skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and similarly the fear of falling off the roof of a tall building can't be genetic at all, given that for most of human evolution there were no skyscrapers around :)
I am at a very early stage in this process, and my initial goal is quite modest - my real aim is to cultivate the habit of writing 500 words every day, breaking through the laziness barrier. So any crap will do. And does. Sometimes it's complete stream of consciousness babble, sometimes it's a bit better than that. I don't care. The point - for me - at this stage - is just to build the habit. No more.
I bet your friends had pretty fun time :)

These 'Doh' situations happen to everyone. I once carried large heavy wheel for about 50 meters before I realized I could just roll it on the ground :)

Regarding to hacking around I think almost everyone could do something if he just stop and try to think what could be done. We often don't notice opportunities right before our noses because we simple don't focus on trying to do something with it. I myself enjoy that type of hacking. Recently we had some reconstruction at home and we had some leftover materials in garbage pile ready to be thrown away. So I grabbed one leftover ceramic floor tile, couple of stair wooden balusters and some thin plywood. I sawed each baluster in half (they had central symmetry), screwed them to plywood on both sides, glued ceramic tile to plywood from one side and small pillars to the other side and then painted wood. Couple of hours of work and got myself a pretty slick looking side table, which I needed at the time :)
The only thing I bought were small silver pillars which cost couple of dollars.

Here's photo: http://i.imgur.com/6OsLDPu.jpg

Bender's picture is also some kind of hacking, I printed picture at the local photo workshop and made the frame from a very cheap plastic ceiling plinth.
I could read an entire book, but then again, perhaps you could state your point in your actual comment like everyone else has?
People love controversy, and Scala is relatively new/unknown.

But the fact that the article got disseminated so widely speaks volumes about the need for curation. Delegating it to users simply ensures it meets a certain minimal threshold.
Spent over a minute on this stupid site scanning up and down and still have no idea what it actually does.
Possibly but the consequences for the leaker and the newspapers publishing it would be much much more severe.

I doubt that any Chinese based news source would publish in the way that the NYT and the Guardian have - it would be effectively committing corporate suicide as it would be shut down
This indicates that JavaScript is a pain in the ass, which it is.

This is neither an argument against JavaScript nor was it indended as one, just a personal observation from a long-time JavaScript programmer.
Do go on, tell us how one book from one person makes all future scientific research redundant.

While we're at it, lets go back to pi=3, like god intended.
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Many species have gender based preening habits, either male of female. It doesn't seem surprising that humans may do the same.
>>if it is breakable, then it is not good enough.

And if the agencies are steering people towards crypto they know is broken but the public do not?
Every DJ is their own favourite DJ.
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Seriously? Monkeys live on trees... Mountains exist for longer than humans.
Yeah - the outdoor scenes were magnificent, the indoor ones you could suddenly tell that it was being lit with big electric lamps, rather than natural light.
you want a 50 inch screen as your desktop monitor? Good god.
EWD831 explains zero indexing. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
You've got http://scriptogr.am/
I will shoot this one , if i see the drones. You can get a camera, a gps and a hover for free!
So how does it work with games where the FPS is variable? Shouldn't the mismatch in FPS and HZ create a lot of problems?
Not sure if the portion or gray/white matter could be changed after birth or not. Any neurologists care to comment?

From UC Irvine: "The study shows women having more white matter and men more gray matter related to intellectual skill"

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050121100142.ht...
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But do they have to limit fuel. Does the advantage of the turbo outweigh more pitstops?

I'm afraid races might get boring when drivers will have to conserve their fuel or just lose the race.
How many value investors actually manage to have positive three-factor alpha[1] though? Sure, adding a value tilt gives you an expectation of beating the market. Doing so on a risk-adjusted basis, after taking into account both increased volatility and the idiosyncratic risks of value stocks, is more difficult.

