skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first thing I saw was a giant pop-up advert that covered the content, so I quickly hit the back button and went back to HN.
> * the culture of Perl is what makes me believe that it will never be a viable choice over other dynamic, interpreted languages.*

What's wrong with Perl culture? Perl as a language and as an implementation has many weaknesses (esp. maintainability), but I've never seen any reasonable criticism of its culture as a whole. Only very recently have I noticed a somewhat annoying trend towards evangelism, I attribute this to the loss of interest in the language with the exception of somewhat fanatic users. But most current users are probably still grumpy old men like me who just want to get work done without rewriting large legacy code bases from scratch.
I wonder how many front-end people out there currently believe that JavaScript is jQuery and don't have a solid grasp of the language, instead focusing on use of a single library.
what is described for perl is python's sort(cmp=...)
I don't understand any of the points you're trying to convey. Let me respond to each of your paragraphs individually:

#2 - you're arguing against a point neither I nor (IMO) the article are trying to make. The cause of the anomalous mass die-offs is of interest, but there's no concert it's an existential threat for the Atlantic dolphin population.

#3 - irrelevant. Unless you can tell me more about the nature of the lung disease [edit: allegedly] from oil & from the virus, I'll assume the researches can distinguish between the two. That also doesn't address the hormonal abnormalities or the other symptoms they didn't enumerate.

#4 - again, irrelevant. Same comments from #1 apply. You are arguing against a point that is not being made.

#5 - If you have some sort of disagreements with the data, or the methodology of their interpretation, then by all means be specific about it. Otherwise it's hard to see how this is on topic.
Reminds me of Mr. Gatling, although I don't think Mr. Kalashnikov thought his invention would bring about World Peace.
Why would you use a type specific operator in a quick script where you don't need to really think about typing and all your perl 6 variables are typed as 'Any' as they aren't specifically typed?
Intro to software architecture [video]
The StG 44 was the first "modern" assault rifle, there were several similar automatic weapons earlier.
Does anybody conduct "open book" interviews? I'd be more curious how someone goes about finding the answer than if they knew it on the spot.
Since they were supposed to be the first to leave Earth, this sounds like another bad signal for us...
Pardon? I'll cede that it bears little relevance to the proceedings here, but the notion that the government isn't subject to the whims of a single entity has pretty effectively been debunked.

Between the PATRIOT Act, the NDAA, etc., the Executive Branch has the authority to bomb you, kill you, or indefinitely detain you with zero approval or oversight from Congress.
> Some emails I send are sensitive, and I’d rather not forward it to a third-party service if I don’t have to. However, those sensitive emails are often important, so I need a way to remember to follow up.

I feel this pain.

Shameless plug: I wrote an open-source version of Boomerang/Followup.cc that is designed to be self-hosted, specifically because of this concern: https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/go-yo

(For the record: I like script in the original submission script, but for me, I rarely use the Gmail web interface, so I had to make something that works over IMAP).

It's still a WIP, but I've been using it myself for the "bounce-back" feature for the last several months.
all he needs to do is look at what HSBC chiefs did to prevent from being prosecuted.. this is the messed up part.. kim dot com pirates a few files and gets a swat team.. HSBC launders BILLIONS and gets a party..
Oh nice. Reminds me of a hackathon I did a while back where I tried to implement a connect 4 AI bot using a genetic programming approach.

Here's the code: https://github.com/dangoldin/connect4bot

And here's a writeup: http://dangoldin.com/2013/11/30/genetic-programming-connect-...
Very much bullshit, adding all war victims since WW2 don't ever come close to that number. And I doubt her are more than one or two millions murder victims since 1947, and that's already an enormous number....
I don't see the description of the most obvious (to this old C programmer) approach: if your function "returns multiple values" it probably should be rewritten to operate on a struct. Once you recognize that, you'd probably discover that you'll be able to use the same struct in more other functions, and that you'd need just to pass a single pointer to that stuct around, significantly reducing the overhead of a lot of parameter passing.
I felt Effective Javascript was pretty on par with The Good Parts, and even better in some aspects.
I don't object to such a scheme, provided transaction costs are low enough (I suspect they might not be). But it's a little hyperbolic to describe an oversimplification of the tax code as "patriarchy".

