skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some other examples are Prismatic, Runa (recently bought by Staples), Climate Corporation (recently bought by Monsanto), Twitter (via acquisition of Backtype), etc. And there are a number of other big name companies very quietly using it to just get stuff done.
A company can also buy back shares a way of returning value to the shareholder.
I'm a non-programmer so I'm not sure if yours is better, but I mapped out my life on something called Preceden, you can see it here:

http://www.preceden.com/timelines/64935-visakanv

hope the cross-reference is useful somehow!
He does mention the enigma in the article. You read it all?

Can you come up with a few humint key to victory examples?
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Did you read the article? He covers Enigma explicitly and gives code-breaking as an example where spying is potentially effective.
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Coinbase is doing a great job, so far. I still think that there will also be a need for a bigger, more estabilished company.
>buying part of a debt and getting the return on it isn't a bad way to fund stuff"

Receiving dividends isn't buying part of a debt; it's receiving your share of the profits of the company due to ownership.

>when savings interest is puny (as now)

What do you suppose happens when you "save" money? You think your cash just sits in a bank vault? No, it's put to work by capital allocators, using the same methods you find so unappealing. There is nothing "honorable" about "saving" as opposed to buying and selling individual stocks yourself.

>which is essentially a casino game, rigged to those with better information

I think you have an odd view of casino games. Such games reveal all probabilities, but those probabilities are titled against you. There is no unknown information, and you will lose in the long run.

On the other hand, buying a stock in a company requires you to take some educated guesses about the future. What will future earnings be? What will the economy look like? What technological advances will occur? There is far more uncertainty.

At the same time, you know the price you are paying for the stock, and hence, based on your forecasts, can determine whether the company offers a suitable rate of return. What other people are doing is irrelevant.

For a site that is so encouraging towards investing in businesses with good ideas, I don't understand the aversion to doing the same through the stock market.
I didn't realize until far too recently that Python includes a built-in web server:
1. git clone https://github.com/cheeaun/life.git
2. cd life
3. python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
4. http://localhost:8000/
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Pretentious moron whining about a cultural facet that's recently fallen out of favor and how society is done for, more at 11.
Indeed - sometimes you run into something and think "that shouldn't have worked", and it's useful to understand why.
The magazine is openly left-wing, as specified in their "About Us" page.

In hindsight, the political slant is irrelevant, though leftism is typical of academia.
Maybe it is just me, but when I search for something I look for information, not some bit I happen to agree with for my entertainment.

We see the same problem with the news (think Fox News). It's not information, it's "infotainment".

All it leads to is more people who are no longer able to even consider other viewpoints.
They're implementing the reference so that the library can be improved over time. If you want a native implementation, you have to start somewhere.

The go TLS stack does need to be seriously audited, but that's expected, and it's going to take time for that to happen.
Exactly. And the headline is ridiculous. They aren't banned; the auto-correct engine simply won't fix an error in them. Which strikes me as a sensible default, especially for young users trying to type, e.g., duck. And of course,

"The filter can be disabled in the Google Keyboard settings, which makes all words both swipeable and available for autocomplete."
+1 to you! :P
I think what is missing or lost in all of these Bitcoin articles is they are reaction to a fatally flawed central banking system. Of course, anyone who says things like that is immediately labelled a gold bug or belonging to the tin-foil hat club.
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First and foremost, if Amazon Drones deliver within 10 miles radius in 2018, why on Earth won't you let me drive to your facility (10 miles) and then pickup my crap personally? Just build a platform you drive by you punch your order number, confirm it then a basket with my junk drives by to the front. No need to wait 5 years to make my life much easier.

Second of all, you wont see the air being open to commercial solutions until the government is done with it. Its just how things work. Neither FAA nor any other government organisation will allow anyone to ask questions why is amazon flying stuff around but yet the streets are not patrolled by unmanned aircrafts? or a fire put out by a team of cooperating drones? Until then (10 years?) Jeff is just advertising himself, a day before cyber Monday (like article is indicating) and as usually he's doing great job!
'Yet, what is popular has for the most part always been mediocre or subpar.'. What, on your say?

You might want to take a look at 'The Culture of the Europeans' by Donald Sassoon to see how wrong you are.
and some hours of code depending your level and experience :D
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"Useful for getting stuff done" is a point that Erik Meijer literally has made. F.i. you find him explaining his point of view on side effects and imperative programming here. And how he progressed from "fundamentalist" functional programming to "the real world is imperative & embrace side effects". http://youtu.be/a-RAltgH8tw?t=11m1s

You can't say that Erik Meijer doesn't know Haskell. :-)
I am still waiting for https://www.mycustomhackernewsheadline.com where you can add minimal context to a link and submit that to HN.
When you're first banned in any way it's pretty easy to get upset about it. Stating that someone owes you an apology is silly, but I know from personal experience that it is not a great feeling.