That said, if one is not sensitive to those idiosyncratic risks - ie if they have good job security and/or a large financial cushion - a value tilt can indeed provide an edge over the market. I personally would rather get it with low cost value index funds though, rather than taking on the non-systematic risks of investing in individual stocks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fama%E2%80%93French_three-fact...
Say what you want about Scala, this kind of modesty and openness to criticism is quite uncommon in IT! Maybe it's the academic background...
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I was there for a few days at the beginning of July and they had those warnings then too (plus a body heat scanner, which was a little bit disconcerting because I was very warm at that point!!)
I miss that keyboard, I really do prefer physical keyboards to software ones.
As someone who lives in an area where language is extremely political, and government is already involved in language-related legislation in day-to-day life, I worry that this is a potential vector for more government intrusion on the Internet. The excuses are practically built-in, from the perspective of the nationalists.
By 'people like you' I mean those that continue to perpetuate the meme in an incorrect and dismissive manor.
It's already the case. You cannot refuel (I think for safety reasons, but not sure), so to get a weight advantage you have to take as little fuel as possible at the beginning of the race. So I don't expect changes. And yes, it happened to some, like Hamilton, to have to drive slower to save fuel. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/21917717
The problem is that society could influence the results. After all, are these "wirings" nature or nurture? It'd probably take analysis of many people from many cultures and backgrounds to get a good feel for it.
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People want to connect with real people and not brands. Brands are not people but it's people who make brands. So why not use a real person from your company to represent your brand.

Amplify Connect helps you present a human face to your users. This encourages users to engage with you. It is an ice breaker between you and your site visitors.
>""piece of glass encased in plastic/metal, with maybe a button underneath""
That isn't what the design patent says. It's far more nuanced.
What?! That's a damn fine record.
I agree, profiling based on race and sex is unwise and undesirable.

We all bring our particular preferences and biases to the table, so we need to do the best we can to be fair and reasonable to the candidates that come in front of us.
Vincent, you don't know me but I know some of your colleagues/friends. I just want to say well done and thank you for this post.
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His proposal from this EWD was actually realized, when people trying to reduce mathematics to mathematical logic and purely formal manipulation introduced the "New Math" movement, and it was a disaster. Even mathematicians don't typically do mathematics via purely formal methods, and software engineering is much more an ... engineering discipline. In fact, his is a very mediocre philosophically voice in a debate about formalism (the stream in philosophy of mathematics) that has been ongoing for centuries, in which people like Leibniz, Turing, Poincare, Hilbert etc. participated, and from this perspective there is nothing to admire about this essay, except maybe some peculiar form of elegance of writing style.
I would be concerned about breaking off a connector if the device fell off.
His point is not that fear of falling is learnt by visiting tall buildings but that the logic of his argument is the same as yours. If you can find the flaw in his argument then you should be able to find the flaw in your own.
Maybe, but my point is that lipstick and nail polish are very likely learned preferences. Perhaps there is some mechanism by which a child picks the people it learns it's preferences from.

I've read for example that kids learn their beauty ideals from the people that surround them, but there is also a taboo to not fall in love with closely related people. For example researchers looked at people living in a Kibuz and found that there were hardly any love affairs among them.
I'm not going to argue for a genetic preference for lipstick and nail polish, but in the case of trucks and dolls, that could plausibly be based on differing genetic preferences for, say, Large Moving Things vs Human Interaction, or something, despite trucks and dolls not having been around for long.
I don't have such programs. But I have plenty of the contrary: either zero documentation or something that's just a notch above useless. Contempt on new programmers that happen to be ignorant about their precious code and how dare they ask questions? Isn't it obvious from the hundred of lines of code that have no beginning and no end?

So, you got me here. I don't have such code, but the more I get experience the more I see that people don't care.
The loss of meaningful distinction in gender identity is a major cultural problem for the West that threatens our very survival. The "humans are all exactly identical, no questions asked" thing is extremely problematic.
It makes sense for the article to not distinguish between SIGINT and HUMINT. It's just about the effectiveness of misinformation. I guess the idea is that intelligence gathering is only useful in cases where counter-intelligence is difficult. The examples given in the article were cracking widely used codes (because it would be hard to fake large volumes of traffic) and plans for secret weapons (because they can be verified by building the weapon). Given the examples discussed here, I would guess that a single trusted embedded agent with a long history of providing valuable information could be trusted up to a certain point. I suppose anything that is easily checked would be good too.

Bear in mind that coming up with an example where HUMINT was key to victory doesn't actually prove your point at all, because there may be even more examples where counter-intelligence was key to victory.
This is totally right.

My first job out of college involved connecting to various pieces of hospital equipment. The equipment connected to our gateway (the project I was assigned to work on) via RS-232 cables, communicating using a standard protocol known as HL7.

Standard cables, standard protocol -- what could possibly go wrong? The answer: Everything. Everyone interpreted RS-232 in whatever they wanted. Everyone ignored the parts of HL7 they disliked, and added things that were "obviously" important. Getting decent documentation was nearly impossible.

The bottom line is that software development is relatively easy when you're in a vacuum. The moment that you need to integrate with someone else's system, things get complex and difficult. And when you have to deal with several vendors, each of which has implemented a superset of a subset of the standard, things get even crazier.

