skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It surprises me that such a logical author thinks that good marriages have much (if anything) to do with picking the "right person" so to speak. It seems to me that:

1) Its damn near impossible to guess at what a person will be like 10-50 years from now. On some level its a crap shoot, and marriage is about learning to love whom they become. Hopefully that plays out on both sides of the coin (each spouse continues to love whom the other becomes).
2) "Good" and "Bad" marriage mostly has to do with how people fight/interact (see stuff by John Gottman). People will always fight over money, kids, laundry duties etc, but their satisfaction in the relationship will have more to do with how they fight, than what they fight over.
3) Individuals have total control over whom they fall in love with. IIRC the cascading brain chemicals involved with love that override logic from occurring properly: http://www.mikelee.org/the-science-of-love-chemicals-and-rom... .
German TV: Edward Snowden says NSA is involved in industrial sabotage
I think it is a very long way down the road before the poor start getting self driving cars.
Miners have to pay for electricity and hardware. I doubt they're doing that with Dogecoins.
+1 Besides libs and ecosystem in general, I don't see any advantage Python / Ruby / Clojure have over Julia.
I found this which seems good.

http://mikemcbrearty.com/climate/

One feature I would like would be the ability to filter results by continent (or even more fine grained filters).
Note that I said "economic and political". At present, Ukraine is mostly politically sovereign. The deal with Russia would make it much worse, especially on political front.
You mentioned "Services in Go are _amazing_", but how do you avoid the first issue you mentioned? I have found so far getting data in and out to be somewhat cumbersome. Also how do you handle data validations and logging?
And why Alexandria?

Part of this discussion seems based on a lack of understanding of the geography of the DC area. Alexandria is near these agencies, omg! But the fact is that there isn't much government in Alexandria. USPTO is there, and otherwise it's charming old houses, quirky shops, crappy strip malls, cookie-cutter suburbia, smallish high-rise apartments, railroad facilities, light industry, and other such similar things.

It's roughly like seeing your Mac get misdelivered to Richmond, CA and deciding that holy crap it's been intercepted by Apple on its way to me.
I would like to verify this account of the Rust Belt. The manufacturing jobs that were not exported ,relocated mostly to the Southeast leaving only Healthcare and lower paying Retail and Service sector jobs.
What about changing your BIOS to intercept keystrokes? Or hacking the hard drive firmware, so they would have the master key for your encrypted disk next time you cross the border? A lot more effective than any other software-based solution.

A few years ago we'd say this is all crazy conspiracy theory. Nowadays this this is just NSA's business as usual tactics [1].

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57616334-83/nsa-reportedly-...
Tried a few of the techniques you mentioned, as well as therapy, but I'll check out the other ones. Thanks.
Interview with Eric Stromberg, CEO of Oyster (The Netflix/Spotify of Books)
You mean the one I build on as employee, or the one I build on as sideproject? Sideprojects are usually things I use daily, other stuff... well let's not say anything about that :)

This is why I believe in open source so much. It's all not-for-profit so it has to be worth something to you or you wouldn't work on it. This makes that it's always something useful, at least to you, and probably to others.
Currently, that situation isn't possible, as self-driving cars still require an attentive driver who can take over at any time.

In the future? That's a hard question, and I'm sure however the legal system deals with it first will be wholly unfair and illogical. It'll be a battle between car owners, manufacturers, state and federal bodies, cities and counties, certification and safety agencies, etc.
then it logically follows that those inequality mongers should focus their efforts on the bigger problem

Not necessarily. They should run a cost benefit analysis - a bigger problem that costs much more to fix (or isn't obviously soluble) might not be the right target.

