skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, that is interesting insight. I wonder if he isn't drawing the wrong conclusions about the cause of these market inconsistencies? It may not be the airlines or soft drink distributors that make markets more profitable or less profitable for suppliers- it may be the consumers. Perhaps consumers in some soft drink markets are more price sensitive than others? Perhaps airline customers are more price sensitive than cereal customers? For example- Cereal customers want to eat what they like, it it doesn't matter if it costs them $0.50 more for the brand they know well. Whereas an airline customer may or may not fly very often, and they really don't know who is better, or they don't care, they just want to get to their destination while spending as little as possible- makes it hard to differentiate your product.

Soft drink distributors are an interesting case- they sell the same thing, with the same brand, in different markets- apparently some are profitable and others aren't. I would guess it has to do with price sensitivity of the customers in a given market- some markets may not prefer one beverage over another as strongly as other markets, whereas they may be much more price sensitive.
I like y_serial, a library to store compressed Python objects in a sqlite database.

http://yserial.sf.net/
When they ever care to close this issue opened in 2012,

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=39482
Absolutely! It's one step closer to sustainable and exploitable Q+ nuclear fusion and to DEMO.
Stay with jQuery but focus on building an awesome media handler.

The other medium-editor repo isnt focusing at all on handling user-uploaded media and that really sucks.

I would switch immediately if you had baked-in integration for

-Youtube inline upload
-Images upload

But again, thats just my opinion. The other repo is pretty significant and gaining a lot of traction but I think they will end up relying completely on 3rd parties to handle assets. I think if you focused on media, you could compete and be a more beginner-friendly editor.

Best of luck to you, I love the Medium editor and may end up sending you some pull requests if you keep this thing going.
I'm referring to white supremacy (racism) as a societal institution, not merely the actions and beliefs of individuals.

I wouldn't call policies which lessen the power of the white supremacy 'racist'.

Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn’t care if you are a white person who likes black people; it’s still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don’t look like you. Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another. And so on. So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we’re immediately born into. It’s like being born into air: you take it in as soon as you breathe. It’s not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It’s a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it’s hard work, but it’s the price you pay for owning everything.

- Scott Woods (http://scottwoodsmakeslists.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/5-thing...)
FYI: Requires Unity Web Player.

googles "Unity Web Player" linux
... cries

P.S: I'm on Chrome and UWP is supposed to work on it, but it doesn't.
This reminds me of a sad old joke.

In the south, whites don't mind if blacks are around, so long as they aren't uppity. In the north, whites don't mind if blacks are uppity, as long as they're not around.

Having spent time among both southern rednecks and northern intellectuals, it rings painfully true.
Do you think that many Americans (outside of the hardcore) are racist enough to literally boycott a business that doesn't refuse to do business with blacks?
I don't think you'd have to monitor it any more than you would monitor a business that puts up the rainbow flag on their window.

I think the key here is to make it voluntary and not push it on people or make it a top-down standard. Its absence should not imply racism. Perhaps the flair could located on another site where users of the shared economy list themselves as "diversity friendly". If you see a listing with the diversity "flair" and one of the reviewers is a person of color, you know that place is worth applying to as a person of color.
These are businesses built to operate outside established regulations and inevitablely have features of grey and black markets. In some ways this is like complaining about racism among chop shops or the guy selling electronics that fell off the back of a truck. The lack of full accountability is what makes it possible to provide a deal.
Do we actually have an exhaustive list of wallets controlled by Mt Gox though? That would seem like difficult to obtain and likely proprietary info they would not want to reveal.
I haven't seen any trend of bashing China, unless of course reporting honestly is bashing.

Well, this is a bit subjective, in my book selective reporting that focuses on negativity is bashing.

I am all for more budgets for NASA. Quite frankly, I don't follow NASA's missions very often. For the past decade I did hear from time to time that NASA sent rovers to some planets. Meanwhile, I kept hearing the flip-flop stories about the water on Mars. It gave me impression that NASA either went hugely under-budget on their Mars' missions or they spread themselves too thin. That was my point (admittedly I may need to soften my tone in my comment). Not sure if NASA had a vision problem, in my opinion, it may have made more impact and (hopefully) got more funding if they narrowed down their scope of missions and obtained more decisive results.
Yes the original link was about IBM/India. Smoyer started a discussion by comparing the layoff in India to his personal experiences in the states. From smoyer down, this thread is about layoffs in the states. That is why someone commented on US labor laws. Why are you so threatened by a discussion of US labor law?
The transparency is fine maybe a 0.8 in the alpha channel would do the job, the color is there but the gradient is too harsh, the border line is just there with not purpose and lastly the bubble take so long to hide after i am finish with it that annoys me. Other than that is a great project, i will give a shot to the source code later. Cheers
And that isn't a REPL, it's live evaluation on every keystroke.

