skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he understates the most powerful part of his argument.

Midnight is a value, not a special value. There is no reason why it or any other valid time should be falsey on a daily cycle.
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Why use Tor and never mention anything about yourself or even your country of residence if you want the fame?
A reporter's entire job is to not leave things alone. This remains true no matter how sincerely someone might wish they would.
I would agree with his approach, but unfortunately the Python community has encouraged, to some extent at least, the use of implicit "truthiness" to do things like check for None, rather than explicit checks.
A valid point, and one I should have noted. Mea Culpa.
Octopus-driven security.
Hmm.. question for u. Say I start a corporation, with just me and another partner, and I need to pay myself... So the revenue earned by the company that's paid to me. that's taxed once by the company. And then again by me as salary. No? Isn't that how it works?
The color of each gang is quite important.
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I work for the team that maintains Chartserver. It's being deprecated for a number of reasons, none of which you've listed. Mostly, we feel the service has been replaced by JS charting solutions (Google Charts, d3, etc.) which are more flexible and don't have the privacy concerns of Chartserver. Most importantly, the team that developed it has moved on to other work and it hasn't been restaffed.

We revisit the deprecation of Chartserver every couple of months (I believe it's had two stays of execution), so there might be some life left in that old code.
people doing this ruin the market for everyone else they are in. i believe this ultimately hurts them, too.

once people start figuring out that public image matters more than anything else, and that the public likes helpful people more than they like assholes, i think this will change.
Most books don't have complex layout. What they have is extremely high quality typography and careful attention to how the text appears on a specific page. Book designers tweak prose to avoid rivers (a series of whitespace on successive lines that happen to line up with each other), widows (the final line of a paragraph appearing on its own at the beginning of a page), orphans (the first line of a paragraph appearing on its own at the beginning of a page, or when the last line of a paragraph contains only a single word), and hyphenation.

The web, which doesn't have well-defined pages or even page sizes, precise control over typography, or designers who agonize over how the actual text appears in the context of the layout, lacks all of those. Typography is slowly getting better, but text layout algorithms are still relatively primitive.
If you wanted to test all combinations possible, you would have to brute-force until the end of the universe

You only need to test for a combination of all the input variables that affect the execution flow. However, to do that properly, you need to know the flow of the methods your methods calls. (E.g. you would need to know that substring throws an exception if the string in shorter than expected.) This kind of information could be captured in some kind of meta-data that could be propagated up the call chain for testing.
You mean, other than mentally retreating from the party? He's doing math around the reciprocals of primes. See http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/602:_Overstimulate... for more info.
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If you click through to register, the following are listed as features:

* Notification of API changes
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* Eligibility for development licenses for GitHub products
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It sounds like it just puts your user into a special feature-flag bucket and gives you a badge, for now.
Mark my words these guys are gonna be huge. Sure they are lacking in a lot of areas (like bananas mentions) but thats why you get VC funding and hire a badass like Jeff Lindsay (http://progrium.com)

I'm really excited to see these dudes take on AWS with a higher-level and more performant platform.
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In a company, many conversations start this way: "Hey, we need more paid accounts. How can we further incentivize people to sign up?"

Maybe having a paid account has more utility to you with this added feature? Maybe you should sign up and try it out hint hint nudge nudge?
How does one gain a first-hand knowledge of a corrupt system unless one has experienced it himself?

It's quite possible to be the user of the system due to the lack of other alternatives and oppose it in principle. People with mortgages or shares do not necessarily support corrupt Wall Street practices and financial institutions getting "too big to fail", yet benefit from low mortgage rates or bullish runs in the stock market.
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Remote domain controllers? (Sorry, I'm missing something here, I think)
I don't think he's confused, its just that online you tend to get more of the anarchist type who oppose the government's monopoly on violence. I think there has been a trend away from "statist" libertarianism because that ideology puts you in the awkward position of arguing that we should have military and police to keep people in line, but shouldn't subject that government to democratic control (because otherwise people would vote themselves universal healthcare and social security).
Keeping average response time low is only part of the point of a circuit breaker. Another goal might be to reduce load on the back end service to give it a chance to recover.
https://turtl.it - Open source secure file/note syncing (disclosure, I'm the creator). We're gearing up to do iOS/Android apps so it may be viable for people like you soon, although if you can hold off on mobile until then it's viable now =].