Anyway, if Marco Rubio explicitly applies his analysis to support gay marriage, I will applaud him, but I don't see that happening - not if he hopes to win the GOP nomination for anything.
Windows Phone is outselling the iPhone in 24 countries
I don't think Netflix would have any special insight as to streaming live action such as sports. Streaming and caching content from a movie or TV episode enables additional options compared to live content.
Considering how little enforcement (none) there is over pump-and-dump scams with pink sheets and the forums those frauds take place in stay open for years, there should be no expectation of prosecution from doing this.
The Secret to Increasing the Value of Bitcoin (or any crypto currency)
I hate it when a site redirects visitors with a mobile device straight to the home page without any regard for the link they were actually using...
So let me get this logic:

NSA contractor reveals mass surveillance on population

Independent journalists reporting on the topic has their home broken into

Independent article reports on NSA modifying laptops bound for "terrorists"

Tor developer notices laptop shipping traversing through the opposite direction

Tor developer is concerned and suspicious

The same people who didn't care about having their freedom to privacy breached claiming ITS CLEARLY A SHIPPING ERROR LOL.
The author claims that poor women suffer a lack of opportunities to "marry up", but the majority of poor women have always married men from roughly the same social group. The men had to compete for the attention of the women by demonstrating reliability, consistent earning power, lack of vices, and so on. The difference is that now there is a new competitor that few lower-class men can compete with: Government.

True, marrying the government means that Dad will spend all his time at work, but he'll always provide for the family, never leave you for another woman, never get laid off, never come home drunk and beat you for fooling around with another man.... He'll be fine with you fooling around with other men--in fact, he'll raise any children that might result without complaint. He'll be an utterly patient, undemanding, loyal and dependable husband and father, if a bit distant.

Those losers hanging around talking trash with their buddies just can't compete with government for women's long-term attention. The better suitor government becomes, the more women choose to marry up by marrying government.

And men don't need to marry to get sex. Women married to government all have open marriages, and if he's not married, nobody will limit his range of options by demanding loyalty. He can get more of what he wants while giving less. And it's not as if a man's neighbors will shame him for abandoning his girlfriend with his children, plunging them into poverty. No, government will take better care of them than he ever would have, so everyone knows she'd be worse off if he DID marry her.

I'm not suggesting taking vast segments of society who have been assured since birth that they would never have the responsibility to support themselves (much less others), and cutting off their life support. It would be a nightmare, and it brings up all sorts of other questions about people competing with automation and other economic changes that can't be blamed on government.

But it's amazing how much the author writes about the economic calculus of marrying without ever mentioning the still-growing 800lb government participant in the marriage market.
Some OS developers are sufficiently concerned that CPUs are NSA-modified to not trust, say, Intel's rdrand instruction anymore!

It may very well be that every single Linux system running on a recent or semi-recent CPU has a rdrand instruction returning a number "nullyfying" (from the NSA's point of view) the previous entropy sources XOR'ing.

You may call me "paranoid" but... Many people who were categorized as paranoids years ago turned out actually to be very, very far from the truth and not anywhere near paranoid enough.

I also remember a SNAFU years ago where a Windows version was compiled with some symbols left on and people started noticing variable named things like: "NSA_KEY". And, of course, lots of PR ensued and there was nothing to see and there were very reasonable explanation as to why there were NSA specific things in Windows.

Contrarily to you I believe it is very likely that most Windows and Apple OSes are backdoored by the NSA and I believe it's far from impossible that several piece of hardware are also backdoored.

