skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm going to be "that" guy and ask... why actors? Why not agents?

Because actor is an establish paradigm and that has been around for a while. I haven't heard Hickey's talk on "agents" but based on your description, how are agents radically different?

What stops actors from reading the snapshots of the world? They can 1) subscribe to "world" actor and get publication when it changes or 2) if database is immutable (I guess you are hinting at Datomic or Clojure's datastructures here?) an actor can also call a function. Remember actors in practice are there to help isolate concurrency contexts. Reading truly immutable data is safe so actors could just periodically read this immutable data (just think of the database a function). It would be awkward having to process messages from mailbox, timing out, then reading world state, process world state, going back to processing messages. Etc. I like 1) better.

> the actor has to define its behavior.

How does an agent bypass defining its behavior? Doesn't an agent have a piece of code that specifies what that agent does.

> and send transformation functions on the data of that specific agent, which will be then processed by the agent's thread in an ordered way.

So this basically centralizes the state of all the agents in one central location that is an immutable database? Hmm interesting. It is a different way of looking it at it I guess. Each actor usually handles its own internal state privately. I guess we also assume that there is something underneath that constantly distributes all these incrementing tree of states across a whole system. I don't know I would rather think of actors explicitly choosing to send their state to a system half way across the world rather than rely on another layer of distributing state. Maybe it is just a matter of a mental model here...
f.lux adjust light colors. What about the connection between light colors and what f.lux does is confusing you?
I like his idea of something he calls "folding language":

> Ioke is a folding language. This means it folds in on itself. You can create new abstractions covering any of the existing abstractions in the language. You can abstract over these, over and over again, until you have a language that lets you express what you want to express in a succinct and readable way. Ioke allows you to fold your code.

But I'd love to see more: language that could eventually unfold into other language source code. It would allow coding in high level languages where just using other compiler is rather not possible.

For example OpenCL - adding good abstractions would make GPU programming much easier. Or generating Java code - so one could write code in something more concise, without having whole team to do the same or even adding other language runtime JRE.

There could even be common abstractions for many target programming language, allowing to write algorithm once and then just translate it (browser + server data validation anyone? there are attempts to use translations to JavaScript from various languages, but why try emulating existing languages complex behaviour in JS instead of creating language specifically designed for translation?).

Related term is probably Concept Programming [1], with interesting presentation slides [2] in external links.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_programming

[2] http://xlr.sourceforge.net/Concept%20Programming%20Presentat...
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Heck, the University of Waterloo has 129.97.0.0/16, and I see people get confused all the time between 192.168. (private) and 129. (publicly routed).
I think you mean, did you remember to post "this is what a police state looks like" on reddit five times a day? :)
This erroneously uses the life expectancy at birth rather than the life expectancy at <current age> - a common mistake.

If my parents are 80, I don't expect them to die in 1 year just because life expectancy at birth is 81. I expect them to live about another 8 years.

Use a table like http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
I think if you offer to code in interview its not right and dont resume good Man and company lost cool thinking programmer. In root its going from escape from peoples - such company not need with anybody. They must offer not coding, the must offer work and good things. Programming solve not coding it solve to make effective and easy. Coding in interview is monkey fun.
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For those that don't know: there is/was an ancient meme called the "Useless Use of Cat Award" about that subject. See for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)#Useless_use_of_cat, http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html, or http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/16279/should-i-care-...
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Pretty common. At mid levels (senior manager, director), base is ~50% of total. At senior levels (VP, CxO), base is less than 25%. At the extreme (CEOs of major corps), base is negligible (e.g. Costello's base is $14k out of a total of ~$8.7 mm).
Is Microsoft also deprecating support for IE on Windows XP? If so, this is a clever attempt by Google to get companies to switch to Chrome. Eventually they'll upgrade to newer versions of Windows, and maybe they'll just keep using Chrome.
In fact some companies explicitly prohibit publishing code publicly without requesting special permission.

I don't think candidates should be excluded based on the lack of a github repo.
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By declaring you get protection under the US laws:

(http://www.dol.gov/odep/pubs/fact/laws.htm)

> The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities and guarantees equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodations, state and local government services, and telecommunications. Two sections of the ADA relate to employment:

> Title I: Employment prohibits covered employers from discriminating against people with disabilities in all employment-related activities, including hiring, pay, benefits, firingand promotions. Covered employers include private businesses, educational institutions, employment agencies, labor organizations, and state and local government entities with 15 or more employees.

