skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I couldn't disagree with this premise more. I believe the exact opposite.

Capitalist science already happens - that's how capitalism works. If something has the potential to be directly turned into profit, people create businesses around that. Governments professing to be capitalist shouldn't interfere with that process.

Academic science ought not to be capitalist. Governments should fund science that benefits society and that wouldn't otherwise be happening in a capitalist system. We should expect that to be indirectly-profitable (not profitable for the inventor) and loss-making work with long-term benefit. That's what we pay taxes for.

Academic science is already far too capitalist for my liking - the existing funding system requires scientists to chase money, acting as poor mimics of capitalists, while corporate-sponsored grants mean lobbyists are getting their favoured R&D done on the cheap.

(Edited to add: that said, the paper is still worth reading and makes good points about how we identify the value of science)
Efficiency and performance of WebSockets and Server-Sent Events
For a solution for older browsers you can use fastclick.js (https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick). For angularjs webapps there's also ngTouch.
Settings don't get used. It's good to have nice flexible settings so people who investigate can make the device work the way they want, but most of the time people are using defaults, and developers spend the most time worrying about how to make their app/website work well with the defaults.
By reading the comments on Amazon your customer support is top notch - kudos for that. Almost made me buy until I checked that is no international delivery ;)

Question: why there are only renders on the website instead of real pictures of the product ?
"OOP actually doesn't model the real world well at all."

Surely that is in part due to the developer. Poor developers will choose the wrong abstractions, and have a poor OOP model as a result. Better developers will choose the correct abstractions, and have better models. Obviously the domain you are modeling will make it easier or harder to model things, and in some cases OPP may not be a good choice at all.

In my day to day work I use Django. I start with a data model - based on an ER diagram. I code that in the Django model classes. Is that OOP modeling or ER modeling? I don't know. I don't really care too much. It works fairly well for most things I am doing.
Yeah, I don't expect the time of the "weekend hackathon" to change. I am fine with this. Although it would be nice to have an option for diff people to take different days since it's all in good fun. What kind of irks me is that many hackathons seem to have winners decided by other criteria than the ones they state...
PL designer here with extensive experience writing compilers in C#, Java, and Scala. Pattern matching is nice but OO will get you most of the way and filling the matching gap is simple.

The expression problem is much safer solved using virtual classes (using traits and type members) in scala than with case matching. There are so many OO solutions to this problem it's not funny; I think I had a small argument with Wadler over this back in 2001 or 2.

As for persistent collection types, observable collections with undoable operations are just as good, if not better because they can still support mutability while persistent collections cannot.
If they didn't in fact fund it themselves
I'm pretty sure this kills Tout's tracking when sending to Gmail users.
I definitely want to try a mattress and see how it feels before I buy it. Especially if it's going to cost a lot of money.
I can just say that Deutsch is another victim of what being good at theoretical physics tends to do to one's mind. The amount of intellectual hubris and arrogance we can develop is staggering. Sheldon Cooper is not really a parody, it's what many theoretical physicists actually think (but are to socially adapted to say out loud), as in: "Penny - I'm a physicist. I have a working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains." Deutsch may think he knows things about "the mind" but he shows in this article that, like many who like to speculate wildly about the mind, he's basing his claim mostly on armchairing about how he feels about certain phenomena. Things he says about behaviourism are indicative that he doesn't really know what he's talking about. Or he does but is extremely bad at communicating his ideas. It would just take too long to comment on each and every empty claim this article makes. It's mostly a rehash of same old boring arguments about how special we are, this time because of our "creativity". Yawn, there is nothing special about "creativity", it's an active area of research, has been for decades, and it's actually very boring. He does make a few good points, like the one that quantum phenomena do not give rise to mental processes, but that is trivial in the sense it's obvious to anyone with some knowledge of quantum mechanics on one hand, and what neurons are and how they work on the other.
There's two parts to a jam, the theme and the time limit. If you throw either one out, you're not really doing it.
Article starts off with brushes that are too wide, but gets interesting around Appendix B where he talks about a sort of "Market for Hypotheses". Interesting concept, but doesn't talk much about the incentive structure needed for companies to play the game fairly. Also the market would have to be government created and run, a responsibility the ACA should make anyone skeptic of.
>"Is he saying that sometimes he does choose what's on the bestseller list?"

Is that a problem for you? Does it make your hipster friends angry?

Let's see what I read from the bestseller's list this year, off the top of my head: Quiet, Thinking Fast and Slow, Devil in the White City, Steve Jobs, and yes, 1 or 2 of the Game of Thrones books. I also read The Corrections, which wasn't on the best-seller list this year, but was definitely hyped in its day (Oprah Book Club! How mainstream!)