I also don't think you realize how much a custom suit costs. It could easily be way out of the ballpark of the personal exemption.
locked Tomato Products - Adulteration with Drosophila Fly Eggs and Maggots
Message In A Bottle Found 54 Years Later Alludes To ‘Unthinkable’ Glacial Melt
There we go again... Chicken or egg might be easier to resolve than guns vs people
Concept train doesn't need to stop to pick up passengers
Should binary blobs be banned on account of the RSA/NSA issue?
After this issue involving the RSA and the NSA is there a case to be made for using binary blobs with Linux, or even tolerating them at all?<p>Should manufacturers be given an ultimatum? If you don't want open up your drivers forget the Linux market for good?
I'm biased by being a gun enthusiast and AK-variant owner myself, but I quite admire him as an engineer. It is an excellent design: simple, robust, time-proven, and easy to manufacture. Always a shame when great engineering is shadowed by violence, however. He has said that it should have been a weapon of defense, not offense. "It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon".
I had to do a short javascript project at work and the differences between the various function invocations was one of the first things I learned. That and how to deal with the disastrous scoping issues.
This is kind of pedestrian for a mathematician, and there aren't any features in use here that are exclusive to Haskell. Basically, you're just definining a new field of numbers where you throw in the sqrt(5) into the rational numbers. You could very easily do this in Python too:

http://ideone.com/9dHQV9
Aha, and then what other country would they use that ability in support of? Cuba? Venezuela? Bolivia? Also they would probably take a near-total hit on their weapons export bussiness...
1. Obama most certainly did not implement "nationalised" healthcare. Nationalised healthcare refers to a state-owned and operated healthcare sector. In any case, whatever it is that the administration implemented, there seem to be some doubts as to its viability.

I can point you to a litany of campaign and post-inaugural promises that are widely perceived to be broken by a large cross-section of people, from closing Guantánamo to definitively and swiftly ending American involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.

2. "We cannot assume that Iran will never instigate a war for religious reasons, or that no rogue element of its government will ever share its weapons with outside religious groups."

So, factionalism exists within the Iranian state? And what is the American state, a univocal monolith? For an overplayed but relevant example, I give you Iran Contra, or, for that matter, the runaway intelligence apparatus that Snowden helped put into sharper relief.

The point being that there are semi-autonomous appendages to any non-trivially-sized state. It should come as no surprise to anyone that there are extremist elements within Iran. Indeed, I would be willing to grant you that the extremist elements are more prominently positioned and influential within Iran's state. That's a far cry from "there is no logic to Iran". What does that even mean?
> Yes, but being entitled to get the protection of the police to enforce an impossible-to-enfore monopoly is another story.

Sure, but copyright isn't impossible to enforce. I agree it's futile to try and enforce it aggressively at the level of individuals, but I'd guess that copyright owners accrue most of the benefit of copyright so long as it is enforced against large organizations. And I also agree that we shouldn't require society to take on a disproportionate share of the cost of policing copyright.

> No. We created SAAS. Some companies sell one-year upgrades.

I think the decline of "pay per copy" in the software industry has been for the negative. I'd rather pay for a copy of MS Office than use some crappy web-based equivalent, or worse some advertising-based equivalent.
(No,Yes,No,Maybe,Yes,Yes)
Don't they always?
The US isn't the only law-maker, each country has their own set of laws.

We should respect other country's laws, instead of forcing out own beliefs down their throats.
All property is a government granted monopoly.
Money = inertia.
Money = power.
Money = too big to fail.
Money > all.
Glad to hear it. I've been thinking about blogging a read-through of Knuth, and I wanted to use the font as an homage.
Yes. From the answers above, what I've gathered is that those mathematic packages were important for the design of Lisp 3-4 decades ago. Doesn't help clarify whether current Lisp practice (as of 1 decade say), still favors mathematics as much.