I also think it's not impossible that several network cards have "kill switches" where a certain packet combination bricks the card . There have been weird reports out there from people seeing really strange things making such a possibility not science-fiction.
oh another ASML employee :p
Not entirely, although a Common Lisp function wrapper to NASM syntax does seem to play a big role.
It is a dev tool which is used to build itself.
It's funny how so many people are avoiding trading now because they're afraid of him. If you can't even handle some bored 13-year-old princeling, do you really think you're going to somehow do way better going up against Goldman Sachs in the real markets?
I wish more people would point this out everytime someone makes a claim that "x ads don't work" and I read the article and the punchline is they spent $5 over 2 months.
round(x) only works for a few specialised types of x. help(round) tells you that it will return the same type then. Of course for a type of MathConst{:π}, that won’t work. For generic types, you need to at least specify the number of digits (round(pi, 3)). (See also: methods(round))
These days, I see computer time as a limited resource. My eyes started acting up last summer and so I've cut down on my computer time. I save articles into something like Pocket and use the read-aloud feature while I go take a break from staring at the monitor.
If you install the Facebook SDK, you get to track conversions directly.
And libs/tooling naturally come along with active use, which I think Julia is going to start seeing real soon. At least from me!
I'm building software for a specific part of a large bank (I'm being intentionally vague), but since I don't deal in said area of said bank (only have a checkings/savings account, and at a different bank to boot), I don't really use it. I probably should, though; working with mock data served from localhost (or artificially delaying it (it's a mobile webapp)) instead of a real crappy 3g connection just isn't the same.
NFW. b/c the best stuff on Netflix is only available on DVD and not via streaming.
Anyone Can Learn To Be a Polymath
I'm sure they had the best intentions when the use of SEED was mandated. They had a cryptographic solution that was superior for a while. The repercussions of this, however, is a country that is entirely dependent on Internet Explorer. The damage has already been done.

Has the market really failed in this regard? Can the Koreans not buy Android or iOS devices that are free from uninstallable bloatware? What about upcoming Ubuntu or Mozilla handsets, will they too be filled with uninstallable bloatware?

I understand that some people see this bloatware as a huge problem, but people should think very hard before calling out for regulations.
I think the point is that, regardless of how you get your iPhone, an iPhone will not have bloatware pre-installed. Same thing for Macs.
> I've met a random Ukrainian couple while vacationing recently. They didn't speak Russian at all, so most definitely not from the east or other pro-russia kind of Ukrainians. And when asked about this uprising they expressed complete and utter apathy.

If you are Russian-speaking, it is very likely they feigned apathy so as to not offend you or to get bogged down in an extended political argument.
As a long-time mediocre sax-player, this is pretty interesting. Also, incredibly beautiful work and I would love to play around on it. However, I'm not sure that making the saxophone more logical in terms of fingering results in a better instrument. It's not the possibilities that inspire me when I play saxophone (or these days guitar) but rather the limitations. Each musical key has its own character and there are licks that I will play in G that I won't play in Bb.

Has anyone played one of these? I'd be curious to know how standard jazz saxophone phrases (Parker, Coltrane, etc) feel on this instrument.
I was implying that the money saved on the laptop is pretty small, so this 'benefit' to laptop owners is pretty insignificant and totally outweighed by the extra hassle or loss in performance / reliability of the computer.

And I'd recommend to anyone doing tech support for parents that they carefully guide them into purchasing a decent, maintainable machine. It's not up to me to tell OP how that gets paid for. (I've ended up buying my dad a computer to avoid him picking up a 'bargain' machine from the supermarket, just because it'd be me that ends up fixing/reinstalling that crap and recovering data...)
I am sure I am missing something, but I really want to know how to run it on a VM.
I was going to say Intel checks all the boxes

- Very very competitive salary and "deterministic" benefits (401k with good employer contributions, RSUs, cash bonuses, etc.)

Total comp is high, but the bonuses are super deterministic. There's 2 cash bonuses, both based on formulas that are published. 401K is just a contribution, not a match, RSUs based on performance (4 year vesting for each issue). You also get discounts on Intel products. There's also a very nice "kudos" system where you can send people small cash awards for promoting company values or doing a good job.

- Challenging working environment where neat technical problems are still solved despite not being a startup, possibly with modern tools and technologies (e.g. not a "we use CVS as our SCM" shop)

Intel takes sand and turns it into computers, and they spend several billion dollars a year making that happen. There's a lot of tough technical problems all over the place, like how do you make drivers and software for a chip that doesn't exist yet?