But yes, you also have other tools, for example a class browser and inspectors that hook remotely into running programs via http, for example.
Black Utopia Fantasy Story: http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4900
No not in a second, but certainly over time and with the help of confirmation bias. Absolutely.
After the Fleischmann–Pons Cold fusion debacle of the late 1980's at least journalists are asking the right questions.

did you get more energy out than you put in?

Fusion is hard.
I think that depends on the adversary. Against the NSA there might not be a major difference (depending on your email provider), but SMS is probably more secure in the typical case, as it is much more common for your run of the mill script kiddie/phisher/etc to get access to someone's email than their phone.
There's no racism like the racism of respectable, middle-class blacks against the "thug class" of lower-class blacks. Chris Rock had a routine about it which I will not repeat.
Microsoft changes policy on third-party signing of EFI code
I'm not racist, I've got Black friends but. ...
> That's much stronger than a disagreement about hate speech.

I'll grant you that, but you have to admit: The more laws you draft limiting the definition of what construes free speech, the more you're eroding it. Hate speech laws are an example of such.

> I'm no lawyer, but if you don't yourself act on it or participate in planning murder, it sounds like very shaky grounds to send someone to jail.

Well, I'm glad that we're reaching common ground (that actually excites me--please don't take my arguments against your points negatively!). I do agree that sending someone to jail for making questionable threats makes very little sense, but it has been used to some success the world over. In particular, abuse of tactics like that is at least partially to blame for the US jail population being so high. Perhaps not literally, but if you're the wrong color or in the wrong neighborhood, it doesn't take much convincing to be sent away for a few months...
I would argue a step further and say that it's because Apple chose the wrong solution for an OOP language with C-compatibility. They could have invented a language more like C# for NeXTSTEP, but they chose the route with easier C compatibility. Now they're paying the cost of taking that early shortcut.
> so many people conflate anonymity with "non-identity", which is absolutely not the same.

Quite a few people have mentioned this in passing, but I think it's actually the central point.

What you're called has no relationship to meanness at all. Whether your actions can have consequences for you is what has a relationship to meanness.

This holds true in real life too. The Stanford Prison experiment degenerated because the prisoners had no meaningful way of creating consequences for the prison guards, not anything to do with names. Abu Ghraib abuses occured because the mechanisms to hold the guards to account were (perhaps even deliberately) not working. They used their real names.

The rule of nature is that groups of people who can suffer no consequences for their actions will tend towards worse and worse behavior.

This is obvious. Imagine a forum where you could call yourself whatever you wanted in conversations (and different names in different conversations), but you have to log into it with a password and passwords cost $50 to acquire and for sufficiently bad behaviour they can be revoked. The fact that you can call yourself whatever you like isn't going to change the fact that people will be careful not to do things that risk their $50.

Reddit and hackernews and stackoverflow tend not to degenerate because the identities on there have history and value. If you behave badly enough, your identity will suffer loss, and you yourself will lose some of the value you've built up.

One of the most wonderful things about the internet is that you can take part in communities where race and sex and family history and class and age are subordinated to achievements, ideas, and skill at expressing them.
This seems to be trying live communication with the server, but all you really need is to load a bunch of previous playthroughs and overlay them. This should make gameplay a lot smoother. Then after each death, upload a record of the keypresses and the nickname.

Or maybe I missed the point.
Also, easier to develop for iOS as you don't have to target an infinite amount of hardware and screen resolution configurations.
> A big problem with Bayesian statistics (as I see it) it that it not always possible to have any sense of what the prior probability is.

Reminds me of this quote: (These values are known as priors, which is ironic because Bayesians inevitably pull them out of their posteriors.)

http://plover.net/~bonds/cultofbayes.html
Newspapers love to act as if it they call the shots. NPR in particular styles itself as the stalwart of the disenfranchised - has its shit together more than Occupy, but is unsullied by big corporate interests. They're not much worse than other papers, but unfortunately, it sometimes maintains its readers disenfranchised in order to maintain the illusion.

I mean, why don't they admit that this is four-month-old news? Why is this getting sudden publication? Is their agenda as transparent as informing the public, or is there a strategic element to it?
But there's doing it, and there's knowing how you're doing it.
It doesn't work at all (Firefox 26.0).
Here's the Village Pump proposal (permalink because VP archives relatively quickly): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village...
I dont think I see it as often in other apps. Look at the hype around Flappy Bird clones right now.
Actually, most of the energy in most H-bomb designs actually comes from fission - but the neutrons that cause this fission come from the fusion of the secondary - so fusion is the key component of the whole thing working.