A similar example would be AI, which used to tightly connected with Lisp, but it's something that modern Lisp practicioners (post-AI Winter) don't care much for.
The answer the interviewer was looking for seems to expect knowledge of how 'this' is different in Javascript versus other languages, and how things can go wrong. That is different from simply knowing that 'this' refers to an object.

Since this is for a junior position, conceivably an applicant could be a recent CS grad with no formal JS training, and hacked some projects on a side or job. And thus never by happenstance run into this issue, even if he read it somewhere sometime.
Yeah, a silly criticism of Python versus Perl. Perl borrowed Python's mediocre object system and made the syntax a little worse. Fortunately Moose made both the object system and the syntax a lot better (but Perl 5 was out for a decade before Moose arrived).
A large boulder has no agency or volition, but landslides still kill people. Cause of death need not be singleton, either.
> By accounts Korobov's 1946 rival ( the TKB-408 ) was technically more sophisticated with more potential, but that ensnared it during testing and the AK passed. Excellence vs good enough.

TKB was prone to jams and had worse accuracy than the AK prototype. It also looked ugly. So the better design won, although it sounds dull ;)
Now, hold on there. These "anyone who" statements chafe me; like the junior dev who exclaimed "anyone who doesn't write unit tests shouldn't call themselves an engineer" in a meeting filled with people 15 years his senior who had collectively shipped far, far more successful software than him, without writing tests.

Several years ago, I led two different front-end web teams at a large, well-known company. I wrote a lot of JavaScript then. In fact, I wrote the core JS framework for one of the apps. I probably understood "this" at that time. I couldn't begin to tell you now, because I've been working on hit iOS games since - probably without knowing a lot of the nuances of Obj-C at times! There was no disaster back then - we shipped high-quality sites on time. There would be no disaster now, because if I went back to JS I'd crack a book.

The most important skills I bring to any project are a lot higher-level than the details of a particular language. I haven't made my career on one language or platform, but dozens of them. For the details, I work with reference material handy. After a month, I probably have a good grasp of whatever I'm working with. A year after that project, I probably don't, but I could bring it back easily.
I want more efficient nonlethal weapons.. why is it such a small fraction of weapons research?
I interviewed at both. The larger companies were more likely to give me 'programming challenges' or puzzles (usually small mockups) for me to do ahead of times while startups tended to be more conversational and, quite frankly, didn't ask as hard of questions.
I wonder what his thoughts were on his rifle being the cause of so many deaths.
So the jQuery regex, for comparison, is

(^|/)jquery([^.]*)(\.min)?\.js$

while the Bootstrap regex in question is

(^|/)bootstrap([^.]*)(\.min)\.(js|css)$

with the ".min" not optional. (Looks like this was the intent [1]).

The 68.9%/26.5% percentages match the 130k/50k ratio of bootstrap.css to bootstrap.js, so it looks like only bootstrap.min.js is being excluded?

[1] https://github.com/github/linguist/commit/d5002ef06a9f346391...
I disagree. Fiction is surprisingly good at making one think about his own life. It allows us to live vicariously experiences we never could have in our own life, and I think that leaves the reader a little bit richer and wiser.
People want facts, then maybe feelings

Generally speaking I think this is actually backward they are moved by feelings then use the facts to back them up. Just look at the best sales technique (across industries): Telling a story. The "feelings" angle is actually much more powerful for PR activities.

The Tesla response was, as the author points out, for "Tech savvy people" - the kind of people who would or would nto buy a tesla.

This is comparing messages that are targeting the median customer of two different core markets: tech savvy early adopters vs mid-range product consumers (there are undoubtedly overlaps between Tesla customers and Target customers). These messages probably separately work great for their target market.
Sure, but:

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

(E.g I don't care if some strict leader in an African village behaves badly to his people and gets away with it.