The thing that I remind myself of though is that if HN didn't have counterintuitive rules that it would likely be more like reddit which I think would be a bad thing.
Perhaps you missed it, but I acknowledged the fact that Thor was not just there for female gaze.

And for what it's worth, Thor passes the Bechdel test, if only barely.
AKA "trolling".
This article sounds more like criticism of a badly functioning educational system, than criticism of the idea itself. How about teaching kids to code in countries that don't have as many functional illiterates, then?

Or how about fixing the educational system, and add programming while you're at it?

Should the illiteracy problem be a reason to drop other non-essential courses from the curriculum? Is every course currently on the curriculum really more important than coding (which teaches problem solving, logic, systemic thinking, and in fact even involves quite a bit of reading at times)?
The article mentions both enigma and purple.

And can you elaborate in which way was ivy bells catch useful?
Thats neat! Is the source available somewhere?
It's entirely possible that on reflection, my ambitions should be smaller rather than larger, or should simply take on some scope entirely other to the cultural cached thoughts about ambition.

And by "it's entirely possible", I mean "speaking from experience". Our culture largely just caches the ambitions that keep capitalism running, not the ones people would actually find it satisfying to achieve.
100% agreed. The last thing we need is to give a giant helping hand to confirmation bias. I've been rooting for an intelligent "anti-" recommendation system of this sort for so long.
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This sounds like a cool idea that solves a real problem, but I'm not convinced it will work. The main blocker for an article is getting the first two or three votes fast enough to get from the new page to the front page. If you look at my article on HN scoring [1], most successful articles shoot up quickly and then slowly drop, so randomization is mostly going to just put declining articles back on the front page for a bit, which doesn't really help the reader or articles.

To be effective, the randomization needs to be focused on newish articles. I like danmaz's idea of adding a random new article to the front page. Best would be combining ideas and using weighted randomness to add a new article to the front page, so a vote or two would boost an article's chance of getting the random slot.

(Another thing that would help is if the More link didn't time out after a couple minutes, so readers could go to the second page more reliably.)

[1] http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
Firstly : cells + formulas are isomorphic to rule-based (expert) systems in that both are directed graphs (which may contain cycles, which is an error!).

Thus, just a thought experiment, it may be useful to turn the situation on it's head and say / ask : "So, this GUI, with formulas and cell references, is actually a way to visualize a rule-based system..."
While this may be a mathematically valid thing, it doesn't make it correct. I submit that there may be left-right filter bubbles, but there is a growing flow from ignorant to well-informed, and that flow is right to left.

This article is just a mathematical means of implementing the equal time rule (1), or the fairness doctrine (2). If anything, 30+ years of broadcast TV has shown us that these policies lead to stagnation of public though, not growth. NPR, for one, has attempted to recognize this and move the pendulum back toward the Enlightened pursuit of truth(3).

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule

(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine

(3) http://ethics.npr.org/category/a1-accuracy/
AFAIK it should be in the next major release (330)!
Now if we could just test and deduce what intelligence actually is, those facts would be useful!
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We are getting ready to start accepting mobile payments for our business. I was wondering what others' experiences have been with the various mobile payments providers. I have been looking at Square and Intuit's GoPayment. Square looks like the better deal, but I've been reading horror stories online about businesses getting their money through them. Does anyone have any first hand experience with either provider? Does anyone have any alternatives they would recommend?
Emacs has Org-Mode, which has auto-updating tables [1], which would be the spreadsheet of Emacs.

Here's a demo mileage tracker I did in Org-Mode [2].

- http://orgmode.org/guide/Tables.html#Tables
- https://vimeo.com/71364504
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Hi, author here. Shunting-yard is actually what the next post in the series will be about. ;-)
>where we eliminate all human interaction

As you post this to a message board on the Internet where hundreds (thousands?) of people will read it. Only face-to-face human interaction is decreasing, while total human interaction is increasing.
Thanks for creating it! I really enjoyed using it! :-)
> Author doesn't seem to know what the difference between a sigint organization NSA/GCHQ and a Humint one is or even what the difference between an officer and a spy is.

To the contrary, he specifically contrasts humint with sigint: "

Spying may be worthwhile in cases where it is very hard or very costly to produce misleading information. Two potential cases are those of code-breaking in wartime, where the number of messages an enemy needs to send is so large that their validity can be checked fairly easily, and that of a secret weapon, where the information produced by spies can be checked by actually making the weapon."

