skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool stuff. Really, though, this is still relying on a rather large runtime library: the physical, data-link, and network-layer drivers.

Now what'd be really awesome to see, would be one of those Operating System guides that shows you how to write an OS kernel, in assembler, that can speak HTTP. Even just limiting yourself to targeting the synthetic hardware of a VM program, it'd still be quite a feat.

Bonus points if the entire network stack has been flattened using the hand-rolled equivalent of stream-fusion. :)
Or, you know, you could come to the exact inverse conclusion:

An sad isolated example where a man helps another man (arbitrarily him, and to the neglect of others in the same condition), instead of our society having standard procedures and programs to help everybody in the same situation.
At Benbria we use this arsenal:

* Google Mail & Calendar

* Hipchat. Main communication method, water cooler and catch-all for any new activity for our deployments and GitHub repos

* GitHub. We use everything it has to offer and have actually migrated to Issues from Trello for task management

* Google Docs. For feature specs and anything that needs to be in sync outside the development team

* Dropbox. Mainly used by the design team right now, as a single source for assets and putting mocks in

* Skype. Usually for one-on-ones and interviewing candidates

* Salesforce
Psychiatry is still an Art. I don't blame MD's. I blame
the drug companies who fudged the studies; there is no
excuse to pick on society's most vulnerable.

I myself had to drop out of graduate school because of
a horrid case of anxiety. The daily anxiety stayed with
me for years. It's hard to remain cheerful when the person
you thought you were suddenly disappears. I don't have
Schizophrenia--which I'm grateful. The only advise I
can give is that, at least in my case, time did help my
disorder.

To any Psychiatrist out there; If your patient is stable.
There's no need to drag them into endless office visits, especially if they don't have insurance.
A prescription lasts one year. Don't become part of your
patients problem. If you don't have a better business
model--that's life. Yes--your patients know the game.
> Notch his success has nothing to do with being good at programming.

To me, being able to sell (not give away, charge) thirteen million applications that you write is a testament that you are good at programming.

Now, "programming" has many different dimensions, but Notch achieved something that very, very few developers will ever able to achieve in their lifetime (I'd argue he's actually the only solo programmer who's ever been able to achieve such a goal, beating even icons such as John Carmack).
Is it by default it ships with SQLite or just Doc?
> Why not? These are people who were found to be extremely suspicious by the people in charge of finding spies. What is that, chopped liver?

Why can't you count people who have not been confirmed as being spies as people who have turned out to be spies? Isn't the answer to that self-evident?

Another way of looking at is this: every year, there are plenty of people who are acquitted of crimes they were prosecuted for. Can you say all those people turned out to have committed the crimes they were accused of, simply because the people in charge of finding criminals found them to be extremely suspicious?

> How many Chinese-Americans are there working in these vulnerable positions? Is 1 confirmed case (with who knows how many scores of undetected or unconfirmable real cases) above or below the base rate for spying? Do you know? Shouldn't you know, before you pass judgement?

For the purposes of this conversation, undetected and unconfirmed cases are irrelevant. I am solely responding to what you wrote:

"given how many Chinese-Americans turn out to be passing secrets to China"

If you want to claim that by "how many", you meant "1" (and even that is questionable depending on if you count naturalized citizens or not), I think you are just being reluctant to admit you were wrong. But putting that aside, the null hypothesis is that there is no statistically significant relationship between being Chinese-American and likelihood of being a spy - the burden is on you, not me.
>This isn't actually as rare as is being made out

Well, of all the app developers (there are now 1 million apps for iOS alone, so let's say all US developers are 100,000) how many are similar cases? 1? 2? 10?

