skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If someone has a false belief but is otherwise logical, for example someone with different political opinions that they merely haven't thought about, then it might make some sense to enter into a debate. After all, at least one of you must be wrong, otherwise you would agree. But in a situation where someone's false beliefs are a result of mental illness, delusions, no amount of arguing will bring their worldview to a place that could be considered consistent with what is commonly known about objective reality."

At least, that's how that sentience unpacked into my brain.
I don't see how, but I would rather you argue with someone who makes a better point than mine in any case.
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This falls under the category of too little too late. I get that traditions change throughout history, I get that some things that are acceptable now were unacceptable even 10 years ago, but this is a case where people should have looked the other way. Alan Turning is both a war hero and one of the greatest minds to ever live. To simply disregard someone like that because of their sexual orientation is both short sighted and a disgusting lack of humanity. Imagine how much further computing would be if he had lived longer? If he had been free to think and live without ridicule and the tests run on him?
>Also note that Iron Maiden has never had a song on the radio

What do you mean by "never had a song on the radio"? They get played all the time on Local Radio Station's metal section.

Here's an example from two days ago: http://bonemetalzone.tumblr.com/post/70661430266/now-playing...
If you look at the more detailed map (in a pdf on this article): http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/19/tim-draper-six-californias-...

you can see that is not the case.

LA is included in West California separate from SD/Orange County/etc. South California would be Republican.

Sacramento is included in North California, not Central California. Central California would be Republican.

At the very least, 2 of the 6 would be Republican leaning.
I fail to see how it's misdirection. OpenSSL have explained, clearly, what they were paid for - and it seems entirely reasonable to implement everything, especially given - as that post shows - that the duff algorithm was really quite hard to use unless you really tried.

Additionally, given the trouble Theo's got into on a number of occasions for criticisng bits of the government, it seems fairly unlikely that he would've been comfortable with the project taking NSA money.

Most plausible situation: Corporation said "here's money, implement ALL the things", OpenSSL figured it was a good way to get the useful things paid for plus some stuff that potential future sponsors might find useful in marketing material.

As for whether said Corporation had additional, non-obvious motives, I make no guess either way.

But misdirection does not, frankly, seem appropriate to describe the explanation given, and your scare quotes suggest you're appealing to emotion rather than presenting an actual argument. Do feel free to present one if you have one, though, it's entirely possible I misunderstood.
> Maybe you need to get out of the tech-site bubble :)

Yeah, maybe. i don't use social stuff too much, but I'm mostly experienced with enterprise stuff. Not sure how to talk to them, too, or even what their problems really are.
The "porn" filters are stupid and creeping totalitarianism, but it's irresponsible and disrespectful to compare them to what was done to Turing.

He was persecuted and prosecuted; publically humiliated; forced to receive hormonal injections that rendered him impotent; banned from traveling to the USA; essentially banned from any jobs involving cryptography or national security; and ultimately committed suicide in large part because of government sanctions.

World of difference between that and a porous filter.
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I just find their "yooo waddup homeeey" white-boy street talk obnoxious, if not borderline offensive.
Wouldn't it be much more forceful if his conviction remained as a mahnmal? Something to point at and say "here's what we did to a brilliant man because we were too small-minded to think otherwise"?

All pardoning Turing does now is lead us to eventually forget the tragedy of his conviction.
Pardon? For what? Thanks but no thanks.
i'm living in Chile right now

SO MANY Iron Maiden shirts. its ridiculous
My blog has been accruing more personal things and whiny rants lately. I decided to separate this from my doubtlessly profound philosophical ramblings about the meaning of life and Skyrim. All in all, a list of markdown gists is just about as functional as tumblr...
Tit for tat links should be against policy. Google's search results become quality when people naturally link to something as part of a conversation or sharing.
Yes, I knew that, but I didn't let that stop me!
In lieu of a long, drawn out thread that neither of us are likely to be too invested in, I'd just suggest you track down David Lowery's piece about the economics of the music industry in the 1990s versus that of the 2010s. He appears to disagree strongly (and compellingly, and with data) with your summary of how exploitative major label contracts were for midlist artists.

You might consider that the acts you & I tend to have heard of are, relative to the market, breakout successes. For acts that achieve unexpected and spectacular success, label contracts probably look pretty terrible; a band generates a huge amount of sales revenue but captures only a small part of it. But for the midlist and down, that might not be the case at all; again: Lowery suggests that the labels lost money on midlist acts while subsidizing a lifestyle that allowed those acts to work in music full time.