Turtl is cool because the server is open-source as well, meaning you can use the hosted version (already all set up and ready to go) or install it on your own network.
This is super cool! We've been using Trello for project management, but I'm already liking this more.

Edit: FYI, it doesn't react well if you use it on a repo with issues disabled.
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While I would not say smoking/chewing tobacco has any health benefits, the statistics they bandy about for smoking are skewed [i]heavily[/i] to weight the desired results, too. Sorry to be the unpopular guy and say this... bring on the pitchforks & someone get a rope! When a death certificate has space allocated to 'Death caused by tobacco: Probably' a sensible person should know where the numbers will trend regardless of the data received. Again, not defending tobacco, just saying that when you lie and manipulate data to make a valid point more valid(?), the results are tainted. The billions spent on synthesizing tobacco is also suspect, but yes, inhaling vegetable matter can't be good for anything.

IE: A man smoked in Vietnam for 1.5 year tour. Never smokes again for 42 years. Man develops neuroendocrine cancer and dies after stage 4. Tumors found in lungs(and everywhere else), death certificate's official cause of death? 'Probably' tobacco. One more stat for the witch hunt, one less for the Agent Orange cover-up/compensation. Yay statistics!
It seems there are two choices:

1. Before applying a numerical value to a Boolean test, ask whether it can ever be zero when that's not the intent of the test.

2. Create a new rule that forbids testing numerical values as though they're Booleans, and break nearly every program in existence.

Hmm ... wait ... I'm thinking it over.
We ran it as a side project for a while, with different folks on the team rotating in and out as they had time.
"Information on food intake was only collected for one 24-hour period... ...this may have changed over the 18 years of follow up"

I wonder if the researchers' and USC's ploy to use sensationalist(though outright false) PR is going to end in them getting more funding. I hope not, but they do say no publicity is bad publicity.
It's the same with the bank deposits - would you expect do get exact same dollar bills with serial numbers you've deposited every time you use an ATM?

Are you then looting somebody every time you make a cash withdrawal?
I've said many, many times that the best thing you can do as a budding dev is to spin up a VPS somewhere and start hacking.

A while ago, I started giving out VPSs to friends of mine to get them to stop making excuses about why they can't code.

Digital ocean, at $5/mo, has made this really easy :)
I don't see anywhere that discusses browser compatibility. If I can't use it on anything but bleeding edge browsers, it will be a long time before I can even think about something like this.
Yes but count in the time of the whole operation, I bet that equation looks a bit different.

Stuff like loiter times to find the tank, risk to pilots. I bet pilots are the most expensive component in the aircraft. Wikipedia says a helfire is $68,000 usd. Say you fit 8 on an aricraft, how many depleted uranium rounds must you have to take out 8 targets (and account for misses). That takes logistics to move, occupies room.
I see what you mean. I'd suggest that longer, more descriptive method names can help here, though. If I'm referring to a method body to understand what it does when reading another block of code, the method probably doesn't have a descriptive enough name.

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3250-clarity-over-brevity-in-...
Check out Wilco. Great band.
If you run a company and are paying yourself excess profits as salaries or bonuses, you are paying payroll taxes on that money. If you have a C corp you are paying taxes on that money as dividends. If you have a pass through entity of some sort (S corp, LLC, etc) you can avoid paying payroll taxes on distributions and also avoid double taxation.

Unless I'm missing something with AWS, what oversight in their system causes you to lose data? They are quite upfront and transparent that your data does not stick around unless you use EBS.
So why is it better to have to check for None but not having to check for midnight?

The latter seems a lot less common and surprising.
> Now the standard is "not as bad as China" which is a sad state of affairs and isn't enough to have moral authority in the world.[2]

I think this goes to what I'm talking about. Not as bad as China? That executes businessmen who are found to be doing corrupt things, systemic forced children policies, wholesale censorship, and the great firewall...Just going on FoxNews half of the Republican party is calling Obama a weak leader and questioning his authority in the Senate daily, this would never happen in China.
Some code are very hard to test unless you spend a great deal amount of time in making a test driver. I once wrote some 1000 unit tests all by myself for a project I was working on. It was painful to keep updating code, no matter how much time I put into abstraction. At some point a big feature blows things away and tests start to fail.