1 such story in multiple thousands IS rate in my books.
Requiring feedback when SaaS customers churn. Good or bad idea?
Overhead is not negligble because you are only printing hello world, the only I/O here is writing to repsonse socket. When you do other I/O, where the requests depend other sources, the overhead will be neglible because your http requests will be actually waiting for some other I/O to happen, which is the case of almost every program. Plus, you will have nice features with Nginx, where you don't have them in plain Go.
I'm wondering how this works for real world situations in which the HTTP server must slowly trickle responses back to the client. In the past I've seen major speed ups by using a store and forward proxy.

Since this server always prints hello world it would stand to reason that Ngnix should be caching the result.
However, it pays substantially less for such folks as it does for the folks such folks are angry about.

Bicycle related injuries are not what any insurance company is worried about, while obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and motor vehicle related injuries actually really are the issues that keep raising the cost of your insurance - you just don't see it that way, because you don't want to take responsibility for the costs your lifestyle imposes on the society.

I'm dreadfully sorry if this has come out as addressed to an individual - speaking epidemiologically, this is absolutely about all of us, collectively. I would never recommend anyone to not wear a helmet, but I would rather see their choice of transport be the bicycle as often as possible, and mandatory wearing of helmet will not help that.
The conclusion is a pleasant antidote to the title (which to its credit got me to read it).

>It's time we all play fair.

Turing and Chomsky are both giants, but its a mistake to suggest they're operating in the same field. This mistake is also made by people who read the 'conflict' between Norvig and Chomsky as saying anything about the future of AI:

http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/06/norvig-vs-chomsky-and-the-f...

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-c...

(Norvig is also a giant - but he is at least honest about the limitations and scope of his work).

Turing was essentially speaking to his context at the time:

> Turing says the question "can machines think" isn't helpful in this process because it invokes conceptual and prejudicial biases about "thinking" and "machines" that themselves can't be clearly resolved, largely because they rely on confused metaphysical (or superstitious) beliefs. Turing's claim of "meaninglessness" reflects the positivist attitude of the scientists and logicians that formed Turing's intellectual community.

Chomsky is coming from a philosophical and linguistic background and saying that AI hasn't gone as far as he hoped it would:

> Chomsky has a generally very pessimistic view of AI and he's trying to enlist Turing on his side but it's simply an abuse of the view. Chomsky also claims in this interview that the last 40 years of AI research "hasn't given any insight to speak of into the nature of thought and organization of action".

For some really awesome stuff in terms of the future of AI - the person to look at is Jeff Hawkins:

http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_hawkins_on_how_brain_science_w...

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Brain-Computing

I'm massively oversimplifying - but it looks like his group has built some products by modelling a Cortical Learning Algorithm. In a Computer Science sense - this looks like a bitset corresponding to memories of facts - that you can then 'diff' - to make higher level judgments. The example he gave was groups of idea relations on wikipedia. Taking the ideas for 'Apple' and subtracting the ideas for 'Fruit' - left you with the ideas for 'Computer'.
everything is possible. Furthermore, in Russia where i used to live, they don't need any charges, they can make them up from nothing.
ab needs to die. Yesterday, if possible.
Maybe where you live but here the city makes big strides and on nice days easily 20% of the dropoffs in our preschool are by bike.
The standoff distance of flying drone is enormous, if we aren't doing it in the air we won't do it on the ground. Ground offensive robotics will get autonomous programming before aerial drones.
Nobody ever said it /can't/ be done. I would never have argued against using a real RDBMS. But I've often been guilty of telling folks that SQLite was "good enough".

Installing PostgreSQL as you described is not "good enough". If you're going to bother with that, you need to understand the database enough to tune it properly, setup backups, test restores, etc. There are more considerations than simply installing it from apt-get and then forgetting about it.
>> They enforce the perception that cycling is dangerous.

> Is that so controversial though. Cycling, absent dedicated bike lines, separate bike paths, and very well organized intersections is dangerous.

The more cyclists there are, the less dangerous cycling is. Things that discourage cycling thus make it more dangerous for all other cyclists (and vice versa).
I am truly baffled at the number of people here against bicycle helmets--have you never had to interact with someone who has suffered brain damage?