Compared to what large powers do and get away with, with their world wars, invasions, opression, colonialism, etc, it's neglighible).
If a foreign citizen commits a crime in the U.S., does the U.S. not have the ability to prosecute him just because he's not a U.S. citizen (= "registered as a company in the U.S.")?
Cryptocurrency tipping culture is really interesting to me. I can't think of another culture or system that encourages people giving away small amounts of money because they like something you said or just because they feel like it. I can see tipping becoming huge on Facebook and Twitter. And possibly even as a pseudo payments system for services like Pinterest.
Google's Schaft robot wins Darpa rescue challenge
The business model is so simple it makes me want to cry. Get together with the other major networks, and charge people $8 a month for unlimited DRM-free downloads. Now you get $8 a month that people were going to use to pay for pirated copies. Put an ad or two in there, if you must. (But really, do the annoyance ads cause make up for the revenue they generate? Who pauses their TV show to go buy what you just advertised?)

If $8 a month isn't enough money, then skip the part where you get together with the other networks, and make your own site. Let's say you're AMC. Everyone wants to watch Breaking Bad, and you charge $1 an episode everywhere else. So make your own site that is $8 a month, and most people will get $4 (one episode a week) worth of content, and maybe check out your less popular shows and tell their friends. What's not to like?

(I think what's not to like is that sales people always want the big deals. It's much easier to get Time Warner Cable to pay you XX million than to appeal to each and every consumer. But the problem is, the people you're not serving are not going to subscribe to cable to get your show, they're going to pirate it, going further and further underground each time you try to stop it.)

Perhaps a deeper issue is that it's easier to find sales people to negotiate deals than it is to find engineers to code up a website that handles video downloads. If only there were already video download sites! If only there was some sort of "mega upload". If only there was some sort of "net flix". SIGH.

Personally, I'm resigned to just buying the season at the end on something like Google Play. It works on my tablet and TV, and I'm only going to watch it once. But really, the DRM leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Why am I punished for being a paying customer, when the pirates can play it on whatever device they want? It boggles my mind.

</rant>
One of the methods tested was mutate-struct -- Dereference a struct pointer and mutate both its fields.
Yup. The fact that there are waaaaaay many Dogecoin and that they're easier to actually get encourages tipping too. I have a very small amount of DOGE, yet tipping 10 or even 100 doge is not even a second thought for me.

I actually do accept BitCoin and Dogecoin for both of my ebooks now. In the past I'd actually given people who wanted to pay me in BitCoin free copies because I didn't even want to take them.
This is a great, great idea. Thank you for the tip.
i am following hnsearch api for long and found that they crawl user submission url and user details urls every 2-4 hours or so .
re: The ECC recommendation w/ ZFS

I was not certain about ECC being particularly important when using ZFS, so I dug [0] and discovered a multitude of intriguing resources about ZFS robustness.

Apparently, ZFS has no built-in detection or recovery mechanisms where memory corruption is involved.

HardOCP [1] led me to an academic investigative study about ZFS robustness [2]. Many conclusions were drawn, including:

In the last section we showed the robustness of ZFS to disk corruptions. Although
ZFS was not specifically designed to tolerate memory corruptions, we still would
like to know how ZFS reacts to memory corruptions, i.e., whether ZFS can detect
and recover from a single bit flip in data and metadata blocks. Our fault
injection experiments indicate that ZFS has no precautions for memory
corruptions: bad data blocks are returned to the user or written to disk,
file-system operations fail, and many times the whole system crashes.

Additional sources about ZFS and ECC can also found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Data_Integrity.

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[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=zfs+ecc

[1] http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1689724

[2] http://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/zfs-corruption...
I would consider changing the look of the up-vote buttons.