In fact, I make an effort to read the bestsellers lists for ideas. It makes me more well-read, not less.
I’m trying to understand what the difference is between your mattresses and say a regular mattress you buy from IKEA. Are these mattresses more like the futons laid on the floor that are very common in Japan and Korea?

Congratulations with the success on Amazon, and thanks for sharing and not posting blog spam!
Cool. How do you find clients? Its one of the biggest challenges I have to deal with.
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FRP is great until you need to be interactive or switch over collections, then it becomes quite ugly. It can work for small games, like the ones in Courtney's dissertation. But over that? Not until a complete physics engine can be joined with a FRP library.
Then write a paragraph of text. An hour writing today will save weeks of reverse engineering later.
Sometimes I want to zoom in on a tappable picture. And sometimes the text is so small that I can't aim accurately until I zoom in.
Why no king sized on Amazon?
It's roughly because of the inordinate amount of value we derive from furniture (so people aren't all that price sensitive).
Daehee and I are both bay area software guys. Breaking into a new industry that we had zero domain knowledge definitely wasn't easy. It took us quite a while to break in. Most suppliers wouldn't return our phone calls and the ones who did just laughed us out of the room. We had to just keep searching until we found the right people who believed in us.
Is there a reason that you want it in python? Couldn't you do this with diff -q if you only want to know what data has changed? and then use diff to get the deltas?
Having used Angular for a month or so in summer, I find prototypal inheritance horrible and unpredictable. I am never 100% sure if the data is coming from or updating the parent object or the current object. Class based inheritance seems a lot more predicable to me.
I am a database administrator.

I somewhat agree with the conclusion which essentially says having your on premise DBA is on the decline.

Hiring DBAs has always been tricky for employers anyway. It's a position of responsibility (to protect the business' data) that is hard to know you've hired the right person for, difficult to replace, and difficult to allow to take any vacation/leave since there will seldom be more than one.

What I don't agree with in the conclusion is that by moving off premise it's all moving to datastore-as-a-service. Large amounts will also move to remote DBA as a service (consulting firms).
A related question I have for people posting is what authentication scheme have you used? Did you find it to be a good solution and if not any ideas what you would use next time?
Interesting. I do visualize in my head how kinetic energy depletes as it goes higher and potential energy increases. It is like a bubble that shrinks. I see motion vectors and how they change.

Other examples are a conflict between 3 people, kind of see a graph of relationships with different colored arrows and how they change.
Awesome reviews! It's probably just me but I had to look around the page for awhile to find the "shop now" link to see the pricing. Maybe making it bigger would help.
In other words; if you're passively subscribed to some occult mailing list, someone could disclose your membership if the mail provider's system send DMARC forensic reports
Agreed, actually did a little research and Baracuda's copy.com looks pretty cool, they even have a tool for sugarsync users to migrate their data, they offer 20gb free with 5gb free per referral, no limit. Found the link for sugarsync migration: https://www.copy.com/sugar?r=0ruZ2r
Defining "know" something to mean "know the probability of something is exactly 1", then yeah, you can't do that. No amount of Bayesian evidence can raise a probability from uncertain to infinitely certain.

So what you need to do, is tear up that useless definition of "know" and replace it with something sensible like "I know X if the evidence for it is very strong."
I know what you mean. LD is probably a lot fairer and more transparent than most though, because of the way voting is conducted. I also think it's one where "winning" doesn't matter as much. If you compare that to some sponsored events where the winners seem to be determined beforehand... I take LD over them anytime.

Of course, LD is susceptible to populistic/marketing style attacks, but not as much as it would seem (otherwise the guys who did Impetus would have won last time).
I think that is to enforce the point, his hand could move away before the interaction registered visually.
when gmail will be as quaint as a model-T
This sort of nonsense is exactly the sort of mysticism I'm talking about.

My, for example, do you think every query needs to be tweaked for this one:

Push the query plan down into InnoDB

So why did you include it on the list?

5a + 5b, Is MySQL so bad at memory management that you tweak it for every query?

So why did you include it.

Virtually everything on that list are implementation details that the vast majority of applications and developers don't need to even think about.
I'm ALL for online shopping and the removal of brick-and-mortar stores where they're clearly not needed. I rarely shop anywhere but Amazon Prime these days.

But.

A mattress isn't a trivial purchase (not just in cost, which is what you're disrupting, but in what it does for you). You use a mattress for a large period of your life and it has a great effect on your health (either good or bad).

Being able to physically lie on a mattress in a store provides some value in regards to feeling how hard the mattress is, how it responds to your moving around, etc.