I'd wear two damned helmets if it ever saved me being in that position.
Back I was in China, I remember reading news that appears Chinese government was really happy Dr Qian was forced to return. Dr. Qian is really high profile in the sense of academic achievement. I don't think there is high enough salary to attract him back to China with his own free will. It got me thinking. Speculatively, is it possible that Chinese government made a deal with US government secretly to get him back? There are a lot of deals between two governments...
Good way to put it, was trying to think of something similar.
"Your document is a collection of sexist, trans*phobic jokes and negative stereotypes, and I'm not laughing."

I think it's great the way Ms. White met their ugly speech with more speech of her own.

That's the remedy to ugly speech, more speech.

I disagree with Ms. White almost entirely, but I do approve of the way she has chosen to confront them.

In the past 36 hours, we've seen github censor this speech, and calls from feminists to have bitbucket censor this repo at bitbucket as well. On twitter there have been callouts where people who "star"ed the repo were listed and implicitly threatened and people tweeting in support of the parody were named and labeled.

That sort of behavior from github and from internet feminists trying to stifle speech and police speech is wrong.
Every helmet I've ever tried impairs hearing at speeds easily reachable on a bicycle. When I hear the rushing of air in and around a helmet, my aural sensitivity and awareness of overtaking motor vehicles is decreased. This isn't so much of an issue on high speed roads, as many vehicles on such roads can approach without making much noise. However, it's huge on city streets on which most vehicles don't exceed about 40mph. My hearing isn't even that good, but when I've been riding in traffic for several weeks, without turning my head I can easily tell UPS trucks (very dangerous) from SUVs (not paying attention but fairly predictable) from straight trucks/semis (pretty safe since they are on alert in urban environments; just don't pass them unless you know you can get clear before they turn).
Which reminds me of Fabian Pascal, probably somewhere drinking heavily to forget the current state of the DB industry.

(Context: for more than a decade he tried to educate people on the relational model, the ill-thought back-to-the-past ideas that are NoSQL DBs, and more besides. Unfortunately his old site was scrapped, it seems, and has as of 2012 turned it into this blog: http://www.dbdebunk.com/ )
Bitcoin Bolsters Banks
It's not quite that easy. I can tell you haven't "lived"
enough to know just how simplistic you comment appears.
Let me quess--twenties, a lot of support, and really never
experienced anything horrific?
You're right, but I'd go with "the secondary control is ignored and clearly marked as such" ("ignored" light turns on or something). But yeah, if they aren't linked, there's not much you can do that will make sense.
I guess it's pointless to mention this all seemed inevitable to some of us, when an 80-page storey got turned into a 3-movie GCI extravaganza. What else to fill the time, but whole-cloth invention by a second-rate writer?
At least.
Huge difference between primary and secondary uses. If the the only use for your faster processor is for an automated weapon, you are responsible.

A processor is general purpose. What if you designed a thermal / visible 1024x1024 pixel camera with built in optical flow calculator in a cerdip package? Even the boss man didn't tell you what it was for you could figure it out. You would be responsible.
Do it, I hate eBay every day.
to whomever downvoted me-watch the episode. it is relevant
Would it be practical to institute a rule that once a pilot has flown an Airbus they can't commercially fly a Boeing?..
Did the same thing with homework in one math class, but my teacher would start at random positions in the classroom...overall, didn't work out to a very high grade for me :)
Sorry I got lost in all the prepositions and articles. To be clear, I happen to be a bicyle-rider, who likes to take week-long 500 mile vacations on a variety of human-powered cycles. No obesity here, nor cardiovascular issues. So I'm definitely paying for others' problems of whatever kind.
That doesn't really tell us anything about whether or not they trigger javascript. Bots triggering javascript will inflate advertising and js-based analytics numbers, which would be more problematic.