Some systems are hard to test. Anything involving spawning processes doing unit-testing is hell. I can mock/stub but it takes a lot of effort to do that. Nowadays I go with functional tests as much as possible. If I can't even pass my functional tests how on earth do I ship my code upstream. Sometimes unit-tests don't reflect problem in the real world and the hours i have to spend on making unit tests passing can be used to make a few more functional tests more robust.

Does anyone know unit test coverage for software like puppet/chef/ansible. A year ago when I checked ansible the number of unit tests was very little. Most of the time functional tests look more promising then unittesting in that kind of complex, process/system interactive software.
+1

this is so, so true.

We're always trying to make computers more human, so why do we make ourselves more like machines?
What if they're highly employable in private industry anyways, and choose a government job not out of fear of dying of hunger, but for better paycheck, closer commute, or work environment?

Or someone like John Kerry - both independently wealthy and a government worker?
You made your bed. Now lie in it.

You can't hold all your wealth in a currency that is built to avoid government regulation and to send transactions around the world instantly (both of which would help in the event someone tried to rob/extort you) and then cry foul when you don't have any recourse for someone robbing or extorting you.

I'll never wish Satoshi (or anyone else) is robbed or extorted for his wealth. But just like you shouldn't keep millions of dollars under your mattress, maybe you should diversify your (considerable) funds to better protect yourself from single points of failure.
Jerry has a few things right here, but he's mostly wrong.

Regulators should do anything but "take it easy" on Bitcoin startups. Bitcoin has proven to be in practical terms one of the most risky potentially legitimate investment classes known to man. I'm not discussing its potential use as a currency because it's in fact so risky that it hasn't even made it there yet. All of this means that regulators should be forcing Bitcoin startups to justify themselves.

I have proposed a bill to amend 18 U.S.C. § 1960 that I think would be a step in the right direction:

http://www.plainsite.org/issues/index.html?id=2

I think the notion of a proportionally and increasingly scaled premium paid to an FDIC-style insure is the right way to go (bigger institutions put slightly more in per dollar held in trust to account for systemic risk), but if you handle Bitcoin? Multiply the premium times 30.
Aside from Google App Engine, no cloud services provider, whether IaaS or PaaS, gets even close to the description you're providing, and even GAE doesn't really.
One of the most basic pages of python documentation [1] says this:

Any object can be tested for truth value, for use in an if or while
condition or as operand of the Boolean operations below.
The following values are considered false:

None

False

zero of any numeric type, for example, 0, 0L, 0.0, 0j.

any empty sequence, for example, '', (), [].

any empty mapping, for example, {}.

instances of user-defined classes, if the class defines a __nonzero__()
or __len__() method, when that method returns the integer zero or bool value False. [1]

All other values are considered true — so objects of many types are always true.

To me, that makes it clear that no valid time could be False. It isn't on that list, so it should be True. Is there any controversy about that?

[1] http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html
So, for example, mass transit, like subways would still exist if the government didn't use coercion to fund and run it, it would just be owned by private individuals.

Given the dearth of private subway companies, I question this claim. There are lots of places where a subway would be highly desirable but doesn't exist, why hasn't some entrepreneurial soul built one already?
The common problem with hackathons is that you usually don't get to vet your team members/co-founders very well. Building a is a marathon not a sprint, so it's best to make sure your co-founders are really people you want to spend a TON of time with.

Also, transacting $5000 is good, but you probably shouldn't quit your job until you can prove that its replicable and profitable (or at least sustainable).

To be perfectly honest, your phrasing made it sound like you had generated $5k in revenue, in which case quitting would probably be a good idea. $5000 in contingent donations is a whole different animal. If I were you, I would keep working on it during nights and weekends in order to test whether it will continue to gain traction.
This is why I used to carry around a pocket notebook with me at all times (nowadays I use the Notes functionality on my smartphone). Managed to figure out the solution to a problem I've been struggling with? Got a sudden flash of creative inspiration I don't want to forget? Need to remember to do some chore later on this evening? Pull out the notebook and pen, quickly write it down as best I can, then put the notebook back in my pocket and return my focus to what's going on around me at the time. That way I can put that idea out of my mind, returning to it when the situation is right.
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How much time (if any) should we spend criticizing research that’s fraudulent?
Oh no! All those 0.001% of computer users!
No, that is not how it works. Your salary is an expense for the company, paid before any corporate tax is paid, and thus reduces corporate tax.