They're obviously not, but my first thought was that they were somehow related to Facebook.
>It's amusing to realize that linux is now the dominant consumer OS by being at the heart of android, even while linux on the desktop never went anywhere.

Yes, which also means that Linux is a dominant consumer OS, without even USING any of the work for linux of the desktop (no desktop enivoronments, graphic libraries, not even the X-server).
When compiling at full optimization and link-time code gen optimization, will the compiler and linker "get smart" about passing structs around? I'm inexperienced here, but it always seemed odd that a struct with two words can't just be shoved into registers (calling or returning).

Is there a reason the x86/64 ABIs don't specify such a way? Also, it seems that the 128-bit and larger registers aren't used as often to pass values. For something like a GUID, wouldn't they be a perfect fit? Or does the processor optimize stack handling so that it's almost as cheap as registers?
COBOL On Wheelchair - Micro webframework for GNU COBOL
All of them.

Try watching A Knight's Tale on Netflix streaming. It is an average movie from over a decade ago.

There are a ton of average movies from 3+ years ago that I cannot get streaming, that was just the first one that came to mind. So please, please stop using such arguments when 25% of the time I can't find the movie streaming when I look for it.

EDIT:
I probably should add they also revoke access [e.g. the Disney Christmas movie story from a week ago] to stuff that was specifically purchased, not merely bundled with a streaming service. So, as a group, they are pretty uncooperative because they don't want to have to follow the radio model of pricing/licensing which is what they should be doing [especially for movies over a decade old!]
Everything You Know About Economics and How it Pertains to BitCoins is Wrong
An ecosystem of corporate polititians (from Portugal)
> If a foreign citizen commits a crime in the U.S., does the U.S. not have the ability to prosecute him just because he's not a U.S. citizen

If a foreign citizen commits a crime in a foreign country, the US can still prosecute him (and can even have him forcibly abducted outside of the existing extradition treaty of his country, violating the laws of that country, to bring him to court without reducing its ability to prosecute him.)
So, in absolute, nothing is good or bad, until you decide how to use it. So nothing should be banned, illegal, etc. until somebody does something wrong it it. Then we can catch and charge that person. This doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

You're not going to use a fire-arm to water your plants. You know its purpose when you see/buy/own one. Fair enough, one doesn't need a fire-arm to kill someone but making the killing much easier with a fire-arm cannot be considered innocent or neutral.
I don't understand your position on HSBC's guilt. There is plenty of evidence that they have intentionally weakened their AML program. When they rated Mexico with the lowest AML risk in contradiction to every indicator in the industry, they knew of the consequences. They knew it would facilitate money laundering (by definition), in one of the hottest drug trafficking region. Does it matter so much that their ultimate goal was to make money rather than launder money? Of course money laundering was not an end in itself. That's probably why "willfully fail to establish and maintain an effective AML program" was made a crime: to give legislation some teeth in precisely a case like this, no?
According to TallGuyShort's comment, he thought it could be used for defensive violence and was pained at the thought it was being used for offensive violence.
Is that an AK-74? Bin Laden's favorite weapon?
That's cool. But don't write JS if you don't know what this does, because it will bite you.
We settle by duel: you bring a person, I'll bring a gun.
From the article :

>"The Pentagon alone has never been audited, leaving roughly $8.5 trillion in taxpayer dollars unaccounted for since 1996, the first year it was supposed to be audited."

Wow - that means an average of $500 billion per year of taxpayer money unaccounted since then!

From reading the article, one distinct impression is that the real reason for failed accounting may be simpler and more troubling than all the other obvious ones : because it is so much easier to hide inefficiency, incompetence, and gross abuse/misuse of funds if there are no proper accounting systems in place. The freedom from oversight can be addicting. While there may be no grand conspiracy in place at the top to achieve this - the will to fix what is broken could certainly be weaker if it gives you the freedom to do as you please.
It seams, that porn, crimes and terrorism are the honeypots of choice for the voters into any form of surveillance. 1984 is over, long live 1984!