Certainly, we can see that in the absence of a thriving label system for music, being a midlist independent musician isn't exactly lucrative. The Arcade Fire can probably afford very nice cars and private jet rides now, but how well are Savages or Low or Grizzly Bear or Spiritualized doing? It's not the labels squeezing them anymore.
Uber has higher-quality cars and you get to rate the drivers so they tend to be a little more polite and professional. Not that taxis can't have high-quality cars and drivers but it's more of a crap shoot.
I appreciate your concern, but these people are not capable of bullying me. They cannot get to me. I know their mentality and their tactics inside and out.
My best guess as a non-Californian.

Top Blue - I believe this is a mountainous region, not much industry.

Purple - Massive forest area (on the coast at least), also small population and not much industry

Yellow - North Bay, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Sacramento. Lots of industry, technology and money. Large population as a whole spread out fairly evenly across the region, so lots of medium sized towns and small cities (S.F, Oakland, San Jose, Palo Alto, etc.etc.). Industry includes the big names you know, Google, Facebook, Apple, as well as large research facilities (I believe NASA has a large centre there). Lots of Universities as well.

Red - Some farm-land, mountainous further inland. I believe cattle, cheese, and some fruit orchards.

Green - Great farmland. Grapes and wine region, orchards, lots of cattle land. Moderate populations, towns like San Luis Obispo (great part of California if you haven't visited).

Orange - Massive populations of Los Angeles also medium sized cities of San Diego, Palm Springs/Desert. Massive industry throughout the area serving the population and the industries of Los Angeles. LA is a massive manufacturing hub (clothing, automobiles, the list goes on and on). Massive sea port at Long Beach (there may be others too).
Exactly false. People could have looked the other way, and Turing could have lived a longer, happier life, and we could all be that much less aware of the injustice done to hundreds of thousands of other LGBT people throughout the last century. The tragedy is the policy that cost Turing his life, not the fact that an exception wasn't made for him. It cost many more people than Turing.
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Nate Silver did an interesting analysis of this ability back in 2009 (before joining the New York Times): http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/04/messing-with-texas.ht...

Puerto Rico already voted in favor of becoming a state in 2012. The only thing stopping it from happening now is a simple majority vote of Congress[0].

Personally, I think giving Puerto Rico, a territory that already must obey federal laws, the ability to vote on said federal laws is a much higher priority than splitting up the states that we already have.

...which is to say, of course, that I imagine that none of these will happen anytime soon.

[0] As best as I could tell, the threshold for statehood really is this low.
The pattern of his errors suggests a native English speaker to me.
> On a side note: where can I fork and improve on your theme? :)

It's at https://github.com/razius/razius.com/tree/master/theme , which is a modified version of https://github.com/danclaudiupop/pure . The underlying framework is http://purecss.io , and a lot is possible with it.

I started hacking that theme too, and then I realized that it may be difficult to merge efforts if I build what I want. I think it would help a lot if Pelican had theme inheritance ( https://github.com/getpelican/pelican/issues/1092 ) and we all reused a common PureCSS base-theme. This is probably an easy issue to tackle for a skilled Python coder.
Just add -"stackoverflow" and all your problems will go away.
Because they make rape jokes and dress and talk like a bunch of narcissistic, conceited, swagtards.

3 founders, all wearing shades indoors. They're not movie stars and what they are doing is somewhat trivial yet they've trumped themselves up a new level with their sleezy tactics. All I can say is that gp invested in immaturity.
>Also note that Iron Maiden has never had a song on the radio

That is definitely not true, I have heard with my own ears Iron Maiden playing on UK radio and by looking at logs I can see that at least 8 stations have recently played them.

I think it would be foolish to take pride in not having radio airtime - you get revenue and you get heard.
I've been thinking about leveraging existing open source interfaces for static site generation, creating something between a full cached (Varnish, etc) interface to a dynamic site and generating each page on the fly. So rather than have Wordpress or Drupal or some such thing generate the full site the new post is dumped into the existing static site generator and a site generation pass is triggered.

I'd prefer to retain some dynamic site features like commenting, discussion, and form submission. While there are very successful companies that outsource these features I prefer to have the option to take ownership and control of my content. So I'm envisioning the only dynamic part of the site besides the admin interface is an API to enable these (and more) features. Depending on design and the type of interaction these could trigger a page or site rebuild or update a Javascript framework on the page to reflect the new comment, the successful form posting that updates a calendar, etc.
Retarded downvoting, thanks!
What might a paper use $foo$ for? Aside from a product of three variables which presumably shouldn't be kerned
The truth is cruel to people who are wrong on the side of the argument, because they get their feelings hurt. Cruelty says nothing about the validity of an argument. This is a complete waste of time.
This also happened when the city of New York demanded price controls, and then gas rationing, following Hurricane Sandy. Gas lines for miles.
Count me amongst those who shared that impression...my impression hasn't changed much! It obviously isn't completely stupid or completely useless but its utility is still shockingly low especially when you consider its stock market success.