A company that has $10MM in revenue, and $10MM in salary expense will pay zero corporate income tax.
It replaces browser layout engine with it's own. Layout engine is the thing that computes where and how elements should be drawn on a web page. If you inspect the web page, all elements are absolutely positioned and the positions are calculated in JS.
Cynically I wonder if they are going to start making it more difficult to use the GitHub API if you aren't part of the program.
Is it possible that the "real" Satoshi Nakamoto knew this actual Satoshi Nakamoto at one point(maybe during their classified work), and decided to sign off on bitcoin as S.N., because he knew that the real SN is a very, very autistic and private individual?
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If you don't want the risk, then don't invest. Nobody is forcing anyone to put money into Bitcoin or Bitcoin-related ventures.
Linus does NOT break backwards compatibility. That is what this change implies.

Which doesn't mean I disagree with changing the behaviour, but I doubt Linus would use that reason for that.
Working on a compiler for data collection. It's a simple programming language that allows you to launch surveys on android devices. We can also compile to an embedded webserver using (webtoolkit.eu) or a desktop survey using wxWidgets, but are they are lagging behind the mobile device at the moment, and building this is not documented

We are Open Source, the project is here

https://github.com/neilxdsouza/xtcc-qscript

I just update the readme with build instructions and this was done in a hurry, I will be happy to clear any issues people face (but's it's late night here and about to head out to sleep). Lots of dependencies - emscripten, bison, flex, g++, node, phonegap (2.7.0 is what we are currently using) and android dev kit.

If you want a test account, please write to me, we have compiled and built the compiler on our server (http://xtcc-qscript.com). Please don't use the account for anything serious and please use a different password as we do not have a ssl certificate in place.
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Forgive my short hand.

To be precise - "knowing the mainline of common and popular standard openings from the SCO..."
I'll pick this comment out of the many to reply to rather than spamming - you do not lose your data when you reboot an EC2 instance. Local ephemeral stores are retained unless you terminate or 'stop' your instance - but a reboot is just fine.
Perhaps it started because as time zones were added, they wanted to reflect that 8am_pacific == midnight_utc, assuming there aren't any offsets for daylight savings in effect...
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On the contrary, the fact sites like this exist is an indication public funds have been wasted on unnecessary, poorly implemented IT projects. Not that this is surprising.
yes I want to look for clients that needs an ERP solution.

I mentioned reseller as a plan B because from what I understand you are just selling the software for a cut without having to build the whole software.

Thanks for your comment.
And flat.
If the system is inefficient and wasteful, it should be exploited to the maximum level, otherwise it will stay inefficient and wasteful forever.
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I think I can state with a high degree of confidence that the blog author was neither assuming nor suggesting that "the ranks of small businesspeople are uniformly populated with flighty dilettantes." Seems like a strawman critique of the article, although your larger points are very true (viz. "glamorous" businesses, motivations, etc).
As a less experienced coder reviewing coders with half-decades or more experience on me, I always had a difficult time knowing whether I was looking at something that I just didn't understand the purpose of, or if I should question their wisdom.

For awhile, this resulted in me effectively checking to be sure it looked 'grammatically correct'- as in, followed style guides, was linted right, etc. The bullshit stuff.

Then a few got through where I had reviewed them, wrote down "What's this for?" as a thing to review a month or so later, and they turned out to be huge problems- sometimes performance, sometimes functionality that would break under the right circumstances.

Have others gone through this, and if so, how would you recommend 'teaching' a newer coder how to do quality code reviews of the elder coders around him?
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> the real SN is a very, very autistic

That's a bold diagnosis for you to make with such little evidence.
That sounds daft. One of the main benefits I can see with unit testing is that if you re-factor components below, then you can be reasonably sure it will work the same way afterwards. Why would you throw that away?
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It's just on the topic of hypocrisy. Feeling one way and doing another is kind of a default in the human condition, and is often required for success.

The oath of office is perhaps a thinner line than I'm making it out to be, but there's a larger point to be made there about the role of the federal government, the incentives of office, etc.

That said, I'm high (low?) on Valium at the moment, so I'm in no shape to argue it at the moment.
Not sure why you were downvoted. A perfectly reasonable growth strategy would be to limit API requests for applications based on a free plan (and progressively increase the limit based on the plan chosen)
I don't think there has been really Air - Air combat in a very long time. (Vietnam?) - though using this on a A10 makes a lot of sense, tricking ground forces yo think you're banking in their direction when your not and tricking enemy aircraft of the same can give an advantage.
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