recommend http://www.imgix.com/
How to create a NodeJS NPM package
"Polygamy" is a word that really isn't used to mean the thing its component parts imply (marriage for polyamorous people.)

Instead, it's usually both mixed-age and arranged: effectively, families coercing their daughters to join the harem of a rich man. (There may also be a dowry, in which case the family is selling their daughter into the harem of a rich man.)

This is a pretty bad thing, but it's hard to write a fully-general (e.g. gender-neutral) legal definition of it that doesn't also cause problems for regular poly people.
There's something particularly ironic about calling Ozymandias timeless.
One Tablet Per Haitian
No One Reads Kafka in Gitmo
Last time I checked airport security in canada murdered Polish citizen because he did not spoke english.
With a parser for Go in the standard library, it would be easy enough to write a source scanner that looked for unhandled error returns.
you forgot age discrimination.
No Country for Old Milk
I don't think Apple is as interested in being punitive (though some of it might be that) as they are in diversifying supply sources. It's probably unlikely that TSMC will exclusively build them right away, but Apple may shift more over to them if they do a good job.
I would honestly say that we need to look at our stance on polygamy. It seems kind of pointless to make it illegal (from the little knowledge I have on this specific topic).

I mean, every everyone is a consenting adult, what does it matter?
It has since been verified.
Yeesh, way to mince words. Yes, it "can" be done... I guess what I meant by "can't" was "provides a poor experience to the point where is generally unacceptable and therefore not a solution and hence the impossibility of the solution could be just as easily expressed as `can't be done [right now]`".
I did work for Corensic, which was bought by F5. It was a company that made a very ingenious data race detector. I learned a lot about data races and how they prevent companies from adopting concurrent programming.

I also used to work for a Haskell company, FP Complete, but I quit, so I'm no longer representing them. I learned a lot about building actual applications using Haskell at FP Complete.
Agreed. I would love to build a small business offering software/saas and live quietly with that, but I don't have a fine grasp of what people want to pay for.

So I'm building a mobile game, as entertainment will get paid for.
Both the NSA and CSE claim to avoid gathering data on their own citizens, yet there's unprecedented sharing of information going on between the "5 eyes" agencies, so those assurances have little practical value.
Too many people here seem to be missing the point of the article. The title is "The Case Against High-School Sports" not "The Case Against Sports". The argument is whether an academic institution should be spending so much of its (potentially tight) budget on athletics and whether it should be glorifying athletic accomplishments so much more than it does academic accomplishments.

I've played sports, both in-school and out-of-school, almost my entire life and I love sports as much as anyone else, and I think the article makes a valid argument. Sports are great and kids can learn a lot from them, but I don't think school-affiliated sports over many benefits over club-affiliated sports, and even if they did, I question whether those benefits outweigh the costs of schools putting so many resources into them.

edit: I was missing a word
I don't think polygamy is specifically disallowed by the state, depending on how you define polygamy. Since marriage comes with tax and legal benefits, the state has an active interest in controlling what is legally defined as marriage (specifically, how many people are party to one marriage. I'm not talking about controlling any kind of two-party marriages like one man and one woman, two men, or two women).

For the religious definition of marriage, there are no laws saying you can't be married in your religion to multiple people. The only stipulation is that you can only be legally married to one person because of the aforementioned legal and tax benefits. There's no law prohibiting me from having six female roommates who are exclusively in a relationship with me. There is a law saying I can only be legally married to one of them at a time. The rest of the women would be legally single and religiously married.
We should really put together a newer Julia paper – that one is still relevant but the type inference section is a bit opaque and there's a lot of other interesting stuff to say.
I think it's a pretty simple equation of doctors being in the party and tort reform appealing to the Reaganite anti-regulation, anti-government message. They probably aren't all that serious about it, though, because they trot it out at election time and then it goes away, at least at the federal level.
I'm actually very curious on how they build in the color picker into the site to designate the site's colors. Anyone have any knowledge on this?
It would have been nice if this article had explained the shortcomings Google Spreadsheets have compared to Excel. As someone who has never actually run into a significant difference in practice, I would have found that interesting.
FWIW, according to Daniel Ellsberg†, the switch in question was the pilot's arm/safe switch. I would think that switch would be more like the lawnmower switch and less like the other three switches, which were presumably operated by sensors and circuitry.

E.g., an automatic system senses the bomb is dropping, so it deploys the chute and charges up the firing capacitors. Then another system detects the bomb has reached firing altitude and tries to detonate, but nothing happens because the arm/safe switch is on safe.

†http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
Awesome, nice design too. Thanks for this
Yeah, the notion of personal responsibility in the current form has to go. Genetics and environment is absolutely huge influence and I cant blame a person for poor money management skills if he or she was in a toxic environment all his life.
I played HS Baseball in Oklahoma. One year we lost to Jenks in the state finals. Only thing I wish, is I was better. HS baseball was my outlet from the physical prison that is modern suburbia. Now my outlet is weight lifting and sparing, and I probably spend 20 hours a week on 'worthless' physical activity. Just because the author wants to live in her head all the time does not mean the rest of us do.
It's a bit of a "the king is dead; long live the King!" thing. There will always be an Ozymandias.
That link currently ranks at #4 for me in a Google search of Christopher Duntsch, no quotes.
This turned out to be an interesting little game. I bet you can always tell a developer. Here's mine:

a: audobox.com

b: buzzfeed.com/emofly/eggs-in-exciting-holes (bookmarked for ideas)

c: calendar.google.com

d: dashboard.heroku.com

e: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Breaking_Bad_episodes (i _really_ can't ever remember where i am)

f: facebook.com

g: github.com/gtank

h: heroku.com

i: imgur.com

j: javagenesiscoffeeroasting.com/shop/ (delicious coffee near atlanta)

k: keithv.com (language models i used frequently)

l: localhost:9292 (yep, developer)

m: mail.google.com

n: news.ycombinator.com

o: ossl-test.herokuapp.com (buildpack test for ruby + new openssl)

p: plus.google.com

q: questionablecontent.net

r: reddit.com

s: smittenkitchen.com (i was really expecting stackoverflow here)

t: twitter.com

u: unsplash.com

v: vervecoffeeroasters.com

w: wikipedia.org

x: xda-developers.com

y: yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com

z: zenpayroll.com