When I was editing the student newspaper in college, our editing/layout computer system stopped talking to our typesetting system. The vendors blamed each other for failing to do the right thing. We had technicians come in from both companies, and they basically yelled at each other, saying that he was not implementing the standards correctly.

So yes, the Obamacare Web site will go down in software history as a cautionary tale. But if they still haven't gotten the back end to communicate with the individual insurance vendors, then I fear that the debugging process is far from complete. And claiming that interoperability is a Small Matter of Programming is easy to say when you haven't actually needed to do it.
As an aside, my university really needs to advertise this more. I first heard of it in passing in http://hummingadifferenttune.blogspot.com/2009/03/chimes-of-... .

Not long after that, like all good things, it kept coming up in my general electives.
"You're there now doing the thing on paper. You're not killing the goose, you're just producing an egg. So I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. I have never had the problem of a writing block. I've heard about it. I've felt reluctant to write on some days, for whole weeks, or sometimes even longer. I'd much rather go fishing. for example. or go sharpen pencils, or go swimming, or what not. But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, 'Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.' There's no difference on paper between the two."

--Frank Herbert (author of Dune)
I do find this an interesting notion. Because the internet transcends national boundaries and government jurisdiction, it encourages people to think of themselves as part of a global humanity, without loyalty to a specific government or group, and without loyalty to those who try to invade privacy for corporate or nationalist reasons. It's easy to forget that the concept of nation states and nationalism is a relatively new one and not necessarily worth of respect. Perhaps the internet and sharing and protecting our own data will help to obsolete nations and encourage people to be loyal to ideas, not brands or polities.
I like where your head is at, but come on man, first rule.
That's a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.
Sadly, the most likely reason these days would be for more patent ammunition.
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Former agency recruiter here. Feel free to ignore them. The vast majority of emails sent by recruiters go ignored. If they want to speak to you really badly because they've actually done their research properly, they will find a way to get your attention.
Help me out then, because I don't see it? A fall is deadly, whether you fall from a skyscraper or a tree.

You mean there might have been something else like nail polish, and people evolved a preference for that? But what would that have been? Some meshed up leaves people put on their finger nails?

Apparently there is something like a preference for being a woman, and using nail polish can be a proxy for that. But my point is that it is most likely learned that nail polish has something to do with being a woman. And the mechanism is not "I wish I was a woman so that I could use nail polish", it is more likely "I wish I could be a woman, and nail polish makes me feel like one".

Nevertheless, I am also not a biologist, just making things up. But I think some basic logic can be applied by everyone.
Wow that room layout sounds a lot like my dorm, except we had two bookshelves, and they were not bolted through the wall like that, some people could remove them and put them vertically to have a vertical cabinet.
I'd prefer a real solution to the JavaScript problem: put a real language in a web browser. JavaScript has done very well for what it is, but even Brendan Eich openly admits it was a rushed project and was never intended to be the One True Client-Side Programming Stack.

We have lots of people writing very complex programs meant to alleviate some of the problems with JavaScript, when that effort could reasonably go into making Python a first-class web language by including a VM in browser distributions and writing bindings that allow DOM manipulation.
Why promote the preservation of obsolete species (including animals), when they can be satisfactorily preserved in museums?
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Are you really disregarding, with scare quotes and a smiley, an entire field of study to which many thousands have contributed papers, books, and research?

It's this attitude that leads to the sexism in our industry. Seeing this kind of bollocks upvoted on a regular basis is extremely disheartening.
Cars going round in circles? I already find that fairly boring.
There are so many rules dictating the design of an F1 chassis/engine that I wonder how much faster a "anything goes" car would go.
Doing nothing but burpees twice a day a year might make you feel like you've accomplished something, but it's not going to be nearly as effective as a varied, intense workout regiment with specific goals.

This is why I end up doing neither burpees twice a day nor a varied, intense workout regiment with specified goals.
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Hi guys, I really need help figuring out this error on Python.
This python script works fine on my local computer, but when I push it to my server, it is showing error when the script tries to save an Image.
Here's my code:

def magic(usrInput):

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im = Image.new("RGB",(x,y))

for j in range(y):

for i in range(x):

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im.save("artsciimg.png")

#End of code

And the error says:
"[Errno 13] Permission denied: 'artsciimg.png'"

My local PC is running on Windows, and my server is on Ubuntu. I really need to know what's going on, the project is due in less than 36 hours :(
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omg that one is amazing, please post more!
No entry for (Common Lisp → Common Lisp) or (Scheme → Scheme)?
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Well there is the case of ducklings, who think the first thing they see after leaving the egg shell is their mother. So if you are there instead of their real mother, they'll follow you around until they become independent.