- no more than 40-45 hours a week expected as per company culture

Depends on the group again. Some managers will push you to work more than 40 (all the time, not just crunch), but you have to let them control you.

- Stable job (no serious failure possibility in the next 3 years or so for the company)

The company is definitely stable. In the event that your particular group is restructured or given the axe, there's retraining opportunities to keep you in the company.

- Possibility of working from home (even just once or twice a week to break the routine)

Most are okay if you work from home once in a while. Consult your specific manager on their views of structured or regular work from home.

- Main headquarters in SF bay area (where I'm located)

Santa Clara or Folsom would be the nearest sites, but both of them are huge.

There's free tea and soda in addition to the coffee.
Hasn't worked for me at all no matter how I create the USB, working with a 2011 MBP. Tried literally every method, and several distros.
Serious question: did you check what would happen if you put one of these t-shirts on fire?

Once you know the results, they can be an additional marketing point or a flaw which should definitely be fixed.
The NSA does rely heavily on outside contractors though.

Maybe this page is of interest?

https://www.ida.org/aboutus/organization/hpcc.php

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

Spy the address down at the bottom.

And if you wanna get really crazy or are just interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_protests_of...
My friend, you are an incredible optimist and I hope this is our future. But history shows that power gained is never relinquished without a vicious struggle.

How do you think a non-violent revolt can succeed in a society where mercenaries keep the peace? Furthermore, what if these mercenaries are autonomous systems which require very few skilled individuals to operate? Surely they would simply work for the highest bidders, and viciously enforce whatever "society" these bidders require.

The truth is, going forward, an ever larger percentage of people (specifically their labor) will be deprecated by superior technology (capital). In fact, as technology progresses, most people will become an operating cost in society, as the cost of keeping the majority of people alive will outweigh their total lifetime labor contribution. This is the reality of capital in the technological era. Economics doesn't break down, it just means capital gets more and more of the production pie, and labor gets less.

It will be a brave new world, but in no way will it be better than now. The Dark Ages happened, and they can happen again.
Fun with Julia:

julia> 3 ** 60
syntax: use ^ instead of **

julia> 3 ^ 60
-3535985420588157519

julia> factorial(45)
-8797348664486920192

julia> factorial(75)
0

julia> 5 * 5555555555555555555
-9115710369641325457

julia> 5 * 55555555555555555555
syntax: invalid numeric constant 55555555555555555555

This isn't C. The expectations have changed thanks to scripting languages. If I'm supposed to use this promising language to do calculations and manipulate data, I'd expect to be able to natively handle large numbers without overflowing.
I wouldn't say "social local saas web", but rather "new product category". If you're building a new version of something that already exists, then the original question (do you use it?) is not really relevant.
Off the top of my head, I could probably come up with a thousand potential problems with living together unmarried (in the US).

Here's a big one: if you work for any church-based organization (and they are huge employers, e.g. operating large schools, hospitals and universities), they might fire you because they suddenly decide you are violating some arcane religious doctrine.

Now you might say "I didn't want to work there anyway," but that's not how life works for most people who are not well-paid twenty-something software engineers.
There is limit for decisions for entire day one can have some if some decisions are made for you, you can focus on other things. Technically it is a small slice of your decision allotment but I guess if software can assist me then it is great. However it should not apply to people with less intensive mental labour, for those this might suddenly become habit forming for whatever purpose car decides to stop over or not.

So in general it is ok for a car to stop by only if the car can roughly estimate your health, blood sugar level etc.
I mean if the car can assist me for better living that would be great!

my 2c
My sample size is small, but the sentiment mainly comes from this: "Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 We're Doing It All Wrong by Paul Phillips - YouTube" [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1lpKBMkgg
And there are over 170 countries... Also, when it comes to smartphones it's the western world and particularly US mkt. is what counts. If your product rocks in this mkt. then you have a chance. Look at Samsung how badly they need US mkt.
Yeah and by and large, it sucks. Until they fully decouple it from their regular cable business it's just not compelling at all.