I'm not sure I could buy a mattress online sight unseen and just "hope" it was the one for me (and my wife), hoping I didn't have to deal with returns, etc. (How the hell would I return a mattress via UPS/FedEx?)

Maybe I'm overthinking it?
The closest solution I've seen to measuring programmer productivity is pairing, followed by peer evaluation.

There is no hiding from a pair.
Well our current mattress is more in line with a traditional mattress. We designed it to be compatible with the floor in addition to a frame, this is how we sort of broke into the market. With a niche angle.

Comparing to Ikea, our prices are only comparable because we cut our margins almost all the way down but the quality of material is very different. In other words, our bed won't sag after just 12 months.

Thank you for the kind words.
The stored procedures are not actually big ugly queries. But they surely have business logic.

So far, besides the ugly MySQL workarounds for some missing features, it has been a good decision.

And well, it was a company decision, they are the ones trapped. I'm free from maintaining it, while I had to maintain the first version with all business logic outside the DB.
Being a fan of some Russian authors like Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Gorky and others, reading their books I got a glimpse of the Russian culture and society of that era. Would somebody suggest me similar type of authors from past English era?
Even then, I think being able to pinch-zoom is a great feature and gives you some accessibility out-of-the-box.
Why I don’t use screen protectors: An engineer’s perspective
That, and also if you tap too quickly, it will just trigger the tap to zoom feature. So you have to wait that long anyway regardless of where your hand is placed.
I'd argue that our scientific process and development would improve exponentially as result of replacing the old Socialist, state funded model with a voluntary consumer model.

Private enterprise is already financing ambitious projects once sought only by state provisions on their own merit. Such as Virgin Galactic. I think if innovation in these fields were brought into the responsibility of private investment, investors would see it as their job and not the state. In other words the state monopolises on grandiose scientific projects, making it too difficult for the average enterprise to compete.

This is probably due to the states mechanism of 'bigging up' its own achievements in order to justify its own existence.

I think there's a bright future for technology and science in the private sphere. Facebook working on AI is another recent example. Google have been funding scientific studies mostly in tech for years. We need to embrace this.

Big businesses understand that scientific breakthrough could well be the next biggest product on the market, even on a simple basis of materials. Producing newer, stronger, more durable materials is not just benefit to the producers, but to the consumers. State science rarely deals with practical innovation that we as consumers can benefit directly from either.

Almost every business, big and small has some form of R&D department or group, and more are following suite. It's becoming a standard and I think in this model, we will see our species's biggest gains in advancement.

I think another important point is that consumers have a choice when it comes to private enterprise, whereas they don't when these funds are forcibly extorted through taxation. Those on minimum wage can barely afford essentials, let alone the money to fund space programs.

Long live private enterprise, long live Capitalism!
Scala, use traits and type variables, the problem is really easy to solve through what I call an open class pattern. See "new age components for old fashioned java" OOPSLA 2001, note I'm using Flatt's term "extensibility problem" which is the same as Wadler's "expression problem" term.

But if you want your control flow to be in place, then a 10,000 line case match ala scalac should be right up your alley. Frankly, I'd rather divide and conquer, which is what OOP is good at.
Stores, I'd argue to physically try the mattress.

Salesmen, absolutely no reason.
I think not tying the OS to their hardware was a mistake by IBM. And while it may have let the PC win, what is the point of your platform winning if you get forced out of the business by the clones? There is no money in hardware, you need to control the OS.
Do you also sale bed frames or just the mattress? What bed frame do you recommend for your mattresses?
Are users adversely affected by this change? In what way?

This change is designed to make the existing web faster. If we improve the performance of rendering, JavaScript, or scrolling, we don't put it behind an opt-in option. Why should this be?
I would use it! That's all that matters! :-)
Powered among other things by OpenXcom, apparently, a long-in-development C++ + SDL reimplementation of the original game.

A hobbyist from-scratch free-software project is a really neat way to make olde timey DOS games work again on modern computers, imo.
As far as I know you can download ElasticSearch from here without registering: http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/ ... what better way to check out the product than play around with it?
Maybe we should crowd-fund science projects like we do Kickstarter projects. In the Internet Age, that's about as capitalistic as you can get.
It looks like there is king size on their site: https://www.tuftandneedle.com/bed
or you could just go to settings and disable image loading.
Kind of, yes.

You can map instance methods to normal methods in Smalltalk. And static methods to class methods in Smalltalk.

Of course, you don't have the dynamism of sending messages, instead of invoking method calls.