I am on twitter mainly as a way to promote my company and connect with prospective people, but otherwise the utility of twitter still strikes me as rather low.

It is a good medium for one-to-many (aka broadcast) communication but there aren't enough interesting people in the world to make that a viable option. Not to mention once you start to follow more than 20 people your stream becomes a fire-hose that is not really consumable.

I guess now that it is a public company we'll have to wait and see if it can turn the amount of profit that matches its valuation.

Also stupid/useless and success are not necessarily mutually exclusive, we are talking about humans after all :)
I don't want to say too much b/c I have competitors here (looking at you, Casetext! jk Jake is a very nice guy) but this is pretty much my 5-10 year plan for my company. Of course, we have to do some other things and build some other tools before we get to that point but it's not not being worked on.
Regular Keepass through Mono on my Mac was abysmal. I'll give KeepassX a shot.
Or, the root of the problem is in treating these companies as too big to fail.

If the big companies were allowed to fail, that would develop a market for others to enter who could succeed.

With gov't contracting, it is unrealistic to leave aside the political connections the companies have. It is simply unacceptable to the political crony class to allow one of their own to fail.
Nothing of the sort! A minefield makes a lousy area denial weapon, because it's consumable; every mine that goes off is one fewer between the attacker and the objective. It's a considerable obstacle, sure, but it won't stop an attacker; at best, it'll slow him down for a while. If he's really determined, it may not even do much of that; he might just order his infantry to march through the minefield anyway, which is a very effective if rather expensive clearing method. If he's really determined and also short of soldiers, he might do the same, but with a regiment of children -- Iran used this method during their war with Iraq in the 80s. Horrifying as it is, it does work.

No, the point of a minefield is to funnel attackers into predefined areas where you've arranged to bring your heavy weapons, specifically artillery or machine guns, to bear with best effect. These areas rejoice in the name "killing zones", and their purpose is to maximize the effect of said heavy weapons by concentrating their targets in a single compact mass which can be saturated with fire. Granted, being a static emplacement, a minefield can only be effective when someone has to go through it or find a way around it; that said, and while the point is certainly arguable, I have a hard time considering a weapon, whose sole purpose is to make it as easy as possible to slaughter one's opponents en masse, as being particularly "defensive".
Can't make it to Berlin this year, sorry.
For this discussion, I think it might be useful to separate two ideas.

First, there is the math you need in order to be able to program. This varies by programming language. (For Haskell, you'd better know some abstract algebra. For C, all you need is simple arithmetic.)

Second, there is the math you need in order to be able to write a particular program. This varies by the program you are trying to write. Since math connects with itself in many ways, you can often solve a problem using unexpected mathematical techniques, so for these purposes, it's best to know a lot of them.

Now, it seems to me that Miller's point might be that the Lisp (or perhaps functional programming) community has to focus more on the math knowledge they need in order to be able to write programs in their language. This leaves them less room for learning the broader techniques that would make them more able to write particular programs.

(Note well: I am not necessarily agreeing with Miller. I am merely stating what I think he is trying to say. In particular, since math areas relate to each other, knowing abstract algebra well may in fact turn out to be a help on the broader math, rather than a hindrance. To some degree, it depends on whether the average member of the "Lisp community" learns the math needed for functional programming, and says "Cool, that was useful, I think I'll learn some more math", or whether they say, "That used up all the time I have to burn learning math - I guess statistics (or whatever) will have to wait for next week/year/decade".)
Wow. Can he really be completely oblivious to the fact that this approach is going to bring the hammer of doom down upon them?
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That may be, but isn't this an ERP system?

Why does the DoD need to run a project like this as if they're creating the next stealth weapon?
Being on the board of a publicly-traded company also opens yourself up to a lot of personal liability, as you're legally bound to act in the best interest of shareholders. I personally would not want the job; if I were wealthy & accomplished enough to be offered a board membership, I'd much rather have a quiet life out of the public eye than wrestle with concerns of a multi-billion-dollar enterprise that needs to satisfy many different constituencies. Being on the board of a non-profit, however, can be pretty cool. You usually don't get a salary for that though.
Add an extra 'ho' for some real kick.
I believe that he meant real and/or complex calculus, as opposed to lambda calculus.
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You can download it for free from the TribalContact home page at: http://www.tribalcontact.com

The link to download the book is on the left side panel, and you can choose from PDF, MS Word or even view online in HTML.