A notable exception to this was the Soviet Tsar Bomba which used non-fissioning tampers in its multiple tertiary (and probably its single secondary) stages - resulting in an explosion of over 50Mt where 97% came from fusion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
Yes we plan to release an offline lightweight runtime that allows you to run Wit locally.

Many home automation systems will have a built-in microphone (or most probably an array of microphones, which is efficient to cope with background noise). But your smartphone might be useful in case you are in the garden for instance!
i've never used abnb, how would the host know that brandon was black? do renters have avatars/profile pics?
Peripheral view is whacked
Lets see.

The concepts of live coding originated in Lisp and Smalltalk environments.

Smalltalk was the birth of IDEs and unit testing. Also its sucessors StrongTalk and SELF were the first environments to have JIT compilers.

Finally, having Smalltalk as OS made the computers quite interactive.
Taunting for day is probably the least of your problems. When you make it to meme status, it might be a little harder.
Here is a link of an open source project. http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

Looks like they are using it for their project http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/2013/09/processing-speech-r...
That's nice and all, but what I always miss on those projects is thinking of how the NSA and others will react?

Taking Ethereum or any other "new internet" technology as an example:

Suppose this thing is actually sucessful, grows a critical mass and becomes a threat to the survivellance activities.

If nothing else helps, someone could just introduce a law that mandates all ISPs to allow incoming connections only to machines on a "national server list" - market the bill as "War against botnets" or something.

Getting put on the list is easy for every legitimate business owner - for a moderate fee of $2000/month, subject to renewal every three months.

The reactions to this would be mild. Apple/Google/Facebook etc would actually lose competition, so don't expect any protest from them. There'd be no public outcry either since you could still perfectly well watch cat videos, post photos of your dinner on Twitter or buy the latest flappy bird clone on the app store. But oops, no more file sharing, no more Bitcoin, no more Ethereum, no more peer-to-peer networks at all.

What I want to say with this is that this is not a problem that can be solved technologically - the NSA or whatever other services take their place have by far the stronger position here.
> We at HN are probably not the most emotionally connected anyways, so there's going to be a huge gap between the average HN experience/opinion on this topic vs. the general population

This is probably quite true, particularly for those of us who are of the INTx MBTIs.

That said, my sarcasm was an attempt to illustrate the silly nature of this entire debate. Although I do agree with the OP (insofar as I can't help myself from feeling lax capitalization and punctuation is lazy), I also can't help but feel that getting worked up over punctuation is rather stupid.

We're probably in agreement to that end, though.
True, though [anArray copy] is idiomatic in Objective-C too. It used to be that people would prefer arrayWithArray: because copy returns an owning reference and you'd need a matching release, but now with ARC that isn't really a going concern. I'd feel weird writing [NSArray arrayWithArray:anArray] these days.

I think the majority of Objective-C's verbose conventions are artifacts of the Frankenstein type system — for example, having two methods with the same selector but different signatures will cause any use of either method with an id type to emit warnings, and possibly to generate incorrect code if the types are not compatible. So in order to avoid these awkward situations, Objective-C prefers to be as explicit as possible about what it's getting and giving. (Case in point: The extra verbosity in the examples you gave is almost entirely caused by adding nouns.)
There's a pretty good coursera course talking about this topic at the moment:
https://class.coursera.org/strategy101-003
Flappy Birds – Is it a new inspiration for A/B testing experts?
>>Racism is a universal human problem.

Totally agree with this. Human beings often denigrate other people, based on relatively minor differences, with a view to elevating themselves. It is utterly childish, and yet people persist in doing it frequently.
Rand Paul v. Barack H. Obama (full text of class action suit)
That would depend on what it was interpreted to mean by users. I can easily see AirBnB hosts being under pressure to display the flair for fear of being assumed racist otherwise and being boycotted by even white people who don't want to endorse racism. It might also make it easier for a person who feels discriminated against to sue (if they don't display when others are).

After all , you don't tend to see "blacks welcome" signs displayed at hotels, because that is the assumed default.
Here's the simplest one I can find, the Binary Lambda Calculus:

BLC Syntax

<term> ::= 00 | 01 | 1 <term> <term>

BLC Semantics (as string-rewriting rules for any terms x, y, z)

1100xy --> x
11101xyz --> 11xz1yz

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tromp/cl/cl.html
Stephen Glass tried to get into the California Bar Association but was rejected, probably because of his past history as a reporter for The New Republic. Don't know what that has to do with either hookers or Rupert Murdoch.
Exponential.io - Exponential is a code generator designed to help developers build apps faster with less effort.

We use Node.js for our entire client-facing stack including an API server for code generation, a command line client for pulling updated code from the server, plus we use it for our public website.