Bots that don't trigger js, however, are more a drain on bandwidth than anything else.
Do you live in the USA? If so, have you been living under a rock? Don't you know that now your insurance pays for everybody, no matter what their "attitude"?

Besides, cyclists are pretty healthy overall, as compared to the motorized-barcalounger operators. If one gets run over, it doesn't cost "your" insurance near as much as the 1500 matching sedentary automobilists with diabetes and heart disease.
I think that either the Chinese are culturally less inclined to label things as real-time or simulations, or some Chinese characters on the video I'm too ignorant to read DID say something about that.

Anyway clearly half of that video was a simulation.
omfg yes!
I don't hold ATP though I believe it is irrelevant here... Basically they lost situational awareness and got behind the plane: they didn't understand what is going on with the plane systems (autopilot) and failed to "fly the plane". While the NTSB report doesn't state this, I would not be surprised to learn that they actually didn't look outside of the window and instead they were head down punching buttons to reprogram the system. I'll speculate that the whole accident became possible due to the lack of VFR flying by Asiana pilots that a typical US pilot gets way before s/he gets into the airliner.
Excellent points. Now cruising through your blog -- good stuff!
As an aside to my question above.

Do pilots transitioning from the Airbus to the Boeing get put through an intensive simulator training to '(re)acclimatise' them to the Boeing.

By intensive I mean going through a whole host of failure modes.
I'm not sure what you're asking here. Graphite uses SQLite by default. What is "Doc"?
Bob's Game – for OUYA and PC
At some cost; weren't record-breaking levels of air pollution recorded somewhere recently? Takes some shine off of the claim of good management.
This is very intriguing, thanks for posting. I might give this a shot soon. I'd very much like to not need to take amphetamines to be able to focus.
Unison.js - unifying named breakpoints across CSS, JS, and HTML
Who actually votes stuff onto the front page of Hacker News?
Just wondering who actually spends the time to go through the (presumably) lower quality "New" tab of Hacker News, finds the good stuff, and upvotes it onto the front page. Seems like a waste of time if "New" has a lot of crap in it. Or are there already pretty high quality links over there?
Opening up the Angular documentation to have a look, it appears that every page has an "improve this doc" button, which allows you to submit a pull request to get the official documentation changed. Surely if you find that the documentation is unclear, it's better to add a note or a clarification directly into the documentation than write a comment?
I guess that was my point, that insurance pays for everybody.

And its pretty silly to blame a helmet law for keeping people off of bicycles and making them fat. Say they want to ride: they still have to buy the bike, and appropriate clothing, and probably a rack to take the bike someplace safe to ride. The helmet has always been the cheapest, simplest part of my ride to manage.

So, people are fat because they are lazy. Stop blaming helmets of all things.
I am sleeping in my Sebring convertible for 5 months now, which isn't too bad but it's getting a bit cold out. I want some money to upgrade to a van (and rig it with solar panels, etc), and to get a high resolution laptop to code on (my ThinkPad GPU died so I am using a crappy 2006 Macbook which is not ideal!)

I really believe in my puzzle game (better than Tetris!) and tried to do a modest and reasonable Kickstarter, especially considering the game is already there. Ouya will double the amount if the campaign is successful, and I think it's a good platform for my game.

Anyway, it's in the last hours of the campaign and I am going to keep trying to push it until the last second, I'm not giving up! All it will take is finding one person, or getting posted on a big blog or something for a couple of hours, since the target is so low.
I think the underlying problem with our society's approach to mental health, is that people are still too judgmental.

Mental health simply creates a category of people who are immune from judgement on certain issues. Not that there is no stigma associated with mental illness, but the categories are "sold" as relieving the person from other people's unfair judgements. Even if other people still judge, at least the diagnosed person knows for themself that the judgement is unfair.

But this is really just a hack. If a person tends not to concentrate easily, we should take that as the base fact in itself. Rather than trying to make a false distinction between a failure of character or willpower, and something outside of people's control, we should be accommodating of people's abilities, and focus on helping people to achieve the best no matter what the source of their learning problems.