> Both GCHQ and NSA can point to successes as can all the major players in the spy game would Stalin have got the bomb so quickly without spies.

To the contrary, he specifically addressed Stalin's bomb: "On the face of it, the reaction to the atom spies seemed justified. The atom bomb was a weapon that could destroy the world (and perhaps still will) and the science on which it was based was popularly associated with the genius of Albert Einstein. Surely, the only way the Russians could create such a weapon was to steal the secrets of the West....But once the existence of the bomb was known, any competent team of physicists, with access to the right resources, could duplicate it...The secrets passed by Western spies probably saved them a year or so in their research program but did not fundamentally change anything. The Chinese, French, Israelis and others made their bombs without significant assistance from spies."

> Or the success of the XX committee.

To the contrary, a victory for the British necessarily meant a defeat for the Nazis, a Nazi defeat only possible because they tried to use humint: "Yet the actual achievements of these shadowy regiments were unimpressive. In most cases, espionage agencies can cloak their failures in secrecy, but the defeat of the Nazis paved the way for a look at the record of one of the most-feared espionage networks in history. The Hitler regime made numerous attempts to infiltrate spies into Britain and to recruit British agents. As far as can be determined from the German records, all were captured and many were ‘turned’, being induced or forced to transmit disinformation to Berlin."

> And do you think binladen would not have been found and killed if it wasn't for spies run by CIA officers?

Sigint, again. Not that bin Laden's death really mattered aside from the documents captured and the symbolic victory.
That's pretty odd. What libraries were you using?
The Tacocoptor was the first thing that came to mind when I was watching 60 Minutes. The difference here is that Amazon has a really compelling reason, and more importantly, the capability (money/people) to push the technology forward. I think that's really exciting.
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> Coming to Scala from experience including C, Java and Haskell, I intially found Scala quite difficult.

I think because it allows you to do OOP and FP, Scala becomes difficult since it is so easy to mix the styles. Similar to C and C++, this is very powerful, but also very dangerous. The main learning curve is programming in a way so you don't shoot yourself in the foot while using its flexibility.
the article states:

> was helped by the Poles who had stolen a machine before the outbreak of war,

which is false! the poles actually built an ENIGMA after analyzing encrypted traffic, see this book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743217349
Oh come back and comment when you've read the whole article! There are paragraphs assessing the claims you repeat, even! Geesh.
You can also just use scoop.it which is designed to do just that.
> Not really sure what's so inflammatory about the title.

The original submission was something like "useful lessons from paedophiles"
You also had the Mongols, arguably the most successful nation in history, particularly with conflict.
They relied heavily on spies and would often observe for years before the Mongols struck.
Ever hear of the Khwarazmian empire? One of the largest middle eastern empires? Worth reading about. The Mongol's success depended largely on spies. Success in this instance means "wiping the empire from the face of the earth", which is obviously subjective.
This is totally bogus. Clojure will only use reflection if calling into Java interop with ambiguous types and even those cases can be addressed with type hints (if they even matter).
I think HN would appreciate you posting it here (at least I would).
Worth noting that the amount of money in index funds has risen to 24% as of 2012. [1]

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/business-economy-fin...
Why would self-driving cars be better than mass-transit?
It's easier to find non-stupid views that you disagree with if you don't look online. Weekly political magazines represent every corner of the political spectrum, and are much better written than any random blog. You can also read books by the intellectual giants that you disagree with, to witness the original arguments, not their passed-down derivatives.
>and right now the market is substantially above mean

In what sense is it "substantially" above mean?
How does this apply to content sites like hn/reddit/digg?

The number one use case for commenting systems is the expression of opposing views, isn't it?
First off there's nothing intuitive about programming, PLs, or PLT. And certainly nothing perfect about anything related to computers at all.

"5" + 5

Which is the sillier result: 10, "10", or "55"? All of them are equally valid based on what system of assumptions and implicit evaluation rules you decide are in effect when interpreting this expression. There are some languages that will output 10. Java/Scala will obviously choose the latter result. Neither of them are wrong.

What I think is silly is that, to my knowledge, Scala won't warn you that the result of interpreting this expression is ambiguous and their chosen implementation might not be what you had expected.

A decent C++ compiler will warn you (by default) that adding arrays of bytes to integers doesn't make sense and you are probably making a mistake somewhere. A lesser one will let you opt-in to receive warnings. A poor, silly compiler will just compile it without warning and let you figure out its strange result on your own.
> for every win, there is a corresponding loss.

If I buy at 10 and Sell to you at 15. I am up 50%. You are Even.