If you want to know what it is about, here is text from the book's back cover:

"The digiSleep did not wake him. His wife did not wake him. Instead an enormous cube of light, the size of a skyscraper dropped on his head... "

The Kubic Kat is a tale of the near future. In a time like ours, and in place like this. But in this future everything is slightly different, slightly more repugnant, and slightly more sinister.

Within this surreal world the newly awakened Kubic Kat must find out the truth behind the riddle that he has been set; and more than just his life depends upon him finding the answer.
It seems you've failed to notice the dependent clause in my last sentence -- the one beginning "as a proxy..."
I sync my KBDX database using Dropbox. Is there an option to open the DB file directly in the browser (in RO mode, of course)?
75,000 men were convicted under the same law, of whom 26,000 are still alive. [1] Only Turing has been "pardoned".

My understanding [2] is that the "pardon" implies there was nothing wrong with the law as such, just that Turing is forgiven for having broken it. So while I guess this is better than nothing, I don't know if it's really the way to go about it.

[1] http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201314/ldhansrd/t...

[2] I am not a lawyer, nor British, so give my understanding as much weight as it deserves...
The British state already formally apologized five years ago, under Gordon Brown, for Alan Turing's barbaric treatment. I can't see how a pardon adds anything to that. The best response is just to treat people humanely in the present.
Has there been any correlation drawn between IQ and performance in a software firm?
I don't even know what this does yet but the website looks awesome! I can't stop scrolling...
The only answer you need is that the Constitution is simultaneously built on trust/mistrust of government. Otherwise, why bother with checks and balances.
"How's that different from the private sector?"

It's not. Large private sector companies make just as poor purchasing and sourcing decisions as the government.
There's no size problem. Each sitemap file can contain up to 50,000 urls. Google's cache on SO's sitemap.xml file shows 126 files (maxing at 6.3 million urls (50k * 126); their site claims 6.33 million questions at the moment, so it all appears to roughly add up).

I've run sites with millions of urls spread across a lot of sitemaps, and Google will devour them without any fundamental problems. I found it wasn't uncommon for Google to regularly screwup the indexing of a few sitemap files out of a hundred or whatever, and often it would randomly fail to update a % of sitemaps in a timely fashion.
KeePass can run on Linux under Mono
(and perhaps Wine?) to provide .NET,
while KeePassX runs natively.
Why couldn't some software company license out their app to cab companies? The Uber app is slick, but it's not exactly groundbreaking tech--somebody could clone it.
He was persecuted for his sexual orientation, and furthermore this was done despite his obvious contribution to the safety of the nation. This placed sexual mores as more important than national interest.

A default information filter is currently being introduced by several ISPs in the UK, it starts by filtering sexual content.

This is similar in concept to the attitudes that cause immense suffering to Turing, i.e. controlling the public expression and liberty of the sexual life is being considered as more important that protecting civil liberties such as freedom of information.
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Huh? Special people should be allowed to break laws the rest of us have to follow? Gays should not have been persecuted, but only if they were "war heroes" and had "great minds"?

No, an unjust law is unjust to everyone! This is not tragic because it was done to somebody special, but it was done to thousands of "boring" others who may not get a pardon. (To say nothing of the original injustice that can't be taken back, or the fact that a pardon is not an admission of injustice.)
As a few have mentioned, the numbers are flawed, but I see them as flawed differently than others have mentioned.

The problem with 'language popularity' is that we looking probably 90% at web-projects being based on Github, so within those projects, CSS and Javascript are pretty much a given, as they are the default client side-libraries. You can't build a website without CSS and rarely do without Javascript (on the front end).
Turing died only a few years before the emergence of high level languages. I have often wondered if he would go for FORTRAN or LISP.
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Rape jokes are contemptible enough, but their sense of fashion is not. It may be something that you personally appreciate, but you should not expect others to tailor their fashion sense to please you in particular.
> Jefferson (Humbolt?): Strong Dem

Humboldt may be strongly Democratic but the rest of the proposed state of Jefferson is quite conservative. The proposed "state of Jefferson" has actually been around for quite a while and includes some conservative areas of southern Oregon as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_%28Pacific_state%29
That's my understanding too.

Lisp had a nice idiom that Randal Schwartz translated in to Perl 5 in 1994 which became known as the Schwartzian Transform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartzian_Transform

It seems from the comments here that Python's key and cmp args are Python's equivalent to the ST. I'm surprised by the comment that Python 3 removed cmp. Perhaps that's a temporary omission.

This HN is about an advent article for Perl 6, which covers the same territory. Based on a look at the Rakudo code, it only implements a single custom sort closure (equivalent to Python's cmp) OR a single key closure (equivalent to Python's key).
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