However given that Smalltalk is the originator of OO and everything is an object, OO critics would feel in prison most likely. :)
Trying to build now a REST API with Scala's Spray framework. It's not easy to get into it as there are not a lot of examples. Otherwise I would use Flask.
It is a open source project. They sell support, but elasticsearch itself is licensed under the Apache license. Just click overview if you want to kniw what it is, I'm not sure what you are clicking on that requires registration. Perhaps their training sessions?
Play Framework & Scala

http://www.playframework.com/
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.
Property rights are a purely governmental construct. But without them, capitalism doesn't work.

Not sure why intellectual property is considered any different.
You're definitely right about that. We estimate that 90%+ of our potential customers wouldn't buy our bed unless they were able to touch it and lay down on it.

We setup some really good policies to make it super easy to return without much risk. We'll have it picked up by a 3rd party before having you ship it back to us as an example.

We see ourselves moving offline in the future for sure but to bootstrap, it wasn't really feasible to do anything other than launch online.
I don't recall why I've set it up like this, but I'm using the following in an app: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0">.

Should the 300ms tap delay be gone in this case too, or is it only apps with precisely <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"> OR <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=no">?
This is from Rupert Goold's production of Macbeth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth_(2010_TV_drama)

You can stream it from PBS's website (there might be some geographic restrictions though, at least according to the comments):
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/macbeth/watch-the-ful...
> Why is the mental model building not seen as a special case of induction? One needs to generalize (i.e. interpolate/extrapolate) from the known instances.

Maybe you are right. Now, the problem is that my explanation pushes the problem down because now I am saying, "I don't know how this model simulator works. I throw a bunch of objects or concepts in a box and they evolve according to some rules, I can see where thing will end up in the future". But I don't have a fine grain understanding of what the simulator is built, or if it has frames or steps that execute and how it combines the rules underneath. That is perhaps in the unconscious. So I haven't solved the problem but just exposed the highest level of reasoning that I am aware of. There is some assembly running that I am not aware.
The title of this article sounded to me like one of those statistically generated ones that were on here a little while ago!
So we can expect some NSA layoffs since Facebook will be doing more and more of their work for them?
My only complaint is iOS apps know if the permission is denied, so every time you switch to them they can ask you to enable permissions which is annoying (Facebook messenger). I wish they just returned no data.
Why not just do your own independent hackathon not associated with this then? As far as I'm concerned, the theme is one of the most important parts to this. It means that you can't just sit down and think through a program or an idea before the hackathon starts.
We recommend a platform bed frame without a boxspring for the best feel.

The frame that we have in our photos is of our design but we're not really able to move into hard goods yet. Maybe once we grow a bit more.

West Elm has some nice simple designs that we like.
At this point, it's probably easier to name the languages that don't have closures as opposed to those that do
You can actually try this out in Chrome Android Beta. Go to about:flags and enable "Disable tap delay".

Here are the problem cases:

* Delegated event listeners - as in the click handler is on the html/body element. The listener may do something when a click happens, it may not. This means everything is potentially clickable, and we can't know in advance.

* Large click areas - Areas where the article title, summary and picture are all part of the same link. It's not always clear at first, but you'd be surprised how often you trigger it by accident.

But give it a go yourself!
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> But touch/pointer events can preclude the double-tap.

Your previous comment seems to imply otherwise: if the UA must dispatch pointercancel rather than pointerup on a double-tap, it has to wait until it can determine whether a double tap happened.
I don't recognise the world you are talking about. Particularly "the state monopolises on grandiose scientific projects, making it too difficult for the average enterprise to compete". On the contrary, the state funds the basic research that is then "monopolised" by enterprise once it has been sufficiently developed. The rocket tech. that Virgin Galactic is using didn't come from nowhere. Neither did the deep learning methods that Facebook is investing in.
What happens if you also have a “Web Server Administrator” with a similar holistic view? Won’t they step on each others’ toes? Is this not why you have separate roles, like the Dev/Ops division?
If I were a brain in a vat, why would the truth or falsehood of my beliefs matter? I can't interact with the world from the vat.
If Angular is your only experience of JS, I'm surprised you don't think JavaScript is the most complicated language in existence.
How much traffic do you get? Is there a place to understand the earnings correlation of traffic and earnings through google ads?
Actually, the title doesn't make that claim either. It just mentions "incompetents think they're awesome," without claiming that they're more confident than competent people.

If you have to boil the paper down to a handful or words, this title isn't bad. It highlights the interesting bit, which will help people who've heard about Dunning-Kruger remember it. And if the reader is familiar with the misrepresentation of Dunning-Kruger, they'll learn something by reading the article.

(You did read the article, right? It specifically mentions this misconception. Key sentence: 'The findings of Dunning and Kruger are being reduced to "Stupid people are so stupid that they don't know they are stupid."' And since you read the article, the title did it's job.)