You sell at 20. You are now up. And the buyer has yet to lose/gain money.
I'm finding Google Now to be a very cool idea. I know Google is constantly mining my data for ad purposes. Google Now points some of that in my direction. It's still feels like it's in beta, let's hope it doesn't get the Google Axe.

On a side note with Glass and Google Now, I can't help but think Google will want to listen in on my daily conversations and serve relevant ads. Like if I've been talking about how I need to get my oil changed, then Google could send me a coupon to a Jiffy Lube nearby. Or maybe just drive my car there!

P.S. Great place! Congrats on the find.
Wolf-whistling at a dead woman? If they laughed at (say) "Kind Hearts and Coronets" would he tell them that they were laughing at serial murder?

I'd be curious to see the presentation, which from what he says of it sounds like a crock.
Sensible choice really.
I have to say, I also don't believe in much of ability of spies (and domestic spying) in actually protecting the nation.

In case of war or copying other technology, they may have a lot of merit, as many commenters have said. But if you actually look at the world, most of the small nations do just fine without Internet snooping. If survival of a nation would require to snoop the Internet, all of the small nations (and some are really really small) would be dead.

So it's probably a case that someone wants to be a bully, so they need the counterspies to handle all the blowback.
Well that is quite an interesting signal. I hadn't thought of this. Looking at the ratio between upvotes and comments really is an interesting take on the matter.

I would believe, that PG had analyzed a lot of articles, to find a good ratio, that does penalize these kind of controversial topics, that he does not want to gain too much traction.

What I do not understand though is the fact, that controversial topics are penalized in the first place. But that is just me, one who loves to argue, to find optimal solutions (or to see, that there are really only two believe-systems at work).
Actually, there's a very elegant solution to the diamond problem. Eiffel does this with a renaming mechanism. Martin Odersky certainly knew about Eiffel's solution when he designed Scala, but my guess is that, he chose the simpler solution of traits, just like most languages, because general multiple inheritance just isn't too useful.

Still, it's a shame that most people interested in programming languages have never heard about Eiffel, or ever read the superb book "Object-Oriented Software Construction" by Eiffel's creator, Bertrand Meyer.
Eiffel has many flaws (the most proeminent being the complete lack of support for functional idioms), but it has very good ideas as well. (Perhaps the most popular influence Eiffel had on other languages is Design by Contract and the uniform access principle, which you see in most "modern" languages.)
I tend to think technical solutions are typically crap. They just happen to scale better than social solutions.

Say you're learning a new subject. Would you rather have a meticulously researched guide to articles and books on the subject compiled by an expert (one who has the good form to link to opposing viewpoints if they exist) or Google? I'd take the former. But usually I end up with Google because the search bar is part of my browser.
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And you think your suffering and your life aren't on the scales?

If you want to apply that argument you need to show that your individual, marginal contribution to the world's problems is large enough to justify burning up your life and soul for everyone else's benefit.

>Considering this man's talents, I would much rather live in a world where he devoted himself to solving important problems. I realize he wouldn't be as happy, but the expected value in lives saved is quite high.

I'm sure you have some problems in mind :rollseyes:.
I'm not sure if it's that easy. There are dozens of sites that allow you to mix your coins - so that it's harder to track them back.

In theory, all it needs is one single non-cooperating gambling or dice site: 1) Split your illegal income up into 10 different addresses 2) Use each address for gambling with a 10 percent chance of winning and 1000% return in case of winning 3) Repeat a couple of times.
The allied intoxicated the axis to make them believe they would land somewhere else (sorry it's another WWII example).

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

There are many examples during the Cold War, but I'm not sure it can be said "key to victory", if there is any victory to be considered in the first place.
Poles did not stole some single Enigma and smuggled to UK but were successfully breaking the code (Germans weren't stupid and were improving the machine so deciphering its cryptograms was a moving target). The whole project was disclosed and moved to UK when Poland fell under German-Russian occupation.
I think the point of teaching programming is quite clear. The debate is over the question of necessity. Of course it teaches a valuable way of thinking - so does any other science. What the author argues is that the benefits of adding a CS curriculum doesn't outweigh the cost, especially if half of the student body barely knows how to read.
First, if you define women under the same criteria as objects, then you need to seriously reconsider your vocabulary. The world is different then Java™ will have you believe.

In everyday language I talk about objects in terms of things that are not subjects. Subjects are characters --people and non-human animals-- that I attribute personality to, and can identify with. Objects are things that are not subjects.

To objectify someone is, by definition, to treat a subject like an object. Heckling and wolf whistling is removing the characteristic of emotions from a subject. It is therefor treating a human being like an object. And, by definition objectifying.