skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I proposed no interpretation in my earlier comment; I identified the fallacy in the comment to which I responded, and restated the intended question in terms which made sense.

"Killed by an AK-47" implies that, had the weapon been made unavailable beforehand, the killing would not have occurred. This has been tried many times in history. It has never worked. As I discuss in a comment elsewhere in this sub-thread, the range of human ingenuity is far too broad, and the human carcass is far too easily rendered inanimate, for the prohibition of one particular class of tools to bring about an end, or even a meaningful reduction, in killing. Banning firearms to save lives is precisely as absurd a proposition as banning hammers to prevent carpentry -- indeed, in a nation as historically awash with firearms as the United States, even more so.
He has a ton of benchmarks on that page:

Searching for Pattern('an',2bytes) into String(206908949bytes) line-by-line ...

strstr_Microsoft_hits/strstr_Microsoft_clocks: 1212509/544
strstr_Microsoft performance: 248KB/clock
StrnglenTRAVERSED: 138478024 bytes

strstr_GNU_C_Library_hits/strstr_GNU_C_Library_clocks: 1212509/359
strstr_GNU_C_Library performance: 376KB/clock
StrnglenTRAVERSED: 138478024 bytes

Railgun_Doublet_hits/Railgun_Doublet_clocks: 1212509/321
Railgun_Doublet performance: 421KB/clock
StrnglenTRAVERSED: 138478024 bytes

Railgun_Quadruplet_8Triplet_hits/Railgun_Quadruplet_8Triplet_clocks: 1212509/335
Railgun_Quadruplet_8Triplet performance: 403KB/clock
StrnglenTRAVERSED: 138478024 bytes

Railgun_Mischa_8Triplet_hits/Railgun_Mischa_8Triplet_clocks: 1212509/348
Railgun_Mischa_8Triplet performance: 388KB/clock
StrnglenTRAVERSED: 138478024 bytes

BNDM_32_hits/BNDM_32_clocks: 1212509/505
BNDM_32 performance: 267KB/clock
StrnglenTRAVERSED: 138478024 bytes

...
The government's hiring process makes this impossible. They are too slow, the people who know what needs to be done are completely separate from the centralized offices which hire, and therefore the government only hires people based on arbitrary measures including keywords on resume, number of years in x industry, certifications from Craposoft and Orac-ket. They are fucking fantastic at hiring useless middle-management fucks whose only ambition in life is a paycheck and to stop using their brain when they leave the office (at 4:00 or 3:30 pm on a weekday)

Ambitious people leave in droves, because an organization run entirely on "other people's money" always steers towards complacency and lack of accountability, translating to ambitious people who care about delivering on-time being surrounded by people whose kid's softball game takes precedence over leaving customers out in the cold.

Anyone who has EVER dealt with the federal government in any fucking way knows that what you are saying would never work. The laziest people I have ever encountered in my life are in the Federal government. I'm a huge advocate for the environment, and my first dealings with the EPA made me want to cry. They are horrifically lazy at a cultural level. The DoD is fucking awful. Go to a military base at 3:00 PM on a Friday afternoon and watch as a traffic line builds up at the exit gates as the civillian workers go home 2 hours early, EVERY weekend.
It would have been kinder just to have shot them once each in the head, don't you think?
Yes, this is what happens when justice gets politicized by populist fury. It's extremely scary.
That could be said about any do-it-yourself endeavor. Making my own food is subsidized (no sales tax) when eating out is better for the productivity of the economy, for example.
Cool! Though, I think it would work better if items were placed on mouse up, that way you could tell if the user was just trying to rotate the display not and place something.
Probably true. I could also see farm field trips becoming a nice source of regular revenue for some struggling farms.
A deduction is a tax accounting device intended to distinguish income from revenue. In your hypothetical, why is any deduction necessary to properly compute income?

The fact that couples choose to have two spouses work is irrelevant. Daycare has no consumptive value either way. A company can choose to hire a separate CTO instead of combining the role into another position. They are entitled to deduct his salary anyway, and companies that don't hire a separate CTO can't complain about not getting a deduction too.
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Another fine example of how smart people can also be so achingly naive and unworldly. Gee, who would've thought criminals would use a machine gun for offensive purposes.
Of course not; to do so would be foolish. The blame in that case would accrue either to the negligence of the person who stacked them, or, if they were blamelessly well stacked, to the carelessness of the person who brought them crashing down around his ears.
What you have there is a list of people that want to look at adult material… Nobody should want to be on this list because it's completely open for abuse. As these filters and 'opt-out' lists become more fine-grained it becomes more of a problem…
Reddit's tip not does it without an email address

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You could let a username claim tips by making a comment like:

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To start managing their tips on your app / site
"I proposed no interpretation...."