We're currently evaluating using Node WebKit (https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit) for building a cross-platform desktop UI for our CLI tools.
I removed the gradient, the border and the transparency. It's looking better now. I'll now make some experiments with shortening the animation time.
Heroku isn't for idiots
If anyone is still following this, I got a ton of responses, and I'm doing my best to filter them. So apologies for the delay!
p.s. Here's an article from October 5, 2012 which in a very biased way dismissed the possibility of this happening.... then it happened, TWO DAYS LATER [1]

> The lab's leaders predict that "ignition"-—the point where the 192 lasers actually deliver more energy than they consume—could occur as early as next year.

[1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/nuclear/national-...
Sorry if I came off as bitter. I'm a couple of years out of college and honest I felt that the CS department was pretty self entitled and misguided.

"CS degrees teach you algorithms"

Yeah it does. And it doesn't feel like it's really enough. There isn't a feeling by the end that you've learned only a small fraction of the algorithms and I guess it felt like there wasn't all that much science.

I went to a school with a decent department (I think top 20 in the US) but I never felt like they were actually doing any real, interesting, groundbreaking research.

In contrast, the Physics department is doing all sorts of stuff. Quantum computing, CERN related stuff, building new astronomical sensors, string theory stuff etc. etc. They've got their own problems, but at least it's something you can point to.

Physics majors are sorta screwed. Physics is sorta the opposite of CS. When you're done you feel like you've only learned a tiny bit and that there is so much more to understand. If you're not trying to go to grad school, the department doesn't really care about you. You end up having no marketable skills and your selling point is "I-went-through-a-insanely-difficult-degree-and-i'm-good-at-problem-solving". Most people can sorta code in Python, and sorta can do some circuit stuff. It's pretty bad.

People end up teaching, or working in unrelated jobs. Or going to grad school in related disciplines. One of my buddies ended up picking grapes with illegal immigrants.
I wish for a H.P. Lovecraft app like that.
> racism, something that's blatant all over America (some might say, it's what defines America)

A number of replies on this, but some have, I think, understated the issue.

In all honestly, I would say the U.S. is just about the least racist country on earth. If racism is not seen to be a problem elsewhere, then it's largely because of ethnic homogeneity, not lack of racism.

EDIT: It looks like I'm being misinterpreted here. Obviously, there is racism in the U.S. It is a huge problem. We all know this.

But the reason it might seem to be a larger problem than elsewhere is because of our unusually ethnically diverse population, not because of unusually high levels of racism. Also things like our incarceration rate -- the highest in the world, by far.

To a large extent, the political boundaries of the world are drawn along ethnic lines. Where this doesn't happen: former colonies in Africa, much of Eastern Europe after the world wars, etc., etc., you often get people killing each other. Look at the Rwandan genocide, or the mess that Yugoslavia turned into when it stopped being just Yugoslavia, or the decades of troubles between India and Pakistan, or any number of other examples, to see the result.

And then note that these kinds of things are not happening in the U.S. -- not to that extent, anyway.
A typical use case in Java is/was (1) reading a huge file line by line or parsing it as XML, and filtering it. Java's substring is like go's slices in that it is constant-time, but retains the entire string. Consequently, your code that filters out 1‰ of a 1GB XML file may keep hold of the entire file's content.

In Java, you code around it by doing

new String( line.substring( x, y);

String's constructor will copy the characters to a new buffer. I guess go will have something similar. Problem, of course, is that that means copying the objects. That can especially be an issue if the objects are mutable.

An alternative in Java is to do

s = s.intern();

But that comes with its own problems. 'intern()' decreases memory usage, but is slow, and library writers cannot know whether it is a good idea to use it or not because they cannot know what is more important to the code calling the library: speed or memory.

(1) Oracle is going to change/has changed this after measuring its impact. It turns out that the two extra fields that each string needs to keep track of what part of a buffer contains its characters more or less compensate for the decrease in memory usage that sharing strings brings.
This is a huge thing he missed. Anyone using pickle for non-trivial work is doing cPickle with PROTOCOL_HIGHEST.
Simplified MapReduce function
Explained on reddit very well:
http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1xq78u/scientists_h...
This is sickening, but more so because it shows you that African Americans still receive downright discrimination in the United States. If anything, these sharing apps reveal that crowd managed sharing apps cast spotlight on the problem.

To combat this, they would need to enforce a strict rule that highlights that you cannot refuse someone based on their color, gender, orientation. Of course this only works in an ideal world.
The image that you're supposed to scan will also be a link with some custom procol (like clef://...), which then gets handled by the Clef app.
F-Script was actually how I discovered the beauty of Smalltalk :)