Just to show an example where some preference is not genetic, but there is a mechanism to pretty much hardwire it shortly after birth.
There's something in the rules about maximum fuel flow rate, which IIRC is 100kg of fuel per hour, with a maximum of 100kg of fuel in the tank, so the trick has been to make these engines as efficient as possible, it's no use having the most powerful engine if if can't reach it's full capability, or can only reach it when it's using the max fuel flow rate as you'll run out having only completed half the lap.
Did they really speak of converting millions of pirates into paying customers? Is Spotify (or anyone of these other players in that game) really the holy grail against piracy?

I do not know. And I am really, genuine interested in an answer.

Anecdote: I was pirating, when I was younger. Music, TV Shows, movies. But - and that is a big but - I was spending much more in CDs or DVDs compared to today. And I do have more disposable income today.

I really do not discover new things anymore (as I do not use things like Spotify, as I do not want my listening-habits tracked and marketed).

So it is through posted videos of friends, that I do discover interesting artists/movies. But that does not happen often.

So yeah, I am a reformed pirate, spending way less money on these things then before.
Futhermore, judging by the discussion, many people here do not understand at all what Dijkstra is saying, using informal everyday interpretations for technical terms. When he says things about being "formal", it isn't just a synonym for being "systematic", or thinking harder, he means formal as in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalism_%28mathematics%29
Yeah! I always thought it would be mint to be able to do whatever you wanted, put a saturn V engine in it you wanted. Would make great telly. Ditto the paralympics - there should be a class where they can pimp up their kit to the max.
I never said that it by itself invalidates the theory altogether :)

If someone puts a theory forward, however, it's their job to come up with plausible answers for such doubts.

The one you suggested is possible, of course. How well substantiated it is though? Theories should include some evidence that supports the hypotheses they are based on.
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Here is a motherfuckingwebsite as an example:
http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
I learned something different from writing 750 words for a year.

I grew to despise the need to do this exercise daily as I slowly realized that I would not get any meaningful improvement in my writing. I would not be Hemingway. My brain was too set in its ways.

One night as I was working on my masters I forgot to log in 750words before midnight. At first I felt sadness, but in the following days and ever since all I've felt has been relief.

I guess some people are just better readers than writers.
Something to do with patterns. For e.g: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_pattern
This video is an interesting comparison of just how fast F1 cars are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2cNqaPSHv0

IIRC some of those GT cars that look like snails compared to F1 cars are "anything goes".

However, here is a truly anything goes car (that has broken the speed barrier on land): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKQ-xj5C2m8

So yeah, an anything goes car will go much faster than an F1 car. But it's going to suck at cornering. We currently don't have anything that can hold such high average speeds as an F1 car can. Not even in any very lightly regulated sport.

For interestingness' sake, modern WRC cars reach speeds of 220kph over gravel.

Top speeds of F1 cars are around 360kph (the Bugatti Veyron can do 430kph), but F1 cares more about cornering speed than top speed.

From Wikipedia:

> The large downforce allows an F1 car to corner at amazing speeds. As an example of the extreme cornering speeds; the Blanchimont and Eau Rouge corners at Spa-Francorchamps are taken flat-out at above 300 km/h (190 mph), whereas the race-spec touring cars can only do so at 150–160 km/h (note that lateral force increases with the square of the speed). A newer and perhaps even more extreme example is the Turn 8 at the Istanbul Park circuit, a 190° relatively tight 4-apex corner, in which the cars maintain speeds between 265 and 285 km/h (165 and 177 mph) (in 2006) and experience between 4.5 g and 5.5 g for 7 seconds—the longest sustained hard cornering in Formula 1.
I don't think the author cares about the difference between SIGINT, HUMINT and covert action. He's just looking at sources of information in the abstract. (Likewise, the author isn't concerned with how the information is used. Only whether or not is it reliable.)

If it's cheap and easy for the enemy to produce misinformation that's indistinguishable from the real thing, then it's reasonable to assume that the enemy will do so (and it's a good idea to do so with our own information). Maybe Sorge is a good example of a type of source of information that is costly to fake. He was a trusted agent who had a long career. Maybe it would be far too costly to implant a double agent like that.
I imagine that nature/nurture research on geneticly similar populations with very different cultures could be incredibly interesting. Say North and South Korea. Not without any difficulties of course...