What is the point of having a nice online delivery mechanism if you're required to have the cable channel to use it for the good content? I mean I like online and all, but if I already have cable and have to choose between the two, I'm picking cable.

The same argument applies to the HBO product. To me, the entire point of having an online offering is to reach more people. If you're immediately limiting your potential customer base to your existing customer base... How is that supposed to really work?
It will be back at 200 in the morning, they did buyers a favorite to discount it before it halves in 15 days.
I would have taken a different approach for handling unsupported resource methods. I'd love to hear some feedback on whether or not this is considered idiomatic. Instead of this:

type HelloResource struct {
sleepy.PostNotSupported
sleepy.PutNotSupported
sleepy.DeleteNotSupported
}

Something like this:

type HelloResource struct {
sleepy.DefaultResponder
}

DefaultResponder is simply a struct which has all the methods of sleepy.PostNotSupported, sleepy.PutNotSupported, etc, and is defined:

type DefaultResponder struct{}
func (DefaultResponder) Get(values url.Values) (int, interface{}) {
return 405, map[string]string{"error": "Not implemented"}
}
func (DefaultResponder) Post(values url.Values) (int, interface{}) {
return 405, map[string]string{"error": "Not implemented"}
}
func (DefaultResponder) Put(values url.Values) (int, interface{}) {
return 405, map[string]string{"error": "Not implemented"}
}
func (DefaultResponder) Delete(values url.Values) (int, interface{}) {
return 405, map[string]string{"error": "Not implemented"}
}

Now, if you want to implement resource methods, you define them on the top-level struct, like so:

type HelloResource struct {
sleepy.DefaultResponder
}
def (HelloResource) Get(values url.Values) (int, interface{}) {
data := map[string]string{"hello": "world"}
return 200, data
}

So now, if you call Get on a HelloResource type, it uses the method defined on HelloResource, not the one defined on it's embedded DefaultResponder type. But if you call HelloResource.Post, it uses the method defined on DefaultResponder, i.e., it returns a 405 error. This is effectively like "overriding" in Java or other object oriented languages and saves a few lines when people are using your library.

What do you think? Again, I'm really just looking for feedback here as I too am new to go. Is this something that would be considered idiomatic, or is the original solution better?

(Apologies in advance for any typos or syntax errors. Didn't check this with a compiler, but hopefully you get the idea.)
Years ago I embarked upon a quest to maximize the amount of chips I could put into a cookie and still have it meet a rough operational definition of cookie: It had to look like a cookie and I had to be able to pick it up and eat without getting chocolate on my fingers.

In other words, a blob of chocolate wouldn't qualify, but a blob of chocolate with pastry handles might.

But that seemed like a lot of work and not very Occam-y.

I found that by playing with the butter-flour-chip ratio, I could get a very thin very crisp cookie, almost more of a wafer, that I could grasp by the edges and lift to my mouth with clean fingers; there was enough chocolate that the shock of biting in didn't travel through the cookie and cause it to break, but enough dough to prevent anything beyond reasonable crumbs from falling away.

I cannot remember the recipe and don't know if I ever wrote it down, but I'm pretty sure the order by quantity was chips, butter, flour, and maybe an egg or two.

62%? Yeah, well past that, if memory serves.
But the richest have the most to loose. If you're starving and freezing most nights (the poor), you don't really loose a lot by revolting (i.e. destroying the wealth of the rich).
If you understand the Ukrainian Russians could you please clarify why they support the dictator? Are they not intelligent enough?
Could you explain what you mean? What about the older systems do you prefer? Command shells, modes, on-screen text menus, key combinations, text-only or low-resolution displays?

But I'd really like to know why you think that it'd be better if Macintosh never existed. Do you think that people would actually be happier with the older ways, and they just don't realize it? Or that most people really are happier, but they should be miserable? Or do you wish that most people didn't use computers at all?
Tell it to stop.