Of course there is one issue that is harder to deal with this way, and that is academic assessment. I think the solution to this is for academic assessment to measure as closely as possible the skills that the trained person should be able to implement. Time constraints are a part of any work, so I think providing extra time for people with ADD is unfair, but in general exams shouldn't place an excessive focus on speed or time management.
Find out why the stopped. Did they find something intrinsic in the market that is off or did they just get bored?

The range of possibilities is broad and without that information you may just waste a bunch of time re-learning the same painful lessons they likely learned. Track down as much as you can about Sold (via founders, investors, advisors, friends) before investing a bunch of time in building anything.
One with the programming underlords.
Thanks for the heads up. For what it's worth, it appears that it was a problem with the version of AngularJS we were using (1.2.3). When we next push updates to the site and upgrade Angular, this problem should be fixed.
Have they made it? I think there's going to be an interesting tug of war between tax credits for green tech and tax credits for what amounts to toys for the wealthy.
Despacio: the 50,000-watt sound system designed for discerning audiophiles
I look at the new tab all the time (right after every time I look at the front page) and I upvote the stuff that gratifies my curiosity and I think will be of value to the community. Hmm, what do I think of this question?
I think the 'current' design of the parliamentary chamber is from the '20s - the austerity is probably accidental and a sign of it's age more than anything else.

Some (English) history of the parliamentary building is here, should you be interested:
http://www.riigikogu.ee/index.php?id=37659
The next time someone tells you that there is no such
thing as “White” privilege or elitism, ask them why Affluenza
is a viable defense but Povertenza isn’t.

What the fuck ?

Is this really happening right now ?

Poverty is a disease of economies.
Something that bothered me about this is the fact that I prefer to type brackets - (), [], {}, <> - at the same time, and then move my cursor inside them to type. It makes sure I don't forget a closing bracket, and it's faster than searching for the bracket + shift key twice (once at the open bracket and again at the closing bracket).
The sad part is that this sort of behavior is exactly the reason that repo exists.
I usually spend some time in /newest after reading the front page.
Yes that's true, but by default they come with good configurations which should enable better write and read in most cases against SQLite :)
Spell and grammar check have been part of any decent word processor for quite a while now.
So it ships with SQLite. Doc as in documentation - telling users to get started let's try SQLite.
Query EC2 Account Limits with AWS API
I think it was something like "Notch streaming his Ludum Dare entry made with Dart"
It is configured to use SQLite by default, but it doesn't ship /embed/vendorize it. You're required to install the sqlite bindings yourself.
Who cares? Entrepreneurs can work someplace else. In face I've worked at a dozen startups; none were in San Francisco.
But they can't deeply check style, clarity, or other such qualitative aspects. Word won't tell you when your sentence is difficult to read or confusing.
Look at all the energy you wasted on daydreaming. Lesson learned?
OMG all these macros. It looks more like Python then Assembly. Come on, real men do not use macros.
You make it sound as if the author's stance is trivial, but I have the impression that it's controversial and that she has taken a professional risk in publishing it.
As far as I can tell, this is amazing.

One could take trading systems previously designed to operate on large minimum balances of $50,000+ (so as to render the impact of transaction fees negligible) and run that same system on comparatively small account balances, perhaps even as low as $500.

In theory, the percentage returns in both cases should be the nearly same. Obviously a 25% annual return on $500 is a lot less exciting than a 25% return on $50,000. However, the fact it's now possible to even do this (again, as far as I can tell) is exciting.

As other comments have pointed out, trade execution quality may end up being merely average on this platform. But, if your trading system is operating on a sufficiently long time frame, then executions become far less important.

Concerning other comments regarding classification as a Pattern Day Trader and being required to maintain a minimum $25k balance, I believe it only applies to margin accounts. Obviously this means no short selling, but small loss, considering.