(http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/types/disability.cfm)

> The law requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodation to an employee or job applicant with a disability, unless doing so would cause significant difficulty or expense for the employer ("undue hardship").

[...]

> The law places strict limits on employers when it comes to asking job applicants to answer medical questions, take a medical exam, or identify a disability.

> For example, an employer may not ask a job applicant to answer medical questions or take a medical exam before extending a job offer. An employer also may not ask job applicants if they have a disability (or about the nature of an obvious disability). An employer may ask job applicants whether they can perform the job and how they would perform the job, with or without a reasonable accommodation.
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I'll sign up for $20/month. Just give me an address where to send the money.
Loosely based off of the "1,000 marbles" story. If you want to enjoy your life more, read this story and then go buy a jar of marbles :)

http://www.motivation123.com/news108.txt
also include in your exception list, political appointees. I haven't scanned the whole list so I am wondering if the members of the Whitehouse staff, Congress, and similar, are available? The Whitehouse has nearly 500 listed on their site.

The sheer number of government employees is amazing especially when you consider you have to add on top of these numbers those at state, city, and local, levels.
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We'd like it to be differentiated. Discussions on how we view things can be quite different from how the tech community at large does. So we think there's value in other people seeing a discussion from that angle, as well as being the first online community in which you can directly engage in a discussion with a VC
This is cool, but I'm surprised it's not much more difficult in skiing even Olympics since the IOC have been trying to stamp out no-hopers ever since Britain's "Eddie the Eagle" became legendary for his amateurish ski-jump attempts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_%22The_Eagle%22_Edwards

Eddie was a much more accomplished athlete than the Congoese swimmer who could barely get the end of the pool, and probably a better skier than your friend, but the IOC took a dim view of enthusiastic amateurs hurtling down ski-slopes in front of millions of viewers that were genuinely pleased just to see him survive the jump, and introduced qualification requirements. I'm surprised they haven't introduced them for dangerous sports like the luge as well. At least your friend had the sense to pick cross country skiing

The way to get an Olympic medal is to be naturally gifted and train every day from teens onwards, like one of my brother's friends did...

I still regret not learning to play handball in approx 2010 since the Great Britain felt compelled to enter a team at their home Olympics despite it being about the only sport British people don't play.
One of the great things about working remotely is the ability to spend time with folks. I moved out to SF to be where the sun shines but recently my father became ill. I'm now spending lots and lots of time in a small town in the Midwest sharing moments with my father, which is the most important thing to me at this moment.
Any recommendations for how a new to the valley engineer gets on to this salary track? Is it hard won negotiations?
This is not true. auto_ptr (in C++11 unique_ptr) and stack discipline are not memory safe. There is no sane subset of C++ that is memory-safe. I can provide (and have provided—see my posting history) dozens of examples.
If you're interested in Machine Learning, the outstanding Coursera course on machine learning just started a couple of days ago. It covers a variety of machine learning topics, including image recognition. The first assignment isn't due for a couple of weeks, so it's a perfect time to jump in and take the machine learning course!

https://www.coursera.org/course/ml
Not even a credit card - a debit card!

In the US at least, these are not covered by the $50 limitation on losses on unauthorized transactions. In practice the banks often honor that anyway, but AFAIK they don't have to.

In this case however, it appears the bank could argue that when you got phished, you gave access to a third party.

Wow. I would never do this. It's a good practice never to use a debit card online, and it's unclear to me whether the service here offers any enforeceable assurances to participants.
a fun site to play with is at http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
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> the Republicans have tried numerous times to actually ban the practice of prioritizing payments to avoid default.

I was with you up until this point, but saying "the Republicans" want to ban prioritization of payments is false. Most appropriations laws do not specify that the executive can spend "up to $X" on a given thing, but must spend exactly $X on that thing. To wit:

> Regarding the spending power, the picture is a bit more nuanced. In

> the early years of the Republic, Congress passed laws that authorized the

> president to spend “up to” certain sums of money, and the president was

> accordingly able to carry out his constitutional duties while spending

> money in amounts not precisely specified by Congress.

> In most areas of the federal budget, however, that practice has long

> since ended. Congress now typically specifies precise amounts of money

> (or, in the case of so-called entitlement programs, precise formulae to

> determine amounts of money) that the president must spend for each

> authorized program.