"'Killed by an AK-47' implies that...."

Do you seriously not see the contradiction here?
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This looks like an amazingly polished product. is legality no longer an issue in emulation-land? been a while since I checked into that scene
Lawyers are partly agents of the government. The alternative would be to make private lawyering illegal and to require all lawyer-type work to be done at goverenment offices.
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How to visit every home in the world in one night
Other way around: opting out will cost extra.
I guess "that" answers "that" question.
> Fewer rules imposed on people lead to greater growth, which leads to greater health, happiness, wealth, and longevity.

This is easy to discredit. We have rules that prevent us from clubbing each other on the head and taking what we can from the corpse. By your reasoning, getting rid of this rule would increase growth and lead to greater prosperity. But most people would disagree.

This sort of reasoning is always code for "my favored set of rules is better."
Ladies and gentlemen, the etiquette of murder.
If you produce strings, they are compared as strings, even if they look like numbers.
>I always thought an engineer was someone who puts scientific or mathematical theory into practice and to solve technical problems.

100% agree. In the US I don't think it's as strict as Canada (may be wrong) but I know one has to take an FE to be called one. People in the software field, however, running around themselves engineers are more often than not, not putting any theories into practice but instead using the tools that actual software engineers (those that create software packages/tools/languages/compilers etc) make, essentially making them a journeyman of sorts.
He was working for Stalin. The man is on a very short list for worst person of the entire 20th century, and it's a tough competition! The "criminal elements" are pikers in comparison.
Would that the human urge to kill were so tractable! I find your optimism refreshing.
When it comes to various kinds of food preparation, 'caring' is basically the ability to care enough to learn the required skills. While it's true that the barrista doesn't need to care about you on that day to pull a good shot, they have to care enough about coffee to learn the skills required to pull a good shot.
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Original non-blogspam article:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/fbi-copyrighted-...
If you are into things like this, I also recommend:

http://www.cargalmathbooks.com/
I explained this in a reply below, but this is a linear-algebraic technique. The matrix A = [0 1; 1 1] satisfies the relation A^2 - A - 1 = 0. (In fact, if you think of A as a lag operator, this is the definition of Fibonacci numbers!) You can use this relation to compute products of matrices of the form aA + bI where I is the identity matrix---the comment below has the derivation. This is a bit faster than using matrix multiplication because there are only two coefficients to keep track of.

This might seem like a pointless optimization, but it is actually useful. One advantage is that you don't need to factor the polynomial x^2 - x - 1 or work with square roots. The closed-form for Fibonacci numbers is a bit of a red herring because to work with it exactly, you will end up doing the same kinds of computations anyway. For recurrences of higher degree, factorization might be impossible and this is the only route.

When you're working over a finite field, even if you don't start with a recurrence, there are fast techniques for finding factors of the characteristic polynomial of a sparse matrix (the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm comes to mind).
This is great, if....the school software vendors adopt it as a standard and allow their systems to be Clever-enabled.

I work for a large school district and a large majority of our vendor solutions come with their own proprietary, locked-down technologies. When queried, some of these vendors see the writing on the wall and say they are working on integrating with Clever while others keep their heads stuck in the sand while counting their millions of taxpayer dollars spent on overly-complex, un-flexible and un-interoperable solutions.
But to do that, they must raise taxes.
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A state government agency about 2 hours south of Seattle, WA. What happens is that Microsoft, Amazon, etc can offer 50 to 100 percent higher salaries and more interesting problems than we can, so most of the really skilled devs go there (I don't blame them). So out pickings are almost always slim.
And now the discussion shifts from WHY there should ever be a filter to a never ending discussion of WHO is behind it, WHAT the filter should and shouldn't block and HOW. Minds distracted, efforts diffused, mission accomplished.
Laws that were meant to provide fair competition now act as a barrier to entry for companies that don't cater specifically to the government. This leads to fewer bids from the same companies. Those companies are happy to keep the anti-corruption laws in place.

They also bias towards fewer, larger purchases, which is a recipe for failure for something like logistics software.
Maybe they made plenty off of it, and wanted to promote their other movies (hint: Thor 2). I personally contributed $20 in movie tickets to the Avengers (saw it twice). I also went and saw Thor 2.
If that's true, it still doesn't follow that human activity isn't warming the climate, or that we can take the additional warming right now without enormous disruption. I call non-sequitur.
WHAT DESIGNERS CAN LEARN FROM THE AK-47
A defensive weapon is typically designed to provide suppressive fire. Suppressive fire is typically high volume (think machine gun) and aimed over a larger area, with the intent of keeping the enemies heads' down (thus not firing), providing covering fire so that friendly forces can maneuver.
What kind of site are they running?
>Bureaucracy ( where success is measured in how confidentially a PowerPoint can be presented and how well you can say "synergy" with a straight face ) can't design and manage software creation.

How's that different from the private sector?

Note, I'm not asking if they differ in other stuff -- I'm asking what they do different regarding what you described above as a characteristic of government bureaucracy.

>Incompetent middle mangers, management by crisis of the month, accountants and contractors running the systems would mean bankruptcy in the business world.

Well, not in the financial sector and "too big to fail" corporations either. Or how about Detroit and it's bailout?
Agreed. After evaluating a number of charting libraries, we purchased the "web app" license of highcharts.js and we've been pleased with its looks and ease-of-use. (in case it's not clear, we are a customer & not otherwise affiliated).
My point was not that static typing makes this stuff impossible, just more awkward and difficult.
I was just thinking aloud, rather than trying to make a compelling point. Just because the differences are obvious doesn't mean that the end use of a shipping container can't negatively affect a massive amount of people.
...okay, so you're apparently an asshole. Good to know.
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Lawyers should be responsible to their clients, not serve as an extra layer of tax informants.

I was under the impression this is how it worked eg. that lawyers' only responsibility are to their client. Otherwise you would get some kind of weird conflict of interest in every case.
I would not be so quick to assign incompetent label to the agent in question. Is it possible that this is form of civil disobedience?
Dopey linkbait title is dopey. If you like good coffee, investing in a $2,500 machine that is going to last over 10 years with a little maintainence isn't as outrageous.

AFter many years of enjoying coffee, I found that simply cleaning the coffee maker (any type) periodically had more influence than nearly any other parameter. Coffee is full of oils that get stuck all over the machine then exude nasty bitter flavors when you make coffee afterwards.
I find these graphics by WRI particularly useful in understanding the different angles to this problem:

http://www.wri.org/blog/global-food-challenge-explained-18-g...

As a geneticist, I'm more than slightly offended that they don't include GMOs in the arsenal of solutions though.
Additional transparency in the employment market is an absolute must. So many tough decisions (both for companies seeking to hire and candidates looking for a better opportunity) could be made easier with better (read: more complete) data about market drivers.

Does it make sense to specialize in X? Will I make more money in the next 5 years by doing Y? As a University student, does majoring in Q, R, or S have a better career outlook right now?

Good to see Mighty Spring pushing hard for this.
I know people that denie carbon dioxide traps heat and wish that basic science is a conspiracy.
I wonder will happen to this individual who copyrighted the material under his name.
Reproduction of the species is not a "life choice." Our stock is all worthless if there's no generations of 18-35 year olds to provide a consumer and worker base into the future. What's the market cap of Facebook in a world where all the 13+ year olds that ever will exist are already born?

To me, this a key differentiating point between conservatives and libertarians. Following the libertarian position here has caused conservatives to undermine a key core pro-family policy position.
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Why ultimately the ideals of the system may triumph over its’ practicalities
Of course he created it for defence. Few years before he made the design Russia was invaded out of blue by an army with a goal to enslave whole nation. The plans of Nazis executed in Poland included systematically malnourishing nation to break the spirit and physique of young, giving no education to slavic kids except counting to 500 and learning to serve Nazis like gods. And this was actually executed. (add 16% of your population killed for no reason, gas chambers etc.)

Now experience all this like Kalashnikov did, and I guess you would think differently about the role of guns then most people do now in 2013.
My two questions now are,
1. Is there an uncensored version online yet?
2. If there is not, does anyone know if I am allowed to go down to the library of congress and scan/photograph the contents (If so, I live close by and can go do it tonight/tomorrow).
Lisp's numeric tower is, if anything, a great example of how not to do mathematics. It is just too coarse-grained to be useful: it lumps into a single giant structure every possibly imaginable number. On that basis, you cannot easily constrain yourself to working on a more specific algebraic structure of interest. If you need a total order, you are screwed up: the numeric tower includes complex numbers. If you need to work on a quotient ring, you are screwed up: the numeric tower includes floats.

Haskell's relatively fine-grained distinctions between numeric types is nothing like Lisp's numeric tower.
This is retarded. The decision was made 5 weeks before c-section, they could have send her home before that. What will be next? 'Voluntary' kidney donations while changing flights?

- there were other relatives who had rights and could take care of the baby.

- she was held for 5 weeks in the hospital before the baby was delivered, than deported!

- And on top of that there is gagging court order, so she could not ask for help, otherwise she would lose all chances to get baby back.