> When Congress appropriates the money necessary to fund those authorized programs, it effectively orders the

> president to spend no more and no less than those amounts. It would be

> odd, indeed, if a president were to assert that he could choose to, say,

> send Medicare beneficiaries (or their medical care providers) less money

> than they would be entitled to receive under the relevant statute. [1]

I agree with your other points. But the illegality of spending prioritization is (1) not a creation of Republicans and (2) a much bigger issue than changing some Treasury software.

1. p1199, http://www.columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/...
Paper receipts are there to guard against employee theft. Your preferences don't enter into it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-11/ask-the-blogger-why...
Stepper motors are small in scale, are they not? And, synchronous motors are also AC motors in steady state.
"My wife works at a kindergarten and she has first hand experience with 4-year olds being exposed to porn and the effects really aren't nice."

I think this is made up, or at most the kids are reacting to the teacher freaking out or trying to tease the teacher knowing its a great way to freak her out.

It is comical to think back at what I thought of sex-ploitive-ish TV when I was a kid, pre-puberty. Now yes I know this wasn't "XXX chicks with happy horses" or whatever, merely broadcast TV, but I don't think that would change the reaction very much.

The women on Charlies Angels? Eh whatever, the A-Team was a better action show although even for a kid, a little formulaic.

The actresses on Laverne and Shirley don't wear bras? Who cares they look like goofballs wearing 50s clothes this is 1980 lets watch battlestar galactica (the original).

The dukes of hazard was all about the car chases, I didn't even notice Daisy's attire (or lack thereof) until my hormones kicked in and suddenly she was very interesting indeed, like from zero interest to 1000+ in what seemed like weeks. When I was young I thought it was a stupid show, like a lame version of Knight Rider which I much preferred.

So the happy couple is reunited and their relationship rekindled on the love boat. Well good for them but I have no interest in watching them smooch and grope each other for thirty seconds on camera. Heck I'd switch to Mr Belvedere if it was on.

Baywatch, seriously, that is the dumbest show ever if you're under 13 or so. Why is the intro this woman running along the beach in slow motion, if she's rescuing people she should be swiming into the ocean not running along it, even a dumb kid knows that.

Once the hormones kick in all a filter does is get in the way of whats suddenly tremendously interesting.

I could see it being awkward for a 7th grade teacher where suddenly some of the boys instantly find Miley Cyrus (or whoever) completely fascinating and the rest are all "eh, girl music, who cares". But at grade-K I'm thinking the reaction is going to be pretty minor most likely "eww gross" but mostly "so what".

I would worry more about gore and gore-shock sites, which is getting pretty far off topic.

So I'm a geezer, so what. So we'll try something more contemporary. How many kids actually required therapy after the famous janet jackson wardrobe malfunction during the superbowl. If they needed therapy it was probably for the agonizing awkward experience of watching what 60 year old bald white guys in NYC think suburban teen youth of america think urban rap stars think is cool and more or less screwing it up hilariously.
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yes, that's on top of the so called post adjustment that for e.g. Geneva (last time I looked) was around 96% (base salary + post adjustment = net salary (+ normal tax rate) -> gross salary in the private sector (30 working days holidays p.a., up to 70% pension levels (17years contribution) with 5 years+ contributions getting you a pension, for senior staff add no VAT, 50% lower petrol prices, real tax & duty free shopping everyday - about half or less your airport shop, etc etc etc)

...and as salaries are normally paid besides tax free also tax equalized (the US is demanding income taxes from all citizens wherever they live including UN staff - the UN covers these taxes for US citizens and a handful other countries) the US pays itself back (via income tax) a nice discount of certainly 10% of its contributions to the UN.
Good point. Also, new knowledge often builds on old by adding layers of abstraction, allowing the creation of new knowledge using these higher layers. More importantly, it allows the teaching (and learning) of these abstractions which implies that new people don't have to keep learning the "old" things from the ground up.
If you are 25 this is how many weeks you have left to live:

http://i.imgur.com/MA3YeuX.jpg
This is Google sticking it to Microsoft - its not in Google's benefit to have people upgrade from XP.

Very transparent, nothing to see here.
It would be nice if you could incorporate expectation of years of life left at given age instead of defaulting to state the years lived past their expected life. Does the WHO data have this? For example, see rightmost column here http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/Revised_Tables_2008.pdf .
Yeah, if you put in an age older than 81, it just says how much over that limit they are living. It would be more impactful to see a tiny number of visits remaining.
I haven't used Plivo, but IIRC, with Twilio, you had to verify you owned the number you used in the Caller ID field, either by buying a DID from them or by entering a confirmation code sent to that number via a call and/or SMS.
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Meanwhile in Africa: Mobile phone payments are obsoleting cash, card and check

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/how-mobile-phones-...
The Senate didn't pass it. However, since both houses are passing the same thing but at different times or as part of different packages, it's all but certain that when the time comes back pay will happen.
This is great, regardless of whether the math is correct. I don’t share much on Facebook, but this, this I shared. It may seem sappy to some, but I find it to be a community service.