Also there are other similar cases.
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Finally, we can play WarGames in Python http://zulko.github.io/easyAI/examples/games.html
If you're looking, we are still hiring for a third position (we've been on a bit of a binge lately with hiring). http://agency.governmentjobs.com/washington/default.cfm?acti...
A Kalashnikov only lasted for 94 years? Must be defective. Those babies last forever.
Isn't there a large body of existing knowledge on how to help the average Chines person get through the Great Firewall of China? Considering how relatively easy it is to get onto The Pirate Bay and other sites one way or another, despite the present ban... Like all Tory policies, dead in the water, totally a waste of effort and money, and thoroughly without integrity, to boot.

I'd recommend Tor, but the Tor Browser Bundle does not work -at all- out of the box like I'd assume it would (on OS X). I spent over an hour fiddling with it trying to get it to work (10.8) and it would always die on starting up.

This is only good in the long run because it is further proof of how out of control the UK government is, and is bound to keep waking up the apathetic.
The intermediary article has a much better headline, at least.
The O(log N) algorithm, in Python:

def fib(n):
a,b,x,y = 0,1,0,1
while n != 0:
if n % 2 == 0:
a,b = a * a + b * b, 2 * a * b + b * b
n = n // 2
else:
x,y = a * x + b * y, b * x + a * y + b * y
n -= 1
return x
You are yourself partaking in distortion by downplaying the original question's implication of moral responsibility.

Why does it matter how many death this particular design has caused, in particular in the context of its inventor dying, as opposed to the myriad of other gun designs, if not to imply moral responsibility?
I agree with your example being a joke because McDonalds cheeseburgers cannot be traded for illicit services and goods as easily as laundered cash. They've admitted to systemic corruption and taken month of revenue in fines because of it simply because the DOJ is too lazy to actually fix the problem. This is a horrible stain on the record of the DOJ and is tantamount bribery disguised with legalese. Trying to sugar coat it doesn't change that fact.
Yeah, no criminal ever won a World War and no criminal ever industrialized a country the size of USSR.
Few years before he made the design Russia was invaded out of blue by an army with a goal to enslave whole nation.

Don't forget that Russia was invaded by the same army they colluded with to split up and enslave the nation of Poland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
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>You should ask someone who lives in China. Specifically, find a college aged kid and ask them what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Do they really not know or are they just saying what the gov wants to hear to avoid difficulties? As much as this filter is a bad idea, because it should be opt-in, it is quite beyond the pale to say it will lead to a way to prevent questioning of education funding.
From the Mother Jones article:

Because the two versions are similar, a side-by-side comparison allows a reader to deduce what was redacted in the later version. The copyright office does not allow readers to take pictures or notes, but during a brief inspection, a few redactions stood out.
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OpenEmu dev here.

Reverse engineering is legal. However, check your local laws and as always, use your best judgement when it comes to playing games that you own or some great Homebrew as found on sites like these: http://pdroms.de

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At the time Gospodin Kalashnikov designed the weapon which brought his name to the world's attention, his nation had just suffered an invasion of Germans, which was repelled only at the cost of roughly twenty million of his countrymen's lives -- an invasion, moreover, against which Gospodin Kalashnikov himself fought, and was wounded, as part of a T-34 regiment -- and was by no means certain it would not soon suffer an invasion of far more numerous Chinese. In light of that, perhaps it's not so hard to understand how he could have conceived of his weapon as one of defense.

(It is, though, rather difficult to understand how you, or indeed anyone, could with a straight face describe such a man as "naïve and unworldly". Ignorance is the kindest explanation I can devise.)
They were not selling guns to criminals in communist Russia.
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The appdevs are idiots
if your son worked in tech he'd have been sued by a troll by now. I really like the drawings :D
This is a good list. Can I ask you something though? I've always been curious about the value of questions like these (just to take a sample):

> On a scale of 1-10, what is your comfort level developing with HTML, CSS & JavaScript?

> How well do you think you work with other fellow developers?

> Given a choice, would you rather work alone or in tandem with someone?

What are the "correct" answers to these? Or more specifically, in your opinion what are the "wrong" answers?

On the first, the problem I see is one of self-reporting. We have seen developers self-report a 9 on something, only for us to determine later based on the interview that they were more like a 5. We didn't put value on either of these numbers, because both were relative - the "9" was presumably relative to his previous job environment, and the "5" was relative to ours. (At another company the person could've been a "2", for example.) Fact is, it doesn't really matter - we were just looking to see if the person can add value, regardless of whether they were a 5 or a 10.

On the latter two: we have had "loners" crank out incredible bits of code on their own, and "team people" do the same as part of a larger group. We have also seen people switch between the two "personality types" based on context - the specific project, their team mates for the project, and so on.

So we prefer not to ask these types of questions as we don't seem to get any relevant information out of them, but perhaps we're missing something, and so I'm curious as to what your motivations are.