My situation: I’m 33 years old and I live in the same city as my parents do. My mom is 65 years old, my dad is 69 years old. I visit my parents about once a week.

According to this test, I can expect to see my parents another 700 times before they pass. That may look like a large number, for me it is sobering. My dad has heart problems (he had an angioplasty and a stent placed last year, some incidents after, and he had a pace maker installed this year). I’m not sure whether I get to see him another 700 times at the rate that I visit him now. I will certainly increase the rate of my visits.
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> Most of the people who are making 100-200k would make at the very least double that if they were in the private sector.

The base salary would double. However they'd be left without a pension, and other benefits though I think the pension is easily the largest monetary value.
Although I feel everyone should have upgraded from XP by now, this a ingenious way for Google to increase chrome's market share. Being the only supported browser after XP EOLs will definitely catch the attention of the corporate world. Wonder if Firefox will offer something similar.
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It was intentionally close-minded, but intended to counteract the huge number of people that simply vote for the incumbent. And if you truly believe your congressman isn't part of the problem (and you've researched his/her positions enough to know what he/she stands for), by all means reelect the lone competent individual. On the other hand, it's entirely possible that they'd each SEEM competent if viewed individually (http://www.despair.com/meetings.html).

How about this instead ... we pick a high-karma HN'er from each district and elect them. At least we could expect some logic (I hope).
A word of advice if you're trying out cockroaches/crickets/cicadas for yourself: do something about the shell if it isn't very soft. During the most recent cicada emergence in my area, I caught a bunch and cooked them up as spaghetti ( http://www.gwern.net/Notes#cicadas ); unfortunately, I didn't do anything about their shells, which were pretty tough toward the end of the emergence, and my dinner was less pleasant than I hoped.
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No, you don't have that. You have tens of thousands of uncontrolled estimates, without any comparison points, or systematic or objective data collection.
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Didn't Firefox already end support for XP? I'm sure it's a non-trivial amount of work to maintain compatibility.
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Seems to be the same thing with Haskell and other languages, including Golang, that many groups on HN are passionate about. There aren't many people hiring for skills in these languages. Some start-up founders I know who have built their company on Python and Javascript, when I ask them if they have looked at Golang, they reply 'What's that?'.
It seems that the new updated features are not ready for Mac OS yet? I tried updating but have not noticed anything new?
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On average, of course. Some 25-year-old out there has, like, half a dot.
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If you were Swedish you might not consider it private information. Being from the US I do, but I don't consider my age private. It's difficult to say where a culture should draw the line, in an objective way.
Very impressive and lovely library. Good job!
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Randall Munroe wrote a python script with actuarial data in it. Give a list of age and sex and it will tell you when deaths would be expected.

http://blog.xkcd.com/2012/07/12/a-morbid-python-script/
To qualify for the olympics, Paul needs to come within 10 mins of the top finishing skier in an international event. I am rooting for him!
If you live and breathe programming than you want to work with the best programmers. It shouldn't matter whether they're "entertaining". To me that sounds like the interviewer has no friends and uses work as a surrogate social life, not that he lives and breathes the actual work.
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While the motors may be REE-free, I wouldn't be so sure about the rest of the vehicle.

Many models of LED's, lasers, displays, headlights, and power circuits use trace but nonetheless essential amounts of rare earths. The motors and actuators (power windows and locks, charge port and frunk poppers) and seat heater relay might also contain them.
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Great that you're incentivizing the growth of this student hacker culture. It's super productive for these students and can really change lives.
According to their support docs:[1]

Firefox 3.6.28 and Firefox 12 are the last versions of Firefox that will work with the original version of Windows XP and Windows XP Service Pack 1. They won't be updated with security and stability fixes. In order to keep your computer and personal information safe, we recommend that you upgrade for free to Windows XP Service Pack 3 and install the latest Firefox.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/download-...
On the whole, I'd say privacy is valued similar. It's just a small quirk. Same how Americans tolerate banks having a secret-sauce shared credit validation system with god knows what information they sell back and forth.